Comments on: How To Use Link TITLE Attribute Correctly!

By: samuel

samuel — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:46:49 +0000

I believe I disagree with your thoughts (respectfully of course). If a paragraph has a few linked text snippets in it, I usually find it more interesting and more secure to read as I can know while reading what I can do further research on. Perhaps, subconsciously, the linked areas train my mind to the key parts of the paragraph and increase my reading speed.

By: SEO South Africa

SEO South Africa — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:05:53 +0000

Interesting post, I thought that the Alt title had more importance in SEO and will have to go and rethink our strategy by researching other posts. keyword rich anchor text can often ruin the user experience by not making the text read well.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:40:42 +0000

I really agree with Ann. Links with a clean anchor text do not really need a title anymore.
But often (mostly in blogs) you see that the anchor text is just a simple word or it says something like "check this out, it is hilarious". In that case, I would put the title tag to show the visitors where the link will lead them to.
It is important that you let visitors know that when they are navigating away from the page, where they will end up. Use the anchor text and surrounding context to make it clear. Title tag is just a secondary option. And for search engine purposes, I think highly overrated.