Google says images styled with CSS won’t be indexed in Image Search, advising developers to use HTML tags for important visuals. CSS background images aren’t indexed by Google Image Search. Google ...

Web pages normally add images using the inline HTML "img" tag. CSS coding usually doesn't set an image's source because CSS controls design rather than content. Yet CSS supports properties that plain ...

Google's John Mueller said this morning in a webmaster hangout at the 20:55 mark that Google Image search does not index and rank images from CSS background code. He said if you want your images to ...