I saw the WordPress Global Translator Plugin over on eJabs over a month ago and thought that it looked cool. That was about it. On March 4, I decided to plug it into my own blog. I didn't do it because I thought it was useful; I did it because I thought it would look cool.
Matthew Jabs recently wrote a post about his first Google AdSense payment and then followed it up later with another post about getting below the ranking of 100,000 on Technorati. Has he just been lucky?
Both posts forced me to sit back and analyze my own blog to see where my shortcomings are. Beside the fact that I just can't write, there should be another reason my website isn't growing in popularity as quickly as it should. After looking through my statistics and logs, I found it. It came up and slapped me across the head like I was a one-armed, red-headed stepchild.
Since I installed the plugin, the number of my readers who use the languages of French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Arabic has increased tremendously. I installed it almost a month after Matt did and his readership shows the difference.
