I was curious how much it would effect SEO having text inside images. I'm tuning the homepage layout of a site and some of the important text that describes just what someone can actually do on the site is part of an image. I'm fairly sure bots wouldn't recognize this text so they wouldn't get some important information that could be used to help place the site in search engines...what could i do to eliminate this problem? Just how bad is having text inside images?
hi text in image seen as the image if you using this then use alt tags so that it can be crawled by the robots atleast as an image .
Yes, search engines cannot read texts inside images. You can use the alt tag as simrankim suggested but the best method is to put the text in a <p> tag or a <span> and target that using css. do text-indent:-999px to remove the text, and then assign a height and width and use the image as the background image. The search engine will read the text in the p or span tag but the users will see the image in place of the text. PM me if you need help.