You want some feedback on the SEO issues discussed in that topic?
I'll summarize...
First, there are no SEO "tricks" or shortcuts to magically improve rankings and the order of tags has no affect on spiders.
The key for any developer to get the most out of SEO is always code to W3C standards for their meta head tags, plain and simple as that. And for any pages you wish to have indexed, include text in the content.
This means, specifically:
1) Setup robots.txt properly to allow/disallow most spiders - it's not guaranteed to work all the time, but it will cut down on bandwidth abuse at minimum and give you some form of control
2) Include a sensible title tag that includes section names and sub-section names if your site is organized that way (and it should be) such as "Jim's Personal Web Page - Blogs" or "Jim's Personal Web Page - Blogs - Archive" and you can see how that would be helpful
3) Include the description tag, do not exceed 150 characters if possible, make it a grammatically correct and properly punctuated description of the site or that specific page, i.e. one short paragraph.
4) Include the keywords tag, each keyword (no more than 300 or so chars total) separated by a space or comma, account for plural and singular versions of the keywords that help uniquely identify your site.
5) SEO friendly URL's do not in any way improve rankings - it just makes URL's shorter, less prone to injection, and easier for human beings to read them. Yes it is true that some spiders strip arguments making dynamic URL's prone to duplicate indexing (i.e.
www.mysite.com/index.php?arg=test and
www.mysite.com/index.php?arg=foobar both become
www.mysite.com/index.php) BUT remember the page is still indexed based on the CONTENT within that page. People keep forgetting this part and only focus on the dupe indexing issue.
6) It's up to the developer to properly encode dynamic URL arguments, and like magic, all problems go away with dynamic URLs.
In terms of forum software, the focus of the link the OP provided:
1) Each forum title page should be dynamic in nature including category and topic names if possible
2) Good software creates dynamic keywords based on each post in each thread (pulling keywords from the content) and creating the meta keyword tag in the final rendered page
3) The meta description should be about the ENTIRE FORUM, not page specific
Most important thing to remember, why I'm listing it last, for all sites, all types:
Remember, the content on any page supercedes the meta description tag in all major search engines these days! Spiders back in 1990 used to crawl the HTML source meta tags, now they crawl the rendered page complete with images, javascript and advanced caching techniques. However, continue to use the meta tags discussed here until the W3C deprecates them - this is a best practice, sensible and intended for ALL search engines not just Google.
-jim
Now, where was I? Oh yeah, peanut butter....