Optimizing Websites With Minimal Text.
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It is often a preference of the designer to use very little text on a website, but is it possible to achieve good rankings for those pages in search engines' The answer is yes, but you should follow the guidelines outlined in this document if you wish to succeed.Firstly, let's look at some facts. Images are slower to load that text, which may lead to your low-band visitors becoming somewhat agitated. There is also the issue of increased bandwidth from the server, which might lead to higher costs in terms of web hosting. If both of these issues are not a problem for you then continue, but so far they alone have been enough to put me off moving to a image only website.
First thing to realize before optimizing is that by having very little text on the page, you will find it harder to rank better, and if you're in a very competitive market, then I highly advise that you opt to have at least some text on the website.
After you have designed the web page and layout, the first thing to do is ensure that your images / media content is as compressed (in file size) as possible. I personally recommend the XAT.com image optimizer for shaving the bytes off of images, both GIF (non-animated) and JPG. This will be important for many reasons, it will decrease both download time and bandwidth, it's really a double win situation. The only further advise on this that you should ensure you don't decrease the image so much that its quality becomes seriously compromised, otherwise your website will look cheap!!
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