LifeinAsia - 11:21 pm on Mar 23, 2011 (gmt 0)

websites that are machine translated into multiple languages are henceforth considered web spam

Wow, Google is a few years behind what we have been saying here for years... Anyway, glad that what we've been preaching has not been deemed gospel. :)

Sadly, my image site doesn't make enough to spend money on the translations.

Then it's probably best to not translate them at all. My suggestion, if you really must have a "translated" site, is to pay the small price to have your navigation translated and replace the boilerplate content with the original language. Then translate the boiler plate as you find resources.