Thursday 20 October 2016

From 0 to €7,000/monthly: the beginning of the journey – Weglot blog (Weglot translate plugin)


Building Back in September 2015, Augustin and I had just met and Weglot was still a small project under development. At the time, WordPress was just a name that we had heard of but didn’t know anything about it.
Our focus was to build a JavaScript code that could change the language of a page. The idea was that you will just have to copy-paste a snippet of JS in your website and Weglot would add the language switcher and allow visitors to view your website in multiple languages.
We asked several friends and start-ups we knew to test it and their feedback was really positive at first. Some people asked us if we were available on WordPress and that is how we entered the WordPress world.
Thanks to our first user feedbacks, we quickly understood that the JavaScript snippet was not a good idea: It was not the best practice to create a multilingual website and it caused SEO problems so we stopped working on it. We found a clean solution for WordPress so we started focusing on it.
We worked hard until December to build a WordPress plugin that would be very simple to set up and powerful: a tool that follows the best practices for SEO, that’s fast and compatible with themes and plugins,
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/13676/from-0-to-7-000-monthly-the-beginning-of-the-journey-weglot-blog-weglot-translate-plugin




source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/from-0-to-e7000monthly-the-beginning-of-the-journey-weglot-blog-weglot-translate-plugin/

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