VBSEO Slugs...

Hi,

I have been working my way through this list:
Your Site Review - Stuff to Do First

And I am to a point where I need a little help. When I created my forum in 2003, I never thought about SEO. I did it as a hobby. I got serious with the website and now of course own a VBSEO license. I have had it going for over a year and seeing the above post, I am happy to report most of the items I have completed to my satisfaction.

What I need help with is VBSEO slugs. I need a clear and easy to follow instruction/guide on how to use this feature and an example.

Say I want to change the forum category title of forum ID 83 from:

"Discussion Room" to "Growing Vanilla Planifolia"

From what I have been able to find through the search feature, using a slug, I should be able to somehow keep my links as they are and add these keywords?? This is where I need help. Thanks.

Cheers,
Bruce

First you would set up a slug for the existing forum URL rewrite, in your config_vbseo.php file:

See here for more info:
vBSEO Slugs - Custom Forum Titles

Once the slug is in place, then you can change the forum name. The rewrite part of the URL will stay the same, but the title of the page is changed.

Originally Posted by Joe Ward

First you would set up a slug for the existing forum URL rewrite, in your config_vbseo.php file:

See here for more info:
vBSEO Slugs - Custom Forum Titles

Once the slug is in place, then you can change the forum name. The rewrite part of the URL will stay the same, but the title of the page is changed.

Thanks for the link!

Follow-up question:
So for my example above would I do this?

$vbseo_forum_slugs = array(
83 => 'Discussion-Room',
);

OR, would I do this?

Code:

   $vbseo_forum_slugs = array(
83 => 'Growing-Vanilla-Planifolia',
    );  

I assume I would put the 'old title' (Discussion Room) in the code and put the new title (Growing-Vanilla-Planifolia ) on the live forum? But I want to make double sure before I change something and cause a problem on my board.

And do I need to include the hyphen between the words or can I just have a space?

Thanks, Joe, for you help! It is most appreciated.

Cheers,
Bruce

PHP Code:

$vbseo_forum_slugs = array(
 83 => 'Discussion Room'
 ); 


This would be the correct version.

Thanks so much, Joe! I thought that was the correct way.

Cheers,
Bruce