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Originally Posted by lierduh

I could well be blind. A quick check shows the hack does not provide
301 redirect for the old urls. This is actually quite dangerous, at
least for Google. Google has been putting a lot of web sites on
duplicate contents penalty. If Google discovers two urls serve the
same page, the site/pages will be penalized. A classic example is
'www.site.com' and 'site.com' serve the same contents. There are many
PR5 or higher (page rank) sites become PR0 due to the penalty. It is
reported that these sites are penalized for at least 6 months before
they reappear in the index at the right position.

A few signs of sites being penalized:

1) Do a search for "forums.yoursite.com" (include the double quotes),
if the site is not returned first, bad luck.
2) Search for
site:forums.yoursite.com

If the result returns with a lot of URLs only without description, or
if a lot of your pages are listed in the Supplementary Index. Some sort of
penalty is in place.

A Google recommended way to create new URLs is to serve 301 header for
the old URLs. 301 means permanent redirect. So Google does not need to cache both
URLs. 301 can be easily implemented using .htaccess file.

i did not think of that...OMG
is there any way we can fix that ASAP