Weglot handles the technical side of multilingual SEO automatically: URL structure, metadata translation, hreflang tags, indexing. What it does not decide is whether the wording itself reads well in each language, especially once you go past a handful of pages. That is where a glossary and a second pass matter.
What Weglot handles on its own
Weglot translates page titles, meta descriptions, alt text, and structures your URLs (example.com/en, example.com/fr) so search engines can index each language correctly. It also connects to WordPress, Shopify, and SEO plugins like Yoast without extra configuration. For the technical detail, see this Weglot SEO guide from Multilingual WP.
Where AI Glot fits
Weglot’s built-in AI translates every page the same way, at whatever quality the engine returns. That is fine for a small, stable site. For a large blog archive, a help centre, or product metadata, running the export through AI Glot first, then re-importing, gets you a workspace glossary applied consistently and a plan you approve before it runs. The two are not rivals: they cover different parts of the site.
- Quality is whatever the engine returns
- Corrections are made page by page
- Every new language runs on your CMS plan
- One plain-English instruction covers the whole export
- Your glossary applies to every row
- You approve a plan, with scope and cost, before anything runs
Making the export, refine, re-import routine work:
The round trip is a habit, not a one-off migration. These are the parts that decide whether it survives the third month.
- The re-import has to be an upload, not a repair job. Weglot matches rows back by their identifiers, so the file you send back has to arrive with its rows, its ordering and its untouched columns exactly as they left. Everything outside the translated scope comes back byte for byte, which is the difference between re-importing in a minute and reconciling a spreadsheet for an afternoon.
- Fix a section at a time instead of a page at a time. Correcting a term inside Weglot’s editor is per string and per page, so a vocabulary change across a help centre is an afternoon of clicking. In an export it is one pass over the whole set.
- The consistency problem is between exports, not inside one. Whatever you decided about your product names in March has to still hold in September, when a different person exports a different batch. A glossary belongs in the workspace for that reason: it is not attached to a job, so nobody has to remember it and nobody has to be available.
- Keep human review on top, and aim it. Send your homepage, your pricing page and your legal text to a native translator. Run the blog archive, the help centre and the metadata through AI Glot. Reviewing the second group is then a choice about risk, not a rescue.
Setting it up
- Install Weglot on your site and configure your source and target languages. See Weglot’s integration guide.
- Send your homepage, pricing, and legal pages to a human translator. That is usually 5-10% of a site’s content, and it is where mistakes cost the most.
- Export everything else as CSV (Weglot’s Advanced Plan or above), run it through AI Glot with your glossary applied, and re-import.
- Repeat step 3 whenever you publish new content or add a language.
For the SEO side of this setup, see our guide to multilingual SEO.
Conclusion
Weglot’s automatic engine and technical SEO setup cover most of the work. A glossary and a second pass through AI Glot cover the rest, for the content where wording quality actually matters: blog archives, help centres, product metadata. Try AI Glot, or read more on Weglot’s site.