Zoints SEO 2.3.2

[dxlwebs]

Zoints SEO 2.3.2!

First i would like to say sorry that its taken so long to get a new version out work has been hectick :D

now to the update!
mainly this update is only a faster version i have cleaned the coding a bit and made a few changes here and there for better performance.

i know there is still a few bugs in the system and i will now start on a complete rewrite of a seo system as zoints is reaching its limits with the fixes you can add in so this will be my last zoints update, the next release will be a new and more complete system!

it is recommended to update just for easier life and i would recomend using mod-rewrite as its the most stable area of the zoints SEO

I hope you look forward to my next Full Release and not just an update!

this version contains Most of the updates and bug fixes from this thread (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=127336&highlight=zoints) also others from the zoints forum as well! it contains 1 core file from the tags file please note you MUST read the read me file before you upload anything!

this is a pretty straight forward install it will edit all the templates automatically even on a custom template (tested my self) and even if not you have the files needed to make the changes!

"THIS IS ONLY TO BE USED WITH VBULLETIN 3.8.x"

********Please do not use this modification unless you are VERY well educated on SEO and forum modification********

Zoints is a company that believes that forums are the killer application of the internet. We want to empower forum owners to take their community to the next level. Therefore, Zoints has been developing an extremely powerful vBulletin forum SEO and revenue enhancing solution for more than two years now. However, because we are focusing on our Forum Network and Thread Tagging System, we have decided to release this SEO solution to the vBulletin community under the lgpl license. Zoints SEO is now open source and NOT supported by us. We hope that the vBulletin dev community comes together to take this already powerful solution and make it even better. Empower yourselves

Zoints SEO can be discussed here or http://network.zoints.com (again, we will not be providing official support).


Known bugs
1. If a user disables cookies, infinite redirect loop.
2. index2, index3 pagination breaks some things. Standard p2, p3 works fine. (should be fixed now)

Zoints Explained = Click Here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1081352&postcount=2)

if you like it click install
and if you really love it click nominate lol

[dxlwebs]

Install info
http://img3.zoints.com/seo/seo1.png
http://img3.zoints.com/seo/seo2.png
http://img3.zoints.com/seo/seo3.png
http://img3.zoints.com/seo/seo4.png
http://img3.zoints.com/seo/seo5.png
http://img3.zoints.com/seo/seo6.png
http://img3.zoints.com/seo/seo7.png
http://img3.zoints.com/seo/seo8.png
http://img3.zoints.com/seo/seo9.png

[Phaedrus]

Wow. I recently loaded the previous version on my 3.8.0... Does this have enough improvement to make it worth upgrading?

[dxlwebs]

well if you have some code errors and things like the tags page does not work properly then yes because i did a load of bug fixes also some core coding as well so i would say its best to stay updated but its purely upto you

[F0xy]

nice, thanks for the upgrade and bug fixes

[dxlwebs]

no problem if you get a problem let me know!

[samuelss]

Many thanks for this Mod. Just checking if you can please help me. I have installed the Mod and set it to "Enable" but an getting "The page cannot be found" error. Since I do not have .htaccess file before this, my .htacess now looks like this:

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
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Add the following lines at the end of the file
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RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]
----------------------------------------

My Rewrite URLs is set to "Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, using mod_rewrite
This requires mod_rewrite support on the web server."

I am running VB 3.8.0

Any kind help will much appreciated.

[SteamyLightning]

This version of zoints has mainly been made for easier install for the less knowledged able users!

********Please do not use this modification unless you are VERY well educated on SEO and forum modification********

:erm: ??

Good mod, though. ;)

[dxlwebs]

hey you need the mod_rewrite enabled and set up correctly if it is not possible you can use Rewrite URLs and insert keywords with out the mod rewrite (the middle one ) and this will have the same effect just its all done dynamically not statically! if you get what i mean

[dxlwebs]

:erm: ??

Good mod, though. ;)

lol the install to be easy but you do still need to understand SEO to be able to use this mod correctly!

[samuelss]

Many thanks for your kind and quick response. I have changed the Rewrite URLS to the second (Rewrite URLs and insert keywords) option as suggested but when I click on a thread, i. ie. it tries to load the page almost forever but in Firefox it comes up with an error - Redirect Loop

"Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page."

Perhaps you may want to see this at http://www.alpharadiotv.com/forum/. Its basically a new forum.

Thanks.

[dxlwebs]

do you have redirects on if so turn it off and see what happens !

[dxlwebs]

Please remember to read this thread https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1081352&postcount=2 and make sure that its installed properly it looks to me that you have not set it up completly :D

[samuelss]

Thanks. When redirects is off, the page displays but the thread/Forum will not display. It will show this error - Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.

Thanks.

[goranbaxy]

can it be some somehow combinated with VBSEO?

[R-D]

Thanks. When redirects is off, the page displays but the thread/Forum will not display. It will show this error - Invalid Forum specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator.

Thanks.

Not sure if you're already past this but when you said your htaccess now looks like this:
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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
----------------------------------------

Add the following lines at the end of the file
----------------------------------------
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]
----------------------------------------




Is that the exact code you put in your .htaccess file?


If so, you need to change it so it just says these lines:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]

[SEOvB]

can it be some somehow combinated with VBSEO?

That would be rather redundant since both these do virtually the same thing

[buileminh]

Please anybody tell me if this mod have much impact on server load or not. As far as I know, vbSEO have much impact on server load... therefore i am afraid of that in this mod.
I am hosted on a shared server. My forums will have 5K-30K members, 200-750 users (members + guests) online at the same time. I know it's heavy itself and that's why i must care much about server load.
Thank you in advance!

[djbaxter]

This is excellent news. Thank you!

I see instructions for installing. What about specific instructions for upgrading from the previous version, 2.22?

[Phaedrus]

One quick thing...

In your Search Results Postbit edits on the second edit...

You have:

Find:

$post[typeprefix] <a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$post[threadid]$post[highlight]"><strong>$post[threadtitle]</strong></a>


Which doesn't exist...

This is what exists:


$post[typeprefix] $post[prefix_rich] <a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$post[threadid]$post[highlight]"><strong>$post[threadtitle]</strong></a>


(was missing teh $post[prefix_rich])


Also in the replace: The same $post[prefix_rich] needs to be added to make it work correctly.

[Phaedrus]

Also on Showthread:

View First Unread option doesn't work correctly... Because the link is broken it winds up sending the user to the Forum Home if they use it.

In order to fix this I made this edit to the Showthread Template:
Find:

<a href="$firstunread"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/firstnew.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_first_unread]" border="0" /></a>
<a href="$firstunread"><strong>$vbphrase[view_first_unread]</strong></a>


Replace With Text:

<a href="showthread.php?goto=newpost&amp;t=$thread[threadid]"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/firstnew.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_first_unread]" border="0" /></a>
<a href="showthread.php?goto=newpost&amp;t=$thread[threadid]"><strong>$vbphrase[view_first_unread]</strong></a>


As with the last thread with the same mod... If anybody else has a better solution, I'm all ears!

I reinstalled the old mod and used TMS to reinstall my template edits so that I didn't have to go through all the fixes one by one too. I had to do some of the template edits because the auto edit didn't work on a few of them...

This is a great mod, don't be afraid of it, a few quick fixes and it runs well.

[Lizard King]

Please anybody tell me if this mod have much impact on server load or not. As far as I know, vbSEO have much impact on server load... therefore i am afraid of that in this mod.
I am hosted on a shared server. My forums will have 5K-30K members, 200-750 users (members + guests) online at the same time. I know it's heavy itself and that's why i must care much about server load.
Thank you in advance!
With that number of online users , you need a powerfull dedicated server. The problem you faced is not related to vBSEO , in fact it is related to server resources.

And yes zoint seo will have the same effect as your server is not capable to run that many online users.

[RedeemedWarrior]

interesting

[dxlwebs]

oops sorry all i forgot to change that please read the templates files and make the correct change now! uploaded newfile with the correct file edit

ill have it doing it all automatically on next mod

please let me know of bugs!

[RedeemedWarrior]

Installed it :D

Running smooth!

[dxlwebs]

Installed it :D

Running smooth!

Great letmeknow if you find any problems

[Rene Kriest]

Cool! Gonna give it a try. :)

[RedeemedWarrior]

Great letmeknow if you find any problems
will do!

I've contacted my Vb owning friends to let them know of this mod :D

[buileminh]

With that number of online users , you need a powerfull dedicated server. The problem you faced is not related to vBSEO , in fact it is related to server resources.

And yes zoint seo will have the same effect as your server is not capable to run that many online users.
What's maximum (according to your experience) statistic for a shared hosting account?

[buileminh]

By the way, please somebody let me know what Zoint SEO has but vbSEO does not have and what vbSEO has but Zoint SEO does not have?

[dxlwebs]

By the way, please somebody let me know what Zoint SEO has but vbSEO does not have and what vbSEO has but Zoint SEO does not have?

Zoints SEO is your basic SEO system you can't compare vbseo and zoints seo because they are very differant vbseo is a private supported profesional product which is sold and a price and contains many many many features, zoints on the other hand is much smaller and more basic it provides you with everything you need to help the search engines view your site correctly and easier it holds less load on the servers you run your site on and is only a community product which means that support is limited BUT then at the same time this mod is FREE

so here goes to the great war again that has become normal life

Zoints SEO vs VBSEO

Zoints SEO:
Some features but not many(basic SEO)
less server load
community run
support limited
FREE
--------
VBSEO:
Hundreds of features(pro SEO)
some server load
Amazing support
Costs money

no matter how you put it both are equal it depends how you want to do it if you have a fast and strong server and your not one forwaiting a few days for a solution and you have money then go with VBSEO if on the other hand you are broke and have a server which is not amazing and can wait a few days for a possible solution you should get Zoints SEO!

thats how i look at it anyways but im sure others have they opinion as well lol

[Adam21]

Hi there,a few questions pls...

1)Does Zoints SEO supports xcache too?
2)Does existing VBSEO users making the change to Zoints SEO affect any url rewrites?
3)Any noticeable queries differences?

Thanks...:)

[dxlwebs]

1) there is no xcache available with zoints at the moment from what i know of!

