Open Data: Performance
Having a reliable service is very important to us—we don’t ever want for someone to reach for Gengo and encounter errors, or wait too long for a page to load. For this reason, our most recent public Open Data release highlights two numbers important to our platform: How often our site and A...
How three website localization methods impact SEO
While you can localize your website in a number of different ways, each method significantly changes how your site is crawled by popular search engines like Google and Bing. With all of the different methods out there, how do you choose one that’s convenient, but SEO-friendly? Explore the p...
Three ways to improve your ecommerce translation ROI
Is going global worth it? When it comes to your translation return on investment (ROI), there are a number of factors involved. Did translating improve traffic? Did it grow revenue? Did it boost customer engagement, satisfaction or reduce some sort of cost, like customer support needs? Whatever y...
Translated user reviews are a gold mine for ecommerce
Amazing conversion rates. Better customer engagement. Better retention and loyalty. For all of the traditional marketing and advertising your team does, user-generated content like reviews and comments is doing a lot of heavy lifting for you (or can, if you let it). For online shoppers, reading r...
Faces of Gengo: Justin
Acting on a whim, Justin started taking Japanese classes while at university. His teacher encouraged him to spend one year in Japan, and now, many years later and fluent in the language, this Face of Gengo translates from Japanese to English to help maintain proficiency. Hailing from the US, Just...
Essential tips for global ecommerce in the holiday season
For ecommerce companies, the holidays call for extra care with shipping and logistics. Global companies like Amazon, Alibaba and Rakuten are already expanding seasonal staff and preparing for an avalanche of holiday orders through their platforms and marketplaces—UPS alone plans to hire upwards o...


