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    Moving forum out of root

    I'm looking to make my Camaro and Firebird forum (in signature) a News/Tech Info site, and run a CMS in front of vBulletin (Wordpress specifically).

    I'm doing amazing in search terms for my forum right now, but I'm a bit worried I'll lose some of it when I move my forums from the root to say.. /forums/

    I know you can 301 Redirect, but will this preserve my #1's and top 5's in Google for my forum?

    Anyone have experience doing this, or have any thoughts?

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    You don't HAVE to move.

    I suggest setting up like vbseo has...

    rename index.php to forums.php
    make a CRR for forums\.php=> /forums/
    then, make your article/portal on index.php
    and if necessary, add another page like, article\.php?id=123 and then also apply CRR's to that as well.... article\.php\?id=(\d) => /article/$1/

    This will let you keep ALL your links the same. The only thing that will change is your forumhome, which will easily be updated shortly (and probably doesn't rank for anything in specific anyway...) plus, you can utilize vbseo's powers, because its in the same directory if you move to /forums for REAL (not re-write), your home page is OUT of vB and for that amtter, vBSEO 's scope, and thus can't handel anything.

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    Oh... 1 more thing

    the only gotchya here is that you can't have a forum named 'article' as it will conflict with the re-write rule.

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