Is translating English articles to other languages still a good traffic hack?

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Hi friends, I am planning to scrape high-performing English articles from top blogs, translate them automatically into Spanish, French, and German using DeepL API, and post them on my site. Does Google still rank machine-translated content well in non-English search results, or is the traffic quality too low? Thanks!
 
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Translation alone probably won’t be enough, especially if you’re just republishing scraped articles. Focus on original value, natural localization, and cultural relevance for each audience. That’s more sustainable for SEO than mass-publishing automated translations.
 
Machine translation can rank, but simply scraping and translating articles is risky and rarely sustainable. I’d localize content for each audience, add original insights, and verify accuracy before publishing. That gives you a much better chance of earning relevant traffic long term.
 
Just translating articles is not enough to get good rankings on Google, it may bring traffic in the short term but it will not rank in the long term. It is better not to just translate but to add your own research, local examples and human editing to it, the quality of the content is higher.
 
Revenuestream1 said:
Hi friends, I am planning to scrape high-performing English articles from top blogs, translate them automatically into Spanish, French, and German using DeepL API, and post them on my site. Does Google still rank machine-translated content well in non-English search results, or is the traffic quality too low? Thanks!
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I think machine translation alone is pretty risky now, especially if you're just scraping and republishing.

Try focus on localizing the content, checking accuracy, and adding something unique for each audience. Otherwise, you could end up with lots of pages that get little traffic.
 
I think it depends more on the content quality than the translation tool. If the articles are useful and properly translated, you can still get traffic from other countries.
 
Revenuestream1 said:
Hi friends, I am planning to scrape high-performing English articles from top blogs, translate them automatically into Spanish, French, and German using DeepL API, and post them on my site. Does Google still rank machine-translated content well in non-English search results, or is the traffic quality too low? Thanks!
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This is probably the oldest trick in the book and kinda trivial to find if you get lots of traffic the original authors will report you
 
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I think machine translation alone is pretty risky now, especially if you're just scraping and republishing.

Try focus on localizing the content, checking accuracy, and adding something unique for each audience. Otherwise, you could end up with lots of pages that get little traffic.
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A full machine translation can look suspicious and unnatural. But if you combine insights from different articles, add your own perspective, and adapt the content for the target audience, the result can be much better.
 
I think it can still work, but simply translating articles and publishing them at scale isn't enough anymore. The content needs to be relevant to the local audience, properly optimized, and add some unique value. Direct translations without localization may struggle to stand out in search results.
 
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