Hi, As we all know in order to success in SEO, we need to produce high quality content and do link building. I am doing research on geo-targeting link building. Correct me if I am wrong. does that mean if I have a website in Malaysia and my market is Malaysia, I need to get more high quality backlinks from Malaysia? What if I got more links from US or UK? Kent
Yup, I thought of that before but when I did research, a lot of local directories have low authority or link farms, which make me sceptically to put my website link.
There is nothing like that. Links are links, google will never mind to know if your site is in malaysia and you are getting links from malaysia, so for malaysia, your site should be on top. It is not true at all. What matters the most is the quality backlinks and one - way to be precise. Get good quality links (High PR) and .edu or .gov linking to get your site come up in local and global rankings. For example, there are some sites in USA, they get link juice from USA only. Does it mean that it will not rank higher in other countries!! That's not true. So m friend, just do good On-Page SEO and Off-Page SEO.
Also i forgot to add. You can use Google Places to rank higher locally for your city. I think that is must for any local site.
Yes, it will not rank high in other Google countries, but not because of link building, it is because for every keywords, Google put a tag behind it. When we search "SEO Company" in google.com.my (google malaysia), Google will gives you more Malaysian result rather than US results. This is geo-targeting SEO as well. Just not sure if link building will affect it but keywords will.
I still disagree coz when you type like that in the search engines, it will give the most relevant results that have that keyword in their title. Check your results and you'll know. Moreover, who will type or search for seo company the way you have done! i.e. in brackets. Normal people are not aware of those brackets searching. They only know how to search normally that is without brackets or hyphen. If you have searched for google malaysia,then obviously you'll get local results. But in that too, link building matters.
First of all, are you from Malaysia? If not, how do you know people won't search using seo company in bracket. Second, if you are from Malaysia, you still making prejudgement on other people way to search. I am not trying to against you, in marketing, we have to be realistic and not apply what we think in other poeple.