Question

I have a webpage which is a download page for a free application (http://dragonfli.es). Because of the minimalist design, there’s almost no text in this page. I was wondering if HTML meta tags could sort of help with the SEO or do I have to put some text in there?

Answer 1

In your page you have a number of elements which are empty:

<div class="window"> 
    <div class="image_reel"  style = "border: 1px #707070 solid; "> 
        <a href="#"><img src="reel_1.png" alt="" /></a> 
        <a href="#"><img src="reel_2.png" alt="" /></a> 
        <a href="#"><img src="reel_3.png" alt="" /></a> 
        <a href="#"><img src="reel_4.png" alt="" /></a> 
    </div> 
</div> 
<div class="paging"> 
    <a href="#" rel="1">1</a> 
    <a href="#" rel="2">2</a> 
    <a href="#" rel="3">3</a> 
    <a href="#" rel="4">4</a> 
</div>

More important than having a decent page description is having content inside of your <a> tags and having alt attributes with reasonable descriptions of the images.

Usually in a page like this, I have something like the following:

HTML:

<div id="frontImage">
    Here is some descriptive text which goes over
    the contents of this page, and which pertains
    to the image background I'll be using.
</div>

CSS:

#frontImage
{
    position: relative;
    display: block;
    width: 400px; /* the width of the bg image */
    height: 400px; /* the height of the bg image */
    background-image: url(/img/someImage.png);
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    text-indent: -999em; /* move the descriptive text off the screen */
}

This will allow you to have text on the page and turn that text into an image which most people will see. Just make sure that the text you’re using is actually applicable to the content associate with it.