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kasperseo
Joined: Jan 11, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Feb-02 15:37
Do crawlers count words in the title of a link. Here's an example:
<a href="page.jsp" title="Click here keyword keyword2 keyword3" class="navhome" >Keyword</a>
Will crawlers index "Click here keyword keyword2 keyword3" and will it help ranking?
Thx!
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kasperseo
Joined: Jan 11, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Feb-03 11:31
Nobody knows? It's a nice feature, serves as an alt-tag for links. But does it count for ranking?
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lizardz
Joined: Nov 12, 2004
# Posts: 1394
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Posted: 2005-Feb-05 05:23
Sigh.. hmmm... let's see, let's translate the question: I think I've found this great new way to spam onpage keywords. Will search engines penalize me for it. Short answer, yes. They penalized img alt tag stuffing last year, so don't get your hopes too high.
Could be fun to play with on disposable site, along with other clever but easy to detect methods, as long as you can lose the domain who really cares. But for a real site, bad idea, very bad.
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langard
Joined: Dec 15, 1999
# Posts: 339
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Posted: 2005-Feb-07 07:54
Actually, the alt and title tags for graphics have migrated from being nothing but text representations for 'text only' browsers in the old days to the new usage which is helping the disabled accurately determine the intent (or content) of a graphic. That's all.
So far as spam is concerned, you should count the tags in an overall page-keyword saturation calc. But meta/alt/title spamming is so obvious to every engine out there - no matter how cool it seems - that attempting to misrepresent or overload images with spammy tags is suicide. Nuff said.
Google, for instance, will pick up images that are appropriately tagged for their image directory, but that doesn't get you any points in the index ranking at all. It just means they like your picture.
The short of my statement is that everything - including the images on a page and their tags - must submit to the same ultimate evaluation of their overall value as relevant content, content, content. There are no angles.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
# Posts: 10465
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Posted: 2005-Feb-07 11:53
The alt attribute text is used to display text when the image fails to load or the user uses a non graphical (text only) browser. Use the text for that purpose rather than trying to gain one on the search engines. The alt text should NOT pop up in a tooltip. That is a bug in IE.
The title attribute text should be used on links (it goes on the <a> tag). That text will pop up as a tool tip. It is a very nice usability feature. As far as I know search engines do not index or rank that text, but they could use it to flag whether your usage is spammy or not. I wouldn't take that risk.
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langard
Joined: Dec 15, 1999
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Posted: 2005-Feb-08 08:32
g1smd,
Did I miss something or did you just say what I did?
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2005-Feb-08 12:04
Yeah, except I called them attributes rather than tags, and did it in less words (unusual for me I know) 
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