No text on home page - can I improve ranking?

[member22]

Hi,

I got a website with a web 2 effect on the home page and there is absolutely zero text on my home page ( just text from my menus) . I did put a title for this page in the meta tags and when I do a search on google for that 2 keyword I wanted to be ranked on I noticed that I get on the 50 th page of google for that keyword !

I am wondering if there is any chance I can rank better ? with no text on the home page ?
if so what should I do to improve ?

Should I play a 3 keyword at first and then once et a good google page rank for the 3 keyword try a 2 keyword ?

By the way why is it harder to rank on 2 than 3 keywords ?
Thanks

[g1smd]

Search engines index text and follow links.

If there is no text, then there is nothing to index.

Beware of using "hidden text". Search engines know about that trick.

Two words is harder because there will be more competition.

[member22]

How abouts links at the bottom of my websites and menus isn't that enough as far as text, does the search engine really need real text in addition to that ?

[tedster]

Search engines have to decide what your content is about. Google uses over 200 factors, and many of them depend what part of your content their spider can retrieve.

If you use a technology that googlebot can't read, then you've made relevance and ranking decisions difficult or impossible for their algorithm. Notice that you actually do rank - but page 50 is about all Google can give you currently, considering what you give them to work with.

If other sites link to you using important keywords in that anchor text, then those links can improve your ranking on those keywords.

[tangor]

Text is important. Add some which is suitable. If nothing else make sure your <title> explains all...

[g1smd]

Don't forget the meta description too.

[fishfinger]

In just about all markets, outside of the developer / designer pool (which is VERY small compared to the average web user pool) very few people (with the exception of some foolish website owners) give a damn about fancy pants stuff as opposed to content.

Why make text an image? It serves no purpose.

You can use CSS, Javascript and dynamic pages to reproduce Flash/animation/images.

Or you can have a text version / video transcript further down the page.

Or you can split the page into two halves. Check out 'web design' in Google to see what I mean.

You're pretty much shooting yourself in the foot if you don't have a decent amount of text in any page, let alone the home page.

[Receptional Andy]

Remember also that while you can get a page without any text to rank (via links) lack of text is a massive missed opportunity. There's a severely limited variety of keywords and phrases you can target on a page with no or very little text, whereas even a few hundred words can pull in substantially more traffic - and substantially more relevant traffic.