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This is a discussion on Changing name of forum directory within the General Discussion forums, part of the vBulletin SEO Discussion category; Tell me if this is a good idea. Right now, I dont have a really great indexing of the forum ...
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08-06-2006, 10:22 PM
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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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08-07-2006, 01:54 PM
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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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08-07-2006, 01:56 PM
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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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08-07-2006, 04:12 PM
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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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