The marketing or web lead at a company whose site already exists in more than one language, or the developer who inherited it and now owns the tagsNot a localisation engineer shipping software strings and resource files, not somebody buying a translation service, and not a language learner
A site in four languages is not one site translated four times. It is four hundred and eighty pages, each of which exists or does not, is current or stale, and carries tags telling a search engine which reader it is for. The worksheets here work that out from your own numbers, free and without an account: the hreflang tags your pages and locales need, the return links they owe each other, and what translating the words is going to come to at your rate. Hreflangly Pro keeps the record afterwards, one row per page per locale.
Hreflangly Pro is $17 a month for the whole site, billed monthly.
How to translate a website
Map, size, keep
Google's own guidance is that each language version must list itself as well as all the others, and that a page X linking to page Y needs Y linking back. On a four-locale site that is a lot of links to be right about, and the map counts them.
Translation is quoted per word, so the difference between guessing and knowing is your page count times your average words times your locales. The scope sheet does that and takes the machine-translated share out of the human total.
The question that has no answer on most multilingual sites, because it lives in a spreadsheet somebody stopped updating. One row per page per locale, with a status and a date, is the whole of the paid product.
Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Pro keeps what the worksheets only size: the pages themselves, per locale, with their status and their history.
$17 per month, whole team
Hreflangly Pro is $17 a month for the whole site, billed monthly. Billed monthly. Cancel any time from your account page. Price and renewal terms are shown before checkout.