Just converted from phpBB3, have some questions..

[shibby2]

Hey, I just converted a forum from phpBB3 to VB 3.8.4

My question is, now all the pages that are indexed in Google still direct to the phpBB3 URLs, so I'm assuming I'll lose a lot of traffic now since they just go to a 404 error page now.

Is there anything that can be done about this? This is my first time converting a forum, so I'm clueless on all this. Please talk slow.. lmao

Thanks for any help!

[kmplex]

Get a redirection script. 301 redirect those old urls to the new ones..

If you have a massive forum, at least try to 301 redirect the categories at the minimum..

Even then that's a lot of 404 errors you don't want.

[Max Taxable]

Submit new XML sitemaps to google, bing, yahoo, etc.

[shibby2]

Originally Posted by kmplex

Get a redirection script. 301 redirect those old urls to the new ones..

If you have a massive forum, at least try to 301 redirect the categories at the minimum..

Even then that's a lot of 404 errors you don't want.

Hi, can you explain a little more about how I would do that? I really have no idea. I'm clueless.

Thanks for any help, I really appreciate it!

[MaXimus]

Originally Posted by shibby2

Hi, can you explain a little more about how I would do that? I really have no idea. I'm clueless.

Thanks for any help, I really appreciate it!

here you go,

sign up at Attracta

it's free, and it takes just 4 steps to complete

then you can submit a whole sit map every week to ensure the latest content is indexed in the 4 major search engines

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Matrix Leader

here you go,

sign up at Attracta

it's free, and it takes just 4 steps to complete

then you can submit a whole sit map every week to ensure the latest content is indexed in the 4 major search engines

great tool!

[crazyboy1661]

Originally Posted by Matrix Leader

here you go,

sign up at Attracta

it's free, and it takes just 4 steps to complete

then you can submit a whole sit map every week to ensure the latest content is indexed in the 4 major search engines

Thanks a ton ML