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How to Shape Your WooCommerce International SEO Strategy

By Tom Rankin
Last Updated: March 12th, 2026

Running a global WooCommerce store means you face a set of SEO decisions that a content site never has to make. For starters, the moment you add a second language, you need to tell search engines which version of every page belongs to which audience. It means dedicated WooCommerce international SEO strategies should be your […]

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Neural Machine Translation

What to Expect From Neural Machine Translation (And Automatic Site Translation) in 2026

By Tom Rankin
Last Updated: March 2nd, 2026

Translation technology has had a massive shift in 2025. For instance, machine translation moved from a burgeoning and useful technology to a piece of foundational multilingual infrastructure. The question for you as a WordPress site owner is no longer whether to use automatic website translation, but how to implement it effectively. There’s also neural machine […]

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translatepress custom language switcher

How to Build a Fully Custom Language Switcher in TranslatePress (3 Methods – Easy to Hard)

By Nick Schäferhoff
Last Updated: February 12th, 2026

TranslatePress offers many ways to give your website’s language switcher a custom design out of the box. This helps it integrate with your website design and keeps your brand consistent. Additionally, you can customize it further using code and even create your own custom switcher from scratch. So, in this article, I am going to […]

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Metadata Translation

What Is Metadata Translation and Why You Absolutely Need It

By Carmen Carstoiu
Last Updated: January 15th, 2026

If you’re translating your website into multiple languages but leaving your metadata untouched, you’re missing one of the biggest opportunities to grow traffic and conversions. Metadata translation isn’t just a technical SEO task. It’s what helps search engines understand your content in each language and helps real users decide whether to click, read, and convert. […]

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language flag icons

How to Use Language Flag Icons the Right Way

By Tom Rankin
Last Updated: December 4th, 2025

When you launch a multilingual website, one of the first design decisions you face is how to present language options to your visitors. Countless sites default to using flag icons. While this can look appealing and save space, they often create more problems than they solve. The issue goes deeper than aesthetics because flags represent […]

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hreflang validation and testing

Hreflang Validation and Testing: The Essential Tools to Test Whether Your Tags Work

By Tom Rankin
Last Updated: November 13th, 2025

When you launch a multilingual website, search engines need to understand which content version to show to which audience. ‘Hreflang’ tags handle this task, but they only work when you implement them correctly. I’ve seen many sites struggle with hreflang validation (most have errors), which results in wrong language versions appearing in search results or […]

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duplicate content issue

Finding & Fixing Duplicate Content: My Go-To Process (+ Tools!)

By Nick Schäferhoff
Last Updated: September 25th, 2025

Duplicate content is an often overlooked SEO issue that can quietly hurt your rankings and traffic. To help you avoid that fate, in this post I’ll walk you through what duplicate content is, how it happens, how to identify it on your website, and the exact steps to clean it up, including duplication issues caused […]

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seo basics for beginners

Starting SEO From Scratch? Here’s What I Wish I Knew at the Beginning (+ Extra Tip at The End)

By Nick Schäferhoff
Last Updated: August 7th, 2025

This will be a tutorial on SEO basics for absolute beginners. If you feel like you don’t really know what SEO is, why it matters, and how to use it to improve the visibility and traffic on your website, this is the place for you. Below, we’ll cover exactly that. Follow along and you’ll walk […]

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best colors for website design

What Are the Best Colors for Your Website? My Complete Guide for Every Site Type!

By Tom Rankin
Last Updated: July 10th, 2025

Color is a crucial part of your communication strategy, especially for your website. I’ve worked with lots of sites, so have a little insight into how the best colors for your website are not only about aesthetics. Instead, they can dramatically impact user engagement both on a local and global level. In this guide, I’m […]

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accurate translation sites

I Tested 13 Translation Sites to Find the Most Accurate Online Translator – Here’s What I Found

By Nick Schäferhoff
Last Updated: July 10th, 2025

On this blog, we have discussed many different translation services, from Google Translate and DeepL to AI translation tools and more. But so far, we haven’t tested how accurate all of these translation sites are compared to each other. That’s what we want to change with this article. Below, we are looking at some of […]

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