1. Thomas Freeman

    20 November 2008 10:22am

    Thomas Freeman

    Hi,

    Can anyone recommend a translation service/company which will help me convert an English language website in to 10-15 foreign language versions and produce SEO friendly versions of the site? I am looking for quality of translation as well as strong SEO performance in the new foreign languages.

    Many thanks,

    Tom

  2. Denis Kondopoulos

    Technical Project Manager (MBA, MBCS, CITP, CEng) at Naxtech.com

    20 November 2008 11:37am

    Denis Kondopoulos

    Try  www.translate-to-chinese.com  for Chinese.  

    regards,

    Denis
    www.naxtech.com

  3. mandy whyte

    n/a

    20 November 2008 22:56pm

    mandy whyte

    Lingo 24 are a leading provider of transalation services http://www.lingo24.com/

    I have clients that use them and who are very happy with the service.  When you say SEO friendly I presume you are looking for a company that are able to integrate with the CMS being used?

  4. Thomas Freeman

    21 November 2008 08:25am

    Thomas Freeman

    Thanks, I'll look them up.

    Integration with the CMS would be nice-to-have, but primarily looking for a translation service who understand the basics of SEO for the static pages.

  5. Ashley Friedlein Staff

    CEO at Econsultancy

    22 November 2008 06:40am

    Ashley Friedlein

    Hi Tom

    A lot of the search agencies featured in our Search Engine Marketing Buyers Guide provide this now.

    However, a few that have had explicit offerings in multilingual SEO for a while that I'm aware of:

    WebCertain also run the multilingual SEO forums if you want to look through the posts there or ask questions.

    Regards

    Ashley Friedlein
    CEO
    E-consultancy.com

  6. Thomas Freeman

    25 November 2008 15:01pm

    Thomas Freeman

    On 06:40:41 22 November 2008 Ashley wrote:

    Hi Tom

    A lot of the search agencies featured in our Search Engine Marketing Buyers Guide provide this now.

    However, a few that have had explicit offerings in multilingual SEO for a while that I'm aware of:

    WebCertain also run the multilingual SEO forums if you want to look through the posts there or ask questions.

    Regards

    Ashley Friedlein
    CEO
    E-consultancy.com

    Thanks, very helpful to have some recommendations.

  7. Daniel Rajkumar Gold

    MD at Web-Translations Limited

    25 November 2008 15:02pm

    Daniel Rajkumar

    <p>Hi Tom,</p>

    <p>My company, Web-Translations, can help. We regularly translate and optimise websites so that they rank in the first page or top 3 results on foreign language searches against your keywords.<p>

    <p>We have several clients fo whom our service has generated great results.  With e-commerce customers we also get involved with performance-based payment for guaranteed results.</p>

    <p>If you don't have a CMS, I can recommend a Search Engine Friendly option, which also makes it easy to maintain the foreign langauge versions, as you make changes to the English original.</p>

    <p>Please take a look at www.web-translations.co.uk you can get me on

  8. Ian Harris Enterprise

    CEO at Search Laboratory

    26 November 2008 08:42am

    Ian Harris

    We have an article on how to retain SEO during the translation process which means that you could use any localisation company.  Hiowever, the reality is that most companies will not follow such a process.

    It is as easy to get this right as it is to get it wrong, but hard to undo the mess if you get it wrong.  I have been involved in many large-scale web localisations, so if you would luike some advice please let me know.  Ian - Search Laboratory.

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