How to Handle Content that doesn't use (m)any words?

A Site with Non-language Content

[izizi009]

I posted another newbie question yesterday and want to thank everyone for the great and thoughtful responses. Here is one more. The site I am building is incredibly valuable to the target market it will serve. The site provides a type of data, relevant to the audience, that is updated every minute in the form of a graph. I am trying to keep the page simple, with no scrolling and very little to distract from the data (except a few ads :-) ) so my users will get maximum value out of the site and use it over and over (and tell friends, etc.) It is great content for this audience, but I am wondering:

(1) do I need to load up this page with many paragraphs of text so the spider will understund what type of ads to place (this will hurt the functionality and the text will be sort of useless to my users, but is it a neccesary evil for adsense?)

(2) If I leave the text off the graph page, but have it on the "how to use / about" page will google be able to figure out the context of my main from those pages (to serve ads on the graph page?)

(3) If I will have a small number of visitors ultimately but they are totally devoted- hitting refresh 30 times a day or more, is adsense the best program for me? Will google change the ads enough that my repeat users will find new, intereting ads to click?

(4) any other thoughts on this unique content issue?

[uhwebs]

Use ALT text? I have a few pages that consist of diagrams... and the ads are relevant. I usually title them, like "Diagram of ABC" and use alt text.

[YesMom]

Hi, izizi!

Sounds like you have a great concept and will do well!

I've found that Google pays a LOT of attention to what is between my <title></title> at the top of the page. Just put a great description with the proper keyword phrases there and you should be fine. I've been able to target ads properly by simply modifying my title description.

It might take a couple page loads for it to "take", or for spidering... but you will see good results that way without adding text your users don't want to be bothered with.