Removed vbSEO- Site Indexing TANKED- any fixes?

[Budget101]

I was Forced to upgrade by my server company because their server couldn't handle the load of running vbSEO and they kept stating that there were security issues (which is kind of ironic considering I didn't get hacked until AFTER I upgraded!!) I digress,

In any case, I removed vbSEO and as I feared, my website ranking has completely tanked out and set me back to the same level of traffic I was at about 7 years ago. Instead of thousands of my pages being in the top 5 in a google search, NONE of them are.

I'm still submitting site indices, but they're not showing friendly URLS, they're showing content.php/r=3434

Is there any way to actually achieve listings using vbulletin????

[ikopylov]

Yes, I can help.
Need to write complex forwarding rules
Due to the different settings on each site, these rules are unique to each site

I need to see
- Your Site
- Access to google webmaster

[Budget101]

I'm currently using complex rewrite rules in the .htaccess to prevent broken urls from the removal, but they don't show the old .html extensions anymore which is what I'm looking to achieve.

I don't use Google Webmaster.

The .htaccess looks like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule [^/]+/([0-9]+)-[^/]+\.html http://www.mydomain.com/showthread.php?t=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-([0-9]+)\.html http://www.mydomain.com/content.php?r=$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule [^/]+/[^/]+-([0-9]+)/ http://www.mydomain.com/content.php?r=$1 [L,R=301]

The old VBSEO CMS url's Appeared Like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/ramen-noodle-recipes/ramen-noodle-mania-contest-3040.html

and it displays in the browser url like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/content.php?r=3040

I would like to change it back so that it looks like this

http://www.mydomain.com/ramen-noodle-recipes/ramen-noodle-mania-contest-3040.html

In the browser bar and in the search engines. I purchased dbSEO & imported the settings from vbSEO, but it didn't work, the CMS options in dbSEO aren't the same as they were in vbSEO- they don't allow the CMS Section Names to change.

[ForceHSS]

Use dbseo as vbseo does have security problems

[Brandon Sheley]

Or upgrade to xenforo which has an importer for vbseo url's.

Also I'd suggest using google webmaster tools and google analytic regardless of what you choose.

[Zachery]

Any change in url structure at all will always have a short term hit to your rankings. Moving to another software (all together) wont help, neither.

How long ago did you migrate away from vBSEO?

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Any change in url structure at all will always have a short term hit to your rankings.

Not necessarily, not in my experience (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2534340)

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Any change in url structure at all will always have a short term hit to your rankings. Moving to another software (all together) wont help, neither.

How long ago did you migrate away from vBSEO?

There are redirects in the suggestion I posted, so it may still hurt but it wouldn't be near as bad as any old links would still redirect to the correct content.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by cellarius

Not necessarily, not in my experience (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2534340)

Every site I've worked with has generally had a small dip (days/weeks) until things recover/change over. even with 301

[Budget101]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

Use dbseo as vbseo does have security problems

I realize that, which is why I removed it several months ago, unfortunately, it's caused a massive tank to my SEO.

Originally Posted by Zachery

Any change in url structure at all will always have a short term hit to your rankings. Moving to another software (all together) wont help, neither.

How long ago did you migrate away from vBSEO?

4 Months and I've seen a 500% DECREASE in traffic/ ranking and consquently site revenue.

Originally Posted by Brandon Sheley

Or upgrade to xenforo which has an importer for vbseo url's..

As far as I know Xenforo still doesn't offer a Content Management System.. is that correct?

Originally Posted by Zachery

Every site I've worked with has generally had a small dip (days/weeks) until things recover/change over. even with 301

Um, we're not talking about SMALL dips here, we're talking about night & day difference.