I'm up and running vbseo-free and I feel like I just got out of jail!
My threads are redirecting correctly, but I need blogs, forums and member profiles/albums
I'd love to see what you've implemented to block out rogue crawlers. I suspect a great deal of my issues with vbseo's load may have been caused by crawlers and spambots.
Will these work?
Code:
RewriteRule ^forum([0-9]+)\.html$ forumdisplay.php?f=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^thread([0-9]+)\.html$ showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^blogs/$ blog.php [L,R=301]
Also, now I'm back to vb default URLs, if I decide to go to friendly URLs will my "link juice" be protected? (i.e. vbseo links -> standard links in httpd.conf -> friendly urls)