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Hi

I’ve come across a tool to add to sites I do that translates everything free (http://www.appliedlanguage.com/trans/free_quick.aspx), only downside is a link back to the providing site – that I can see of anyway?? Anybody used it or know how good it is??

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Free translator widgets are handy for quick reach, but pick a solution that matches your priorities. As noticed, many free widgets come with provider branding or a backlink. 's idea of explicit language choices is a solid UX pattern. is right to warn about errors—machine translations still make meaning-changing mistakes. And 's point about multi-engine/analytics services is useful when comparing quality and performance.

If SEO, legal accuracy, or brand tone matter, create real translated pages (subfolders or subdomains) and tell search engines about them with hreflang. Example (place in the head of each page):

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="es" href="" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://example.com/" />

Also set the correct lang attribute on the html element and use UTF-8 encoding. Avoid relying solely on client-side JS widgets if you need pages indexed. See Google's guidance on localized versions for search engines (Google Search - localized versions) and W3C advice on language declarations (W3C Internationalization - language declarations).

Practical workflow: professionally translate key landing/legal pages; use machine translation + human post-editing for bulk content; clearly label automated translations; provide a "view original" option and a simple feedback/report link so users can flag bad translations.

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Member Avatar for llamasrcool

The translation tool looks pretty good. You could also do something like what's on this blog http://pezzin.blogspot.com/ - and link it to a choice of languages.

Member Avatar for MidiMagic

Just beware. Those tools often make horrible blunders.

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I personally am not a fan of their translator. The server is often slow (many online translators are). Instead, I prefer http://www.conveythis.com. It doesn't suffer from slow down because it basically combines all online translators into one tool. Also, it tracks translation statistics for your website so you can see which languages your pages are translated the most. All of this is combined into one small button. I really like it a lot.

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