XF 2.0 i want change threads/ to t/ only what i should do to not losing traffic from search engine

[jamalfree]

i want change threads/ to t/ only what i should do to not losing traffic from search engine

 

[Chris D]

Just create a route filter. The old threads links will still work but redirect to the new t links.

 

[cayne]

I recently changed to my board from regular urls to

Use Full Friendly URLs
If you enable this option, the links generated by the system will not include "index.php?". However, to enable this, mod_rewrite must be available and an appropriate .htaccess file must be in place.

All links have been changed using mod_rewrite and .htaccess - but I seem to be losing quite a lot of Google traffic since than. I've also switched from http to https (my main page is still on http, so my forum is: https://forum.site.com my site is: http:site.com - is there something I should watch out for, in order to not get penalized?

I mean both changes should increase the SE traffic (at least in theory), but this doesn't seem to be the case. Should I rebuild caches or anything? And the route filter you're talking about, could you show me an example of that?

Last but not least, I've noticed the automatically generated sitemap has two // in the url:
<sitemap>
<loc>https://forum.site.com//sitemap.php?c=1</loc>

Is this normal?

Thanks a TON in advance, I'm really struggling here and am afraid to lose all of my SE traffic