By making your website multilingual, it has an ability to handle a much larger audience. Your reach is potentially much greater. Visitors stay on average 2 times longer on a website if the pages are available in their own language.
In addition, nine out of ten consumers only buy items from a website that is available in their own language.
WordPress offers plenty of plugins that allow you to make your website bilingual. Monkey Vision s preferred plugin is WPML. This plugin costs about €68. The WPML plugin offers extensive options for managing languages and assigning translation tasks to content managers. We recommend WPML for the following reasons.
- The plugin has been around since 2007 and has always remained stable. The developers work closely with other plugin and theme developers to ensure that the plugin is always compatible.
- WPML allows you to set the SEO for each language. Translations are shown in their unique URLs and you can put different languages in different domains.
- With WPML and WooCommerce, it's no problem to run multilingual ecommerce sites. You manage all your products in one place, while benefiting from full translation and all the currency you need.
There is a lot involved in making your WordPress website multilingual. You need to think about who will do the translations and how these translations will be delivered and entered. Monkey Vision offers one-time multilingualization and single language linking for €250.
