American Webmasters.....

[StickyGreen]

Do you trade with sites that are in a different language?

Does it matter SEO-wise?

[luxv66]

I don't. From an SEO standpoint, I can't see how that would seen as anything other than spammy or obvious link trading.
Why is an English speaking surfer going to be interested in visiting a German blog that is mostly text? Or the other way around.

I don't know why you think that's an American question though. That goes for anyone really.

[Livesexcam]

Never .... And i also never take any links from sites with mix language links.

You add an nonrelevant key in a different language on your site. What will google think about the value of your site. It looks like a site who is selling links or who never care what he is linking.

[CodeR70]

Why is an English speaking surfer going to be interested in visiting a German blog that is mostly text? Or the other way around.

The other way around is normal. I'm Dutch, not doing any Dutch sites though, and there are many Dutch sites, mainstream and adult, that link to resources in English. I agree that many times from English to an other language does not make much sense, but to English is common.

[CodeR70]

You add an nonrelevant key in a different language on your site. What will google think about the value of your site. It looks like a site who is selling links or who never care what he is linking.

I always find it funny how people think to know how Google "thinks"…

[webmasterx]

in reality google knows that incoming links to your site are somewhat out of your control so imho will not punish you for having incoming links from foreign sites, outward bound links on your site is a totally diffrent kettle of fish as google knows you are in full control of them.

inbound links from foreign sites = no problem
links out to foreign sites = bad seo

this is just my opinion and may or may not be correct!

case poin: i have a site that returns good serps for its target keywords, guess what it has incoming links from:- germany, vietnam! and poland, all sites that link to mine are in their native lang and are NOT bought or traded links.

[vrocks]

So long as the niche works I haven't seen a problem with Google or Bing.

Example: I have a stockings/pantyhose site. Lots of people in Europe seem to love such sites. It is on a .co.uk domain. It trades links with ANY language so long as they have good quality content. So it trades with German, Spanish (South American), etc, sites. They are all written in their native languages. Google doesn't seem to care because Google can translate a page in less than .00001 seconds. So their indexing algorithms seem to do so and see that my trading partners are all talking about the same thing I am.

I have MANY more links to English speaking sites. It is my belief that Google/Bing realize that fans of anything will often enjoy pictures of that thing.

Take souped up compact race cars... Many of those sites trade links with English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, you name it sites because the surfer will check out the pics or run the translation extension inside Chrome to read about an event going on in another country.

I think the most important thing is whether or not the link is relative to your site. Are you just trading a link or are you actually telling your surfer about something they might be interested in. Google has stated many times that this is what they strive to write their algorithms to figure out.

[seomedia]

Its all about if you're linked on quality websites, I've never found a problem with the a few non-English links on the site (less than 3% however) and I have some very high ranked niche blogs that are linked to Brazilian, French, Italian or Spanish websites.

[suki8888]

no coz they might just be a junk for me..i dont really trust it

[CodeR70]

no coz they might just be a junk for me..i dont really trust it

Yeah, foreigners cant be trusted…

[fetishbank]

I do link to sites in foreign languages, they just have to be good quality and in context. I don't see any problem doing that...

[greenguy]

Personally, I love trading links with the Russians - those kooky webmasters are really fucking organized & they truly fucking LOVE me <3

[Hincapie]

are you sure thats pure love ?

Personally, I love trading links with the Russians - those kooky webmasters are really fucking organized & they truly fucking LOVE me <3

[greenguy]

I'm no ding-a-ling! I looked it up & found out what combination of letters & special characters make up the Russian for love