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Excerpt: Today I post the first guest post – Maria Rainer has sent this nice article and I agree that it meets my guest blogging rules, though a bit short for my taste (perhaps because she writes so well 
) Thank you, Maria! Google Adds New Tools To Its Translation Arsenal Google translate is the go-to translation service for many websites and businesses and is a wise choice, if for no other reason than it constantly evolves and improves. It’s Google’s unique number of different services that feed into one another that make it such a powerhouse in the translation field. For example,…
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Excerpt: People strive hard to get their web pages indexed, later to create links so as to improve the ranking of their sites. But imagine for one moment the following scenario: Search engine robots crawl your site and decide that the website is written in a totally different language. Do you really think that is good? Will it help you or destroy your potential business? Now, you might think that this scenario cannot happen, that the “smart” search engines should have no problem in identifying that your page is in English, German, French, or Spanish. Really? And what if mighty Google decides…
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Excerpt: Is machine translation a good idea? I was recently flamed by one of my readers because I have been recommending over and over to forget machine translation and concentrate on the real human-translated stuff. His argument was something along the lines that because I am a professional translator I am biased, and it is in my selfish interest to indicate that machine translation of a website is a bad idea, because that undermines my business growth. After I stopped laughing -I don’t need additional business, I already have more than I can handle, thank you- I realized that this guy was…
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Excerpt: I almost missed it – but Google has announced in the Google Webmaster Central Blog that they have released the Panda algorithm to the rest of the world. Well, I did miss it for two days, but I knew it was coming and prepared for it. However, if you were caught off-guard and you have seen your localized (or even non-localized non-English) pages drop like rocks in the Google ranking then it’s your own fault. You were warned. Specifically, I told you so in my April’s post Website Localization Impacted By New Google Algorithm. Google specifically highlights that this algorithm change (for…
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Excerpt: In my previous post Does Google Translate Provide You with Additional SEO Juice? I highlighted that the response is a plain NO, because the page is translated on-the-fly, only exists in the visitor’s browser and can therefore never be indexed. Even worse, if you look at the source code of the “translated” page, you will see it is still in the original language! In the event that somebody has not realized what this means, since the translated pages do not exist in reality, foreign users will not find your page either when they search for your keywords in their own language….
