A question about moving up serp sites with not as much text

More pictures on my website then actual paragraphs

[sadelb]

Hello, I have an affiliation site that is geared toward the newest gear and electronics out... The thing with my site is I show lots of thumbnail pictures with the item name underneath the picture... I hear a lot about getting up higher on the serps you need to have a lot of content... now my question is what type of content works better... I mean I do have the names for each product underneath the picture but do I need more of a description for better serps ranking.. the website is a great design and was made well but lacks a lot of description.. I figured the faster the customer gets to the merchant site, the better the conversions would be. thanks in advance

[treeline]

You may be right about getting them to the main site quickly. If you also had a page about each item, with pictures and detailed descriptions, they might place well on search engines and bring in additional traffic for you to send along.

[sadelb]

thanks... without detailed descriptions will it be impossible to be placed well? I mean I do have a lot of product names under each picture and a section that lists all the brands...But I chose to get rid of the description page thinking that it is just another step for the customer to x out my page and not click on the item for the affiliation redirection to the merchant site