Has anyone tried doing linkwheels on sites that are hosted in specific country and with the content in NOT a mayor language (like English, German). What I mean if I create a linkwheel with for instance Hungarian keyword/content and I link it to my Hungarian page, would it have any significant effect on ranking in Google Hunagry? Any experience with that?
I´ve been doing linkwheels in portuguese using the main web 2.0 properties for the last 6 months. And yes, they do send juice to google brazil!
If your targeting that country you would get juice, and depending on how popular the site is you might rank for other countries too.
@rhoads If I understand correctly you create english articles on web 2.0 site (like sqidoo and similiar), which links to the your brazil webpage, and you have seen results. Is that true? Or you do it in portugese on local brazil web 2.0 sites?
Use this method for better results: 1) Go to Alexa and grab the 2.0 sites IN ur country, soemtimes a lot of top sites offer to create blogs. 2) Make lws with 2.0 sites specifically hosted in ur country Works.
Check Google top 30 of some popular searches, and run through the results. You could also check the local Alexa top 100 list for your country.. Code: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries
I think that web 2.0 sites in that country would be a good start. BUT also remember that most of the web 2.0 giants have country specific sites, so maybe look at them too. Not sure if you'll have to set up with a proxy for that county (I doubt it) or just set it to that location. Also if you are using something like WordPress in your linkwheel then set up a url for it that is country specific i.e. myblog.fr will be better than myblog.com
I can confirm this. Local TLD tend to rank better than universal TLD. But only slightly better. The same goes with the IP. If it is local, it ranks slightly better. I am talking about Google rankings.