2) well both systems are very differant even though they are both SEO's they are not the same system there for the urls may be differant i'm not formillier enough with VBSEO to say forsure but i dout the linkswill be the same!

3) they only real way i can get you to see which is better would be to download this mod and install it on a localhost and test it out always test a mod before you go live to make sureyou know how to use it properly!

zoints specialises with meta tags keywords descriptions link rewrites and sitemaps

[Adam21]

1) there is no xcache available with zoints at the moment from what i know of!

2) well both systems are very differant even though they are both SEO's they are not the same system there for the urls may be differant i'm not formillier enough with VBSEO to say forsure but i dout the linkswill be the same!

3) they only real way i can get you to see which is better would be to download this mod and install it on a localhost and test it out always test a mod before you go live to make sureyou know how to use it properly!

zoints specialises with meta tags keywords descriptions link rewrites and sitemaps

Hi!Thanks for the super-fast reply!yes,i'll be testing it on a localhost 1st.thank you for this great addition and your hard work.:)

*clicks INSTALL*

[buileminh]

Zoints SEO is your basic SEO system you can't compare vbseo and zoints seo because they are very differant vbseo is a private supported profesional product which is sold and a price and contains many many many features, zoints on the other hand is much smaller and more basic it provides you with everything you need to help the search engines view your site correctly and easier it holds less load on the servers you run your site on and is only a community product which means that support is limited BUT then at the same time this mod is FREE

so here goes to the great war again that has become normal life

Zoints SEO vs VBSEO

Zoints SEO:
Some features but not many(basic SEO)
less server load
community run
support limited
FREE
--------
VBSEO:
Hundreds of features(pro SEO)
some server load
Amazing support
Costs money

no matter how you put it both are equal it depends how you want to do it if you have a fast and strong server and your not one forwaiting a few days for a solution and you have money then go with VBSEO if on the other hand you are broke and have a server which is not amazing and can wait a few days for a possible solution you should get Zoints SEO!

thats how i look at it anyways but im sure others have they opinion as well lol
If it has less server load than vbSEO, I will try it. Thank you very much!

[Lizard King]

What's maximum (according to your experience) statistic for a shared hosting account?

Usually if you have 50 concurrant users+ guest total , it is time for you to move to a vPS.

If you have over 150~ concurrant users + guests , it is time for you to move to a dedicated.

These numbers are for 15 minute cookie timeout.

[dxlwebs]

Usually if you have 50 concurrant users+ guest total , it is time for you to move to a vPS.

If you have over 150~ concurrant users + guests , it is time for you to move to a dedicated.

These numbers are for 15 minute cookie timeout.

i run many sites off my own server at home and i find it cheaper than any hostings and easier anyways!

you should all have your own server if your hoping fora good site :D

[futureye]

what about other lang like arabic

Zoints SEO has three primary options for URL rewriting:

1. No URL rewriting
2. URL rewriting without mod_rewrite. Why use this? If you want to insert keywords in the url but don't have mod_rewrite available or don't want to expend the resources (using mod_rewrite is server intensive and slows page generation) then this is a viable solution.
3. The mod_rewrite everyone knows and prefers.

[Phaedrus]

By the way, please somebody let me know what Zoint SEO has but vbSEO does not have and what vbSEO has but Zoint SEO does not have?

vbSEO has a big price tag.... :D

[djbaxter]

Zoints SEO has three primary options for URL rewriting:

1. No URL rewriting
2. URL rewriting without mod_rewrite. Why use this? If you want to insert keywords in the url but don't have mod_rewrite available or don't want to expend the resources (using mod_rewrite is server intensive and slows page generation) then this is a viable solution.
3. The mod_rewrite everyone knows and prefers.

I would recommend option 1. The available evidence indicates that keywords in a domain name help but that keywords in the page URL have little or no impact on SE ranking. By enabling any form of URL rewrite, you are adding to server load with little or no return.

And the reality is that vBulletin is SE friendly out of the box. Pick any area and do a search for forums in that area. To narrow it down, tack vBulletin on to the end of the search query. Then look at the URL structure for the forums in the search results. How many of the top forums are using URL rewrite?

That said, there are several other reasons why I think Zoints SEO is helpful and it's for those features that I have it installed.

[dxlwebs]

what about other lang like arabic

Zoints SEO has three primary options for URL rewriting:

1. No URL rewriting
2. URL rewriting without mod_rewrite. Why use this? If you want to insert keywords in the url but don't have mod_rewrite available or don't want to expend the resources (using mod_rewrite is server intensive and slows page generation) then this is a viable solution.
3. The mod_rewrite everyone knows and prefers.

option one does nothing and option two does the same as the third just without the need of the mod_rewrite tool option two is good for poeple like hosted servers wherethey cannot install the mod_rewrite tool

currently there are no other languages ifsome onewas to make the translations i would be happy to do what is needed

[dxlwebs]

I would recommend option 1. The available evidence indicates that keywords in a domain name help but that keywords in the page URL have little or no impact on SE ranking. By enabling any form of URL rewrite, you are adding to server load with little or no return.

And the reality is that vBulletin is SE friendly out of the box. Pick any area and do a search for forums in that area. To narrow it down, tack vBulletin on to the end of the search query. Then look at the URL structure for the forums in the search results. How many of the top forums are using URL rewrite?

That said, there are several other reasons why I think Zoints SEO is helpful and it's for those features that I have it installed.

if you use option one you will not get friendly urls i would recommend using option 2 this is far better unless you have the mod_rewrite tool!

option two is much better for search engines with much nicer urls for the normal user to remember as well!

[djbaxter]

option two is much better for search engines with much nicer urls for the normal user to remember as well!

I've yet to see any evidence to support that claim. There was a time when SEs had difficulty with dynamic URLs but that hasn't been the case for a long time now. All modern SEs spider and follow dynamic URLs with ease.

And Google has recently recommended against the use of URL rewriting:

See Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html). Here is an excerpt:

Should I try to make my dynamic URLs look static?
Following are some key points you should keep in mind while dealing with dynamic URLs:


It's quite hard to correctly create and maintain rewrites that change dynamic URLs to static-looking URLs.
It's much safer to serve us the original dynamic URL and let us handle the problem of detecting and avoiding problematic parameters.
If you want to rewrite your URL, please remove unnecessary parameters while maintaining a dynamic-looking URL.
If you want to serve a static URL instead of a dynamic URL you should create a static equivalent of your content.

Which can Googlebot read better, static or dynamic URLs?
We've come across many webmasters who, like our friend, believed that static or static-looking URLs were an advantage for indexing and ranking their sites. This is based on the presumption that search engines have issues with crawling and analyzing URLs that include session IDs or source trackers. However, as a matter of fact, we at Google have made some progress in both areas. While static URLs might have a slight advantage in terms of clickthrough rates because users can easily read the urls, the decision to use database-driven websites does not imply a significant disadvantage in terms of indexing and ranking. Providing search engines with dynamic URLs should be favored over hiding parameters to make them look static.

Let's now look at some of the widespread beliefs concerning dynamic URLs and correct some of the assumptions which spook webmasters. :)

Myth: "Dynamic URLs cannot be crawled."
Fact: We can crawl dynamic URLs and interpret the different parameters. We might have problems crawling and ranking your dynamic URLs if you try to make your urls look static and in the process hide parameters which offer the Googlebot valuable information. One recommendation is to avoid reformatting a dynamic URL to make it look static. It's always advisable to use static content with static URLs as much as possible, but in cases where you decide to use dynamic content, you should give us the possibility to analyze your URL structure and not remove information by hiding parameters and making them look static.

Myth: "Dynamic URLs are okay if you use fewer than three parameters."
Fact: There is no limit on the number of parameters, but a good rule of thumb would be to keep your URLs short (this applies to all URLs, whether static or dynamic). You may be able to remove some parameters which aren't essential for Googlebot and offer your users a nice looking dynamic URL. If you are not able to figure out which parameters to remove, we'd advise you to serve us all the parameters in your dynamic URL and our system will figure out which ones do not matter. Hiding your parameters keeps us from analyzing your URLs properly and we won't be able to recognize the parameters as such, which could cause a loss of valuable information.

Following are some questions we thought you might have at this point.

Does that mean I should avoid rewriting dynamic URLs at all?
That's our recommendation, unless your rewrites are limited to removing unnecessary parameters, or you are very diligent in removing all parameters that could cause problems. If you transform your dynamic URL to make it look static you should be aware that we might not be able to interpret the information correctly in all cases. If you want to serve a static equivalent of your site, you might want to consider transforming the underlying content by serving a replacement which is truly static. One example would be to generate files for all the paths and make them accessible somewhere on your site. However, if you're using URL rewriting (rather than making a copy of the content) to produce static-looking URLs from a dynamic site, you could be doing harm rather than good. Feel free to serve us your standard dynamic URL and we will automatically find the parameters which are unnecessary.

[rob01]

how much resource or server loading vbseo adds?

[veenuisthebest]

i run many sites off my own server at home and i find it cheaper than any hostings and easier anyways!

you should all have your own server if your hoping fora good site :D
May I know how much does it cost including softwares, maintenance etc. What are your server specs?

Thanks

[djbaxter]

how much resource or server loading vbseo adds?

You should probably ask that question at the vBSEO forum.

[IcheeWaWa]

I've been running Zoints SEO for a long time and am happy with its performance.

The only issue I have right now is that I use vba CMPS at the root of my forums. Links from that page are not rewritten (when you hover/click the link). I can live with it, as I have for quite some time. If there's a fix, I'd be happy to know what it is.

Thanks for the free mod!

[dxlwebs]

well i gues url rewrite is another one of though things that no one person can say is right or wrong i prefer it my self easier to remember the links and google pays much more attention to my site with it enabled!

May I know how much does it cost including softwares, maintenance etc. What are your server specs?

Thanks

sure all i pay really is electric which with the right power supply is very cheap about 10$ a month in electric for me domains depends on where you buy from internet connect currently im using 3 mbs upload and 3 download which is sufficient enough for me!

i use ubuntu server which is a free community linux server comes with everything you need to host your sites on!

my server specs is a old pc really i brought in a second hand market for 30$ i has 1gb ram a pentium 4 processor 80gb hdd and a 16mb graphics card the server runs 24/7 and has its case sides off and runs at 50% constantly only time it uses more resorces is when its updating!

im not a rich person so when it comes to myserver i get everything second hand the only real thing that needs to be good is the ram and hard drive then you should be fine

[dxlwebs]

I've been running Zoints SEO for a long time and am happy with its performance.

