In Soviet Russia, Content Scrapes YOU

Posted on March 29th, 2008 in Content Generation

Nickycakes was doing some Technorati “promotion” the other day and had a glance at the blog reactions for nickycakes.com. For those who don’t know about blog reactions, it’s technorati’s way of displaying inbound links from other blogs to yours. Showing up in the reactions were some links from some Russian speaking blogs with the same content as some of Nickycakes old posts, only translated into Russian. Here are a few of them:
http://www.seomarket.biz/casinos-the-worlds-greatest-landing-page
http://homelessinizhevsk.blogspot.com/2008/03/casinos-worlds-greatest-landing-page.html

Without being able to speak russian, it’s hard to say if these are just autoblogs that automatically translate the Cakes’ content, or if they were actually manually re-written, but considering they do have some comments, it looks like it may be beneficial on some level to have content available in other languages. Not necessarily for nickycakes.com specifically, but for any blog networks you may be running, having them automatically translated to 10 different languages gives you 10 times the unique content.

Yes, there are services out there that will translate a webpage for you and display it in your browser, if you request it, however, these translated pages are not indexed and won’t bring you more traffic. And traffic is the name of the game.

Google hasn’t officially released their translate API to the public, although with a little digging you can figure out how to use it.  For a simple solution you can just scrape and post to http://www.google.com/translate_t to translate your stuff.  If you’re translating a bunch of stuff, you should use proxies, because they will ban you after 500 or so translations in a short period of time from the same ip.

Keep it real.