vBSEO is up and running on my forums. Now I'm just waiting for spiders to grab my urls. I'm going to grep out googlebot hits from my log files so I can see how effective the spidering is.
Now, what do I do with my old urls? I had set up some poorly written mod_rewritten urls that aren't nearly as clean as vBSEO. Basically, my forum urls looked like this: http://www.hotrodders.com/f21 . And, my thread urls looked like this: http://www.hotrodders.com/t12345.html .
I had gotten a lot of those pages indexed in SE's (thousands). I don't want to lose that traffic, and I don't want to get hit with a duplicate content penalty.
I know that I can do 301 redirects via mod_rewrite so that forum urls like this: http://www.hotrodders.com/f21 get 301'd to urls like this: http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/title-of-forum . But, it doesn't seem feasible to do 301's for thread urls like this: http://www.hotrodders.com/t12345.html to urls like this: http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/titl...ead-12345.html .
Should I keep both url schemes in place, and risk a duplicate content penalty? Or should I abandon the old scheme, and deal with 404's for all my old thread urls?







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