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    Changing name of forum directory

    Tell me if this is a good idea.

    Right now, I dont have a really great indexing of the forum portion of my football site. I have added archive links to my sites home page to try to get the bots into the forum as of today.

    What I am thinking of is changing the directory from /forum to /nfl, as this is a fantasy football forum.

    Good idea? Bad idea?

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    Well it would require a custom 301 for anything you have indexed right now. If you don't have alot of indexed content for the forum, however, it might not be a bad idea. What about linkbacks? Do you have a lot of external linkbacks to the current location?

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    /nfl tells me something different than /forum. Plus, there's trade mark issues involved (i don't know how serious though).

    I would leave it. and instead, focus on creating better links to the forum pages and topics from the main indexed site.

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    My thinking was getting better rankings for things NFL related by using "nfl" instead of "forum".

    forum is a very seldom searched word for things related to my site, so I really don't see the benefit of having the word in there.

    I think I will wait and see if I get better indexed by having my archive links on my sites home page first though.

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