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Translating other people blogpost to other languange and post on our blog
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Hi, I am new to the blogging industries. I just want to know if Google penalized me if I translate other people blog post from English to other language and post it on my blog? Please let me know what you guys think. Thank you in advance for your time.
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Hi there
I would make sure you mind your canonical tag, but I would also look into opportunities that search engines provide such hreflang and language tags. If you have translated variations of your site, you can also look into country targeting for both Google and Bing.
Here's some more information on international SEO if you need it.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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Dear Andy and John,
Thank you very much for your reply. Yes I was actually told by the owner of the website to translate their content into my language. However, after reading your comments, I think I would need to create unique contents instead. Thank you
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Hi,
I don't know if it was just one post, but if you don't have permission and no matter what language you translate it to, that is plagiarism.
Even if you have their permission, Google is very good at translation so they are likely to know if this has been posted somewhere before.
You really need to be creating unique content rather than relying on what has already been said somewhere else before. This is not a practice that is good for SEO.
-Andy
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Firstly it is not something to be encouraged copy someone's blog post. I am assuming you have permission to re-post. Duplicate content is confusing for the search engine, which page to show to the searcher? The below link details duplicate content issues.
In your instance I would imagine that if someone was to type in a query in the language of the blog post - then that may mean your blog post would be returned as the most relevant to answer the query.
https://outdoorsrank.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content
If any issues after reading the link let me know.
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