Global Translator

This is a great plugin if you would like to offer your blogs content in multiple languages and at the same time create more pages that the search engines can index and subsequently get more traffic to your blog as a result. The plugin uses the free web translation engines out there to translate your blogs content into, at the time of writing 41 different languages.

The key difference with this plugin over its rivals is that it only ever sends one translation request per page per language to the translation engines (the only exception to this is while a page is being translated as it sends visitors to a on the flay translated page while this is happening), once it receives the translated page it then caches it and makes it a permanent page of your blog from then on. All other language plugins I’ve seen just do a translation on the fly every time a visitor requests it and so the page never becomes part of your site and does not allow you to get additional visitors form search engines as a result.

If you wish you can even have Global Translator integrate with the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress that i mention in my Top wordpress Blog Plugins post and then every time a new cached page is ready the Google XML Sitemaps plugin will be notified and add it to your blogs XML sitemap as well as notify the search engines of the new page.

The only problem with this plugin is that if you send too many translation requests too close together the translations engines can give you a temporary ban (especially Google’s engine), typically a few hours, however you can set Global Translator to as much delay between requests as your blog needs.

Global Translator

This plugin is on my list of my favorite WordPress Blog Plugins.