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Making your WordPress site multilingual with Weglot

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Do you have customers in different countries or that use different languages? If you want to translate your website and go multilingual, you should consider using the Weglot plugin. It makes WordPress sites available in multiple languages in a matter of minutes. 

In this episode, Jean and Gaby Galea talk to Augustin Prot, co-founder of Weglot. The plugin helps developers, marketers, business owners, entrepreneurs, and other types of users make their websites multilingual to generate revenue, leads, traffic, and results.

Episode Highlights and Topics

  • Weglot: What it does and what it tries to solve.

  • Getting Started: Simple steps to installing Weglot plugin.
  • User Profiles: Who is primarily using Weglot plugin.
  • 3 Main Use Cases: eCommerce, marketing, and private apps/websites.
  • WordPress and Weglot: Idea and implementation of the language service approach.
  • Challenges: API and service solutions for payments, commissions, and credit cards.
  • Own vs. Host: Connect to Weglot for language translation, and remain the content owner.
  • Site Speed: Weglot loads pages in other languages in milliseconds via cache, on-the-fly.
  • Location: IP address not automatically matched to countries or origin languages.
  • SEO: Google tends to rank and reward relevant multilingual content and websites.
  • Language Lead Gen: Invest in translation tool for traffic, business, and interest signals.
  • Translation Management: Classic translation list, edit translation, save to refresh page.
  • Weglot Pricing: Freemium and free-trial depending on number of words and languages.
  • Best Practices and Big Problems: Follow Google’s do’s and don’ts for SEO and domains.

    • Resources/Links: 

    • Augustin Prot on LinkedIn
    • Weglot
    • Stripe
    • Google Translate
    • SmartKeyword
    • Elementor 
    • Yoast SEO 
    • Spotlight
    • Ahrefs
    • Semrush
    • WordCamp
    • Castos
    • Jean Galea’s Blog
    • WP Mayor Email
    • WP Mayor

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