The only issue I have right now is that I use vba CMPS at the root of my forums. Links from that page are not rewritten (when you hover/click the link). I can live with it, as I have for quite some time. If there's a fix, I'd be happy to know what it is.

Thanks for the free mod!

ki have been trying to figure thisone out the change i made in this version should have made them work but still nothing on the vbadvanced side ill keep looking i might have missed something and ill correct it in the next version!

i know whatyou mean its bugging me too!

[puertoblack2003]

well i gues url rewrite is another one of though things that no one person can say is right or wrong i prefer it my self easier to remember the links and google pays much more attention to my site with it enabled!



sure all i pay really is electric which with the right power supply is very cheap about 10$ a month in electric for me domains depends on where you buy from internet connect currently im using 3 mbs upload and 3 download which is sufficient enough for me!

i use ubuntu server which is a free community linux server comes with everything you need to host your sites on!

my server specs is a old pc really i brought in a second hand market for 30$ i has 1gb ram a pentium 4 processor 80gb hdd and a 16mb graphics card the server runs 24/7 and has its case sides off and runs at 50% constantly only time it uses more resorces is when its updating!

im not a rich person so when it comes to myserver i get everything second hand the only real thing that needs to be good is the ram and hard drive then you should be fine




testing this on my test server is it appears to be ok before i go live.And i agree hosting your own server is cheaper and not only that its dedicated no need to worry about resource.I do have my own server been doing it since 2005 .but mines is windows with the latest packages i'm learning the linux box so i can run the site on that but over all its good.

[futureye]

I installed the hack

sample:
http://www.surcity.net/forums/-f5.html
http://www.surcity.net/forums/62-62-62-t30055.html
http://www.surcity.net/forums/-t29915.html


Can I make it like this
http://www.surcity.net/forums/domain-f5.html

http://www.surcity.net/forums/domain-t30055.html
http://www.surcity.net/forums/domain-t29915.html

????

[Mike54]

I've yet to see any evidence to support that claim. There was a time when SEs had difficulty with dynamic URLs but that hasn't been the case for a long time now. All modern SEs spider and follow dynamic URLs with ease.

And Google has recently recommended against the use of URL rewriting:
Whoa, not so fast. I'm familiar with your position on rewriting URL's, but here is Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf) that doesn't support your views. Check in around the bottom of page 6 and read on.

"Creating descriptive categories and filenames for the documents on your website can not only help you keep your site better organized, but it could also lead to better crawling of your documents by search engines."

Interesting sentence, eh? And please note this particular Google document was released after the one you've linked. And rather than recommending against rewriting URL's, they are clearly stating it "could lead to better crawling of your documents".

Perhaps a search engine is effective at indexing pages with session I.D.'s and the like, but I prefer my user-friendly URL's being indexed for potential guests. Which is one of the advantages pointed out by dxlwebs.

As for the myths of unacceptable loads being placed on a server by using either Zoints or vBSEO and mod_rewrite, I have experience with both. Frankly, I witnessed more load by upgrading from vB 3.6 to 3.7 than in using either SEO package.

Of course none of this address the fact the Google Webmaster Central Blog uses 'pretty' URL's itself. Why do you suppose they bother, if it really makes no difference?

[buileminh]

Usually if you have 50 concurrant users+ guest total , it is time for you to move to a vPS.

If you have over 150~ concurrant users + guests , it is time for you to move to a dedicated.

These numbers are for 15 minute cookie timeout.
15 minutes of cookie timeout... Can I serve more users by changing this option? What will i have and what will I lost by using longer and shorter cookie timeout?

[djbaxter]

Whoa, not so fast. I'm familiar with your position on rewriting URL's, but here is Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf) that doesn't support your views. Check in around the bottom of page 6 and read on.

"Creating descriptive categories and filenames for the documents on your website can not only help you keep your site better organized, but it could also lead to better crawling of your documents by search engines."

Interesting sentence, eh? And please note this particular Google document was released after the one you've linked. And rather than recommending against rewriting URL's, they are clearly stating it "could lead to better crawling of your documents".

Perhaps a search engine is effective at indexing pages with session I.D.'s and the like, but I prefer my user-friendly URL's being indexed for potential guests. Which is one of the advantages pointed out by dxlwebs.

As for the myths of unacceptable loads being placed on a server by using either Zoints or vBSEO and mod_rewrite, I have experience with both. Frankly, I witnessed more load by upgrading from vB 3.6 to 3.7 than in using either SEO package.

Of course none of this address the fact the Google Webmaster Central Blog uses 'pretty' URL's itself. Why do you suppose they bother, if it really makes no difference?

I think you've missed the distinction between rewriting URLs and brief descriptive filenames for web pages.

[Adam21]

Is there a way to rewrite the forum title in the thread url as well?

[Voltar]

I was going to do a little work on this, mainly to attempt to solve the 'no cookies, infinite redirect loop' issues. Do you have a list of what you fixed? Also, did the "no input file specified" issue get dealt with?

Edit: I don't believe that you can redistribute original vBulletin files either (tags.php), you have to explain the edits needed.

[dxlwebs]

I was going to do a little work on this, mainly to attempt to solve the 'no cookies, infinite redirect loop' issues. Do you have a list of what you fixed? Also, did the "no input file specified" issue get dealt with?

Edit: I don't believe that you can redistribute original vBulletin files either (tags.php), you have to explain the edits needed.

right now im still going through all the bugs and doing what i can i will fix the redirect loop tomorrow :D

as for the tags.php file i havetaken that out and hopefully fixed the tags problem through a template edit instead

you can go through the programe and see if i have missed anything the vbadvanced cms still does not work!

i have just uploaded a new version which addresses some problems with the site map and so on!

mainly i have gone through all the corrections made by the community and added it all straight into the install file so that it works out of the box i am now at the end of that LONG LIST and now will start going through the problems that have not been fixed and try to sort them and please do help this is a community mod everyone is welcome to help i just had some time on my hands and thought i would give it a go plus i love problem solving :D

[Voltar]

I believe it had something to do with the showthread_start plugin, it's the only one that touches anything to do with cookies. I'd have to go back and look at my notes, I haven't taken a look at it in a bit now.

[elrafei]

Can i use the two products Vbseo and ZointsSEO in the same forum without any problem ?

[Voltar]

Can i use the two products Vbseo and ZointsSEO in the same forum without any problem ?

That would be rather pointless as they both do basically the same thing.

[Mike54]

I think you've missed the distinction between rewriting URLs and brief descriptive filenames for web pages.
I think you're missing the fact that forum pages can enjoy the same benefits as static pages by using friendly and descriptive URL's.

If I am establshing a static site, it only makes good sense to use descriptive filenames whilst setting everything up. And it only makes the same good sense to rewrite forum URL's to realize the same benefits.

As stated earlier, I am aware of your long-standing opinion concerning the rewriting of URL's. And I fully support your right to hold and express that opinion. However it seems you remain unwilling to reciprocate with individuals experiencing success by merely adopting a position diametrically opposite your own.

When Google says there are advantages to be found in friendly URL's, both for users visiting your pages and spiders crawling your pages, I'm not going to argue the point with them. Please do not allow my decision to influence your own.

The Google blog you quoted uses friendly URL's. Why bother, if it doesn't accomplish anything? Why is Jelsoft adding friendly URL's to vB 4, if they are needless? Why are there so many scripts available to provide friendly URL's to other forum and blog platforms, if they are such a waste of time? Why are so many forum admins and bloggers installing these scripts, if there are no positive results to be found?

Will search engines index standard vBulletin URL's? Of course they will. Are there advantages to rewriting to descriptive, friendly URL's? Yes, there are. Is anyone twisting your arm to use any script (commercial or otherwise) offering friendly URL's? Not that I am aware.

[djbaxter]

I believe we were talking about vBulletin forum software, not Google's blog or anyone else's - there are some scripts that benefit from and perhaps require URL rewrites, but vBulletin isn't one of them.

I also would suggest that you are misinterpreting the Google source you cite for confirming that in general URL rewrites are a good thing.

But I don't think cluttering up this add-on thread with further debate on this issue is fair to Zoints. None of what I said is a criticism of the add-on. I use it myself for other features and I'm pleased it has been updated.

Let's leave it at that.

[SuperTaz]

There is another upload zip file inside the upload file that has the same files.. Why are there duplicates?

[Mike54]

I believe we were talking about vBulletin forum software, not Google's blog or anyone else's - there are some scripts that benefit from and perhaps require URL rewrites, but vBulletin isn't one of them.
I do believe I said you were entitled to hold and express your opinion, did I not? Allow me to implore your pardon for expressing my own. And on a discussion forum, no less! Excuse me whilst I tug a forelock.

If you now prefer to not discuss the very issue you raised in this thread, that is fine with me.

[djbaxter]

In fact, what I said is it's probably better not to clutter up an add-on thread with a circular debate. And that was suggested out of respect for the developer of this excellent add-on.

PM me if you wish and I'll suggest other places where the debate can be continued.

[Phaedrus]

What's cool about the descriptive urls is how people remember them better, and they work better for back-links as well. I don't know why but people seem to click more when the url describes what they will see.

I've seen no drop of my site on google since I started using the more descriptive links, if anything I have seen better hits.

[futureye]

I installed the hack

sample:
http://www.surcity.net/forums/-f5.html
http://www.surcity.net/forums/62-62-62-t30055.html
http://www.surcity.net/forums/-t29915.html


Can I make it like this
http://www.surcity.net/forums/domain-f5.html

http://www.surcity.net/forums/domain-t30055.html
http://www.surcity.net/forums/domain-t29915.html

[P@trick]

hello, this mod is great!


