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:

[amcd]

its not very clear how this accomplishes url rewriting wothout mod_rewrite.

will it work with lighttpd?

[tyler_d]

Also is there any disadvantage to enabling Zoints SEO URL rewriting without mod_rewrite?

I know that that one of the advantages is processor speed but I did not see it talk about disadvantages over the mod_rewrite option.

[corsacant]

I've installed this product but I have one question. What is the advantage of the mod_rewrite option over just normally re-writing the urls?
Thanks in advance.

[HaYLaZ]

in rewrite options second options shows your urls like below;

http://www.xxx.com/forumdisplay.php/xxxx.html

but third options is full html.
İt shows your links like below;

http://www.xxxx.com/xxxx-f652.html

[needtheend]

<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]$thread[highlight]" id="thread_title_$thread[realthreadid]">$thread[threadtitle]</a>

I can't fint the text above in threadbit template. (I'm using 3.6.2)

[Spiffware]

vbulletin 3.6.2 just came out i hope this will not change this much if so i hope it will be up and running on a fresh 3.6.2 as soon as posible....

[flindersredclaw]

ok It seems to have corrected itself.

The issue must have something to do with cookies... I cleared my cookies and all the options are there now.

Great set up.

[chatpalace24]

hi all together

for all People from Germany that looks beasty , because the german "Umlaute" like ? , ? , ? , ? in thread and forum title ... her is the quickfix, and hopefully DChapman integrates it :

Oki here we go .

Open the file /includes/function_zseo.php and search for this :

function zseo_cleaned_string($string)
{
	global $vbulletin;
	
	$bit = iif($vbulletin->options['zointsseo_url_separator'], '_', '-');

after that write this :

$string = str_replace("?", "Ue", $string);
	$string = str_replace("?", "ue", $string);
	$string = str_replace("?", "Ae", $string);
	$string = str_replace("?", "ae", $string);
	$string = str_replace("?", "Oe", $string);
	$string = str_replace("?", "oe", $string);
	$string = str_replace("?", "ss", $string);

Thats all folks.

Have Fun

[da420]

DChapman,

I have vBGallery, vBGoogleMap Member Edition, and vBA CMPS and have installed this, and as requested filed a ticket including my FTP info and an admin account with your support as to try and get these issues resolved for the community. I appreciate this very much.

Thanks for this,

Dustin

[Ronak]

<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]goto=lastpost&amp;t=$lastpostinfo[lastthreadid]"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/lastpost.gif" alt="$vbphrase[go_to_last_post]" border="0" /></a>

i cant find this code in forumhome_lastpostby template

Please Help me