Hello, I am planning to open new sites in my own language. I would like to know your opinions about this. What should i know before starting it? Any opinions or pointers to articles are welcome.. First of all, i heard that i should get the domain name with that country's extension.. (e.g. com.tr). Does having the web server in USA affect my SERPS? Should i get backlinks from the sites with same country extension or .com/.org/.net domains from other countries have the same value? ... Thanks for the answers.
Well, I do hear it's better to have a domain name with a specific country extension. On the other hand, I've never had that and rank quite well in Dutch. Having links from popular, high ranking sites in your language will definitely help - it's probably a small but tangible difference if they also have the language or country specific extension. In short: any link is good, but the best links have at least some of the the following: 1) same language as your site 2) are found in language specific search for your topic (taken broadly) 3) do have a language specific extension. 1 and 2 are obviously connected. I would take 2 to be the most important factor. I'd rather have a link from a website with a .com extension, but found in a language specific search (indicating a decent google pagerank or trust rank) than a language specific URL, but doesn't show up in the SERPS anywhere that you can see. When you start building links, start with the free ones. There must be language-specific sites in your niche. Given that the internet is just starting in .tr (I would guess), getting links is also still going to be relatively easy.
Yes i think so too. Becuase there are sites showing at the top with just 50 backlinks or so In this case, i think the best way seems to give link on my high PRed pages and get backlinks from their .tr sites.. But links from high PRed english sites will still help, isn't it? In other words, lets assume that my site is about health in turkish. If i get backlinks from strong health sites in english, wont this help much?
Personally I don't mess with links-exchange. I link to what I think is useful to my visitors and suggest sites to link to me if my site fits their links-page. If your site is really useful (and it sounds like it) - it should be able to get links for ... free... In some cases that means link-exchange, but in most the links are just one way (for my site). But sure, if you are willing to spend money on them, payed links will help. High PR English links will certainly get google to notice your site fast. But it may also trigger the sandbox. Start your site, 1) build quality content, 2) ask for free links - and if you haven't been indexed in six months THEN 3) consider buying links. But steps one and two should be the central ones. Repeat step 1 often too. And keep at that.
I agree. I generally dont ask for links (only from relevant high PRed sites) and do exchanegs only in three-way to promote my new sites. Yes. In my opinion the first thing need to be concantrated on sites is the content. High quality and increasing number of content is the key. And i have a couple of sites getting backlinks naturally. But waiting for this just slows down the improvement you can achieve. So it is good to find alternative ways of building links... And i think we should be careful buying link, not every link worths much. And instead of buying links, i prefer building them from content pages of the relevant sites to my inner pages.. Thanks for your answers.
Not asking for links from sites that could link to your site is stupid, IMO. I think a third of the links to my site were links I just asked for. Of course they won't link if they don't think your content is good - but website owners in many cases just want to have a good link-page. So if your site is good, they will just be glad to not have had to hunt for that link, but have it suggested to them.