Moving forum from subfolder to root

[Sheffielder]

How badly impacted from an SEO perspective would moving my forum to the root folder be?

 

e.g

www.website.com/forums

to

www.website.com

 

It's a fairly long established forum

[bfarber]

As long as you 301 redirect everything after the move, your SEO should recover within a few months in most cases.

[Sheffielder]

 

Thank you

🙂
Is there a really quick/easy to understand/dummies guide for stupid people as to how to do that 🙂

 

[bfarber]

21 hours ago, Sheffielder said:

 

Thank you

🙂
Is there a really quick/easy to understand/dummies guide for stupid people as to how to do that 🙂

 

Yes, there are probably thousands. 🙂 Just google "301 redirect subfolder to root"

https://perishablepress.com/redirect-subdirectory-to-root-via-htaccess/

[Sheffielder]

Many thanks

 

[marklcfc]

I did this with mine sometime last year and still don't know if I did it right, was a mess for a while as everyone was being directed to /forums/ even though there was nothing there - I'd previously had a permanent redirect going to that directory, for at least 10 years... so unless they removed their cookies etc they still saw /forums/
I added a redirect into htaccess for a year or so which appeared to fix it then removed it not long ago, I just assume it's ok now

[Sheffielder]

 

 

Did it mess up your Search Engine visibility much mate?