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If you have a site with subforums in different languages, then you will likely have encountered a problem with getting these forums indexed in the appropiate Google index. For example, if you have English set as your board language in vbulletin options, then your German sub-forum will not do well in google.de

To solve this I have written a simple conditional, that changes the lang=X html code on a per forum basis. The example below is for two languages besides the default language. You can add more languages, by repeating the code.

In SHOWTHREAD and in FORUMDISPLAY template, find:
PHP Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="$stylevar[textdirection]lang="$stylevar[languagecode]"
Replace with:
PHP Code:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="$stylevar[textdirection]<if condition="in_array($foruminfo['forumid'], array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5))">lang="X"><else />

<if 
condition="in_array($foruminfo['forumid'], array(6, 7, 8, 9, 10))">lang="Y"><else />lang="$stylevar[languagecode]"></if> </if> 
Do not forget to replace the forumID numbers with your forumID numbers.
To find your forumID's go to the forums that you want search engines to perceive as a different language and note down which number comes after /forumdisplay.php?f=

Do not forget to replace X and Y with the proper language codes. Here is an overview:
http://xml.coverpages.org/iso639a.html

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Old 02-02-2009, 10:25 PM
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do we need this if we use vbseo?
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I am not sure, because I do not have vbSEO. maybe someone that has vbSEO can explain this.
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Not work for vietnammese lang
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What code do you use for Vietnamese?
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Is there any condition to mark forum with several languages at the same time to index it f.expl at google.no and google.com simultaneously ??
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I'm not sure about that. Normally a page is only in one language. I did add comma separated variations of English to pages about a decade ago. I don't know if that would still work.
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