Title Tags For Linking Text?

trace-uk

Aug 23 2006, 03:07 PM

what are title tagas for llinkign text? how are they used? just for SEO?

I know they're kinda like alt tags, but does the SE's like or loath them?

Thanks,
Andy

jlhaslip

Aug 24 2006, 02:47 AM

When you have an image defined in your Html, and use an "alt=" attribute with it, the older browsers display the text in the alt= when the image is not available. Newer browsers use the "title=" attribute and ignore the "alt=" because the alt= was never intended to be used as substitute text.
In Cascading Style Sheets, the correct method is to use the title=.
Internet Explorer, and browsers using their engine, still uses the "alt=", so if you wish to be Browser friendly to both new and old Browsers, use both the alt= and the title= at the same time. I am not certain if the alt= will pass as acceptable coding using the w3c validator, though, so if you are want to be w3c valid html or xhtml, you might want to check their standards for compatible use of the alt=.

trace-uk

Aug 24 2006, 05:42 PM

I didn't know you cvould use title tags on images either! I wonder if having your keowords in both a titile and an alt tage is considered spamming?

Does anyone know what the search engines think about this?

If you had a site that was rated well in the seprs and then added title tags please post to tell us what happened.

FirefoxRocks

Aug 24 2006, 07:35 PM

title="" is for mouseover ToolTip.
alt="" is a requried attribute for images.

You can use both in images and objects. It can be useful and it increases your loading time each occurance that you use it.

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