In Soviet Russia, Content Scrapes YOU
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.
I got this too. Some Russian site with ProfitHunter in the domain had a picture of me and an article I couldn’t read. However there were quite a few comments and I got about 80 visitors that day from them. Long as they dont fuck around and hack me, I guess all is well.
Haha, everyone is so scared of russian hackers.
Hey Nicky,
It’s not an automated scrape, the Russian is too good. Hes also using some local slang, like чуваки – dudes
As he explains, Daminc found your post and thought it was interesting, so translated it for his readers.
The original was the blogspot but not sure if the second one was scraped or guest authored, as it links back to him
[Daminc]
HTH
Thanks for the insight nick.
Yep. It was translated manually. The guy liked your blog and this post and wanted to share it with his readers.
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Damn, now I don’t feel special at knowing Russian anymore. He did manually translate it and even added a nice intro for his readers. He thinks you have an “interesting American blog”
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бугага, они что, правда боятся “русских хакеров”?)
Yes, the post has simply been written. Figure – отжигает
I don’t understand russian, but thanks for the comments guys =))
Don’t be afraid of us, Russians =)
nickycakes, да без проблем. Я еще не одну твою статью переведу
Главное пиши, чувак ))
Ухаха! Рок из кэштактикс просто отжог. Чувак, ПрофитХантер просто знакомит русских манимейкеров с западными, и находит твой блог очень полезным. А ты счел его хакером и охотником за твоими денежками)
Примерный перевод / Approximate translation:
Ruck from Cashtactics: Bogdan Glushak aka ProfitHunter just acquaints russian moneymakers with the best U.S. moneymakers, and finds that your blog is very useful. But you have considered him as hacker and hunter for your money)
Use Google Translate service – http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en
So for http://homelessinizhevsk.blogspot.com/2008/03/casinos-worlds-greatest-landing-page.html It is hand-made translation of original article by cool russian moneymaker Daminc. He is not a hacker))) And bears don’t walk on our streets. Have a nice day, guys:)
Ruck, I wrote you a letter and asked about translating your CPA-marketing course into Russian and you gave me a permission to do that… Maybe you just forgot that, but nevermind, it happens
And I really like your blog and I’m glad I could transfer some traffic to it.
Nickycakes, the first link you mentioned in the blog looks like splog, but the second link is from a respectful Russian SEO-specialist’s blog, so you have no reason to worry
And, guys, forget about the USSR. And there’s no such a thing like Soviet Russia. Those Soviet days gone about 17 years ago. Don’t let stereotypes blind you
Русские хакеры всем хакерам хакеры, даже молдавским
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nickycakes, sorry for the third comment in a row (combine them if you like), but automatic translation into languages from the other language family is a bad idea. I’ve seen some “Google-translated blogs” in Russian and I can say it’s a Markov-like crap. I doubt if such sites will have high conversions, but if you aim to gather some additional links for an English part of a site, it can be a way to go.
Correct Russian Federation Flag:
http://www.uwic.ac.uk/New/graphics/RussianFederation.jpg
Бгыгы, гугл транслитом переводят, походу… Ну переведите вот это:
Ооо, ребятушечки, вы не бАитесь руСких сеошничичеков. Они в общем хорофенькие, белИнькие и пуфыстинькие. Мы васс любим всех, со всей силы. ОчИень, очИень лубЫм.
Да здравствует Россия! =)
А че, меня не заапрувили?
Эй, амдин, тебе не нравится мой русский?!
Nicky, come to us and we will drink fine russian vodka.
П.С. Всем чмоки в этом чате…
Come in Altay
Ха, прикольно, русских камментов больше остальных ))
Russian seo-bloggers – good guys! peace
Всем чмоки в этом чате! =)
бугагааааааааааа
ага щас со злоссти васьмет и сольет все наши мыла спаммеррам
ЫЫЫ Я тоЖухачу Попппостыть тута, америкоски нубкы и пиривисти ви тута них не смагёте! Раша и Юа фарева!
Hey, Nikki, don’t worry about russian comments. It was joke like flashmob.
But i still playing Matreshka and seat on nuclier engine. *