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International Website Linking

by Paul Tovey
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Hello All,

I have a global website and have recently been bought a pretty top end link scanning online system. Now, I set it to scan my website to see my links out of interest and it's telling me that the links in my footer to all of my other language websites are poor links (duh!).

I should really have known this beforehand but it completely skipped my mind, basically, I have an image of a flag which links off to that countires website with some hyperlinked text to the same website underneath. For example: 'Click here for the US branch.'

This is the same default footer on all my international sites (4 of em).

I know this was pretty damn stupid and i've removed it, but.. how am I supposed to link these correctly? I have no idea.
#international #linking #website
  • Profile picture of the author nik0
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    Nothing wrong with footer links when you don't use keywords as anchor.

    Look at Amazon, they are full of footer links.

    Just make sure the sites are relevant and no problem at all.

    High end link scanning software or not, they all suck.

    Same like they say forum signature links are evil, look at my signature with anchor "The SEO blog" that resulted in a few 1000 links in a matter of days/weeks. Sure I won't rank for the kw: "The SEO blog" but it for sure doesn't hurt my rankings.

    Now if it's totally irrelevant it would be kind of useless so then you're better of removing it, but I see no problems with what you're doing.

    Not a single link is bad on it's own, whether it's a blog comment or forumn profile link. It starts to become a problem when you have many of the same as that leaves footprints that automatically get detected.
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    • Profile picture of the author frenchseoteam
      Hi,

      This is one of the rare questions that Matt Cutts has actually given a straight answer to.

      There's a video at Google's Matt Cutts Warns About Linking Too Many Sites Together which addresses this exact question.

      Personally with 4 sites, I'd normally keep the link on every page and perhaps dofollow it on the home page and nofollow it on all the other pages, afterall regardless of SEO it is USEFUL for your visitors to be able to see these links (the video talks about an example with 20 sites, whereas you're talking about 4 site too). It's standard to have different language sites cross-linking, so I doubt Google would say it's spam, but as I say, the above link gives an exact answer!
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