I’ve just added a pretty cool update to the article pages, it did not take hardly any time or effort at all so I thought I would share it with you. In case you want to add it to your site too.

With a quick copy and paste, I added Google translation graphics to every article and automatically translated them into 9 different languages. This means that every article you have submitted or will submit in future will be available in 9 different languages. I do not know if this will increase traffic or not, but believe there is a good chance it will.

If you want to add this feature to your site, it’s dead easy. All you need to do is copy and paste the code below onto the page you want to translate, where you want the Google translation with country map graphics to appear.

<form action=”http://www.google.com/translate”><script language=”JavaScript”><!– document.write (“<input name=”u” value=”+location.href+” type=”hidden”>”)// –></script><input value=”en” name=”hl” type=”hidden”><input value=”UTF8″ name=”ie” type=”hidden”><input value=”" name=”langpair” type=”hidden”><input onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” title=”French” value=”en|fr” type=”image” height=”20″ src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/img/ 43/1633/320/13539949_e76af75976.jpg” width=”30″ name=”langpair”><input onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” title=”German” value=”en|de” type=”image” height=”20″ src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/img/ 43/1633/320/13539933_041ca1eda2.jpg” width=”30″ name=”langpair”><input onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” title=”Italian” value=”en|it” type=”image” height=”20″ src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/img/ 43/1633/320/13539953_0384ccecf9.jpg” width=”30″ name=”langpair”><input onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” title=”Portuguese” value=”en|pt” type=”image” height=”20″ src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/img/ 43/1633/320/13539966_0d09b410b5.jpg” width=”30″ name=”langpair”><input onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” title=”Spanish” value=”en|es” type=”image” height=”20″ src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/img/ 43/1633/320/13539946_2fabed0dbf.jpg” width=”30″ name=”langpair”><input onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” title=”Japanese” value=”en|ja” type=”image” height=”20″ src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/img/ 43/1633/320/13539955_925e6683c8.jpg” width=”30″ name=”langpair”><input onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” title=”Korean” value=”en|ko” type=”image” height=”20″ src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/img/ 43/1633/320/13539958_3c3b482c95.jpg” width=”30″ name=”langpair”><input onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” title=”Chinese Simplified” value=”en|zh-CN” type=”image” height=”20″ src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/img/ 43/1633/320/14324441_5ca5ce3423.jpg” width=”30″ name=”langpair”><input onclick=”this.form.langpair.value=this.value” title=”Arabic” value=”en|ar” type=”image” height=”20″ src=”http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/ 3709/485/1600/arabic-flag.gif” width=”30″ name=”langpair2″></form>

Because of the way wordpress is coded, the code above may not work until you replace all the ” with proper ” (not fancy quotes).