Hi Jens Actually, using the 'title' attribute in a link does NOT add a little bit of SEO. Title element ('Page Title') - yes for SEO - but title attribute - no.
Try it yourself. Put a few words in a title attribute - words which don't otherwise appear on your page. The once Google has re-indexed the page, (look at the date in the Google cache); then search your sitein Google for the words you included in the title attribute. Here's an example. The words "Australian DDA" appear in a title element of a link on http://www.cogentis.com.au/ but no where else on that page, i.e. only here: <a href="website-accessibility-issues.html" title="More information on the Australian DDA and web accessibility issues">Web accessibility issues</a> But a search in Google will not return this page. http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=site%3Acogentis.com.au+Australian+DDA&btnG=Google+Search&meta=cr%3DcountryAU It only returns another page on the site which does have those words on the page. Google won't find them, because it doesn't index them; just like Google doesn't index the content of e.g. meta name ="keywords" field. Chris On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Jens-Uwe Korff <jko...@fairfaxdigital.com.au> wrote: >> I was wondering how valuable the Title attribute is > > Use the 'title' attribute when the link text needs to be short and > doesn't convey all a user needs to know, eg. <a href="..." title="Latest > News from InTheSticks">Local news</a>. In this case you also add a bit > of SEO. > > I found that, contrary to what I believed previously, this is not > required for assistive technologies, ie. screenreaders. They usually > pick up the anchor text well. > > Cheers, > > Jens ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************