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 I'm Lazy, Do I Need To Give My Links A Title?

Submitted by Ryan Caldwell on May 22, 2007 - 4:12pm in

Here's a question for all you linkbuilders.

The fact is that I don't see much benefit to throwing in the title attribute to a link tag:
[a href="http://performancing.com" title="blogging, on the rocks"]Performancing, we chill bloggers off[/a]

What benefit is there to introducing the link title and why the hell is there a title for links anyway? Someone care to explain? Because I'm lazy, and I hate putting titles in my links.

On the other hand, I completely understand why you'd want to put alt attributes into your img tags. That makes a lot of sense. You're basically tagging your images, telling the search engines what the image is about. But with links, isn't your anchor text supposed to do that anyway?