[Dave Hybrid]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

OK, I'll put that aside and change the subject.

Let's discuss Google indexing and translateflags.php.

If we assume that Google has limited resources to index a site, and that GoogleBot does not distinguish between the various language flags, then this seems to imply that it will be more efficient, and generate more search traffic, in the beginning of the translation process, to only expose the top ten or so Internet-language flags.

The reason for this is that if Google indexes all translation languages equally, Google will index languages with very small Internet-populations with the same priority of languages with high Internet populations.

So, unless I am wrong, which I could be it seems to indicate that to optimize search referral results, in the first month or two, a site should expose only the top 10 or so flags (from an Internet-usage perspective) and not expose the minor languages.

Is this how you see things as well?

If you want to throttle the release of the new translated pages then do it, personally i have added the lot and just let google decide what it likes and what it doesnt like.