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:

[tyler_d]

a zoints SEO compatible sitemap generater would be great to have. i'm using the vbseo sitemap generator and it sux cuz it only generates non-sef sitemaps for my usage with zoints.

would like something that better correlates to zoints and has the features of this free vbseo generator and it's autosubmit to google

[rsj1]

A fix for the vBGallery problems: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=130893

[Rover416]

Originally Posted by phlogiston

I'm pretty certain I've figured out why I haven't experienced problems with vBGallery (and other addons) while using Zoints SEO - I have vBa CMPS wrapped around everything and forums in root dir = not standard.


So I worked out a possible fix.
If anyone wants to try this (without guarantee!) to get Zoints SEO working on sites with photopost's vBGallery (may also solve the incompatibility with vBadvanced Links Directory) I'm fairly/quite confident it may work. (I apologise for the vagueness but I don't have good test installs at present )

in the "Zoints SEO" plugin at parse_templates (on line #1),
originally (Zoints SEO v 2.2.2) it should be

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['zointsseo_on'] AND $vbulletin->options['zointsseo_rewrite_urls'] AND VB_AREA == 'Forum' AND !defined('VBA_PORTAL')) 


change VBA_PORTAL to VBA_SCRIPT,
ie REPLACE line#1 with

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['zointsseo_on'] AND $vbulletin->options['zointsseo_rewrite_urls'] AND VB_AREA == 'Forum' AND !defined('VBA_SCRIPT')) 


this should prevent the <base href=""> tag being added to the header which I think was the problem.


Again, apologies for the lack of testing of this before offering it as a possible solution.

Works for me with the links directory.

Thanks.

[Ramsesx]

Originally Posted by rogersnm

Hey Guys,

How many people want a sitemap generator for Zoints SEO? If the demand is great enough i'll release mine if that's ok with David.

Regards,
Nick.

EDIT: I also got custom rewrite rules worked out

Me, thanks.

[VBUsers]

to all who have used this,

Is this better than VBseo?

[rogersnm]

It has less features but it does the job. A lot better than vBSEO in a copuple of test forum cases. IE. Same DB, vBSEO: 2 more listings, Zoint SEO: 1200 more listings. Both on the same server with similar URL's.

I may just take this one up, I've developed member pages rewriting as well.

[VBUsers]

Originally Posted by rogersnm

It has less features but it doe sthe job. A lot better than vBSEO in a copuple of test forum cases. IE. Same DB, vBSEO: 2 more listings, Zoint SEO: 1200 more listings. Both on the same server with similar URL's.

less features than vbseo? ok ill install it and give it a try on my test sites. thanks

[heyitsjeremy]

definitely me! a sitemap generator and member pages rewriting would be awesome

[VBUsers]

can we use the vbseo sitemap generator with this?

[ForumDog]

Originally Posted by Orcun

That part I underlined and Bolded is the XXX part needed. Before SEO It was like ?t=1234123

after SEO it becomes in form -t1234123.html

I have no problem with moving.

Wait, so how did you get around the error exactly? Nothing I enter into the URL for the thread to merge to is working, it just keeps saying there's no valid ID. I'm using 3.6.2