what is the most SEO friendly way to add a redirect?

[Jack]

I have a landing page on rat-rods.co but would instead like rat-rods.co to navigate to rat-rods.co/forums

What's the best way of doing this?

[Deepak Kumar Das]

Correct 301 Permanent redirect that works best! What i see you have already set the redirect here
http://rat-rods.co/forums/

http://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently =>
Date => Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:26:45 GMT
Server => Apache
Location => http://rat-rods.co/forums
Content-Length => 233
Connection => close
Content-Type => text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

[Smith]

Canonical redirection plays an important role in SEO. You should redirect your website by canonical way. You can do it as following...

<link rel="canonical" href="www.xyz.com"/>