Translating a site in chinese

[zaneta]

I have a site written in english language and I want to translate it in chinese. My problem is that I don't know what to do with the keywords and other stuff that the Search Engines will read in order to index my site. If I translate them too, Google will take consider those words or will ignore them? Is there anyone that had problems in a similar situation in the past?

[tedster]

I haven't translated into Chinese yet, but I have into many other languages. And yes, I translate everything technically allowable -- file names including image files, meta tag content, alt attributes and so on. It all gets picked up.

The reason I do this is twofold. First, it makes the site more appealing to the speaker of the other language. ANd second, I have observed other "half translated" sites doing poorly in the search results.

[Animated]

i think it depends from where you want your target audience to seach for your site, if the will use english or chinese for those keywords

[vite_rts]

i have an interest in this, do any search engine search using chinese, japanese or Korean characters.

I am completely ignorant in this matter, so please don't anyone be offended please,

One off my hobbies is learning languages, and i've learnt some off the above languages' scripts