If I were to transfer a PHBB forum to a Vbulliten forum would I be able to transfer all the posts I already have on the PHBB forum to my new forum without being docked for repeat content..I would like the answer to this question so I can possibly change my scripting on my new webmaster forum.

Thanks for any suggestions guys

Hopefully this is the correct place to put it.

It sounds like you're talking about this from an SEO point of view and therefore I think a mod. should probably move this thread to one of the "Search Engine Talk" forums.

I'm afraid I don't know the exact answer, but I guess if you were to replace your phpbb forum with a vbulletin forum there wouldn't be any duplicate content...?

AFAIK forums don't tend to rank very well anyway?

moved...

I hope someone here can answer your question!

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...e-content.html

There's no dupe content filter, but the new copy won't outrank the old one. But I think that's a moot point.

Unless the two forum software packages both use the same schema, you're going to have a very hard time moving content from one system into the other. Posts are probably stored in one table, users in another, forums in a third, at a minimum. You'll need to copy the data from these tables into your new system, without breaking their referential integrity.

If you have an idea what that means, then this question probably belongs in the database forum. If you can provide the schemas, people will help you craft queries to move the data around. If that's possible ... you might need a client app to do the work.

Obviously, once you've got the data moved, you won't need to host the old copy along side the "current" data set. At that point, there's only one copy of your data.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=BGOD

Well so far I am actually 1st on my serach engine when you serach up BGOD in the search engine On top of 22,000 other web pages...So I don't think that worked out to bad I think I am going to keep to the PHBB script because you can do anything you want int he PHBB script that you could do on the vBulliten software thanks for all the help though.

Er, no offense, but you get extra credit for search terms that appear in your URL. If you didn't come up first when searching for your own domain name, it would be a problem.