Top Ten Best Practices for Building a Multilingual Website
“Can’t read, won’t buy.”
“Can’t read, won’t buy.”The title of a study of over 2,400 consumers sums up the appeal of a multilingual website: people simply prefer to buy from websites if they’re in their native language. Over half of the consumers surveyed for the study only shopped at sites in their own language, and among the ones who browsed sites in other languages, only a quarter felt comfortable making buying decisions. It is easy to see then why businesses would opt for multilingual websites: offering their services and products in more than one language is a way to expand their market enormously. (more…)
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