A friend of mine writes a blog in Spanish that I often wish I could make better sense of (mi Espanol est no bien - need more proof??).
His blog, which is running on Mephisto (he’s a big ruby fan), receives a good amount of english speaking traffic.
Results aside, going the Google translate route didn’t sound like an option because readers would initially be presented with the blog in the primary language which would probably turn off readers (non-Spanish speakers in this case) before they could find the translate button.
He found a Mephisto based solution that would allow him to maintain one blog and one database (very nice!) but unfortunately would require him to write two posts (less than nice); one in English and one in Spanish.
If you’re interested, his English blog, OnlineVortex is now up and running. More details on the multi-language experiment are forthcoming I’m sure. Read more about it and follow his progress here: Multilanguage Blog.
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Until then, widget it. Give your users an easy way to use google translater (put a little icon of their flag somewhere immediately visible).
This dork can help: http://trevorcreech.com/blog/2006/04/27/translate-widget/