Is it possible to make a thread (and a forum) like:
http://www.magicinvasion.de/planeswalker.html

instead of:
http://www.magicinvasion.de/planeswalker-t2328.html

and if the thread title is the same on two different threads:
http://www.magicinvasion.de/planeswalker-2.html


And a second question: Is it possible to remove the "i"'s for special symbols like !?

for example: Title "Unendlich gegen unendlich?" URL should be "/unendlich-gegen-unendlich" instad of "/unendlich-gegen-unendlichi"

[rellek]

Nice to see Zoints SEO updated. :)



Here's the solution to the infinite loop-problem.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1210992#post1210992

[dxlwebs]

I installed the hack

sample:
http://www.surcity.net/forums/-f5.html
http://www.surcity.net/forums/62-62-62-t30055.html
http://www.surcity.net/forums/-t29915.html


Can I make it like this
http://www.surcity.net/forums/domain-f5.html

http://www.surcity.net/forums/domain-t30055.html
http://www.surcity.net/forums/domain-t29915.html

hello, this mod is great!


Is it possible to make a thread (and a forum) like:
http://www.magicinvasion.de/planeswalker.html

instead of:
http://www.magicinvasion.de/planeswalker-t2328.html

and if the thread title is the same on two different threads:
http://www.magicinvasion.de/planeswalker-2.html


And a second question: Is it possible to remove the "i"'s for special symbols like !?

for example: Title "Unendlich gegen unendlich?" URL should be "/unendlich-gegen-unendlich" instad of "/unendlich-gegen-unendlichi"

from what i know of yesit is possible but through the mod_rewrite tool you should be able to organize it through .htacces if you need the actural code for the.htaccess file let me know and illpost one up!

[dxlwebs]

Here's the solution to the infinite loop-problem.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1210992#post1210992

thanx for the fix i thought i saw it some ill add it into the next update which im working on now

NOTE TO ALL

if you find a problem let me know so that i can fix it now :D

[P@trick]

from what i know of yesit is possible but through the mod_rewrite tool you should be able to organize it through .htacces if you need the actural code for the.htaccess file let me know and illpost one up!
That would be great. :)

[dxlwebs]

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]

i think this may help but htaccess is notmy strong point lol

[P@trick]

Ive try the new htaccess, but the urls are still the same (but they work!)

[ComputerVitals]

I'm using Zoints SEO Version: 2.2.2

What do we need to do to upgrade to this version?

[dxlwebs]

I'm using Zoints SEO Version: 2.2.2

What do we need to do to upgrade to this version?

upload the new files and then import the new product and allow overwrite thats it or atleast should be as it automatically adds the template edits to most templates!

[Adam21]

There's an extra zip folder in the upload folder.Which do i upload to upgrade?

[dxlwebs]

There's an extra zip folder in the upload folder.Which do i upload to upgrade?

yeah thats justfrom when i was testing the modon mylive site you can just ignore that ill remove it from the next update

[Phaedrus]

Okay, if you are using the Blog, even the newest version, there is one comments link that breaks when using this, as well as 2.2.2...

To fix it:

In "blog_show_entry" template find:


<span class="shade"><a href="#comments" class="shade">$vbphrase[comments]</a></span> <span id="commentcount1">$bloginfo[comments_visible]</span>


Replace with:


<span class="shade"><a href="blog.php?b=$blog[blogid]#comments" class="shade">$vbphrase[comments]</a></span> <span id="commentcount1">$bloginfo[comments_visible]</span>

[dxlwebs]

thanks for the fix ill try to add it into this new version if ANYONE else has any problems to report even ifyou do not now the fix please let us know then we will be able to fix it (hopefully)

im still working on the vbadvanced problem as well !

[mc0676]

I've a problem with the archive.

With the option:
- use Zoints Seo Archive
- use Archive as Sitemap
all in OFF
my original archive of vbulletin show only the categories and the forums but not the thread if i enter in a forum ...

U can see here:
http://www.vwgolfcommunity.com/vbulletin/archive/

[Phaedrus]

I've a problem with the archive.

With the option:
- use Zoints Seo Archive
- use Archive as Sitemap
all in OFF
my original archive of vbulletin show only the categories and the forums but not the thread if i enter in a forum ...

U can see here:
http://www.vwgolfcommunity.com/vbulletin/archive/

I was able to go right to the thread and read it.

[mc0676]

Now yes, i've uninstalled.

[mc0676]

Now i've reinstalled.
How u can see don't work.

[TheInsaneManiac]

Queries?

[mc0676]

U ask me ?

[rbgrn]

Hey dxlwebs - Thank you so much for keeping this up-to-date!! I really appreciate it.

[TheInsaneManiac]

U ask me ?

No I was asking the author how much server load was being put on the server lol.

[kavehch]

hi

dont show arabic titel in address plz help me

[killswitch]

Followed the instructions, got this error.

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_zseo.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/init.php(298) : eval()'d code on line 1

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/user*/public_html/forums/includes/functions_zseo.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/user*/public_html/forums/includes/init.php(298) : eval()'d code on line 1

[dxlwebs]

arabic letters wouldbe very hard to put into the address bar just like turkish letters ill look into it but i dont think it supports arabic names right nowQ

[kavehch]

IoI sorry

i want not shown keyword and showe number in address bar As vbseo thanks

[Skyrider]

Any specific reason why there is a upload.zip located under the uploads folder?

[Skyrider]

PS, The ad function doesn't work. Enabled at the footer and within replies/threads. The code itself works fine, just not through Zoinst.

[rootmt]

to show Turkish letters in URLs you should edit a funciton in
forum home -> includes -> functions_zseo.php

find: function zseo_cleaned_string($string) definition and change this function to this:
function zseo_cleaned_string($string)
{
global $vbulletin;

$bit = iif($vbulletin->options['zointsseo_url_separator'], '_', '-');

/*
turker - fix start ----------------------------------------------------
*/
$string=iconv('UTF-8','ISO-8859-9',$string);
$find = array('?','?','Ş','İ','I','Ğ','?');
$replace = array('?','?','ş','i','ı','ğ','?');
$string = str_replace($find,$replace,$string);
$string=iconv("ISO-8859-9", "UTF-8",$string);
/*
turker - fix end ------------------------------------------------------
*/

$string = strtolower($string);
$string = unhtmlspecialchars($string);

$string = str_replace("'", '', $string);
$words = preg_split("#[^a-z0-9]#", $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

$words = zseo_strip_stopwords($words, $bit);
$words = zseo_limit_keywords($words, $bit);
return implode($bit, $words);
}

NOTE:
-Take a look at iconv (http://www.php.net/iconv) usage.
-If your forum and local charset(which includes local characters, here is iso-8859-9) are same, delete the iconv lines.

[kavehch]

hi

i want Conversion this address from zonit seo :

http://mysite.com/(keword).html

to

http://mysite.com/thread(number).html

and i want seo this hack https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201274 ( last theard )

plz help me

[aKosmAn]

tnx

[mdcdeve]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before but is it possible for this to work alongside VBSEO Sitemap Generator ? As in the generator taking down the re-written URLs rather than the regular links. Thanks !

[dxlwebs]

ill look into the vbseo sitemap for the next release along with the other problems mentioned

[|Jordan|]

Will using this break other modifications?

The huge modifications im using are IBPro arcade, Photoplog, vBAdvanced, vBAdvanced Dynamics, Geek Article and Review System, Downloads II

[djbaxter]

Will using this break other modifications?

The huge modifications im using are IBPro arcade, Photoplog, vBAdvanced, vBAdvanced Dynamics, Geek Article and Review System, Downloads II

It doesn't break IB Pro Arcade, or vBAdvanced, or GARS.

I don't use Dynamics or Downloads so I can't tell you about those.

[dxlwebs]

i use most of them and a hell of a lot more mods on my site and run this with no problem i think your be fine :D BUT if any problems are found please do let me know!

the next update should be within the next week depending on what time i get :D

[dxlwebs]

if any one has mods or created mods and have a solution for intergrating them but need it done through zoints and not through their mod let me know and ill add it in! there is a lot of code to go through and a lot of mods to add so if others have solutions please do tell me!

this is still a community run mod :D everyones input is great!

[|Jordan|]

It works with everything i have installed :D

Awesome mod!

[mc0676]

I've a problem with the archive.

With the option:
- use Zoints Seo Archive
- use Archive as Sitemap
all in OFF
my original archive of vbulletin show only the categories and the forums but not the thread if i enter in a forum ...

U can see here:
http://www.vwgolfcommunity.com/vbulletin/archive/

Any help for me ?

[|Jordan|]

Any ETA on when vbSEO Sitemap generator can generate the new links this mod generates?

[A.Chakery]

hi bro , Thnx for this gr8 mod

When I installed this mod my website crashed, and I have several errors
take a look at it :
salamateravan.com (ITs my test forum)
Idont know what to do plz help.

thnx in advanced

[dxlwebs]

Any help for me ?

are you sure you installed it and configured it properly ?

[dxlwebs]

hi bro , Thnx for this gr8 mod

When I installed this mod my website crashed, and I have several errors
take a look at it :
salamateravan.com (ITs my test forum)
Idont know what to do plz help.

thnx in advanced

hey try turning it off and double check that all configurations are correct and that the templates edits were made correctly as yours is a custom template there is no reall telling if it made the edits or not!

ifs that doesnt help then ill look closer into it for you:D

[dxlwebs]

Any ETA on when vbSEO Sitemap generator can generate the new links this mod generates?

ill try to add it into the next upgrade but no promesses yet! my main goal is to make it a bit smaller and smoother to use (plus the fixes :D)

[mc0676]

are you sure you installed it and configured it properly ?

Sure ! It work all perfect, except archive !

[A.Chakery]

hey try turning it off and double check that all configurations are correct and that the templates edits were made correctly as yours is a custom template there is no reall telling if it made the edits or not!

ifs that doesnt help then ill look closer into it for you:D
hi bro
really thnx for your reply, (Who says that this thread is not supported ???? )

I double-Checked configurations Every thing is ok, But I have to say that I didnt find some codes in forumhome_lastpostby and threadbit exactly like U had explained in read-me file.
any way , plz help.

really thnx in advanced bro

[A.Chakery]

OH , I have solved my old problem but I have a new one :(

When I edit showthread_similarthreadbit , This error appears:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"', expecting ']' in /home/salamate/public_html/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3929) : eval()'d code on line 2

---
I have to say that this mod works perfect but 3 more Questions :
1.What I have to do for Arabic/Persian Characters ?
2. I want that Member names be re-written , What should I do about that ?
3.Is there any site map like VBseo's site map for this gr8 mod ?


