List Your Translation Company: A Complete Guide to a Profile That Brings Clients

Translation is bought locally and delivered globally. A client in Jeddah searching for a certified office, a procurement officer in Cairo looking for a technical translation vendor and a law firm in Dubai that needs a contract tomorrow all behave the same way: they search, they open three or four pages, and they write to the ones that answer their question on the page itself.

That is what a directory listing is for. This guide walks through listing a translation company on Translation Centers — the fields, the plans, the review and the things that decide whether a page produces enquiries or sits idle.

What a listing gives you

A company page on this site is a permanent, bilingual page in English and Arabic that appears on the landing pages for everything you do: your country, every city where you have an office, every language you work in and every service you offer. It also carries a contact form, so a client can write to you without leaving the page, and — on a paid plan — attach their project files.

In short: you fill in structured facts once, and the directory turns them into pages that clients actually search for.

Read also: The Translator Profile That Wins Projects: What to Write and What to Prove

Free or Professional

The Free listing has no time limit — it is not a trial. The Professional plan is paid once a year and current prices are on the subscription page. If you want the reasoning behind the two tiers, for translation companies explains it in short.

Read also: Translation Office Management Software: What It Should Do Before You Buy One

How to get listed, step by step

1. Create the company account

Start the three-step wizard at list your company. Each step must be complete before the next one opens, which is deliberate: a half-filled page helps nobody.

Use the company's official e-mail address. Free mailboxes (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and the like) are refused for company accounts, and the e-mail and website you publish on the listing must be on the same domain as the account address. You also confirm the address with a six-digit code, and tick a box confirming you are authorised to represent the company. This rule exists so that clients can trust a company page — and so nobody can publish a page in your name.

2. Fill in the details that clients filter by

• Offices. One entry per branch, with the city. This is what puts you on the city pages — the pages with the strongest local intent.
• Languages. Every pair you genuinely deliver. Be honest here: a client who finds you under Japanese and then hears "we don't do Japanese" does not come back.
• Services. Pick from the ten service categories — certified translation, legal documents, medical reports, technical manuals, software localization, website translation, simultaneous and consecutive interpretation, contract translation and general translation.
• Description. Two short paragraphs, in both languages if you can. Say what you specialise in, who your typical clients are and what makes you different in one concrete sentence — not "we provide high-quality translation services".
• Contact details. A number that is answered during business hours, and an address a client can actually visit if you have a counter.

3. Submit for review

Our team reviews every submitted page before it is published, and may contact you to confirm details. A company listing cannot be approved until the owner's e-mail address is verified.

4. Keep it alive

A listing is not a monument. Update it when you add a language, open a branch or earn a certificate. Each page shows how many times it has been opened, so you can see whether your market is finding it.

Already listed? Claim the page

Our editorial team built much of the directory from public sources, so your company may already be there. Find it in the companies directory, open the page and use the claim option. Claims are checked: the account e-mail must be on the domain of the website or e-mail already published on that listing. Once the claim is approved, the page — and any plan on it — moves to your account.

Turning visits into enquiries

A listing is the top of a funnel, not the whole of it. Three things decide the conversion:

1. Answer the obvious question on the page. Most enquiries begin with "do you do X for Y?" If your page answers that, the client writes. If not, they open the next page.
2. Reply fast. Translation enquiries are usually urgent. The first credible reply with a clear price and a deadline wins a surprising share of the work.
3. Quote completely. Say what is included — review, formatting, certification, printed copies, revisions — because that is where quotes really differ. Our guide on how translation offices price per page and per word covers how to build a quote that is comparable and still profitable.

If you also want client requests to come to you rather than the other way round, a Professional plan sends you an alert when a client posts a request matching your languages and services, and you can quote for it per language.

For the office behind the listing

A listing brings the work in; the office has to deliver it. If orders, deadlines, freelancers, certified copies and payments are still tracked in spreadsheets and notebooks, our management software for translation offices was built for exactly that: orders priced from your own price list, a production board for each document, a certified-translation register with sequential numbers, invoices, receipts and a daily cash drawer — with a private database per office. See running a certified translation office for how the two fit together.

Common mistakes

• Listing only "translation" as a service. You disappear from every specific search, which is where the paying intent is.
• Leaving the Arabic (or English) description empty. Half the traffic reads the other language.
• A free mailbox as the company e-mail. It will be refused — and it also costs you client trust.
• One office entry for a company with four branches. You lose four city pages.
• No one watching the inbox. Alerts and forms are worthless if nobody answers them within the day.

Ready to start? List your company, or read how clients use the directory first — it is the same page you are about to write, seen from the buyer's side.