Google won't link my website

I will try and keep it short.

3 months ago I created a forum, google had started to create links to its search engine.

The forum had about 70 threads and about 200 posts, google had as far as I had seen had about 40 links come up when searching under different key words.

I had deleted this forum and started again with vbulletin the forum is 130 threads strong and nearly 1000 posts but google hasn't established 1 single link in the search engine.

This was the old forum url http://www.skyscraperarchive.com/forum

This is the url to the new forum http://www.skyscraperarchive.com/forums

My question is how do I fix this?
Or will it fix itself with time?
Or is the forum a lost cause?

Can someone help me please

Thank you all

 

Use redirect 301

 

Use redirect and add more links to the new forums to speed things up.

 

Does anyone know roughly how long it would take for this process to correct itself?

Thank you

 

I have never owned a forum but have had experience of new urls ending up in the supplemental when I renamed them. Presumably you have checked that???? I also once had a site where all the pages started dropping out of the Google index; it turned out to be the - newly added - submenus were written in such a way that Google couldn't follow the links and so stopped indexing the pages. I changed my software and the site is now no 1 for many keywords.

 

Thank you for your response.

Sorry Im very new to all this, what is the supplemental.

Thank you.

 

OK guys thanks i have managed to the get the redirect 301 work to an acceptable level

Thankyou all