Monday, October 30, 2006

SEO Cure For Graphics Ridden Sites

There are many websites out there that mainly have graphics, pictures, or images and not much of content. These websites are designed so because this is what they want to show to their target audience owing to the nature of products or services they offer. For example a company that specializes in designing different types of websites would like to display or show to the users the excellent work they have already done in this field. This it can do only with the help of a portfolio section of the websites they have actually designed. Similarly a trader selling carpets would like to show nice and attractive pictures of carpets, rugs to the users. The only problem here is that the search engines need content to spider a website. There is no need to worry though. Every problem has a solution and so do the all-graphic websites too.

1. Put some visible content above or below the graphics on the page, if possible. This ways you will be giving some content to the spiders to index. This content should be keyword rich and explain exactly what your site offers .

2. Having testimonials from satisfied clients will further add precious keyword rich content in your pages. Also adding some descriptive content about the graphics that you are showing also helps.

3. Creating some text based pages in the website that are full of valuable content related to your graphics will help bring in traffic to your site. Also give text links using your keywords to your graphic pages. But all these content pages will be interior pages that provide links to other pages on your site and your site provides a link back to these pages. Never use redirects from the text-based pages to the all graphic pages as search engines hate that.

4. Pay attention to off-page strategies like link building to the all-graphic pages ensuring that the pages linking to your graphic pages are using link text having your important keyword phrase.

However the best alternative or solution still is to put content in your graphics pages. In case you or the client for whom you are designing the site doesn't want to change the pages in any way, you can use some search engine friendly solutions for getting good rankings.

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