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Originally Posted by vauge

I really really like this idea, but is the below a concern? I do not want to do negative thing for my forums.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

301 Redirect is Google preferred way. Google penalize web site with duplicated contents. So if you have two URLs showing the same contents, Google prefers you redirect from one URL to the other. Have both will attract penlty.

What we do here is not sneaky. We have the actual contents, we just want Google to show one version of it. We do not want Google to give us higher page rank than the pages actually worth, we just want Google to index the actually contents, instead of looping through the endless internal links.

I moved my forums to a new domain a few weeks ago (just before I released this hack). There are so far 150,000 pages indexed by Google already. Without sitemap Yahoo has only indexed just over 20,000 pages.