onMouseOver & title <a href links?

anybody any proof this help hinders rankings?

[cicru]

Hi All ,

Does anyone know if this kind of html/javascipt is effective or defective in SEO?

<a onMouseOver='KEYWORD' onMouseOver='window.status=\"KEYWORD\";return true' href='URL'> ANCHOR TEXT </a>

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[StupidScript]

It looks like you are asking whether bots and spiders index text inside of Javascript/mouseover code.

They do not.

There is no advantage or disadvantage, SEO-wise, to using mouseover code, except that sometimes it bulks up your code so that spiders/bots don't get all the way through your page...at least for spider/bots that only scan, say, the first 5000 characters or something.

BTW, your code should lose the first onmouseover parameter, leaving only the second one. The first does nothing but slow the browser down as it discards it in favor of the second one. (And you don't need to escape the quotes around the window.status value, in this case.)

i.e.
<a onMouseOver='window.status="KEYWORD";return true' href='URL'>

[cicru]

Some how I am not so sure about this. Why does google read my external .js files then (not to mention the CSS files)

[StupidScript]

Are you sure the spider is actually ingesting your .JS and .CSS files? Since they are included in your normal pages in some manner, they would definitely be requested and the hits would be recorded in your log files whether the spider ended up indexing them or not.

IMHO, they are not being indexed.