Translating your site to other languages?

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goingviral101

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Any of you ever translate your site to other languages (ex: francais.xxxx.com, sp.xxxx.com, etc.)

Wondering what the best way to streamline this process would be. Onehourtranslation?
 


That or hiring a translator direct and skipping the middle man. I know a Spanish translator available if you need one.
 
Find partners / agents in each desired country for your site. Cut them in on the profits earned from their region, and have them translate the site for free.

If your site / business is decent, you won't have a problem finding people, assuming you're willing to give an exclusive over that language market. Just start with a 6 month exclusive, and specify minimum monthly sales goals they must reach to keep the exclusive.
 
If you want to save on costs, hire a translator per language and have them translate all the copy, then hire someone else to actually put the translated copy into all you HTML/Wordpress/PHP etc. I just finished doing this on a site of mine myself. Got good quality work for a third of what OneHourTranslation would have cost. The translations itself ended up being far easier than the actual implementation, as it's surprisingly hard finding a reasonably priced VA who can figure out where to paste in translated text without inadvertently destroying the necessary code.
 
nickycakes said:
Odesk has really good translators for cheap as well.
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What Cakes said. I've used agencies in past at 8-10 cents a word, but have been combing Odesk looking for top rated translators with hundreds of jobs and hours clocked and saving them for the next translation job I have coming up.

As for implementing the translations, if it's a hard coded site it takes me the better part of a day to insert 6,000-10,000 words across 60 pages or so. With a multilingual WordPress setup it can be a bit faster.
 
I've translated EWA into a bunch of languages and I can tell you one thing: do not use OneHourTranslation.

Working direct with translators is best. Getting someone pro to do it, then getting a second person to proof it is the way I did it. Certain demographics of my translated copy is still a mess, I'm sure - i'm just tackling them one by one until I finish everything.
 
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