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Website & App Localization Guides
The translation should fit the interface and the release process. For a website, readers need a language URL they can find and share. For an app, the strings need to work in the screen, not just in a spreadsheet.
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Follow the steps in order, or open the guide that answers today's question.
Choose a language and URL strategy
Decide which market the page serves, how people switch languages and how each version will be found. Changing visible text alone does not answer those questions.
Work with the content system you have
WordPress pages, a headless CMS and a React app have different extraction and release paths. Pick the approach that leaves the site maintainable.
Test the page and the file
Check placeholders, plural forms, links and right-to-left layouts. Review the actual checkout or onboarding screen before calling the release ready.
Keep reading
How to Translate a WordPress Site: 3 Ways Compared
Plugin, proxy or manual duplication. Each puts the translated content in a different place, and that decides your SEO and your maintenance forever.
Read the guide 4 min readHow to Translate a Next.js Site for Search Engines
Next.js is the easy case, because it renders on the server. The work is in routing, metadata and getting hreflang emitted correctly for most banks.
Read the guide 4 min readHow to Translate iOS .strings and .stringsdict Files
Two file types, one job. Strings handles the simple cases and stringsdict handles plurals, which is where most iOS localizations fall short as well.
Read the guide 4 min readRTL Layouts: Designing for Arabic and Hebrew
Right-to-left is a layout change, not a translation one. What mirrors, what must not, and the details that give away a flipped design to a native reader.
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A useful question
Does website translation make a page rank in another country?
Not automatically. Useful local content, crawlable language URLs, accurate metadata and internal links all matter. Language annotations help describe versions; they do not guarantee indexing or rankings.
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