I’m seeing more and more people getting translations made of their poker sites, page by page. Living in the USA, the obvious first choice for translations for me is Spanish. I live in Texas, so finding people who are fluent enough in Spanish to translate my poker pages is relatively easy. One of my best friends is from Peru, so he can doublecheck any translations I buy to make sure they’re good.
What I don’t see a lot of are people who are looking for Spanish language poker link exchanges. (Maybe they’re out there looking for them and I don’t realize it, because I don’t speak or read Spanish.) So writing a tutorial about how to find Spanish poker link exchanges and link swaps seemed like a good idea.
If I were looking for sites in Spanish to trade links with, I’d start by looking in a Google’s Spanish language search engine for sites about poker. Then I’d start making a list of potential prospects. Once I had my list of prospects, I’d hire and train someone who speaks, reads, and writes Spanish to go through the sites with me. I’d want to know if any of them looked spammy to a native speaker. I’d also want to know what the links page on each of these sites says.
Then I’d have my new hire email and/or call the folks who own these sites and ask for the link exchanges. I’m reasonably sure that most people running a Spanish language site about poker would appreciate hearing from someone in their own language, rather than someone who has written to them in English.
Another option, if you can’t afford to hire someone, is to learn Spanish yourself. That might be too much work for some people, but on the other hand, it might double your income.
An easier option would be to look through those Spanish language results and find sites that are obviously run by English-speaking webmasters like yourself who have launched Spanish sections on their sites, and then arrange a link exchange or content exchange from the appropriate sections of your respective sites.
It’s not enough to just launch content in Spanish. You need to grab a few links to your Spanish content from other Spanish language poker pages. You don’t need an overwhelming number of these links, but a few of them are surely going to be a big vote of confidence in the eyes of Google, right?
On my to-do list today: get some of the pages on this poker software site translated into Spanish, and then get some Spanish poker sites to trade links with me. Maybe I can get a link from the Spanish language version of PokerStars. (Probably not though. I don’t think they do many link exchanges.)
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