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This is a discussion on Change forum.php to forum within the General Discussion forums, part of the vBSEO SEO Plugin category; I want to change Code: http://www.amdforum.se/forum.php to Code: http://www.amdforum.se/forum/ How do I do that in the best way? Should I ...

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    Change forum.php to forum

    I want to change
    Code:
    http://www.amdforum.se/forum.php
    to
    Code:
    http://www.amdforum.se/forum/
    How do I do that in the best way? Should I do as in solution #2 here: http://www.************/210315-post2.html

    Dont understand why forum is with .php when neither cms or blogs are.

    I also want to change /blogs to /bloggar, and /content to /hem

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    Hmm is vbteam banned?

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    vbteam are known hackers, pirates, and all out general thieves. You should dis-associate yourself from them at once.


    You can change forum.php for forum/ using a Custom Rewrite Rule
    Code:
    '^forum\.php$' => 'forum/'
    The other 2, you will need to customize the CMS and blog settings (go to the advanced tab) to set all instances to your custom text.

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    Thanks Brian!

    Didn't know that about vbteam. :/

    I guess these changes are better for SEO. Is it only possible to make these changes with vBSEO? Im glad I have it.

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    Yes, you cannot change things like this with any other solution.

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    How do I change "members" in url to "medlemmar"?

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    You can change it from members profiles URLs, Please follow these steps

    vBSEOCP > URL rewrite settings > Forum URLs > Advanced settings tab > Members profile URLs

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    Thanks!

    I guess the changes I made now will result in many many dead links in Google. Is there a good way to handle this?

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    I don't recommended to change your forum URL, However memebers URLs is not the big problem with search engines it's simply will not send any visitor so redirect the old or not isn't the important thing.

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    I guess its too late for that now Marco. /content has been replaced by /hem, /blogs with /bloggar, forum.php with /forum/.

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    I went back to normal settings and reverted the changes. However it would be interesting to know how much the change from forum.php to forum, would affect SEO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Astyanax View Post
    I went back to normal settings and reverted the changes. However it would be interesting to know how much the change from forum.php to forum, would affect SEO.
    Redirect forum.php to forums/ will not make any new effect with site SEO it's just like a rename of only 1 page "Your forum home page name" from forum.php to forum/ but it make your forum easy to remember, For example when I forget any site URL I start make a search on Google then when I found your site the first thing I try to enter your forum I type "forums/" or "forum/" but I will never type "forum.php"

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    Thanks Marco!

    I just dont understand why it is forum.php in my board, but not content.php or blogs.php.

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    Daniel, Can you please re-phrase your question again ? I can't understand your question correctly.

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    Yes Marco, if you visit my forum, you will find that forum has "forum.php". But blogs are just /blogs/ and content /content/, no .php there.

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