Automatically translate articles under wordpress

For a long time, I’ve always been curious to know if there is a translation solution 

• Automatic
• free
• reliable
• SEO compliant

for WordPress. Because we, francophones, it is only 274 million worldwide. And although the french is understood by 514 million native speakers, it is always less than the mandarin (1350 m), English (1175 m), Spanish (1140 m), and hindi (689 million). This, in Europe, particularly in Switzerland, German (145 mio) will be added.

On 12 February, I put in place a solution “free” (up to a certain volume of translation in any case…) on Quelbazar blog. At the “features” level, she fills my search criteria. On the other hand, at the level of the result, we see quickly that machine translation has its limits. It’s unreadable, actually, or almost. I let you go see the English translation of this blog surfing…

So, as intermediate conclusion, we can say that a quality translation, it requires a manual step. So it has a cost.

Now, regardless of the quality of the translation, it will be interesting to see if a blog multilingual, even in poor English, improving SEO, so the attendance of the blog.

So I will let time indexing engines do their job to analyze statistics. And, if it is successful, I will describe the technical implementation of the solution! For the presses, it’s the Lingotek WordPress plugin.