I have a website with a certain forum on it www.x.com/forumzz. Now I would like to change the url of the forum to forum.x.com, due some restrictions it is next to impossible to transfer the whole forum to the subdomain. I would like google to index forum.x.com so it looks like it is filled with all the content from www.x.com/forumzz. I know it is possible using shadow domains and cloaking, but since this comes very close to black hat I was hoping for another solution. How would you guys solve this?
This is acceptable and isn't cloaking, all you need to do is use mod_rewrite to 301 redirect the sub-folder to the sub domain.
thnx! I didn't know that when you do a redirect 301 that in the SERPS it actually looks like the directing page has all the content in it. I thought it was used to send the spiders and visitors to another site(directory) because of a site transfer.