Why You Should Think Twice Before Using Translator Plugins
I was amazed how quickly and interesting the conversation that developed following my post asking how good translator plugins were. I thought I should highlight in a post part of the thread for those of you who haven’t read the comments, so that you will think twice before you install that Translation plugin you’ve got your eye on. (If you haven’t subscribed to the comments feed yet btw I’d advise doing so, as it’s getting to the point where the comments left on my site are better than the posts!)
After reading this link provided by TJP I decided that using a Translation Plugin was a bad move, and would result in my site actually getting less traffic rather than more.
This is because when Google’s robots translated pages it struggles to put them into context because the context is poor. Also, because these pages get very little of traffic and almost no inlinks all that’s being achieved is the creation of potentially thousands of poor quality pages as far as Google is concerned. These pages will be counted against the site in question, and Google will lower the relevancy of the other pages on the site, including the English language pages as a result.
As soon as I learnt this I turned Angsuman’s translator plugin off straight away. Not only did this make my server happier as this plugin is a major resource drain, the next time Google indexes my site it should hopefully bump up the ranking of a lot of my pages.
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Comment by Ajay on 14 April 2007:
You very well know the reason I turned of Translator pro, it ate up server and just wasn’t worth it.
I didn’t notice any traffic increase because of the plugin. And one thing was for sure, the translations were horrible.
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Comment by Thilak on 26 March 2007:
Ah.. yeah, this really makes some sense, I should do more research over the impact
Comment by Daniel on 25 March 2007:
“Adding 100,000 pages in total to the 10,000 original pages MUST be influencing Google’s ranking of a site. At a minimum it’s adding 100,000 pages with next to no inbound links.”
could be, I will try to research how the google algorithm related to the issue of having thousands of page with no inbound links.
Comment by Mr.Byte on 25 March 2007:
I tried installing that plugin and it didn’t work out and as i was busy that day, I didn’t take any steps to fix it up…I guess that was for good…
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