Renaming a Forum - The Right way?

[Hemanth]

Hi,

I wanted to rename a forum with a lots of indexed pages. I would like to have your inputs on it.

eg: Current : www.myforum.com/red-widgets-all/
Rename: www.myforum.com/red-widgets/

Is it okay to do so? Will there be any impact on SERPS? Will vBSEO redirect the URLS correctly?


Please share your thoughts in this regard.

Thank you.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

it would be better to keep old URLs after renaming the forum, you can do that with "forum slugs": vBSEO Slugs - Custom Forum Titles

[Hemanth]

Thanks Oleg. But I want that "all" to be removed from the url. Will it have an impact?

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Yes, that will have an impact. All old URLs will have to be reindexed, you can setup "Custom 301 redirect" in vbseocp to make reindexing faster:

'^red-widgets-all/(.*)' => 'red-widgets/$1'