Rename forums?

[nitra1000]

Hi I have a local forum for my area, and the top keywords for it are:

news
post
forum
leicester
ago


Any suggestions for removing "ago" and "post" from the top 5, I really want News, Forum, Leicester up there.

I'm thinking about renaming the forums for example "General Discussion" > "Leicester Discussion", would this mess up links/be worth the effort?

[Brian Cummiskey]

Please see:
Keywords in Google Webmaster Tools for Forum

[nitra1000]

Please see:
Keywords in Google Webmaster Tools for Forum

Many thanks but what about restructuring the forums slightly? Is this going to have a negative impact on my forums if I rename them?

[Brian Cummiskey]

If you use keywords in your urls, it's certainly not worth the re-index.

The point is, everyone has these common stop words in their top content.

[dutchbb]

This is why I use the vbseo way of naming forum urls, much more freedom. Traffic from keywords in forums isn't that important anyway, content in threads in combination with title & header tags etc will get you high in the serps.

[nitra1000]

Well contridictory to the advice on here, I made the changes...

And my Seach engine graph from GA now looks like...

I assume that the change caused that huge spike...

[nitra1000]

This is why I use the vbseo way of naming forum urls, much more freedom. Traffic from keywords in forums isn't that important anyway, content in threads in combination with title & header tags etc will get you high in the serps.

My Relevent Replacements include the title of the forum...