yabbseo to vbseo

If I buy vbseo will google get 404's when trying to crawl the old yabbseo urls?

Hello,

yes, that would be possible - just let us know some example old URLs that you want to redirect and we will provide a set of rewrite rules to be added in .htaccess to redirect to new vBSEOed links.

Hi avalanch,

Do the old URL's include the thread ID's can you give us and example URL format? If so it may be possible to redirect the old URL's to the new format using vBSEO Custom Redirect Feature.

Ceri

Here's some example urls /forum/f117-windows-support/locked-out-of-windows-because-of-corrupt-registry-8020.html and the htaccess

HTML Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml
# Comment the following line (add '#' at the beginning)
# to disable mod_rewrite functions.
RewriteEngine On
# Please note: RewriteBase is the path of your forum
# to your root vB installation (i.e. / or /forums without ending slash / if it is a subdirectory)
RewriteBase /forum

RewriteRule ^sitemap\.xml$ sitemap.php [L]
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ yabbseo.php?bbseourl=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Hi,

As both the forum ID and thread ID are in the URL format vBSEO would definitely be able to 301 redirect the old URL's to the new ones. Once you have purchased a vBSEO licence please feel free to start a thread (Or reply to this one) and we will be more than happy to help you with the Custom Redirects Rules.

Ceri

ah you mean by adding something like this right?

Originally Posted by Oleg Ignatiuk

Since there are IDs included in old URLs, it won't be a problem to redirect them.
In this particular case, the following rewrite rule should be used:
RewriteRule ^f[0-9]+-[^/]+/[^/]+-([0-9]+)\.html vbseo.php?vbseourl=showthread.php&t=$1 [L]

Hi,

Yes that would do it