301 Redirect and seo

I set up a 301 redirect in my root directory that redirects all traffic to my forum which is a sub directory. It was suppose to be temporary but I plan on making it permanent. Could this affect seo?

 

It would affect it, but if you're doing this for the long term, chances are it'll be a positive one.

 

You will not have a problem with the 301, but you should change the IP address mapping from the root directory to the new forum (subdirectrory) for PR reasons.

 

The 301 will take care of that. Besides, there's no need to do extra work for the same result.

 

Thanks Dan Schulz & catanich



should backlinks go to the root or the forum?

 

The forum.