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:

[project-Buckfas]

Have you tried to do the template edits manually?

Originally Posted by MaestroX

I've upgraded to 3.6.3 and it seems none of the meta descriptions are working now either

[MaestroX]

Ahh thanks , I'm an idiot sometimes

[M0rGu3]

Originally Posted by Mr.Haze

Hi,
I just installed Zoints SEO and it's brilliant, installed fine, does exactly what I want. But the only problem is I already had vBadvanced installed, which I also like. Is there any way to make the vBadvanced homepage use the Zoints "friendly" SEO urls?

Need this too. I've tested it to make Template-Edits in the vBa Module-Templates but it didn't work. If I do so, the variables of the zoints-url are empty. Now, my links look like this:

http://www.xyz.de/?goto=newpost

instead of

http://www.xyz.de/test_news-t1.html?goto=newpost

Making the used variables global in the vBa settings didn't fix it.

I'm at the end of my latin... (is there any saying like this in english? )

[project-Buckfas]

I've uninstalled an reinstalled this and still cannot get the rewrite of urls to work on 3.6.3

Also checked the .htaccess file and its good

Everything else works fine...

Anyone got any ideas??

[JD45]

Seems to be working fine on 3.6.3 except my urls are showing up like this:

http://www.justpressplay.net/forum/forumdisplay.php/general-chat-215.html

notice the forumdisplay.php in there? I'm sure it's a setting I have off or not set correctly.

Any suggestions?

[project-Buckfas]

My problem may be another mod I have installed...

Originally Posted by JD45

Seems to be working fine on 3.6.3

Are you using mod rewrite?

except my urls are showing up like this:

http://www.justpressplay.net/forum/forumdisplay.php/general-chat-215.html

notice the forumdisplay.php in there? I'm sure it's a setting I have off or not set correctly.

Any suggestions?

[JD45]

Originally Posted by project-Buckfas

My problem may be another mod I have installed...



Are you using mod rewrite?

I just turned it on and it fixed the links but clicking on a page gives me a blank page now..

[project-Buckfas]

check you .htaccess file and make sure u have added the lines (in the install file) Also make sure you server supports mod_rewrite........

[JD45]

Originally Posted by project-Buckfas

check you .htaccess file and make sure u have added the lines (in the install file) Also make sure you server supports mod_rewrite........

I did both. Thanks for trying to help though. I'm removing this.

[seany1]

thanks for this