Google Translate has released a few updates to help you translate, or not, your pages for your site visitors.
First up is a widget that you can place on your site to offer visitors translation via Google Translate. It's very Google branded, so that may deter some, but here's what it looks like:
Secondly, there are code snippets available if you do NOT want Google to be able to translate your page or certain parts of a page.
class=notranslate is available for any html element. Here's an example:
For an entire page, use meta tags like this:
Available languages include:
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Related Reading:
Google Translate Adds 11 Languages
Google Translate Goes Live with Human Translators
Google Webmaster Central Updates Include API Settings and Crawl Error Sources
