Language Translation for Your Web Site

While I'm sure it doesn't translate perfectly, this handy-dandy Google tool uses machine translation to allow those who don't speak your language to translate your pages into theirs.

Spanish speaking? Here's CD WebMaker in Spanish.

This is especially important if you sell or provide ANYTHING to other than English speaking customers. Tourism? Travel? Advertising? Any kind of goods you're willing to ship overseas?

While I know that small businesses can't afford to pay an in-house translator to write separate versions of their site, they can at the least put a link to their Google translated page on their site.That way, 'foreign' visitors and searchers don't have to do all the work of finding your site, then going to the Google tool to translate. After all, perhaps the very next search result will offer mulit-language pages.