AdSense in Language Other Than English

Supported, Yes?

[ember]

I am in the US, and I know we Americans tend to think we are the only people on the planet, but are there others who run sites with AdS in languages other than English?

Say I have a widget site and have it targeted to English-speaking countries, since the site is in English. If I install some language-translation software and target other countries, will AdS change to the appropriate language if someone clicks to have the language change from English to, say, French?

[Kotg]

As far as I know there is no good translation software to use for translating a website's content. I don't know for French or outher languages but I recommend you stick with English.

[jurii]

Forget translation software, the result is absolute crap. Find someone who speaks the language or pay for a professional translation, then sites in other languages can do quite well.

[andrea99]

Language translation software will not produce a page fit for human visitors but it will do for googlebot and other non-human types in establishing that the page is in that language.

I used the best and best known online translation program to reproduce a high traffic page on my site to Spanish. AdSense immediately recognized that page as Spanish and served ads in Spanish (labeled Anuncios Goooogle). As soon as the page begins getting real traffic I will have it proofread and fixed by a Spanish speaker. I think this may be a more cost effective way to add pages in a second language. Since I live 40 miles north of the Mexican border I shouldn't have any trouble finding a translator. :)

[edited by: andrea99 at 1:08 am (utc) on Mar. 13, 2006]

[Crickey]

Yeah, ii tried translating my site with a webbased translator...lol, it didn't translate ANYTHING!

Anyway, ads can change depending on the location of your visitors.
My website is in Dutch so all I mainly see are Dutch ads.

But a couple of days ago I ran my site through browsershots, which takes screenshots of your webpage viewed in different browsers and different OS'es.

On those screenshots I saw nothing but English ads, so yup...ads do change depending on location of the visitor.
So you don't have to translate your site justfor that.

[ember]

If you translate a page into another language to run it in a non-English search engine, and so have two pages with the same content but in two separate languages, does AdS see that as duplicate content?

[andrea99]

accidental duplicate post... how ironic. sorry.

[edited by: andrea99 at 4:53 am (utc) on Mar. 13, 2006]

[andrea99]

does AdS see that as duplicate content

No way. Even if the algorithm were that smart (it's not) the two pages would be intended for entirely different users, neither group could possibly consider the other's pages as duplicates. There would be a completely different set of keywords.

Even the tiny minority that is bilingual would not see them as duplicate and the search engine's purpose in deleting duplicate content is first the searcher's convenience and second it's own storage and search functions.

[gaorenst]

what language translation applications do you recomend?

[andrea99]

gaorenst the one I sent in the sticky is the oldest (founded in 1968) and has done extensive work for the US DoD.

[en.wikipedia.org...]

[gaorenst]

Thanks I really appreciate it.