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 ...

Google's John Mueller reminded us that when it comes to your CSS background images, Google won't be indexing or ranking those images in image search. John Mueller said on Twitter "last I checked, we ...

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 ...