WP-plugin "Global Translator"

[elgoog]

Hi all,

Is someone using it and if yes what is your experience with it?
I'm reading different opinions on the net about it...

[casinojack]

Hi all,

Is someone using it and if yes what is your experience with it?
I'm reading different opinions on the net about it...

I love it !! rocks !! is great !!

[elgoog]

My concerns:

1. A sudden increase of automatic generated pages,wich could Google cause to penalise my site.
the creation of 43X more urls for my site, all at one time
The profile for the site would be very much like autogenerated spam pages.

2. A lowe ranking of my index page, caused by pr-leak to many subpages.
you'll need a lot more PR/backlinks to support the increase

3.A higher bounce-rate , caused by visitors clicking away quickly from the page they reach.

4.A lot of 404 results
(especialy after disabling languages)

5.Server load to high

6.Google might not like Google Translate as a content generator. Google objects to automated search queries, eg, in part because of the extra load they place on Google's servers
From Google's TOS:
You may copy, store, archive, republish or create a database of results returned from the service, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, except that you may store results in a temporary cache for a period not to exceed Fifteen (15) days solely for the purpose of using those results to carry out a specific user-requested action

7. Meta descriptions are not translated.

[lunaraurora]

I Agree Elgoog: spam risk, mispelling phrases, wrong informations to readers.

[onlinegamblingeu]

bad idea; hire someone to do it properly for you (ie translate the content) or dont do it at all.

[casinojack]

Have it on many of my portal sites, all good for what i want it to do. I would NOT use on a corporate type site, unless you want to increase reach...

[elgoog]

I'm still to afraid to use it....

[tryme]

I've used it in a couple of places - works OK. The translated content isn't great though for most of the major languages it seems serviceable.

1. A sudden increase of automatic generated pages,wich could Google cause to penalise my site.
the creation of 43X more urls for my site, all at one time

This isn't how it works. It doesn't just create 43x the number of URLs. It creates the pages over time - fairly slowly, as it happens.