Integration with vBulletin - Zoints Thread Tags - GREAT for SEO

Demo:

http://network.zoints.com/tags

If you choose to send tags to Zoints (optional) you can see what we do with them and how we send you traffic and nice inbound links: http://zoints.com

A great article on the importance of tagging can be read here.

The Zoints Thread Tags System will improve forum side search, SEO, and traffic for forums that choose to utilize it. And in my opinion, it's just plain cool

When a member creates a new thread, they can now input a series of "tags". Tags are simply keywords that describe the thread.



If you then go to your-forum.com/tags you will be presented with what is called a "tag cloud". The more times a tag is used, the larger the text grows. As you can see, the tags are also searchable.



Clicking on one of the tags in the cloud then lists all of the threads that are tagged with that particular keyword. The default option lists tags in a forumdisplay format. There is an option in the admincp to use a simple format.



Clicking on the thread title of one of the above threads then takes you to the thread. If you have the option on, the tags the thread are tagged with are also listed above the thread. Clicking one of those tags takes you to all the threads on the forum tagged with the same tag. Search engine spiders are going to have a field day with this



The thread starter and moderation staff have a slightly different view which allows for administration of tags:



The forum's tags are also searchable via the search dropdown. The advanced search option allows for a variety of additional criteria to be seached for. Your members create a whole new (and highly efficient) forum search engine!



If you have the option on in the admincp and register your forum, once every hour, your tagged threads in publically viewable forums are linked via the corresponding interest tag on the Zoints Forum Network. For example, if you go to http://zoints.com/tag/children you will see what is pictured below. Not only is this a great relevant inbound link for SEO, but you will get traffic from Zoints direct to these threads!

Another example of this in action: http://zoints.com/tag/music




The admincp options

















Official support for this modification will be at http://network.zoints.com in this forum.


Change log:
2008/05/01 - 1.2.3
* vBulletin CSRF Protocol Compatible
2007/12/24 - 1.2.2
* Security patch

2006/10/24 - 1.2.1
* Bugfix: breaking inline moderation when tag cloud below posts
* Bugfix: ajax input not working when tag cloud below posts
* Bugfix: seo hook effective for "results as threads" option
* Bugfix: Autogenerated tags have "quot" removed
* Bugfix: Automated template edit screwing up styles
* Improved instructions for manual template edits

2006/10/19 - 1.2.0
* Option to display results as threads
* Advanced search page
* Popular tag cloud pagination
* Popular tags displayed in forums
* Option to display tags in showthread at the top/bottom
* Fix for vbadvanced products navbar links
* Other minor fixes and tweaks

2006/10/02 - 1.1.2
* Bugfix: Foreign language characters in thread description
* Bugfix: Commas showing up when removing first tag in showthread via ajax
* Removing some redundancy in the tags AJAX removal

2006/09/30 - 1.1.1
* Bugfix: Preventing all HTML from being parsed inside tag descriptions

2006/09/30 - 1.1.0
* Adding and deleting tags from showthread via AJAX
* Mass-deleting single tags from entire cloud for admins
* Automatically generate tags for older threads (with option to show or hide on main cloud)
* Automatically stripping out tiny (2 or less characters) tags

2006/09/28 - 1.0.8
* Minor bugfix

2006/09/28 - 1.0.7
* Bugfix for required tagging

2006/09/28 - 1.0.6
* Character replacements
* Tag limit per thread
* Option to require tags for a thread
* Bugfix where stopwords may not have worked properly
* Bugfix for vBSEO / main cloud not showing up

2006/09/xx - 1.0.5
* Unreleased dev build

2006/09/23 - 1.0.4
* Ability to add multiple tags via showthread.php
* Ability to exclude certain forums from utilizing tags
* Addition of custom hook for developers to change thread urls

2006/09/21 - 1.0.3
* Ability to add and remove tags from showthread.php
* Bugfix for older versions of mysql

2006/09/21 - 1.0.2
* Small bugfix

2006/09/20 - 1.0.1
* Showing tags list on showthread.php

2006/09/20 - 1.0.0
* Initial release

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by abramelin

3-i am still having problems with the replacements. turkish chars arent showing well.

Can you link me to an example of where the problem is happening, please? Thanks!

[StarBuG]

Hi

I have problems with character replacement too.
German umlauts are not replaced.

I used your example as replacements but when I make a tag "?" it becomes "u00e4" instead of "ae", "?" becomes "u00f6" instead of "oe", etc.

