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:

[webmastershome]

hi there,

how can i remove the session id

regards
jitender

[Cocko]

Originally Posted by nocte

if fount a bunch of bugs more:


template threadbit line 65:


-> this does not work with the searchengine. the serach sesult pages will link to:
http://www.yourforum.com/forum/your-title-t123.html?&highlight=keyword?goto=lastpost
while it should be
http://www.yourforum.com/forum/your-title-t123.html?highlight=keyword&goto=lastpost


template search_results_postbit line 25:

			$post[typeprefix] <a href="<if condition="$show['zointsurl']">$post[threadurl]<else />showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$post[threadid]$post[highlight]</if>"><strong>$post[threadtitle]</strong></a>

does not work. it will show a link to the forum in witch the thread is located, not the thread itself.


modification of thempate forumhome_lastpostby is useless, because there will be a redirection anyway. If you do this you just have a rewritten url redirecting to another rewritten (both having parameters). I don't see an advantage doing the modification that is sugested for this template.


if you use "go to the last posting" you will be redirected to a url like this
http://www.yourforum.com/forum/your-title-t123.html?p=470529#post470529
though the last posting might not be on page 1 the url looks like it was page one. If the last posting was on page 3 the url should be
http://www.yourforum.com/forum/your-title-t123p3.html#post470529


on online.php - if a user is currently seeing a thread in the archive, the url has no keywords and two slashes, like
http://www.yourforum.com/forum/archive//t-15828.html


"Use Zoints Archive Navigation?" -> when i use this feature, no navigation shows up at all.

I have that issue /w last posting after installation Zoints SEO .

Also there is an issue /w WYSIWYG editor - preview or editing
a post and bb code php included gets a mess.

By now I needed to uninstall this hack completely

Did Somebody fix the results written in quoted posting of nocte ?
(running vB 3.6.4, CMPS 2.2.1, PhotoPost Pro 5.5, iBProArcade 2.5.7)

Thx for advise.

[imported_infitech]

Pre-installation question:
With the above warning, I have to ask, Is this modification easily uninstalled in-case for some reason we need to uninstall it?

Also will you be developing newer version for each VBulletin upgrade.
I'm kind of weary when it comes to installing larger mods like this because of the rate of VBulletin's development.

[webmastershome]

Please help me to remove the session id

[solokron]

I am also receiving this error.

vBulletin Version: 3.6.4

ZointsSEO Version: 2.2.2

PHP as CGI. PHP 4.4.4

Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, using mod_rewriteThis requires mod_rewrite support on the web server enabled.

.htaccess placed in forum directory.
Contents:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]


Both Pagination methods result in the same error.

"No input file specified."

I am guessing it is an .htaccess rewrite rule which is not friendly with PHP over CGI.

Originally Posted by unitedpunjab

i get this error "No input file specified."

[solokron]

Yep, placing it on another server with the exact same setup but PHP as a module works fine.

Originally Posted by solokron

I am also receiving this error.

vBulletin Version: 3.6.4

ZointsSEO Version: 2.2.2

PHP as CGI. PHP 4.4.4

Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, using mod_rewriteThis requires mod_rewrite support on the web server enabled.

.htaccess placed in forum directory.
Contents:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]


Both Pagination methods result in the same error.

"No input file specified."

I am guessing it is an .htaccess rewrite rule which is not friendly with PHP over CGI.

[ForumOrtami]

SEO options > Setting > click 'save'

what is problem in picture?

PS: I'm sorry. I dont speak english enough

[solokron]

Not acceptable 406 errors are sometimes indicative of a mod_security rule affecting the request.

You also want to be sure the file is uploaded fully and in the correct file mode.

Originally Posted by ForumOrtami

SEO options > Setting > click 'save'

what is problem in picture?

PS: I'm sorry. I dont speak english enough

[extreme-mobile]

hey guys am having a minor problem with this in version VB 3.6.4

when i reply to a post it produces a white page, and then when i refresh it goes back to the forum posta nd it has posted correctly but its a bit annoying that i have to refresh everytime

any ideas or a fix?

when i create a thread its fine its only when i reply to something

cheers

dean

[extreme-mobile]

any one is this just not compatible with 3.6.4 ?