Here's the portion of my htaccess file that adds rewrite for zseo.

But it's important to note that I have enabled a 301 redirect that essentially directs all my homepage traffic (http://keepmusicalive.com, http://keepmusicalive.com/index.php, etc...) to be redirected to http://www.keepmusicalive.com which is the forumhome page at this domain. I've enabled the "redirect index.php" option in the ZSEO CP, and I've also enabled my archive to act as a sitemap and to be renamed as Sitemap.

So if your forumhome page is yourdomain.com/forums, or if you have different settings enabled, your htaccess will look differently than mine. ;)

Sounds like this will compete with vbseo and as this is open source im sure some others may help this come along, however I have to admit, im extremely happy with vbseo and there support. but im sure tons of vb people will find this usefull if they cant afford a paid solution.

Thanks for your help offer, you can tell me how to exclude the /gallery folder in the .htaccess?
B.t.w. on your site there's the same bug I have, the ? Previous Thread | Next Thread ? are not working right. Thanks

Thanks, I've never had any reports of that before. It could very well be because I haven't upgraded to this latest version yet. I don't know if it contains a fix for what you reported, but I do need to upgrade.

I'll look through this thread to see exactly what you're wanting to do as far as excluding the /gallery folder.

EDIT: Ok, I found where you said that /gallery is redirecting to the /forums directory. Couple of questions for you....

1. Did this start when adding the Zoints SEO product or when you last edited your htaccess file?

2. Post or PM your htaccess file so I can look at it. Things will be a bit different since your forumhome root is yourdomain.com/forums, and requires a different type of redirect.

3. Just to clarify, are you only using the redirect to get rid of http:// versus http://www. PR splitting and dupe content, as well as getting rid of /index.php for the same purposes? Or are you also redirecting yourdomain.com to lead to yourdomain.com/forums?

I might not be able to help, but if you'll let me know what you're working with and what you're needing to do, I can at least give it a shot. :)

Thanks a lot MusicMan,
1. This only occur if I set Enable Zoints SEO to "yes" and have the original unchanged .htaccess
2. .htacces file is:


The first line is added but not working, it's also not working (means it still points to the forum directory) with the original file.
3. Don't know what you mean, use it only for the zoints default settings + Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, (using mod_rewrite).
Thanks again.

Please who is going to help me... i download this mod.. but i want some information about .htaccess this file doesn't excist in my root. i am sure of this.. how can i create this file.. witch is the code that i must put and then the code of the Zoint seo where can i put???

Thank u

Load up the attached txt file to your server and rename it to .htaccess it is the code taken from the README.txt (it is recommended to read this).

Thanks Ramsesx I read it but i thought that wasn't enough... becuse when i read: File: /.htaccess (If it does not exist, create it).. i thought that when i will create this file i was adding another code except this..

But thanks

So i did the installation but when i try to open a discussion it said:

The requested URL /forum/ggdxggh-f34.html was not found on this server.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/2.2.2 (Fedora) DAV/2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.1.4 mod_python/3.2.8 Python/2.4.2 mod_ssl/2.2.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8a mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.8

Can anybody help me??

Ok, I'm not 100% sure of what all you're needing to do with your rewrites but here's what I see.

http://mc-escort.de has a PR0
http://www.mc-escort.de has a PR3, so it makes sense to go ahead and redirect to http://www instead of to http://

So, backup your current htaccess and give this one a shot. Replace everything you posted above with the following.

It may or may not work exactly like you're wanting, but it's worth a shot. Let me know if that fixes the /gallery redirecting to /forums.

I think i found the error.. in zoint seo option is: Rewrite URLs when i chose the third one i can't open my forum.. but when i chose the second without mode_rewrite it works so i want to know how can i mak this to work for the .htaccess file I upload on root the file that Ramsesx gives to me(post #87).. So does anybody know what can I do

Thank u to everbody

Read the ReadMe file included in the zip and it will tell you what to add to your htaccess in order to use the mod_rewrite option. ;)

Anybody know about custom rewrite rules with and without mod_rewrite? Maybe it will be in the documentation when he writes it...

I create an .htaccess with code:

but it doesn't work:confused: Where is the mistake

Thak u for your answer

looks fine to me. Did you pick mod_rewrite?

Awesome! I just edited the .htaccess file to enable the URL mod_rewrite, and the the forum/thread URL's are looking a lot better!

Thanks guys :)

No.. i dont know where is the mistake


Can u post here your code of .htaccess please

Sure. This code was made by MusicMan (thanks Glenn!) and you need to simply changed the URL on the 4th line to your sites address. I have no idea about .htaccess so I have no idea if anything else should go in this file!!

