Last week I installed a new WordPress plugin on two of my blogs. I decided that it was time that I made it easy for my site visitors to see translated versions of my blog posts since I have visitors on those two particular blogs from a number of different countries. So I installed the WordPress plugin Google Translate.
Looking at my web stats for the two blogs that I’m using this plugin on so far it seems to be a hit. Several of my visitors are using the translator to translate my posts each day.
Perhaps by adding this feature to my blogs it will help draw in a few new visitors each day, ones who’s first language is not English.
Have you tried using a translator on your sites? If so, did it help increase site traffic at all?
BTW if you are going to use a translator on your site, the translations have a much better chance of being correct if you try to use proper grammar and spelling in your posts. Just an FYI.
All it did was add confusion to my site. I actually had a German guy tell me that I should remove it because the “de” translations were all messed up.
I don´t recommend you to do that cause those plugins have a lot of issues with semantic, and if a spanish reader ask you something in spanish ¿what you do?
So just in english,is less confusing.
I have a translator on one of my sites since it was requested by one of my readers. I haven’t heard anything negative or positive back yet. I can imagine that there could be some very serious translation errors. I’ll keep my eye on it.
Good to read about your installation of Google Translate.
Why not reach out to more readers? An application like this removes the headache of translating your content word by word or phrase by phrase through another resource, human or software.
Like you pointed out, it’s best to write well in your own language, in order for other languages to make sense.