[BNM] SEO. anchor title attributes

[Ali]

for usability I use the title (as it populates the tooltip) to expand upon
the link text with a further description of what the link will do, and only
if further explanation will help - I would leave it at that! If SEO
determines that title text is valuable then surely this approach would still
be better than duplication as it offers the ability to offer alternative
descriptions, keywords and verbs....

ali

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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Alastair James
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Subject: Re: [BNM] SEO. anchor title attributes

Yeah thats my feeling as well...
Al

2008/12/8 Paul Silver <paul at tenpastmidnight.com>

> I can't believe there's a benefit to having them as the same text.
>
> I haven't run any tests recently to find out if the title attribute text
> is actually taken in to account if it's a textual link. My gut feeling
> is the effect would be so small you'd have to set up the research to
> test it in quite a refined way.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:15:10 +0000, "Alastair James" <al.james at gmail.com>
> said:
> > Hi there...
> > Thanks for the input so far.
> >
> > The question really is: Is it better to have the title attribute
> > duplicate
> > the text inside the tag as opposed to not having a title attribute.
> >
> > The SEO company recommended ALL anchor tags be written like this. To me
> > it seems crazy that duplication would be a good thing.
> >
> > Al
> >
> > 2008/12/8 Tarun Hari <tarunhari at gmail.com>
> >
> > > I'd be interested to see peoples views on this. I mostly do this when
> > > coding
> > > if I dont have a better title, but I've never really thought about the
> > > benefits of it. I sometimes stick the company name in too.
> > >
> > > 2008/12/8 Alastair James <al.james at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > > HI there...
> > > > Just read through a report from a SEO agency. They recommend all
> anchor
> > > > tags
> > > > having a title attribute the same as the link text itself.
> > > >
> > > > I.e.
> > > > <a href="http://www.domain.co.uk" title="Name">Name</a>
> > > >
> > > > This cant have any effect surly?
> > > >
> > > > Al
> > > >
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