SEO Experts, Can You Figure This Out?

Hey Guys and Gals,

My Video Gaming Site is over 5 years and gets lots of traffic, it is a huge site and it used to maintain a strong PR4 when I had the forum on the homepage.

The riddle.....every since I moved the forum to a sub-domain, and added a game portal as the front page I have lost my PR...it is now Pr0 and says I have no backlinks in Google or MSN where as before I had thousands of backlinks.

This is my Video Game Forum

What has happened. How can I regain my PR.

Who can figure out the PR mystery and tell me via here or pm how I would go about fixing this problem.

Thanks

 

When you moved your forum, did you spend less time on search engine optimization?

To keep rankings and PageRank, new backlinks and updates are priority.

 

I had the forum moved by a vbulletin person here on DP so I assumed they kept the SEO in tact. I am wondering how can I re-claim all of my old backlinks etc.?

Thanks

 

If you changed the URLs then you've lost all your links. You need to redirect the old URLs to the new.

 

You are a genious!!! That is the answer. How much would you charge to do this for me? Thanks a ton guys. I knew I ccould count on DP.....I have been stumped with this for months now. I have a major family crisis that kept me from giving priority to this site.

Let me know if you can fix for me. PM me

Thanks

 

Also a sub domain is classed as a new domain, you would have been better going www.domain.com/forum!

 

This should help you out

http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

 

redirect all the way

 

Hi I am just thrilled to be getting the long sought after answers on this problem. I guess, the next time I move a forum I need it moved by a forum and an SEO expert so as not to loose the integrity of my site. The site still gets lots of traffic but I just don't have the time to manage the traffic and create the needed income. Maybe it would be better if I can get someone to do the redirects for me and then see what would be the best next step for the gaming community.

Thanks Martyn.b, you are right, and I changed the forum from www.xsgaming.com to www.xsgaming.com/forums, my thinking had been that it would hold the site integrity but clearly there was more to my problem.

Also, thanks Mti I will go to the link now to see what I can learn to help boost my site.
Thanks to all of you for your insight.

I would love to have someone with loads of experience look at my site and give me a complete run down on what I can do to improve my site and if the price is not to high perhaps you can implement the needed SEO techniques.

If you are interested in doing this please pm me or respond here.

Thanks again

 

move your forum from the subdomain back to the main domain use a sub folder not a sub domain subdomains are counted as a seperate domain thats where you messed up.

oh re reading i see you did that now give it time.. but seriously im sure thats what hurt you.

 

Hi There,

Kewlchat, I got a little confused. should I leave the fourm at www.mydomain.com/forums or should i move it back to www.mydomain.com?

I just want to see things turn around. It has been 6 months since I moved the forum and still no new PR ranking and no backlinks are mentioned from google or Msn.

Thanks a ton

 

You are putting a new content on and old page. Search engine could be thinking is a new site unless you use redirect 301. Learn about redirect 301 but anyhow it takes time to get back the PR because of the crawling process. All the best then and good luck.

 

Don't assume that
You still have the "powered by vbulletin" in all your title tags.

If you moved the path, you'll need to build links up to the sub folder.

 

Hey All,

Thanks for all of the suggestions and insights.

Second part here is this.....
Does anyone offer a service that will help me fix up my site. I am looking for a true SEO expert to get the site back to its glory days.

I know there is someone who can put this on the right track.

You can view my site here...Video Gaming