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To all Google Language Translator Users: Welcome to GTranslate!

As the founder of Google Language Translator Rob Myrick announced nearly a week ago, Google Language Translator is now a part of GTranslate family. Before talking about what this basically means for you, let's briefly describe what are the core differences and similarities of two plugins.

Google Language Translator and GTranslate

Both are multilingual plugins which help to instantly make your websites multilingual and both are easy to install and use.

Google Language Translator works like GTranslate's free plan. They both provide on-fly translation of your website through Google's machine translation: the website is being translated only when your visitor selects a language. The only difference here is in the design and default options to post Language Selectors on your website.

When people say "translation services", they usually imply the services provided by professional translators. For example, when they say "professional website translation", they mean that a translator is going to translate the website content into a language manually. Translators usually perform translations in 1 or 2 languages. Sometimes, if you are lucky enough, you will get a translation into several languages too. But never into a dozen languages.

So, if you want to translate a website into say 20 languages, you might need to hire 5-6 translators if not more. Is this going to cost you a lot of money? It definitely is!

If you have made up your mind to make your website multilingual, then you already know how beneficial it can be for your business.

It can basically help reach a broader audience, show your clients/customers that they matter, improve your SEO results, boost your sales, and eventually establish your company as a brand.

But the translation and the localization processes can take time and resources.

What to do to simplify them?

You are most probably wondering how you can make your business stand out, right?

That's a great thing to think about.

One way to do this is to communicate with your customers through your website and do it in THEIR language.