Hey DP'ers Just a quick question, how effective are links in a different language pointing to your site? E.G. If my site is in English, and another site is in Spanish, will the link from the Spanish site effect my SERPS at all...How does it affect my site if the link I want is in a foreign language? Thanks in advance.
Spanish links will boost your SERP when someone from SPAIN search for your keyword. If you need to boost your .com or .co.uk SERP then focus on sites hosted in the US, UK.
There is no doubt that the link from the spanish site will affect serps. Depends on the anchor mostly. I personally have links with english anchors from italian sites and I can say the do well.
Yah... I have gotten some italian and russian visitors (who hopefully speak english or have a good translator) because I have gotten links from russian and italian sites. They won't help your google.com rankings, but theycan help your google.ru and google.it rankings. Those are untapped markets where the keywords that are super competitive on google.com aren't as competitive there, therefore easier to rank for those competitive keywords!