Customizing my forum?

[AceR]

How do I customize my site for better search engine placement, other than getting a domain? http://s15.invisionfree.com/wrestlingkings/index.php

Questions I have:

1. Should I add more description and keywords to the forum descriptions?
2. Should I move the chat box to the footer to not get in the keywords way?
3. Should I move the wrestling forums up and the HQ forums down for keyword placement?
4. Would it help to build links to non wrestling sites?
5. Would it help if I linked to big sites, even if they don't link back to me?
6. How do I add links at the bottom of search engine results like ths page does, like to the forum, and other stuff additional to the results description at the bottom?

Thank you, I really appreciate any help I can get.

[g1smd]

Get rid of all the duplicate content caused by having multiple URLs for each thread.

Get all pages that just say "error you are not logged in" to a bot deindexed. The easist way to do that is simply to get the meta robots noindex tag on each of those pages.

[AceR]

How and what are there multiple URLs for each thread and how do I stop there from being multiple URLs for each thread?

How do I get all the pages that say error not logged in to be bot indexed?.. does that mean that I install the meta code, if so, I know that and I'm fine on that one.

Actually, if I where to open the board to all guests and every forum to guests would I not have that problem with robots?

[g1smd]

Pages that members use to post private messages, start new threads, or reply to exisiting threads do not need to be indexed. The noindex meta tag takes care of that.

Duplicate content in forums takes several forms, but mostly you'll see that every indexed thread has many different URLs that can be used to access it. You need to stop the alternative URLs being indexed.

Make sure too, that every page has a unique title and a unique meta description tag.