Please provide tips on designing your forum theme

[Kanustep]

Hello,

I'm designing a new and improved version of my forum and will try to modify the way that vBulletin organize his design.

I would like to see some tips from the experts to see how to apply a better SEO on the website.

Can anyone help?

[briansol]

- remove tables for non-tabular data
- use headings, lists, and other semantic markup
- view it with css off, images off, and javascript off. that's how SE's see your site, after all

[Kanustep]

Well remove the tables from vBulletin it could be hard, but yes my forum only use a small part of tables that vBulletin uses too.

What else you recommend? Using the actual vBulletin features. (tags on the frontpage? Titles and description in all forums?)