Are You Trying to Hide From Google?

July 24th, 2008 Amir

The way language selectors are implemented in multi-lingual websites determines their search engine visibility.

Search engines will serve what they can find and index. If your website exists in multiple languages, you’d probably want the translated pages to show up in search results, right? The easiest way for search engines to notice your translated pages is through the language selectors. Here are a few examples:

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How To Place A Free Support Ticket System On Your Blog

July 15th, 2008 Amir

Thanks, but I’ve got enough Viagra to last a life-time.
No more offers please!

Any blogger who has tried to facilitate communications with their readership by including an email address on their pages has quickly discovered that their inbox is filled with endless fake Rolex pitches, Viagra solicitations, X-rated site links, Get Rich Quick Schemes, and other junk spam email. Even if the link is not shown on the page itself, it is present in the HTML page as a mailto: and thus is vulnerable to the bots that crawl the web seeking out email addresses for spam lists.

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Why automated translation produces gobbledigook

July 4th, 2008 Amir

Anyone who has done business over the internet with people in another country has likely encountered the various free online machine translations or their paid software variants. When faced with the daunting prospect of communicating in another language, either to read a missive or article in a foreign tongue, or to reply to a person who does not speak your language, resorting to the free online translation services can be irresistible.

The main problem occurs when you realize that much of the translation is not only imprecise but can result in outright gobbledigook!

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