Hello... I originally started my site as a blogish type site with a forum. I've done away with the blog part and now its just the forums. Since I had to install the forum in the /forums directory (because at the time I didn't think it would be the root) I redirect all traffic from www.mysite.com to www.mysite.com/forums via 301 redirect. All of my backlinks are to www.mysite.com but my 'main' site is really mysite.com/forums. Does this effect SEO in any way? How should I link to my site from now on? Again, any traffic to the original site is now redirected to the forums. -Thanks
You should change your backlinks to point to www.mysite.com/forums . PR will be passed with 301. It does not effect SEO in any way if your 301 redirection is implemented good.
What do you mean 'implemented good'? Will mysite.com/forums recieve the same PR as mysite.com? -Thanks
Check your header requests here to be sure that 301 redirection is implemented good: http://web-sniffer.net/ www .mysite. com/forums should receive the same PR as www. mysite. com. But if you use only www version you should redirect your non www version to www to not waste some PR . You can put this code in your .htaccess : RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domainname\.com [nc] RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domainname.com/$1 [R=301,L]