Advice for Graphic Intensive Sites
We all know how textual content is very important when it comes to SEO. Some websites due to the nature of their business, however, need to heavily rely on images or graphical content. Because of this valid and quality websites that do design the site for their business clients sometimes suffer in terms of low page rank. However, with a little tweaking graphic intensive websites can boost their page rank.
There is basically one thing graphics intensive sites can do to optimize their website… increase their textual content so that the search engines will know what their site is about. This doesn’t automatically mean adding really long narratives though. Such sites can opt to add textual content using 3 ways.
1. Use ALT tags – Since the site is graphics intensive makes sure that each image makes use of the ALT attribute so that the search engine will know what the image actually contains.
2. Use captions – This works not only for the search engine but is also customer friendly. Use descriptive captions using keywords or phrases.
3. Use alternative content – Aside from the caption you can add a short paragraph under or beside each image or even just an opening sentence that links to a longer description. For example if your site sells exotic coffee beans then you will do well to not only provide the name of each coffee bean but also a short background. You can also add alternative content by adding sections to your website related with content related to the stuff being sold. For example as part of your coffee site you can add a recipe page where visitors can find some interesting recipes that actual chefs use to concoct dishes with coffee as one of the ingredients.
By Sparky in Content, Images, Keywords, Tips
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