Link to thread with ? and ? as tag:
http://www.patientenfragen.net/showthread.php?p=7653

Thanks for this great hack.

[perfphysio]

HI guys, I am loving the new features of this upgrade. Unfortuntely the sidplay for th threads is a bit funny on mine when I click on one of the tags. The table structure of the top area above the individually tagged threads is a bit off. I will try to attach a screen shot to see if someone can perhaps assist to fix this slight display issue

[abramelin]

Originally Posted by StarBuG

Hi

I have problems with character replacement too.
German umlauts are not replaced.

I used your example as replacements but when I make a tag "?" it becomes "u00e4" instead of "ae", "?" becomes "u00f6" instead of "oe", etc.

Link to thread with ? and ? as tag:
http://www.patientenfragen.net/showthread.php?p=7653

Thanks for this great hack.

yes!! this is the same problem as me!
and also the other problems are still about the templates
for example

Edit template: threadadmin_editthread
==== FIND ==================================
============================================
$navbar
==== BELOW, ADD ============================
============================================
$tagcloud
============================================
============================================

should this $tagcloud be $zoints_tagcloud
?
and can you describ me how this manual templates working?
i am deactivating the auto template edit but in my style's template list at end of the list i see zointstags_ related templates. is this normal?

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by abramelin

yes!! this is the same problem as me!
and also the other problems are still about the templates
for example

It sounds like there is definitely a bug with character replacements. We'll look into that. Is it just that character, or all characters?

Originally Posted by abramelin

should this $tagcloud be $zoints_tagcloud

No, just $tagcloud -- here is what the installer attempts to run:

	if (isset($vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY'])) 
	{
		if ($vbulletin->options['zointstags_forumdisplay'] == 1) 
		{ 
			$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY'] = str_replace('$navbar', '$navbar $tagcloud', $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY']); 
		} 
		else if ($vbulletin->options['zointstags_forumdisplay'] == 2) 
		{ 
			$vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY'] = str_replace('<!-- / controls below thread list -->', '$tagcloud <!-- / controls below thread list -->', $vbulletin->templatecache['FORUMDISPLAY']); 
		} 
	}

Originally Posted by abramelin

and can you describ me how this manual templates working?
i am deactivating the auto template edit but in my style's template list at end of the list i see zointstags_ related templates. is this normal?

The automated template edits stops the system from doing what I showed above. They don't actually edit the templates, they just parse things after the fact. What you're referring to (zointstags_ templates) are NEW templates added by the installer. You need those

[StarBuG]

All german umlaute are not replaced propaly.

Replacements are set to:
ä ae
Ä AE
ö oe
Ö OE
ü ue
Ü UE
ß ss

They look like this:

test, u00c4, u00d6, u00dc, u00df, u00e4, u00f6, u00fc

test, ä, ö, ü, ß, Ä, Ö, Ü

StarBuG

[abramelin]

Originally Posted by DChapman

It sounds like there is definitely a bug with character replacements. We'll look into that. Is it just that character, or all characters?

yes all of my turkish chars
here are the list of them

I ı ? ? ? ? ş Ş ? ? ğ Ğ

and also i cant make this work

Edit template: navbar
==== FIND ==================================
============================================
<if condition="$show['member']">
<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout&amp;logouthash=$bbuserinfo[logouthash]" onclick="return log_out()">$vbphrase[log_out]</a></td>
</if>
==== ABOVE, ADD ============================
============================================
$zointstags_tagslink
============================================
============================================

i am making this chance and quick search change in my header template but nothing happens

[tansu]

here's my Turkish Character Replacements, and works well in my forum

Č c
č c
Ğ g
ğ g
Ş s
ş s
İ i
ı i
Ğ G
? U
Ş S
İ I
? O
? C
ğ g
? u
ş s
ı i
? o
? c

[Brandon Sheley]

This is a very handy mod.

is there a way to place this code

<div align="center"><a href="tags/">$vbphrase[zointstags_main_cloud]</a></div>

where ever I want. like on the forumhome or custom templates..

Thank you

[tansu]

with the epic style, it seems there is a problem. When I install epic, it shows the tags page on the forum home and everything messes up. When I disable tags, everything is ok..
So, honestly I can easily give up the epic style for tags. But if there is a solution I can think about it..
And also I am not sure whose problem is this, maybe its an issue with epic and I should go there..