Sorry If I ask too much.

really thnx bro.
Good luck

[mykes]

Okay, if you are using the Blog, even the newest version, there is one comments link that breaks when using this, as well as 2.2.2...

To fix it:

In "blog_show_entry" template find:


<span class="shade"><a href="#comments" class="shade">$vbphrase[comments]</a></span> <span id="commentcount1">$bloginfo[comments_visible]</span>


Replace with:


<span class="shade"><a href="blog.php?b=$blog[blogid]#comments" class="shade">$vbphrase[comments]</a></span> <span id="commentcount1">$bloginfo[comments_visible]</span>


Installed and mostly working. I am finding numerous links all over the site that are broken in a similar manner. All with the #arg type URL.

For example, in showthread.php, this snippet of template is used:


<a href="$firstunread"><strong>$vbphrase[view_first_unread]</strong></a>


$firstunread is some string like #10141, and mouse over the link shows:

http://sportstwo.com/#10141

instead of http://sportstwo.com/showthread.php?seo-type-title.html#10141

I'm not using the mod_rewrite means of rewriting.

Any <a href=#something> is rewritten wrong! Even on vbAdvanced custom pages.

Please advise.

[IrPr]

Installed and mostly working. I am finding numerous links all over the site that are broken in a similar manner. All with the #arg type URL.

For example, in showthread.php, this snippet of template is used:


<a href="$firstunread"><strong>$vbphrase[view_first_unread]</strong></a>


$firstunread is some string like #10141, and mouse over the link shows:

http://sportstwo.com/#10141

instead of http://sportstwo.com/showthread.php?seo-type-title.html#10141

I'm not using the mod_rewrite means of rewriting.

Any <a href=#something> is rewritten wrong! Even on vbAdvanced custom pages.

Please advise.

Here the working fix:

AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Add New Plugin

Product: Zoints SEO
Hook Location: showthread_complete
Title: Zoints SEO firstunread fix by IrPr

PHP Plugin Code:
if(strstr($firstunread, "showthread.php"))
$firstunread = zseo_url_thread($threadinfo, 1, "goto=newpost");
else
$firstunread = $url.$firstunread;

[mykes]

Here the working fix:

AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Add New Plugin

Product: Zoints SEO
Hook Location: showthread_complete
Title: Zoints SEO firstunread fix by IrPr

PHP Plugin Code:
if(strstr($firstunread, "showthread.php"))
$firstunread = zseo_url_thread($threadinfo, 1, "goto=newpost");
else
$firstunread = $url.$firstunread;

I'm sorry, but I think this is a pretty serious problem. The fix above only fixes ONE of dozens of broken links. I'd love to see an update to the mod that I can install that fixes them all in one swoop, and prevents people from having the same issue in the future.

As I posted, it's rewriting URLs in the vbadvanced pages I have, broken along the same lines. It's broken the menu links on the vbadvanced home page (e.g. forums, new posts...).

When I copy and paste the list of members viewing from the forums home page to a thread/post, all the links to the members' member pages are broken.

I'm prepared to go debug the mod myself, but any updates you do would overwrite my changes, which is something of a bind. I'd really like to consider this my contribution to making the mod better (reporting the issue).

All the zoints mods I see on this site look quite impressive.

[mykes]

To add to my previous post...

Moderators complained they couldn't merge threads.

I turned off the module and they could merge threads again.

[IrPr]

To add to my previous post...

Moderators complained they couldn't merge threads.

I turned off the module and they could merge threads again.
Whats your Rewrite type?

I think you are using another method than my and it seems showthread.php appears in your SEOed thread links
In my case showthread.php just appears in some cases, but it seems all of your SEOed thread links contains showhtread.php and thats why this plugin doesnt work for you

Whats your exact SEO method? give me some link to your SEOed threads

[mykes]

The SEO module is turned off because it caused too many problems.

There are 3 radio buttons on the settings page:
1) Do not rewrite URLs
2) Rewrite URLs
3) Rewrite URLs using MOD_REWRITE

Rewrite type was #2

Visitor messages turned off. No other setting changed from the defaults.

[Phaedrus]

Has anybody tried to figure out how to get this to work with the blogs to show the blog name instead of the blog number?

[medo9971]

I use this hack its amazing ,
but I have problem I choose Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, using mod_rewrite
This requires mod_rewrite support on the web server. but all arabic words dont appear in links and only english words appear in links .

can anybody help me to let arabic words appear in links ?

my fourm work on utf-8

thanks alot

[WEBDosser]

did install and it worked fine for the forums rewrite urls but some other pages were not right..

i have a few pages done in vbadvanced that have url's like this :: index.php?pageid=rules and that just goes to the forums without showing the rules page.. if you got what i mean..

is there a fix for this?.

wD

[Adromir]

Rewriting without mod_rewrite works fine, but when using mod_rewrite i just get a 404- Error. Does anyone nows, whats wrong? mod_rewrite is working on the Server..

[atmaca]

I don't saw character replacement. Is there character replacement?

[star88]

just installed, it works fine for me
Hosted by Godaddy, I just added a line in the .htaccess file :
RewriteBase /
thank you so much

[kavehch]

just installed, it works fine for me
Hosted by Godaddy, I just added a line in the .htaccess file :
RewriteBase /
thank you so much

hi what this code ?

[rob01]

if im new with SEO stuff :S

is not recommended?

[A.Chakery]

Hi 2 all

I wanted to know is there any Vbseo like site map for this gr8 mod ?

[A.Chakery]

if im new with SEO stuff :S

is not recommended?
hi
yes bro I think it is. coz this URL rewrite lets google ( and other search engines) to index your forum links so much better so U will have more and more traffic on your website.

[A.Chakery]

hi
yes bro I think it is. coz this URL rewrite lets google ( and other search engines) to index your forum links so much better so U will have more and more traffic on your website.
---------------------------

[djbaxter]

hi
yes bro I think it is. coz this URL rewrite lets google ( and other search engines) to index your forum links so much better so U will have more and more traffic on your website.

That's a myth:

Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html)
Written by Juliane Stiller and Kaspar Szymanski,
Google Search Quality Team
Monday, September 22, 2008

Chatting with webmasters often reveals widespread beliefs that might have been accurate in the past, but are not necessarily up-to-date any more. This was the case when we recently talked to a couple of friends about the structure of a URL. One friend was concerned about using dynamic URLs, since (as she told us) "search engines can't cope with these." Another friend thought that dynamic URLs weren't a problem at all for search engines and that these issues were a thing of the past. One even admitted that he never understood the fuss about dynamic URLs in comparison to static URLs....

Should I try to make my dynamic URLs look static?
Following are some key points you should keep in mind while dealing with dynamic URLs:


It's quite hard to correctly create and maintain rewrites that change dynamic URLs to static-looking URLs.
It's much safer to serve us the original dynamic URL and let us handle the problem of detecting and avoiding problematic parameters.
If you want to rewrite your URL, please remove unnecessary parameters while maintaining a dynamic-looking URL.
If you want to serve a static URL instead of a dynamic URL you should create a static equivalent of your content.


Which can Googlebot read better, static or dynamic URLs?
We've come across many webmasters who, like our friend, believed that static or static-looking URLs were an advantage for indexing and ranking their sites. This is based on the presumption that search engines have issues with crawling and analyzing URLs that include session IDs or source trackers. However, as a matter of fact, we at Google have made some progress in both areas. While static URLs might have a slight advantage in terms of clickthrough rates because users can easily read the urls, the decision to use database-driven websites does not imply a significant disadvantage in terms of indexing and ranking. Providing search engines with dynamic URLs should be favored over hiding parameters to make them look static.

Let's now look at some of the widespread beliefs concerning dynamic URLs and correct some of the assumptions which spook webmasters. :)

Myth: "Dynamic URLs cannot be crawled."
Fact: We can crawl dynamic URLs and interpret the different parameters. We might have problems crawling and ranking your dynamic URLs if you try to make your urls look static and in the process hide parameters which offer the Googlebot valuable information. One recommendation is to avoid reformatting a dynamic URL to make it look static. It's always advisable to use static content with static URLs as much as possible, but in cases where you decide to use dynamic content, you should give us the possibility to analyze your URL structure and not remove information by hiding parameters and making them look static.

Myth: "Dynamic URLs are okay if you use fewer than three parameters."
Fact: There is no limit on the number of parameters, but a good rule of thumb would be to keep your URLs short (this applies to all URLs, whether static or dynamic). You may be able to remove some parameters which aren't essential for Googlebot and offer your users a nice looking dynamic URL. If you are not able to figure out which parameters to remove, we'd advise you to serve us all the parameters in your dynamic URL and our system will figure out which ones do not matter. Hiding your parameters keeps us from analyzing your URLs properly and we won't be able to recognize the parameters as such, which could cause a loss of valuable information.

Following are some questions we thought you might have at this point.

Does that mean I should avoid rewriting dynamic URLs at all?
That's our recommendation, unless your rewrites are limited to removing unnecessary parameters, or you are very diligent in removing all parameters that could cause problems. If you transform your dynamic URL to make it look static you should be aware that we might not be able to interpret the information correctly in all cases. If you want to serve a static equivalent of your site, you might want to consider transforming the underlying content by serving a replacement which is truly static. One example would be to generate files for all the paths and make them accessible somewhere on your site. However, if you're using URL rewriting (rather than making a copy of the content) to produce static-looking URLs from a dynamic site, you could be doing harm rather than good. Feel free to serve us your standard dynamic URL and we will automatically find the parameters which are unnecessary.


...more (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html)

[A.Chakery]

hi Dear djbaxter

Do u know any Google/yahoo sitemap like vbseo's sitemap ??

I need it so much :(

I will be so thankfull if u help me

[djbaxter]

hi Dear djbaxter

Do u know any Google/yahoo sitemap like vbseo's sitemap ??

I need it so much :(

I will be so thankfull if u help me

Yoiu can get the vBSEO sitemap add-on for free here at vBulletin.org. It works fine with the Zoints SEO package.

[A.Chakery]

Yoiu can get the vBSEO sitemap add-on for free here at vBulletin.org. It works fine with the Zoints SEO package.

WoW thnx bro , n good luck.

