Comments on: Why You Should Think Twice Before Using Translator Plugins

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:10:34 +0000

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.

By: Thilak

Thilak — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:19:08 +0000

Ah.. yeah, this really makes some sense, I should do more research over the impact

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:25:00 +0000

“Adding 100,000 pages in total to the 10,000 original pages MUST be influencing Googleâ€™s ranking of a site. At a minimum itâ€™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.

By: Mr.Byte

Mr.Byte — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:07:00 +0000

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…

By: Everton

Everton — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:28:01 +0000

my site has over 1000 posts, and around 3000 comments, plus tag pages, category pages etc so lets say 10000 page. translating this ten times would add 100,000 pages to my site that don’t get a lot of traffic, and also probably don’t accurately reflect the correct content due to poor translation.

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.

By: Everton

Everton — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:24:42 +0000

google struggles to put the translated pages into context becuase most of the times the page is gibberish and may miss important keywords because of the poor translation.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:19:00 +0000

Everton, the top 4 keywords I follow manually. Other keywords I use Shoemoney’s SERP Tool.

I was thinking about it and still has some doubts.

“This is because when Googleâ€™s robots translated pages it struggles to put them into context because the context is poor.”

How so? Google first translates the page then it says the translation is not good? Sounds strange hehe, I dont think their search algorithm is so advanced as to differentiate a normal page from a machine translated one.

Secondly regarding the incoming links, even most part of our “manually” written posts get few incoming links, its like 1 good post in a while that becomes good link bait.

I still need to see some real evidence that the translated pages would reduce your SERP for the “original” pages in any way.

By: SoccerSpeech

SoccerSpeech — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:30:45 +0000

(If you havenâ€™t subscribed to the comments feed yet btw Iâ€™d advise doing so, as itâ€™s getting to the point where the comments left on my site are better than the posts!)

True!
Great post! definitely would be in my next quick links!

By: Everton

Everton — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:04:53 +0000

what tool do you use to montior your keywords?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:44:32 +0000

hmmm I am not sure about this one. Monitor your serps and the search engine visitors closely to see what happens once you shut the translator plugin.

When I installed the plugin I have not seen any change on my main keywords (the 4 most active that I follow).

By: TJP

TJP — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:20:38 +0000

All my “tag” pages were being translated as well. I actually had 2x as many tag pages as actual posts, another reason why Google may be devaluing my site. So I deleted all my tags pages because they were getting out of control anyways. Now, it’s just back to the basic categories, pages, and post. Hopefully this will supercharge my traffic!

By: Abdul Aziz

Abdul Aziz — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:49:10 +0000

I think its better to just add Google Translator code to your website than installing a plug-in

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:13:15 +0000

I was thinking of using a translator plugin but wasn’t really sure if it would help. Lucky for me I came here first instead of installing one. Thanks for the info.