Do Links from Sites in a Different Language Help Rankings?

Sometimes you can get free or cheap links from site in foreign languages. The question is - do they help your site to rank better in your own language? textads
The answer seems not obvious and there are various gossips going around,  as if websites that have backlinks from sites in other languages are sort of [...]

On Correlation between SEO metrics and Ranking

Brief Review
A recent article by Rand Fishkin Lessons Learned Building an Index of the WWW presents an illuminating summary of the seomoz findings with regard to what SEO metrics have a tangible correlation with search engine rankings.
Basically, the major conclusions are summarised by two graphs. The first one

Shows the correlation of various SEO metrics (on [...]

SEO Fundamentals: Off-page Optimisation

Introduction

Off-Page SEO is the other big part of SEO and refers to activities that you perform on other sites to promote your own. It mostly consists in acquiring links from other sites pointing to your website. Those link are called backlinks.
And although both parts of SEO are a must for a successful [...]