What is best practice of using google translate
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Hi,
I'm thinking of adding google translate to our retailing site so that we could reach more international customers. what about the pros&cons? Any experience of success of utilising it and what potential issues should I be looking at?
Thanks
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Exactly that's what I am worrying
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I would employ a translator. People can interpret nuances in languages that a machine (however brilliant) just cannot. Google translate is great if you just want to translate a few words here and there but a whole website? It'll read like a badly translated flat-pack furniture installation manual!
Good luck, whatever you choose to do
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Hi,
I believe google won't crawl the translated text as it's ajax dynamic text generated from google's server and there is no url different
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I have to strongly suggest against having this content indexed.
Read here: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-translate-auto-content-spam-17524.html
John Mueller said: "I don't know if others have mentioned it, but the translations on your site appear to be very bad. Keep in mind that automatic translations are seen as auto-generated content from our point of view, and should be blocked from crawling / indexing."
So yeah, you can have it - but block it from Google. You can't use it to get "long tail" international traffic. You have to drive it to the English site THEN pass to the translation.
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