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:

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

I don't suppose you have a list of all the query?

No queries were changed. Just a plugin.

[Brandon Sheley]

thanks for posting links to some demo sites, this will help myself and several others understand what this product can offer..

I would like an answer to "what this will do better then vBSEO that is posted in the first post"
I seen a reply to go through both products and look for yourself, but the thread stater claimed this, I think he should be the one posting this info..

Also, I have a few questions, will the old url's be 301'd to the new ones ?
is there a sitemap that will submit to google the re_written URL's ?
and one of the "demo" sites has session ID's s=423525252452525253 after the url's,, this is a big turnoff to me,, will this be an issue ? or does that site have some other SEO work to go, to remove session ID's..

thank you, and best of luck with the zoints SEO
-Brandon

[RichieBoy67]

all is good...

[eNforce]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

I am a little confused. My site is totally down right now and I do not have access to the plug in system....

With the new update the product-zointsseo-2.2.1.xml doesn't have to be run? When it is run it does the quiri... That is what I was refering too... Overwriting the files did nothing for my site and my site is down so how do I work with the plug ins?

You can add:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

to your includes/config.php

It will at least let you access your site and disable problematic plugins (hopefully)

[RichieBoy67]

Ahh,

Thank you so much... I have been trying to come up with that for the last 20 minutes.. I just could not remember it... I was close but not that close....lol

Thanks

[DementedMindz]

Loco.M dont you have vbseo? You seem to ask the same questions each time about any seo rewrite product and try to point out bad parts.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by Loco.M

thanks for posting links to some demo sites, this will help myself and several others understand what this product can offer..

Not really. If you look in the first post, there are a TON of options and you would have to view source of the sites to see many of them in action. In addition, things like the archive ad management system which is included cannot be seen by viewing a forum.

Originally Posted by Loco.M

I would like an answer to "what this will do better then vBSEO that is posted in the first post"
I seen a reply to go through both products and look for yourself, but the thread stater claimed this, I think he should be the one posting this info..

Some is fact, some is subjective. My real problem is that many people install SEO enhancements without having a clue about the SEO theory behind it. I could tell you X, Y, and Z is great about Zoints SEO, but are you going to believe me? Anyone who is well versed in SEO, programming, and monetization will quickly see the differences between the products based solely upon the screenshots and information in this thread.

I will be going through tomorrow and doing an extensive writeup. But frankly, i'm of the opinion that no SEO modifications should be installed unless you know WHY you are installing them. There isn't an SEO product on the market (Zoints SEO included) that in MY opinion doesn't have a couple features that can in fact hurt the performance of a forum. Zoints SEO is a fantastic piece of software, but I sure as hell wouldn't turn a couple of its features on. Algorithm updates happen constantly, if you're going to play with SEO, you better understand it.

Originally Posted by Loco.M

Also, I have a few questions, will the old url's be 301'd to the new ones ?

Please check the screenshots posted in the first post.

Originally Posted by Loco.M

is there a sitemap that will submit to google the re_written URL's ?

No.

Originally Posted by Loco.M

and one of the "demo" sites has session ID's s=423525252452525253 after the url's,, this is a big turnoff to me,, will this be an issue ? or does that site have some other SEO work to go, to remove session ID's..

If they have session IDs then they aren't using any of the url changing features.

Originally Posted by Loco.M

thank you, and best of luck with the zoints SEO

Thanks Brandon, but don't wish luck to us. Zoints SEO belongs to the vBulletin community now. Wish yourselves luck

[Greek76]

Well done , this mod will prove useful. I installed it with no problems as all of the Zoints mods with ease and Im a newbie lol. Good job!

[RichieBoy67]

Very strange and I do not understand it....

Right now I can access my admin cpanel and I have basically reinstalled this script. I am now getting a very strange error..

PHP Code:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: cache_ordered_forums() in /home/talkandm/public_html/index.php on line 496 


This line is basically for the moderator columm...

I am going to go through the template edits and see if that is where the problem is.... I believe it is and it has to do with my style...

Thanks again for the help...

Rich

[Ramsesx]

Thanks a lot for this David.
There are two bugs so far, 1. on my pp vbgallery all is pointing now to the /forum directory instead to /gallery
2. The next and previous thread links are working not right.