Is there any SEO benefit in doing a press release with an english provider for a foreign site that is all written in another language? Or would that just look suspicious?
There are PR services that can publish your press release country specific, that would make more sense depending on what exactly you want.
Cool, could you give an example of any service that does this? I was looking at providers in my country, and the cheapest one I could find was $300 which I'm not really prepared to pay for that.
You can make an English version of your site and then get press release up on a premier site. Will it help SEO wise? Yes. Traffic-wise? Not so much, unless it's a one-of-a-kind product with shipment facilities all over the world.
If you search on google, you'll get tons of PR free sites. Regarding traffic from them, not much Regarding Any benefit, yes one backlink and metrics are good, it will help to increase your site productivity. If it is top PR site, then it will help you to have traffic and branding too. If you ask my personal experience, then yes I do for my sites
