| Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | navibd | 8/28/10 10:02 PM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES My site's URL (web address) is:http://www.buzzdownload.com I want to use google translator in my web site. and I want to know , is it any advantage for SEO to use google translator ? and is i |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | Sasch | 8/29/10 12:31 AM | No... I've had some visitor/client success using the Google Translate widget on a couple of sites, but there's no SEO benefit to be had as such. Google does not use/index/rank/whatever automatically translated content for its language-specific engi |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | Karl53 | 8/29/10 5:48 AM | I know I'm a newbie here so take this for what it is wroth, but I have had a different experience than what @Sasch.apparently has had. For example, check out this English page: http://www.pine-grove.com/online-calculators/amortization-schedule.htm |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | Sasch | 8/29/10 6:01 AM | Hi Karl Yes, of course... If you Google-Translate the page's content and then place that translation in a foreign-language page on your website, that content will be indexed. What I was talking about was there being no actual SEO benefit to having t |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | Karl53 | 8/29/10 6:40 AM | @Sasch |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | Sasch | 8/29/10 8:03 AM | Yup... I can see exactly where you're coming from. One thing though; why Danish before Spanish? |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | Karl53 | 8/30/10 1:44 AM | That's a tip of the hat to my Scandinavian heritage. But from a technical point of view, I didn't want to translate from English to Spanish and then to another romance language. Going to Danish from Spanish seemed intuitively as if it would be just e |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | Sasch | 8/30/10 1:47 AM | I can kind of see where you're coming from... I'm just wondering what benefits you'd get from translating from one Sub-Germanic dialect to another before porting the whole thing over to Spanish... Might have to mess around with that myself if I get a |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | JohnMu | 8/30/10 3:14 AM | I just want to add a word of warning here -- using automated translation tools to directly create content for your site could be seen as creating auto-generated content, which would be against our Webmaster Guidelines. Instead of just taking the outp |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | cls_wired | 8/30/10 11:46 AM | Thanks for reply! But if it eventually happened, how Google will react? Will that reflect website rankings and the quantity of search phrases website can be found by? Would there be any penalties from GoogleBot? You would probably give a warning to w |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | JohnMu | 8/30/10 2:07 PM | Hi cls_wired In general, when we determine that a page contains only auto-generated content, we may remove it from our index. If we determine that the largest part of a site consists of auto-generated content (such as when it's automatically transla |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | MSprings | 9/1/10 8:31 AM | We use Wordpress for most of our own and client websites. Some clients want us to install the global translator plugin from N2H. http://www.n2h.it When we have used this we see many more pages indexed for each page or post added. If I read your com |
| Re: Is it useful for seo to use google translator in our web sites? | anandkushwaha | 9/23/10 4:36 AM | i think its a good way for the other language person also to understand what is going on so any way use it |