I'm currently designing my first website and I want to use a carousel style fading image sequence. I also want to include text over this that fades in and out such as this:
My question is, would the fact that this is all fading in and out affect the google crawl of my page? I know that SEO is not a science (at least not outside Google HQ) so does anyone have any experience of this affecting their search ranking?
Google grabs the page HTML - it doesn't "sit there and watch" your animation. In general, don't put SEO sensitive content in your slideshow. Make it plainly visible in your page.