A HANDY piece of code has been made available by Google that offers you the opportunity to offer website visitors a translation of the page they are on into the language of their choice.
Many holiday home and business websites provide translation buttons, but in this case the Google code detects foreign language visitors and offers to translate the page automatically into user’s preferred language.
As many people know Google Translate enables you to get the meaning of a foreign language page, it’s not something that should be relied upon for important decisions.
But considering it is just a case of copy and pasting the code into your website it really is a simple option to open up your website to foreign speaking visitors.
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2 responses to “New Google translation tool for your website”
Yes- I’ve put the code onto all of my sites, but just a word of warning – although it translates the general gist of the text, there are some pretty crazy (and sometimes hilarious) translations.
Use it only as a last resort, and check the translation – if you can (but if you can, why would you want to translate it in the first place….?)
Just another little tip – On “Google Documents” you can now translate into 51 languages – Go to the page “Google Docs” – when you’ve finished your document, click on “TOOLS” – select “translate document” – choose language and follow instructions….easy – ain’t it!
Once again – if you can, check the translation and correct it on the new document created.
Hi Ian, many thanks for taking the time to comment about your experience of the translation code. As you say it is wise to remember that the translation is not perfect.
All the best, Craig