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Use of Acronym Tag - does it help SEO?

BeeDeeDubbleU

10:18 am on Jun 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

One of my sites is quite technical and it uses a lot of acronyms. Is there any evidence of Google reading acronym tags and titles and using them in the algo?

E.G. <acronym title="WebmasterWorld">WW</acronym>

Kristos

2:50 pm on Jun 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

there is sir, g is definitely doing word associations and ranking them.
inbound link text juggling(garbling) is starting to produce

pageoneresults

3:07 pm on Jun 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

Is there any evidence of Google reading acronym tags and titles and using them in the algo?

I haven't seen any. Would it matter though? I mean, that's a usability feature. Google is constantly promoting that you build sites for users. Hmmm, that could be a hint. Usability. Users.

Even if they do not consider them, it is recommended that you use them when appropriate. And, you don't use them more then once on a page. The very first reference in the <html> would be the one that gets the <abbr> or <acronym> element. In HTML5, the <acronym> element is deprecated. It is suggested that you use <abbr> instead.

P.S. You may want to style your <abbr> and make sure that there is a visible hint for users.

BeeDeeDubbleU

9:51 am on Jun 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

P.S. You may want to style your <abbr> and make sure that there is a visible hint for users.

Yes, I have done so to my acronym using ...

acronym {
cursor: help;
border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
}

This underlines and puts a question mark on the acronym when the mouse pointer is over it. I saw this on another website and I think it is quite effective.

[edited by: BeeDeeDubbleU at 9:55 am (utc) on June 15, 2008]