WebProWorld :: Anchor Text Tips: "Mel wrote:
Google appears to evaluate them both when considering the relevancy of a page, but the alt tag is useful only with graphics, but the title tag can also be used for other elements such as tables, etc.


I don't want to get into a W3C debate over this, but for tables you should use the 'summary' attribute. ;0)

Whether Google evaluates the the 'title' attribute in anchors or not, I don't know. But other SE's might, so might as well put it in. Just excersize the same rules of non-spamminess (is that a word?) as you would every well else.


Depends on what its used for Ronnie.

Summary is an alternative which is used to provide alternative information to those who cannot see the table, but title is specified by W3C for use in place of the table caption as well as for providing additional information for most any page element. So you could use both just as you could use both a table caption and a table summary.

since the search engines seem to read the title attribute and it is supported by most browsers equally well, I prefer to use it."