Why it matters
Google's spam policies count generating many pages mainly to manipulate rankings, with little or no value to users, as scaled content abuse however they are made, and list automated translating of scraped content among the examples. Said at Search Central Live: whether machine-translated content is acceptable depends on the case, after weighing translation quality, local conventions such as date formats and calendars, and cultural adaptation.
How to meet it
Route translation plug-in and CMS auto-translate output through a review workflow before publishing: a native speaker checks the text, and dates, calendars, units, currencies and examples are adapted to the market. Keep unreviewed versions unpublished or noindexed, and do not generate a language version for every market by default.
How to test it
Every published language version has a reviewer and a review date recorded in the CMS, and no auto-translated page is indexable before review.
How Regensbot covers it
Regensbot proposes a verdict with the evidence; a person on your team confirms it.
The evidence comes from a crawl of your site. Where content needs judging, Claude proposes the verdict as an assistant judge and never fails a page on its own.
The crawl is polite: sitemap first, one request per second per host. A problem it finds is definite, and “none found” passes only on a complete crawl.
Sources
Google documents01
Claims in the knowledge base05
- D2-C611SourceFocusing on Internationalisation and LocalisationGoogle's documentation
- D2-C608UndocumentedFocusing on Internationalisation and LocalisationSaid on stage
- D2-C612n/aFocusing on Internationalisation and LocalisationThe author's interpretation
- D2-C692n/aDeciding what goes in the index?The author's interpretation
- D2-C610UndocumentedFocusing on Internationalisation and LocalisationSaid on stage
Claim IDs refer to the Search Central Live 2026 knowledge base. The knowledge base (opens in a new tab)
- Undocumented
- Said or shown at the event, not in the documentation.
- Source
- The claim is the cited document itself.
- n/a
- Nothing to verify: a quotation, framing, opinion or analysis.