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In today's multicultural environment, having a multilingual website is a dire necessity for any business to succeed on a truly global scale.

Internet has made it much easier to enter foreign markets. The key is to create a website that is interesting and suitable to the country which you are targeting.

Just by having your Joomla website in five to eight major languages of the world you will definitely experience a boost in sales. Multilingual Joomla website will also work wonders for your company's reputation. It will give your customer's the impression that you care for them. A multilingual Joomla website саn increase your chances of getting them to purchase from you.

With GTranslate you will break down the language barrier and make your business global with your multilingual Joomla site. In order to create a multilingual Joomla website you just need to install GTranslate using Joomla extension manager. GTranslate free module allows you to use Google Translate and enable the language selector for easy switching between languages. When you install the Gtranslate Pro plugin you will get your multilingual Joomla site indexed by search engines. You will have a separate URL for each translated language. You will be able to edit the translations manually. The Enterprise version allows you to host different languages on subdomains and national domains.

GTranslate CEO Edvard Ananyan is going to mentor Lucas Castro from Brazil to develop Joomla Translations project in frames of Google Summer of Code 2012 program.

It is going to help Joomla translation teams to have a central place where they can localize Joomla project.

Extension developers will have a chance to upload their extension into the system and volunteers can translate them using easy to use translation environment.

We hope that it will help Joomla to spread wider all over the world and become the official place for downloading Joomla language packs.

Future is with cloud based solutions and website translation is not an exception. Almost everything is in the cloud nowdays, even personal life is kept in the cloud by social networks.

We envision that future of website translation solutions is with so called Translation Delivery Network (TDN). A cloud network which will deliver translations for websites. It is much like Content Delivery Network (CDN) which delivers images, videos, and other static content of website. With TDN there will not be a need to install a software on your server to make your site multilingual any more. Now you probably think that it is not possible without magic. Yes, but are working hard to make the magic happen. Stay tuned!

Don't lose visitors just because your site is on a language that they don't understand, use a service like GTranslate and ensure just everybody will be able to read your content, the minute they've landed on your site. Available both for free and as a paid service, GTranslate is a powerful platform that lets you have your whole website translated into as much as 58 different languages.

Any page that you have translated using GTranslate is hosted on a URL of its very own, and AdSense ads change according to the language that's being used.