Taking a Peek at Global Translator Plugin for Wordpress

If there is one plugin that I think is a must for blogs, particularly those written in English, it is definitely the Global Translator Plugin. This plugin uses the Web’s free translation engines to translate your pages into different languages. You can choose between Google Translation Services, Promt Online Translator, Altavista Babel Fish, and Free Translator.

For this blog, I use the one the translation services provided by Google which gives translation up to 22 different languages. This plugin caches pages on the server and translates them at regular intervals to avoid being banned by translation engines (in my case it’s Google) especially if the contents of the blog are updated frequently.

So why use this plugin?

Basically I use this plugin for three main reasons - internal linking, content building, and traffic generation. After creating a new blog post, I know that in a matter of hours, the page of that blog post will have 22 translations and as such, 22 new pages will be created linked to one another, thereby assigning more intralinks among my pages preserving my link juice. Also, assuming that the blog post I made is an original content, I will also have 22 pages of original content since the those page are presented in a different language. Lastly, I do this for additional traffic. Thirty percent of the traffic of my other blog comes from these translated pages. I noticed that local versions of Google easily indexed these translated pages (i.e. Google Spain indexing a Spanish translation of my page). This trend continues to happen in my blog and I hope that this will also happen in this blog which I only started two months ago.

Maybe you can also give this plugin a try, and I hope you’ll also find that this plugin really ROCKS!