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[polaris]

Hi there! The scenario: You have a page in english language about "bicycles" and links from pages in other languages about bicycles. In Germany it´s "Fahrrad", in France "velo" and in Spain "bicicleta". Does the SE see these pages in different languages as relevant to your page? Thanks a lot!

[qwerty]

In my experience, no -- at least not in the case of Google. I have a site that's linked to from pages in numerous languages, but a backlink check only brings up two of those, both of them in French. And in both cases, the anchor text in the link to my site is in English. In one of those cases, the text immediately following the anchor text is the first paragraph from my home page -- in English.

Sites that are strictly in another language appear to be ignored.

[Jill]

Really? That seems weird. Never checked though. Wait, I have links from sites in other other languages, and I've seen them in backlinks check. I haven't looked lately, but I'm pretty sure there are plenty of them. Many foreign language forums and stuff often link to my newsletter.

Jill

[polaris]

Hm, OldWelshGuy came up with a very good tipp. He said I could exchange links with sites in other countries because I told him all relevant sites in my country are competitors and wouldn´t link. Now I am not sure if this is useful because of the different languages.

[qwerty]

I really think it depends on the anchor text. If an American page about bicycles is linked to by a French page about velos, I doubt very much that the link would be deemed thematically relevant if the anchor text uses the word "velos," but if your company name is "Joe's Bicycles" and that's used as the anchor text on the French page, I expect that would work.

[OldWelshGuy]

Hi Polaris,

Why not have the page bi-lingual? or have a translate this page button? with a link to the english version?

I would go with the bi-lingual version, two bites of the cherry then. In fact, you can write your articles bi-lingually then they will count as two pages back linking :-)

(we WILL get you to increase your pagination lol)

[polaris]

Hi OldWelshGuy,

how many languages are out there on earth? Maybe two or three articles are enough to boost my backlings near 1000 translating it to all. And imagine I learn Klingon and Elbish too, I would have an intergalactical business ;-)

I like your ideas, really and I am working on it. Just subscribed to a free chinese language course (just kidding).

I am overwhelmed by the help the people here provide to each other. It´s a great place to be. Thank you.

[alansmith]

I really think it depends on the anchor text. If an American page about bicycles is linked to by a French page about velos, I doubt very much that the link would be deemed thematically relevant if the anchor text uses the word "velos," but if your company name is "Joe's Bicycles" and that's used as the anchor text on the French page, I expect that would work.

Hmm, You would expect both of the companies, the one in freench and the one in english to link to the same bicicle related sites.

All of the bicycle manufacturers are worldwide anyways.


I think google uses pagerank to determine what pages are relevent in this regards, and also checkes to see if two sites are linked to the same site.

[qwerty]

That makes perfect sense, Alan, but it hasn't been my experience. Can you post an example?