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:

[Make Money?]

We get a lot of referals from Google - and have an excellent Google Archive presence will this disturb that?

Thanks

[Make Money?]

Is it only for new posts at the time of posting?

Or can past threads be tagged retospectivly?

Also using the moderator tools will I be able to mass tag stuff?

Thanks!

[Make Money?]

We swiched it on in the admin area but cant see any evidence of it out on the forum...???

[aceofspades]

When i said vb gallery i was referring to the vb intergrated photopost. It rewrites the urls, for example it changes the directory /gallery to /forums and so none of the images are their and none of the links work. I use the gallery so much that i cant not use it so that i can use zoints seo.

[Mr.Haze]

Hi,
I just installed Zoints SEO and it's brilliant, installed fine, does exactly what I want. But the only problem is I already had vBadvanced installed, which I also like. Is there any way to make the vBadvanced homepage use the Zoints "friendly" SEO urls?
Thanks!

Neil

[Mr.Haze]

Also my "All" links don't work:
Normal: http://www.head-nod.com/video-club-f7/index.html
ALL: http://www.head-nod.com/forumdisplay...ll7/index.html

[nimonogi]

How can i remove the session id (=b23632a198eeb23bdb0367f5ca53e9a4&) ?

[maxicep]

hi,
my host yahoo dont give permission to create file start with (.),(-)
like .htaccess

i want to make vRewrite for Seoed Urls

What can i do now ?

[rogersnm]

a) Switch to a better host.
b) Don't use mod_rewrite - turn it off in vB Options and don't bother with the .htaccess file.

[phlogiston]

Originally Posted by aceofspades

When i said vb gallery i was referring to the vb intergrated photopost. It rewrites the urls, for example it changes the directory /gallery to /forums and so none of the images are their and none of the links work.

I'm pretty certain I've figured out why I haven't experienced problems with vBGallery (and other addons) while using Zoints SEO - I have vBa CMPS wrapped around everything and forums in root dir = not standard.


So I worked out a possible fix.
If anyone wants to try this (without guarantee!) to get Zoints SEO working on sites with photopost's vBGallery (may also solve the incompatibility with vBadvanced Links Directory) I'm fairly/quite confident it may work. (I apologise for the vagueness but I don't have good test installs at present )

in the "Zoints SEO" plugin at parse_templates (on line #1),
originally (Zoints SEO v 2.2.2) it should be

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['zointsseo_on'] AND $vbulletin->options['zointsseo_rewrite_urls'] AND VB_AREA == 'Forum' AND !defined('VBA_PORTAL')) 


change VBA_PORTAL to VBA_SCRIPT,
ie REPLACE line#1 with

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['zointsseo_on'] AND $vbulletin->options['zointsseo_rewrite_urls'] AND VB_AREA == 'Forum' AND !defined('VBA_SCRIPT')) 


this should prevent the <base href=""> tag being added to the header which I think was the problem.


Again, apologies for the lack of testing of this before offering it as a possible solution.