Could Search Algorithms Encourage Linguistic Diversity On The Internet?

The following was originally intended to be a forum reply. When I finally hit the submit button, the thread had been removed.

I figured I would share it here instead.

It was based on someone asking where they could get links from, now that Penguin had been rolled out and the old game no longer worked so well. My reply was to suggest Guest Posting. It then occurred to me, that for many non English speakers (or writers for that matter), this might not be an easy task.

Here is the post:

‘Guest Posting’ is at the top of the pile now, especially for getting the links that matter to Google.

A Guest Post, will typically be in the same subject area as your niche +1

It will be contextual (within the body of the article) + 1

Google loves both of these elements, and perhaps rightly so.

In order to realistically succeed with guest posting, you should at least know the subject matter well. Also as important, you would need good grammar and the ability to craft an engaging and informative article. If you don’t have those skills, you’re unlikely to get accepted by the site owner (or at least the site owners that matter).

This works in favour for a blogger such as myself. English is my mother tongue (I am a Brit), so I am encouraged for my content  by the search engines, even more so now, then before. Its definitely not something a lazy side would appreciate. It would be easier to use automated software and blast out cascades of spun content through unsuspecting proxies at various unsuspecting web 2.0 properties,  but that would not be anywhere near as fulfilling, as it is to write.

I would not be making the internet a better place, nor will I serve a purpose to anyone, apart from myself and my own game of thrones in the land of Google.

So what if English is not someones first language? Or at the very least a language in which they have a comfortable level of skill?

Could Guest Posting and all its lucrative returns, result in non English speakers writing in their mother tongue more often?

This would truly reflect the dynamics of the global geopolitical stage, the emergence of of the BRICS and the decline of the west (namely Europe) is seen more each day. Could  it make blogging in other languages a more prevalent practice?

Instead of having to write in English, bloggers of another language, might start to write in their own words, whether that be Hindi, Arabic or Swahili.

After all, is that not what the Web is meant to be? A World Wide Web? Or will English continue to dominate as the Internet?