Do search engines index title attributes on links?
This test will seek to determine if search engines index title attributes on links.
Testing Methodology
The following links contain title attributes. These attributes can be seen if you drag your mouse cursor over the link.
alt.internet.search-engines FAQ
alt.internet.search-engines FAQ
Evaluation Methodology
Drag your mouse cursor over the test link to view the title attribute. Search for the unique string from the title attribute in these search engines. If this page shows up in the search results, then that search engine most likely indexes title attributes on links.
| Search Engine | Expected Result |
|---|---|
| No | |
| Yahoo | No |
| MSN | No |
| AltaVista | No |
| AllTheWeb | No |
Caveats
This page was put online on 20 April, 2004. It will take some time for each search engine to crawl and index this page to make this test "live."
The second title attribute example was added on 11 May, 2004 to correct the improprer usage of the term "tag".
A malicious person could link to this page using the unique string in the title attribute as link text. This would force a false positive on most search engines and invalidate the test results.
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