Inbound Links from Web Pages Based in Other Countries

[findachristianjob]

I have noticed that some of my competitors have in-bound links to their sites from high PageRanked websites. But when I investigate the websites, they are based overseas, to be mainly used for linking.  Does it hurt them that the sites are based overseas despite the high Page Rank?

[Theo-NL]

Having globally closely related links to your website mainly contributes to local SEO. This applies both to national scale SEO (Dutch inlinks are good to rise faster in the Dutch Google SERPs) and city based SEO (links from pages about a particular city will make you rank faster and better for that given city).

Regarding international SEO ('google.com') I don't think it really makes a difference from which country these links are coming. The quality of these links (in high PageRank, MozRank, TrustRank, etc.) will have a much greater impact on the value it provides to your website.

[oznappies]

If you have relevant links from other countries they would help your rank but with the recent Panda updates from Google, if they are spammy sites, webfarms or paid links they will hurt your rankings. We participate on blogs and provide articles internationally that are on topic which help boost our rank, we even send products to reviewers overseas for evaluation.