Google Email Warning: Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site

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TELL US WHICH VERSION OF VBULLETIN ARE YOU USING.

I'm using version 3.6.12, you should know this since I paid an additional fee to get it working (make it compatible) because of the archive problem so if it's the archive thats causing this then it's (no offense) YOUR FAULT since you did it. : http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.co...tin-3-6-a.html

We have lot of users. We know what we have included in actual thread. Thanks for giving your vBulletin version

About the issue. You was informed that integration can be not possible since your version is not supported and you decided to go for it anyway. Bug in archive which you have is on vBulletin side. You was also informed in PM about it.
So you was aware about not working archive sub-forums on your not supported old vBulletin version, from the very beginning. You was also told that because this is vBulletin bug you should contact vBulletin team to solve it.
Also as I see in the very thread you are pointing on you refused our future support. But of course you have full right to blame anyone for anything

What to do now with archive? You have now several options:
1. Contact vBulletin team to solve their bug. As you know (from old stories) vBUlletin 3.6 have bug and when you add any additional parameter in URL to archive sub-forum page then it crashes. It is out of vBET scope since old vBulletin behave this way even when vBET is not installed - so in short words: it is vBulletin bug. It is also out of our scope because it is not supported version. So you can ask vBuletin are they are still responsible for their code and will they correct it. They can refuse if they also consider vB3.6 as unsupported.
2. You can block whole archive in robots.txt - not good idea we do not advise it.
3. You can disable translation of archive pages. There will be less pages in Google index, but there will be no more broken links.
4. You can edit layout of your thread archive page so links to archive sub-forums will not be included. You can make it included for not translated page and disabled for translated one. On your main forum archive page there broken links to sub-forum will be still on, but this is only several links not thousands on thousands archive thread pages. You could even made 301 redirection for main forum archive page so it will be only in original language.

Please tell us which version do you prefer and we will guide you more in chosen one.

Author said it doesn't harm google.

I'm lost here. First you wrote it is safe. Then you wrote it is not safe. Now it is safe again. What I'm interested is what I wrote to you about Webmaster Tools. We are not interested what mod author is telling you - this is between you and him. We are interested how Google see your forum. If Google see your forum as blocked communicate then the mod harms Google, because Google see everywhere same content (so each post is considered as duplicated content). In this case we advice to not use the mod anymore until it will be safe for Google - so until you will be able to see in Webmaster Tools that Google see all the pages normally and it is not blocked. This is how it is and we have nothing more to say in this area. It is your choice will you fallow advice or not. So check it first and if it is not safe then made your own decision who you want to listen.

2. There is absolutely no need to be rude, I do understand how to use the robots.txt, but in your optimization guides (my Opinion) your lean more towards vBSEO setups, just keep in mind that at least 80% of vBulletin users don't use vBSEO so you should keep 2 separate threads when you talk about tips, tweaks and optimization, example; "vBSEO Optimization" and "Non vBSEO Optimization" to make it more user friendly.

I apologize if you consider our answer as rude. I just added in TODO list to make separate robot.txt file for non SEO links. Thanks for your note.

3. All the archive links that you posted as broken seem to be working fine for me, here's a snapshot of your broken archive link example:

http://YOUR_FORUM/archive/index.php/t-25194.html?language=pl

Please read carefully and once again what I wrote to you in last response. I never wrote that the link:

http://YOUR_FORUM/archive/index.php/t-25194.html?language=pl

is broken. I wrote that IT IS WORKING - broken are links included ON THIS PAGE. Please read again what was described before. I know that this page is working. That is why I wrote you:

For example:

http://YOUR_FORUM/archive/index.php/t-25194.html?language=pl

This is link to tread archive and it is working but in it content there are links on the top of page to sub forums where the thread is included. Example:

http://YOUR_FORUM/archive/index.php/f-182.html

And all those links are not working - only to main forum. All archive sub-forums links are not working.

I wrote you that this link is working - you do not have to give me screen shots and prove to me that it is working Just please read carefully what I'm writing to you. And now look on your image and pay attention on top links (links to archive sub-forums) - those are broken (except link to archive main forum)

Listen Michael I don't want to argue every single letter that's written with you, I just want an easy 1. 2. 3. fix and nothing more.

Great Hope you understand the area of issue now and know what are the choices. Please tell us which one you prefer and we will guide you in this direction.

From what the google representative told me, the url structure below is being indexed 4 times but in realty for them it's considered to be 1 and should be indexed as such and that's probably why I got the email. The underneath post is just an example;


http://www.mysite.com/showthread.php?t=64661 Original
http://www.mysite.com/showthread.php?t=64661&language=pl Translated
http://www.mysite.com/showthread.php?t=64661&language=en Translated
http://www.mysite.com/showthread.php?t=64661&language=es Translated

All those pages have completely different content and any boot couldn't tell that it is same when the text is completely different. Those are different pages which serves different content targeted for different receiver, and the answer have no sense for us at all. Please PM me whole message you got, with contact to source of this message. We would like to explain it. Most probably person who check it saw not real content, but only blocking message (like I did right now) - so ins such case the feedback have no value at all. Once again - please PM details we will verify it.