Do hyperlink titles make a difference?

Hi there,

Kinda new to the forums so be nice

Just wondering if there is a substantial advantage to having a link such as:

<a href="url" title="descriptive title">LINK TEXT</a>

or if the bog standard hyperlink with anchor text is the way to go:

<a href="url">LINK TEXT</a>

 

Definitely put in your title tag. It doesn't make much difference but it does seem to make some, and every little helps. Just make sure the title (and anchor) describe the page the link is pointing to - ideally in a nice keyword rich style.

 

I usually add it to most links, but I'm not sure if it makes much of a difference.

 

well i think it's no problem at all, when if it's <a href="url" rel="nofollow">LINK TEXT</a> that's could be a problem

 

Everything you can do to add a bit more juice to your backlink helps. There are many many factors so of course try to get as good of a link as possible!

 

The title attribute in anchor tags serve a very specific and vital purpose. It conveys extra information to users about a given link. It's spoken by screen readers and displayed to other users as a tooltip. Provide a useful title attribute, or don't use it at all.

Any marginal SEO advantage you gain from keyword stuffing your title tags or optimizing your title tags for a particular search engine's algorithms is going to be offset by the loss of usability to human-beings.

Design your website for people, not search engines. If you do that, then the SEO will take care of itself.

 

Agreed! answered nicely!