Best Practice for Inter-Linking to CCTLD brand domains

[tomypro]

Team,

I am wondering what people recommend as best SEO practice to inter-link to language specific brand domains e.g. :

amazon.com
amazon.de
amazon.fr
amazon.it

Currently I have 18 CCTLDs for one brand in different languages (no DC). I am linking from each content page to each other language domain, providing a link to the equivalent content in a separate language on a different CCTLD doamin. However, with Google's discouragement  of site-wide links I am reviewing this practice.

I am tending towards making the language redirects on each page javascript driven and to start linking only from my home page to the other pages with optimized link titles.

Anyone having any thoughts/opinions on this topic they are open to sharing?

/Thomas

[leadsprofi]

My best practice regarding to your issue is.

I am runing the same company like yours, but i have done those steps:

1. Unique Hosting for each ccTLD Domain.

2. I placed Side-Wide Links for another languages too.

3. The Anchor Texts, are not optimized, but for example: Countries: Germany, Italy, Canada, etc..

It works.

[tomypro]

When you say it works - what exactly do you mean?

[Hannah_Smith]

Hi Thomas,

I think that what you're doing right now is fine -

"...linking from each content page to each other language domain, providing a link to the equivalent content in a separate language on a different CCTLD domain."

Seems sensible from a user perspective - I think the only potential downside is if you're implementing this using lots of anchor text - this could potentially be problematic.

Equally utilising javascript allow users to select language and location seems fine to me.

I hope this helps,

Hannah