is nofollow tag best for mulitple languages?

[eskipii]

Hello,

We are translating our site and I'm not sure what is the best way to redirect country specific visitors to each site. I don't want Google or any search engine to give us any problems so I’m thinking of using the "no follow" tag but not sure if that is best, just looking for the correct way to do it.

site 1 English, on IP #1

site 2 language 2, IP #2
site 3 language 3, IP #2
site 4 language 4, IP #2
site 5 language 5, IP #2

Can I link all the sites like amazon.com does at the bottom of their main page without any kind of penalty?

"Our International Sites: Canada ¦ United Kingdom ¦ Germany ¦ Japan ¦ France ¦ China"

thank you all.

[pmkpmk]

I don't want Google or any search engine to give us any problems

What problems are you fearing? Duplicate content? Spiders are not as advanced as to identifiy an English page and its French translation as duplicate! And actually they are NOT duplicate content, because they are in different languages. That's what translation is all about!

When I make internationalized sites, I like to build the following naming scheme:

www.mysite.com/en/index.html
www.mysite.com/en/products/product1.html
www.mysite.com/de/index.html
www.mysite.com/de/produkte/produkt1.html
www.mysite.com/fr/index.html
www.mysite.com/fr/produits/produit1.html

It helps if you set the proper language tags:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-language" CONTENT="de">

[eskipii]

Well they are all in their own country's domain extension, so I cant use the naming scheme. =)

.ca, .de, etc...

In English I fear the since some domains will have English as well as another language, Canada, specifically, English and French, their might be some type of penalty if they are crosslinked without the nofollow tag...

ps. thanks for the "Content-language" reminder.

[pmkpmk]

My main site has a .de-domain and features content in English, German amd Dutch. There are links to each country specific page on every single page, as well as a link to the top page where all three languages are present.

No negative impact in Google, Yahoo or MSN.

So - don't worry!