Azerbaijani Backlinks for .az Sites and Azerbaijani Readers

The best way to build "Azerbaijani backlinks, but better yet, backlinks for your Azerbaijani-language site" is to contact us directly. Azerbaijan is a market where buyers move between three languages and the alphabet itself has changed within living memory, so links have to be written for the reader you actually want, in the language and the alphabet that reader uses today.

Azerbaijani has been written in three scripts in a century: Arabic script until the late 1920s, then Latin, then Cyrillic for most of the Soviet period, and Latin again after independence, with the switch only completed around the turn of the century. For a short time after independence the schwa was even written ä before ə took its place. Older archives, some company sites and plenty of printed material still carry Cyrillic text.

The modern alphabet has letters that trip up non-native writers and software alike: ə, the most common vowel in the language; ı and i as separate letters; ğ, ş, ç, ö and ü; and q and x, which do not sound the way an English reader expects. Many people type e for ə and i for ı because their keyboard lacks them, and Google matches most of these to the correct forms.

For links that gives a clear rule. Visible text and anchors use correct modern Azerbaijani. Slugs usually convert special letters to plain ones so addresses paste cleanly. Anything in Cyrillic, Turkish spelling or a mix of the two marks an article as written by an outsider.

Turkish and Azerbaijani are close relatives, and it is tempting to hand Azerbaijani work to a Turkish writer. Azerbaijani readers notice within a sentence. Everyday vocabulary differs, spelling follows different rules, and Azerbaijani uses letters Turkish never does. An article that reads as Turkish with a few changes tells an Azerbaijani editor that nobody local wrote it, and most will not publish it.

Every Azerbaijani article we place is written by a native Azerbaijani author for the readers of that outlet. You approve the topic and the page each link points at; the author writes in Azerbaijani from the first line. If you also sell in Turkey, our page on Turkish link building covers that market separately, with its own outlets and its own writers.

The Azerbaijani web is smaller than its neighbours', which makes each good source count for more. National news agencies and portals lead it, many publishing in Azerbaijani, Russian and English at once. Baku has its own city and lifestyle portals, and regional news sites cover Ganja, Sumgait, Lankaran, Sheki and the rest of the country. Specialist blogs cover technology, travel, food, cars and family, and business directories and industry associations round it out.

We leave out spammy or low-grade sites that are unrelated to your business. Get Found has deep relationships with PR outlets in Baku, owners of Azerbaijani niche blogs, influencers, and sites that have genuine readers and links worth having. A smaller web also means fewer places to hide a bought link, so a clean profile matters more here than in a larger market.

The diaspora and the readers across borders

Azerbaijani readers also live in Turkey, Russia, Europe and southern Georgia, and many still read Azerbaijani outlets. Readers in Georgia may need their own pages; our guide to Georgian-language backlinks covers that market. Azerbaijani speakers in northwest Iran write in Arabic script, and reaching them is a separate project. For Russian-speaking readers across the Caspian region, the approach on our Kazakh link building page is a useful comparison.