A few seo pointers please

Forgive me if this has been covered but I just spent the last 2 weeks fixing my site after my host messed up a server migration.

At the same time I also upgraded from 3.8 and vbadvanced as my homepage and now have 4.1.2 Suite.
I also upgrade to the most recent 3.6 vbseo. Unfortunately I also lost all vbseo setting in the move and Im starting over from scratch...

Since my old site used Site.com/forum and vba as the homepage the upgrade was also placed in the Site.com/forum directory. Im using the patch from vb.com to pull the cms homepage by using the (index.php, edit.php, widget.php list.php and content.php ) on the sites root. Works but now Im not sure how to set up the vbseo to get the same structure as my old setup.

I would also like to ditch the site.com/forum/forum.php and just have the old structure, Site.com/forum/. Content would be the homepage at site.com rather then site.com/content/

PLEASE help Im trying to go live later today and this is the last issue to overcome. Thanks...

The site... Scalemotorcars.com

Hi Daniel,

Since this is your first post, please let me give you a welcome to our community!

I'm terribly sorry to hear about such an awful situation, so I will try to do my best to help you out. From what I can see on Google's cached SERPs for your site, it looks like that you were using preset #001 so please be sure that you did choose it within your vBSEO CP in order to have back your usual forum URLs. Regarding the issue with putting your CMS on your site root, there's an article that Brian wrote a few months ago about doing so by simply using vBSEO CP and index.php file; you can read out such article at: post #139.

In the same way, you can get rid of 'forum.php' part from your forum homepage URL using vBSEO. Please see this post for further information: Remove forum/forum.php from Breadcrumb

There are also additional tips you may want to apply to your site for better SEO, like redirecting non-www URLs to www URLs 'version' (check this out ) and setting up our Search Engine XML Sitemaps tool (available on Downloads area - more info). You can also create a 'Critique my site' thread at Critique Please if you want to hear input and feedback from vBSEO advanced users and other staff members.

Please also remember that we are always willing to help so please don't hesitate to post any further questions you may have

You rock, thats exactly what I needed.

Thanks for saving whats left of my brain cells.

FYI: vB4 'component urls' should not be used - vBulletin SEO Forums

I caught that in one of the links Andres post. Thanks again guys. VBSEO rocks....

You're welcome, Daniel!.

We are glad to help

Guys, Ive done the above and Im getting Invalid Redirects when logging in from the homepage or anything outside the forum root. i.e. photopost and so on.

Any ideal how to fix that?

vbseo doesn't function outside of the forum root unless you've specifically coded it to do so.....

Well I did use the suggestions above to get it working on my site. so right now it is working outside the forum.

site structure is root(or-cms)/forum. If I log in from the cms that is on the sites root I get the invalid redirect.

Please open a ticket with an account to test this functionality

Submitted, thanks...