I was in discussions with a client about building out their multi language website. We were talking about why he wanted to serve up his site in multiple languages and his answer really struck a chord with me and I wanted to share it with you. The Normal Reasons to Translate The two usual reasons people translate their sites are. 1) To increase the reach of their sales By translating your content, it makes it easier to make sales as people can understand the benefits and features in their own language. 2) They have to due to legal requirements Certain countries […]
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Reconcile Content Across Languages
One of the big issues facing a site owner who has content in multiple languages, is that they need to ensure they have translated all content into all languages.
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Something happened on my own site here at WebPolyglot, that has highlighted the importance of testing across languages as you initially build your site and as you apply changes over time.
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Are Attachment Pages Affecting Your SEO
Something WordPress does by default that Google does not like for SEO reasons came to my attention recently. In this post I want to tell you about a potential SEO hit you may be taking but you may be completly unaware of. Are attachment pages affecting your SEO Attachment Pages Every time you upload and attach an image to a post or page it creates a new page called an attachment page. For example the image attached to this post creates this page. https://ibraininc.com/?attachment_id=8978 The problem is that Google can also index these pages and add hundreds of very low […]
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What Are Custom Post Types
You may have heard of a custom post types for WordPress and wonder what they are all about (or is that just me, I sometimes forget the real people who live outside tech-land sometimes don’t think in geek), but what are custom post types. In this post I’ll give you a run down about custom post types and how they can help you. What Are Custom Post Types You can extend the way data is saved in your WordPress database by adding custom post types. Instead of the standard post or page layouts, you can extend the database and store […]
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Case Study: How To Troubleshoot WordPress Crashes
Me and my team get called in a lot to troubleshoot WordPress sites that have crashed . Here are my four top ways to help diagnose and fix WordPress sites that have crashed. White Screen Of Death When I talk about a crashed WordPress site, I usually mean the dreaded white screen of death. You make a change or install a new plugin then all of a sudden your site does not work any more. All you can see is a white screen, what is more you cannot login to undo your changes because wp-admin also give you the same […]
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