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:

[corsacant]

Hi, I have just installed the Googlemap addon and the zoints seo stops it from working properly. Is there any way in which I could exclude the googlemap page from the zoints seo url re-writes?
Or is there any other fix?
Thanks in advance.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by corsacant

Hi, I have just installed the Googlemap addon and the zoints seo stops it from working properly. Is there any way in which I could exclude the googlemap page from the zoints seo url re-writes?
Or is there any other fix?
Thanks in advance.

Some people are having success with this.

[ThePimp]

How do I get the forumdisplay cloud to render the various sized tags?

[corsacant]

Originally Posted by DChapman

Some people are having success with this.

Thanks for that, I'm not sure where I am meant top edit though. There is no part in the plugin manager that allows me to edit that bit. I've searched for it but can't find it.

[zlos]

Originally Posted by DChapman

I'd like to reiterate, pleased do not install this hack unless you are well educated when it comes to SEO.

Be patient, take a step back, see if the community develops it. If not, you're better off with your default forum setup.

I agree fully - looks like sitting and waiting does not solve problem of zero users on the site

I am abserving your piece of software very carefully. Since I am operating two really BIG forums (+2.000.000 posts each) vBSEO does not work for me. Simply mod_rewrite with over 2500 users online can kill each and every server on this world. I bought vBSEO, tried it, killed all my 5 servers in 30 seconds and got my mony back after a week of fighting with code optimisation.

That's why I like your soft - it does not want to kill my machines by overusing mod_rewrite

First problem - it is for 3.6.1, while I have 3.6.2 installed.
Second problem - php 4.x.x compliance?
Third problem - necessity to recrawl the whole site (aprox. 4.000.000 of pages per site!)
Last questio-problem - if I will join the Zoint Network, do you give me some support?

Regards
Tom

[rogersnm]

Originally Posted by Greek76

Problem with mod rewrite. I added the code to the .htaccess and uploaded it. I click enable mod rewrite. Now when you visit the categories I get the page can not be found what am I doing wrong?

This how I added the code...

Your server doesn't seem to have mod_rewrite installed.

[Zoints]

Hi Tom,

Originally Posted by zlos

I agree fully - looks like sitting and waiting does not solve problem of zero users on the site

I am abserving your piece of software very carefully. Since I am operating two really BIG forums (+2.000.000 posts each) vBSEO does not work for me. Simply mod_rewrite with over 2500 users online can kill each and every server on this world. I bought vBSEO, tried it, killed all my 5 servers in 30 seconds and got my mony back after a week of fighting with code optimisation.

That's why I like your soft - it does not want to kill my machines by overusing mod_rewrite

First problem - it is for 3.6.1, while I have 3.6.2 installed.
Second problem - php 4.x.x compliance?
Third problem - necessity to recrawl the whole site (aprox. 4.000.000 of pages per site!)
Last questio-problem - if I will join the Zoint Network, do you give me some support?

I'm not going to try and talk you into using Zoints SEO because I don't think you should use it. My suggestion is to wait for someone (or us) to tear apart Zoints SEO and provide the useful plugins as separate installs. Then pick and choose which you feel would benefit your forum. I'm a Big-Board owner myself and know all too well the special issues you have to deal with. Stick with your default url schema. mod-rewrite and keyword-in-url.html are overhyped and can do more harm than good.

As for joining the Zoints Network, at present, we're closed to new forums. However, that will soon change...

[rogersnm]

Hey Guys,

How many people want a sitemap generator for Zoints SEO? If the demand is great enough i'll release mine if that's ok with David.

Regards,
Nick.

EDIT: I also got custom rewrite rules worked out

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by rogersnm

Hey Guys,

How many people want a sitemap generator for Zoints SEO? If the demand is great enough i'll release mine if that's ok with David.

You don't need my permission. By all means, release away

Originally Posted by rogersnm

EDIT: I also got custom rewrite rules worked out

[AMG021]

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