First of all, this morning I noticed that in my webmaster dashboard,
all of my domain names that I had previously verified had to be re-
verified again. Last night they were all verified, but not this
morning, so I had to upload the html file all over again to each of my
domain names, which I found to be unnecessarily inconvenient. Not
quite sure if that is normal?

The real problem comes after this. After I did this, I noticed that
Google is now indexing the pages that I had described in a previous
Google translation services post:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate/browse_thread/thread/...

404 errors are beginning to show up all over the place now on my error
reports and I know this is probably not good for my rankings.

Every translation program, including Systran and Babelfish, that is
used in the third party software to translate my website is working
fine except Google. Google was working perfectly fine last week until
something changed over the past week. Someone please look into the
post above and see if there is someway to fix this.

I would really hate to have to remove any languages that use Google
for translation to prevent 404 errors and the rest of the mess. That
would be the type of action I would usually have to take for something
like Microsoft.

Hi peppy
Our Webmaster Tools verification information is periodically checked,
so it is important that you leave those files on your servers.

Regarding Google Translate, as far as I know, our terms of service do
not allow automated access to our translation tools.

John

Hi John

Thanks for getting back to me, I'll keep those files in there from now
on.

Regarding the language translator, there is a third party software
that I bought that uses Google translate along with other translation
services. Many other sites that have it working correctly. In fact, I
see that Google itself has it\'s own automated translation tool:
http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

The tool that I bought does the same thing, only people can click on
flags instead and it's more customizable to the design of my site as
well. It also stores a newly translated page into a cache file so it
loads much more quickly for the visitor than the Google translation
tool above. I figured this would actually decrease resource usage on
Google if the translated page is stored in a cache file on my server..

Would it be possible to take any translation bans off my websites if I
have the cache file refresh after some minimum length of time, such as
a month or longer? Foreign visitors have commented on how much they
love the software and I would like to keep using it because of how
popular it is for the visitors.

Please let me know if there is some way to work this out. I can easily
change the cache refresh time on all my websites to a longer period if
this is the problem.

Peppy

On Jul 8, 6:05 pm, JohnMu wrote: