There's no trace of the english translation pages neither in search results neither in the site:www.adrianmoisa.ro query nor in google webmaster tools page.
My default language is romanian which is the actual translation, and almost fully indexed by google (receiving a healthy trafic for romanian querries). The secondary language is english and the website is fully translated end to end. I have almost 800kb of raw text in almost 80 pages, which is far more than enough for google to do it's magic. On each page there are anchored links in the sidebar and footer which point to the page translation back and forth using seo-locale plugin functionality. The robots.txt file is changed to point to the sitemap.php page. I even manually submited the sitemap in the google account a hour ago. I have the romanian translation retrieved by default because many of my romanian visitors are using english by default in the OS or browser.
I guess that I really need to have distinct URL's for each page translation.
i.e:
website.ro/ro/same-page
website.ro/en/same-page
Can the seo-locale plugin be modified to stop removing the language apendix from the url? Also I'd preffer website.ro/en over website.ro/en_US Any advice on how to do that? Thanks!
If the Robots do not support cookies, then yes, you will need each page to have a link encluding its language. The plugin does not actually change any links. It only processes a link to see if the language identifier is part. It then stores a language cookie and redirects the link to the equivalent without the language identifier.
Did webside.ro/en not work for you?
link your English page on every page of the Romanian site. Google should get it index if you get decent traffic... Hopes that help
The sitemap-extended plugin generates all links with the locale inbetween that you need. But you have to submit that to Google (there is a site for doing that) or whatever search engine and even better define its url it in the robots.txt file as a sitemap. It is of course not found automatically and not meant to be.
[i]If there is any way to rewrite the url so that it displays the translated title link it would be awsome![/i]
The title is never shown in the url but " folder name" We won't change that for sure since Zenphoto is dependend on that unique name.
I thought about it and I reasoned that the best solution is to create another subdomain with the name "en.adrianmoisa.ro" for the english translation. This way, I can watch separate stats in cpanel and google analytics. Also the url problem gets solved, and moreover there's no mixing between keywords from different languages in the same domain.
Any disadvantages for this solution?
Thanks!
I can't think of any disadvantages to that solution. If it works for you, then by all means, use it.
Only disadvantages are:
Maybe two copies of the images. But you can overcome that with the external album settings in zp-config.php.
Two copies of the database metadata. Most of that can be overcome by placing the metadata in the images themselves via EXIF/IPTC fields or XML sidecars.
Anyway, sounds like a good solution.
Thanks for input!
If a biger HDD footprint is the only downside I shouldn't worry at all. Currently I'm using only 50 megs out of the 10 GB avaible from the web host . My gallery isn't open for registration and my upload rate is quite small so there's no concern at all.