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Such as: is my adsense account more of a risk of getting cancelled because of international clicks might been seen as more risky?
Well, write the contect in an other language than English, and the job is probably done...
Or in my case I have translation software.
Nitrous, what in the sweet Lords name are you talking about?
There's no problem with this, btw. AdSense will see what your page is about and in what language is it written and deliver the correct ads. As long as it can figure out... for example, do translate everything including the menus, category links, related content, etc...
Is that indeed what you mean Nitrous?
So a website is international as soon as you translate it to all relevant languages?
That way everything my 5 year old daughter says is also completely international,
I only have to translate it!
But I have used this and my own translation software to put my english pages into spanish, italian, german, french etc. Brings in more trafic.
Do a search for Systran translation software. It works much better than you expect. I even have some that does Serbian. (My GF is serbian) and its pretty good too. I dont even remember where it that one came from.
Web scanning + non-native (or very good) speaker: I just don't care for many of the errors out there.
Now, hundreds of words and a translation software will give you just barely coherent content. But Google isn't a linguistics teacher ;) It doesn't care if you wrote like Shakespeare, as long as you have the keywords somewhere it will shown on (some) SERPs.
If you do it server-side, and just write the article on your native tongue, and let it be translated by somekind of script, you've just added dozens of pages to your site. Yeah, they probably won't make much sense, but it's a visitor, a pageview, maybe an ad-click (after all, AdSense DO knows how to serve ads on the user's language and location).
Is it a cheap thing to do? Yeah, probably. Maybe a PR nightmare. Maybe it will backslash and it will hurt. But how much? And does it matter? I have a co-worker that can't read english very well. So he goes to google.com.br and search for stuff there. *LOTS* of time the content simply isn't available in English, and sometimes he asks me to search for something (usually a Linux related question).
Even if it's not a 100% coherent page, it will make some sense. And again, it's a pageview, and maybe an ad click.
Going further, let me brainstorm... you can provide the "automated semi-translated" page to a *real* translator, one that will have a good base to work on. Maybe he will just need to replace a few words and re-construct a couple phrases. I just google'd for translation prices and they seem to be around .40 cents a word. That's 40 dollars for 100 words, so maybe let's settle on 100 for a typical keyword oriented, SEO page. But that's from a clean document... from an already poorly translated page, maybe we're talking about 50 bucks. Multiply that for 50 pages... 2.5k... which seems a bit excessive :)
So, how much would I charge to translate 10k words? Personally, around 500, if it takes me one 2 or 3 days, I think. Anyway, imagine that you have a good on SERP page. With 1k, you can enter the German, French, Japanese and Chinese markets in one week.
My calculations can be way off, since I don't really have an idea how much translation (and lots of it) cost. But I think this is something to study better...
Or just English?
If so, how good are international non-english visitors at ad clicking?
I don't see why you would be at risk with international clicks. Ads are supposed to be geo-targetted, though it's not always the case for me.
And I don't understand what Humblebeginnings is saying. Every sites are global. Mine's a tiny site in French and visitors come from about 40 countries. That's the beauty of the World Wide Web!
I have all countries/english only on now an wonder if all countries/all languages would yeild more incoming clicks that would convert to more Adsense clicks.
Or will more people take the freebie and click less ads? I turned it on any way and will make a comparison today. (test,test,test)
"You can select your site's primary language during the application process. If you're approved, AdSense will serve relevant ads to your pages in the appropriate language, even if your site contains multiple supported languages.
Please also be aware that placing the AdSense code on pages with content primarily in an unsupported language is not permitted by the AdSense program policies."
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Erick,
I don't dispute that every site could be created as being an international site. I am saying that not every website actually is international. If I write in my own language, I promise you, it is nowhere near being international because only 0,25% of the worlds population speaks my language. The fact that every person in the world, from the Antarctic to Alaska, from The Bahamas to Bali, from Tokyo to Tinseltown can potentially visit my site, doesn't mean they actually will, doesn't mean my site is meant to do so, and doesn't mean my site will provide any value to the entire population of the world. So in my point of view, there international sites and local sites. It's all up to the plan and talent of the owner of the site...
Most of the world seem to be able to understand english.
Well, most of the internet world does. Most of the real world? I doubt it.
