Do you 'title' your internal links?

Hey all...

I notice than many site using the title tag in links. Does it help in something for google? Do I have to know anything before I am using them? things like what to be carful at, and how to use it smartly...

Does anyone has expirience with Title Tags?

Thanks in advance for any help...

Guy.

Title helps. Even if it does not help you it does not harm you. Title also gives the user a description of the link page. I suggest use it.

title tags are used by all engines- they tell you what the page is about.

not much else to say really except search for the term "untitled page" and tell them this information.

cdx ...

Your question is a little bit confusing.

It sounds like you want to use the same text as your title in the anchor text (link text) on other sites?

Or do you just want to know if you should use Title Tags?

use them it will help you in yahoo, MSN and in other. Not as per current google trend. But Fill title as samll description rich with keywords not put like

<ttile>Web hosting, reseller web hosting, cheap web hosting</title>

in place of this use

<title>Cheap Reseller web hosting for your web hosting needs.</title>


otherwise you will loose in google. Study few results who is in top & why & put your out of them.

Yep, you rigth. I always learn that my English not sounds so good like it sounds to me...

I talked about title tags insite LINKS. as you move over link, you see sometimes a box with a text describing for you what you are going to see.

This is what I ment.... Thanks for letting me know...

ahh, you mean the description that appears sometimes when you hold your mouse over the link...

The title tag for links holds no weight in google or yahoo.... its more important to use good anchor text.

OK. Now I got it!

Most people understand this is a worldwide forum ... I have to give you credit for trying.

You want to know about the TITLE object in the < IMG > or < A > link tag.

Most search engines will read this text and may even give it a little more weight than body text. It is good thing to use on your page.

The same SEO rules apply as for any other text on your page. No spamming, relevant text, use keywords ...

Evidence of this? I've never seen any more weight given to this tag than body text.

I use the title tag in some links, purely to help surfers, but have often wondered whether it aids or not ( I have assumed not )

How would one gather the evidence either way ?

I have checked ALT object in Google cache, and they do appear on the text only screen. And searches for the ALT phrase also appear in search results. But only for link images.

I checked a few of the research pages that I follow and no one has tested it. Guess I am going to run an experiment to see if Google stores the text in TITLE objects for both linked and unlinked images and link tags.

Might take a few days until we see results .... I'll get back to you

Thanks rtchar, it is an interesting consideration.

Its probably too easy to abuse and so is possibly left out. people don't see the tooltip unless they actually hover over it for a period, so its a hidden text problem. there may even be a way to disable 'tooltips' on the page in which case it is essentially cloaking.

Yep, we are all waiting ...

I have to announce sadly that Title for text link does not work.

Here is the test:

The term "flash web site design" apears as it is, in Quantumcloud home page once in a title tag.

Search in google:
site:www.quantumcloud.com "flash web site design"

Google lists 7 pages from the quantumcloud website, but none of them is the home page. Those are other pages containing the terms in the exact sequence and organically.

Same result with Yahoo and MSN.

Conclusion: Text link titles are ignored by major search engines.

Exactly. I've never used them and have great serps. I don't think they will hurt you though.