Comments on: Should I Translate My Content in English?

By: medyum

medyum — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:12:56 +0000

Never use automatic translation programs to translate your blog to another language or it will be funny and some times stupid!

By: Andy Mitchell

Andy Mitchell — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:45:10 +0000

Ulla

And that’s where I have the greatest respect for you. Unfortunately I don’t speak another language (a little conversational french). The aim of the widget was to give people an opportunity to get the idea of content and then make an informed choice.

You raise a very important question. How accurate are these translators?

Best Wishes and thank you for your response.

Andy

By: Ulla Hennig

Ulla Hennig — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:33:34 +0000

Andy,
a lot of people from not-English-speaking countries can read English quite well. I don’t trust those translator widgets very much myself. If people are interested in your content, they either read it in English or get their own translation. (At least I would do that – I am from Germany, and English is not my first language).

By: Andy Mitchell

Andy Mitchell — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:07:16 +0000

I have received recently a lot of visitors from countries where english is not their first language. These visitors have only stayed on my blog for an average of a minute. It could be that this content is not relevant to them or they need it translating.

I have added a google translator widget on Your Hypnotist Blog. It translates about 30+ languages and makes a literal copy of the blog page but in the chosen language.

Let’s see what happens.

By: blpgirl

blpgirl — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:31:33 +0000

Wow great feedback from everyone here and Anthony I got to say that your plugin seems to have great potential since I was wondering if it was possible to generate 2 separate feeds and I see that yes you can will give a try also, probably this weekend and see how it goes.