Frequently Asked
I have general questions
I need help with installation
I have translation questions
General Questions
- What does it do?
- How will SEO Translate improve my SEO?
- How is your plugin different?
- How much does it cost?
- Who can use SEO Translate?
- What if I have questions?
- Is there a catch?
- What does it do?
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SEO Translate translates your WordPress pages and posts into over 30 different languages using the Microsoft Translator API – enriching the experience of your multi-lingual visitors.
- How will SEO Translate improve my SEO?
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Boost traffic by reaching visitors from here to North Korea – SEO Translate creates translated versions of your WordPress site, each with a unique URL, allowing them to be indexed by Google and other search engines.
- How is your plugin different?
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Only SEO Translate offers:
- Easy installation - Simple point and click setup
- Integrated with popular SEO plugins – Integration with sitemaps and translation of meta descriptions, keyword tags, and headers – providing on-site optimization in other languages. Integrated with WordPress SEO and Google XML Sitemaps.
- Speed without Anchors – Pages are quickly translated and ready for indexing without high CPU usage
- How much does it cost?
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The SEO Translate plugin is free, free as in speech.
- Who can use SEO Translate?
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Odds are good that you can. With over 22% of all new sites powered by WordPress and over 50,000,000 (yes, million) sites on WordPress.com today, we’re pretty confident that includes you. If not, let us know!
- What if I have questions?
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In wordpress, go to the WordPress admin section and fill out the user feedback form. Alternatively, fill out the contact us section here: http://seotranslate.com/.
- Is there a catch?
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Nope. However – we’re open to hearing any creative catches you may suggest.
Installation
- Why am I getting an error that my database has problems with utf8?
- How long does it take to install?
- How do I install the plugin?
- Why do I need my own Microsoft API Key
- Why am I getting an error that my database has problems with utf8?
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To improve performance SEO Translate caches your translated pages in your database. Your current database character set only supports Latin languages, meaning non-Latin languages, such as most Asian characters are not supported. We’ve created a workaround that addresses the issue for some databases. However, the best way to resolve this error is by changing the character settings in your database to utf8. If you are using a MySql database, you can learn more about changing the database character set here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-database.html
- How long does it take to install?
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Less than two minutes. We designed SEO Translate to be a true point and click installation process.
- How do I install the plugin?
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- Upload and install the plugin zip file through WordPress as seen here or upload the zip to wp-content/plugins directory via ftp
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Why do I need my own Microsoft API Key
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Getting a unique API key increases transfer rate and reliability by personalizing your connection with Microsoft. The process is simple and can be completed in no time.
Translation
- How do you ensure the translation is accurate?
- Into how many languages does the plugin translate?
- How is the translation accomplished?
- The translated content is not showing up on my sitemap
- How do I pick languages?
- Why is translated content not displaying properly?
- Does it translate AdSense?
- What will the URL structure look like?
- How do you ensure the translation is accurate?
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SEO Translate provides a machine translation of your web site and as such is subject to the capability of a machine. What does that mean?
As the meaning of words and phrases often depends on the context and specialized knowledge of the domain area or culture and because sentence structures and grammatical rules vary significantly between two languages, accurate translation requires human skills to translate sentences without errors.
The quality of today’s most advanced translation software is well below the accuracy and fluency of a professional translator, and many sentences are simply not understandable. Researchers are continuously working on improvements, but it may be many years before high quality translation can be consistently offered by a computer.
- Into how many languages does the plugin translate?
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At our last count, you can choose from 35 different languages
- How is the translation accomplished?
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To deliver world class machine translation, SEO Translate turned to Microsoft’s Translator technology bringing the power of instant translations in many different languages. To learn more, visit MicrosoftTranslator.com
- The translated content is not showing up on my sitemap
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There may be three issues
- The language choice needs to be enabled in the settings section
- You need the latest version of WordPress SEO or Google XML Sitemaps
- Your sitemap does not dynamically update and needs 24 hours to correctly display
- How do I pick languages?
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- Go to the SEO Translate settings menu
- Select among the language and display options and press save changes. Selected languages will now be available to your visitors
- Why is translated content not displaying properly?
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There may be two problems. Both relate to the display of non-Latin characters (an example is Asian characters)
- Certain sites use javascript to display characters and words. Your javascript is not set to display non-Latin characters and defaults to showing non-readable characters
- Your database may default to only showing Latin characters. Reference “Why am I getting an error that my database has problems with utf8?”
- Does it translate AdSense?
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SEO Translate can only translate the copy within your posts, pages, and plugins. Adwords, and for that matter any ads or other content served by third parties, aren’t a part of your WordPress experience but served by Google. Besides, translating others’ ads violates Google’s advertising policy.
- What will the URL structure look like?
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www.[yourdomain].com/[language choice]/[page]
