SEO Tycoon

**seotechbook** · 07-22-2010, 04:08 AM

when I exchange links, I notice other webmaster use the <title> of a link, is it good or useless?

**openxcell** · 07-22-2010, 04:50 AM

If you write title in you href it is good. It shows when a cursor is put on that hyperlink.

**Kavin Paulson** · 07-22-2010, 05:00 AM

I guess you are talking about the key word, instead of using the company or service name, using the keyword related to the service as the title of the link. Yes, using keywords for text links or as the title of links is beneficial in seo point of view, because by doing this, you the your site becomes more relevant to the key word, and you will gradually see the difference in SERPs.

**chrishirst** · 07-22-2010, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by seotechbook

when I exchange links, I notice other webmaster use the <title> of a link, is it good or useless?

It's very good for accessibilty.

FORTUNATELY SEs do NOT read the title attribute of elements so hopefully it will not get stuffed with crap.

**jeffereeno** · 07-22-2010, 09:36 AM

Title certainly helps and makes it easier to track your links. 'accessibilty' as Chris says is the key otherwise you have lots of links and no idea what they are for.

**francis84** · 07-22-2010, 10:22 PM

When your link code goes like this:

<a href="www.example.com" title="Keyword A">Keyword B</a>

Search engine will see more Keyword A as your anchor text rather than Keyword B.

**Social-Media** · 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by seotechbook

when I exchange links, I notice other webmaster use the <title> of a link, is it good or useless?

<title> is an HTML element in the <head> section of an HTML document. It shows in the bar at the top of your browser. It cannot be a link.

title "can" be an attribute of the <a> (anchor) element that is used to create links. So I could make a link like:

Code:

<a title="my link text" href="http://www.example.com/>my link text</a>

This simply provides hover text for the link should the user hover their mouse over the link. It's not typically used by the search engines as any type of ranking factor.

**chrishirst** · 07-23-2010, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by francis84

When your link code goes like this:

<a href="www.example.com" title="Keyword A">Keyword B</a>

Search engine will see more Keyword A as your anchor text rather than Keyword B.

Wrong!!!!

Search engines do NOT even READ the title attribute of elements.

**crescendo** · 07-24-2010, 08:32 AM

Yes Brother, It is good

**chrishirst** · 07-24-2010, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by crescendo

Yes Brother, It is good

And can you demonstrate that this is true?

**johnblake** · 07-26-2010, 01:14 AM

It's very good for accessibilty.

**didyouknow** · 07-27-2010, 01:29 PM

It's better to include titles regardless. Maybe certain search engines find it more useful than others. Even though we don't know completely how Google values certain details, it is safe to assume using titles doesnt hurt and the importance of titles depends on current trends. If google sees that titles are being used more as spam, then most likely they will hold less weight.

**chrishirst** · 07-27-2010, 01:34 PM

title attributes are for accessibility NOT stuffing with keywords!!

**kline11** · 07-27-2010, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by seotechbook

when I exchange links, I notice other webmaster use the <title> of a link, is it good or useless?

Be concerned more with the Anchor text being accurate and not the title attribute. SEOtechbook??? hmmmm

**webcreationuk** · 07-28-2010, 06:15 AM

Link exchange is an almost ineffective method in the first place, so why bother?

**crescendo** · 07-28-2010, 12:53 PM

alts, title and tags is more imp.

**Nicholas0217** · 07-29-2010, 04:58 AM

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Originally Posted by francis84

When your link code goes like this:

<a href="www.example.com" title="Keyword A">Keyword B</a>

Search engine will see more Keyword A as your anchor text rather than Keyword B.

is it ture? can you give a sample?