Hi, I have a client that would like to use images for links, with rollover states. The way that I usually do this is by using "Pixy" style rollovers, where I combine two images into one and then just switch the background position using CSS. However, it would seem this isn't as good for SEO as I wouldn't get to use an alt tag. Would you recommend using javascript and separate images for the rollovers to gain the advantage of alt tags?
Cant you swap the images with CSS and still use the ALT tags? In any case, I would check an example in Google's cache to see exactly how google will handle it.
well I would be using the images as background images and just switching the background position. so, no img tags in the html.
Check out the rollovers on this site: http://www.laughfriendly.com/ The rollover is achieve through CSS and if you check the Google Cache, the ALT text is getting indexed.