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[tam]

Quick question, I think, I've been approached a couple of times from people in different countries about translating content from my website (on rabbit care) into their local languages to be hosted on their websites. These are genuine enthusiasts with websites about bunnies, have brought my book, will reference it back to me and have asked first - they just want to educate others about appropriate pet care.

 

Google etc. aren't going to object/penalize either me or them if I say go for it, are they?

[DonnaFontenot]

You should be fine. Of course, it's Google we're talking about, so what they think is fine one day may not be the next. But at the moment, G doesn't mark same content in different languages as dup content.

[jonbey]

So long as they do not auto translate with Google - I bet Google can detect that and are smart enough to know when somebody is using auto translate to create unique content.

 

You could charge them a fee, set up a contract etc. Then you can some money too. 

[iamlost]

I agree with Donna: to date Google does not view content in different languages as duplicate. Given that software translation tools (and G is all about software scalability) do not render precisely enough to meet current duplicate content thresholds I do not expect that to change anytime soon. As support to this:

* I have rendered my sites into two other languages on their own domains without problem.

* scrapers who run my content through G translate and republish rank well until I serve G with a DMCA.

 

Jon: I don't believe G pays any attention to sites being G translated; or, if they do the scraper sites are certainly not penalised in any way.

[tam]

Excellent As far as I understand they'll be translating it themselves or even if they run it through google I'm sure fixing the dodgy translations afterwards

 

I'm not charging, they are just people with an interest in bunnies not businesses

[TheAlex]

Content translated into another language is classed as unique, but I remember Matt Cutts saying something about being wary of adding multiple auto-translated versions of a document as it can look like spam. So if there's going to be a few try and make sure there's a human touch.

[glyn]

You mean gtranslate does dodgy translations!

[TheAlex]

You mean gtranslate does dodgy translations!

 

I've found the video - he does mention 'a difference in quality' between Google Translate and humans! He says because it's auto generated and recommends blocking auto-translated stuff with robots.txt.