No the old forum is still online click the link in my sig. All the old links are invalid because like peter said the old forum has moved folders.

James

I see what I did. I went to vbforums2, not forums2. My point still stands though: as long as there are links to the old forum, and the more there are, the more easily Google will index it and people will find it directly.

Three Good Things

~ istill316

google prefers pages that are updated regularly, now the old forums are recieving less posts than these, google should keep these on top.

just wondering though, would it be possible to lock the old forums, so no new threads can be made, but replies can? that should help a bit.

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True, but there's still a vast amount of content on the other forums that is not on the new ones. If a search is made for anything not on the new forums, only the old one will come up, so the searcher would be directed only to the old forum. There probably is a way to disable new threads or something.

Three Good Things

~ istill316

maybe URL redirrection. this will redirect all trafic from the old forum to the new forum.

go to www.cjb.net for URL redirection, the only problem would be though is that anyone being redirected will have .cjb.net at the end not .com

i know nothing about asp, but i'm sure if redirection is used theres a simply way of doing it without using cjb.net . for example, in php its just...

header('Location: http://www.a1vbcode.com/vbforums');
?>

[EDIT]
hmm... seems the opening php tag is removed when the message gets posted. is this a bug or just a security thing?

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yeah, somehow it should be redirected or made in such a way that you can only get to the old forum via the new.

Three Good Things

~ istill316