BabelFish to the rescue

What do you do if you know you have visitors to your website from other countries, but don't have the time or resources to create sub-domains translated into numerous language? AltaVista's BabelFish service allows you to put a link on your site that will allow for the translation of your page (or complete site) into eight foreign languages.

From checking the visitor logs on the ErtlReconstruction.com website, I have noticed a large amount of foreign traffic to the site, as well as several emails to the Webmaster account that have to be translated. As such, I realized that I needed to offer the pages in various languages, but didn't have the time or resources to make that happen. I remembered that BabelFish offered this service, so I tried it out last week. On the original ErtlRecon site, only the primary data was translated, since the site was build with frames. After copying the site and applying a different template to it (without frames), the BabelFish translation worked like a champ. It won't take much to keep the two sites in sync, and I get the best of both worlds.

Quick visitor stats of the ErtlRecon site as of noon today:

There were 29 visitors yesterday from 10 countries.

There have been 28 visitors so far today from 6 countries.

There have been 410 visitors in the last 7 days from 28 countries.

 
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