I was looking over my analytics today and noticed that a large portion of my traffic is coming from places that don’t use English as their primary language.
I don’t know how accurate this information is but it got me thinking… if they are finding me though stumble or digg or elsewhere what happens if they don’t speak English very well/at all?
So I did what anyone who values ALL of their traffic SHOULD do and went out and found an “auto-translation” plugin. If you don’t see it, scroll down a little it’s underneath MyBlogLog Reader list in the sidebar (while your there take a second and join my community.)
I speak a little Spanish so from what I can tell it looks like it works fairly well.
It’s pretty cool. I found it over at carlosquiles.com that was directly linked from the WordPress plugin page.
If anyone of you out there speak a different language - I’d love to have some feedback on how well it actually translates - thanks in advance for any input.
I really appreciate all of the support. Thanks for stopping by to everyone and a very special thank you to my international readers.
Responses to “Become Internationally Friendly”
December 11th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Sorry to disappoint you, but the German translation version is not very good.
If I had’nt read your original article in the first place, I would have to look at the original version several times because the German version was crap.
Sorry.
December 17th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Machine translation for any kind of technical site is fraught with problems. I was warned off the idea having ran it for a couple of weeks by several international friends who speak great English and saw sooooo many flaws in the translations they thought it would put a lot of readers off, even if you did gain a little extra in Google SEO etc.
http://www.sciencetext.com/lost-en-translation.html
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December 7th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Hi Wingnut. How do you keep track of the “Listen Now’ widget to see if it is being used. Maybe that has something to do with the popularity? They have the advantage of hearing your blog as well as reading it. Just a thought.