Convert vBulletin to Drupal but maintain friendly urls for SEO?

Question

I'm fed up with VB and looking to convert a big vBulletin board to Drupal. But I don't want to lose the links of the friendly urls and risk having everything re-indexed by Google. How can I maintain those urls? The site and huge has been around since 2002. I don't want to be penalised by Google.

Answer 1

With path (part of Drupal core) and pathauto you can create user friendly urls.

Path allows you to change how your urls look at a per url basis, where path_auto helps you with automatically creating those urls based on some simplerules when content is created etc.