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UserName Changes and VBSEO

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    Question UserName Changes and VBSEO

    Hello,
    Adding usernames to urls can be a bad idea too ?
    Lets say for example any popular user on forums for example http://www.vbseo.com/members/juan-muriente/ requests a username change entire url gets changed this way :(

    loosing high pr and lots of value in serps eyes.

    Should we assingn numbers to profiles or usernames ?
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    If you include the userid in your user profile URL format, it will automatically 301 redirect if the name changes.

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    But, if you want to make sure that the URL never changes, you would want to use the userid in the URL format, and not include the username at all.

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    The 301 doesn't transfer the old PR though so you would want the id. Which is why I have went to all id's on my forums.

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