Seo impact

hello i have this problem

i have this forum stucture now /forums/


and my old recovered site is /vb4/

so i want to transfer all from /forums/ to /vb4/

but i have to do it manually since impex dosnt work with vb4

how this might impact my vbSEO??

If the Id's are changing, all of those urls will need to be re-indexed. It will likely effect your rankings but there's no way to say how long or how bad.

oh

well my forum is still located at /forums/

but the problem is that, the forum structure is a bit different

so the new threads point to old ones (but i only have like 30 new threads)

so is not big deal right?

If the majority of the urls haven't changed, those wont be effected... only the new/changed threads will.

well the 90% of the threads have the same url

just less than 10% have a different url

other question, lests say, i close a forum section and move all threads to another forum section, how vbseo handles this?

for example

Movies -> Sci-fi section (old)

Movies (New, i mean i delet the sci-fi sub-directory and move all threads/posts to the parent forum)

Threads with Id's in them will auto-301 to the correct place.

You can also create a custom redirect to the new place, as in
Renamed Category and forums - redirect - vBulletin SEO Forums


The ideal solution is to stop moving things around

yeah i know, i just i had to many forums sections.. for a 100 user community


so is something like this

'^sci/(.*)?' => 'movies/$1' or

'^movies/sci/(.*)?' => 'new-forum-title/$1'

It depends on the actual url. The CR panel is relative to the forum root. If you are using forum_path variables and have nested folders, you'll need to use both.

It's important not to over-extend your forums by putting too many forum sections when you don't have a lot of members. It will keep activity low in each section.