Google Website Translator

Google Website Translator Gadget was made available to all webmasters.

Your website’s content may only be in one language (e.g. English), but your visitors’ may prefer to read your content in their own mother tongue languages. Translating your website’s content into multiple languages manually can be expensive and complicated. Google Website Translator Gadget supports the automatic translation of your site’s content in 51 languages and is a Javascript/client-based tool that operates within visitors’ browsers.

Google Website Translator Gadget detects the language of your web page and the browser settings of your visitor.

  • If your visitors’ language is different from the language of your page, they will be prompted to automatically translate the page into their own language
  • If your visitors’ language is the same as the language of your web page, no translation banner will appear

The installation of Google Website Translator Gadget requires only the insertion of the code snippet onto your site’s pages. As long as the code snippet is placed within the BODY section of your site’s pages, you can customize the placement of Google Website Translator Gadget.

Comments

5 Responses to “Google Website Translator”

  1. TG on October 26th, 2009 11:07 am

    that’s great… I should try it on my website as my colleagues have urged me to write my new posts in their language.
    How accurate is the translation, do you know?

    cheers!

  2. Globinch on April 30th, 2010 1:07 pm

    Nice post. Read more about how to Use Google website translation gadget – Grow your online audience
    http://www.globinch.com/2010/03/20/use-google-website-translation-gadget-grow-your-online-audience/

  3. Sandra on October 2nd, 2010 10:55 pm

    The future of the translation industry seems challenging.

    http://www.quicklingo.com/en/translation-blog/will-google-s-instant-phone-translator-kill-the-translation-industry

  4. Aliza Shehpatii on May 29th, 2011 1:43 pm

    does this have any effect on SEO? I have seen some translation plugins for wordpress etc and wonder how effective they may be. Is this simply just translation on the fly and for the spiders that come along they do not run the translation therefore no translated pages are indexed?

  5. Edvard Ananyan on November 19th, 2011 12:11 am

    Hi,

    If you want your translations to be indexed you may try GTranslate Pro http://gtranslate.net

    Regards,

    Edvard

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