Newbie Question, so dont laugh!!

**werken247** · 02-16-2006, 08:12 AM

I see alot of the SEO posts referencing "anchor text", what is considered anchor text? Is it the meta description, keywords on the page or what? Also if you know a good resource where I can learn more about it please post a link. Thanks much

**kline11** · 02-16-2006, 10:43 AM

Anchor text are the words used in your links, like "Web Tools"

**gringo** · 02-16-2006, 10:44 AM

Hi werken247,

the text 'www.esteemweb.com' you can see in your sig is anchor text (it's also the url). If you had put "web design" or something descriptive of the link between your <a> tags, that would be more useful.

HTML Code:

<a href="www.esteemweb.com">descriptive anchor text</a>

EDIT: i.e. what kline11 said!

**werken247** · 02-16-2006, 03:39 PM

Thanks for the replies, that clears things up for me. (and thanks for not laughing, lol)

Now I gotta fix my sig.

**anton** · 02-20-2006, 10:39 PM

Another thing you could also add in the anchor tag is 'Title' value as well (Shown on mouse over)

Quote:

<a href=www.esteemweb.com Title="More description">descriptive anchor text</a>

**chrishirst** · 02-21-2006, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anton

Another thing you could also add in the anchor tag is 'Title' value as well (Shown on mouse over)

For what reason?

**vangogh** · 02-21-2006, 07:28 PM

People think it gives an seo boost like using the alt attribute on an image tag. Neither is really going to do much though they might give a slight boost I guess. An all other things being equal kind of thing.

The title attribute is really meant for accesibiltly issues and to give a little extra information about where a link might lead.

Here's an aticle on the alt and title attributes and opinions on the proper use for each.