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:

[rbgrn]

It seems to replace cron.php?&rand= with -.html?&rand=

I find that unnecessary and on my Who's Online it reports it as an unknown location. Is there a fix for this? Thanks

[treelovinhippie]

I don't think my URL rewrite is working correctly. I'm using the htaccess method and my URLs currently look like this:

http://www.yeuth.com/forum/main-page-t2.html?t=2

Is the thread supposed to be in SEO-friendly format as well?

[brfrankl]

There seems to be a problem with this mod and 3.6.7PL1 (at least in my install) If I have it enabled at all, my archive is not working properly. it will should the forums, but no the threads.

Anyone know a way to fix this?

[Brandon Sheley]

why would you want to show the archived threads ?

[brfrankl]

so google and such can SEE everything in the forum. without it, all google sees is the forum and subforum, but not the thread.

Also, so I can read the threads via my motoQ without all the graphics...

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by brfrankl

There seems to be a problem with this mod and 3.6.7PL1 (at least in my install) If I have it enabled at all, my archive is not working properly. it will should the forums, but no the threads.

Anyone know a way to fix this?

Yes. In Admin CP | Zoints SEO options:

1. Set Rewrite /archive/ to /sitemap/ to "No"

2. Set Use Archive as Sitemap to "Yes"

3. Set Use Zoints Archive Navigation? to "No"

In Admin CP | vBulletin Options | Search Engine Friendly Archive:

1. Set Display Simple View of Threads to "No"


These settings work fine in every version from 3.6.4 to 3.6.8 (disclaimer - I don't use and don't recommend mod_rewrite in Zoints SEO or any other SEO add-on).

[brfrankl]

for those having problems with this and the archive. Check out this thread for a workaround...

http://network.zoints.com/showthread...4367#post14367

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by brfrankl

for those having problems with this and the archive. Check out this thread for a workaround...

http://network.zoints.com/showthread...4367#post14367

That's for servers running PHP as CGI.

For the rest, use https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=566.

[brfrankl]

yep and that seems to have been my problem because your workaround will not work with rewrite enabled...

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by brfrankl

your workaround will not work with rewrite enabled...

Do you know that to be true? My comment said only that since I don't use mod_rewrite, I don't know if it would work - I haven't tried it. I didn't say it wouldn't work.