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:

[sweede]

Is there something that i need to enable / do to have the SEO changed URLs wrapped in vbAdvanced also ?
http://dramaloot.com/forum.php works fine

Clicking on a link takes me to
http://dramaloot.com/news-f31.html?f=31 (note the ?f=31 )
http://dramaloot.com/illidian-down-t2071.html
Neither are wrapped in vbAdvanced

(Note that the forums above do not have SEO Enabled until this matter is fixed).


Thanks

[Jason Black]

Does zoints disrupt google and yahoo spiders?

[doushx]

this is default links
/tek-hatam-demirorene-inanmak-t23706.html
I want make this
/t23706-tek-hatam-demirorene-inanmak.html
can you help me?

[yathyo]

Originally Posted by Leecher24

Hallo

I have at the moment the Domain xxxyyyz.BiZ with Zoints seo. And next week I will change my Board to the Domain xxxyyyz.to

What I must put in the .htacces that all links from the .biz domain (otherwebspace or redirection to .to domain).

That all links that are listed in google redirect to right thread.

Greetz L24

Rename old forum directory and create a new one with the same name (forum_old, forum)

Create a file named "redirector.php" in the new directory with the following code:

<?
$url=$_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’]);
$old_forum_url="http://www.oldurl.com/forums/";
$new_forum_url="http://www.newurl.com/forums/";

$url=str_replace ( $old_forum_url, $new_forum_url, $url );
header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); 
header( "Location: $url" );
?>

Create a .htaccess file in the new directory with this code:

ErrorDocument 404 redirector.php

Regards!

Originally Posted by Jason Black

Does zoints disrupt google and yahoo spiders?

Not at all!

[expatdirectory]

Uploaded, looks good but

when I click on the sitemap, it only display the top forum, when I click on this I get a 404 error. This may be down to regeneration so I will check back later.

Also, the sitemap shows private hidden forums... Not always the best idea

[yathyo]

If you are not logged in you will not see this forums

[expatdirectory]

Originally Posted by yathyo

If you are not logged in you will not see this forums

That was the first thing I checked. Even logged out it was showing my private forums.

I have hidden them until I can work out the problem.

I still cant get the site map to work properly though, generates a 404 whenever your click on a link.

my sitemap is here if you want to have a look.

I am wondering whether I have a bad install.

[profanitytalker]

*Installed* Best free seo product ever and can compete with vbseo. Thanks!

[alexgeek]

I have a problem!
My site: Unmoderated Forums
As you can see if you click the sitemap URL (/sitemap/ - it generates a 404 page.
If you visit /sitemap/index.php though, the page appears!
What's wrong?
Thanks


And this is my htaccess:

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]

[alexgeek]

okay I load the page now
I use this Htaccess.

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/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ /sitemap/index.php/$2 [L]

But none of the links work.
They are reqritten like so: /sitemap/staff-section-f13.html
This generates a 404. I don't see any rewrites for the sitemap/archive in the zoints htaccess!
Will I have to write my own? Please help!