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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

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 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

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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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

[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!