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If I create a page in Japanese, will a person browsing in Japan see the page *and* the advertisements in Japanese?
Will I get the same statistics?
What languages are available?
I have been thinking of creating pages that can be translated with babelfish? Will adsense be still placed on these pages?
I have been thinking of creating pages that can be translated with babelfish?
I have been thinking of creating pages that can be translated with babelfish?
Are you having content your readers genuinely are interested in. Or is this just another "I'm gonna be rich quick" scheme.
To answer your question. It's a bad idea. If you really have worthwhile content, It'll also be worth having a real translator doing the job of translating.
I found that if the page design and grammer is simpler, the translation comes out quite good (depending on the language). At least it is comprehensible.
Take a look at some of philip greenspun's articles. He writes wiht a very simple style and his pages are very basic (in terms of html). Do a translation of one of his pages and it comes out fairly clean.
Does adsense exist in foreign languages?
Yes.
If I create a page in Japanese, will a person browsing in Japan see the page *and* the advertisements in Japanese?
Yes under most circumstances.
Will I get the same statistics?
Yes, but you can use channels to track the Japanese ads seperately if you like by URL or by custom channel.
What languages are available?
Currently the list is Adsense for Content:- Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Danish, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, English, Polish, Finnish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian and Turkish.
Adsense for search is the same languages as above plus Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Slovak and Traditional Chinese.
I have been thinking of creating pages that can be translated with babelfish?
Have you read a babelfish translated page recently? :) Seriously translation needs to be done by hand - technology isn't there yet. Bear in mind also that pages in a foreign language will end up contacting you in that language too.
Will adsense be still placed on these pages?
Depending on how you implement it targeting of the Adsense ads could be affected. Basically it's inadvisable to use babelfish for this sort of thing.
At least it is comprehensible.
How would you ..someone who doesnt speak the language you are using "autotrans" to translate into ..
( Because obviously if you did speak it ..you wouldn't need the auto trans , babel fish or whatever other useless horror you choose )
Know if the "translation" that it spits out is any good ..
I can assure you ..it won't be ..
and your target audience won't thank you ( by clicking on the ads )..for missusing their language ..even if it's only by "proxy" via an online translation machine ..
if you dont have much text .."pony up" and pay for the translations ..
BTW as a test ..you know what I mean by "pony up" ..not one autotrans machine online will even come close to the correct sense in french , italian, german, chinese, etc etc etc ...
and some of the translations ..will be insulting to the reader ..or at least get you banned from adsense for "adult content on page" ...
So ...
I am not offereing translated text. I am offering text that has been written in a style that can be translated as best as possible.
You visit a site and you can translate it to another language by using an online translator. The visitor does the translation not me. If the translator is ineffective you cannot blame me but it should be readable.
Try translating some text into another language and then translate it back to the original language. See what hapens.
Is it readable? Is it better than having no information. I know that there is much more information indexed in English than any other language. Also that people in non-english speaking countries use english when doing searched etc.
I was considering this as an option.
Sure you can have your text translated into 10 (or 100) different languages. This may be a simpler way to get 80% of the results with 20% of the effort.
But forget it in anycase.
If I create a page in Japanese, will a person browsing in Japan see the page *and* the advertisements in Japanese?
I think you completely misunderstood.I am not offereing translated text.
And we misunderstood you?
however the translations generated are worthless ..
( and any adsense ads that are placed ..on an auto translated page ..by google automatically via it's include system will be very inappropriately targetted ..and will be inaccurate )
..and thus you will not acheive your ends ..
many of us here speak , read and write ( and browse ) in more than one language ..
some members such as optirex speak read and write in many languages ..and he also runs adsense on most of his sites ..
most members here do not post in order to put someone down ..nor to miss direct a poster into a bad move ..nor to try to direct them away from a potentially good move ..
( note I say ..most members ..caveat emptor ..YMMV etc etc ) ..
what you are suggesting will not get you the response you would wish from the visitors to your site ( they will not care wether the translation is provided by you ..or if they will need to click to have it "autotransed" by babel fish et al ..they will just find it unintelligible ) ..
and adsense ( which cannot be placed "on the fly" by google into a babel fish translated page generated in the visitors browser after they have clicked on a "translate this page link" ) will thus not be a viable source of income for you ..
so you would need to use the "fish" to translate your pages in advance ..and then upload them ..with adsense js "call" code included ..adsense will probably send you "non" relevant ads in the language you chose to auto trans target ..
and has been pointed out ..you need to be able to answer emails in the language if you are selling ..
of course if you are just putting up pages to trigger adsense ..then you are thinking of running MFA ..
and in which case I doubt if the usual posters on the adsense fora will help you in your endeavours ..;-)
edited for spelling and smiley :-)
[edited by: Leosghost at 8:26 pm (utc) on Oct. 30, 2006]
I live in an area that get lots of tourists from non-english speaking countries. These people have internet access, money and are interested in learning about my town, the culture, shopping etc. Whould they not be also interested in the merchants in my town as well?
Information currently available is not in their language or there is it is in very little quantity.
and adsense ( which cannot be placed "on the fly" by google into a babel fish translated page generated in the visitors browser after they have clicked on a "translate this page link" ) will thus not be a viable source of income for you ..
actually there I inadvertantly steered you wrong ..
I just checked this and adsense is placed on the fly into pages that are translated by the "translate this page" link ..
the adsense placed was 50% in the original language ..and 50% in the translated language ..
only 1 ad from a skyscraper with 4 ads was actaully relevant ..the other ads based themselves upon the words in the text ..( and as they had been translated inaccurately ..the result was rubbish and not relevant ) ..
tried it with the 4 langauges that I work in ..
still got the same result ..
only one in 4 ads is vaguely relevant to the text on page in the auto translated page ..
the ratios are not promising ..
dont give up your day job ;-)
( and if they were you'd have one near impossible job to structure your pages so that their ads appeared on your pages in another language )
you'd be better trying to sell them ad space on your pages direct ..and also charging them for designing , translating the ads etc ..
that works very very well ..
how do I know this ;-))..
[edited by: Leosghost at 8:47 pm (utc) on Oct. 30, 2006]
I live in an area that get lots of tourists from non-english speaking countries. These people have internet access, money and are interested in learning about my town, the culture, shopping etc. Whould they not be also interested in the merchants in my town as well?
Well, mostly AdSense is about selling on-line. If you're targeting tourists in your town, I think it's likely they will buy some stuff over there. But it doesn't seem likely to me they will buy something on the internet to have it delivered to their hotel room. You will be smartpriced to oblivion at least going with this tactic.
Just my 2 cents.
