Translating your site into other languages

monetizing the traffic with adsense - anyone doing this?

[instinct]

I am sure there are people doing this, so I would love to hear any feedback.

Have you tried having your content/informational site translated (by yourself or by a professional) into another language?

Have you had any success using adsense on these pages?

The last question is a bit tricky - has anyone had success in a language that they don't speak or understand at all? Besides the obvious, what are the challenges?

Regards.

[Vec_One]

My site has always had a number of languages. We started running AdSense about a year ago. I'm happy with the results from the English pages but we aren't making a lot from the other languages. There don't seem to be a lot of advertisers.

I firmly believe that anyone creating a page should be intimately familiar with the language. Translation software can help you understand something written in another language but it isn't good enough to publish. I keep a collection of humorous correspondence people send me after they have used translation software to prepare their messages. Some of it is very funny and it's quite often a little obscene.

[asinah]

On our websites best earnings are with English, German, Japanese, French and Chinese content. The worse are with Portuguese, Turkish, Polish and Spanish.

[alvin123]

Google has a very interesting tool that will translate your site from English to other languages for you, it will also translate sites from other languages into English. I'm not sure if this is something new, but lately I have been getting visitors from other countries who are using this tool.

Go to Google home page and click on "language tools".

[instinct]

Good point on the automated translation. I have looked into a few (human) translation services on the web which are reasonably priced enough to give it a try with a couple of my sites.

I guess the problem would then become correspondence with visitors, but on a purely informational site with adsense there won't be much of that.

[instinct]

Asinah do you use automated or human translation (or both)?

Or, is the content written specifically in each of those languages?

Thanks for the input

[ronin]

Have you tried having your content/informational site translated into another language?

Not yet, but I've been seriously considering it for a while. My main concern is that where now I might update a single page, in future I would have to update several pages - thus multiplying my workload. This being the case, I don't want to start writing pages in other languages before some of my development work decreases.

I have no stats on which to base my assumption, but I am confident that introducing more languages to my site would have a positive effect on adsense revenue.

[asinah]

instinct,
everything is human translated.

[howiejs]

Great thread. We ran thru this during the summer on this board. I have also continued thinking about this - and would like to give it a shot.

It seems easy enough - get a page translated for a few bucks - throw Adsense in it - see how the EPC compares to your English page . ..

BUT here is the question - do you have to host these pages on another server - Geo specific? On a country specific domain?

[instinct]

I did some testing with the Adsense preview tool. It seems to know the language of the text on the page and serve the appropriate ads. Even when there are different languages on the same site.

[ken_b]

I've wondered about this because of the number of times a translation referer appears in my logs, which seems to be happening more and more often.

Anyone know off hand what happens to the adsense ads if a visitor clicks the google "translate this page" link?

[Vec_One]

The foreign-language ads still show.

[DamonHD]

Hi,

I have internationalisation on my site, triggered by the primary lanaguage of the vistor's browser (or a session override) but I'm not sure how much it helps. It's really there to help non-English-speakers find us via their favourite search engine.

I am starting to see non-English AdSense ads apprently triggered by non-English keywords that I unconditionally put up so that even dumb search engines (and the Mediabot!) will always see some key foreign text.

I get transations of important text fragments done by friends are native speakers of the language concerned, and translate the main keywords myself (carefully) with a stack of dictionaries!

Rgds

Damon