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Good question.
If the alt is important, why not the link title? Probably the same rules apply, no spam but honest descriptive text. If this is done it can do no harm, and may have a good effect. Another way of getting keywords in!
re current thread [webmasterworld.com...]
Actually that was my question - about the target page, I only didn't make it so clear.
It feels good when I know it matters.
Thanks guys.
I have been using the Title Attribute for Links for about three months now, especially on a new site. I can confirm, that it works and does have an important impact on the target site. Especially if you have more keywords for a link, that you can actually get into the link text. Then it helps, to add additional keywords in the title tag.
From a Users View, this can also be helpfull, as it really explains what he can expect on the next page.
I don't use text links without title tag anymore.. :-)
it think it is very simple,
example:
Sytax: <a href="[url]">[desc]</a>
[url] will be ranked higher with search term: [desc] or words out of the phrase [desc].
[url] will also receive extra pagerank:
Yourpagerank / Number of links on your page = Pagerank added to the pagerank of [url]
But since you now have the text [desc] also on your page, your site will also be shown in the result when people search for [desc] or words out of [desc],
but how high you end up in the search result depends on your own pagerank AND with what [desc] people link to you, because if your site name is for example:
www.games.com and people link to it as
[Url]=www.games.com and [desc]="Good Site" then your page www.games.com will be visable in the search results "Good Site". How high depends on searching for "good site" depends on your pagerank and the number of links with [Desc] that refer to you as "Good Site".
My english is not perfect, but i know that this works.
That is what i can give u.
I know all this because,
I i had to learn it the hard way.
At first i ranked #1 with olmost ALL the words in the titel and description.
But then i thougt, what if i made so many pages of my own and link to them all from these #1 ranked sites, i thought that every page would automaticly be ranked high, since google thought these sites were "important" and put them on #1, but
google visited like it does every month between the 16th - 18th ,
then it became 1st of the month and then google refreshes all the sites
I saw the terrible horror, my sites were not #1 no more.
Then i sought and sought and i discover the formula that was used to calculate the pagerank.
It was somthing like:
PageRank = 0,15 + 0,85 * ( sum of ( TP / TL ) )
TP = the pageranks of all sites that link to you added up.
TL = the total links on those sites.
What can be concluded out of this forumula, this:
By putting more links on your page, all other links will have to divide the total pagerank with the extra link(s)
ps. i solved this by making a rederect file, where i put only the links that on #1 in the first rederect file, so the pagerank gets divided between my pages and then automatily rederects to the page with all the links.
i will let you know, but this already worked once before.
Today it is 17 and i will have to wait until 1 to see te result
ps, did you know, if you typle text between the body, link this:
"acdefsdjhf will be made sjdfhksjdhfksdf"
your site will be listed on searches on "sjdfhksjdhfksdf" or "acdefsdjhf" or "will" etc etc. even if you put this on the end of your site
anyway i wanna read something, i wanna learn more, so i'm gonna read this forum some more.
