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Renaming a Forum - The Right way?

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    Renaming a Forum - The Right way?

    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.

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

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