Google has removed all indexed translated pages

[pepito69]

Hi,
Google has removed from the index all translated URL:

site:www.egiptoforo.com/forums/pt

site:www.egiptoforo.com/forums/en 

etc...


I found someone here in the forum that had the same problem but due to a mysql error. I don't know what's happening in my forum.
I didn't change de robots.txt ...i happened today. I had indexed for example: 47.000 url in hebrew, 20.000 in french, etc....

Please help

Thanks

[kamilkurczak]

do you have any e-mail from google or mysql errors in log file? please write all informations.

[pepito69]

No i did not recived any email from google and there are no mysql errors in my log.
It was yesterday, and i did not touch anything.

[basketmen]

as i know, the pages indexed inside a folder can removed if the pages are cannot accessed by google for long times (ie 24 hours or more)

from my experience, i have about 4,000 pages inside a folder domain.com/d/ using other mod (no related with vbet), but because that mod are broken for few days, after i check again in google site:domain.com/d/ all indexed pages are gone

try to get links from other sites to your each translated forum home page too, ie : get links from other sites to egiptoforo.com/forums/pt/ and egiptoforo.com/forums/en/




i think the problem is not in vbet, but in the forum/site/server

double check all thing, check google webmaster tools too https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

[pepito69]

as i know, the pages indexed inside a folder can removed if the pages are cannot accessed by google for long times (ie 24 hours or more)

This is not the case.

i had a lot of external links and a lot of pages.

In webmaster tools i have the classic problems in vbet: Low response and duplicate metatags and tittles. Nothing new....

I'm thinking in disable the mod and it was important for me. but i think that google don't like automatic content as they say in webmaster guide. Google is moving against that in my opinion. Hope to be wrong because Vbet, could be a wonderfull mod despite it well known problems and limitations.
Look, i had thousends of URL indexed in translated versions and now nothing!

[basketmen]

This is not the case.

i had a lot of external links and a lot of pages.

In webmaster tools i have the classic problems in vbet: Low response and duplicate metatags and tittles. Nothing new....

I'm thinking in disable the mod and it was important for me. but i think that google don't like automatic content as they say in webmaster guide. Google is moving against that in my opinion. Hope to be wrong because Vbet, could be a wonderfull mod despite it well known problems and limitations.
Look, i had thousends of URL indexed in translated versions and now nothing!

we can wait and see, if there is other member that using vbet too get same problem, i see very many people using vbet specially the free version, because the threads views in this support forum are very many, and from vb.org Installed information


if the automatic pages are good quality, i think not many the pages indexed are reduced

and it is better if there is Manual translate feature too, to increase the translate quality, like i requested here, so its just like wikipedia, the article are same only translated manual to another language by the member

[kamilkurczak]

please check your e-mail or log file and find some mysql errors or something like that.
Do yu have a robots.txt file? can you paste a full content of this file?

[vBET]

but i think that google don't like automatic content as they say in webmaster guide. Google is moving against that in my opinion. Hope to be wrong because Vbet, could be a wonderfull mod despite it well known problems and limitations.
Look, i had thousends of URL indexed in translated versions and now nothing!

Please tell us where in webmaster tools is written that Google doesn't like translated sites?... Also here content is NOT automatic - translation is automatic - the content is authentic from your very threads written by your very users.
Google is not against translated context - the proof is lot of forums using vBET and being indexed. You can simply check it in example on our site. If Google was against it then we wouldn't be indexed. Even this very thread which is new is already indexed in other languages (I checked for Polish) what easily proofs that Google is indexing translated pages.

So this is your issue not general one.

At this moment vBET is not working on your forum - so we are not able to work on your issue nor give you any other hint that - please turn on vBET. Whatever was the reason of your issue, by turning off vBET you made it permanent. You will never have indexed translated pages if you will not have translated pages on your forum. As I wrote - we do not know now what was the reason. It could be even something temporary on Google side what could get back as it was without any changes. Maybe... Now it is not the issue anymore - now you have no vBET so at this moment it is normal thing that you do not have indexed translated pages - because now you do not have translated pages. Please first turn vBET on.

[vBET]

I'm checking the thread from beginning so sorry is fomething was already written. I checked your robots.txt and I saw there wird content like:
Disallow: /forums/pt/*mode
As I know robots.txt do not support wildcards like * - this could be the part of the problem. It shouldn’t, because it should say that links with exact URL beginning: /forums/pt/*mode shouldn’t be indexed, but maybe something changes in Google robots and now they do not enter any links starting by: /forums/pt/ (in example because * signs are not allowed and URL reading stops at this sign giving you not allowed for indexing all your translated pages). That would be some explanation of your situation since I see rules like that for all your languages.

Once again it shouldn't be the reason here, but other way you shouldn't use * signs in disallow rules, so maybe it has something common with your issue. Please remove/comment those rules.

Also check what webmaster tools is telling you about link which was blocked by robots.txt. Of course now - because you disabled vBET - we can have wrong webmaster tools analyze, because translated links do not exists anymore on your forum. So once again - first turn on vBET, after that at this moment we need to wait, because webmaster tools do not show actual data - historical (and never knows when it is updated). So first turn vBET. Then if in 2 weeks nothing changes we will investigate is more. It would be easier if vBET would be all the time turned on, now we will have additional thing - Google reaction time...

[pepito69]

You can look it here:
http://www.egiptoforo.com/robots.txt