[code]
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]

That is your mistake. You're supposed to pick mod_rewrite if you've edited your htaccess to enable mod_rewrite.

It doesn't work again.. I dont know bhooo

One small observation. All seems to be perfectly hunky dory, apart from when accessing threads from the 'Recent Threads' in vBAdvanced.
From within the forums a typical URL will display as
hxxp://www.cornishserver.com/forum/welcome-member-no-t2149.html
But visiting the same post, but from the vBAdvanced recent threads it looks like
hxxp://www.cornishserver.com/forum/welcome-member-no-t2149.html?p=11086#p11086
Doesn't seem to break anything, but a curiosity all the same!

Got your PM and sent one back, explained that you have to replace the example url's with your site's urls. If you still need help, post or PM your url and I'll insert it for you. :)

Do the links on the vbadvanced page point to a particular post or the last post in the thread, whereas the forum doesn't? The p=11086 looks like a postid to me and is normal. I see it at my forum and it just refers to a particular post. http://www.keepmusicalive.com/showth...4014#post24014

These types of links aren't too common, but are more likely seen on search results or syndication type feeds, which your vbadvanced is probably using to display recent threads/posts.

The title link points to the thread, but there is a link to most recent reply. As I said, nothing seems to be broken so am not concerned at all.
Many thanks for the reply :D

thank you

2.2.1 version rocks! :)

I was too scared to try install this mod again but finally I did it and works great!
Thanks DChapman!

DChapman

why my archive is not appearing in full!? http://www.alshiatalk.com/vb/archive

In the admincp > Zoints SEO options, scroll to the very bottom and for archive version, select 3.5.4 or later and hit save.

I wonder if those issues have been solved. This is what's holding me fom installing.

We will solve them. We're committed to providing a generally bug free handoff to the vBulletin community. I'll be editing the first post in a little bit with a list of known bugs and cross them off when they are resolved.

Yes, it is a shame. I have had to uninstall the mod because of the Gallery and Links issues.

Thanks DChapman .
This nice Mod works great.

A nice and easy alternative.

Keep up this great work.

And We are very grateful. Excellent that you have released so much for the communities on vBulletin and i'm sure zoints will do well, and I will try my best to make as many people as possible use it.

The support is amazing, for one. :)

Zoints SEO Explained

Zoints SEO has been in development for a couple of years now. It is an amalgamation of various modifications made to a Big-Board that helped it get to that status. This SEO modification was created with very large boards in mind but should help small forums too.

As you are about to find out, Zoints SEO is very poorly named. If we were going to use a descriptive title, it would be called, "Zoints Search Engine Optimization, Revenue Enhancement, and Lots O' More Members Joining". However, that doesn't quite have the ring that "Zoints SEO" does and our marketing department (which does not actually exist) won out. Prior to installing any SEO modification, you should educate yourself as much as possible regarding SEO. I say this because there are a lot changes you can make that will hurt you. But PLEASE be careful, the statistical probability that the person claiming to know about SEO actually knows a damn thing and isn't just spewing forth garbage they read on a message board is very low. God knows I am not an SEO expert, Zoints is NOT an SEO company, and 98% of the people who claim to be knowledgeable should be run away from very quickly. Two good sites to learn FACTS:

1. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/
2. Google Webmaster Guidelines


The Features and Settings of Zoints SEO

After properly installing Zoints SEO, you will be presented with the following options in your admincp:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/1.png



As with any decent script, Zoints SEO can be turned on or off with a single click. Even better, each time you turn it on, an angel gets their wings.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/2.png



A 301 redirect is the proper way to redirect a user to a new url. If you change your urls from showthread.php?t=#### to something else and DON'T utilize a 301 redirect, then old links are going to end up going to a 404. That's very bad. Select yes here :)
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/3.png



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.

http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/4.png



A lot of people like to use the vBulletin archive as a sitemap. If you're going to do that, you might as well name is sitemap, right?
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/5.png



If you choose to utilize keywords in your URL, you have two choices of how to separate the words:

1. keyword-in-url.html
2. keyword_in_url.html
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/6.png



If you choose to utilize keywords in the url, then sometimes thread titles can be way too long. This option truncates the number of keywords in the url to however many you want.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/7.png



Stopwords are words that the search engines don't care about all that much. You can turn on the removal of stopwords you list with this option.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/8.png



This is a great picture. Any true SEO will agree that hippos are the cutest animals ever.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/9.jpg



