Thanks so much for the responses. Agree that usability is most important. It's something we have always stuck to. Just want to make the most of internal links. But this is very helpful. Appreciated.

Hi everyone

A question about best practice when linking from pictures on our homepage - hirespace.com

We have an option of using divs with background images (nicer in terms of design) but it means that we can't use anchor text or alt text to show Google what these internal links are about.

The other option is to use images which do not allow us as much flexibility in terms of CSS but would allow us to use alt text.

There is also an opinion that we should have separate text links at the bottom of the homepage to get the anchor page in.

What is best practice in this situation - is alt text worth sacrificing some CSS flexibility for? How important is anchor/alt text for internal linking?

Thanks guys.