Edvard,
Okay, now I'm really confused??? I copied the .htaccess code from your post in this thread that you posted today. Here is what I NOW have in my .htaccess file related to GTranslate
(there are other lines after this in .htaccess but it's related to Joomla and were there when you installed GTranslate on my site):- Code: Select all
RewriteEngine On
# gtranslate config
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)/([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)/(.*)$ /$1/$3 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)/([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)/(.*)$ /gtranslate/translate.php?lang=$1&url=$2&force_translation=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^([a-z]{2}|zh-CN|zh-TW)$ /gtranslate/translate.php?lang=$1&force_translation=1 [L,QSA
So the newest code in your latest post has something different, including the "
force_no_api=1&force_translation" line. So do I need to replace the .htaccess code I have listed in this post, with the code you posted in your last reply with the "
force_no_api=1&force_translation" line in it?
There is nothing unusual about the articles on my site. They are standard text articles pasted into the Joomla text editor and posted from the Joomla MySQL database. So if there's some abnormal text on my site that you're saying prevented translations, can you tell me where it is? Because most of the articles I checked were NOT being translated, just the menus and links were translated but NOT the article text. I don't have any custom code/scripting on my site so it's just a normal Joomla site. I don't know where this "mystery" text is located, but maybe you can find it and tell me where it is.
You cannot be penalized by Google, since it doesn't penalize you if you copy content from your own site.
Edvard, I appreciate you helping me resolve this issue since I think GTranslate could be a great program to get my site automatically translated and indexed into the 58 foreign languages. So if you can fix this issue I will be very happy and grateful for your help. I really don't want to take a chance and trust when you write "you can't be penalized by Google".