Website Content Translation Services Singapore

Done properly it helps, because you start showing up for searches you could never reach in English. Two things have to be right. Each language needs its own web address, and each page needs a small tag telling Google which language it is and where the other versions live. Your developer adds those tags; we give you the list of pages so they know what to point at. Skip that part and the versions do end up fighting each other.

Sometimes, and we will look for free before you decide. If the machine got the meaning right and the writing is just stiff, tidying it is cheaper than starting over. If it has picked the wrong word for your product, or the tone is wrong for that market, cleaning costs more than writing fresh and you end up paying twice. We tell you which of the two it is after reading three or four pages.

We fix it from our side first, by choosing shorter words that still say the same thing. Tell us the character limit and we write to it. Where no short word exists, and in some languages there simply is none, we flag that spot and your developer widens the box. What we will not do is quietly cut half your sentence off to make it fit.

Only if you choose the option where we load the text in, and even then we ask for a test copy of the site rather than the live one. Give the account editor rights, not owner rights, so we can add pages but never change your settings or see customer data. Turn the login off the day we hand over. Most clients simply take the file instead and load it themselves, which is completely fine.

Start small, and yes, that means a smaller bill for us. Pick the home page, your top three sellers, the contact page and the checkout. Run it for two months and watch where those visitors come from and what they do. Then spend the rest of the budget on the pages that actually pulled people in. Translating four hundred pages on day one, before you know which market responds, is how most of that money gets wasted.

This is the part most people forget, and a half-updated site looks worse than one that was never translated. Send us the new items in a batch once a week or once a month, whichever suits you. Because your word list is already saved, a product page usually comes back the next working day and reads exactly like the ones already live. Small batches are charged at the word rate, with no minimum order.

Your brand name stays exactly as it is unless you tell us otherwise. Slogans are different. A slogan usually works because of a play on words, and that play almost never survives the move, so we write you two or three fresh options and let you pick. If your name happens to mean something awkward in the new language, we will say so quietly rather than let you find out from a customer.

Yes, and a fair number of our jobs come in that way. We deal only with you, our name goes nowhere near the files, and we never contact your client. Send us your own confidentiality form and we will sign it. If you want us on a call to answer a technical question, we can join as part of your team. Just tell us beforehand which name to use.