Link exchange between sites in different languages

[cmcash]

Hello,

From what I have been reading, the better approach is to get backlinks from websites related to yours. But I have a doubt. If I have a website in a language other than english, and even if I get backlinks from websites related to my site but english based, are these backlinks relevant for SEO?

Thanks for your help.

[megri]

I think google can understand languages and it both site has same theme linking will results postive

[neof]

hi,
I believe it helps, which is a surprise to me. It is interesting that Google (who focuses so much on 'relevancy') assumes that everyone will understand all languages. I logically thought that even if sites are relevant to computers, but if users do not understand both languages, that they would be irrelevant and not useful for users. Maybe a lot of folks are multilingual:D

[Richad6312]

ye google can gives you pv..

[cmcash]

Hi!

Thanks to all for your comments and help on this.

In fact, I have been with this doubt since I started to learn a little more about seo. I have never seen this discussion before. Of course I understand why. The market for other languages is so small compared with the english one that it's not easy to find "multilingual" people concerned about it :)
Neof, well I completely understand your thought about relevancy among sites with differente languages. But, since I belong to the multilingual group (in this case the portuguese language, even a smaller sub-group), and being a beginner in the SEO subject, I am trying to figure and learn how it really works when switching between languages. Well, I hope that even if I don't get value from backlinks to english sites, at least it doesn't hurt it :)

cmcash

[free]

I believe, right now, that as long as they're relavent it doesn't matter much. I'm fluent in 2 languages so I'd really like to know the answer to this btw.

[neof]

i dont want to speculate, but would believe in the far future that it would seem reasonable for search engines to deem different languages as not relevant or "not as valued". It doesnt make sense to put value on a link in Germany that directs a user to an Arabic site if there is no proof she understands the language. I believe this loop hole will be closed someday "years from now"?:D

[YoungSmeagol]

I don't know If google will consider that to be a relevant link or not. If people are looking for one keyword in english then they probably aren't looking for the same keyword phrase in portuguese and neither one should be able to increase weight for a keyword in a different language.

Irrelevant links hold less weight but they are better than nothing at all.