Using TITLE in Href

does Google indexes Title in href

[dupac]

hi
Does using TITLE in HREF helps in google PR or indexing.
e.g lets say i have code
<a href="www.abcde.com/xye.html"> Learn abt XYE</a>

<a href="www.abcde.com/xye.html" TITLE="XYE best product">
Learn abt XYE</a>
SO my question is does this help, if does how. Do poeple uses it . And does it help in Pr or google indexing.

any suggestion.
Deepak

[speedmax]

This is very interesting thu..

i put some of tittle arttribute in a link sometime.

i think it is very similar to ALT for image.

[ukgimp]

Its impact on your ranking will be tiny.

Its impact for accessibility will be high (IMHO). The reason for having it is to provide extra information about where a link leads. If accessibility is your game, then they are a good idea, if otherwise probably not worth the effort.

[dupac]

thanks for the tip UK

[AthlonInside]

I have it but it do nothing to help the ranking.

[tedster]

I've been using title attributes in links regularly for over a year. I began because it's a nice usability enhancement for users with a modern browser -- most of them display the title attribute in the tool-tip or status bar.

However, I've tested regularly and I've never seen any of the unique phrases in those title atributes come back in a Google search. Since they don't show up in a search -- not even on an exact phrase -- I doubt that they have any effect in Google at present.

[dupac]

guys it was a great help with your answers, I have one more questions, I have lot of pages in my site which have grey bar in google toolbar and i have no idea why any suggestions?

[mil2k]

Tedster have your experiments covered using titles in anchor text in incoming links?.

[ukgimp]

dupac

They grey bar could simply mean that the page has not yet been indexed or found by Google.

Cheers

[tedster]

I've used title attributes for both internal links and external links. When I search for the unique phrases, there is NO result returned for any of them, even though the pages involved are in Google.

This idea (title attributes for SEO) has been kicking around for a while, but I've yet to hear a report of it affecting the search results. I'm not about to stop doing it- but my reasons are for enhancing usability.

As I see it, the title attribute should tell the user what will happen if they click -either a description of the TARGET page or, in the case of a script, what event a click will invoke. I don't think it makes sense to use a title attribute in a link and fill it with keywords for the page where the link appears - it's all about the target page.

BTW, I sometimes use title attributes on blockquotes. There's less browser support there, but it still seems like good, potentially useful mark-up to me. I'm really from the school of thought that says "begin with content and then mark it up for the web".

[Oaf357]

It's a good school of thought to be in.

As for keyword stuffing you're right there is no benefit to it, yet. Whether Google or any other SE intends to factor in accesibility in the future remains to be seen.

But, I have to ask, how much text is too much text (characters)?