Website languages and SEO

Native translation wins for SEO, no contest - the old widget approach swaps text client-side, so Googlebot just sees the original English HTML n never indexes yer translated pages as separate URLs at all, meanin zero organic traffic from those languages regardless of how many langs it "supports"; go w/ AI-translated native pages + proper hreflang tags for a dozen langs, that's infinitely better than 150k fake languages Google can't even crawl

For SEO, I prefer native translated pages because they usually perform better than automatic translation widgets.