Are Image Themed Websites Screwed?

iagotheinsane · Jan 1, 2012

If you use a theme with basically the menu and image (no content) on the main page, is your on-page seo gone?

Can you still get good rankings even if you don't have a whole lot going on in the main page besides image alt descriptions and main title?

tyia

DarkDemon · Jan 1, 2012

On page SEO is below par chances are you'll end up not ranking well despite you build many backlinks.

Sacrilege · Jan 2, 2012

Depends on your niche. I've had some clients who were wedding photographers with flash sites that had no text content whatsoever and I've pushed them to #1 for "<city> wedding photographer" queries. But that's relatively uncompetitive (~3000-6000 searches, 300ish competitors, most of which are not SEO-savvy)

iagotheinsane · Jan 2, 2012

So even if the blog has a ton of content pointing to the main page, it would still not help much?

thanks

matei · Jan 2, 2012

I personally have a friend who owns about 4-5 image based sites (obviously, they contain celebrity photos and so on).He gets about 7500 views per day, and earns only from them around $150/month. However, he writes unique descriptions for each photo in part, fact that takes some time, but according to him, it's quite worthy, once you can manage with a long boring work.

wahidpolin · Jan 2, 2012

It totally depends on you niche.If your competitors have articles on their homepage they will get extra point for onpage seo.

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