What is best practice of using google translate

[LauraHT]

Hi,

I'm thinking of adding google translate to our retailing site so that we could reach more international customers. what about the pros&cons? Any experience of success of utilising it and what potential issues should I be looking at?

Thanks

[MattAntonino]

I have to strongly suggest against having this content indexed.

Read here: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-translate-auto-content-spam-17524.html

John Mueller said: "I don't know if others have mentioned it, but the translations on your site appear to be very bad. Keep in mind that automatic translations are seen as auto-generated content from our point of view, and should be blocked from crawling / indexing."

So yeah, you can have it - but block it from Google. You can't use it to get "long tail" international traffic. You have to drive it to the English site THEN pass to the translation.

[LauraHT]

Hi,

I believe google won't crawl the translated text as it's ajax dynamic text generated from google's server and there is no url different

[CommT]

I would employ a translator. People can interpret nuances in languages that a machine (however brilliant) just cannot. Google translate is great if you just want to translate a few words here and there but a whole website? It'll read like a badly translated flat-pack furniture installation manual!

Good luck, whatever you choose to do

[LauraHT]

Exactly that's what I am worrying