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Originally Posted by EBORG9
Well, I did have a universal page translator on it, that did the 13 languages, but I put that on a month ago.
I would think that , that would multiply the number of pages by....well 13, but it should all be crawled by now.
Does the translator hurt, or help me?
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I really don't know if a translator helps or not in terms of seo. It does appear to produce another level of links & listings.. It does produce traffic from the search engines. For myself I couldn't use this traffic, so I cut it out. Someone that has trade scripts installed may benefit from the traffic.
With the amount of languages, I do feel that could have a negative impact. Translator software is hardly readable in most languages. Also, many designs break and fall apart due to the translations too.
Then, without a translator lets say you have 50 pages, google/yahoo may only find 40, then based off site structure and internal linking they can figure out the 5 pages are the most popular, sup results, ect.. So by using a translator you could confuse this, you could create a larger than needed linking structure, a cross linking of anchor text/title text that it can't understand and single out the keywords from.
Anyway, If you use a translator tool for real proper use it's better to open the page with the translation only and drop the menus and cross linking. Pretty much the same rules for print this pages.