I’ve posted in a thread before that you can use a translator as a simple tool for avoiding duplicate content penalties.  I’ll give you two examples of doing this below.

Example #1 - This is an article I found about search engine optimization from a Chinese web site.  I directly translated it into English and here is the result.

Web site search engine optimization purpose

1, so that the various web sites can be quickly and easily search engine “for detectives” (in English called robot, bot or spider) to detect and record the data to the search engine system inside. Was detected by the number of pages, the more you search storage site information is also more. When the future searchers with search terms in the search engine information, search engines will have the opportunity to your feedback to searchers.

2, in accordance with the principles of search engine optimization of web pages, and the other to a large number of pages with the kind of the nature of competition, in a bid to the search engine to search a series of feedback to comply with the relevant contents of the site are in the forefront of the fight for position to Search to attract maximum attention and won the opportunity to visit the search.

Therefore, from the two complete sense, the search engine optimization search engine is in accordance with the principles and laws on the site content, site structure, site pages, the site labels, the site’s keywords and keyword density, site access, site The number of visits conducted by the most optimal design and improved so as to enhance visibility of site and competitiveness.

3, now the major search engines, the database included very large, making these search engines to register and get a good hope of becoming increasingly difficult position. Not just low-ranking also visit sites of the loss of even more serious with each other in a competitive disadvantage in the competition, the loss of more potential customers. Search engine optimization is the most direct ultimate goal is to obtain a search engine and search results included in the top, not only can bring about such a high number of visits, but also bring more potential customers, then the site site The PR value will be increased, the breadth of the site will be relatively high. This search engine will be ranked as the click rate stability and enhance sustained rise, and vice versa.

Example #2 - I translated this article from GettingMoreVisitors.com into Chinese and then back into English.  Here is the result:

On the RSS is very useful to regularly update the site, blog. People often feed readers to watch more than one site. Then, they really click visit the Web site, if a new post or update shows that the source of the RSS. How do they work… Basically, you just have a file on your server. Anyone who visits your site can tell them: “RSS reader” conduct inspections, and each time they use their readers. Therefore, it will download and display the contents of the document in its readers if they understand the content of reading.

It can also be used for things like the “Ten of the posts [blog]”, which can be displayed on other sites when they use PHP analytical RSS document and output, to the layout of their own.

I highly recommend feed burner as a free service to all of your feed. It provides tracking and statistical information and other services for your feed. If you’re running a blog, you really shooting itself in the foot if you do not provide an RSS feed.

Join feed from your own site and MyYahoo You can also give you a leg operation, the site allows you to retrieve. My hip-hop blog, and whether the use of RSS updates when I do so! 100 + is perhaps one day, when I have an update. So, ah, they do.

As you can see, the results are not very legible in the English language.  However, if legibility is not what you are going for and you are only after unique content for SE purposes and not for human purposes, this translating method might be a good idea for you!