Is there a way to hide the tooltip with html <a> title attribute??

Question

I want the the tooltip not be displayed when the mouse hovers over the links although the title attribute should be there for it affects SEO. I've read about removing using jQuery with $('...').removeAttr('title'); but does this still generate the title atribute in html for the search engine crawlers to crawl??

Answer 1

I wouldn't worry too much about titles for search index optimization. Most search engines place a heavier weight based on external links that link to your site than they do title attributes.

If you really care, you could always hide the title attribute on a mouse event, which certainly wouldn't affect crawlers.