I suggest to All members that who cant (or dont wanna) pay money for their vbulletin SEO : TO INSTALL THIS GR8 MOD, If u dont u will make a big mistake.

Special thnx to djbaxter ,who have made this mod alive again.

[Phaedrus]

just installed, it works fine for me
Hosted by Godaddy, I just added a line in the .htaccess file :
RewriteBase /
thank you so much
What would that do?

I mean wouldn't it be better to use something like this?


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoururl\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoururl.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

[A.Chakery]

sorry but I have one more question plz

What should I do to insert something like attached screen shot to my Vbulletin footer ?(I have vbseo sitemap installed)

Thnx in advanced

[star88]

What would that do?

I mean wouldn't it be better to use something like this?


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoururl\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoururl.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]



Probably. But in my case I use virtual domains on Go Daddy. So I need to add Rewritebase / in the .htaccess file. Now it works for me.

[djbaxter]

What would that do?

I mean wouldn't it be better to use something like this?


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoururl\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoururl.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]


Probably. But in my case I use virtual domains on Go Daddy. So I need to add Rewritebase / in the .htaccess file. Now it works for me.

It depends on how the server is configured. On some servers, you need to specify

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

so the entire set would look like this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]

If your server doesn't need it, it won't do any harm; if it does need it, it may not work (or won't work correctly) without those additions.

sorry but I have one more question plz

What should I do to insert something like attached screen shot to my Vbulletin footer ?(I have vbseo sitemap installed)

Thnx in advanced

That's a different add-on. See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=194829

[rob4448585]

so i installed this with a 3.8.1 forum last night and the password forums are not able to be accessed

this was a bug in 2.2.2 and its still not fixed.
Any idea how to fix this?

[ComputerVitals]

Hope someone can help with an issue I have with the SEO.

It's been working flawlessly.
But my host has switched from Apache to LiteSpeed.

Since then I have been having Database errors like crazy. I have narrowed it down to the Zoints SEO. If I disable the SEO the Database errors go away. I can re enable and it will be fine for awhile. But DB errors will continue. More specifically, I can leave it enabled, just turn off the "Rewrite URLs" feature.

If I enable the mod_rewrite feature, then I get error 404.

Any IDeas?

[Losko]

I've a problem with the archive.

With the option:
- use Zoints Seo Archive
- use Archive as Sitemap
all in OFF
my original archive of vbulletin show only the categories and the forums but not the thread if i enter in a forum ...

U can see here:
http://www.vwgolfcommunity.com/vbulletin/archive/

Also I have the same identical problem of mc0676..... :confused:

Sorry for my English.

[Phaedrus]

Hope someone can help with an issue I have with the SEO.

It's been working flawlessly.
But my host has switched from Apache to LiteSpeed.

Since then I have been having Database errors like crazy. I have narrowed it down to the Zoints SEO. If I disable the SEO the Database errors go away. I can re enable and it will be fine for awhile. But DB errors will continue. More specifically, I can leave it enabled, just turn off the "Rewrite URLs" feature.

If I enable the mod_rewrite feature, then I get error 404.

Any IDeas?

Don't use the htaccess form of rewrite.

[amerelgen]

Problem in Showthread_similarthreadbit
Replace when
Show this message

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"', expecting ']' in vb\includes\adminfunctions_template.php(3938) : eval()'d code on line 6

Wait

[amerelgen]

Problem in Showthread_similarthreadbit
Replace when
Show this message

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"', expecting ']' in vb\includes\adminfunctions_template.php(3938) : eval()'d code on line 6

Wait

up up

[ComputerVitals]

Don't use the htaccess form of rewrite.

If I use the 2nd option of rewrite, then I get database errors.

I'm wondering if anyone has good sucess on running this with Litespeed? It was working perfectly since vb 3.6. Just now I have the issues.



Edit:
My issue is solved. For some reason, I'm not sure why, I had to create a new .htaccess and put it in the forum directory. Placing the rewrite rules in the main htaccess in the root wouldn't work.

[Lacrosse Boy]

I just found a problem I'm wondering if anyone else has had this?

I tried to move a post just now. I copied the URL of the thread and tried to move the post to it but with the SEO friendly URLs it doesn't think I'm linking to a real post.

It tells me You have not specified a valid URL for the thread that you want to merge. Please check that the URL includes a valid threadid, "t=xxx" or postid, "p=xxx" (where xxx is a number), and is not a redirect.

How can I fix this?

[Candostum]

I cant find in headinclude

<if condition="$show['threadinfo']">
< name="keywords" content="$threadinfo[title] $vboptions[keywords]" />
< name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$threadinfo[title] $foruminfo[title_clean]" />
<else />
<if condition="$show['foruminfo']">
< name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title_clean] $vboptions[keywords]" />
< name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$foruminfo[description_clean]" />
<else />
< name="keywords" content="$vboptions[keywords]" />
< name="description" content="$vboptions[description]" />
</if>
</if>

and this is my headinclude ;

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=$stylevar[charset]" />
<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin $vboptions[templateversion]" />
<if condition="$show['threadinfo']">
<meta name="keywords" content="<if condition="$threadinfo['taglist']">$threadinfo[taglist], </if>$threadinfo[prefix_plain_html] $threadinfo[title], $vboptions[keywords]" />
<meta name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$threadinfo[prefix_plain_html] $threadinfo[title] $foruminfo[title_clean]" />
<else /><if condition="$show['foruminfo']">
<meta name="keywords" content="$foruminfo[title_clean], $vboptions[keywords]" />
<meta name="description" content="<if condition="$pagenumber>1"><phrase 1="$pagenumber">$vbphrase[page_x]</phrase>-</if>$foruminfo[description_clean]" />
<else />
<meta name="keywords" content="$vboptions[keywords]" />
<meta name="description" content="$vboptions[description]" />
</if></if>

<!-- CSS Stylesheet -->
$style[css]
<if condition="is_browser('opera') AND !is_browser('opera', '8.0.1')">
<style type="text/css" id="vbulletin_opera8fix_css">
ul, ol { padding-$stylevar[left]:20px; }
</style>
</if>
<if condition="$show['editor_css']">
$editor_css
</if>
<!-- / CSS Stylesheet -->

<script type="text/javascript" src="$stylevar[yuipath]/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="$stylevar[yuipath]/connection/connection-min.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var SESSIONURL = "$session[sessionurl_js]";
var SECURITYTOKEN = "$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]";
var IMGDIR_MISC = "$stylevar[imgdir_misc]";
var vb_disable_ajax = parseInt("$vboptions[disable_ajax]", 10);
// -->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_global.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>
<if condition="$show['popups']"><script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script></if>

<if condition="$vboptions['externalrss']">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS2" />
<if condition="$show['foruminfo'] OR $show['threadinfo']">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="$vboptions[bbtitle] - $foruminfo[title_clean] - RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS2&amp;forumids=$foruminfo[forumid]" />
</if>
</if>

how can I do this? :o

[crippon]

Is there a version for vb 3.7.x?

[kavehch]

hi i want delet zoints seo but my links have html
i want redicte .html to Default links please halp

[dxlwebs]

Is there a version for vb 3.7.x?

hey this should work on 3.7 let me know what happens!

sorry all that i havent been around work has been busy ok so ill get cracking on some more updates for you and see what we can do :D

[Adromir]

I would appreciate a Sitemapgenerator for it, so u dont have to use the Archive for it..

[dxlwebs]

ill do my best

[nashvilleparks]

When I turn on the setting to rewrite URLs and insert keywords (not with mod_rewrite) my users can't log in if they are using Internet Explorer 8. Is there a way to still do this? Will it work if I use the option that uses the mod_rewrite? Or am I the only one that has this problem? Thanks!

[dxlwebs]

Ok so this is a old mod that has just been maintained so this is the first time i have heard of this problem,

what to say hmmmm,
well im working on a complete new system atm so i would at first recommend that you tell your users to delete explorer anyways FireFox is a much smaller and nicer anyways as IE is dieing out!

seconde like i rocomended above you should use the mod-rewrite selection if you can if not then im sorry there is nothing i can do right now!

[Sciax2]

Does it work with lighttpd or only with apache?

[dxlwebs]

it should work with light http but if you get an error let me know!

[wouta]

When i click by seo options on save i get a internal server error ?

[RTMdotORG]

thanks..installed with ease..and nominated... how am i able to enable mod rewrite on my server?

[Sciax2]

it should work with light http but if you get an error let me know!
ok... so it should work without any change?
In lighttpd there are not .htaccess files, but rewrite rules are in lighttpd.conf
I've just tried vbseo, but it doesn't work well on lighttpd!

[RTMdotORG]

ok... so it should work without any change?
In lighttpd there are not .htaccess files, but rewrite rules are in lighttpd.conf
I've just tried vbseo, but it doesn't work well on lighttpd!

from reading their website it does not work...

i need some help though...
i see on my who's online this...
Guest
Unknown Location
/forums/forumdisplay.php/-.html?rand=1239289923

Not all guests get this...is it becuz they have they're cookies disabled? and can it be fixed to tell them cookies have to be enabled?

also your template edits are outdated i believe becuz i had to do all the edits manually and i could find alot of what you said to search for...

[turbosatan]

are there upgrade instructions for this?

i have been using the old zoints SEO for some time and recently upgraded my forum to 3.8

i want to ensure i dont lose any pages etc which are currently ranking well.

would you advise to leave it as it is or upgrade?

[RTMdotORG]

are there upgrade instructions for this?

i have been using the old zoints SEO for some time and recently upgraded my forum to 3.8

i want to ensure i dont lose any pages etc which are currently ranking well.

would you advise to leave it as it is or upgrade?

i believe its the same, because in the zip it doesnt even say its for 3.8...
it shows 3.7....

so i would guess you wont have to upgrade...
but im not the author...

[dxlwebs]

sorry but no one for this modis the author really as its mega old now all i did was keep it going by doing the bug fixes but i have found that it is better to make a complete rewrite so i thought i would make my own instead this mod for support and everything from me is closed but i hope to have a new better and morecomplete system soon:D

[Gene Steinberg]

OK, I have most of this working, except for an invalid input message when I try to access anything but the forum's home page.

Ideas?

Peace,
Gene Steinberg

[Sayid]

can't wait for the complete version

Btw, is it work with other than English languages like Arabic or Chinese ?

