SEO and translate

Hello I have a question.
My SEO is currently down, I don't have a single link, but the website has only existed for a few months :D I don't know if I'm going to focus on search engines or social media, so I may not need this SEO for anything, but if I do, I'd rather know so I don't ruin anything if I go in that direction.


So I have a website, for example x.com in English. In the meantime, I translate the site into Spanish in a subdirectory using TranslatePress. x.com/es.
However, as the site is new I can't keep up with the Spanish translations. And Translate Press immediately creates a Spanish page when I publish an English page, so when I publish x.com/betonline it immediately creates x.com/es/betonline and it is impossible to make it private and wait for publication. And here are my questions.




-If I leave for some time the English version in es site which is a duplicate of the original will it be ok?


-Is it better to use DEEPL translator which is much better than google translate and has near human efficiency and wait for final translation from translator in future as time and funds allow?


Which solution seems to be better?

I Would stick with just english only until you have traffic, sounds like you are asking for a headache,

I'd agree with Wonderpunter, you do seem to be jumping before you're ready to jump.


"If I leave for some time the English version in es site which is a duplicate of the original will it be ok?"

It's hard to be sure and could depend on a number of variables. But it might, and that could end up being a negative impact on the English page or the Spanish one (when you have some Spanish on it)


"Is it better to use DEEPL translator which is much better than google translate and has near human efficiency and wait for final translation from translator in future as time and funds allow?"

I don't know what DEEPL translator is.....but the best translation you can get will be the most desirable to have. Again, it's hard to quantify the difference, as the end result will depend on a lot more factors than you just having 'good' Spanish.

I was just suggesting, among other things, the old wonderpunter posts where you described that having a big site you added many languages and had to go back to English only because there were many problems, I wanted to start from the beginning implementing a second language so that it wouldn't crash my site in the future.

I built the architecture of the site for the second language by translating plugins, theme and everything. Current translation is just front end.


chaumi - DeepL is a German translator which is much more accurate than other such tools. At least in my language pair it is close to a human translation. This is not just my opinion. There are many articles on the web about it.
If you check and test it let me know how it looks for you, just out of curiosity :)
Of course I upload human written/translated texts on the site, but this technology is fascinating and it's developing so fast.

But as you say I will wait for a while. I'll wait until I have more pages and won't have to upload more so quickly.