I have heard this questions many times from our customers who purchased either Translator Plugin Pro or Translator Plugin Gold software to autmatically translate their blogs in 41 languages. All of them are concerned if Google will penalize their translated pages as duplicate content. So let's find out what Google has to say about this:

What isn't Duplicate Content

Though we do offer a handy translation utility, our algorithms won't view the same article written in English and Spanish as duplicate content.

Source: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog

That should rest the issue once and for all. If you have any further questions on this feel free to comment below or contact me directly on twitter.

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Translator Plugin Gold 2 now ships with 8 Translation engines for giving you more languages, better load balancing and better fail-over support for different languages. Not only that. Your blog now can be translated to (32) 41 major languages including new languages like Hindi, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Hebrew and many more.

There have been several bug fixes and features added. To read more on that section, visit our wordpress-translator blog.

This might be the last opportunity for you to give yourself or someone else the best gift for this Christmas.

Do not wait. Buy your copy of Translator Plugin Gold now.

We, at Taragana, have always tried to provide you with the best software solution as well as latest news on technology balancing the need of the situation. Translator was one such initiative to help your blog reach a worldwide audience irrespective of the language and country. It has become one of the most popular WordPress plugins which automatically translates your blog pages to 32 additional languages for Translator Plugin Gold and 13 (+1 optional) additional languages for Translator Plugin Pro.

So without waiting for you to come up with any queries, our developers' have tried to help you with FAQ (read Frequently Asked Queries).

IF you are a translator user, the following links are a must walk-through.

1. How To Find Number of Pages in Translator Cache from Database
2. How To Find Number of Stale Pages in Translator Cache from Database
3. How To Find Number of Non-Stale aka Fresh Pages in Translator Cache from Database
4. How To Find Recently Refreshed Pages in Translator Cache from Database
5. How To Find 6 Month Old Stale Pages in Cache
6. How To Find and Remove Invalid Pages in Translator Cache

Note: Translator Plugin Pro (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 13+1 languages (many more will be added soon) with 4 translation engines to provide transparent fail-over support and load balancing.

Translator Plugin Gold (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 32 languages (more will be added soon) with 5 translation engines to provide transparent fail-over support and advanced load balancing.

The business of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro and Angsuman's Translator Plugin Gold has been transferred over to Wordpress Translator. All future news and updates on Translator Plugin Pro & Translator Plugin Gold will be available from the new site. Full article (240 words) »

We have started providing free upgrades for (WordPress) Translator Plugin Pro (Version 5.2) & (WordPress) Translator Plugin Gold (Version 1.2) to all our existing customers.

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Translator Plugin Gold (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 32 languages (more will be added soon) - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latin American Spanish, Filipino, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Welsh, Turkish and Latin. We provide unlimited free updates and upgrades and 6 months of free support.
Translator Plugin Gold has a lucrative affiliate program too. You can make a cool 30% from each sale!

The new features and fixes in version 1.2 (free upgrade for existing customers) are:

New Features

1. Directory browsing of translator plugin directory has been disabled for better security.
2. The ability to switch off translation statistics (from translator option page under Basic->Statistics->Disable Statistics section). You may gain some performance by switching off the statistics simply because it uses a database query to store the data. You can still use the Statistics widget to display your existing statistics. However it will not be updated if you decide to switch off stats. You can again switch it on any time.
3. In Translator Plugin Gold 1.2 we added a new hook / callback facility to enable you to view and process the translated page before it is served to the end user. Please refer to developer guide to know how to use it. The importance of this hook cannot be understated.
   You can use the tgTranslatorPostFilterHook to edit / modify the content of the translated pages before it is served to the user. You can also take action based on the content or engine used to translate the page.
   This hook can be used to handle errors in translation or even catch and process new types of errors. The actions include 1. ability to send custom error pages, 2. re-direct to original pages (for example in case of error), 3. displaying custom error messages and more. Few use cases for this hook are:
   • Provide customized title, meta tags & descriptions for translated pages to eliminate concerns about duplicate content. Check out the translated pages in simple thoughts for some usage examples (hint: look at the meta tags and title).
   • Provide custom error pages or re-direct to original page when translator is unable to translate a page (due to overload or temporary unavailability of engines).
   • Filter translated pages
   • Add your own content to translated pages like advertisements etc. You can also do it using existing translator API. However this provides full control over processing translated pages before it is served to the end-user.

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Translator Plugin Pro & Translator Plugin Gold (provides automatic machine translation for WordPress blogs) is fully compatible with WordPress 2.6. Existing customers of Translator Plugin Pro & Gold can upgrade to the latest version of WordPress without any concerns wrt. Translator plugins.

I am happy to announce an affiliate marketing program for Translator Plugin Gold. Now you can sell your favorite WordPress plugin and earn 30% of the proceeds, a cool 30$ per sale. You can find more details and enroll here:
Translator Plugin Gold Affiliate Program.

Affiliate program for Translator plugins has been a much requested feature from our customers. I am happy that we finally got it out of the door (blame me for the delay). We will include more of our products in near future.

You can send your feedback using the comment form below or the contact form. Discuss it in our forum.

We have developed a new combo bar for displaying the languages for Translator Plugin Pro & Gold. Check it on the top right of this blog. You can select a language to translate to and you will be directed to the translated version of the page, no button to click.

The coolest feature is that it also works in browsers without Javascript, giving a decent layout. Additionally the links are fully accessible by search engine spiders like Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp! etc.

It consumes much less space than the previous versions and takes a fraction of the time to load (not to mention reduced network traffic) as only one small image is loaded instead of 32 images for 32 langauges in Translator Gold.

Would you like it on your blog? … A single combo bar to translate your WordPress blog to 32 languages?