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Karolina KulachMay 14, 2018 10:09:00 AM5 min read

Optimal translation and localization solution for your online store

Many of the components of localization, beyond translation alone, have NOT been optimized. This can result in you losing lots of valuable traffic and sales potential from foreign markets.

How to translate and localize your online store in the most efficient way? How to localize in a way that sells? We’ll give you answers in this article.

The most efficient way of translating and localizing your online store

Ecommerce localization adapts content for international markets and provides a user experience that feels native to your global audience.

This involves translation, but also many other aspects, such as converting prices into the buyer’s currency, converting sizes, calculating taxes, creating customized rules and dictionaries, SEO and international shipping.

The goal of ecommerce localization is to give your international buyers an online shopping experience that is indistinguishable from their normal native experience. This enables merchants to maximize their international sales and to compete on a level playing field with local competitors.

If you consider handlinret.com/us/blog/international-online-markets-at-your-fingertips-what-why-and-how-to-sell-internationally/g the localization of your online store on your own, you’ll probably have quite a lot to keep an eye on. Product catalogs are a big project and can cause a real headache. Not to mention the situation when your products are offered on multiple markets!

It sounds like you can expect a lot of hassle and there’s no guaranteed return on investment.

Luckily, localization technology can come to the rescue. A good solution should offer you instant translations of a website and take into account the ecommerce context. This way the vagueness and glitches of standard machine translation can be avoided.

Localization conducted via a fully automated, ecommerce-oriented solution, such as Glopal's Online Stores, is significantly shortened on all levels and provides a higher degree of financial security.

Automation can take a big load off your shoulders, for example, each time descriptions, prices or product specs get updated, the tool picks up on those changes.Then it programmatically kicks off translation and linguists do their job.

This way you can save yourself from tedious manual work and you have more time to spend on developing your business strategy.

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Glopal’s Online Stores

What can help you with a seamless localization of your store is Glopal’s Online Stores. Thanks to this solution, we can create your localized stores using your existing store theme.

What does this mean?

The localized sites of your shop will be a mirror reflection of your domestic store in terms of design, content, navigation and layout. At the same time, we will adapt content for international markets to provide a user experience that feels native to your global audience.

What can you expect? Higher conversion rates!

First, it will be much easier for your customers who are used to the looks/design of your domestic online store to navigate your website. It will be easier for them to find all the information they’re looking for.

Second, this solution is a real money saver: recreating the domestic store on different markets is much cheaper for sellers than creating whole new online stores from scratch.

One reason we can offer you this solution is translation proxy, a website localization technology we’ve recently integrated into our latest offering. This type of translation service utilizes proxy servers to render multilingual versions of a website.

There’s no extra translated website version as the proxy works as a layer. It removes the original text from the webpage and inserts the translated one from the translation memory on the fly. It’s a solution that’s both efficient and effective.

Benefits of our ecommerce localization solution

One of the greatest benefits of utilizing Glopal’s Online Stores is getting a localized website up and running very fast. It’s possible for the original language content to be replaced when your website is accessed by foreign-language users. They will see localized content that appears native to their location.

You will also profit from a better end user experience that goes far beyond rough machine translation.

At Glopal we localize many great stores, such as TRIMTUM, Shop Rich BoysCX London, Futureproof, Brothers We Stand, Shnoop, Nica Shooting, Go Wacky, or Fast Eddy Bearings.

Here are some further benefits of using the Online Stores localization solution.

Speed & time

It takes less time and resources to translate the website and usually it takes less time for the website to load. Instead of spending months preparing your site for localization, you can launch it in new locales within one week.

Flexibility

It handles frequent product updates easily, e.g. of item descriptions, prices, delivery, legal terms or when adding new items.

Cost-effectiveness

If you want to enter a number of new markets, even simultaneously, it’ll cost less and take less time without compromising on translation quality.

Ecommerce context

Descriptions & content are fully translated using our new translation engine, tailored to the ecommerce context.

Consistent brand building

Your existing store theme will be replicated across international markets in a consistent and exact way.

Reduced dependency on IT support

No need for internal development resources.

Full localization package & automation

We take care of all translation, price and size conversions, legals and even international shipping for those running online stores. Everything is automated so you can focus on your business strategy.

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How about SEO/SEM?

If you want to launch your online store on foreign markets, one of the challenges has to do with international SEO/SEM.

There are of course many solutions you can use, such as Google Translate. However, they’re unlikely to create standalone versions of your store that can be indexed by foreign language search engines.

Ecommerce localization technology provides you with an international version of your online store for each market that can be indexed by international search engines. It can also be used in foreign marketing campaigns.

Thus, you can generate organic search traffic. You will convert your existing international visitors, but you’ll also be able to attract even more new visitors.

In a nutshell

The greatest benefit of using an efficient localization solution is getting an up-and-running translated website very fast. Further, ecommerce-oriented localization provides a better end user (and buyer) experience, which will definitely impact your conversion rates.

There are probably (tens of) thousands of international buyers interested in your product. However, you must help all those buyers find your online store/ product pages and let them enjoy their purchase experience with you!

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Karolina Kulach

Karolina Kulach is a content marketer and non-fiction writer, specialising in global ecommerce and online sales trends. Educated in Linguistics (MA) and Business Studies (BA Hons). A well-travelled individual with international education & work experience gained in London, Scotland, Poland and Germany. In her spare time buzzing with creative content ideas, including funky rhyming poems.

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