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:

[RichieBoy67]

Well I finally got everything worked out last night. I ended up reinstalling 3.6.1 and that did the trick along with me undoing the other things the install script did.

I then reinstalled and did all the edits again manually and it seems to be working fine right now. I have my fingers crossed...

I believe what caused my problem was the Thread Decay System........

At any rate the script is running fine right now though I still have to test it's functionality.

I appreciate the time and effort that has been put towards this and towards helping me last night...

I believe the install would be much simpler on a standard vb site..

If anyone would like to test this product feel free to check out my site. You would be doing me a favor also because as I said, I have not checked the functionality yet.

I am creating a temporary user for everyone...

It is called

ZointSEo

password will be zoint

This will get you registered access...

Thanks

[Ramsesx]

Richieboy, don't see any difference, did you disabled it? (talkandmore)

[rogersnm]

here's a question. I am trying to set this up on my mates site and he wants to rewrite his advertise.php page. I just put

RewriteRule ^(advertise.html)$ advertise.php [QSA,L]

in his .htaccess file and now I can go to advertise.php and advertise.html but I can't get advertise.php to automatically redirect to advertise.html no matter what I try. Any Ideas?

[joffer]

Well ive installed and is working fine , except one thing - it doesnt post to zoint i added the auth key + token , ive tested the crontab it doesnt work
can anyone help me out ?

[RichieBoy67]

Richieboy, don't see any difference, did you disabled it? (talkandmore)

No, It is enabled but the decay system is disabled..

I have noticed some of the extra meta tags but that is all I have noticed so far.. I am trying to go through settings etc right now to see what else is missing...

Thanks

[eNforce]

Does vB installation come default with a .htaccess file?

The contents of my htaccess file is completely blank, could someone maybe post their entire .htaccess please? This might solve my SEO problem, I don't know but worth a try.

[Adrian Schneider]

Originally Posted by eNforce

Does vB installation come default with a .htaccess file?

The contents of my htaccess file is completely blank, could someone maybe post their entire .htaccess please? This might solve my SEO problem, I don't know but worth a try.

It's a server thing, not vB... I think you should have a default one, yes.

[rogersnm]

just insert the lines it tells you to insert. But you don't need to unless you choose use mod_rewrite in vb options.

[Ramsesx]

Nobody can tell how to change the .htaccess to exclude the /gallery folder?
Thanks

[MusicMan]

This is a wonderful hack that I've been using for a while now. It has developed into an amazing free SEO hack and it has been very helpful to my sites. While it may not be supported yet, if you guys have any questions about it, I'd be happy to try and help out however I can. I've used it for around 6+ months and am pretty familiar with its features and benefits.

*Clicked install*