--- title: "LangRelay Blog: Website Translation and Multilingual SEO" description: "Articles from LangRelay on translating websites, multilingual SEO, hreflang and translation quality, for site owners and the agencies who run their sites." url: "https://www.langrelay.com/blog" --- Blog # Website translation, multilingual SEO and localization Articles from LangRelay on translating websites, multilingual SEO, hreflang and translation quality, for site owners and the agencies who run their sites. - [All](https://www.langrelay.com/blog) - [Agencies](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/category/agencies) - [Cost and buying](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/category/cost-and-buying) - [How-to](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/category/how-to) - [Localization](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/category/localization) - [Multilingual SEO](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/category/multilingual-seo) - [Translation quality](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/category/translation-quality) - [WordPress](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/category/wordpress) - How-to7 October 2026 ## [The Google Translate website widget: who can still use it](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/google-translate-website-widget) Who Google still offers its Website Translator widget to, what it does and does not do for search, and the options for sites that cannot sign up for it. - Multilingual SEO7 October 2026 ## [International keyword research: a worked example](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/international-keyword-research) How to research keywords for each language and country, with real search volumes for one topic in Germany, Spain, France and the Netherlands. - Localization7 October 2026 ## [Internationalization vs localization (i18n vs l10n)](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/internationalization-vs-localization) Internationalization (i18n) prepares code so it can be adapted; localization (l10n) does the adapting for each market. What each involves, with code examples. - Multilingual SEO7 October 2026 ## [SEO localization: what to change on each translated page](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/seo-localization) SEO localization adapts what search engines read on a translated page: title, meta description, slug, alt text, structured data and social tags, field by field. - Translation quality7 October 2026 ## [Translation QA checklist for websites, stage by stage](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/website-translation-qa-checklist) A translation QA checklist for websites: what counts as an error, how severe it is, and what to check in the text, on the page and on the live site. - Cost and buying7 October 2026 ## [Website translation services vs software: which to use](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/website-translation-services-vs-software) When to hire a translation agency for your website, when software does the job, and how teams combine the two, with dated per-word rates and plan prices. - How-to6 October 2026 ## [Automatic website translation: what it does and doesn't do](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/automatic-website-translation) For a site owner, automatic translation is four jobs, from finding text to publishing. Which ones software does alone, and where a person should check it. - WordPress6 October 2026 ## [The best WordPress translation plugins, compared (2026)](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/best-wordpress-translation-plugins) WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, GTranslate and LangRelay compared on storage, review, SEO and price, with every price dated and linked. - Translation quality6 October 2026 ## [Can ChatGPT translate a website? What it does and misses](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/chatgpt-website-translation) ChatGPT translates page text well in some languages. A multilingual site also needs URLs, hreflang, working markup and updates. What a chat leaves to you. - Multilingual SEO6 October 2026 ## [Does machine translation hurt SEO? What Google says](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/does-machine-translation-hurt-seo) Google's policies don't ban machine translation. They target pages made at scale with little value. What that means for your site, and where review fits. - Multilingual SEO6 October 2026 ## [Hreflang and canonical tags: how to use them together](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/hreflang-and-canonical-tags) Each language version is its own canonical and lists every alternate. The conflicts that break hreflang, with HTML examples and a check for live pages. - Multilingual SEO6 October 2026 ## [Hreflang vs the HTML lang attribute: what each one does](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/hreflang-vs-html-lang) The lang attribute says what language this page is in; hreflang points to the page in other languages. Who reads each, valid values, and both in one head. - Multilingual SEO6 October 2026 ## [Hreflang in WordPress: how plugins print it and how to check](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/hreflang-wordpress) Where hreflang comes from on WordPress, what WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress and Weglot print by default, how Yoast SEO and Rank Math fit in, and how to check. - Multilingual SEO6 October 2026 ## [Hreflang in XML sitemaps: syntax, limits and common errors](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/hreflang-xml-sitemap) When to put hreflang in a sitemap instead of the page head, one valid multilingual sitemap to copy, Google's size limits and the errors that break the file. - Translation quality6 October 2026 ## [Is Google Translate accurate enough for a website?](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/is-google-translate-accurate) A 2021 study found Google Translate kept the meaning of 55% to 94% of sentences, by language. What that means for a website, and which pages need review. - WordPress6 October 2026 ## [Language switcher best practices for multilingual sites](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/language-switcher-best-practices) Where to put a language switcher, dropdown or links, native names, flags, redirects and accessible markup, with the HTML a WordPress site can ship. - Localization6 October 2026 ## [Localization vs translation: what changes, with an example](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/localization-vs-translation) Translation changes a page's language. Localization changes what it assumes about the reader. One landing page shown both ways, and where transcreation begins. - Translation quality6 October 2026 ## [Machine translation post-editing (MTPE) for website copy](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/machine-translation-post-editing) How to post-edit machine translation for a website: light vs full post-editing, which pages need which, a checklist for web pages, and how to run it as a queue. - Translation quality6 October 2026 ## [Machine vs human translation for websites: how to choose](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/machine-vs-human-translation) Choose machine or human translation per page, not per site. Content types, dated per-word rates, a cost model for a 20,000-word site, and where approval fits. - Multilingual SEO6 October 2026 ## [Self-referencing hreflang and x-default, with examples](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/self-referencing-hreflang-x-default) Should a page list itself in its own hreflang set, and where should x-default point? Both answered with markup, Google's rules and five plugins' defaults. - Multilingual SEO6 October 2026 ## [Subdomain vs subdirectory for a multilingual website](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/subdomain-vs-subdirectory-multilingual-seo) Subdirectory, subdomain or country domain for each language? What Google's documentation says about each, the costs it leaves out, and when each one fits. - Translation quality6 October 2026 ## [How to build a translation glossary for your website](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/translation-glossary) A website translation glossary in five steps: which terms to collect, how to decide per language, case and plurals, a template, and how to keep it current. - Cost and buying6 October 2026 ## [How much does it cost to translate a website in 2026?](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/website-translation-cost) Website translation cost is words times languages times rate, plus what changes each month. Worked prices for a 20,000-word site, by human and by software. - Agencies6 October 2026 ## [Website translation for agencies: design, quotes and handoff](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/website-translation-for-agencies) How a web agency can design a multilingual site, quote the translation work, let clients review only their own site, and decide who owns upkeep after launch. - Cost and buying6 October 2026 ## [Weglot pricing explained: plans, word limits and examples](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/weglot-pricing) Weglot's plans on 2026-10-06, how its fixed word limit is counted, what happens when you go over, and what three example site sizes would pay each month. - WordPress6 October 2026 ## [WordPress in two languages without duplicating pages](https://www.langrelay.com/blog/wordpress-multilingual-without-duplicating-pages) How WordPress stores a second language, as a copy of each post or as translations of one page, and what each model costs you every time the original changes. ## Start with one page. Pick a language and a page. See how LangRelay handles changes, review, and SEO on your own site. [Get started for free](https://app.langrelay.com/auth/sign-up)[Book a demo](https://www.langrelay.com/book-a-demo) For WordPress, [install the plugin first](https://wordpress.org/plugins/langrelay/).