Miscellaneous Hacks - vB Global Translator - Multiply your indexed pages & put search traffic on autopilot

vB Global Translator

Note - There are 2 versions of this script depending on your setup. This script is compatible with users running standard vBulletin and vBSEO only and all vB release versions. If you cannot install this I am more than happy to answer support questions.

So what does this do?

vB Global Translator automatically translates your forum into 28 other languages via the Google translate API, stores those translations in a MYSQL database then rewrites new URLs so you end up with 28 new pages for every current page.

So, if you have 10,000 pages, this MOD will translate those pages into 28 languages making a total of 280,000 pages in 28 languages. This results in a flood of international traffic and referrals from the search engines. If you are getting 1,000 visits a day from your 10,000 pages imagine how many referrals you will get from 280,000 pages!

The current languages this MOD works with are all supported by AdSense so you can expect your income to rise accordingly. I have this running on a 20,000 page forum and after a few months I have more than doubled my search engine traffic.

How do I Install?

Note - Please make sure you have CURL enabled on your server, it will be listed in you php.ini file. If in doubt ask your host.

First download the relevant package below for your setup.

Next you need to add a new MySQL database to your domain to store the translated pages. Open the database in phpmyadmin or similar and import the db.sql file to install the database tables. Once you have done that you need to select the 'wt_cache' table on the left then 'operations' from the top menu and change the storage engine to InnoDB, then click Go.

Add your new database details to translate.php then, if your forums base language is different to English, change your country code. Otherwise ignore this step.

Find:

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Change en to:

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Next save translate.php and upload that, translateflags.php and overloadcache.txt to your forum root, so if your forums are in a /forums/ folder upload these files there. Upload the flags folder to your domain root, thats the domain root.

CHMOD overloadcache.txt to 777

In your vBulletin admin panel add a new plugin with the following settings.

Hook Location: global_complete
Title: vB Global Translator
Execution Order: 5
Plugin PHP Code:

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Save the plugin and activate.

In your vBulletin admin panel add another new plugin with the following settings.

Hook Location: global_start
Title: vB Global Translator Flags
Execution Order: 5
Plugin PHP Code:

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Save and activate.

Finally add the code below to your template so the flags to select languages appear. This is typically the header, navbar or footer so that they display on every page.

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Load Issues:

This script is can be quite server intensive for large sites. As you are adding links to all of these new pages from all of your current pages the search engine bots will crawl these 1,000's of new pages fast. As the MySQL trys to deal with the many, many translations and querys I have seen my server load spike a bit.

To combat this we have written in a condition that if server load is more than 1.5, the cache setting will disable and pages will be read live from the Google API and no database writing will take place.

If you feel this setting too high/low you can change it by finding the variable below in translate.php and editing accordingly. The only reason to change this is if - A) You are on a slow server and it is overloaded/crashing or B) You have a very fast server and it can handle more, this will mean your site will get fully cached faster resulting in faster page load times when people re-visit the translated pages.

if(floatval(getServerLoad()) >= 1.5)

One final thing to remember is while your site is being cached and data written to the new database read access times to already cached pages may vary. Uncached pages need to be translated and this can take time when translating a fresh page. Cached pages may load fast or slow depending on whether your server is under load or not as when under load read access from the database is disabled. You just need to be patient and wait until your site is fully cached which will vary between site size, server spec and how often search bots crawl your pages.

Please rate and click install

THANK YOU!

Version History:

v1.7

* Removed ioncube encryption to bring script inline with vBulletin.org rules

v1.6

* Fixed nofollow block on flag links for users with vbseo sites
* Fixed adsense ads showing for translation services etc. by adding section targeting ignore tags

v1.5

* Fixed database speed issues by using InnoDB instead of MyISAM
* Code encrypted with ioncube

v1.0

* Script base version

[Sweeks]

I was having the problem with open_basedir but thats no longer the problem and I now have the same problem as the hilfe forum guy where it is just a blank page, gonna try the tweak mentioned above and see if it works.

[Dave Hybrid]

Sorry, but I only support users whom don't remove credit links. This script took a lot of time and money to code and I give it away for free. Frankly, it's an insult.

[Sweeks]

Try stating that you stick a credit link in the middle of all the languages upon installation in your thread and that you dont want it to be removed, also try mentioning that you wont support anyone who removes it in there too.

You never said we need to keep it there or had any comments saying please keep in place etc

Will you please support me with this as you stated this mod is supported and frankly, the support is conditional.

[Dave Hybrid]

Wow, the front on you.

You knew dam well when you removed the credit that you were removing something intended to stay, why else would I include it?

Conditional support? LOL, it's a free product. No I will not support you. I suggest you uninstall.

[Sweeks]

If you never wanted it to be removed you could have said so like I said above. I am asking for support as you have marked this as supported.

[Dave Hybrid]

As I said, you removed the credit and you knew what you were doing when you did it. I still supported you and dropped a big hint I wasn't happy, then you ask for support again and you still hadn't added the credit back. It's too late now, I gave you the chance to fix it.

[Sweeks]

Well I think this is a joke as most people who make mods have in their code that you should not remove their link and if you want to you need to pay such and such amount, you never once stated that, so no actually, I didnt know I wasnt allowed to remove it seen as you had never said so.

It is okay thanks, I would rather not have your kind of support. In future a little tip for you, try commenting in your code that the link should not be removed or mentioning it in your thread like a lot of other coders do and you wont have so many removing it.

[Dave Hybrid]

So many? It's just you mate, everyone else isn't a leech.

[Sweeks]

I know two other forums with this mod and the middle flag isnt there so obviously is isnt just me who removed the link. Honestly if your code was commented where the link was I wouldnt have removed it. It is pointless arguing about this.

Thank you for the modification as it works really well on the right setup

[Dave Hybrid]

People like you and them would remove it anyway, it just the way you are.