Board Optimization - Zoints SEO 2.3.2

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)

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[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]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

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 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]

Originally Posted by Lizard King

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]

Originally Posted by Mike54

Whoa, not so fast. I'm familiar with your position on rewriting URL's, but here is Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide 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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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

[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]

Originally Posted by elrafei

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.