Blog

Translating a website is one of the hardest thing to do. This is called website localization. This usually takes around months to finish. Translating a website is more than just a simple translation. There are some technical areas along with website management, SEO research and text optimization all at the same time. There are some steps you can take to facilitate the effective localization that goes from a single language website to a multilingual website.

Requirements for translating a website

Consider choosing between multilanguage or multisite. The decision can affect the entire website translation process and web localization technique. If you go with multiple websites you must buy domain names for each country you are targeting to make it relevant and to make it more local. Instead, use a content management system capable of handling multilingual capacities and add other versions of your site into the same domain.

If the CMS is good it will streamline the web localization method. On the other hand, CMS were made the same. You must always consider the markets as well as the languages that are essential to you and if the CMS you use supports them.

Keyword techniques and SEO optimization are important. You must clearly define a keyword technique. A lot of website localization attempts are delayed and that brings frustration since the decision makers only think on multilingual SEO as soon as web translation is done.

When you do a keyword research even to nations sharing similar languages tend to use

Various words to refer similar things. It will be helpful if you will respect the search engine in a particular country like Google is famous in the West, but Yandex is still famous in Russia and in Turkey.  Translating a website will not be hard if these tips will be followed.