Global Translation Plug in for WordPress - Think Twice Before Activating

Like many bloggers who wish to generate as many as possible links in Google, a few months ago I discovered the “Global Translation” plug in. This was perhaps the best plug in I ever came across, especially the recent version, which could translate the entire blog to 13 languages instantly, all these pages were getting cached by Google and it could practically double the traffic, especially when we talk about blogs with a lot of content. Various terms in different languages, that ranked high IN SERP’s allowed a fresh tide of readers to come in. In the beginning, it was truly awesome!

The downside came when Google and Yahoo started to hit the server too often, because apart from the few queries from users every few seconds, we also had dozens of hits from the spiders each second. As a result, you know, this brought the previous server down and we had to leave because they blocked Google from crawling toptut.com.  The blog with enabled translation only held a few days on the new server (hosted on Hostgator) because again, no shared host can hold such a CPU pressure. So, we had to upgrade to dedicated server, just to keep it all online. But that didn’t solve the problem. The translator was still hitting the server way too much (even with database cache plug in activated and setting the cache refresh to 10 hours did not help!) and while we couldn’t get suspended or be put offline anymore by the host, it actually got worse because I ended up overheating my own server and my other sites hosted on Hostgator were crawling unbearable slow or just showed connection time out.

In my attempts to find a solution, I read many blog posts about how to fix the translator and get rid of the 403 server error, looked for alternatives, but eventually I figured that the only wise decision would probably be to get rid of the global translator itself, before even SE will ban me. Now that the translator is gone, my server is so calm and quite..

Bottom line is, having your blog translated to 13 languages is a fantastic SEO strategy, an amazing traffic booster, awesome tool to gather readers worldwide, but also a great server killer. If anyone knows of a proven way to use the Google Translatrion via Global Translator without knocking down everything around, please let me know, I really miss this plug in..