A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion on the topic of the influence over a page’s title tag and the outbound links on that page.

In short, we all know that anchor text plays a role on the way the linking page ranks for that keyword phrase. So if I link to page A using the keyword Big Blue Pineapple Chair, it would help the page rank for that keyword phrase in Google.

But what if you link to that page by saying, “read more here” and the title of the linking page was Pineapple Chair, would that help?

Most SEOs would believe it would. Google and other search engines look at the context and theme of a page and then may pass that theme to the pages that page links to.

The thread asks:

WebmasterWorld’s administrator replied:

What do you think?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.