There are some other translation plugins out there which I have used before, but I find this one is far more better because it doesn’t take your readers away from your blog and onto a translation site.

Instead, all translated pages are kept on your blog and become new content, which you gain a great benefit of adding a ton of new content without any writing, the search engines will pick up all of those new content and index it. In the other words, 1 Page becomes 41 pages if you translate with all the languages that available for you. This can quickly get more of your blog content out there and the content is indexed in the TRANSLATED LANGUAGE!

Here are the most powerful features that Global Translator provides:

* Four different Translation Engines: it has the ability to provide the translations by using Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, FreeTranslations.com

* Search Engine Optimized: it uses the permalinks by adding the language code at the beginning of all your URI. For example the english version on www.domain.com/mycategory/mypost will be automatically transformed in www.domain.com/en/mycategory/mypost

* Fast Caching System: new fast, smart, optimized, self-cleaning and built-in caching system. Drastically reduction of the risk of temporarily ban from translation engines

* Fully configurable layout: you can easily customize the appearance of the translation bar by choosing between a TABLE or DIV layout for the flags bar and by selecting the number of translations to make available to your visitors

* No database modifications: Global Translator is not intrusive. It doesn’t create or alter any table on your database: this feature permits to obtain better performances

More than that, Global Translator can automatically provide the translated URLs to the “Google Sitemaps Generator for WordPress” plugin. After the next sitemap rebuild, all the translated URLs will be added to your sitemap.xml file.

If a reader who is a non-english speaker comes to your blog, if he or she clicks one of the nation flags (let’s say China) on the sidebar of this post, it will take him or her to the translation engine that I choose to use ( Google). And then this cool plugin will start to work and pull the translated content into your blog as a new page. So the next time, if a reader hits the China flag, he or she will be shown the Chinese page created on my blog instead of being taken to Google.

Because it is a machine do the translation and not human, for sure you will find the quality of the translations fall into different range. It’s not a perfect translation, it’s not gonna read fluently to a person reading their own language due to different “tenses” within each language, but what it does is it gets the point across. I checked Thai and Chinese translations, the translated page sentences are not that 100 percent smooth, but you can read it and they are pretty good (in my opinion).

If you know how to work a FTP program, there should not have any problems for you to installing this plugin. Otherwise you can directly install it from your WordPress back office at ‘Get More Plugins Section’.

Note: If you are using Google Adsense on your site and you want to install Global Translator plug-in at the same time, be aware of this – there are some languages are NOT supported by Google Adsense, which you have to disable (just uncheck them on the list) them on the Global Translator Plugin to make your Google Adsense in full compliance with their TOS.

You can find out more detail at What languages does Adsense support?

Here are some of the languages that are NOT supported by Google Adsense:

* Hindi
* Catalan
* Filipino
* Indonesian
* Latvian
* Lithuanian
* Slovenian
* Ukrainian
* Vietnamese

… more …

After you disabled these languages from plugin, the translated pages will show a 404 page. Google bot will notice that and will remove them on the Google cache. However, to make sure that Google bot doesn’t visit them anymore and re-index them later, you need to add the following lines to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: Googlebot

Disallow: /hi/
Disallow: /ca/

….etc ..

If you installed the Global Translator Plugin and you have Google Adsense at the same time, I highly recommend that you do this above, if you don’t use Adsense, then there no worries and you can enable 41 languages.

Happy your International blogging