I am checking backlinks on my website and found out that many links are from chinese websites? My target audience is USA but our head office is based in china, so my question is it okay to have backlinks from chinese websites? FYI the site is hit by algorithmic penalty so I am currently in process of disavowing spammy link.
I would disable all the Chinese links from the Webmaster Tools first of all. This will take some times, be patient. Build new, strong USA backlinks. If you are interested, we can do for you a full website analysis, to see what is wrong, and what is right. San Francisco based SEO team here. Good luck
If your company is a large and well-known company, it won't matter if it's based in the China and has a website targeting the US market with chinese backlinks. But if it isn't, then Chinese backlinks will likely be detrimental to your site. By the way, are the backlinks natural or spammy/unnatural? If they are natural, I wouldn't remove or disavow them. There are many sites ranking in Google with backlinks from Russian websites. If they could rank well in Google US with unnatural links from Russian sites, I don't see any reason why your site shouldn't rank well with natural Chinese backlinks. In summary, it's ok to have Chinese backlinks if they are natural.
Some of them were spammy links so I disavowed them. Do you know how much time google takes to disavow links once you submit the request?
If your website still not in the sandbox, I do not think it does matter. Anyway even after you disavowed links, it still appears on webmaster tools for some time (links to your site)
It's ok if you have Chinese backlinks. Just ensure that they look natural. If not, either get them removed/ taken down or add them to disavow sheet. As per Google, they are likely to roll out Google Penguin update this week itself.
Yes, I have disavowed links that looked spammy and irrelevant. Hope every website hurt by penguin 2.1 last year get their ranking back in this update
I am really curious if the description before and after the link is in english or chinese! Did you use the disavow tool for ALL those links?
Once your target audience from USA , Target to bulild your backlinks from USA Websites, Then only Google give more importance for your Website . Best way remove your links from google webmaster tool