vBulletin 4, the most powerful community software + vBSEO 3.5, the ultimate SEO solution = Your ultimate platform for 2010 and beyond. Click below to learn more.

Results 1 to 13 of 13

old board is still alive

This is a discussion on old board is still alive within the General Discussion forums, part of the vBulletin SEO Discussion category; 2 years ago I imported my cutecast-board into a vbulletin-board. But the old cutecast-board is still alive. I see guests ...

  1. #1
    Senior Member
    Real Name
    Admin
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Posts
    172

    old board is still alive

    2 years ago I imported my cutecast-board into a vbulletin-board.
    But the old cutecast-board is still alive. I see guests surfing on it. And I see Google linking to it.
    Could this be a problem for me? Is that duplicate content and as that bad for my pagerank?
    Should I delete the old board?
    Should I delete it in one step? Or could that be a problem for my pagerank too because Google looses a lot of pages from my site and will change my pagerank?

    Thanks a lot!

    Marcel

  2. #2
    Senior Member
    Real Name
    chance
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Posts
    243
    You should redirect you old forum to your new one and then delete your old forum. Or change the url and put an exclude for it in your robot.txt

  3. #3
    Senior Member
    Real Name
    Joseph Ward
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Posts
    23,847
    Blog Entries
    9
    You might want to do a bit of a closer analysis. Find out if any of the pages are getting alot of hits and for what. Then 301 redirect them to the most relevant pages on your new site.

    However you decide to proceed, you should definitely get a 301 in place and remove the old forum.

  4. #4
    Senior Member
    Real Name
    Admin
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Posts
    172
    Thanks a lot.
    Sorry, I have to ask:
    How/where do I put the 301?
    Old forum is Das Ende der Symptombekämpfung (altes Forum) - powered by CuteCast
    New forum is Das Ende der Symptombekämpfung - Das Gesundheitsforum

  5. #5
    Senior Member
    Real Name
    Admin
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Posts
    172
    In fact, I don't even know how to find out, which pages get the most hits.

    Take this thread:
    Old board: Das Ende der Symptombekämpfung (altes Forum) | Thema - Multiple Sklerose=
    New board: Multiple Sklerose - Das Ende der Symptombekämpfung

    1. question:
    How Do I make a 301? As I read, I have to put it into .htaccess ...
    But which text/format?

    2. question:
    Is it okay, if I first link some threads ... and then link the rest, the whole board?
    And how:
    Old board: Das Ende der Symptombekämpfung (altes Forum) - powered by CuteCast
    New board: Das Ende der Symptombekämpfung - Das Gesundheitsforum

    Thanks a lot!
    Marcel

  6. #6
    vBSEO Staff Oleg Ignatiuk's Avatar
    Real Name
    Oleg Ignatiuk
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    Belarus
    Posts
    24,550
    Hello,

    in order to redirect ALL old board URLs to new forums homepage you should create .htaccess in domain root:
    Code:
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^cgi-bin/cutecast/cutecast.pl http://www.symptome.ch/vbboard/? [L,R=301]
    
    to redirect some of the thread and keep ALL others redirected to new homepage, you should add this right after "RewriteEngine on" line:
    Code:
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} thread=81
    RewriteRule ^cgi-bin/cutecast/cutecast.pl http://www.symptome.ch/vbboard/auswirkungen/476-multiple-sklerose.html? [L,R=301]
    
    similar for other threads.
    Oleg Ignatiuk / Crawlability Inc.
    Sneek Preview Video of the new Control Panel

    vBSEO 3.5 RC2 (Final)- Released for your Evaluation


  7. #7
    Senior Member
    Real Name
    Admin
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Posts
    172
    Thanks a lot.
    I still have a problem.

    My root looks like this:

    - cgi-bin (old board)
    - http
    - http/vbboard (new board)

    So, cgi-bin and http are on the same level.
    I placed the htaccess in "http". But like that, the command above is false. True?

    How is the correct command for redirecting the whole board?

    Marcel

  8. #8
    vBSEO Staff Oleg Ignatiuk's Avatar
    Real Name
    Oleg Ignatiuk
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    Belarus
    Posts
    24,550
    Hello,

    please try to create .htaccess in /cgi-bin/ folder:
    Code:
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^cutecast/.* http://www.symptome.ch/vbboard/? [L,R=301]
    
    Oleg Ignatiuk / Crawlability Inc.
    Sneek Preview Video of the new Control Panel

    vBSEO 3.5 RC2 (Final)- Released for your Evaluation


  9. #9
    Senior Member
    Real Name
    Admin
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Posts
    172
    Perfect. Works!
    How long do I have to wait to delete the old board?

  10. #10
    vBSEO Staff Oleg Ignatiuk's Avatar
    Real Name
    Oleg Ignatiuk
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    Belarus
    Posts
    24,550
    You can remove the old board now, since ANY request is redirected to a new forum anyway (you should keep .htaccess though).
    Oleg Ignatiuk / Crawlability Inc.
    Sneek Preview Video of the new Control Panel

    vBSEO 3.5 RC2 (Final)- Released for your Evaluation


  11. #11
    Senior Member
    Real Name
    Admin
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Posts
    172
    I've tried to redirect the threads now.
    This one is correct.

    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} thread=1458
    RewriteRule ^cutecast/cutecast.pl http_//www.symptome.ch/vbboard/showthread.php?t=1? [L,R=301]
    (without "_" in "http")

    1.
    But I had to redirect 1500 threads in .htaccess. Is this a problem? A problem for the board, for accessing (time). A problem for searchengines?

    2.
    I've got an excel-file with 2 columns: the old and the new thread-id. How do I get the correct .htaccess-file with 1500 records out of that?

    Thanks!!!
    Marcel

  12. #12
    vBSEO Staff Oleg Ignatiuk's Avatar
    Real Name
    Oleg Ignatiuk
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    Belarus
    Posts
    24,550
    This .htaccess is processed only when your old forums URL is accessed, so it should not be a problem for performance. 1500 URLs is quite a large amount though and you might consider creating a small script instead - that should be probably easier to implement comparing to 1500 rewrite rules.
    Oleg Ignatiuk / Crawlability Inc.
    Sneek Preview Video of the new Control Panel

    vBSEO 3.5 RC2 (Final)- Released for your Evaluation


  13. #13
    Senior Member
    Real Name
    Admin
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Posts
    172
    Exactly the next day that I set the redirection, I lost a daily 1'000 Visitors approx. from about 4'500.
    Do I have to expect that?
    Will Google bring me more visitors in the near future?

    I hope, these old files and redirections don't look like shadowpages for google ...

    Thanks!
    Marcel

Similar Threads

  1. Why my board always kick me out after install Vbseo ?
    By angelvn in forum Troubleshooting
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 11-08-2006, 09:32 PM
  2. RC6 broke my board...
    By Exilera in forum Troubleshooting
    Replies: 6
    Last Post: 10-23-2006, 10:59 PM
  3. The use of Impex to import a board
    By roadart in forum General Discussion
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 05-13-2006, 07:53 AM
  4. Dev Board Installation
    By goblues in forum Pre-Sales Questions
    Replies: 6
    Last Post: 12-16-2005, 10:20 AM