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

[sparky37]

Originally Posted by DChapman

Weird. Were you by chance running 3.5.x of vBulletin then upgraded to 3.6.x without upgrading the tag mod?

Nope.

I appreciate the help so far. Hope I'm not a pain.

[ushkand]

Is there anyway to automatically add a tag along with a new thread link?

let me explain my scenario:

I have a custom movie database script similar to IMDB and need would like the "discuss this movie" feature and believe tags would the easiest way to do it.

Is there a way to add the movie title as tag automatically so that I can put a new thread link with auto tag? Something like this 'crude' example

http://network.zoints.com/newthread....tag=movie_name

If I could do that, then I can just query related threads by

http://network.zoints.com/tag/movie_name

Will this work? If so, what is the syntax for adding a custom tag to a new thread?

[MusicMan]

I installed this about 3 weeks ago and Google just picked up our tags pages. It added around 3,000 indexed pages, it's my opinion that this really does help SEO immensely. We also jumped up significantly in ranking with some nice keywords. Very nice hack, great work.

[Dream]

installed, lets see if my members like this feature

[Dream]

Theres a style issue with the New Post page after installing this mod.

If you use a fixed Main Table Width in the style (like 758) the wysiwyg editor overlaps the table margin.

[Dream]

Found another bug, the tags thread list shows deleted topics. Im worried it will show private forum topics too!

And it doesn't show which threads I have read.

[sparky37]

Originally Posted by sparky37

Nope.

I appreciate the help so far. Hope I'm not a pain.

Still a little weird, I changed my cache settings and emptied it again. That seemed to help. Seems related to that. So it appears to be on my end. Not your hack.

Sorry for taking your time.

[MrBig]

Originally Posted by Lizard King

David is it possible to remove Forum Tags by Zoints from tag page titles ?

how do you edit this? and what do i use so it just shows the tag name?

[buro9]

Another feature request, just a small one this time

Tag Calendar Events!

So that way we can filter and see all 'clubs' or all 'gigs', or everything in 'london' or 'newyorkcity'.

A listing report is easier than a calendar for this, something akin to Google Calendar's Agenda view.

[993ti]

Still stuck with this part:

7. Developers Note: Custom thread URLs
============================================

You have to ability to change the appearance of the thread URLs for the tags by adding a plugin
to the hook "zointstags_threadurl". In this hook, $thread is an array containing all the info
from the 'thread' table. You should set $thread['url'] to the customized URL. Please make this
a non-relative URL if possible.

Anyone know what to do if i want the tag url to show tags/nissan instead of tags/index.php/nissan?