I recently converted from the standalone version of bbPress to the plugin version. Everything went as planned. It’s been about a month and all of my forum posts have been re-indexed by google. Luckily I don’t have a big board so I was able to do 301 redirects for all my old URLs so they pointed to the new ones.

The only odd thing is that now my forum home page (index), say mysite.com/forums, did not get indexed by google. If I try to search for mysite.com/forums, I get all my posts, but not my homepage. Any clues on why this happened and what I can do to fix it?

Thanks in advance for you help.

[@netweb Keymaster 11 years, 8 months ago]

I cannot think of why this may be the case but you could create a new WordPress page and call it ‘forums’ so the URL would be mysite.com/forums and use whatever shortcodes you want on this WP page and fingers crossed Google will index this new page.