Having your website translated in different languages immediately helps you in reaching a wider audience and leveraging the versatile demography of the web. However, translating your content manually is not possible every time and certainly not possible if you have to translate it into say, 50 different languages. That is where the translation widgets are handy. It is also potentially helpful for reaching those users who set their browser preference to their native languages.

1. Google Translate:

The Google Translate provides bidirectional translation between 51 languages. It translates complete websites in and for individual in-line translations, provides a see-as-you type feature in its latest version.

2. Microsoft Translate

Still in beta, this service supports translation in 20 languages. The process again is simple. Just put in the URL in the box you want, select the source language and the one you want to and that’s it. You can further use other customizable features like enhancing the width of the page or adding some theme color. This same engine also works in Bing, MS Office and Bing. To embed this as a widget, you just need to paste your site’s URL in the “Site Address” field and then click on “Generate Code”.

There are a few other similar services, like the KAT Translator Widget and the  Kludgets’ Language Translator which support more than 41 languages to name a few.

However, the one thing to keep in mind while using any of these, or any other translation widgets, is that they provide machine translation. Hence, there is high probability that you will deliver some weird staff from time to time, especially if your writing style is beyond plain matter-of-fact.