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Translation Widgets

As of 2008, there are 6912 known living human languages in the world. Although widely used, English is only one of them. There are still millions of people who do not know this language but are using Internet and I think that it is worthy to put a translation widget on your blog for them. They are your potential readers. There are also other advantages of implementing this nice and colorful widget on your site:
• It will make your blog look more elaborated and sophisticated.
• It will shown your openness to different cultures.
• Even for those readers who know English to some degree, it might be still easier to read your blog in their own language. Installing the widget on your blog will be very easy. All you have to do is to copy the code and paste it in a place of your choice. Many decide to place it in the upper part of sidebar to make it visible once the webpage loads on someone’s browser.

Like I mentioned, allowing internet surfers to access your blog in different languages can benefit your blog a lot, as you might start receiving a lot more traffic. It may be also fun to track from what countries are your visitors from. If you think that this idea sounds great, you may want to check out widgetbox.com/tag/translation, which lists the most popular translation widgets which you can implement on your site. They can be places on blogs like WordPress, TypePad or Blogger, and on sites like MySpace and Facebook. Ultimately, it is up to you, which widget you choose, but make sure it will be something which fits your blogs template.