Website localization
A localization service quotes you per word, per market, per round of review. Proxylang is the tool underneath that work: it localizes your existing site into 68+ languages, and hands you the controls for everything a machine should not decide on its own.
Free for your first 2,000 words. No card, no sales call.
Localization is not one job. These are its parts, split by who should be doing each one.
| Part | Handled for you | Under your control |
|---|---|---|
| Page text | Every visible string is translated with the whole page as context, so a word is rendered the way its sentence uses it. | Any string can be corrected in the dashboard, and your version is what visitors see from then on. |
| Brand and product terms | Terms you pin are carried through untouched in every language, including inside longer sentences. | You build the glossary. It is the single most useful thing to set up before launching a language. |
| Metadata and alt text | Meta titles, meta descriptions, link titles, form labels and image alt text are all translated, not just the body copy. | Override any translated title or description per language when the automatic one is not the one you want to rank with. |
| Right-to-left languages | Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu are laid out right-to-left rather than having their text swapped inside a left-to-right layout. | Check your own custom components. Anything positioned with fixed pixel offsets is worth a look after you switch a language on. |
| Search visibility per market | Each language gets its own indexable URL, matching hreflang tags, and its own entries in the sitemap, from the Start plan. | Submit the sitemap in each market’s search console. Naver in particular needs a guided one-time setup. |
| Text inside images | Alt text is translated for every image automatically. | Text painted into the image itself is translated for the images you opt in, one attribute per image, and cached per language after that. |
Four things a localization agency sells that no translation layer should claim, ours included.
Numbers in your page are preserved exactly, not recalculated. If you want to sell in local currency, that belongs in your store or billing system, and Proxylang will translate whatever it outputs.
German runs roughly a third longer than English and Japanese runs shorter. We do not redesign your components to absorb that, and we do not commission market-specific photography. Both are design work.
Terms, privacy notices and anything with regulatory weight are translated accurately, but an accurate translation is not a legal review for that market. Have a person sign those off.
De vertaling is goed genoeg om te publiceren en is consistent. Het is geen lokale copywriter die je positionering voor die cultuur herschrijft. Als een markt belangrijk genoeg is, huur er dan een in en plak hun bewoordingen in als een override.
De praktische aanpak die de meeste teams kiezen: laat elke taal door de tool lopen, kijk welke markten daadwerkelijk verkeer genereren, en investeer menselijk kapitaal in de twee die dat doen. Bekijk hoe elke taal presteert op het gebied van meertalige SEO, en hoe de pagina's in de eerste plaats de zoekmachines bereiken via de translation proxy-pagina.
Website-lokalisatie is het aanpassen van een site zodat deze werkt voor een specifieke markt, en niet alleen het vertalen van de woorden. Het omvat de teksten, de metadata die zoekmachines lezen, de leesrichting voor talen zoals Arabisch en Hebreeuws, de termen die je nooit wilt veranderen, en het geven van een eigen adres aan elke taal zodat deze gevonden kan worden. Vertaling is één onderdeel van lokalisatie; een gelokaliseerde site is een site waar een bezoeker in die markt nooit tegen hindernissen aanloopt.