Hi! If I have title attribute on tags, with the value of my targeted keywords, does it matter/help for SEO? Thanks!
it may or may not help in a technical sense, but it would definitely help in the psychological sense of users searching for content. I strongly recommend always having a <title> tag on a page.
oh, like <a href="#" title="">test</a> Code (markup): ? I wouldn't say it would hurt even still, unless you have absurdly long titles which causes the page to load slower (which is bad for the user and AdWords users.) it helps give the search engines direction and an idea about what your site's topic is.
if it's just an image -> alt="text" if it's a link around an image -> <a href="url" title="text"><img src=".gif" alt="text" /></a> or if I just need alt hover text for an image in all browers <img src=".gif" alt="text" title="text" />
fsmedia, yes, thanks! mr_wonderful, thank you also! I was just wondering if those "title" attributes gives me a "jump" in SERPs
I think that is great to use them, I managed to get images indexed very well by google by using proper title tags on images. I think they help, but do not abuse them. it might be considered spam
It definitely helps. you do notice from time to time a slight change in serps on certain websites that use it properly
Yes, you really should add title tags wherever you can. Quite apart from SEO issues (and they do help, certainly) they're essentially in place to make websites accessible. If, for example, someone is visually impaired and browsing a website (I once worked with someone who was completely blind and frequently worked online) a so-called text-to-speech reader can literally read out the text on a page. Where images are concerned though, the software can only describe them if YOUR description - the alt tag - is in place. Same goes for links, forms, etc. Making websites accessible is in fact a legal requirement for many types of site (perhaps all?) these days - though I doubt anyone running a smallish site has been hauled off to court for not complying. Hope that helps - and it's nice to think that you're doing everyone a favour by using alt tags.
This actually belongs on the SEO board. But since it's here in the HTML board (as of the time I wrote this anyway), I might as well answer it. Yes, it'll help, but not as much as you think. They're virtually useless these days due to them being abused like the META keywords tag in the 1990s, but if you use them for their intended purpose, you'll still be serving your actual targeted audience, which will make the site easier on the people using it. @adnewbie, they're attributes, not tags. Tags have beginning < and ending > delimiters; attributes don't (since they're contained in the tags).