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
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