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Are there special considerations when linking to sites outside of your home country? I'm wondering about the value of these links especially where G is concerned, is there a downside or upside?
> site[s] outside of your home country?
As an example, the .com TLD is "state-less" (unlike, say, .us being America's ccTLD), so one cannot deduce the country of origin based on the (that) TLD. I may live in Russia, my site could be hosted in Australia, and my site's topic could be Bolivia. What is the "home country" of my site? What is the home country of the site-about-bolivia.com that I link to that is operated by a Canadian and hosted in Hong Kong?
Where your site is hosted can/does have an impact with Google, however. There's a number of threads around here that discuss, for example, the need for a .co.uk site to be hosted in the UK in order to appear in google.co.uk.
Where I'm headed with this is, I am working on a market in the US that is strong in the UK from a link standpoint. In other words, I can find link partners in the UK easier than I can find them in the US... I'm fishing for potential problems with this linking scenario...
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with a further link to a very long thread.
US to UK, UK to US linking is prevalent in certain market circles.
What about it, nothing or something?