[rbgrn]

Thanks for maintaining this! I have a patch to submit for SEOing the URLs in the social bookmarks:

plugin: showthread_bookmarkbit
code:

$bookmarksite['link'] = str_replace(
array('{URL}', '{TITLE}'),
array(urlencode($vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/' . zseo_url_thread($thread, 1)), urlencode($thread['title'])),
$bookmarksite['url']);

[rbgrn]

I found this problem while I was trying to make submissions to Digg work from the social bookmarking links:

This is what my apache log kicked out when attempting to submit the same thread to Digg:

BTW - This forum keeps ripping out the "s equals sessionkeystring" so I'm going to write it out that way so you can see.

With 301s enabled:


"HEAD /forums/showthread.php/new-fourms-31409.html HTTP/1.1" 301
"HEAD /forums/showthread.php/new-fourms-31409.html?s_equals_sessionkeystring&amp%3B HTTP/1.1" 301
"HEAD /forums/showthread.php/new-fourms-31409.html?s_equals_sessionkeystring&amp%3Bs_equals_sessionkeystring&amp%3B HTTP/1.1" 301


With disabled:


"HEAD /forums/showthread.php/new-fourms-31409.html HTTP/1.1" 200
"GET /forums/showthread.php/new-fourms-31409.html HTTP/1.1" 200


So it appears to be getting hung up on the session key somehow? My instinct says that there is some extra parseurl in there somewhere which is screwing it up.

[dxlwebs]

hey from my knowledge when i last tested this with dig it all worked fine the only problem that happened was that if you have the redirect turned on digg would tell you that you have too many redirects!

sadly im no longer maintaining this anymore and im in the stages of creating me own SEO system!

there is no realistic deadline right now but i promise to have something out soon!

[rbgrn]

Awesome! I look forward to your new system.

One thing to keep in mind - those of us who have ZSEO installed will need an upgrade path, that is, a backwards compatible URL rewriter! We can use new URLs but the old ones will absolutely need to be 301 redirected to the new ones.

[dxlwebs]

yeah i thought about that too!

i will try to incorporate all the features that zoints and other SEO's have and a priority will be that you get the redirects but obviously i cannot make it too much like zoints as that would creat copyright problems but for the sack of all the zoints seo users i will try to make the controls similar for ease in the change!

[rbgrn]

You can add every feature zoints had without fear of patent issue, because I'm positive they have not filed any patents on those features and if they had tried, they probably would have never been approved by the USPTO!

You just can't use the name "zoints," as that would violate a trademark if they have it used as a legal entity or website name.

I'm no lawyer but this how I understand it.

Anyway, having backward compatibility is make-or-break for me. I simply can't switch to any other system that can't support my old URLs or I will lose so much traffic I'll be out of business. I'd make that one thing a top priority because it will give people a migration path to your system.

[dxlwebs]

ok ill make sure the urls are there! or atleast with a 301 redirect!

[rbgrn]

It should be fairly simple. You can parse out the thread ID / forum ID because it's always at the end of the URL as words-words-30.html which would just parse out to 30, then construct your new SEO URL and 301 to that.

I'd recommend supporting migration from the other SEO systems as well, which couldn't take more than a few hours of work to figure out how to parse their URLs.

[Adromir]

If i am not mistaken, zoints seo is published under the lgpl license, if i am not mistaken. So i dont think there won`t be any copyright issues at all.

[PeakOptions]

My spanking new forum is up and operational as of today, my next step is SEO. I've researched the other two main options (you know, "vbSomething"and"DaniWhatever"), and I just finished reading ALL 12 PAGES of this thread (and a few other reviews)... you've got the one I want!

Now, question is; can I wait? If I wait I risk the benefits of a strong SEO start... if I implement the current (aging) Zoints, I may have to wrestle with migration issues.

Thoughts? Opinions? Advice from dxlwebs?

Thanks

[Adromir]

In my Forum the thread-/forumtitles are cut down after a certain length, i would prefer if it would be possible (in future versions or the new Product) that you can choose yourself how long the URLs become.

[dxlwebs]

i'll do every one a favour :D i have decided to make my SEO upgraderbale from Zoints meaning that you can continue to use this one untill i have finished mine which i am creating a deadline of 2 months!

so if you would like to use mine you can use this now and upgrade to mine once complete in 2 months time!

[Adromir]

that sounds great, will you tell us, what features you are planning?

[havard20009]

hi
i have problem about this :
You have not specified a valid URL for the thread that you want to merge. Please check that the URL includes a valid threadid, "t=xxx" or postid, "p=xxx" (where xxx is a number), and is not a redirect

[havard20009]

hi plz help me
You have not specified a valid URL for the thread that you want to merge. Please check that the URL includes a valid threadid, "t=xxx" or postid, "p=xxx" (where xxx is a number), and is not a redirect

[dxlwebs]

my new system is coming allong well i have posted a topic in my computer logic forum telling about the features that will be included and what you can expect if you wish to ask for anything please feel free to post in that topic and request features and such!

as for support on this system i am no longer supplying support as i am working on getting mine up and running and no longer have time to supply support!

if you have a problem you can still post it here and maybe some one will have the solution but im just too busy trying to get this new one running!

[RichieBoy67]

Please don't make me read the entire thread. lol

I am looking for tips on configuring with VBadvanced.

Thanks

[RichieBoy67]

That's a myth:

Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html)
Written by Juliane Stiller and Kaspar Szymanski,
Google Search Quality Team
Monday, September 22, 2008



...more (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html)

I always thought it was having the keywords in the thread that made them more useful, more visible etc... I never thought it was a matter of making threads look static.

I always thought that having a url that actually describes the page a bit was a good thing.. Am I wrong? Does it matter at all?

By the way--Looking forward to your seo system!! Do you plan on releasing it???

[dxlwebs]

thanks for the post yes the whole point of a seo system is to creat user and search engine friendly urls WHICH means (for every one still stuck on this) that your urls will have a better description allowing the search engines to understand what the topic is about easier and for the user to remember, search engines are all about keywords the easier they find them the easier they will be logged, and for the user if its something like showthread.php?p=1816966#post1816966 they will never remember but if its something like this showthread/some_random_topic.html?23 or what ever they may find it easier to get back to that page in a later date rather than having to save it or use the search option!

erm right now im in the hard code like i said about 2 months before i have some that i can be proud of time is tight but im working all day every day to bring something to the table!

i would say 1 month max and i should have something up!

[dxlwebs]

as for vbadvanced i know its a pain to look through all the posts in here and it would be of no use anyways vbadvanced will not work with this version of seo as they are out dated and would require a lot more coding on zoints seo and vbadvanced side because of vb3.8 being so new!

right now im not sure if i will tackle the problem of making my seo compatible with vba untill i have fixed the more complex problems and have it almost bug free once i get something up i will creat a topic in my forum where you can submit requests for features but that will not be read completly untill the seo is working im a great believer is baby step first!

[GNeRaL]

Resolved.

[shinng]

the installation went smoothly, but i have no idea if it is working properly. can someone please confirm that it is working properly? i'd appreciate the confirmation.
thanks.

[almohd]

Thank you very much

[dxlwebs]

hey all,

i am almost ready for beta testing you can see the beta working on my forum now and i will be releasing a beta version within the next few days!

i will update you on everything i have done so far tonight on my computer-logic.org site and answer your questions there at first i will only release the beta on my site and then once beta is finished i will release it to vbulletin.org for everyone else to use,so if anyone wants to update to my beta version (which is working) then they should sign up to my forum now

[dxlwebs]

i have now released my seo for everyone on my sites forum

[RedeemedWarrior]

registration disabled?

Edit
Ok it allowed me to registor but not download?

[dxlwebs]

registration is done through the front page as for the downloads ill check wait

[RedeemedWarrior]

ah thanks :)

[RedeemedWarrior]

is working now, i take it we remove zoints first? then install this? :)

[dxlwebs]

yeah just uninstall the same way you installed and then up mine! ill provide support for it on my site not in here ok :D

[RedeemedWarrior]

okies dokies seeya there ;)

[khadda]

Link this show

http://www.algeria17.info/vb/c-c-c-f23.html?f=23

http://www.algeria17.info/vb/bccc-t40421.html?p=97356 # post97356

I want to be like this

http://www.mazajcafe.com/vb/a-f37/
http://www.mazajcafe.com/vb/a-t50201.html



Thanks

I'm waiting

[|Jordan|]

What's the difference between the mod_rewrite and regular rewrite URL's?

I ask this because when i have Xcache enabled with the mod_rewrite URL's, i get 404 errors on the pages, but the regular rewrite URL's load fine.

[khadda]

Link this show

http://www.algeria17.info/vb/c-c-c-f23.html?f=23

http://www.algeria17.info/vb/bccc-t40421.html?p=97356 # post97356

I want to be like this

http://www.mazajcafe.com/vb/a-f37/
http://www.mazajcafe.com/vb/a-t50201.html



Thanks

I'm waiting





Where you :confused:

Where the experts :erm:

[pjardinage]

to show Turkish letters in URLs you should edit a funciton in
forum home -> includes -> functions_zseo.php

find: function zseo_cleaned_string($string) definition and change this function to this:
function zseo_cleaned_string($string)
{
global $vbulletin;

$bit = iif($vbulletin->options['zointsseo_url_separator'], '_', '-');

/*
turker - fix start ----------------------------------------------------
*/
$string=iconv('UTF-8','ISO-8859-9',$string);
$find = array('?','?','Ş','İ','I','Ğ','?');
$replace = array('?','?','ş','i','ı','ğ','?');
$string = str_replace($find,$replace,$string);
$string=iconv("ISO-8859-9", "UTF-8",$string);
/*
turker - fix end ------------------------------------------------------
*/

$string = strtolower($string);
$string = unhtmlspecialchars($string);

$string = str_replace("'", '', $string);
$words = preg_split("#[^a-z0-9]#", $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

$words = zseo_strip_stopwords($words, $bit);
$words = zseo_limit_keywords($words, $bit);
return implode($bit, $words);
}

NOTE:
-Take a look at iconv (http://www.php.net/iconv) usage.
-If your forum and local charset(which includes local characters, here is iso-8859-9) are same, delete the iconv lines.

