I usually use alt attributes for regular hyperlinks, but on my forum when I use alt="" with regular links I get invalid errors or whatever with this: http://validator.w3.org/ So for example if I used <a href="mywebsite" alt="some text" title="some other text">Link</a> Code (markup): I will get some error message about the alt part, specifically: Can anyone help me with this? I heard that alt text was useful for SEO, but maybe that's only for images? ???
It generally doesn't matter for SEO, but its great for humans. Well, most of the time. Esp if the link's own text isn't really clear, the title can say something like, "Click here to visit so-and-so's site".
IMO, "good" titles help with SEO. Try not to use a long title fulfilled with keywords, take care that people see that title as a tooltip when the mouse stop over link for a few seconds.
Yeah, I used to use alt="keywords..." and then just a blank or a short description with the titles because I knew that members could see it. Anyway, thanks for your help.
By the goodness of SEO, title for links are generally not so much a candy as alt for images. Don't let go of any opportunity that you can use a alt with img, but title just helps accessibility.