: As mentioned, there is no evidence that title attributes on HTML elements are used by Google for ranking purposes - this is correct. The previous answer cites an irrelevant Tweet but does

@Jessie594

As mentioned, there is no evidence that title attributes on HTML elements are used by Google for ranking purposes - this is correct.

The previous answer cites an irrelevant Tweet but does provide some value because the Googler explicitly advises testing. I'd urge you to discard the source citation and the statement by Simon which states that "It's unlikely that Google or Bing actively monitors the DOM for Title Changes"

This is beyond easy to test especially since you're developing in jScript. Google does in fact wait for DOM mutations - and multiple tests suggest that they wait up to 5 seconds - here's a simple test where the DOM was manipulated and Google's fectch and render service in Google search console did in fact wait for 5 seconds.


There's also a full post of JS tests that also confirm this : searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascript-heres-learned-220157. If we can inject links, metadata, change HTML and Google accounts for DOM changes, there's no reason why they wouldn't be able to pick up title attribute changes. Bottom line, test it - this test should take 5 minutes and you'll get confirmation.

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