Translating content = duplicate content?

[built]

So was thinking of translating my content into different languages to try bring in a bit more search results. I mean it couldnt hurt right? Or will it kill my site?

I recently used http://siteliner.com and it came back with 66% duplicate content thanks to all my tags and categories. So had to fix that up by nofollow and noindex.

Now will i get the same problem if I translate my content?

 

[Stephen]

You can mark your content up with using tags to tell the search engines that the pages are different translations, here you go https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en

 

[emp]

Languages should not hurt your site, a lot of times, they don't add a lot of traffic, though.
They do add a lot of headaches.

As for your other point (tag and category pages)
As a rule that many don't know:

A post should have 1 (at most 2) categories.
Use as many tags as you'd like on a post.​

Some people recommend de-indexing your tag and category pages, I don't.
http://studentduniya.in/deindex-categories-tags-pages-wordpress-blog/
http://www.9to5blogger.com/noindex-remove-wordpress-categories-and-tags/391/

I recommend sprucing them up instead.
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/cool-wordpress-category-pages/
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-tag-page/

::emp::

 

[CCarter]

I also never noindex tags and categories, it interrupts the flow of juice, meaning the flow of how google understands you pages.

And no, translated content is not duplicate. It just might not work out the way you want like @emp stated.

And if you are going to translate it, please god, don't use software, you need a native to do it. You know the feeling, the pissed off feeling, you get when you read garbled engrish, that's the feeling your international crowd will get when you use software in an attempt to translate your content - bad for longterm branding. Do it right or don't bother.

 

[Ryuzaki]

I also never noindex tags and categories, it interrupts the flow of juice,

You can have "noindex, follow", which tells spiders to crawl regardless of indexing. I'm of the opinion that Google measures more than just wants in the index or they'd have a very inaccurate link graph and difficulty spidering more and more of the web.

My approach is to only allow the 1st page of each category to be indexed. category/1/. category/2/ does not get indexed but still is crawled and juice still flows (according to my theory anyways).

I agree about sprucing up the category pages as well. You can add unique content to them (and none to page 2/3/4/5, etc) and help them become legit landing pages with high ranking potential, as opposed to just crappy pages full of excerpts.

As far as translating content just for SEO traffic. Eh. What you could do is make a category just for "spanish" articles and get a writer to write unique ones. I personally wouldn't bother at all. You don't need to take over the world to succeed, and this kind of thing will just make you over reach and spread yourself too thin to where it's exactly whats keeping you from winning.