My pages are translated. Is this positive ?

[extra]

I discovered today that some of my non-profit pages has been translated to local languages. This means that search from many european countries can translate my pages, and I'm on page 1 for many keywords.
For me this is very possitive, but I guess this has been the case for many trusted sites for a while.

As a newbee I just need to know if this is a possitive sign or if it's something that now happends to most sites.

[piatkow]

Do you mean that people are accessing your site with translation software or that somebody has posted a translated copy on a different site?

[extra]

I think I made a mistake.

What I discovered was that google now had the option to translate my pages. All pages is writen in my local language. This was discoverd when I saw many foreign visitors all over Europe visiting many of my pages, and even came back to my site after a while.

[piatkow]

If you are getting a lot of visits translating to a particular language then you should do a quick cost/benefit of translating the site professionally.

Even my restaurant French is enough to pick out literal translations of parts of my site that make no sense at all.

[D_Blackwell]

Depends upon the product and market. I've got two small sites of my own that I've had translated to Spanish by a native speaker that is fluent in English and understands both my intended context, and the Latino/Hispanic translation. It has worked out very well. Her fees are reasonable, the quality is good, and they do okay.

In my 'real bill paying job', we do a lot of international business, and ship all over Europe especially; more and more in Eastern Europe. It is strictly an English language site, but English is the de facto world standard, and we ship internationally every day. Unless one needs a significant presence with a site in the native language, I wouldn't worry about it. If you do need that presence, invest in a professional translator.