I use VB for 10 years and now I'm facing the "soft 404" problem of VB4. During this years hundreds of topics were deleted (spam, flame etc). Now I see in google webmsters tools hundreds of soft 404 pages. And I can see what it did to my forum position in search results, to my traffic, to my revenue. I understand that there is no way to solve this "soft 404" problem using VB4, that's why I'm thinking to upgrade to VB5.
Please confirm, that Vb5 gives 404 code for deleted threads (not 200 as VB4). Also, as VB5 has different structure of SEO links, I need to know if it has some built in way of correctly informing google about all the urls changes so I will not loose all those pages that are reach high position in google search results over 10 years, but will forward their values to their new urls.
Please confirm, that Vb5 gives 404 code for deleted threads (not 200 as VB4). Also, as VB5 has different structure of SEO links, I need to know if it has some built in way of correctly informing google about all the urls changes so I will not loose all those pages that are reach high position in google search results over 10 years, but will forward their values to their new urls.
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