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Will i lose my rankings???

by robdenio
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I planning on converting my forum from phpbb to xenforo in the next week or so but i am a bit worried about my rankings.

I am currently ranked 1st for over 10 huge searches its taken me months to do but the forum is getting to much for phpbb and need to change.

If i was to change it all over will my rankings be affected?

Rob
#lose #rankings
  • Profile picture of the author danielcollins
    Originally Posted by robdenio View Post

    I planning on converting my forum from phpbb to xenforo in the next week or so but i am a bit worried about my rankings.

    I am currently ranked 1st for over 10 huge searches its taken me months to do but the forum is getting to much for phpbb and need to change.

    If i was to change it all over will my rankings be affected?

    Rob
    No, it will not hurt..
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  • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
    If the pages, URLs and content stays/remain the same I don't think anything is going to go wrong with your rankings.

    And even if it does going back won't be difficult due to the previous links and if the specific pages remain the same.

    Apparently you don't have a choice but to carry out the upgrade.
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Can't you do a 301 redirection? Or you are talking about the SAME domain? If it's on the same, just be sure to redirect your inner pages (forum categories!) to your new categories of your new forum!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben West
    It all depends in if upgrading to xenforo will change your URLs or not. If it does it will cause a problem and you will have to redirect all the old pages to the new ones.
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    • Profile picture of the author sanusense
      Originally Posted by Ben West View Post

      It all depends in if upgrading to xenforo will change your URLs or not. If it does it will cause a problem and you will have to redirect all the old pages to the new ones.
      Have you ever heard about 301 redirect, there you can manually edit URLs of new url formats.
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      • Profile picture of the author robdenio
        Originally Posted by sanusense View Post

        Have you ever heard about 301 redirect, there you can manually edit URLs of new url formats.
        Have never heard of this how can i do this?

        Rob
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        • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
          Originally Posted by robdenio View Post

          Have never heard of this how can i do this?

          Rob
          Pick a good SEO expert and web designer to help you with the redirections only to the relevant URLs.

          Alternatively, there should be a way to get rid of the category and still have the same URL, get a coder.
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    • Profile picture of the author robdenio
      Originally Posted by Ben West View Post

      It all depends in if upgrading to xenforo will change your URLs or not. If it does it will cause a problem and you will have to redirect all the old pages to the new ones.
      It will change the url's thats one of the reasons i am upgrading to xenforo.

      Phpbb - my current ranked urls look like this: http://www.mysite.com/viewforum.php?...9dc0d9961964d1

      Xenforo - Will look like this
      http://www.mysite.com/category

      How would i redirect the old pages?

      Rob
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  • Profile picture of the author bodimv1
    I think that you have to read Google information on their site or ask in their forum, to be 100% sure.
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  • Profile picture of the author DizenSounds
    Will you be able to retain the content from one forum to another? If not then don't bother switchign forums as you are just starting over completely.

    Also 301 redirect all URLs from the old post location to the new one for best results.
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    • Profile picture of the author robdenio
      Originally Posted by DizenSounds View Post

      Will you be able to retain the content from one forum to another? If not then don't bother switchign forums as you are just starting over completely.

      Also 301 redirect all URLs from the old post location to the new one for best results.
      I can retain all posts and topics from phpbb to xenforo.

      I will look into 301 redirects

      Thanks all for responding.

      Rob
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