Sportscardfreaks.com

Just curious what you guys think of my site design, I am not a graphics artist at all some any nice tips on things I can do to improve it, will be helpful

Firstly i'd recommend implementing this template modification, which will ensure that Google and other leading search engines are assigning more logical importance and "weight" to the terms which you want to rank highly for. The inclusion of the "Powered By vBulletin" in your title tag only dilutes your title content.

Your current use of the META Description tag isnt really making as much efficient use of its capabilities as possible. With the implementation of vBSEO you could make the tag completely contextually relevant for individual forumdisplay and showthread pages, rather than currently displaying nothing within this tag the tag will include a snippet of either the forum description or the thread preview.

Also, why not try moving your forums into the root directory rather than huddled away in their own ./forums/ subdirectory. This is because your forum URLs to threads and forum index pages will appear ultimately lower down the structurual hierachy of your website, therefore it has often been suggested that Google and other leading search engines will assign less importance to these URLs, than one without the leading ./forums/ subfolder.

Also storing your CSS in an external file rather than serving it locally on every single page like you are currently doing is much more beneficial. Since it allows for search engines and spiders to be drawn directly to your content rather than having to trawl through a series of contextually nonsensical information.

For the majority of your forums it appears as though they are either bundled together with numerous other subforums or completely without a relevant accompying description. Whilst this may be an issue more so related to usability than search engine optimization, it is still probally relevant. By including a short, keyword conscious two sentence of each individual forum you are helping to build up the density and weight of the keywords which you want to be rankingly highly for. And by perhaps optimizaing the placement of the individual forum moderators (or even removing them completely from forumhome view) you can further remove those unneccessary and irrelevant keywords from your homepage, refining further the onpage content.

On a side note i've noticed that your forum template appears to be using an awful lot of HTML comments to define the beginning and end of templates. This really isnt that neccessary, and is only useful for the opening and closing of the main table and layer for an individual page. The current rate which you are introducing HTML comments could perhaps force the search engines to either take longer indexing and spidering your page, or even assign even less importance to the keywords and text on the page which is being counter balanced by your contextually irrelevant comments.

It might be a good idea to implement some sort of structural "titling" onto your forumdisplay and showthread templates, such as that released here. Of course implementing all vBSEO plugins including vBSEO Pro, vBSEO Sitemap Generator, and vBSEO Conditional Signatures will all help refine, simplifying and speed up the process of successful, clean and white-hat search engine optimization too