English directories for foreign blogs ?
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Hello guys,
I'm Brazilian and I'm still learning SEO stuff and Im learning a lot around your tool, blogs and texts.
All my websites are from Brazil, they are in PT-BR and I see a BIG market over here around SEO since comparing to EUA, we dont have so many customization services and our market is still growing.
I have been looking for a great SEO strategy and I'm seeing that blog comments (real and quality ones, even nofollow links) and great directories submissions are still good for positioning at th big G.
Unfortunatelly, my country don't have so many great directories where I can get great indexed high PR links, so I would like to ask you guys if anyone knows if I send my blog to international directories I would penalize my blog.
Every time I think on this subject, I think that maybe google can see this submission as a spam or a blast, even if it was sent manually. Since I read everywhere that its good to find niches related to make up great blog comments, a foreing web directory submission maybe can hurt my rank.
Sorry for my bad english.
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Hi Daniel,
I agree with Emanuele, you can invest your time and resources in much more valuable, long-term link building strategies, that will be much more beneficial for your clients without risks that links from directories that are not necessarily that relevant or an authority towards your industry.
Instead of thinking where to create links with high PageRank you should instead identify along with your clients how you can create and promote valuable and attractive assets (from content, guides, tools, giveaways, contests, etc.) with them in order to not only improve their Website popularity (with natural links, shares, references, +1's, citations, etc.) but that are also aligned with their business goals and allow you to improve your branding, loyalty, conversions, etc.
If you have a bit of time you should watch the #RCS presentation of Wil Reynolds at Mozcon last year where he covered this topic.
You can see what I talk about and get inspired by taking a look at this summary with the slides of the latest LinkLove presentations.
By switching your focus on building links like this you can really create a competitive advantage over your local competitors that from what you shared might still be building links in a more "artificial" way.
I hope this helps!
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Hey Daniel, I'm glad you're achieveing good results with your strategy. However since you can read and write in proper english I recommend you to try to tweak your site not only to what is working now but focusing on what will work tomorrow.
focus on long term strategy, try to not spam a good technique because it may return back to you as a negative impact. Try to dilute your links and build high quality ones, I'll really focus more on brazilian sites than building links in foreigners sites.
You still want to reach your audience and you're audience is not so much in english websites. Try to stay focused and build value where you need. PR is not the most important thing try to focus on themed sites, related to your business and with an high autorithy,(normally old and frequently updated sites)
Good luck!
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