Testing out my blog with a language translator
December 15th, 2007 by Dustin Brewer
I recently found a Wordpress plugin that allows for the translation using Google translate (or babelfish) of my entire site. I know that I get quite a bit of traffic from all over the world and so I thought it may help to have a translation available in various languages. I only speak English so it is tough for me to tell how well the translator is working. I think it is a very rough translation but probably gets the point across better then most can translate from English to their native tongue. At any rate my site is now available in Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian. My web design news will hopefully be better understood in all of these languages.
There should be more coming in the future I’m sure. The Wordpress plugin I have used is called Global Translater by nothing2hide.
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December 16th, 2007
I get the Google “automated requests from a computer virus” message whenever I click on any of the other languages.
December 16th, 2007
Thanks for letting me know, I guess I will test out either Babelfish as an alternative or see if there is a way for Google translator to accept that my blog isn’t a virus. haha.
January 7th, 2008
It works great (almost in Spanish, only some verbs are in infinitive)
I have to improve my English, I’m sorry by grammal mistakes.
Greetings form Spain.
January 17th, 2008
hi, I recently create a blog and I would like to add language translator. Can you tell me how you did it? I don’t know anything about Wordpress plugins. can you send me and e-mail with the link or scripts? Thanks.
January 23rd, 2008
Have the translated pages helped to increase your traffic by much?
January 23rd, 2008
@Gilbert I have noticed an increase in international traffic since I started the translations. I have also noticed a lot more international links to my site also.
I’m assuming in most cases the links are praising the article and site. It could, however, just be saying that it reads like a paper a forth grader would get an F on though. It is hard to say, not being multi-lingual.
February 12th, 2008
translation of web pages to attract traffic. this is one good idea that can triple a web site’s traffic.