Triple Your WordPress Blog Hits in a Week

14 Jan

Posted by fx as Search/SEO

The title says it all – we used a very simple (yet powerful) plugin that literally tripled our blog hits coming in from search engines. That plugin is the Global Translator by N2H you see in our sidebar.

The plugin redirects a user to a translator service at first, but over time builds up cached actual translations of your content, which show without any frames in your blog.

Within a week Google (and other engines) had indexed translations on our site and foreign language users started piling in to see our content. While the market for non-english content is smaller, its infinitely easier to get referrals as less people are posting in that language.

With 23 languages, the Global Translator took our 200 posts and turned them into 4600 posts. Give it a try, at the very least you may help someone in another language with a tip; or get a Russian comment. Make sure you let us know if it works wonders for your blog!

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20 Responses

Arné

January 15th, 2009 at 7:28 am

Sounds quite innovative.
Will definitely give it a try.
fx

January 15th, 2009 at 8:33 am

Thanks Arne; one thing I forgot to mention above is that make sure you use the simple table format with x icons per row; as that’s the most reliable way to get engines to crawl the content.

Don’t use a dropdown/image map :)
Arné

January 15th, 2009 at 8:40 am

o cool, I kept it to the default for now(the table), and will maybe look at the DIV component later.
It is actually a very nice plugin, instantly converting my blog, can’t wait to see what type of results this will bring.
Steven

January 17th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

Now we just need one that can translate into afrikaans :)
fx

January 17th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

Haha I think that’d be the one I understand the least. Although to be honest; IW is the maddest – http://www.raven.za.net/iw/search-and-seo/triple-your-wordpress-blog-hits-in-a-week/comment-page-1
Arné

January 19th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

been seeing some traffic coming in on the other languages in the last day or two, but unfortunately the plugin is chowing into my CPU using which I have a limit on the server I’m using…. I’m now searching for solutions.

So far I’ve disabled cache compressions, so it is raw data, and also increased the polling time to double the time it is presently.

Also I moved the re-caching Option to 90 instead of the standard 30 days.

Will only know by Wednesday if this worked.
fx

January 19th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Maybe up it to 600 seconds as well – depending on how well your site is indexed by search engines it may take longer than it took us; but we get thousands of non-english referrals a day now
Simon

January 21st, 2009 at 7:09 am

Thanks for this tip. I’ve installed the plugin and it seems to work well. Looking forward to seeing if it increases my referrals.
fx

January 21st, 2009 at 7:33 am

Nice to here everyone making use of this – please do let us know how well it works for you :D

Just to give you an idea, here is a breakdown of some recent traffic in languages (previously we only really attracted en*)

1. en-us 3,306
2. en-gb 304
3. de 246
4. pl 169
5. cs 166
6. nl 156
7. en 144
8. fr 137
9. it 108
10. es 100

And it goes on :D
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February 5th, 2009 at 11:21 am

Bonjour,

ça semble vraiment alléchant comme plugin, mais je reste un peut siur ma faim quand au fonctionnement de celui ci.
Existe t il un billet détaillé sur son fonctionnement.
Est il envisageable de le porter sur un autre système que wordpresse ?

Cordialement,
fx

February 5th, 2009 at 1:40 pm

Excuse the french :(

Il ya quelques informations disponibles sur la page web (http://www.nothing2hide.net/wp-plugins/wordpress-global-translator-plugin/), mais autre que celle de ne pas vraiment .. il ne semble fonctionner très bien si
Sunord.com

February 9th, 2009 at 10:22 pm

what about pramalink …it will change it
http://www.domain.com/mycategory/mypost

will be
http://www.domain.com/en/mycategory/mypost

and then I will loss all the indexed page at google
fx

February 10th, 2009 at 7:36 am

Hi Sunord,
If you set your blog language to “en” (english) it will take your default permalink and make that the english version.

So it won’t remove any old links, only create new ones for the languages your blog isn’t written in

Cheers
Dave
Arné

February 11th, 2009 at 7:31 am

Hi guys, just wanna let you know that this week I saw a lot of hits from foreign language search engines. Very cool!!!
fx

February 11th, 2009 at 8:05 am

Thanks for the update that’s epic :D
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March 12th, 2009 at 11:09 am

vraiment une bonne info, l’idée de traduire les blogs permettra peut être aussi de faire une bonne promo de la blogosphére française.

cordialement
tika

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