How to Set the Title for a Hyperlink
When you hover the mouse pointer over some hyperlinks in a Web browser, a small pop-up window displays more information about the link. This is because the person who created the link added a <title> tag. You can add the <title> tag to your own hyperlinks when creating a website. Web crawling robots see this information and may rank your website more highly for certain keyword phrases. Additionally, visitors to your website can hover the mouse pointer over a link to learn more about it before clicking it.
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Instructions
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Open the source code for the Web page to which you want to add a hyperlink. If you do not have a dedicated HTML coding program, you can use the Windows Notepad application. Place the cursor at the location where you want to create the hyperlink.
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Type
<a href="http://www.example.com"
Replace "www.example.com" with the URL of the website to which you want to link. Press the space bar.
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Type
title="Title Text">
Replace "Title Text" with the information that you would like the Web browser to display when a visitor hovers the mouse pointer over the hyperlink. Do not press the space bar.
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Anchor Text</a>
Replace "Anchor Text" with the text that you would like visitors to click on to navigate to the hyperlink. The full hyperlink code should now look like
<a href="http://www.example.com" title="Title Text">Anchor Text</a>
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Save the file and upload it to your Web server.
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