Thanks, this helps me a litte bit but i'm not quite sure, how would i make this work for french letters ?

The basic :

?, ?, ?, ?

and

?, ?, ?, ?, ?

[pjardinage]

Any idea ? :confused:

[mikey1991]

Installing this on a clients board, the IM Icons work in firefox, but in IE 8 they lead to a 404, we have tried this with the mod_rewrite on and off, neither works. I need a fix please.

[pjardinage]

Should i write this for french letters ?


function zseo_cleaned_string($string)
{
global $vbulletin;

$bit = iif($vbulletin->options['zointsseo_url_separator'], '_', '-');

/*
french - fix start ----------------------------------------------------
*/
$string=iconv('UTF-8','ISO-8859-9',$string);
$string=iconv("ISO-8859-9", "UTF-8",$string);
/*
french - fix end ------------------------------------------------------
*/

$string = strtolower($string);
$string = unhtmlspecialchars($string);

$string = str_replace("'", '', $string);
$words = preg_split("#[^a-z0-9]#", $string, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

$words = zseo_strip_stopwords($words, $bit);
$words = zseo_limit_keywords($words, $bit);
return implode($bit, $words);
}

[mike2902]

Question about the MOD rewrite instructions.....Here are the instructions as given

3. .htaccess edit (required for the mod_rewrite option)
========================================
This step is only necessary if you are planning on using the mod_rewrite option to
rewrite the URLs. Please note that you will have to have mod_rewrite support enabled
on your server.

File: /.htaccess (If it does not exist, create it)

If the following two lines already exist, then skip ahead to the next edit, otherwise
add them at the end of the file

----------------------------------------
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
----------------------------------------

Add the following lines at the end of the file
----------------------------------------
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]
----------------------------------------

So if I understand this, I create a file in my forum root called .htaccess

Then open that file and add the following into it.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]

[j1mmy]

Has it been reported yet that there are logging in problems with IE? I've got this problem, but not sure if this mod was the reason?

[Ava-Kyrillos]

hi
when I tring to edit "showthread_similarthreadbit"
with new value as the attached text file

I get this erro
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"', expecting ']' in /home/*********/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3939) : eval()'d code on line 2

how i solve this
thanks

[kootta]

thank you for this great mod i,ve been searching for a way to make the dynamic URL to static n i now did it by using ur mod
thanks and i marked as installed

[MikesSite]

I have been using this for a long time with mod_rewrite. I'm nervous when I upgrade to vB 4 I will lose all of my links which will hurt SEO.

Is there any way to carry over the links or to prevent this from happening?

Any plans for a vB4 version of this?

Thanks.

[dxlwebs]

I have been using this for a long time with mod_rewrite. I'm nervous when I upgrade to vB 4 I will lose all of my links which will hurt SEO.

Is there any way to carry over the links or to prevent this from happening?

Any plans for a vB4 version of this?

Thanks.

like stated in the pm i have moved zoints to a new name C-logic SEO which is basically zoints but far more advanced we both use the same URL rewrite system (manythanks to zoints) but with a lot less bugs and much more stabillity if you wish for me to creat a version for VB4 i would be more than happy to start coding for your all but my time and money is limited!

note to all that VB4 does have its own URL rewriting system so unless you have zoints or c-logic and wish to keep the urls the same i do recommend you stick with the systems base url system if anyone has zoints or c-logic seo i recomend you stick with it i will test C-Logic SEO and see if VB4 works with it if not i will start working on a new version as soon as possible!

[solokron]

I would love to see a VB4 version of this! We would like to keep our thread URLs the same with .html at the end.

[extremeseo]

Nice mod, just installed.

[flOid]

I would like to upgrade to vb4 and the missing incompatibility with Zoints right now is pretty much the only thing preventing me from doing it. So is there any workaround to keep the links in vb4? Maybe vb4 just can be adapted so it uses the same link structure as Zoints SEO? Maybe some .htaccess rewrite directive that does convert old Zoints SEO links into working vb4 links?

[pozo]

Hey guys,

I tried to uninstall this mod, but now I get the attached error message if I want to watch the tags...
Can somebody help me to solve my problem?

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT zoints_tag.tag, COUNT(*) count FROM vb1_zoints_tag zoints_tag
LEFT JOIN vb1_thread thread ON(zoints_tag.threadid = thread.threadid)
WHERE thread.forumid IN(3,4,5,6,34,86,85,78,84,74,19,20,21,323,10,28,29 ,30,31,8,32,33,46,47,64,65,66,67,48,58,59,62,61,63 ,49,51,52,68,69,50,53,54,55,56,57,87,90,91,92,93,9 4,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,88,105,106,10 7,108,109,89,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,1 19,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129,130,131 ,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,1 44,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156 ,157,158,159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,1 69,170,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,180,181 ,182,183,184,185,186,187,188,189,190,191,192,193,1 94,195,196,197,198,199,200,201,202,203,204,205,206 ,207,208,209,210,211,212,213,214,215,216,217,218,2 19,220,221,222,223,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231 ,232,233,234,235,236,237,238,239,240,241,242,243,2 44,245,246,247,248,249,250,251,252,253,254,255,256 ,257,258,265,259,260,261,262,263,264,266,267,268,2 69,270,271,272,273,274,275,276,277,278,279,280,281 ,282,284,283,285,286,287,288,289,290,291,292,293,2 94,295,296,297,298,299,300,301,302,303,304,305,306 ,307,308,309,310,311,312,313,314,315,316,317,318,3 19,320,321,322,23,24,25,42,39,27,35,36)

AND autogen != 1
GROUP BY zoints_tag.tag
ORDER BY count DESC
LIMIT 30;

MySQL-Fehler : Table 'db111****-****.vb1_zoints_tag' doesn't exist
Fehler-Nr. : 1146
Fehler-Zeit : Saturday, 23.01.2010 @ 16:25:18
Datum : Saturday, 23.01.2010 @ 16:25:18
Skript : http://www.carhifi-lounge.net/tags/

[Phaedrus]

Some portion of the program is left behind. Likely in the php pages that is seeking that line in your database. You'll want to get rid of those. Easiest way would be to redownload the newest version of vbulletin and just uploading any pages that were edited. Make sure all the edits you added to your templates are also removed.

[cdesseno]

I have installed this mod and all is working ok excepts the /archive page. The archive page loads but the links go to inexistents pages. It seems that the rewriting is working everywhere but no in the archive.

[uludagforum]

I'm using zoint seo. Do not have the appropriate version of vbulletin version 4.

[ahmad6]

show this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function fetch_dynamic_permission_message() in /home/*****/public_html/forum/global.php(607) : eval()'d code on line 196

[megamoose]

Thanks this is just what I wanted.

[Cloverfield]

HELP! Installed and it broke my forum!!


Warning: require_once([path]/includes/functions_zseo.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/init.php(595) : eval()'d code on line 1

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/******/public_html/includes/functions_zseo.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/******/public_html/includes/init.php(595) : eval()'d code on line 1

[metalguy639]

I'm having an issue with using html in the forum description. I have a link in my description like below:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/03/54.png

My problem is when I go to click the forum link I get a broken page like this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/03/55.png


This also happens on the other SEO C-Logic product as well. I've tried both now and both do the same thing so there is a bug in both products. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[Worlocked]

Would anyone know the rewrite rule syntax to add the forum name to the URL when viewing threads?

For instance, now when you view a forum you get this:

domain.com/forum-name.html

But when you view a thread you just get:

domain.com/thread-name.html

I would like to get this in the thread link:

domain.com/forum-name/thread-name.html

Any ideas? It's probably quite simple, but rewrite rules are not my strong point

[Cat333Pok?mon]

Downloaded it, installed it exactly as the instructions said, and my entire forum broke with 404s. I have 3.8.4.

[deni_z]

hi
when I tring to edit "showthread_similarthreadbit"
with new value as the attached text file

I get this erro
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"', expecting ']' in /home/*********/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3939) : eval()'d code on line 2

how i solve this
thanks

I have the same problem. Please help!!!

[roy1]

Hi dxlwebs,my forum char set utf 8 but not suported this charakters:şüÜiĞğI
zoints seo supported UTF8 char set?

[firattetik]

hello thank you

[moondragon13]

Two quick questions:

I've used this on 3.7.x with no problems, any reason why you say only use this for 3.8.x

Also, has anyone looked deeper into the infinite loop problem for someone with no cookies? Is this an easy fix?

[likaweb]

Greetings all I wanted to ask how do you use Zoints SEO 2.3.2 for the Blog?

Thanks Lika ;)

[I8DAPUC]

This needs updating to vb4 please.

[djbaxter]

I wouldn't hold your breath. None of the Zoints add-ons have been updated in about two years, before 4.x was even released.

[Nisi]

This needs updating to vb4 please.

Yeah, it needs! Does it work to the newest version of vBulletin?

[need2fart]

Yeah, it needs! Does it work to the newest version of vBulletin?

It doesn't. Just 3.8. Some people noted it works on 3.7 tho.

[patrixon78]

Is there any SEO optimisation plugins for 4.1.6 vB PS ?

[prandah]

hello how about lighttpd ?
are you have rewrite url for lighttpd?

[ChiNa]

My honest opinion about this is that, I think all these template edits are a very bad idea. and it takes out lots of the normal options on vBulletin...... Else the idea is ok..

I find it a bit dangerouse for me to use in future because I have already my forum and more than 20.000 links in google! But If I start a new forum then I might use this from the beginning, if it gave good rsults as well

thanks for share

[OzgurcaN]

Hello

www.sevgiforum.net (http://www.sevgiforum.net)

install zoints seo update error
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7159/ekranalntsqe.png

web browser delete forumdisplay.php title no problem

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/2586/ekran2i.png

[Naijasite]

please update it for vb 4.2

[marysnow786]

any updated version for 4.x.x

[djbaxter]

any updated version for 4.x.x

This project was abandoned a LONG time ago.

[muggs72]

I installed this mod on 3.8.Evrything went well with the hack but after I edited all templates and edited htaacees to rewrite the urls it wasnt going to any thread.I got error saying not found on server when i click every thread.so I removed rewrite urls and all the template edits.I dont know wht was wrong.was hoping this would work because I want my thread titles to show in the urls.Any help is appreciated.Thanks.