Hello Jill,

I uploaded a new site 2 days ago. I am worried that I won't be able to get my home page ranked high, due to its lack of content.

There are many homepages listed #1 on Google that have no content on them. Take for example a home page that has a flash intro.

I remember you had spoken about this same thing some time ago, but I can't seem to find it. You said something about creating an additional page or something like that.

Please help and have a nice day... :-)

Best Regards,

Reinhardt

Jill's Response

Hi Reinhardt,

You can get your page listed, but it will be difficult because the search engines will have a hard time understanding what it's about without any text to read. You'd have to be able to tell them what it's about through the power of your links. If all the links pointing to your home page use a specific keyword phrase in the anchor text (the clickable part of the link), then that will help the engines understand.

But it really won't help your users much. They would probably prefer to see some content so they know if they're at the right site. Still, the home page isn't everything. You have presumably a whole site to work with, so optimize all the rest of your pages with copy targeting specific keyword phrases, and that should also help.

Good luck!

Jill

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