Language translations: Do you bother?
 

I'm curious on several levels..... but let's suffice to ask, do you translate your sites into other languages and if so, which ones do you feel are necessary, and if not.... why not?

nope. just don't give a damn.

if you are targetting a specific country it plain logic to translate
a site to a local language.

Otherwise: if they cant speak fucking english they cant
handle creditcards.. so dont even bother.

actually, we get quite a few signups who don't speak english as a first language. they don't seem to have much trouble signing up regardless.

It just aint worth it, maybe for German or Japanese, but couldn't be bothered.

English is the language of the net.

We used to have a German translation of our site ... but traffic from Germany stayed on a low level so I finally decided to drop that translation.
Also I have the impression that users from Europe are not ready (yet) to use their credit card on-line ... and many of them don't even own a credit card.

yup,you are right...i think japanese is N

What about spanish?

Anyone interested in spanish translations?

no

i translate my sites into Russian :thumbsup

I know some webmasters that translate their sites into Dutch and German, thats doing very well for them :)

yes, we did tranlate all our sites into german and spanish.

germany is a VERY big market! those germans spent a lot on porn!
spanish is the 3th language in the world!

http://www.kimhollandcash.com

my short answer is; if you want to do business with the greatest country in the world, suck it up and learn some english.

FYI Russia is NOT an english speaking country

ok, lets face it boys,
there is more in the world than just the US!

http://www.kimhollandcash.com

Spoken like a true business man :uhoh

This may be a bit off topic, but any foreign company worth its weight in gold simply hires a consulting firm to handle the language barrier for them.

Guess I won't make millions doing that then...

my surfers use the translation link at altavista

:thumbsup

visa, its everywhere.

:glugglug

I'm getting ready to send German,Japanese, most country's in Europe and China to a Dialer... there traffic am finding out is not worth very much to me.... of course about 90% of my traffic is USA anyways

I use the free service at www.worldlingo.com on the outside tour on one of my sites and about 5% of my traffic uses it. Their logo button for the translation looks professional, doesn't take up too much space on the page and I figure if it results in just sale, it's more than paid for itself...

Thanks for the link Five Eyes. I could use something like that on a couple of my mainstream sites.

Indeed, and even the US doesn't speak proper English yet.. ;)

Languages are important.. analyze your traffic and where there is a market do a translation!

Send your foreign traffic to a dialer..

:thumbsup

Sweden is a big ass market...a whopping sum of 50 people surf porn everyday here in sweden...don't lose sales, contact me and i'll translate your site into swedish for only $99.99

True....
Faster, cheeper and much much better :)

All sites with more than a TGP or freesite content, I
translate to French, just because I'm a good Canadian.
That and those Quebecers are horny little pervs.

muhahahahahah I get tons of signups from UK, sweden, germany.... guess they understand english :thumbsup

Our content is translated in

English
Spanish
French
Italian
Norwegian
Dutch
German

Our pics are translated, but that's it.