Do citations in foreign languages help for local SEO in English?

[debi_zyx]

Hi, All!

If you're doing trying to get a foreign site (in English) to rank for local SEO in that country (in English),.do citations in the native language help?  Google does seem to know that the business name in English and the foreign language are the same (e.g. if you search in English, it will return some results in the foreign language with the business name in the foreign language bolded).  And addresses Google can also tell are the same, as evidenced by Google map searches in both languages pinpointing the same location.

So - are citations in the foreign language relevant to help the page rank higher for a local query in English?

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Aviva

[AlanMosley]

Well i would of doubted it, but after reading your post you have convinced me, but i suggest that it would not work as well as same lingo, there would be times it would not be able to work it out. also i remeber Matt Cutts saying how many lingos they can translate, I was suprised it was not that many.