Cross-linking foreign language versions of site on same IP address

[heringslake]

Hi everybody,

i seek advice for a google cross-linking issue.

I have several websites in different languages:

example.com in english
example.de in german
example.es in spanish
etc.

on each page of each website i am cross-linking <these sites> in the footer.

all my websites run from the same IP address.

i am afraid of getting penalized for this cross-linking.

Do you think that assigning different IP addresses for each website will avoid a google penalty?

many thanks for your kind advice.
hering

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 5:09 am (utc) on Mar. 19, 2008]
[edit reason] examplified & removed specifics [/edit]

[tedster]

Hello heringslake, and welcome to the forums.

The important factor for ranking will be how many other natural backlinks each of these domains attracts. Crosslinking to different language versions is a natural thing to do for your users, and should not bring problems or penalties, but without a healthy backlink profile all around it also will not help ranking very much.