GTranslate Reviews 

After having spent some time utilizing GTranslate's services for translating my website, I've come across some potentially detrimental practices that I feel need to be brought to the attention of potential users. It is my sincere hope that this review provides some valuable insight and helps fellow web administrators make an informed decision before opting for GTranslate.

When I first began using GTranslate, I was initially satisfied with its performance. The translation quality was decent, and it appeared to be a quick solution to making my website accessible to a broader audience. However, the issues arose a week into its use. To my dismay, I discovered that GTranslate had blocked the robots.txt file.

The implications of this are far-reaching. The robots.txt file plays a vital role in determining how search engine crawlers navigate your website. By blocking this, GTranslate essentially renders all your translated content unindexed. This means that all the content that was previously available and indexed by search engines will be removed from their listing. This can negatively impact your website's SEO ranking, making your content harder to discover organically by the international audience you were trying to reach.

One might wonder why GTranslate would implement such a practice. From my observations and understanding, it appears that this is an attempt by GTranslate to reduce the load on their servers. As users access the translated content, GTranslate's servers are hit with requests, potentially without them having a clear picture of the user profiles involved. While this is a logical server management strategy from their end, the ramifications for website owners are far from beneficial.

In my experience, the blocking of the robots.txt file resulted in significant losses in traffic and adversely impacted my website's visibility. This was far from the outcome I had envisioned when I decided to use GTranslate to make my site more user-friendly for non-English speaking audiences.

So, to any fellow website owners considering using GTranslate's services, I urge you to think carefully. While it might initially seem like a good solution for translation needs, the repercussions on your website's visibility and SEO are significant. If you're keen on maintaining your website's health and digital footprint, you might want to reconsider using GTranslate. It may save you a lot of trouble in the long run.

It's alright. If you want them all for free, and you are not bothered about super-accurate translations, it's the one to go for.

If you need 4-5 or so languages, it's ideal.
If you want that, but need to be able to edit one language, it's BAD.

We fell into a trap. Or what felt like a trap.
We paid for a monthly account, and edited Italian, but we got a warning when someone went to look in German and it threw an error about payment.

Yes - if you get the free one - you get them all.
If you pay, you LOSE them all, bar the one you want to edit the translation.

It's backward. Not impressed, but sticking with it... for now. But be warned!

Support is there on Livechat. This is ok.
But the pricing structure on further inspection, is really wrong.

All free.
ONLY ONE if you pay. Huh?

And so they got another one, one star.

Useless helpdesk service.

15 days trial - it was all about fixing bugs as the application is not ready to work instantly.

Then when they finally got it working I had to pay.

Did not have much of a trial like that. So I asked for an extensions as I want to experience first if it really is working properly.

They said 15 days trial is only for new subscribers.

Well TRIAL is a trial, time to use it and see how it all works....if the trial is not working you still owe me a trial so I can make an informed decission.

Total lack of service here. No wonder all those one star ratings.

Support is useless, sorry to say. When the question gets a bit technical, you get answers that are complete nonsense. Services work, but their support needs to get some serious technical understanding.

worst support ever. will not recommend this at all. their support does not have any technical knowledge at all.

I have found this to be helpful for messaging, optimization and marketing.

I have seen some pretty awful reviews which i find confusing. I ave used GTranslate for over a year and found it to be very effective, professional and solid. When I first set it up, Customer Service was in touch and helpful walking me through. I use this for clients as well as our main site as well. I find it to be a great tool, app and way to connect our messaging to other languages effectively.

platform has been hacked and compromised. Since 28 November i detected an attack, now i get porno links on my translations inside the platform, but the support did nothing about it.
Already i posted a lot of times, but support didn't fix it and simply ignore it.

The concept is good, but too many technical issues definitely cause more harm than good.

All of the translated subdomains are unavailble at least 50% of the time, causing your website to be penalized on Google Search, which makes this service harmful instead of being a way to attract foreign people from all around the world.

The Support Team is quick to answer, but rarely provides an effective solution to your problems, and they notice issues only if you report to them.

For example, if they happen to "forget" to update their SSL Certificates, and therefore all your subdomains lose HTTPS support, if you don't notify them about this, rest assured your translated pages will be unavailable forever, or at least until you check them.

As webmasters and content creators, we need efficient and stable systems, to focus on important projects, we can't waste our time checking the translated pages every day and spending time to contact the assistance all the time.

I'm sorry, but I have to tell people to stay way from gtranslate.io, it's completely unefficient and not technically prepared to prevent basic/common IT issues.

Review coming from a customer of gtranslate for over 5 years.

Premium Plan with wasted time customer service asking for access to FTP, not troubleshooting samples, not logs reviews etc...

technically inept- arrogant customer service and owners!