does the <a title="text text" href="whatever.com"> have any significance?

[Kush]

I'm noticing that for link list recips this is coming up a lot.

Is it significant, or just one of those things that "can't hurt" ?

I don't really see any extra benefit from from a title="" tag, but is there? Seems a bit like spamming to me.

[Kush]

bump.

So nobody can tell me if
<a title="targetted keywords" href="url">targetted keywords</a>
has any more value that simply putting
<a href="url">targetted keywords</a>?

[Surfn]

I never tried it. The left side of "href" is where I usually put my mouseover code.

If not there I put the mouseover on the other end (rarely)

[Cleo]

I always put the title in. I don't know if it helps with the SEs or not, but it does show up when moused over the link so it should help with the humans.

Doesn't seem to matter what order you put everything. Different version of GoLive have changed the order that it writes the code so even Adobe can't seem to decide. lol

[urb]

I read somewhere that it is fine to do that. I cannot remember who said it, or which board I read it on.

I would put it in the "can't hurt" category.

[AussieWebmaster]

As far as I know it has no impact, but is great for blind users. If you want to include it what the heck, but I am not running back to add it everywhere.

I will do a test on my next few optimized pages and see what happens. I will set 2 pages exactly the same for the same terms and add the title tag as the only difference then I will know.

[ChristyB]

If nothing else it adds legitimate (semi-hidden) keywords to your site...

(I know because I got listed for a phrase which is nowhere but in my title tags)

I don't know if it effects the 'relevance' of the link for the 'receiving site' though!

[AussieWebmaster]

Originally posted by ChristyB
If nothing else it adds legitimate (semi-hidden) keywords to your site...

(I know because I got listed for a phrase which is nowhere but in my title tags)

I don't know if it effects the 'relevance' of the link for the 'receiving site' though!
This is not the actual title tag.. that gets big points in the google algorythm

[ChristyB]

Originally posted by AussieWebmaster
This is not the actual title tag.. that gets big points in the google algorythm Sorry I didn't make it clearer - I didn't mean the title meta tag, I meant the link title tags :)

[AussieWebmaster]

I would like to see how that worked can you show me the site?

Did you have any alt tags etc.

[ChristyB]

I always use alt tags on all images.

In this case I used title tags on all the links and the term they picked up on existed only in a couple of the title tags, (I did it deliberately as a test - I read somewhere that using title tags on all links would improve search terms and I wanted to find out for sure)...

That was back in April / May this year & I've made hundreds of changes to the page since then so I'm afraid it won't help looking at it now :(

You can always try it yourself though :)