Category — SEO

The timeless war between the images craved by users and the text craver by search engine bots can have designers tearing their hair out. One of the most excruciating web browser quirks is the limited support for more than a handful of fonts. With cross-browser compatibility required by any self-respecting designer, we grudgingly cycle between Verdana, Trebuchet and Georgia, with classic fonts like Futura relegated to the sidelines. Imagine how spectacular your site would look if you could have big, bold titles like this:

Well maybe you can. While it would take quite a while to tweak the code for every post on a site, wouldn’t it be possible to have the title in Verdana with a div underneath, using the above picture as a background-image? The text would be sort of “hidden”, which is against Google’s guidelines. Still, it’s not really naughty like making the text the same color as the background of a page, making it ultra-tiny, or shunting it way off the screen with a negative margin.

What do we think? Feasible?