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

[abramelin]

whats the relationship between this forumdisplay and footer ?

[perfphysio]

Originally Posted by DChapman

Please try reverting your footer template.

Sorry can you be more specific?

I can see perhaps that the view that is having a problem on my site is using the following code: see attachment. Perhaps this need editing?

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by perfphysio

Sorry can you be more specific?

I can see perhaps that the view that is having a problem on my site is using the following code: see attachment. Perhaps this need editing?

You've obviously made modifications to your footer template. I'm thinking some of the html is a little bit hosed because of it

If you notice, the display works fine in your Halloween style which uses the default footer template.

Steps on what to try:

1. Go to your admincp > style manager > footer template
2. Copy as paste the code into a text document as a backup.
3. Select "revert template" and confirm.
4. Check and see if that helped.
5. Yell at me if it didn't. Say, "thanks" if it did.

[perfphysio]

I have done this and it did not affect the issue of the display of the threads. I cannot actually see why it would. Thus I have put back in what was there as my footer and the code is attached.

For the record I can't think why a footer template would affect the table display of the tag results in the image attached to my previous posts. Are we talking on the same lines here?

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by perfphysio

I have done this and it did not affect the issue of the display of the threads.

I talked to one of our engineers.

Can you please try the same process with your threadbit template?

Basically it is some custom edit gone wrong, i'm just not sure where.

[15:17] Engineer: *shrug* i see this in the code:
<tr>

<td class="tcat" align="center">


Threads tagged with "achilles"

</td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td class="alt1">


<br />


<tr>
[15:17] Engineer: it's <tr><td><tr>
[15:17] Engineer: which isn't very valid

[perfphysio]

Originally Posted by DChapman

I talked to one of our engineers.

Can you please try the same process with your threadbit template?

Basically it is some custom edit gone wrong, i'm just not sure where.

The treadbit template has not been customised in anyway. As others are having this issue as well perhaps it is a conflict with some other mod?

Anyway it's not threadbit.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by perfphysio

The treadbit template has not been customised in anyway. As others are having this issue as well perhaps it is a conflict with some other mod?

Anyway it's not threadbit.

Would you be willing to create a temp admin account so one of our engineers can go in and take a look? If so, please submit it to http://zoints.com/support.z (secure) or PM it to me here (a little less secure).

Thanks

[perfphysio]

Originally Posted by DChapman

Would you be willing to create a temp admin account so one of our engineers can go in and take a look? If so, please submit it to http://zoints.com/support.z (secure) or PM it to me here (a little less secure).

Thanks

No problem, I have submitted it on your support section

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by perfphysio

No problem, I have submitted it on your support section

Fixed. It looks like you modified the zointstags_viewtag template. I reverted that and all is well

If anyone else has this problem, please check for modified templates. Thanks.

[cellarius]

Great Hack, installed today, working - almost - great. I run a German forum and have the same umlaut-problems already mentioned above. For me this has top priority, it's a real handicap as long as it's not fixed.

Second: I really would like to see a possibility to see the tag cloud on forumhome (already proposed here, but not yet commented, as far as I can see). Even better would be a possibility to include a cloud in non-forum pages (with a smaller number of tags).

Thanks for considering!
cellarius