Foreign language anchor texts.

Will they boost my English keywords ranks?

[IITian]

I found from my logfiles that a few foreign online publications are linking to me. I went to those sites and found the links to be in foreign languages.

If the anchor text is "foreign-kw" and it translates to either "kw1" or "kw2", both used almost interchangeably will I get credit for either of "kw1" or kw2"? Moreover if kw1 is searched 100 times as much as kw2, will I get credit for kw1 only?

Or should I write to them asking them to change their anchor texts to something either kw1 or kw2?

[dirkz]

> will I get credit for either of "kw1" or kw2"?

I don't think Google is that good in applied semantics :)

> Or should I write to them asking them to change their anchor texts to something either kw1 or kw2?

I would just thank them or God or whoever and keep on getting links you control, with the right anchor text.

[troels nybo nielsen]

> Or should I write to them asking them to change their anchor texts to something either kw1 or kw2?

If somebody were to react to one of my links by sending such a request I would:

1. Remove the link immediately.
2. Add the domain to my blacklist in MailWasher.

[nuevojefe]

Just enjoy the PR benefits and the link from an authority (if they are) regardless of keyword text. Better than them removing it.

[your_store]

I don't think Google is that good in applied semantics

It really depends on the phrase. I've found a number of word sets that Google recognizes as the same when using the tilde search. They have all been Spanish words being returned for English searches.