Placing backlinks on foreign websites.

[Onlinedesignmeubel]

Hey community,

What are your thoughts about placing backlinks on for example www.advertisment.de

when you've got a dutch website. Is it better to link to website that are from the same country?

[Aleyda]

Hi there,

Link building is about earning popularity and authority endorsements by your audience --as a consequence of having effectively connected with them, they have found your site, services and products useful--, so if your Website is targeted to a specific audience in a country then, although is true that search engines will also take into consideration links from any other sources, what is natural and consistent with your site targeting, is that these links come from the country audience that the site is targeting.

In order to implement this, identify which are the most popular sites, blogs, media in your industry for that country --and in general for that country too--, who are linking to your competitors in that country, who are your industry influencers in that country too... by doing this you will likely better understand and identify a scalable link building strategy to better connect with your audience in that specific country.

I hope this helps!

[lakhyajyoti]

It's all about quality backlinks. Country does not matter.

[irvingw]

Yes absolutely makes sense to get links from the same TLD as your website to show more relevance for that country.