Today I added another nice wordpress plugin to my list of plugins I use on this blog.
It is called the Global Translator, by Davide Pozza, that dynamically translates a blog by wrapping the Google Translation Engine.
You can look at the end of the page to see how it works.
The web becomes more globally used every day so you’ll see more international visitors on your blog. WordPress developers are working hard behind the scenes to make WordPress as lingually friendly as possible.
The advantages of translating your blog:
1. Translating the blog from one language to another helps cross the language barrier that often divides us.
2. Allowing readers to translate your blog in their language of choice is an essential feature to improve readership.
3. SEO Benefits - By creating search engine friendly urls, top search engines will index your non English content (which I understand is the only exception to duplicate content), and increase your pages in the search index, drawing more visitors in local languages.
4. It’s easy. It will only take 10 minutes of your life.
5. Increasing your natural search traffic I can ashore you that your ad sales will be bigger.
The disadvantage:
These plugins use either the Google or Babelfish translation services which are good for getting the gist of what something in a different language is about but which are by no means fluent (in my experience). The best thing is to hire somebody to translate the posts, but this will take more time and more money.
If you’re convinced that your blog needs a translation plugin here’s a list of best 6 translation plugins you can use on your blog.
Update: Activate the cache option of the plugin and set the time over 86000 second or else google will index too fast your new pages and it will ban your ip for spam translation isues and will get 403 pages. 
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March 24th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
[…] are many advantages and disadvantages if you chose to take your blog to an international […]
March 24th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
This is really interesting, I think we might install this on our blog.
March 24th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
It’s worth trying.
March 25th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Hmmm, this is very intresting, but wouldnt this take up so much bandwidth to translate it in to every language?
March 25th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I will update this post in a week to tell you exactly the effects it had on my blog.
I’ll consider the bandwidth problem too.
The plugin I use has a cache option too that will increase loading speed.
We’ll see.
March 26th, 2007 at 1:37 am
I’ve been thinking about automated translations for a while, but I’m using Movable Type for my blogs and haven’t found a plugin.
I’m considering doing each post manually through Google, but it’ll be time-extensive. Oh well.
March 28th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Wow! this is very interesting and I will see if i can do it on my blog too. Thanks Cucirca.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
[…] Translations are not considered as duplicate content by Google. […]
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:50 am
We use a google translator on our website, the problem with these internet translators is that the result is often incomprehensible. It translates word for word and literal translations don’t serve anybody at all. Language word orders are all different.
Try it yourselves, translate the text from your page into another language, say, German for example. Then copy that German text back into a translator then turn it back into English - the result is utter babble.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Does it work on bloggers.com? Please let me know. If it does how do you do?
Thx
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January 12th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I used global translator, but it leads to 403 forbidden error from google.
I guess it has raised too much translation request to google.
Is there a new fix for it?
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May 24th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Me too. too hard to get a successful request to google.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Does google index pages translated with google translate?
November 9th, 2008 at 7:35 am
The good convenient site is made.