Comments on: Do Links From Foreign Language Sites Have Value?

By: Johnny D

Johnny D — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:34:15 +0000

Hi Loren, I’m considering purhasing a package of 50 one way links for http://www.sportzoid.com but most are from .za domains. I was concerned about this, but thanks for the great article!

By: mike

mike — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:21:18 +0000

It would get you more exposure if people from another country that find your blog link to it.

By: Edwinsdesignlab

Edwinsdesignlab — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:08:49 +0000

In my experience, foreign links with a related topic and an with your keyword in de anchor text will boost your serps in the local search engine.
Which means that cars.com can have a good ranking in Google.fr for “voiture” if there are sufficiant inbound links from .fr domains with that anchor.
Cars.com can have higher rankings in .com for “cars” when they get .fr inbound links anchorred “cars”.
Anyway to my knowledge, at least pagerank distribution is global..

By: Hardware Software News

Hardware Software News — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:40:51 +0000

Nice Article. I am having a link from PR7 Romania blog.

By: Cheap Web Hosting Phil

Cheap Web Hosting Phil — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:49:01 +0000

I would suggest that the foreign language content/incoming link combination is by far the strongest. I’m sure if there was sutanfodu.jp which was a really useful site about Stanford written in Japanese then that would be number two pretty soon or even beat Stanford in the SERPS in the long run. But that is a hard call to make since the actual object of desire is about “a foreign language sevice”.

If you google “voiture” (car) in Google.fr most users don’t want cars.com to come out on top. All I’m saying is that users should diversify their content along with their links.

By: Spain holiday

Spain holiday — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:37:11 +0000

Our site runs in 7 different languages but before that we only had the english .com version. And that was promoted heavily with links from not .com domains and with anchor text in foreign languages. Now we have it all in place with correct national domains etc, but still our .com domain often rank higher than the national domains, when searching in a foreign language. That clearly proves that it is wise to use a wide link building strategy that crosses borders.
So go for it and benefit of it…

By: Japanese SEO - 海外SEO

Japanese SEO - 海外SEO — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:54:42 +0000

Hi Loren,
Yes, I’m bluilding links from foreign language sites, say from SEJ. ;-)

There are a lot of foreign sites where I can use Japanese on anchor texts. Even if I can’t, I get some of link juice from them though I could have no benefit in terms of link reputation.

From my experience, I realize links from foreign launguage site are very effecitve to boost rainking at least for websites in Japan.

Thank you.

By: Joost de Valk

Joost de Valk — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:32:56 +0000

Loren, you do realize that if the fix for Google bombing was a REAL fix, Stanford wouldn’t be ranking for that anymore? :)

By: Directory

Directory — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:33:51 +0000

Foreign site links are very good for targeting foreign keywords. A couple of solid links from even foreign language directories will push your targeted non-English to the top as long as your website have the supporting content.