Changing db encoding to utf-8 and after change rewrite settings

i want to convert my db from latinswedish to utf-8 forum is greek and i use /t39399 for threads and forums

now my question is this if i change the vbseo settings after to thread-title-id how can i redirect google searches to the new url format

i assume i can put a replacement variable in vb sto /forums/t to be changing into /forums/showthread.php?t= in order to keep the links valid for those that click the links from inside the threads which vbseo will turn into the new format but can i have an htaccess rule to redirect /forums/t(id) to /forums/showthread.php?t=(id) which will be also become thread-title-id to work for those that come to links from search engines ???

Yes Kon, That's possible.

okay so what whould be the htaccess rule (or vbseo CRR) to redirect t(id) into showthread.php?t=(id) which will be after become thread-title-id by vbseo without loosing google rankings ?

Give me full URL example, t"id"/ or t"id" without slash or t"id".html so I can make the rewrite rule now.

http://www.site.com/forums/t10098/ will be redirect to http://www.site.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10098/ in order NOT to loose google rankings and the NEW vbseo Forum rewrite whould be for example http://www.site.com/forums/politics-...omy-10098.html

Add this line after rewrite engine on directly :

Code:

RewriteRule t([0-9]+)/ http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]

so i guess f([0-9]+)/ will be for forumdisplay and so on ? and what will be the custom vbseo Forum rewrite ? i dont see a preset option for keyword-id-html

so i guess f([0-9]+)/ will be for forumdisplay and so on ?

Yes.

and what will be the custom vbseo Forum rewrite ? i dont see a preset option for keyword-id-html

Follow these steps and you will get it keyword-id.html

vbseocp > URL rewrite settings > Forum URLs > advanced settings > forum URLs > Scroll down until "Forum" the add this code on the white box :

Code:

 
[forum_title]-[forum_id].html

and will i get benefit from changing from t-id to thread title ? i thought about all this cause my tag pages that were title.html appear first in google resultss

Sure keywords in URLs are better than only thread id, I've done that on my forum "Arabic forum" And I see amazing results

thanx mate. btw the script that changes encoding to utf-8 didnt work so i guess if i let it as it was its ok right ? this url is still keyword rich huh (looks like this) 9098-%F3xoliasm%FC%F2-m%DFa%F2-agel%DFa%F2.html

Check this thread has a very good info about UTF-8 forums : [How-To] Keywords in URLs for non-english forums

thats the script i used from vb.org and makes an error doesnt work

You will need to contact the mod author at vb.org, He's the best one will help you with the convert problem.

ok i managed to do the conversion, i have this problem now, the url pages show greek in url which is good, in the tag pages though the google indexed tag results ex tags/%E1%F4%F1%E1.html doesnt redirect to tags/λεξη.html how can i fix this