Country Specific Link Building
Are you running a US centric link building campaign for a site which is targeted for the residents of another country? Cre8asite member Phaithful addresses link building for various geographic locations when a forum member asks “does the geographical location matter when u plan to buy paid link. i mean as if you have website hosted in USA is it require that you buy paid links from sites hosted in USA?”
Phaithful replies with the following tips:
If you have a website: www.mysweetsite.com and you get backlinks from websites like www.bbc.co.uk and www.telegraph.co.uk, and have a lot of .co.uk backlinks, then www.mysweetsite.com will rank better in www.google.co.uk and the sort…. even though www.mysweetsite.com is not www.mysweetsite.co.uk
Another example would be searching for “phone” from the UK or within one of the search engines that is specific to the UK, you’ll see that www.bt.com comes up quite high because it has a lot of .co.uk backlinks, where as www.bt.com actually doesn’t rank very high here in the US.
I wonder if linguistics, such as apartment vs. flat, or dialect, such as Portuguese vs. Brasilian Portuguese, would also have something to do with specific country rankings.
Hattip to Mr. Schwartz.
yeah yeah
I would have to agree with that. Google prefers credible links to hundreds of less credible ones.