Topical Authority For English Sites

Was reading some studies about topical authority for some new sites; no links, limited authority, and all the sites in the examples are, of course, not U.S. sites and not in English, I have seen plenty of trash sites rank like mad with 100s of thousands of monthly hits when the site is in Arabic for example, but try that crap in the US and you get nothing...curious if anyone has some thoughts on that

Foreign versions of Google are a lot more lenient, shit will rank there with spam and bad content so don't compare it to Google US (or any other G English)

Topical relevancy does wonders, with or without links. It has worked for every single site that I have built. There are a few ways to be topically relevant:

1. Laptops (micro niche, straightforward write all about laptops: best xxx, how to xxxx, laptop repair etc..)
2. PC Hardware (laptops, monitors, desktops, keyboards, CPU, GPU, RAM etc..) - this is also topical relevancy because everything falls under PC Hardware.
3. Gadgets/Electronics? (Laptops, PCs, Cellphones, Cameras)

The further you keep going in this list, the harder it will be to rank and you will need more and more content to become topically relevant in each category. I always go with #2 since it gives me a mix of both worlds (more keywords/topics + still topically relevant). I usually hire a writer for each of my categories and treat each category like a micro niche site.

Another way to become topically relevant:

1. Doctors - now you can cover (best laptops for doctors, best stethoscope for doctors, best cell phones for doctors, best underwear? for doctors) - the doctor bit is making it all relevant.

The more topically relevant you are, the lesser links you'll need. If you have super easy kw + topical relevancy, you may not even need any links at all, you could rank even without links or very few links but it will take forever (site age comes into play here).

Hope that makes sense.

Many languages articles ranked good , I had tried this with my many clients sites

Do you think the same applies to e-commerce, not an affiliate but an actual company that sells real products to consumers?

This is because of competition. In some langauges, there is very less competition.

Many language articles ranked good.