If you don't understand what you are posting or talking about then why post it?

First you mention link consensus and now duplicate content, with NO facts.

Stop spreading your FUD. None of these issues apply here.

Now you tell me to run along and ask them? You do it if your concerned, didn't you already? I don't have any doubts so I will pass on asking their advice thanks, they know SEO no better than anyone else.

How can translated pages be duplicate? They are original content, translated, so are still original and no different to your current content, except in various other languages, it's not rocket science.

Link consensus is the theory that by linking to junk pages you are wasting link juice, junk pages are things like tag pages, contact pages etc. Not thread pages, these are content rich and should be included in you site above anything else.

I have been doing SEO 5+ years, own vBSEO and have been using this MOD years too. I get 10,000's of visits daily from it.

Clearly you have been around 5 minutes, this idea has been used for years, there are countless wordpress versions, amongst others, from many other coders. Just because this is new to you and as a vB plugin doesn't mean it hasn't been around ages and tested to death.

Where are your facts? Where is your evidence to backup your claims?

Hey Dave are you always this arrogant?

You're doing your self a dis-service

So just because I don't agree with you I'm arrogant?

I'm just stating my case, you questioned my MOD and stated yours, so then it is my go no?

That's how a discussion/debate works.

Next time I suggest you research your claims before stating them, otherwise you do yourself a dis-service also, right now ppl with even the smallest amount of SEO knowledge are pointing at you, and laughing.

Kind regards.

Ok, so I took the plunge and the translation is working.

I have had to disable it for now though as every translation takes 30 seconds. Great mod though :)

Because translation has to be sent to the Google Translate API and then stored in the MySQL DB it takes a small amount of time first time.

So second page load is fast, as your site gets cached, page load speeds become a non-issue.

Hi,
i think this is no duplicated content, as long as you take out your own language.

So “?hl=en” should be working but if Google recommend “/en/” this might be better.
Try to work together with the Stuff of vBSEO and try to figure out how to add some rules for that Mod to meet the Google recommendations. My experiences are, that they have a really good support.
Christian

Ok, thanks for the explanation :)

With nearly 200,000 indexed Google pages I guess that'll take a while... lol!

Cheers.

I was talking on the Google message boards and they said that different languages doesn't count as duplicate content :)

This guy has a 2k alexa rank and is running the wordpress version.

Probably getting anything around 100,000 visits a day.

100,000's of indexed translated pages too.

Clearly they are not complaining.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/

Right, but imagine you added 1000,000's of normal threads overnight, these would take months to index too, so it's no different.

You install the mod and leave it, it takes no work, what is there to lose exactly? :)