Image/Text Cloaking

Show nice image of text to a visitor and plain text to a spider?

[naturesflavors]

I am preparing to create a rather high-class, "foofy" web site that will look best if most pieces of text are nice and anti-aliased within images. Of course, since spiders cannot "read" text within an image, I wanted to try to use cloaking to substitute a plain text version for the spider so it could read it.

The CONTENT would be exactly the same. i.e. a visitor would see an image that says "Policies" and the spider would see <h1>Policies</h1>, for instance.

Any problems with this? I'm hoping GoogleGuy will be able to answer this one...

- Jonathan

[volatilegx]

The proper thing to do would be to use alt text in the image tags.

However, this benign form of cloaking is probably the safest kind to undertake. I don't think your site would get into trouble if you did it. Then again, it's your site, not mine, and cloaking is always a risk...