Moving from Subdomain considerations

Hi,

We presently run our site as a series of subdomains. Of which the forums run at http://forums.deeperblue.net

We are considering moving to http://www.deeperblue.net/forums as our URL. We have the know-how to setup the rewrite but am wondering if anyone has any considerations for impact it could have on Page Rank, SEO, Crawlability, etc...

Many Thanks

hmm.. is the subdomain going to still be active? If it isn't it could cause some problems.. but if it is then you can rewrite all accesses from the subdomain like this:

Add the following to a htaccess file in your /forums/ folder:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.deeperblue.net
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.deeperblue.net/forums/$1 [R=301,L]

That should do it.

Btw any particular reason you're dropping the subdomains?

ADM,

The subdomain would still be active and we would be looking to run the rewrite on the subdomain, then move the vBulletin files to the main domain under /forums/

It is part of an exercise we are considering to consolodate all our multiple domains into the one domain but we haven't decided whether we want to yet. The main decision will be based on whether there is any major impact to our search engine rankings or related issues.

How does your current subdomain work now? What folder does it point to? It's just that some setups have it so http://forums.domain.com/ also is http://www.domain.com/forums/

Either way adding the above code to your forums.deepblue.net folder will do the trick