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#BlabbingTranslators on websites for translators feat. @RusTranPro Season 1, Episode 9
Hey guys,
Here’s a recap and recording of one of our recent blabs with Simon Akhrameev.
Simon is a native Russian translator offering website & app translation services, specializing in technical, legal, and marketing translations. Simon is the author of russiantranslator.pro – blog about freelance translation business.
In 2010, Simon graduated from Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in Bishkek with a Specialist Degree in Linguistics. He started his translation career in 2007 as a freelance translator, then worked as a full-time technical translator in gold mining company. Since 2013 he shifted back to freelancing.
In this blab we’re talking about websites for translators and cover such topics as:
- Choosing domain name for your website;
- Finding a reliable hosting provider;
- WordPress content management system;
- Finding and choosing WordPress themes (free vs. paid);
- Promoting your website;
- SEO;
- Content marketing and blogs;
- Email marketing;
- Social media marketing;
…and much more!
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Useful links:
Hosting sites:
– Bluehost
WordPress Tutorials for beginners
How to create and grow blogs: www.problogger.net
Nice blog with blogging tips coschedule.com
Blog about analytics and marketing: blog.kissmetrics.com
Premium themes and plugins: Elegantthemes.com, Themeforest.net
Keyword search tools: Keywordtool.io, Adwords
Google webmasters: tools for webmasters. Track your site’s search performance with Google Search Console and browse around for Google Webmasters support, learning and community resources.
Google analytics – Get the data you need to make intelligent marketing and business decisions with Google Analytics
New training website for translators by Simon: http://successfulfreelancetranslator.com/
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Jasmine Heesaker 
Thanks for the post, Dmitry!
You’re welcome, Simon! It was a real pleasure to blab with you about website, you know how passionate I am about this topic 🙂 I think we shared a lot of valuable tips and I hope this blab will help our fellow translators who’re just starting out with web-development.