Comments on: International SEO in 1 minute http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2008/04/07/international-seo-1-minute/ SEO for All Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael D Jensen http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2008/04/07/international-seo-1-minute/comment-page-1/#comment-15396 Michael D Jensen Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:45:21 +0000 http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2008/04/07/international-seo-1-minute/#comment-15396 Jordan, you're exactly right. I tried to convey that its not perfect but maybe its better than nothing at all. :) Also, the translation you read is probably not as good as the Google one because I had to switch it to BabelFish because of the 403 errors I was getting. :) You'll have to try out the Google translator and see if that bumps it up a notch in quality. Jordan, you’re exactly right. I tried to convey that its not perfect but maybe its better than nothing at all. :) Also, the translation you read is probably not as good as the Google one because I had to switch it to BabelFish because of the 403 errors I was getting. :) You’ll have to try out the Google translator and see if that bumps it up a notch in quality.

]]> By: Jordan McCollum http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2008/04/07/international-seo-1-minute/comment-page-1/#comment-15385 Jordan McCollum Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:33:03 +0000 http://www.soloseo.com/blog/2008/04/07/international-seo-1-minute/#comment-15385 While using a machine translator from Google or Babelfish might enable you to get a rough, word-for-word translation of the page up, that translation may or may not be intelligible to a native speaker of that language (and if it is, they may think you're an idiot). For example, here's the English to Italian to English translation of the first paragraph of this article: International SEO has been a argument to the recent SEO conferences, and about what we have discussed before here. One aspect of doing International SEO is having your content available in other languages. An aspect to make International of SEO is that your content available in other languages. Hiring to translator to translate your blog is cost prohibitive for most bloggers, running $50-$250 for each language for post. Renting a translator in order translate yours blog it is the proibitivo [yes, it will leave words it can't understand in the original language in tact] cost for the greater part of the blogger, the execution of $ 50 - $ 250 for every language for every post. Additionally, a machine can't tell you what keywords real Italian speakers are using. Are real Italians searching for "SEO" or "Ottimizzazione del motore di ricerca"? Personally, I have no idea. But there's no guarantee that putting up a page with a machine translation will guarantee any more visitors from that country if they aren't looking for any of the phrases on the page. While using a machine translator from Google or Babelfish might enable you to get a rough, word-for-word translation of the page up, that translation may or may not be intelligible to a native speaker of that language (and if it is, they may think you’re an idiot).

For example, here’s the English to Italian to English translation of the first paragraph of this article:

International SEO has been a argument to the recent SEO conferences, and about what we have discussed before here. One aspect of doing International SEO is having your content available in other languages. An aspect to make International of SEO is that your content available in other languages. Hiring to translator to translate your blog is cost prohibitive for most bloggers, running $50-$250 for each language for post. Renting a translator in order translate yours blog it is the proibitivo [yes, it will leave words it can't understand in the original language in tact] cost for the greater part of the blogger, the execution of $ 50 – $ 250 for every language for every post.

Additionally, a machine can’t tell you what keywords real Italian speakers are using. Are real Italians searching for “SEO” or “Ottimizzazione del motore di ricerca”? Personally, I have no idea. But there’s no guarantee that putting up a page with a machine translation will guarantee any more visitors from that country if they aren’t looking for any of the phrases on the page.

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