Went ahead and used the following for the re-write rule after reading this thread - How to 301 redirect forum to subdomain

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RewriteRule ^forums/(.*) http://forums.example.com/$1 [QSA,R=301]

Everything seems to be working great.

I'm running my forum today at http://www.groovypost.com/forum/ and for specific security, performance and hosting reasons, I looking to move the site to http://forum.groovypost.com I understand the SEO impacts this might cause and I'm OK with that at this point.... So with that in mind, any suggesti...

Hey guys, My forum has been under SPAM attack for the past few months to where the forum has almost been made useless..... Just wondering what others are doing today in order to limit spam on PHPBB. I've been thinking about using a CloudFlare to throw it in front of my Forum. I've done this on a few...

IntegratedS wrote:Getting listed in dmoz is really tough i am waiting from past 1 year..after seeing this thread i wonder how much patience i have to keep...

1 year?

I've been waiting since 2007. It's not easy and it take time... Will see if I'm ever listed.

So explain how it works? Sorry if I'm a little dense here but this looks like some shady... SEO honestly.

Goto google.com and type in dofollow blog

dcz wrote:phpBB SEO premod 3.0.7 released!

nice.

Much appreciated!

Thnx Typo.

I used this a few months back but never actually said thank you. It sure helps cut down the SPAM signatures on a forum.

[quote="Seoconsultant786"]Table less sites are the best one which are SEO friendly in a real sense.

Tableless?

Like I said. SEO is only one component of improving traffic on a site. If you have junk content with no backlinks seo is not really going to help. However, if you have good original content, using good seo practices can increase your page rank due to good URL and title tag and meta data and the elim...

B here a trick i learn. Here it is. First you should notice what type of site you have like games or news etc. Go to alexa and search for top sites then click category. click your category. Then go to each site and make a post with your site url to build a good back links. or in you account ucp pos...

kjl1321 wrote:Figured it out.....the htaccess file in the main root folder had something that was conflicting with the forum that was located in the subfolder. Got rid of it. Works great now. Thank God!!!!

Glad to hear you found the issue.... The .htaccess file has bitten me more than once!

First, I have seen pages with many external links without nofollows ranking very well even in google, simply because sometime, the external links can really be an important part of the content. For example talking about an article describing a service, links to specific part of it, which could be h...

Good SEO is only the start to increasing traffic from search engines. You also need GOOD content and backlinks.

did you install the forum in the /forums/ subfolder off your root?