Going from vB/forum to vB. Is it worth it?

[Black Snow]

My forum is installed as mysite.com/forum. Is it worth while moving the forum to root? I did have vBadvanced installed and running as the home page with the forum in /forum.

vBAdvanced is no longer supported so I removed it. What issues could it cause by moving the forum to the root and is it worth doing?

[Dunken Swettie]

Hey, so far I know it will affect your SEO heavily, unless it's really needed, otherwise I think you shouldn't do that!

I think we can put some redirect codes as well to handle this, but don't know if I can keep the codes forever or will remove it at a point of time.

[Black Snow]

I guessed SEO would be a major factor in this. I thought about using .htaccess to redirect but I don't like doing that. I'm looking into creating a custom landing page, similar to what vBAdvanced would do but without the massive product.

[HM666]

Originally Posted by Black Snow

I guessed SEO would be a major factor in this. I thought about using .htaccess to redirect but I don't like doing that. I'm looking into creating a custom landing page, similar to what vBAdvanced would do but without the massive product.

Creating a landing page is fine but you would still have SEO issues with the other links that your CMPS had. The only way to redirect those links is to use htaccess or write a specialized code using PHP. There are some tutorials on both online. You would still need those other links that were once in the portal to go somewhere unfortunately so just doing a one page deal would probably not really help matter a whole lot.

[findingpeace]

Why not just redirect the homepage to /forum ?

[Paul M]

Why remove it simply because its not supported anymore - it was still working right ?

[HM666]

Originally Posted by findingpeace

Why not just redirect the homepage to /forum ?

Very true. That would be even easier.