Triple your Potential Audience
… or quadruple, or quintuple - you get the idea.
Want more subscribers? More links? More reach? Of course you do. The answer is simple - make your material accessible to as many people as possible.
My previous post On Page SEO for WordPress has been fairly popular (for me anyway) receiving a few subscribers, links, comments, and pingbacks. Some of those pingbacks came from non - English blogs. I like to say thanks for those kinds of things, and when I dropped in on one of those sites the post seemed to be mostly a citation of my article, but the one comment - as near as I could tell - was saying something to the effect that it was too bad that the article was in another language.
So I’m trying one of the translation plugins that I’ve heard about - Universal Translator by Davide Pozza. This plugin uses your choice of several free translation engines to do the work, and is “widget ready” which means it can be drag and drop integrated into your widget ready theme without any hacking. This worked great for me without any speed bumps. BTW its the little row of flags in the left sidebar.
Aside from the self serving reasons of more subscribers, links, reach etc. this small effort should also score a few usability karma points - that’s gotta be a good thing. We’ll see how things like “speed bump”, “usability karma” and “gotta” come out in translation.
Being a typical monolingual American I don’t know how good the translations actually are, but word on the street is that they keep getting better, and anyway it has to be better than nothing. If you’re multilingual please check it out and let me know how it works in a comment.
P.S. I’ve been working on my next post on WordPress SEO, and it should be ready soon - it’s turned into a bigger project than expected, but I think the result will be worthwhile. How about grabbing my feed so you don’t miss it.
One of my blog posts a while back generated what appeared to be a heated discussion on a Portuguese site. I have no idea what the debate was about, but it looked fascinating
When you take up coding WP modules you can write one to translate comments. And feeds.
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