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:

[bada_bing]

Has this been tested and will it work with vb 3.5.4 ?

[KoC]

We wait for the great Upgrade. The bugs must be fixed before i can use it

[Hoffi]

The explanation of the Template Changes are bad. I did not find some of the Code the Style. And yes, I searched in Master Style too. Using 3.6.1

And I have a wish.
I I use German characters like äöü the Link ist cut there.

Forumtitle ist: WoD1: Jäger die Vergeltung
Link is: wod-1-j-f-108/index.html
Thats Bad. Other Forums have the complete name in the link.
There are Other Characters that cut off the Word like é and some other.
I like to have a translation matrix where I can enter a translation like
é = e
ä = ae
and so on.

and one last thing. I like to rewrite the User Profile Pages too. Is that possible?

[corsacant]

I'm waiting for the bugs to be fixed then I will be installing this straight away.

[Zoints]

Will someone with the gallery, links, or other such program bugs please open a ticket at Zoints.com/support.z with a temp FTP account and temp admin account so we can look into getting this fixed.

Thank you.

We should have the other bugs fixed this evening. The gallyer type bugs will be fixed when someone provides us working logins.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by Neal-UK

I'm noticing people on Who is online viewing a location that comes up with invalid link: /forumdisplay.php/-.html?u=403

Actually, it turns out that Zoints SEO does not use the u variable. Could you be using something else that would cause that problem?

[Zoints]

Zoints SEO 2.2.2 has been released. As of this posting, there are no known bugs, only incompaitibilies with some modifications and non english characters.

If you find any bugs, PLEASE post them. Thanks!

10/02/2006 - 2.2.2
* Different meta description for FORUMHOME
* Minor bugfixes

[tyler_d]

Looks like all administrators will have the option to Rewrite URLs w/o mod_rewrite

But if one has mod_rewrite available, is it better to use the mod_rewrite for URL rewrites or is it better to use the rewrite option that does not use mod_rewrite?

The instructions allude that the only difference is that the mod_rewrite option can hog up more processing speed. So my question is, if everyone has the option to not use mod_rewrite, why even offer the mod_rewrite option if it's gonna accomplish the same URL re_writes, but only consume more processor resources?

Just curious... hopefully this hasn't already been discussed (cuz I could not find the answer in searching this huge thread).

[redstaing.net]

waaawo man

[MrLeN]

I have vba links installed -- is there any sort of work around I can use so that I can use both (seeing as though links in not compatible with Zoints)? as far as I can see, the only problem is the base href in the template. If I remove that, I think it should still work.

Edit Oh and also.. Can someone tell me why if I turn it on to:

"Rewrite URLs and insert keywords" -- Then when I try to click into a category, I get a dead page.

But f I use: "Rewrite URLs and insert keywords", it works fine.

I have mod_rewrite turned on, and I just double check the instructions. I have done everything correctly. I am using vB 3.6.1