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phpBB SEO to vBulletin

This is a discussion on phpBB SEO to vBulletin within the Pre-Sales Questions forums, part of the Announcements & Pre-Sales category; Hiya I have just migrated my phpBB3 forum (Which was premod phpBB SEO ) to vBulletin and am thinking about ...

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    phpBB SEO to vBulletin

    Hiya

    I have just migrated my phpBB3 forum (Which was premod phpBB SEO) to vBulletin and am thinking about vBSEO to divert my existing URLs to new ones.

    Is it possible to achieve that?

    Current URL strucuture is like this

    After migration, the display arrangement wasnt exactly what I had in phpBB3 so I reorganised them. My existing htaccess is

    ################################################## ###
    # PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES - ADVANCED
    ################################################## ###
    # AUTHOR : dcz phpBB SEO
    # STARTED : 01/2006
    #################################
    # FORUMS PAGES
    ###############
    # FORUM INDEX REWRITERULE WOULD STAND HERE IF USED. "forum" REQUIRES TO BE SET AS FORUM INDEX
    # RewriteRule ^forum\.html$ /index.php [QSA,L,NC]
    # FORUM
    RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
    # TOPIC WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
    RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
    # GLOBAL ANNOUNCES WITH VIRTUAL FOLDER
    RewriteRule ^announces/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
    # TOPIC WITHOUT FORUM ID & DELIM
    RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]*)/?[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /viewtopic.php?forum_uri=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
    # PROFILES SIMPLE
    RewriteRule ^member([0-9]+)\.html$ /memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
    # USER MESSAGES SIMPLE
    RewriteRule ^member([0-9]+)-(topics|posts)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /search.php?author_id=$1&sr=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]
    # GROUPS SIMPLE
    RewriteRule ^group([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /memberlist.php?mode=group&g=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
    # POST
    RewriteRule ^post([0-9]+)\.html$ /viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
    # ACTIVE TOPICS
    RewriteRule ^active-topics(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /search.php?search_id=active_topics&start=$2&sr=top ics [QSA,L,NC]
    # UNANSWERED TOPICS
    RewriteRule ^unanswered(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /search.php?search_id=unanswered&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC]
    # NEW POSTS
    RewriteRule ^newposts(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /search.php?search_id=newposts&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC]
    # THE TEAM
    RewriteRule ^the-team\.html$ /memberlist.php?mode=leaders [QSA,L,NC]
    # HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO ADD OTHER PHPBB RELATED REWRITERULES

    # FORUM WITHOUT ID & DELIM
    # THESE FOUR LINES MUST BE LOCATED AT THE END OF YOUR HTACCESS TO WORK PROPERLY
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)(-([0-9]+))\.html$ /viewforum.php?forum_uri=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)\.html$ /viewforum.php?forum_uri=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
    # END PHPBB PAGES
    ################################################## ###
    Now my question is which product suits me the best so that I can remove the existing forum but the url's in google should redirect to new ones in vbulletin?

    Thanks a lot

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