Sorting Domain

Hi Vbseo,

How can i make my perminant link this http://forum.***.com/ not
http://*****.com/forum/ i also don't want members or search spiders to to crawls urls that start with http://*****.com/forum/

How can i:
Sort the www vs non-www.
Sort the SubDomain vs Directory.

Is this feature also helpful ? Enable Canonical URLs NEW!
I have tried it in the past and the result with google indexing pages was bad not good.

You need to setup a subdomain name pointing at the forum folder that you are in.

Then from there your .htaccess should have this below the rewrite base line:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://forum.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Also you will need to update your URL to match the http://forum.mysite.com and open a ticket to have us transfer the license to the new location.

The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

When i applied the change in .htaccess, i received this note when i visit my forum, i couldn't access it

The above code is incorrect.

Please try:

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^forum\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://forum.mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

This should be placed in the forum directory. If you place it in root, ALL requests to your site will end up on your forum subdomain.

Thanks Brian (: this one worked.

What do you think about this feature? I tried it before but it hurt my page index
Enable Canonical URLs

It's a bit re-dundant on most pages, but it shouldn't have any negative effect.

Hi, well what features or improvement can i use to have one link per thread for example? you know if someone change a thread title or edit it, it gets a different url

I have been dealing with this issue for over a year now Site Indexing Dropping [Critique] but couldn't find a solution

Edited threads are auto-301'ed to the destination. They shouldn't be a big concern. Obviously, the less you change titles, the better. I would suggest NOT editing a thread title after the thread's been created for more than an hour.


I think the biggest issue on your site is your long-tail search. You are including the sitename and description on every post.
[How To] Remove Forum Title from Thread Pages for Long Tail Optimization / Increased Thread Title Relevancy

This will set your page titles to the actual title of the content.

I tried this idea before, it actually made google dropping many of my indexed pages, it didn't help me

An initial drop is expected. Things take time to settle in. It also looks like you changed pre-sets a couple times from the other thread. Every time you change something, you need to give it time to take effect and span out through all the search engine servers. This can take days, weeks, or even months sometimes depending on how google feels about your site.

Hi Brian, would you now how can i fix my urls to be set non www?

I want my site urls when search engin to crowl ****.com not www.****.com

The forums directory should take care of that already for your forum...

in root, add

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^.mysite\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://mysite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

so i should make a new .htaccess and place it in the root?

Currently i have a .htaccess in my forum folder, that is where all vbseo rules are.

The forum folder will not allow www as it sits already. It's sending anything that is NOT forums. to forums. Thus, even www.forums. will still go to forums.

So, yes, if you want to the rest of your site to not have www's, it will need to be in root.