As soon as I have anything, I’ll let you know Ruud 😀

We’re on the same page there, Leo.

First, doing things right the first time prevents you from having to go back later and do it all over again.
Second, doing it right means someone somewhere will appreciate it and come back to your site. My title attribute can be that *one* factor that decides someone comes to me instead of the other site.
And finally third — all elements in ranking algorithms are variables, the weighing of which they can turn up or down at will 😉

Let me know how it goes, Autocrat; curious to read the results.

It is beneficial from the user’s perspective and that is precisely what Google likes. Besides, I personally think that it is a good practice to fill-up all the fields for links, images and everything else. The fields are there for a reason!

It may only be a % in the large scale of things, but I believe G do reference it in the SEO Guide they produced.
Whetehr it is picked up for the containing pages relevance, or the destination (which to my mind would be more logical), no idea.

I will have to test it to prove it mind you 😀