Move one vBulletin forum using vbSEO to new XF site

jdeg

Active member
I have one forum (and it's sub-forums) on a vBulletin install with vbSEO that I would like to move to an entirely new XF site. I wanted to make sure I have to process down before I start moving things.
  1. Copy database to new XF site
  2. Import everything
  3. Prune other forums and users that are not needed
  4. Write redirects from original site to new site using modified version of http://tools.geekpoint.net/xfseo/ (modified to include an individual forum)

Is there anything I'm missing? Has anyone done this successfully?
 
Hum, but does the script redirect to the absolute (friendly) URL? I suspect that there will be two 301's if I do an htaccess redirect; one to redirect to the new thread and then one to redirect to the absolute URL. For example:
originalsite.com/forumname/thread-name-1000.html
originsite.com/thread/1000
originsite.com/thread/thread-name.1000/

I ask because I've seen URL's that redirect too much in Google Webmaster tools under not followed (a 303 error). Subsequently Google does not index the absolute URL.
 
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