# AI translations + crawler indexing = any SEO payoff?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-translations-crawler-indexing-any-seo-payoff/406427
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**Tags:** content-localization
**Created:** [June 30, 2026, 12:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-translations-crawler-indexing-any-seo-payoff/406427 "2026-06-30T12:09:27Z")
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### Author: ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-translations-crawler-indexing-any-seo-payoff/406427/2 "2026-06-30T12:19:43Z")

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Hey there, great questions. Good thing I wrote a blog post about the experience - please have a read. I believe it would answer a lot of your questions

> **[What It's Actually Like to Use Discourse in Another Language](https://blog.discourse.org/2026/05/what-its-actually-like-to-use-discourse-in-another-language/)**
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> The real-world experience of the AI translation feature we shipped in 2025

Another thing, _there’s a small footgun I am going to fix this week_ - if you’re turning on the feature, besides enabling the settings listed above, please also enable `set locale from param`.

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