Site with mostly images
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I am working on a site which will be a portfolio of many photographers - hence there will be a lot of images - each image will have an external link to the photographers site, there will be a very small description and a lot of tags (for the site indexing to work)
Bearing in mind that the site will consist of 90% images, 9% tags and 1% text is there a chance the site will rank well for my keywords (which will be the tags)? There will also be social comments e.g. facebook or discus but I want to keep the amount of text to a minimum.
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ribandhull
First, the answer is no on the whole if the only way you are going about ranking is with keywords in tags. But, you are going to have some text, images, and other parts of the page that need SEO. So, make sure your images have appropriate alt text (kw=wedding photography, alt txt = Jones Wedding photos - bride and groom). Make sure each page has good title tags and H1's. Make sure your 1% text is relevant to your keywords and you should be able to do fine considering this is what a lot of photographers do.
Another helpful hint is each photographer needs to take advantage of Google Places (+1 ) listing.
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