Implications for Site Auditing. I don’t know how many search marketing professionals check how images are displayed, via regular HTML image tags or CSS background images, but this may be yet ...

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 ...

John Mueller said on Twitter "last I checked, we don't use CSS background images for image search." John said this also back in January 2018 when he said Google Image search does not index and ...

The document used to say “Google parses the HTML of your pages to index images, but doesn’t index CSS images.” It now reads: “Using semantic HTML markup helps crawlers find and process images.

Google announced they’ve updated their webmaster guidelines to specifically note that blocking your CSS or JavaScript files may have a negative impact on your indexing and search rankings in ...