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As I announced, I have setup a new blog in dog and pet niche. The blog is mainly written in Chinese word. Since day 1, I have noticed there are quite a numbers of visitors from my blog to Dogtist.com. But what a pity, I believe most of them can’t understand Chinese word.

To benefit my English educated readers, I have installed a translator plugin named “Global Translator“. So far, I believe this is the best translator tools after my research. Now, you can read my Chinese blog in English version by click at the England flag icon, as shown in the screenshot on right.

The Global Translator is able to translate your blog to more than 10 languages (14 to be accurate). There are:

English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch and Norwegian.

Other than its various languages, it did provide more powerful features:

• Four different Translation Engines: You can choose which translation engine to use between Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, and FreeTranslations.com. Of course, I have choose Google Translation Engine.

• Search Engine Optimized: It simplified your permalinks by adding the language code at the beginning of all your URI. For example, in my case the Chinese version on http://dogtist.com/about will be automatically transformed in http://dogtist.com/en/about/ for English version. This is good SEO practice!

• Fast Caching System: A built-in cache is provided in order to reduce the online connections to the translation engines. I turn it off at this moment to reduce burden on my blog hosting server.

• Fully configurable layout: You can easily customize the appearance of the translation bar by choosing between a TABLE or DIV layout for the flags bar and by selecting the number of translations to make available to your visitors

If you want to provide multi language service for your readers, I recommend you to download and install Global Translator. It is widget enabled. Do not hassle to edit your php code.

My two cents

The translation speed is extreamly fast. Just like normal browsing without translation. I believe with the “cache enable” option switch on, it run faster! The best part of this translator plugin is, it keep all your current blog theme layout while putting in the translated words. Cool!

Hopefully with this plugin enabled, I gain some English readers in this chinese blog. Are you an english ed reader? Are you reading my chinese blog at dogtist.com?

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Tags: babel fish, english translate, global translator, language service, translation engines