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

[jarosciak]

Dave, your problem is that you do not listen to what your fans (I am still one of them, but not for long) have to say.

I offered to pay you for the script, to get rid of linking by sending a donation. And you are on and on about everything else, skipping and completely overlooking important topics like ridiculous implementation of your linking.

Guys, am I alone here? Or do you also find problems with Dave attitude?

[Dave Hybrid]

And you didn't listen to anything I said.

[Dave Hybrid]

My attitude? Your the one dictating that i take money to remove the link. I have to accept or you'll remove it anyway. That was not on offer, i added a discreet credit link, discreet not so you couldn't find it but so it didn't tarnish the look of anyones forum. If you didn't like what was on offer, don't use the product.

[jarosciak]

Dave,

translateflags.php has a problem with default language settings.

Line for English (my default language) is adding this code to the end of my existing English pages: "&hl=en"

This creates double posts, because, example:
forum.com/showthread.php?t=59894&hl=en
is the same thing as:
forum.com/showthread.php?t=59894

Google would recognize this as two different pages and eventually ban my site for duplicate posting.

THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM WHICH NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.

I've fixed this issue on my site already, by amending the line and getting rid of &hl=en references.

Dave, amend your code so your script doesn't get people's website banned or penalized by Google.

[Dave Hybrid]

Anyway, i tired of this, giving something away isn't meant to make me feel used all the time.

So, the update that I am testing that fixes the database errors and speed is not getting released, it's cost me hundreds to code and you're all so ungrateful.

The current version is only good for small 1k thread sites, as the db grows it grinds to a halt and crashes.

Happy now.

[Dave Hybrid]

Originally Posted by jarosciak

Dave,

translateflags.php has a problem with default language settings.

Line for English (my default language) is adding this code to the end of my existing English pages: "&hl=en"

This creates double posts, because, example:
forum.com/showthread.php?t=59894&hl=en
is the same thing as:
forum.com/showthread.php?t=59894

Google would recognize this as two different pages and eventually ban my site for duplicate posting.

THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM WHICH NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.

I've fixed this issue on my site already, by amending the line and getting rid of &hl=en references.

Dave, amend your code so your script doesn't get people's website banned or penalized by Google.

Banned hahhaha, more drama with you.

Google is smart enough to see this and just discount the duplicate, any SEO knows that, you noob.

You support it, you leech.

Whatever, im done, enjoy your buggy script.

[chris1979]

I can't believe anyone is complaining. This is a great idea which many people have wanted for a long time and Dave has made it work, and for free, and he's even here helping people for free too.

It's obvious that the condition for using the mod is that he wants a link, so either give him the link or don't use his mod. It's easy. Anyone who whines is just forgetting who did the work to make this mod available to us.

[Dave Hybrid]

It's over, dead, im not interested, i will never relese another thing. sorry.

[barcena]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

So your base language is Polish and when transalting to all other languages some polish words are skipped, correct.

What about on my test site going from english to polish, are the words correct?

http://www.blogboost.org/showthread.php?t=1&hl=pl

Thanks.

I'd translate the page into Spanish and the translation is not that good, of course, is a google translator, one of the phrases f.i shows the adults the best way to eat their kids, lol, but that's not a developer problem and I guess the meanng of this mod is not for people of other languages to actually post or participated from the forum but for indexes purposes.

As far as the special characters they are showig, like ? and accents ?, ?, etc.

I'm not criticizing, i'm trying to help out the developer, if we don't tell him what's going on he won't know.

[Dave Hybrid]

I posted a fix for this tonight, but due to some ungrateful ppl i have revoked the script and all support. Also, the version i was due to release in a few days was to fix the current bigger bug of speed, so, i would uninstall as the current version is no good and a new on is not coming.