Sheffielder Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 As long as you 301 redirect everything after the move, your SEO should recover within a few months in most cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffielder Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 Thank you 🙂 Is there a really quick/easy to understand/dummies guide for stupid people as to how to do that 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffielder Posted September 11, 2018 Author Share Posted September 11, 2018 Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marklcfc Posted September 11, 2018 Share Posted September 11, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffielder Posted September 11, 2018 Author Share Posted September 11, 2018 Did it mess up your Search Engine visibility much mate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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