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6 translation tools for automatically translating your website

Website translation with Google Translate
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Written by Niek van Son MSc on January 22, 2025

Niek van Son

Last updated January 28, 2025

Introduction

If you want to sell your products or services abroad, you need to have a multilingual website. Whereas you used to have to manually translate your entire website page by page, there are now online tools that make translating your entire website a snap. In this blog post, we list 6 tools for automatic website translation.

Why have your website translated automatically

With an international, multilingual website, you are able to reach a larger audience. Now, manually translating a website is quite a chore that can cost a lot of time and money. Thanks to automatic translation tools, you can quickly expand your website to more languages at low cost. Your translations may not be perfect at first, but often the quality is sufficient to put live. In addition, you can often improve the translations further at a later stage.

With the following 6 tools, you can get started expanding your website to more languages.

Google Translate 2.

Website translation with Google Translate

Google Translate is a free translation engine known to everyone. However, not everyone knows yet that you can easily translate your website with Google Translate.

  1. Go to Google Translate.
  2. In the source text box, enter your website. For example, we entered brandio.co.uk as an example.
  3. In the target text, you will see your website. Click on it and you will see your website translated into the target text.

You can use these texts, and perhaps improve them, for your website. Depending on your cms, there are also plug-ins available that allow you to put the translated texts on the website automatically.

Benefits website translation Google Translate

+ Free tool.

+ Translation of reasonable quality.

+ Integration capabilities with many content management systems.

Disadvantages website translation Google Translate

- Not always high-quality translation.

- Limited options for translations. For example, you cannot choose the tone-of-voice.

- Completely automated translation of your website usually requires a paid plug-in or tool.

2. DeepL

Website translation with DeepL

DeepL is another translation engine. The company itself states that it generates more than 3 times more accurate translations than its direct competitors. You can also use DeepL to automatically translate your Web site.

  1. Go to DeepL.
  2. In the source text box, enter the text you want translated.
  3. In the target text box, you will see the translated text.

Benefits website translation DeepL

+ High-quality translation.

+ Ability to choose tone-of-voice.

+ Ability to upload glossary.

Disadvantages website translation DeepL

- Not all features available in free version.

- Completely automated translation of your website usually requires a paid plug-in or tool.

TranslatePress 3.

Website translation with TranslatePress

TranslatePress is a plug-in for WordPress that allows you to translate a WordPress website completely automatically.

Website translation benefits TranslatePress

+ You can quickly add a complete new language version to your WordPress website.

+ Ability to link different translation engines, such as Google Translate and DeepL.

+ You can still edit automatically translated texts.

Disadvantages website translation TranslatePress

- Works only with WordPress websites

- Paid tool.

Clonable 4.

Website translation with Clonable

Clonable is a tool that allows you to translate your entire website within minutes. After the automatic translation, you still have the option to edit your translated content.

Benefits website translation Clonable

+ You can translate your website easily and at lightning speed.

+ You have the ability to edit texts as you wish after this.

+ If you make changes to the original version of your website, they are automatically carried over to your translated versions.

+ Independent of cms.

+ Dutch company with good support.

Disadvantages website translation Clonable

- Clonable is a paid tool. Prices for large websites and e-commerce sites can be quite expensive.

5. WeGlot

Website translation with WeGlot

WeGlot is a solution similar to Clonable. Also with WeGlot, you can quickly put a translated copy of your website online.

Benefits website translation WeGlot

+ You can translate your website easily and at lightning speed.

+ You have the ability to edit texts as you wish after this.

+ Independent of cms.

+ Proven solution with many good reviews.

Disadvantages website translation WeGlot

- WeGlot is a paid tool that can be quite expensive.

ConveyThis 6.

Website translation with ConveyThis

ConveyThis is another tool that allows you to automatically translate an entire website. This solution integrates with all major content management systems, such as WordPress, Shopify, Magento and Wix.

Benefits website translation ConveyThis

+ Compatible with all popular content management systems.

+ You can quickly translate your entire website.

+ Free version for small websites.

Disadvantages website translation ConveyThis

- Paid tool.

As you can read, there are free tools that allow you to translate your website yourself page by page, to paid tools that allow you to translate your entire website in 5 minutes. What is the best solution depends on the size of your website, available time and budget.

Want to attract visitors through Google with your international website? Then read our article on getting higher in Google. You will also find valuable information in our blog post on international marketing.

Niek van Son
THE AUTHOR

Niek van Son MSc

Marketing Management (MSc, University of Tilburg). 10+ years of experience as an online marketing consultant (SEO - SEA). Occasionally writes articles for Frankwatching, Marketingfacts and B2bmarketeers.nl.

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