Comments on: WordPress Hack #9: Translating Your Blog

By: Jadeslair

Jadeslair — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:05:00 +0000

LOL, I have a lot of plugins installed also. I am not working on the translate ones yet. I will install the 404 Notifier plugin, that sounds like a good feature. Also if you haven’t installed it yet try the broken link plugin, I run that once every couple of days just to make sure all links work, that way I don’t have to have someone tell me.
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By: Mar Hampla

Mar Hampla — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:32:15 +0000

I reckon the bottom line isn’t so much a technical one in terms of plug-ins and 404s, more a question of what the translations are like to a native speaker/reader. Sure, you are creating a lot more creating a lot more content for search engines to latch onto, and it’s important – as you point out – to judge whether or not translation is right for you. But machine translation isn’t perfect at the best of times – how do you know whether or not it’s making your blog or your company website look silly to foreign audiences in several languages?
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By: Rod - Wilson Portable Tennis Ball Machines

Rod - Wilson Portable Tennis Ball Machines — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:23:42 +0000

I’ve used the (free) nothing2hide plugin before and found it does a fairly decent job. It does take a few days to translate all your pages, so I guess it might also suffer from the 404 problem you describe, not that I monitored for it at the time, so can’t say for sure.
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By: admin

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:27:48 +0000

try using the copy and paste code for the free google online translator, it works with any web site.

By: Raman

Raman — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:20:41 +0000

Could you please elaborate on the translator plugin. Is there any such option for blogger hosted blogs?

By: Tenerife Mortgages

Tenerife Mortgages — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:10:09 +0000

I have been using a translation plugin on my main sites since I got started.
brilliant plugin. The site in my title is only a one page minisite targetting a specific keyword and sending traffic to my main site. but, with the plugin it is now a 17 or 18 page site, all indexed in Google – much better!
I have used this on my http://TenerifeMortgageBroker.com site as well and have some 350 pages translated, cached and indexed on there.
Google have just updated their PR and a lot of my translated pages now have PR1 =)~ OK its not fantastic but I am quite pleased about it and I get more traffic from non-English search results now than English which is useful as I broker to all nationalities.
Probably the best type of plugin I have ever used.
Every new site is almost immediately indexed in google – hours after going live.

Can you tell I like it??!

By: Dragon Intuitive

Dragon Intuitive — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:19:42 +0000

Hi, I’ve taken your advice and put on the translation engine. One question though…my 404 notifications have exploded. The vast majority are from bots looking for the translated version of the page. Is this something to be worried about or fixed?

Love you site btw…have got a lot of good tips to help me with the technical aspect of my site. Thanks.

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By: refurbished psp

refurbished psp — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:31:50 +0000

hummm looks very good but I am in the same boat as you and have apx 40 + blogs the unlimited domains lic is $200 too much for me now

I enjoy your blog!

By: Erika

Erika — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:05:26 +0000

So, I see that you ran into the same problem that I did when it came to translation plug ins! Thanks for the awesome find!