Need Help with removing vBSEO

[StarBuG]

Hello

I need help with 301 redirecting my vBSEO URLs to the original vB URLs so that I can remove vBSEO from my forums.


My URL Structure is this:

Forum: [forum_title]/
Forum Pagination: [forum_title]/themen-uebersicht-seite[forum_page].html
Thread: [forum_title]/[thread_title]-t[thread_id].html
Thread Pagination: [forum_title]/[thread_title]-t[thread_id]-s[thread_page].html
'Showpost': [forum_title]/[thread_title]-beitrag[post_count]-p[post_id].html
Poll: [forum_title]/umfrage-[poll_title]-p[poll_id].html
Member Profile: mitglieder/[user_name]-u[user_id].html

The most important rewrites are the forum and subforum rewrites and the thread rewrites.
The rest would be super cool bonus help

I attached my complete rewrite Settings

Any help is much appreciated


StarBuG

[BirdOPrey5]

You can still find some uninstall info on vbseo.com by viewing what Google brings up in the Google cache. This was listed as a reqrite rule for threads if you want to try it-

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule [^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]

[StarBuG]

I don't think that this rule will work because I don't use the standard setup for URLs

[BirdOPrey5]

I see what you're saying... Try this-

RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-t([0-9]+)\.html http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]

It matches this test case: forumtitle/threadtitle-t999.html

[New Joe]

I guess vbseo won't be coming back?

Is it dangerous to leave it installed?
As I guess now if a hacker finds a hole no way to patch it...

[Majora]

Originally Posted by StarBuG

Hello

I need help with 301 redirecting my vBSEO URLs to the original vB URLs so that I can remove vBSEO from my forums.


My URL Structure is this:

Forum: [forum_title]/
Forum Pagination: [forum_title]/themen-uebersicht-seite[forum_page].html
Thread: [forum_title]/[thread_title]-t[thread_id].html
Thread Pagination: [forum_title]/[thread_title]-t[thread_id]-s[thread_page].html
'Showpost': [forum_title]/[thread_title]-beitrag[post_count]-p[post_id].html
Poll: [forum_title]/umfrage-[poll_title]-p[poll_id].html
Member Profile: mitglieder/[user_name]-u[user_id].html

The most important rewrites are the forum and subforum rewrites and the thread rewrites.
The rest would be super cool bonus help

I attached my complete rewrite Settings

Any help is much appreciated


StarBuG

Lade einfach deine vBSEO URL-Einstellungen hier hoch: http://tools.geekpoint.net/xfseo/

[ozzy47]

Originally Posted by Majora

Lade einfach deine vBSEO URL-Einstellungen hier hoch: http://tools.geekpoint.net/xfseo/

Please keep all posts in English.

[Silmarillion]

I removed vBSEO. Unfortunately none of the known htaccess rules work. I would be very glad if someone could helped me out.

My vBSEO-Rewrite Rules:

Forum: [forum_title]-f[forum_id].html
Forum Pagination: [forum_title]/index[forum_page].html
Thread: [thread_title]-t[thread_id].html
Thread Pagination: [thread_title]-t[thread_id]-[thread_page].html

I attached my complete rewrite Settings

Any help is much appreciated

Silmarillion

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Silmarillion

I removed vBSEO. Unfortunately none of the known htaccess rules work. I would be very glad if someone could helped me out.

My vBSEO-Rewrite Rules:

Forum: [forum_title]-f[forum_id].html
Forum Pagination: [forum_title]/index[forum_page].html
Thread: [thread_title]-t[thread_id].html
Thread Pagination: [thread_title]-t[thread_id]-[thread_page].html

I attached my complete rewrite Settings

Any help is much appreciated

Silmarillion

For Threads

RewriteEngine on 

RewriteRule [^/]+-t([0-9]+)\.html http://www.domain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]

I've never worried about links to forums and especially forum pagination, who links to a specific page of a specific forum? The content is always changing.

Specific forums I might understand on a site with hundreds of forums but realistically it will have negligible impact on SEO. Threads will out number forums by (hopefully) thousands or hundreds of thousands to one.

For thread pagination I'd need to see a specific example of the old style URL.

[Silmarillion]

THREAD works like charme! Thank u very much! Ur the man! :up:

Example THREAD PAGINATION: http://www.domain.com/my-first-soccer-book-t27-2.html

Best regards,
Silmarillion