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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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