From Webwiz 7 to vb4 cms - seo issues

[sh_yaniv]

Hi,

I am thinking of migrating my webwiz 7.0.x to the vb4 cms.

I am really worried about the SEO issues, as I don't know how to redirect my current threads to the new imported urls. Is it possible at all ?

Also, is it possible to do this migration between different web hosting companies?

Thanks,
Yaniv

[IBxAnders]

Possible on both accounts; I have some guidance and POSSIBLY redirect rules for a web-wiz forum; I've done this conversion before. Let me go and dig around and attempt to find it.

[sh_yaniv]

Thanks for your answer, I really need it in order to proceed with my decision to transfer to VB4.

[Froberg]

If nothing else you could do it using url rewrites.

[sh_yaniv]

I have over 70K of posts... I must automate the url rewrites in some way

[we_are_borg]

htaccess should be able to do that with a few lines but i'm not an htaccess expert that can do that. Can you give an example of what a url looks like on your board then maybe others can take a look at it to.

[Froberg]

I used to have my forum in /forum and then moved it - I successfully used a url re-write to redirect all posts automatically. As long as the link structure was the same, it was simple.

[maxfagotto]

Did you make this migration? Can you give me some help in order to do the same thing please?
Thanks a lot
Max

[sh_yaniv]

Not yet.