: Should the title text of a hyperlink be the same as the link text for SEO? Let's say I have the below hyperlink: <a href="http://www.example.com" title="title text">link link</a> It

@Deb1703797

Where did you read this?!


best practice is to have keywords in
both



Stuffing titles attributes with keywords is irrelevant in the best case and it will punish your site in the worst case.
It does not harm at all if they are NOT identical.

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@Shakeerah822

I use the title tag as a tool tip with additional information for the user than just the anchor text. I am not sure if title being identical to anchor text has any search engine benefits, I doubt it though.

If the tooltip is the same as the anchor text, it will be an minor annoyance for the user who is probably expecting more information.

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@Ogunnowo487

Stop it. Stop thinking like a keyword spammer.

The title attribute in anchor tags serve a very specific and vital purpose. It conveys extra information to users about a given link. It's spoken by screen readers and displayed to other users as a tooltip. Provide a useful title attribute, or don't use it at all.

Any marginal SEO advantage you gain from keyword stuffing your title tags or optimizing your title tags for a particular search engine's algorithms is going to be offset by the loss of usability to human-beings.

Design your website for people, not search engines. If you do that, then the SEO will take care of itself.

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