Will (potentialy poorly) Google translated text cause penalties?

Hey guys,

I'm in the process of setting up an Amazon niche website at the moment. I have the ability to relatively easily translate (using Google translate) my content (high quality English) into another language so I can target other countries, such as Germany, Spain, etc. I'd put it in a url like mysite. com/DE/keyword-in-german.

However, I'm concerned that the google translated text might not read correctly in said language and so I'll get bad content penalties. Will this occur do you think? If it does, will those bad language penalties apply to all Google search engines languages (like .com), or just the specific language (.de)

Thanks!

Hire someone to proof-read or better to translate in first place - I guess its cheaper than writing articles from scratch.

Thanks for the response, but I am aware hiring a native language would be best. I'm more curious as to the technicalities surrounding the potential Google penalties.

Cheers!

jing0 said:

Thanks for the response, but I am aware hiring a native language would be best. I'm more curious as to the technicalities surrounding the potential Google penalties.

Cheers!

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Then this might help you:
brightlines.co.uk/en-gb/brightlines/blog/2014/6/19/are-your-international-websites-invisible/

Sorry can't post links yet

Just what I needed man - much appreciated! For the lazy:

"The use of automatically translated web content is against Google webmaster guidelines. Google, the number one ranking search engine, does not deem raw translated texts from Google Translate or any other automatic machine translation tool as high quality content. Google doesn't like it, and will penalise your site. When this happens your website could be unranked for months, and your customers will have difficulty finding you. When a website is translated accurately by a human translator, for example when a website has a German language and English language version, Google makes comparisons between the two and stores the correlation in order to improve the accuracy of Google Translate, little by little. Google senses auto-generated content because it creates a dangerous feedback loop for them, endlessly recycling its own translations making the translation service less and less accurate over time. That's exactly why Google doesn't even give you a chance. As soon as you publish automatic machine translation content as your own translation, Google will stop indexing the site."

do not use google translate, try bing translator instead, depending on the writter you can get quite good results, 2 times more better than GG

i wanted to try and I tried to post 5 well translated articles on wordpress they all got indexed as normal

If you wanted to give this method a try, I'd use something other than google translate. I'm sure there are other prestigious translation programs out there (ones that cost money, but you can torrent) that can give you a decent translation that can slip through the cracks.