If you add stopwords to the box below, they will not be listed in any urls. For example, if you have a thread title of "My dogs likes to walk" and "to" as a stopword, then the url would be /my-dog-likes-walk.html
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/10.png



This option allows you to set meta keywords on a forum by forum basis. Now, I am of the opinion that meta keywords are deprecated. If search engines are still taking them into account in their algorithms, then I weep for the state of internet technologies. Why did we include this? Because someone somewhere would scream and cry and claim they heard from their uncle's friend's grandma's cousin's daughter who built a high ranked geocities page that the reason it was ranked high was the meta keywords.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/11.png



This is the page that allows you to insert meta keywords on a forum by forum basis. That way if you have a forum about dogs, all the threads can have keywords about dogs. And if you have another forum about cats, all the keywords there can be about hippos because hippos are better than cats anyway.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/meta-keywords.png



Zoints SEO also lets you set custom meta descriptions on a forum by forum basis, use the vBulletin default, OR populate the meta description with the first X words of a thread.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/12.png



If you choose to populate the meta description with the first X words of a thread, this option lets you choose how many.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/13.png



Should you decide to set the meta descriptions on a forum by forum basis, you will utilize this screen:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/meta-description.png



Have you ever noticed that vBulletin has domain.com/forums and domain.com/forums/index.php? That's theoretically bad. That's bad because it dilutes your incoming links. Some people will link to domain.com/forums and others will link to domain.com/forums/index.php?. This option gets rid of the index.php so that you just have the clean url.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/14.png



As stated earlier, Zoints SEO was build with large forums in mind. Have you ever been on a large forum with 20,000 threads in a single subforum and getting to page 73 of 452 was an exercise in futility? Well, the search engines want to get there too so they can efficiently crawl your content. And they also want you to have less than 100 links per page. We therefore came up with this:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/15.png



What does the "all" option above add?
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/16.png



The "all" link makes life much easier for our friendly search engine bots to get to all of your content in an efficient manner while maintaining less than 100 links per page.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/17.png



As previously stated, Zoints is much more than just an SEO script. We all know about the very popular "welcome headers" hack that says, "Hi guest, welcome to hippotalk.com, the forum for those who think hippos are very cute. Register or we will poke you with a pointy stick". It's a great hack, but it's not good enough. To increase guest registration rates, you must speak to them. The feature below allows you to write custom guest messages on a forum by forum basis. In other words, if a guest is viewing a subforum on thread in a forum about dogs, you can say, "Hi guest, if you are interested in dogs, then register already!". If another guest is viewing your cat forum threads, they can see something like, "Hi there, why do you like cats? Register and lets talk about it."
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/18.png



The default guest message title:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/19.png



The default guest message:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/20.png



You can then set the guest messages on a forum by forum basis on this screen. This lets you target your messages and have more relevant content :cool:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/guest-messages.png



This is another trick of the trade. You know all those "no permission" messages people are forever getting? Now you can set them on a forum by forum basis too. This lets you write custom no message pages and direct bots to new areas of your site...
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/21.png



The default no permission messages:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/22.png



The screen that lets you set no permission messages on a forum by forum basis:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/permissions.png



If you want to use the archive as a sitemap, this option does that.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/23.png



The option below is one of those aimed at large forums. It is 100% impossible for large forums to have less than 100 links on their default archive pages. Zoints figured out a new navigation methodology that allows just that :cool:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/24.png



A simple setting that determines how many archive links per page:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/25.png



Ok, here we got a little crazy. Try and follow me here. We created a "thread decay" system. Basically, for threads older than X days, guests will be taken to a different version of the page. This different version might have more ads, might have less graphics, etc.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/26.png



If you choose to decay to a style, this is where you choose which one:
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/27.png



This is the setting for X where any thread older than X decays.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/28.png



vBulletin changed their archive between 3.5.3 and 3.5.4. The automatic detection fails sometimes so this is where you can switch.
http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/29.png



Have you ever tried to place ads in your archive? If so, you know that unless you're a good programmer, it is a pain in the butt. Well, Zoints decided to make it simple with these settings:

http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/archive-ads.png

http://img3.zoints.com/Zoints-SEO/archive-ads2.png


And that is Zoints SEO in a nutshell.

Confirmed. Will be fixed.

Confirmed and will be fixed.

Confirmed. Will be fixed.

bug found. when adding arcive ad seems to be fine but not showing on the forum where i told it too when i went back to remove or edit it in the admincp i hit remove or edit i get a blank screen. not sure y.

it is on 3.5.4 or later!

will this work on 3.5.4 or am i wasting me time ?
Dont want to upgrade cause of existing hacks etc but hack sound good.