Good day Gang, I just wanted to asked and find out how much weight does having a title as part of the link anchor carries.

<a href="http://thethingswetalkabout.com" title="The Things We Talk About">The Things We Talk About</a>.

Does that matter to google or seo for that matter? Please someone let me know.

I generally do not put any weight into the title of a hyperlink. The anchor-text is relevant, for this you should not use for example "read more", "more", if you can write "read more about keyword rich anchor text".

I have my own personal "bone of contention" on this anchour titles.

I think the main reason for them is Disabled Accessability, that is, a text to speech browser may use it to identify what the target page could contain. So for that (potential) reason, I use them.

BUT

Stuffing it with useless crap is bound to raise a few flags, and in that case, dynamically generated sites need be careful that it doesn't automatically "over-do it".

I think it's interesting that FireFox does not show an Image's alt attribute on mouseover, yet does display the title attribute.

As far as what to put in the Title goes, I feel it should be the same as the Anchour text UNLESS you're using "Click Here"(etc). If using "Click Here"(etc), the title could give the Bot a heads up on what's coming at the other end.

Also, rememeber that anything within the <a> tag is classed as Code, so having a keyword rich title tag is one thing, but it could negatively impact on your code:text ratio

unfortunatley all these are required for validation - if you worry about such things
one war round is to use alt=""

various attributes are required for accessibility, even if they are left blank.

For accessibility reasons, when I give off site links (to a 3rd party site) I usually use the url as the anchor text and then put in a user-friendly title.

In URL title tag is not necessary only anchor text is important i never put title tag insite anchor tag.

Title tag is very important for a perticular page this title tag only consider many search engines.

There's no need to put a title tag in the anchor text. Alt tags are only useful for images.

mrandrei wrote:

There's no need to put a title tag in the anchor text. Alt tags are only useful for images.

I agree, Anchor text and your link is important, no need of title tag..

In my opinion the alt attribute would carry more weight than the title attribute.

It makes sense, of course. When the image is not viewable for whatever reason, the alt is shown in it's stead. The title is not.

In addition, when the image is inside a link, the alt text functions as the anchor text of the link whereas the title, once again, does not.

for me, it gives good combination because the anchor text calls directly your site by using your url and your title. it gives credit on your keyword ranking.

Well it all depends on how much you want your site to be accessable and if you want 100% validation. You can validate and check the guides on validation on this site http://www.w3schools.com/site/site_validate.asp

I think personaly the more you do the more G and others will like your site as everyone can get on it then making it more use! But its not a must by G or others, well not yet!