Pete wrote:
rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Pete wrote:
rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
1) the anchor text is important. A link should include, between
the A tags, some Text which is descriptive. Seach engines use
this text and depend upon It heavily to determine the theme of
a web site. Thus, an anchor text of "next" is practically
useless as far as SEO is concerned. This is one of the Reasons
why rings don't much for a site's ranking in a search engine -
bad Anchor text (and no practical way to include useful text
here).
You mean adding title="Quotations About life and living" to a A
tag for say for the anchor text of "next"? The Ringlink program
thus entering the title of the next ring within title="" for all
A tags as someone surfs the ring? Sounds complicated to program?
If however you replaced the anchor text "next" you'd have huge
navpanels....
No, not title or ALT. It's the text between the <A> and the </A> as
in <A href="blah.htm">This is anchor text</A>
Would make for a huge navpanel if "next" was replaced with the title
of the next ring "Quotations About life and living"?
href="blah.htm">Quotations About life and living< href="blah.htm"
title="Quotations About life and living">Next<
Would does a search engine do with title or ALT stuff?
I too thought of the 'title' attribute in this context (the purpose of
'alt' is something else). Can't help thinking that if it's true that the
search engines don't mind about 'title', they *should* do so ;-) since
it's a natural way to provide more verbose info about the nature of a
link: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.1.4
Up to now, I for one haven't normally used the 'title' attribute in
usual A links, but I have used it in image maps. For an example, please
see the navpanel for my own ring at the bottom right of
http://www.gunnar.cc/quotes.html . The 'title' attributes in that image
map include just the type of descriptive texts that Richard mentioned.
Richard, do you possibly have a source of info about this aspect of SEO?
/ Gunnar