title element of a link

[seminfo]

what's the importance of title element of a link? Let's say

<a href="http://www.domain.com/page1.html">sometext</a>

comparing to

<a href="http://www.domain.com/page1.html" title="page 1 title">sometext</a>

is the second way better? If yes, why?
thanks

[John Scott]

Last I checked, title attribute of links are worthless where Google is concerned.

[Mong]

It is really useless because there is no need for it in text links but for image links you should use "alt" tag.

[bcombs]

Certainly makes no difference in Google. Might matter with some of the smaller engines.

[cimmeron]

wouldn't it get your keyword into your page more, density-wise? Just curious; I don't use it because I felt like my time was better spent getting inbound links, but I'm curious, because it seems like it would carry a bit of weight in that way.

[John Scott]

Google doesn't index it so it doesn't increase keyword desnity. I tested this by making up a made-up keyword and placing it in the title attribute of a link. After the page was re-indexed, I searched for the made up keyword. No results were returned.

[Kirk]

I would use the title attribute, ok Google don't index them but Google are not the only search engine we have to appease. A descriptive title attribute is user friendly and the user is probably as important as the search engines!?

[rush66]

I've always been slightly confused about the tittle part of a link. It just serves sort of like and alt tag for an img but for text right. Just to give the user more info about the link? When you have a title tag on a link and mouse over it does it popup like the alt tag of an image does?

[John Scott]

This attribute offers advisory information about the element for which it is set.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/stru...tml#adef-title

[Web Gazelle]

Why would anyone want to add a title element to your link? Alt yes but not title.

[Lorelei]

maybe its better for google adsense though? maybe they do crawl it as "content" and u have a chance of getting more relevant links?

[irka]

adding a title tag inside your links gives more accessibility for your website, but its not part of SEO IMHO...

[WorldwideTrading]

I tend to use the title property. When I am adding internal links I would use the format

<A href='page-name.php' title='page-description'>Page Name</a>

It may not help from an SEO point of view but it help to provide more info to them.

[WorldwideTrading]

Originally Posted by Web Gazelle

Why would anyone want to add a title element to your link? Alt yes but not title.

Create an html page and add the following lines of code.

<A href='page-name.php' title='page-description'><img src='http://send--flowers.co.uk/Picz/carnationbouquet.jpg'></a>

<A href='page-name.php' alt="page-description"><img alt="page-description" src='http://send--flowers.co.uk/Picz/carnationbouquet.jpg'></a>

<A href='page-name.php' title='page-description'>Page Name</a>
<A href='page-name.php' alt='page-description'>Page Name</a>

If you notice ALT tage don't work on text links or links for that matter, they work on images. Thats why you use the title.