Is this good for multiple keyword targeting? <a href="http://mycardomain.com" title="Car Talk | car forum| blah | blah"> car domain </a> HTML: Is this okay to shorten anchor text? <a href="http://mycardomain.com"> <abbr title="Car Forum">CF</abbr></a> HTML:
Why not <a href="http://mycardomain.com"> THE KEYWORD PHRASE YOU ARE TARGETING </a>? The link text (what is between <a> and </a>) is what is going to matter at least to Google... title= attribute is not the link text... You may get credit for a couple more keywords words in the source HTML of the page containing the link possibly making it slightly more relevant, but the actual link text is what carries most of the weight toward helping the target page rank for the keyword phrase IMO. If using an image to link then <a href="http://mycardomain.com"><img src="yourimageURL" alt="THE KEYWORD PHRASE YOU ARE TARGETING IF IT CAN BE WORKED INTO DESCRIPTION OF IMAGE" /></a> The alt= attribute is an accessibility attribute used by screenreaders for the blind. It should really describe the image itself, not what the page that you're linking to is about. But you can usually work your keywords into the description of the image if you select relevant images. Google will use the ALT attribute's value in this case as the link text.
@Canonical Thanks but I know that already... This is for Multiple keyword and shortening anchor text anyone has an idea? I need Yes or a No answer then add some explanation. Please don't reply stupid question "WHY NOT?" because I need answer not suggestion. Thanks
You are awefully rude in the way that you go about asking for "help". I don't know why anyone should even attempt to help you when you're going to respond with sh*t like "stupid question "WHY NOT?"... You want an answer? ANSWER 1: No... the first one sucks because your link text is "car domain"... The title attribute having a value of "Car Talk | car forum| blah | blah" isn't really going to help you rank for multiple keywords. It is not considered link text. As far as I know, title attribute is ignored for everything other than possibly page keyword density calculation. Even then I'm not sure it's even considered part of the page content since it is an attribute not really visiable on the page. But maybe it is... I guess you could pose the question on Matt Cutts blog if you need a definitive Yes / No answer. Also your users are going to see "Car Talk | car forum| blah | blah" when they hover over the link as title attribute determines the hover text. Would look like crap IMO. ANSWER 2: No. Your second example of using CF as the link text w/ an <abbr> element to basically try to tell the engines that CF = "Car Talk | car forum| blah | blah" also sucks (I am guessing you are planning on "stuffing" multiple words in the title attribute for the <abbr> element). It's a terrible user experience... Your users will see CF on the page as the hyperlink and are not going to know WTF "CF" means unless they hover over it to see the <abbr> element's title attribute value... it's not an accepted abbreviation of Car Forum.
Google doesn't worry too much with title in the anchor tag much like it disregards meta keywords but does penalize keyword stuffing.
if you want to do multiple keywords, you will do three links, I personally never see what you suggest anywhere else and I wasn't told that was a good idea neither. So I suggest you to do three links to target different keywords with the primary keywords focus of 70%, the secondary 20% and the remaining 10%. so dO I answer your questions? and for the abbreviation one, I don't know. May be you can try and see if you works and I have to tell you most of the SEO work is guessing work. No one will know the exact answer to it unless they work in Google search engine department .
"You are awefully rude in the way that you go about asking for "help". I don't know why anyone should even attempt to help you ." "and I have to tell you most of the SEO work is guessing work. No one will know the exact answer to it unless they work in Google search engine department." I agree with both of the above answers. And your questions I would answer NO and NO.
Thanks guys... I'm sorry for not being nice but I am sick of lame answers here in DP. They are trying to answer even though they don't have knowledge in the topic- Just to increase # of posts
Its always better to optimize a website for a keyword which has lesser competition rather then straight forward for all the keywords which you want to target. My suggestion: target A keyword and build relevant back links for it. Once you rank good for it, move to the next one. This is the method that works best for me.