Major Additions - Zoints SEO

********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.


Zoints SEO is currently incompatible with: POSSIBLE FIX. PLEASE TRY THIS AND REPORT BACK. THANK YOU!
1. Incompatibility with vBA Gallery link.
2. Incompatibility with vBA Links
3. Improper linking from vBA CMPS Recent threads
4. Google Maps
[s]5. Non english characters[/s] - Character replacement is now available.


Without further ado:

[RichieBoy67]

Are you guys just saying the rewrite part of it doesn't work with the tags system?

I am happy just using the forum meta tags and a couple other parts....

Thanks

[MindstateNL]

I'm curious too, I'd love to use Zoints on my board, if it's only the tag system then i'll install it anyway cause I turn that off

[MindstateNL]

Hi,

I'm asking for a little bit of help on the Zoints Mod, because I can't get it to work properly. I installed it, did everything the readme told me to do, but still it isn't as it has to be.

My links are now turning up like this:
http://www.lalala.com/forum//showthr...html?p=7#post7
and it has to turn up like:
www.lalala.com/forum/topictitle-5.html

Can somebody please help me out? Much appreciated,

Niels

[xavierx]

Originally Posted by aceofspades

Hi guys,

First of all, i installed your seo on my last forum and it was super! Unfortunatly this time i seem to be having a problem. When i installed zoints SEO and turned it on, i noticed all of my images were missing and that none on my urls worked.

After looking into it i found out it was missing the forum directory in each url and so it wasnt finding the images / going to the forum or thread, for example it would go to this url:

http://www.myforum.com/forumdisplay....stions-10.html

But the forum isnt in the root, its in the forums folder so it should be this:

http://www.myforum.com/forums/forumd...stions-10.html

If i add the forum directory to the url it works perfectly, but i can only do that manually. How can i tell zoints SEO that my forum isnt root its in the forums folder and that it needs to be adding /forums to each url it optimises. Also, when doing the mod rewrite, do i add the lines to the htaccess in my forums folder or the one in my websites root?

Many thanks for any help you can give!

James

I have the same problem but with the urls generated by Zoint SEO.
My forum is allocated in the directory foros
For example

http://www.myforum.com/foros/

But the urls generated by Zoint SEO link to http://www.myforum.com/ and didn?t work.
How to correct that please?

[xavierx]

Originally Posted by xavierx

I have the same problem but with the urls generated by Zoint SEO.
My forum is allocated in the directory foros
For example

http://www.myforum.com/foros/

But the urls generated by Zoint SEO link to http://www.myforum.com/ and didn?t work.
How to correct that please?

The problem was fixed but i have a new problem.
I add to homepage the section Latest Threads but in this section the links appear in the old format (http://myforum.com/foros/showthread.php?t=7)
How fix this?

[SAT2M]

I install vbseo now

How can I convert zointsseo links to vbseo ?

[EarnDollars]

Installed on my Forum with v3.7.0 and looks work fine except "Site Tag"
Thanks for the nice product! and It is FREE!

[bardas]

downloads II

Zoint downloads II Seo I can do ?

If you help ,I am pleased

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by bardas

downloads II

Zoint downloads II Seo I can do ?

If you help ,I am pleased

Now if this could be combined, unified, with TfSEO for vBulletin 3.7.x, it would be a killer SEO product.

Any coders out there who want to get involved?

I'd do it if I knew anything about coding, but I don't.

Peace,
Gene Steinberg

[jawatkin]

Ok, I (hey, I was just starting out) installed this with the rewrite option, not knowing any better... Fast forward a year and a half and I've got almost 9 million posts.... But in Google? 70,000 pages.... I'd really like to switch back to standard vbulletin URLs but my question is... how?

Obviously, my links are in the http://www.myforum.com/forum/thread-name-t127521.html format in Google... If I disable the rewriting, the links won't go where they are supposed to... Is there a way to "reverse rewrite"? So that, when it comes in, it's rewritten properly back into the vB default URL format?