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Does being a translator help with multilingual SEO? I assume as one works only in their mother tongue, translation skills wouldn't be that important, really?
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Good translators with the ability to write fluently for the target audience may offer seo/translation services in more than one language
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I have been told by someone else had SEW, that there was a good market for translators with a solid background in SEO. Is there any truth to this?
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Yes.
Content translated properly is highly important but you should also take into consideration other factors like link building, Technical issues, kw research, structure etc.
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What would a translator with a background in SEO do and why would they need SEO skills if they do mostly translation work (I assume mostly for KW research?). Maybe somebody here works in such a role?
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A good SEO translator will write a title, a page description and page content (call to action) as good as a native copywriter + help with the log/stat analysis (a great one would do more).
I do some SEO in foreign languages and doing it in a language I know nothing about is hard. The difference between working with someone who is fluent with the language and the target audience and someone who isn't may be enormous.
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How did everyone else here get their SEO career started?
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1999. managed a big Israeli web site and saw a lot of free traffic from an anonymous referral - AltaVista.com, hunting organic results ever since.