: How important is it to 301 redirect forum posts I am going through the process of porting all forum data from PHP to ASP.net, it's quite a long and difficult process. There are around 30,000

@Chiappetta492

This blog was very helpful to understand 301 redirect. As our website was done under CMS, I didn't wanted to change any programming.

Hence, I found the way to redirect 'www. and .co.uk domain to one .com domain in our domain control panel.

I suggest any one who wants to do the same, try to use your Domain management system as this will redirect all request at the root level and also increase page ranking.

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@Pope3001725

30,000 threads is a lot of content to lose. I know I'd explore every option available to me to get those redirects done.

I would think that if your old forum and new forums both have a consistent structured URL for threads that you could either write one rewrite rule to redirect them all or write a script to write individual rules for you.

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@Welton855

It probably depends on how much revenue and traffic you stand to lose from having all those pages drop out of the index as to how important it is to you. If you don't redirect them then any links you have pointing at deep pages (and helping them get or stay indexed) will be useless to the new URLs, so you'll have to do quite a bit of work to get all those new URLs indexed again.

imho it will be less work to redirect then it will be to essentially start from scratch.

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