Sitemap Generator integration

[vBET]

You can simply integrate vBET with vBSEO Sitemap Generator (it is free) to include links to translated pages into generated sitemap.


Please note that instructions below will allow you to add into your sitemap links for threads translated pages. Because of performance reason those links will not be translated - there will be only added language code. Google will find real page anyway since you will get 301 redirect. Please note that it is not best approach - Google prefers to have final links in sitemap not redirecting one, but forcing translation of thousands links in all languages in the same time could kill your server or be threated by Google as attack (if links are not cached yet).

If you have any PHP programming skills you can modify instructions below to support also other parts of sitemap - not only threads URLs. Solution below will add translated links only for first pages of threads.

Integration instructions:
You just have to edit one file: vbseo_sitemap_functions.php in vbseo_sitemap directory.

Find:

vbseo_log_entry("[showthread] forum_id: $forumid, thread_id: $threadrow[threadid], total posts: $totalposts, pages: $totalpages, views: $threadrow[views] $prior"); 

And place AFTER it...

For SEO links

//additional code 
require_once(DIR. '/includes/vbenterprisetranslator_functions_vbseo.php');
$alanguages = array ('af','sq','ar','be','bg','ca','zh-CN','hr','cs','da','nl','en','pl','et','tl','fi','fr','gl','de','el','iw','hi','hu','is','id','ga','it','ja','ko','lv','lt','mk','ms','mt','no','fa','pt','ro','ru','sr','sk','sl','es','sw','sv','zh-TW','th','tr','uk','vi','cy','yi'); 
if(!$archived) { 
  $strlenhost = strlen($vbseo_vars['bburl']."/"); 
  $currentthreadurl = vbseo_url_thread($threadrow, 1, $archived);
  $currentthreadurl_before = substr($currentthreadurl,0,$strlenhost);
  $currentthreadurl_after = "/".substr($currentthreadurl,$strlenhost);
  $lastpost =& $threadrow['lastpost'];
  $vbseo_stat['t'] += sizeof($alanguages);
  foreach($alanguages as $language) { 
    vbseo_add_url($currentthreadurl_before.$language.$currentthreadurl_after, $prior, $lastpost, $freq); 
  } 
}   
//end additional code 

NOTE: REMOVE YOUR DEFAULT LANGUAGE CODE from $alanguages
Also if you disabled some languages in option panel you have to delete its codes too.

For links with language= (do NOT use booth - only appropriate for your links type)

//additional code
require_once(DIR. '/includes/vbenterprisetranslator_functions_vbseo.php');
$alanguages = array ('af','sq','ar','be','bg','ca','zh-CN','hr','cs','da','nl','en','pl','et','tl','fi','fr','gl','de','el','iw','hi','hu','is','id','ga','it','ja','ko','lv','lt','mk','ms','mt','no','fa','pt','ro','ru','sr','sk','sl','es','sw','sv','zh-TW','th','tr','uk','vi','cy','yi');
if(!$archived) {
  $currentthreadurl = vbseo_url_thread($threadrow, 1, $archived) . '&language=';
  $vbseo_stat['t'] += sizeof($alanguages);
  $lastpost =& $threadrow['lastpost'];
  foreach($alanguages as $language) {
    vbseo_add_url($currentthreadurl.$language, $prior, $lastpost, $freq);
  } 
}  
//end additional code 

NOTE: REMOVE YOUR DEFAULT LANGUAGE CODE from $alanguages
Also if you disabled some languages in option panel you have to delete its codes too.


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OPTIONAL:
If you want to add to sitemap also links for other thread pages (if thread have several pages), then additional code from last step must be added in other place - BEFORE:

$vbseo_stat[$archived?'at':'t'] += vbseo_add_2urls( 

Also in this additional code you have to change "1" to "$p".