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

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[NLP-er]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

It looks like google has been indexing my translated pages. I noticed a strange thing though; google is starting with non-thread pages. Does this mean googlebot isn't sticking around long enough to index the thread pages?

Google is a mystery

[exploitersteam]

Originally Posted by NLP-er

Hello Cahe issues are my part here Just please find in translate.php:

/* 
  if (!mysql_ping()) {
    mysql_close();
    establishConnection();
  }
*/

And uncomment it (remove /* and */). Error will disspear

Dave - please correct it in next release - DON'T - see post below

Thank You NLP-er,

Actually what happened was that in the hosting for some reason they were blocking the url http://ajax.googleapis.com* and consequently i was receiving that error. See below the example:

[forum]$ curl http://ajax.googleapis.com
curl: (7) couldn't connect

Now they fixed that blocking page i can connect to the specific url

But, thank you anyway and i hope this tip be useful for anyone that could face the same problem.

Thank You very much.

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

It looks like google has been indexing my translated pages. I noticed a strange thing though; google is starting with non-thread pages. Does this mean googlebot isn't sticking around long enough to index the thread pages?

You can help manage this by setting your both priority and update frequencies in your Google Sitemaps. You can set your threads a higher priority than posts, etc.

Our experience is that Google does tend to follow their own Sitemap standards, but you have to use them and use them wisely :-)

[Dave Hybrid]

Originally Posted by exploitersteam

Hello Dave,

The MOD was working for 2 days and now i'm receiving this error:

Query to short cache failed: MySQL server has gone away


Do you have any idea what is this error?

Thank You,

Marcelo

You only get those emails as the first time you translate a BIG page it times mysql out, no error actually occurs, mysql just sends an email warning.

Your forum users notice nothing, at all, it's just an email and once your site is fully translated they go away to a point.

[Dave Hybrid]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

It looks like google has been indexing my translated pages. I noticed a strange thing though; google is starting with non-thread pages. Does this mean googlebot isn't sticking around long enough to index the thread pages?

Google considers pages closer to the domain root as more important, so that is why those pages get indexed 1st.

[yahoooh]

Originally Posted by NLP-er

Hi As I see mod creates appropriate lins, but clicking clicking vbSEO is rediredting to url without hl param. You can see it by copying adress from flag image - there is hl param. But when you paste it to broswer and send, then hl pram dissapears.
I think that vbSEO makes 301 redirect. Talk with vbSEO stuff.

i open thread there and still wait support from them


also what about vba links and vba dyna which in subdomains and they use thier seo
i just make some added lines in templates to only fix entries there but still categories can not be fixed any help !

[Spinball]

Very interesting mod. Going from 10 to 280 million posts would have a crippling effect on our servers, though, wouldn't it?

[Dave Hybrid]

Originally Posted by Spinball

Very interesting mod. Going from 10 to 280 million posts would have a crippling effect on our servers, though, wouldn't it?

Yes, you would need more disk space and server resources, no different than if your site grew normally.

Traffic comes at a price, whatever way you use to get it.

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

Google considers pages closer to the domain root as more important, so that is why those pages get indexed 1st.

Not if you have a Sitemap with priorities and frequencies set propertly.

Dave, why are you so *against* proper Google Sitemaps?

You answer posts like "the Google expert" but you don't mention the basics which are so important :-) Some of your replies are technically incorrect about Google. (like your earlier comment about no non-english URLs.)

Lighten up :-)

[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by Spinball

Very interesting mod. Going from 10 to 280 million posts would have a crippling effect on our servers, though, wouldn't it?

You don't need to do all 28 languages, in fact I don't recommend it for big sites.

If you have 10 M pages, just create a Sitemap (for one language) and only translate your targetted best demographic to expand, one at a time, or a few more if you have plenty of resources.

PM if you have questions. I can give you the "scoop" on what happens when you have 1/2 M pages, which is a fraction of your site. Do not enable all 28 flags. It is a waste of resource, bandwidth, CPU, etc. for a large site. Focus on your targetted demographics. Also, if you make money with click-revenue, keep in mind that some countries pay low (because their economy is low, naturally) and some pay larger (because their economy is strong, naturally).

Also, you can easily create an ?hl= segment in Google Analytics and look careful at your analytics. Remember, it is much harder to dump an "unproductive language" (from Google's index) than to manage the process from the beginning.

Plan.

With 10M pages, you know what I mean :-)