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Originally Posted by KrisP

BTW: There is also the posibillity to generate default sitemap and then search/replace:

This is a much better way to do this.

I have a script that copies the vbseo_sitemaps and generates sitemaps for about 15 languages, moves them to their own subdirectories (one for each language) and then pings google after each one is updated.

From experience, the size of your forum makes a big (very big) difference in how you approach indexing translations in Google.

If you have a large forum with hundreds of thousands of post, you will hurt your traffic if you translate all languages and create sitemaps for all languages, because Google will not index all, and you will then have lots of links from low traffic languages.

It is better, for large sites, to only index the top 10 languages and definitely do not make all the flags viable or you will have less traffic than targeting the major languages with high Internet usage.