How to Translate a Squarespace Website
A website that only speaks one language limits which customers your client can reach. Weglot removes that limit, offering customers in different markets a customized user experience in a variety of preferred dialects.
Weglot can translate a Squarespace website into more than 110 languages while keeping the original version live. It’s built to preserve SEO and AEO across every translated page.
Squarespace and Weglot team members share how to simplify site translation on Squarespace with Weglot.
Save time with automated translation
Weglot connects to a version 7.1 Squarespace site from the Settings panel, under Language & Region. Once connected, its AI translates existing content automatically, and you can still edit and translate by hand, collaborate with clients or teammates on the wording, or order professional translations for pages that need more polish. The free plan covers up to 2,000 words in one additional language; while paid plans start at 10,000 words.
Once a language is live, Weglot updates every translated page automatically, so there’s no need to rebuild the site for each new language. If a client runs more than one site, you can manage every translation from a single Weglot dashboard.
When it comes to handing off the site, you can invite your client into the Weglot dashboard as a Manager or Translator so they can review copy, or transfer the project to them once the project is complete.
Get discovered with better SEO
Weglot builds SEO into every translation automatically. It adds hreflang tags, and it translates metadata and image alt text, which you can then edit for new market keywords. Each translated language also gets its own subdirectory or subdomain, which Google recommends in order to crawl and find those pages.
The same structure carries over to AEO. Because each translated page has its own indexable URL, clean metadata, and hreflang signals, an AI-powered search engine like ChatGPT or Google’s AI Overviews can surface it in the searcher’s own language.
Start translating today
A multilingual site puts your client’s business in front of customers who couldn’t read it before, without requiring a second site to maintain. Since translations start as machine output, work with your client to review key pages, like the homepage, before publishing to ensure they still sound like their brand.
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This article was originally published on November 23, 2022. It has since been updated.
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