title in link

[Frank Vèssia]

There is no way to set a title attrib on link when using tinymce... (<a href="" title="">link</a>)This is very important in seo and i need to solve this issue, even if i edit manually the code, when saving the title disappears from code. Any solution?

[ryan]

Edit your tinymce field in Setup > Fields. Near the bottom you'll see "TinyMCE advanced configuration options". Click that, and locate the "valid_elements" input. This contains a list of all tags it will allow and the attributes it will allow with them. You should see the one for the "a" tag that currently looks like this:

a[href|target|name]

Update that to add the 'title' attribute to it, like this:

a[href|target|name|title]

But before you do this...

This came up with a client recently, so we still have the research. Title attributes are likely not used for search engine ranking purposes. My thought is you shouldn't worry about putting SEO time/budget towards crafting link title attributes… focus on the anchor text and alt tags instead. There are times when title attributes can be handy for providing additional context or tooltips, but use them for that reason and not for SEO or accessibility. I say 'not for accessibility' because last I heard, those using screen readers are generally annoyed by the title attributes and much prefer the anchor text (or the alt tag, if it's a linked image).

I realize it's hard to go on anything that one person says unless they work at Google. But here are a couple of recent sources for title attributes lack of SEO value:

This page summarizes it best, and is consistent with other trusted seo's in the industry:

http://www.highrankings.com/useless-seo-tactics-303

The results of a recent test in google involving the link title attribute (also consistent with other's results and tests):

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4265397.htm

And a couple from seomoz:

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/external-link

http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/48761/does-the-title-attribute-in-a-link-add-any-a-value-for-the-ranking-of-the-mentioned-keywords

[Frank Vèssia]

Thanks Ryan, i will read these articles 

[apeisa]

Yes, there are some accessibility problems - title attributes are mostly just noise and unnecessary repeat. Here is few interesting and quick articles about the topic:

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200903/dont_duplicate_link_text_in_the_title_attribute/

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200904/dont_use_the_title_attribute_for_essential_information/

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201011/accessibility_myths_in_2010/