Manually adding urls to sitemap for translated pages

I have a script that auto translates my pages on the fly then caches them.

This creates a entire clone of my forum in 10+ other languages, for example at domain.com/fr/ is a french version, domain.com/de/ german etc.

This has made a nice traffic impact and upped me from 20k pages to 200k+.

What I want to do now is add these pages to my sitemap as they are created just like the standard language.

Is this straight forward to do?

Thanks.

Are these pages in vbulletin or just a static html?

Hi Brian.

The english versions are all in vB as current threads, the translations are done as a bot/user hits the flags at the top of each thread. Then the translated page has the frame removed and is cached and stuck in a folder to be called by the next person to hit the same flag on the same thread. So the translated pages do not exist in the database.

so you have /de/12345.html where 12345 is the thread id?

yeah, basically.

normal - www.domain.com/forums/f10/thread1234/

german - www.domain.com/lang/de/forums/f10/thread1234/

What you can do is to create an addon script similar to vBSEO Sitemap generator include threads code , modify it to add the same info within translated urls.

Could I not add a php file to the current sitemap generator, like downloadsII.

You need to do that

Yeah, instead of a DB query, you will need to do a directory sniff and loop through the file system instead of a db table.

PHP: opendir - Manual

Thanks, will have a look, sounds a bit over my head, Google seems to pick up most of the translated pages anyhow I just like things to be spot on. :P

send me a pm if you would like to have me build this for you. i'm available for work like this

Will definitely look you up if I choose to get it done, thanks man.

I send you a PM brian, looking for a coder to fix various issue with my site. Thanks.

Originally Posted by briansol

send me a pm if you would like to have me build this for you. i'm available for work like this

still waiting on Brian for some custom work!

What?