If your manufacturing or engineering business operates in multiple countries, it is important that your technical materials are translated and localised for each target country. However, technical translation projects pose some unique challenges. This blog post will provide three tips … Read More
Glossaries are an integral part of terminology management. Glossaries are compiled for companies to ensure the unity of style and terminology of translated documentation, as well as to aid in the translation of highly-specialised scientific, medical, technical and other specialised … Read More
If a glossary is not created and integrated into the localisation workflow, the effects can be detrimental. In many languages, the meaning of the same word can be conveyed in different words or phrases. However, the terminology does not tolerate … Read More
When you approach different translation companies and agencies asking for a quote, you will get a range of prices back – and you may be tempted to simply go with the cheapest. However, that would be a mistake, as price … Read More
This blog post was updated on 17 August 2021. Following the global pandemic, the travel and tourism industry is making a rapid recovery as normality returns, and long-awaited holidays cannot come quickly enough! But with opportunity comes challenges – notably … Read More
Customers appreciate being the focus of your attention; a piece of translated text on an otherwise English-looking webpage, menu, document or asset is unlikely to grab their attention and make them feel valued. You spend a lot of time, money … Read More
Why is translation important in the education industry? The number of students studying abroad is rising worldwide, which means it has never been more important for universities to translate their websites into different languages to try to capture the attention … Read More
Have you ever heard of multilingual SEO, SEO-friendly translation, or SEO-translation? These are all different ways to indicate the process of combining search engine optimisation and localisation. However, we at Webcertain didn’t feel that any of these terms fully conveyed … Read More
In today’s world, adopting agile processes is more important than ever to ensure the timely and continuous delivery of work and an advantage over the competition, and this is also true when it comes to SEO-localisation projects. Let’s take a … Read More
Trying to succeed at both website translation and SEO is a challenge that many international businesses face on a daily basis. It can seem like a never-ending battle: you translate a webpage into the target language, only to have your … Read More
Search linguists and translators have different sets of skills, and successful SEO-localisation projects require both. Let’s take a closer look at their areas of expertise and responsibilities. Search linguists As the image above shows, search linguists tend to work on … Read More
If you’re looking to expand your business into new and unfamiliar international markets once you have tested the water and found that there is real potential out there, launching a multilingual version of your website is the next step. It’s … Read More
If you have an international business, you are likely to need translators and language service providers (LSPs) to help you with your marketing strategy. But just how do you establish a good relationship with them? I have complied a few … Read More
Machine translation, often abbreviated to MT, is the use of specific software to translate text from one language to another, and it is getting more and more popular in the translation world. Machine translation can considerably speed up the translation … Read More
The translation industry is huge: it is expected to reach a revenue of 37 billion dollars by 2018, and it is growing every year. Translation projects are however not straightforward: from knowing your translators, to getting familiar with the industry’s … Read More
