Conversion from phpbb forum to Vbulletin site lost indexed pages [Archive]

m4ck

05-25-2006, 01:42 AM

Ok guys I broke down and purchased VB and converted my PHPnuke site that used PHPBB2 board. I really like VB I think its a lot nicer from the users point of view as well as the administration side. The bad think is all the url's have changed now. From what I can tell none of the pages are indexed anylonger. Before the url's were like www.mysite.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=15371 now they are like www.mysite.org/forum/showthread.php?t=434 so none of the links from outside the site work anymore and I knew this would happen. But the pages that were all indexed are now gone. It will take a while to get the new forum indexed. I have done some seo hacks to the new site like Vbseo google site map. I also did the H1 tags hack to the forum thanks to you guys. What are some other things I can do to get Google hopping through my forum again. Used to I would see anywhere from 50 - 150 spiders going through my forum. Now I only see a few at a time. I dont know much about .htacess so if you have any tips there let me know. I have read some of you suggest mod_rewrite for more se friendly url's but some say don't.
Thanks for all the tips so far and thanks for any future input.
M4ck

Joeychgo

05-25-2006, 02:06 AM

At this stage, you have done more then you needed to. The site will be indexed again, not to worry.

Best thing to do is get links to www.yoursite.com/forum (http://www.yoursite.com/forum) - the more links you have, the more you'll get spidered and the faster you'll get indexed. But even if you do nothing else, its just a matter of time now.