I'm not sure your reasoning for moving the forum to root.
I would suggest keeping the forum where it is and use .htaccess to forward your home page to yoursite.com/forum/
This keeps the root open to branch out in the future or if you change your mind. The SEO benefits include not loosing any indexed pages of your forum.
Very good advice, if you move it, you will loose all indexed pages - you would get ERRORS and Warnings from Google, etc - i learned the hardway!
Redirect 301 /index.php http://www.guitarheroforum.com/forums/
Very good advice, if you move it, you will loose all indexed pages - you would get ERRORS and Warnings from Google, etc - i learned the hardway!