What's the best SEO option for jQuery image carousels?

[TroyCarlson]

My client wants a fancy jquery carousel  at the top of their home page, as is all the rage these days.  I would like to add some nice SEO friendly text to that carousel, but I'm not sure how best to do that..I assume that by keeping the text which will appear in the carousel in divs on the page, which will be swapped out as the images cycle, it should still be easily picked up by search engines?

[KeriMorgret]

This question is two years old, and you may have a better response rate if you ask a separate, new question.

[Kingalan1]

Are you saying that if I use a carousel the text should be above it??

My real estate web site was migrated form Drupal to Wordpress. The ranking have dropped a lot since migration. One of the things we changed is that we have added two carousels to the home page. Most of the text is below the carousels. Is this bad for SEO?

Thanks,
Alan

[TroyCarlson]

That's great, Joel!  Thanks!

(And as nitpicky as this might be...for anyone that might run across this question and try this...I found "Fetch as Googlebot" under "Diagnostics", not "Labs".)

So, just to be clear, I'm assuming that if I can see the HTML as GoogleBot, it is being indexed.  All this does is make sure that nothing is being hidden from GoogleBot's view or any errors are being seen by the spider, right?

Really appreciate the response, JoelHit!