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How does one stop Google from including a site in Google Translate?

         

Sgt_Kickaxe

10:58 am on Nov 23, 2010 (gmt 0)



I know Google translate provides a service but I'm having several issues with it. How can I block it? I do mean block as in my site not being available to be translated, not just the "notranslate" meta tag which doesn't remove my content from translate.googleusercontent.com.

Issues
#1 - It's being used to scrape content by foreigners.
#2 - Affiliate links are broken, translate visitors get a blank page since my site is no longer the referring site.
#3 - Links created to my translated content often point to Google which doesn't help my link building efforts.
#4 - Images are broken. I don't allow hotlinking from other domains, including googleusercontent.
#5 - Frame busting script doesn't work since my content isn't being framed, it's actually on googleusercontent.com.
#6 - The translation isn't perfect which leaves a bad impression occasionally.

So how would I go about stopping translated copies of my content, that appear broken, non-functional and downright silly, from being included on googleusercontent.com ?

indyank

4:38 pm on Nov 23, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I too would be interested in knowing an answer to this. For some reason google provides too many of these for end users without letting the site owners any control on them.

It is like distributing a software without an uninstall option.

tedster

4:57 pm on Nov 23, 2010 (gmt 0)

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not just the "notranslate" meta tag which doesn't remove my content from translate.googleusercontent.com

I'm not sure I understand - there is no indexed content on translate.googleusercontent.com according to the site: operator.

dstiles

10:21 pm on Nov 23, 2010 (gmt 0)

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You can block access by detecting the full "translate" part of the User-Agent "(via translate.google.com)" and returning a 403 or 404. You may want to include the gzip part of the UA in your trap as well but the above should cut it.

tangor

11:35 pm on Nov 23, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Might also include a .htaccess block on referer (sic) with "translate" for good measure.