Content position on page

[echo1]

I am in a limo service industry where people are not looking for great content or product description, all they want is a nice Lincoln Town car and a competitive price. Because I need to get more pictures in front of my customers rather than more content I am not sure if by not having the content high up in the page will affect my rankings. We are transitioning to a new template where we have more control over the layout of the website but because of the slider that we have on the homepage the content needs to go further down.  We could insert some content in each of the slides but the page would start looking too "busy". We want the customers to see very clearly what we offer. They see the picture, click for more info and book the service.

How important still is to have your keywords in the first hundred words on a certain webpage? Can we get away with having the content read by search engines after 3 - 4 slides and their description (about 20 words total) ?

[Nick_Ker]

That should be OK.

Try to use your keywords in the photo descriptions and it may even be better.

[AlanMosley]

If its just images not a problem, ifits a plug in phto slider ot gallary think, then you may have lots of ugly SE unfriendly code.

A good idea is to have an image then have a trsansparnt section over part of the image with text , this way you get to double up on space.

[echo1]

This is the template that we are going to use.

http://demo.pure-joomla.com/pj_velocity_15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=110

I don't want to put too much content in the slides, it will cover the pictures.