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:

[MrLeN]

Thanks.. where/what is the product manager?

Edit Never mind -- found it. Thanks.

[ComputerVitals]

Interesting... I've been doing a lot of reading.

Some say SEO is the way to go!
But I also heard this doesn't matter..
Either way I installed and will give it a go.

My next question..

Any plans on trying to make this work with vBAdvanced?

[TurkSipa]

Originally Posted by Danny Boy

Here's what I did to fix the View New Posts link on showthread:

<a href="http://www.forumurl.com/showthread.php?t=$threadid$firstunread"><strong>$vbphrase[view_first_unread]</strong></a>

So far it seems to work.:smoke:

Thanks man..

[shad-gt]

any chance to get the vbseo sitemap hack working with Zoints SEO (CRU in the sitemap)?

greetings

[tyler_d]

Originally Posted by shad-gt

any chance to get the vbseo sitemap hack working with Zoints SEO (CRU in the sitemap)?

greetings

i second that request! It would be great

[ninjashoes]

sitemaps arent gonna do anything for a forum that already has all its pages linked anyway

[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

[shad-gt]

Originally Posted by ninjashoes

sitemaps arent gonna do anyhing for a forum that already has all its pages linked anyway

which Forum has everytime all pages linked?

[aceofspades]

O i have just realised this doesnt work with vb gallery

*uninstalled*

[phlogiston]

"Incompatibility with vBA Gallery"

can I just check that all this means is it doesn't rewrite the urls of gallery & image links?
as I have no problems at all running Zoints SEO on a site with vBGallery :S