Google: Links From Non-English Languages Are Not Unnatural Links

Jan 2, 2019 - 8:07 am 1 by

Google Languages

This may be filed under the super obvious category but John Mueller from Google confirmed that you do not need to disavow links to your site just because those links come from pages that are in your language. So if you write in English and a site in Spanish links to you, that doesn't make the link a bad link.

John said this on Twitter, "Nah, the language of the page doesn't make it an unnatural link."

Here are the tweets:

A site like this often gets links to it from non-English sites covering our stories. It is normal.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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