I've tested it on Google Webmaster Tools also.

http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-s ... ulator.php

Basically, Instead of..

http://www.website.com/forums/thefile

The spider is going in to http://www.altimaforums.net and getting 301 redirected to http://www.altimaforums.net/forums

.. but the spider still thinks the files are at / (root).

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# You could need to un-comment the following line
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

redirect 301 /index.php http://www.altimaforums.net/forums/index.html

#########################################################
# PHPBB SEO REWRITE RULES            #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : DCZ http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 01/2006
#####################################################
# FORUMS PAGES
########################
# FORUM INDEX (un-comment if used)
RewriteRule ^forums/index\.html$ /forums/index.php [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM PROTECTION RULE
# RewriteRule ^forums/[a-z0-9_-]*/([^/]+\.html)$ /forums/index.php [R=301,L,NC]
# CATEGORIES
RewriteRule ^forums/[a-z0-9_-]*-c([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/index.php?c=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# FORUM
RewriteRule ^forums/[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewforum.php?f=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PAGINATED TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$2 [QSA,L,NC]
# TOPIC
RewriteRule ^forums/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?t=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# POST
RewriteRule ^forums/post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# PROFILES
RewriteRule ^forums/member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]
# FIX WWW
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.altimaforums\.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.altimaforums.net/$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
# END PHPBB PAGES
#########################################################

#########################################################
# GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES         #
#########################################################
# AUTHOR : dcz http://www.phpbb-seo.com/
# STARTED : 2006/02/22
########################
# RSS main
RewriteRule ^rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /rss.php?$1&$2 [L]
# RSS forums
RewriteRule ^forums-rss-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /rss.php?forum&c&$1&$2 [L]
# RSS all
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-rss([0-9]*)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /rss.php?$1=$2&$3&$4 [L]
# RSS forum topics
RewriteRule ^.+-rf([0-9]+)-?(l|s)?-?(m)?\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /rss.php?forum=$1&$2&$3 [L]
# SitemapIndex
RewriteRule ^sitemaps\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /sitemap.php [L]
# Sitemap modules
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)-sitemap\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /sitemap.php?$1 [L]
# Forum Sitemaps
RewriteRule ^.+-gf([0-9]+)\.(xml(\.gz)?)$ /sitemap.php?forum=$1 [L]
# Yahoo! urllist.txt
RewriteRule ^urllist\.(txt(\.gz)?)$ /urllist.php [L]
#########################################################
# END GYM SITEMAPS AND RSS REWRITE RULES      #
#########################################################


Anybody know why this is?

Thanks

Looks like it is the part you added :

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redirect 301 /index.php http://www.altimaforums.net/forums/index.html

The purpose seems to be the one you describe as problematic.

I don't think bot would have any problem with this, they are just redirected from root to the forum index with a genuine HTTP 301 redirection. Now if the spider simulation tool your tried was not able to deal with it is another problem, spider bot do follow HTTP 301.

As well, it's not necessarily the best thing to do to HTTP 301 redirect the main domain's root to a sub-folder, a simple welcome page could start building PageRank, good to be transmitted in the deeper folders, while here you only build some for the forum index.

Thanks for the reply SEO.

This is what its doing (via spider sim.)

Spidered Links :

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http://www.altimaforums.net/forums
http://www.altimaforums.net/profile.php?mode=register
http://www.altimaforums.net/index.php
http://www.altimaforums.net/forums/
http://www.altimaforums.net/forums/
http://www.altimaforums.net/memberlist.php
http://www.altimaforums.net/search.php
http://www.altimaforums.net/donate.php
http://www.altimaforums.net/garage.php
http://www.altimaforums.net/profile.php?mode=register
http://www.altimaforums.net/profile.php?mode=editprofile
http://www.altimaforums.net/login.php?redirect=index.php
http://www.altimaforums.net/the-first-generation-f5.html
http://www.altimaforums.net/images/lightbox/5-1.jpg
http://www.altimaforums.net/the-second-generation-f6.html
http://www.altimaforums.net/images/lightbox/6-1.jpg
http://www.altimaforums.net/the-third-generation-f7.html
http://www.altimaforums.net/images/lightbox/7-1.jpg
http://www.altimaforums.net/the-fourth-generation-f8.html
http://www.altimaforums.net/images/lightbox/8-1.jpg
http://www.altimaforums.net/post101.html#101
http://www.altimaforums.net/member6.html
http://www.altimaforums.net/post101.html#101
http://www.altimaforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=35
http://www.altimaforums.net/profile.php?mode=viewprofile$amp;u=6

etc

Well, the spider tool you are using really seems to be causing this by itself, it must be simulating bots from the 80's or something like this .

Google does not have any problem to spider you board with the new rewritten urls : http://www.google.fr/search?q=site%3Aww ... Fforums%2F

++

haha @ 80's.

Okay, thanks! I appreciate it much.