SEO those translations... please!

When we are dealing with the translation of marketing materials for the Web, such as press releases, features analysis, and usage tutorials, one of the prime priorities to bear in mind is the proper usage of particular keywords in text titles, subtitles, headers and associated tags. This is a legitimate and wise method to ensure the webpage in which the text will be included ranks high in particular websearch engines, such as the ravishing popular "word-magnet & SEO-nemesis" Google.

This is one of the strategies to bring value into the translation process and must be brought into different types of websearch optimization, consider, for instance, news search, local search, video search, and audio search. Translation for SEO must bear in mind the way search engines deploy their results and the search preferences of the target audience, which includes the words or terms used as well as the preferred search engines.

Careful and persistent work is always involved when dealing with a team of translators and designers so that no detail is forgotten while keeping content open for search engines. An example we like using is the huge void left inside PDF files, so many fields to add information which will help sort and rank your document, we are talking about fields, such as, base URL, title, author, subject, keywords, description, copyright status, and others, and all of these are accelerators for page views and website ranking...

In any case, keep an open and proactive approch towards search engine optimization while you translate or proofread texts and documents for the Web, even if there's no SEO manager to offer you guidelines and a sense of priorities for words...

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Subtitling project: territorial marketing video for a Portuguese municipality

This is our most recent project for translation and subtitling, but we also intervened to some extent in the production of this documentary. In this case the video piece is over 28 minutes long and features a medium-sized Portuguese municipality (something like 50.000 inhabitants in 350 km2) in central Portugal. The original language is Portuguese.

Check it for yourself!

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Making yourself seen in the midst of a crowd is not at all that easy. Try to etch in your mind a huge squre full with people - in this case translators or wannabe translators - all of them waving a sign telling the language pairs they work with. The client goes to a balcony equipped with binoculars watching out for the right person...  How to sort the right professional for that urgent translation in order to close the contract? Now imagine you try to go local with this type of search! It's the needle in the haystack...

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We take this opportunity to talk about Translation with Colour® and about the work we love to do, that is, translation! Now also at Thumbtack.com: Translation with Colour


We are on-schedule, ethical, reliable and cost-effective.

We translate the following language pairs and directions:
» Spanish to English,
» Spanish to Portuguese,
» Portuguese to French,
» Italian to Portuguese,
» Italian to English,
» Italian to French,
» French to Portuguese,
» Portuguese to English,
» English to Portuguese,
» English to French,
» French to English.

We have over 20 years' experience in translating corporate, business-to-business and institutional documents in 5 different languages. Job completion targets are based on method and discipline towards client’s needs. Corporate assignments are completed, keeping in mind the global market and the desired outcomes for the client, so that our services bring value to the organization from a cost-effective point of view.

Our translation experience encompasses documents such as operating agreements, company registration documents, contracts, import certificates, bank letters, resolutions, certificates of authority, government documents, bid applications for funding, and other legal and administrative documents. Our writing and translating activity is indeed very diverse, as it also includes software localization, audio transcription and translation, video subtitling (captions), contents production and localization, in text types such as press releases, reports, blog entries, text rewriting, and other.

Consider us for all your needs related with our working languages for translation, proofreading, subtitling, article (re)writing.

We are on-schedule, ethical, reliable and cost-effective.