link titles

[rmridgew]

does anyone know of any Search Engines who take link titles into account?

[Advisor]

Don't know for sure, but it appears that Google might.

Jill

[ihelpyou]

What do you mean by Link Titles? Do you mean the text that is visible in the link? If so, yes, Google does index those words.

Or do you mean the ...... eee.com" title="your text here" ?

Where when the mouse hovers over the link, a window with the text pops up? Only works in IE browsers. If so, then yes, I do believe it can help, but just a little.

[rmridgew]

yes the hover title

[markymark]

I'm pretty certain that Ink. reads them, they seem to read everything else.

[billy fullerton]

Hi Guys,

Never ask another Webmaster to add a link to your site and leave them to write a description for you. Always include the text you want to appear on another website in your initial email, link request or submission form.

These four examples all point to the same URL but use different text:

summitmedia.co.uk (url is good)

Search engine optimisation (key phrase is better)

Click here (absolute waste of time)

Link Solutions (key phrase is better)

Search engines' spiders figure that any words other sites use to describe your site are particularly relevant. So, if lots of sites linking to you use keywords in their link text, search engines will boost your ranking for those keywords.

It is for this reason that you should always attempt to keep control of the descriptions that link to your website.

Hope that helps a bit, if you need more just let me know.

[Advisor]

Search engines' spiders figure that any words other sites use to describe your site are particularly relevant. So, if lots of sites linking to you use keywords in their link text, search engines will boost your ranking for those
keywords.

It is for this reason that you should always attempt to keep control of the descriptions that link to your website. Absolutely!

Very valuable advice. Thanks, Billy.

Jill

[rmridgew]

my links include ending queries ie: blah .com/blah.htm?blah-blah
could this hurt me when googlebot looks to index my subpages

[bigDugan]

While some search engines may index query string links, most seem to refuse to follow them. But you can overcome this problem by reformatting your query link from /index.htm?widgets&color=red to something like /index/widgets/red.

A quote from a NetMechanic article Beware of Query Strings (http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol2/search_no11.htm)Query strings sometimes act as "spider traps", and that's why search engines avoid them

[JuniorHarris]

rmridgew check out this thread (http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/t2262/s.html), there is a link to a very good read regarding an interview with two folks from Google.

Some really great questions in there, and an interesting comment regarding pages with query strings/session IDs:we try to avoid pages with session IDs...Try to make each page look like a static URL

[bigDugan]

(LOL...ya beat me to the post!) :cool:

My favorite quote from the article:Try to make each page look like a static URL. If each page looks [like] a simple url, then Google is more likely to index it

[rmridgew]

thanks fo the help guys. my site is designed in a way that there are two links to every page on each page. (at the top and at the bottom) what if i leave the query strings on the links at the top of the page and simple url at the bottom. therefore keeping the query string keywords at the top of the page, but maintaining the site structure at the bottom.

thanks guys