
In this post, we look at how you can translate your business’s website with Weglot’s translation software. With Weglot, you get fast and reliable machine translations, along with a translation management platform where you can easily edit your translations.
A quick FYI on how accurate machine translation can be: We recently did research to see how accurate machine translation is. The results were overwhelmingly positive, which might help explain why ⅔ of our customers don’t even bother making edits to their translations.
Here are just a few examples of businesses that have used Weglot to translate their site and the positive results they’ve seen after launching their multilingual site.
Below, we take a closer look at how these companies (and many more like them) use Weglot to translate their business websites.
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In our examples above, we referenced two key aspects of using Weglot.
To start, simply add Weglot to your website. This is incredibly simple, and doesn’t require any sort of coding or development. You can add Weglot to any CMS platform, from WordPress to Shopify to a CMS your team built themselves. This takes care of displaying your multilingual website.
Here’s a quick video explainer showing the overall process:
Once you’ve added Weglot to your site, pick your original language (the language your site is in currently) and which languages you want to translate your content into.
And that’s it. Weglot will now translate and display your entire site. All of your product pages, blog posts, headers, footers, on-page SEO elements like alt tags and metadata, and everything in between.
Plus, Weglot will automatically create unique URLs for each translated site. For example, weglot.com is our main site and it’s in English. But our French site can be found at weglot.com/fr/. This subdomain feature is a big plus for SEO (which we cover in more detail at the end of this post).
All of your content is easily accessible through the Weglot Dashboard, so you don’t need to log into different hosting platforms.
For most sites using Weglot, the entire translation process takes just a few minutes.
Because Weglot uses a mix of the best machine translation (MT) services available (from DeepL to Google Translate), you’ll always get a solid starting point. And even “complex” or technical content is being translated well by MT.
For example, one of our customers is Basler AG—and they needed translation software that could accurately translate highly-technical service manuals for industry-grade digital cameras.
This accuracy explains why ⅔ of our clients don’t end up making any edits to their translated content. Depending on your site or your specific audience, the easiest and most efficient method for your site might just be adding Weglot and using machine translation for your entire project.
But as we said, Weglot is also a translation management platform where you can quickly edit your translations—which about ⅓ of our clients do.
Once your site is translated, you can easily access, customize, and edit your translations with Weglot’s translation management platform.
From your dashboard, you can click into a specific translation, and narrow down your search by looking up a specific URL or a specific phrase.
Once you find the translation you want to edit, you edit it right then and there. You don’t need to download or transfer any content.
You can also view your translations through Weglot’s Visual Editor.
This gives you a live view of how your translated content fits in with your website’s layout and design.
Not every business will have translators on payroll. With Weglot, you can pick which content you want to be professionally reviewed and then send it off to translators.
Once the translator is done with their work, it will be automatically updated and live on your site. No need to juggle a load of files or folders, or navigate dozens of document versions.
Weglot makes sure your translated sites are optimized for SEO.
Specifically, Weglot:
In this post, we looked at several different types of businesses and different kinds of translation projects—from a restaurant with an ever-changing menu to an SEO agency with hundreds of pages of long-form content.
Some projects will only need machine translation, where you can add Weglot to your CMS and translate all of your content within minutes. Other projects will involve your translators (or translators ordered through Weglot) going through and reviewing specific translations.
Whichever method is right for your business, Weglot has you covered.
With Weglot, you get:
If Weglot sounds like the right tool to translate your business website, start your free trial today.