wordpress translation tool

[Orbetting]

Hi All ,

does any one know if wp translate / or any other wordpress translation plugin has a negative impact on SEO?

thanks

[leemore]

I know that WPML is fine for SEO and all other uses. But that's for manual translations (localization)
The auto-translation tools offered for WP can be somewhat more problematic according to rumors.
I couldn't find any concrete evidence that it's a problem but it seems like if it's using Google translate, it might be bad.
I'd opt for another one, although I have only run into those using google translate as the translation engine - so I get bad vibes about using it - however enticing as it may be

[shortow]

i'd stay away from from the auto translations...SEO aside from a user perspective your pages won't make much sense.

[ksgboy]

agree with shortow - Autotrans are no good

[brucegreenwood]

There are lots of translation tools available in the plugins section of wordpress just search the one with ratings.

[bboyspyder]

Autotranslate tools are not an option for what you need. You will mostly get rankings decreased because the text that is going to be produced in the new language will be very bad, with mistakes and Google hates that.

[lots0]

You need a person to translate... auto translators suck for websites. They never get 'slang' and they never understand context. Most gambling terms are 'slang', so to the person reading your auto translated text, all they are seeing is garbage that makes no sense.

As far as SEO - If the translator is not 'getting' the correct translation then your SEO on the translated page is going to be about the incorrectly translated words. So in other words, your SEO is going to be targeting the wrong keywords.
Seen it happen.

[wmaster]

Agree with lots0 and other users, auto-translators aren´t accuratte a native speaker is the best option for translations.

[casinorecommender]

In my opinion, if the Google Translation service gives harm to our SEO for Google !!!???!!! (there are romours about that), then other plugins and services will certainly give harm. Right ?

[lots0]

If you head over to affiliate Gard Dog, I believe that Andy has the best natural language translation service in the Online Gambling Biz.

[Roulette Zeitung]

Autotranslate tools are not an option for what you need [...] the text that is going to be produced in the new language will be very bad

That is exactly my opinion. Good, REAL (!) content can only be written in a language which is perfectly mastered.

Google hates that

This is new for me but makes me very happy.

Leopold

[desmondiac]

may I just ask what is better from point of SEO and Google when creating a translated page... is it better to have it on for example de.something.com or something.com/de

[lots0]

may I just ask what is better from point of SEO and Google when creating a translated page... is it better to have it on for example de.something.com or something.com/de

Depends on what your goals are.
Both can be used and both will rank well in google.

The only real difference for the search engines is that "de.something.com" gets treated like a separate TLD by the search engines and "something.com/de" is associated with and gets treated like the rest of the pages(files) from "something.com"

[desmondiac]

Thanks a lot. I am still going through some discussion on the internet to get to know more about this.