Importance Of Web Page Translation For A Web Development Company

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When WWW (World Wide Web) came into existence it was viewed as a tool developed by a web developer useful to the English speaking community. This traditional thinking soon saw a change as the number of people speaking English has increased. Today about 1 billion people in the world speak English either as a mother tongue or as a second language. But still there are people who use the internet but are not good at English. For them it is important that a web development company uses web page translation.

Best Option of translation for a web development company:

Different translation options are available to a web development company. While some of the options are free, each option has its own benefits and limitations. The best web page translation tool which is easy to use for the web developer is Babel Fish. This is a free translation service provided by Alta Vista and is choicest if the web developer desires to provide translation for convenience of the reader and not to boost site SEO.

Babel Fish is very easy to ...
... use, even a novice can use it effectively. Simply copy paste the one line code provided, on the page you wish to offer as translated. The page will be then available in 8 different languages namely French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, German, Italian and Portugese.

Biggest benefit of web page translation by a web development company:

It has been known that the number of pages a website has is important for SEO of the website. Each translated page of a website is considered to be unique by search engines. Thus web page translation offered by the web development company increases the number of pages on the website. This means that if a 20 page website is translated into 7 languages than the website will become of 140 pages for the search engines.

Apart from this translated website is a boon to clients doing business in different parts of the world with people speaking different languages. With a translated website, language no more remains a barrier to their business growth. This way they can have more business from different parts of the world. One more issue to be answered here is related to replying to queries.

When a website is translated into different languages through coding done by a web developer working with a web development company it is obvious that the people reading it would feel that the company is local and so enquire in the local language. Hence it becomes imperative to reply to their queries in the local language. This can be done by using other free translation services which can translate text from one language to other swiftly.

All these things make it clear that web translation offered by a web development company is very important both for the company and its clients as it benefits the world as a whole. The company gets the opportunity to do its bit to the Internet world and the client benefits in terms of more business from various parts of the world.

Sparsh Technologies a web development company believes in contributing to the internet fraternity and hence looks forward to include more effective web translation services.