I am getting more confused because what you wrote above was on the right track. VBSEO changed the url of my links. VBSEO was deleted leaving that code behind. When I remove that code above all Google indexed links go dead. I want to remove that code above and have the url be re written (as you have done above in three examples) so it goes back and redirects those links to the original VBulletin structure.
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I advise you first find a way to completely remove vBSEO and at the same time, rewrite all your old vBSEO URLs to the original vB URLs....
When I recently did this, I wrote over 100 mod_rewrite rules and all this work, removing vBSEO and doing all the log file checking to clean up 404s buy writing rewrite rules to 301 back to the original vB URLs took me around 32 to 40 hours of work.
The reason is that you should closely monitor your access.log for 404 errors and at the same time, keep an eye on webmaster tools for crawl errors.
If you don't know how to do this, and are not comfortable with writing mod_rewrite rules, I suggest you hire a professional to do it for you.
This should be done in a controlled, step-by-step way... and after you get your original vB URLs working without 404 errors, and all is well, you can consider rewriting your URLs to more "friendly" URLs... that is step two. Step one is to completely remove vBSEO and revert to the standard vB URLs without taking an SEO hit.
NOT Working... ok here is my access file with the URL x'd out. I recently also moved the forums to googlepagesped which meant I had to go from basic url to www. as you will see here:
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Thanks and...the problem is we were hacked bad... I went through 5 so called experts. One realized that the exploit came in through VBSEO so they simply deleted the plug in leaving me with the garbage to clean up.
Ya I know I am asking alot but just trying to learn. WE are very far ahead as it is as we regained thousands of google links back that were lost and our traffic dropped drastically. now i just am trying to clean things up... we had originally lost the entire user file...tens of thousands...but luckily got the threads back as guest posts.