Is 'title' attribute taken into account whithin links?

Hi.

I've got a lot of:

<a href="internal_page.html" title="this is a link to internal_page">Keyword1 Keyword2</a>

Code (markup):

Is "this is a link to internal_page" taken into account by Google and can it damage my links?

Thank you very much.

 

Good post. I didn't even know you could title the links like that. I have never done that.

 

yes.

That is how they could do the "failure" keyword bomb on google.

The reason its worth value is because your describing the link.

Eg,

<a href="http://forums.digitalpoint.com" title="seo forums" > Digital Point</a>

Code (markup):

The title describes what digital point is and what the url/website is about.

Pierce

 

Yes it is important - just dont overuse it or it can backfire - dont make 1000 title links with the same phrase or its considered SEO spam

google webmaster guidelines says:

Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.

 

It can help you as long as its descriptive, unique. Pls make sure you are not doing spamming with the same.

 

what is "Failure keyword bomb"

 

It's a fake'ing the results on search engines by creating links with not related anchors, titles, descriptions. Ask Google, it will tell you.

 

Democrats made George Bush's official site show up for "failure" I beleive that was the reference. John Kerry showed up #1 for "waffles"

etc...

 

It has not effect in Google.