A lot allready has been said about how to set up a multilingual website. Some prefer a country-specific domain for each individual language (domain.pt, domain.nl, ...), others stick to just 1 domain (domain.com) and put each different language behind a separate language-directory (domain.com/pt, domain.com/nl, ...)

Let’s not get into that discussion again.
I choose to stick to 1 domain and use separate language-directories. Let’s talk about that.


• Each language needs a specific link-campaign.
The Portuguese version needs links from portuguese sites pointing to www.domain.com/pt/ and
the Dutch version needs links from dutch sites pointing to www.domain.com/nl/

• www.domain.com/pt will pass its linkpop to the rest of the portuguese pages, and
• www.domain.com/nl will pass its linkpop to the rest of the dutch pages ..

Question:
Should there be an internal link structure between the 2 languages so linkpop can be exchanged between them?
Or is it better keeping these versions separated from each other (no link-structure between them) since they both have their own link-campaign?