Are you running a wordpress based blog and looking for different ways using which you can offer your blog content to your visitors in multiple languages? If thats the case you need to either go for paid options which offer you upto 41 languages Translation and cache services where the converted or translated pages are stored on your server and you dont have to make your visitors wait for the translation but the paid options would cost you from 30$ to 100$ per blog and you can select the languages which you want to translate to.
If you dont want to spend money right away and want to try out with a free option there is a small amount of code which you can add anywhere on your blog ie the sidebar, header, footer or within the blog posts and offer your readers with 22 language translation options. There is no plugin nor any advanced script to be installed on your website because its a simple code which you need to link to from your blog and make the conversion.
Google Translation System Demo Link – http://translate.google.com/translate? – In this test translation we are using google translate services to translate a webpage. Using the same we are going to convert any webpage or blogposts to any of the available 22 languages without any cache saved and the translation done whenever there is a request made for the same.
I have created a small table and put the codes in it to make the table look beautiful which can directly added in your sidebar and whenever someone clicks on the links the translation starts with the results shown within couple seconds.
<h3>Translate this Blog into Different Languages</h3>
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<td width="75">
<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|ar&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>" title="Arabic">العربية</a>
</font>
</td>
<td width="75">
<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|bg&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Bulgarian">Български</a>
</font>
</td>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|zh-CN&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Chinese Simplified">中文（简体）</a>
</font>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|zh-TW&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Chinese Traditional">中文（繁體）</a>
</font>
</td>
</tr>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|hr&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>" title="Croatian">Hrvatski</a>
</font>
</td>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|cs&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Czech">Česky</a>
</font>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|da&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Danish">Dansk</a>
</font>
</td>
<td width="75">
<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|fi&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Finnish">Suomi</a>
</font>
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</tr>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|fr&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="French">Français</a>
</font>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|de&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="German">Deutsch</a>
</font>
</td>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|el&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Greek">Ελληνική</a>
</font>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|hi&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Hindi">हिन्दी</a>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|it&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Italian">Italiano</a>
</font>
</td>
<td width="75">
<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|ja&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Japanese">日本語</a>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|ko&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Korean">한국어</a>
</font>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|no&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Norwegian">Norsk</a>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|po&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Polish">Polski</a>
</font>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|pt&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Portuguese">Português</a>
</font>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|ro&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Romanian">Română</a>
</font>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|ru&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Russian">Русский</a>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|es&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Spanish">Español</a>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="1">
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|sv&u=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/" title="Swedish">Svenska</a>
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This seems to be good…
but how about the duplication?
because this will also make google or other search engine to crawl website in different languages…
Though content will be different because of the language difference but how about the Meta tag..??? Will meta tag be diff? if not it will be considered as duplication…
more insight on this will be helpful…and appreciated
@Harsh Agarwal – The point of duplication arises when there is a cache of these translated pages stored somewhere but these are all dynamic, which means the moment you click and read them these are freshly generated pages and once you close them everything is gone.
Hi, I tried using this, but am not able to do it in my wordpress account.. once i load it gives only the HTML…