If I install vBSEO?

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1) Does it hurt my overall SEO if my forums are www.mydomain.com/forums instead of www.mydomain.com?


2) If I install vBSEO but dont have a dynamic site map will that hurt overall SEO? What about not even having a site map at all?

Hi Matt,

If your forums are your site, it's encouraged to keep the install at root, rather than /forums, so as to keep folder depth to a minimum. That said, I don't think it hurts SEO overall.

Are you referring to a Site Map for visitors, or one for spiders? It's a good idea to have such a structure somewhere, that links to the main areas of your site.

Our vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator is for submitting to Google/Yahoo, to tell the Search Engines what to spider, and how often.

Originally Posted by Ace Shattock

Hi Matt,

If your forums are your site, it's encouraged to keep the install at root, rather than /forums, so as to keep folder depth to a minimum. That said, I don't think it hurts SEO overall.

Are you referring to a Site Map for visitors, or one for spiders? It's a good idea to have such a structure somewhere, that links to the main areas of your site.

Our vBSEO Google/Yahoo Sitemap Generator is for submitting to Google/Yahoo, to tell the Search Engines what to spider, and how often.

Thanks!

Its a blog site that happens to have a forurm. So the blog is in root, then forums in subdirectory