Nick loves languages. He holds a university degree spanning three (Chinese, German, English), speaks four (picking up Turkish while living in Istanbul), sort-of understands six, and pretends to know eight. That obsession with words carries into his work as a content writer with 15 years of experience, and it has made him a long-time contributor to the TranslatePress blog since 2019. See his portfolio or get in touch to work with him.
Machine translation has greatly improved the ease and speed of converting text from one language to another, but it’s not without its problems. While, thanks to advances in neural networks and AI, automatic translation is a lot more reliable (just look at the history of Google Translate), you still can’t rely on it one hundred […]
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When thinking of search engines, the first one that probably comes to mind is Google. It’s become so ubiquitous, we’ve even turned its name into a verb. However, Google is far from the only option. There are many other search engines out there, each with significant differences. The one thing they all have in common […]
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The SEO Pack is an incredibly useful add-on to the main TranslatePress plugin. It allows you to convert important SEO elements for your site into other languages. Together with hreflang tags, this helps you more easily rank your content for the right keywords in the language markets you are targeting. If you’re not an SEO […]
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Opening up your blog to a global audience can be a super effective way to accelerate its growth. It allows you to attract a wider audience and speak to potential readers and customers in their own language. But, contrary to popular belief, international blogging is more than just translation. In fact, it’s not as easy […]
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Machine translation tools have revolutionized global communication. They make it possible for people around the world to talk, connect, and do business with each other. And in this post, we want to look at the history of one solution that has consistently been at the forefront of this change: Google Translate. For many, Google Translate […]
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Bad translations from and to Chinese are popular staples of online lists about translation fails. You can find countless of them on the Internet, most often containing images of public signs and menus from China. And, admittedly, some of them are pretty funny. However, instead of merely stopping at “Haha, this is amusing” and moving […]
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In this post, we are collecting some essential tips for mastering local SEO. Local optimization for search engines is especially important for business owners, specifically those who run brick-and-mortar stores in addition to their website or have multiple locations in different areas. It lets you earn organic traffic from consumers in your vicinity, rather than […]
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If you could create your own language, what would it sound like? What rules would govern it? How would it be different from other, existing languages? These are interesting questions, aren’t they? We usually think of language as something that already exists and that we choose to or are forced to learn, not something we […]
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Hreflang tags and canonical tags are indicators for Google and other search engines for which web pages to index and show to certain searchers. They are both important factors for multilingual SEO. However, the two types of tags have different functions. That’s why it’s important not to confuse them or use them interchangeably. Otherwise, it […]
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In this article, we want to talk about different ways to translate a German website to English. We will concentrate on two different angles for that. For one, we will show you how you can translate any German website you encounter on the web into English. At the same time, and more importantly, we also […]
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