Solution 1: only one webpage (homepage) localization, designed for mini companies, with low web marketing cost.
Overview: Single-page includes company overview, product and service introduction, and contact information.
Designed for: Sohu, mini companies or individual’s website.
Website languages: It’s advised to use no more than 6-8 languages. • For the European and American market: It’s advised to use English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. • For the Asia-Pacific regions: It’s advised to use Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Malay. • For the Middle East regions: It’s advised to use Arabic, Persian and Hebrew. • For Indian market: It’s advised to use English and Hindi. We will advise you of specific languages according to your target markets.
Services: • Webpage content translation, image typesetting and flash localization etc. • Metadata (description and keywords) optimization and translation • Forbidden word, colour or image identification and filtering • Reform website structure, insert other language pages and design multilingual navigation bar • Page integration and online testing • Review contents and cultural customs by local linguist • Search engine submission (submit to local main search engines) • Follow up optimization results • Update webpages as client’s request • Other language services and marketing consulting services. Case study: Client: 30Glycolic Background: Founded in 1989, 30Glycolic operates business in R&D and sales of cosmetics. They developed a new product – electronic cigarettes for Japan. Requirements: The company urgently needs a Japanese website to promote their products into Japan market. Website: http://www.30glycolic-jp.com/
Service Cost and Turnaround Time Estimation:
Items |
Estimated workload |
Time (per language) |
Recommended choice |
Content translation |
300 – 500 words |
Depending on target languages:
0.5 – 2 days |
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Multi-media localization (image, flash, audio, video localization etc.) |
One Flash, and 3-5 images |
2 hours
(The client should supply source files.) |
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Keyword optimization |
Discuss with client on keywords selection and arrangement etc. |
8 hours |
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Website integration |
Design multilingual navigation bar etc. |
2 hours |
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Online testing and bug fix |
Online testing on local and client’s host computer |
2 hours |
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Review by local linguists |
Linguistic and cultural customs review |
2 hours |
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Submit to popular search engines |
20 – 30 search engines |
1 working day |
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Features: • This multilingual website is short and concise, with basic company overview and service introduction. • For the newly founded small company, this is a recommended solution: cost-effective, covering required regions and countries, also with SEO optimized results. • The website maintenance cost is low. • The weakness is the limited content and thin website structure.
Suggestions to website upgrade: It is suggested to upgrade to Selected Pages Solution when the company business runs better.
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