title or alt?

[flyeruk]

On the subject of title tags, I read somewhere that the anchor text and title tag shouldn't be the same...

eg. free porn links with a title tag of "free porn links"

Reason I'm asking is that I have about 200 anchor links to change over...

Would this be the way to go?

website design by blahblah with a title tag of "somewhere design agency"

Any advice appreciated

Cheers,
Lisa.

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by flyeruk

On the subject of title tags, I read somewhere that the anchor text and title tag shouldn't be the same...

eg. free porn links with a title tag of "free porn links"

I always figured title/alt tags was my opportunity for extra words. Repeating myself seems counter-productive if I'm trying to add more text.

[Halfdeck]

Google doesn't use TITLE tag text to evaluate ranking.

Using this board as an example:

<a href="showthread.php?goto=newpost&amp;t=34437" title="Go to first unread post in thread 'CCBill links with encoded '&amp;' don't work'">

site:http://www.greenguysboard.com "Go to first unread post"

returns no results.

At least until this post gets indexed.

<img class="inlineimg" src="mimg/buttons/lastpost.gif" alt="Go to last post" border="0" />

ALT Text?

site:http://www.greenguysboard.com "Go to last post"

If you look at the cache:

These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: go to last post

ALT text is still worth using imo as part of Google Images optimization, but not for regular SERP if you're targeting competitive keywords. After all, we're talking about an on-page element that visitors on some browsers don't even see.