Most folks who are practicing Google SEO techniques use text links in their navigation. The #1 mistake I notice when looking at sites is that the link to the Home Page says just Home in the anchor text. Are you targeting a new home or a rebuilt home? Most likely neither.

So I would suggest for ease of navigation maintain the word Home as your anchor text, but if you can add something about your home page to it. If you cannot alter the link due to your design use a Title tag within your anchor tag. This is built in the exact same way as an ALT tag, so the concept is easy to understand.

The syntax is as follows

Title=”My cool keyword”