Changing Forum Name

[Caseyjr86]

Hi, im just curious if I changed one of my forum names from News, to Starcraft 2 News and Announcements, if it would screw up my rankings in google. Im just curious, since it would also change the link address.. Because of the rewrite..

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

Hello,

in case if your URL formats include forum_title (which is default), the URLs will be changed and search engines will have to reindex your URLs. vBSEO will help to reindex faster by doing 301 redirect from old thread URL to new ones.
You can also use "Forum slugs" to change forum title, but keep the old title *in URLs only*: vBSEO Slugs - Custom Forum Titles

[Caseyjr86]

Will it mess up my rankings? Im currently #1 on a few things, I would like to change it because It will help me in other areas.

[Oleg Ignatiuk]

In case if you will setup forum slugs as described, the URLs will be unchanged and that should not hurt your indexed pages.