Google Translate with "no-follow" just for users' use, no ranking

[angelowei]

Hello, I tried to search but here is a little unique situation.

I would like to translate my website in 2-3 different languages not for ranking purpose, but only for some minority users within Italy to understand the content in their native language.

Using "no-follow" with a Google Translate link would damage SEO? if not I would like to use it.

Here are few points:

• Give users the ability to switch the content to their language with a link

• Tell Google not to follow the translated pages, because I don't want them to be used for ranking or searches

• I would start simply with Google Translate to see if people actually are interested, then later translate by human but still don't want google to follow

• I could also start with human translation instead of Google Translate if really needed, I know it is a no no. What I'm very interested is to make sure that those pages under "no-follow" won't affect my SEO in good or bad right now, because we would like to keep as it is.

Thanks a lot

[gfiorelli1]

Hi Angelo,

I was wondering if you were able to solve this issue or if you ever saw my question above?

Should be this question closed or are you still looking for an answer?

[gfiorelli1]

Did you think about blocking in robots.txt Googlebot (or bots in general) from crawling the GTranslated versions of your site?