I can read!

Hey everyone.

I'm reading a book right now called "Building Findable Websites" by Aarron Walter. The copywrite is 2008 so i figured it was fairly up-to-date.

I'm about halfway through and it's pretty good. A little too Apache oriented but still pretty darned good.

Except...

Repeatedly, he mentions a SEO technique for image replacement using CSS where the text is aligned left like -9999px and a background image is used on the visible portion of the screen.

Seems pretty shady to me and I'm surprised it even gets mentioned in the book. I have to ask "why" though.

Is it because the CSS isn't inline and Google won't know about the external stylesheet? I think Google's has to have figured this out and considers it a form of cloaking.

If anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear about it.