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

[Make Money?]

By the way I have a great feature idea for you (I bet someone else has suggested it already, it's already something we are used to as a part of of VBulletin forums )

Like when you are searching for a name in the search window of VBulletin forums.... how about an auto word creation pop up for tagging & tag searches?

So for example when you typing in the text characters when searching tags or creating a new tag...

typing

foo

Will bring up in a drop down menu next to the incomplete character entry box

Food
Food Mixer
Food ideas
Foodie
food shopping
Foot
Football

So the software help you speedily complete the phrase / word and also shows EXISTING tags that you can opt to go with.. I think this would be fantastic especially for popular two word and three word tag names

[efil]

Originally Posted by DChapman

Ah, I do apologize for the trouble. We're hoping to have better language support in the future.

Thank you anyway , you're doing a great job!

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by Make Money?

OK! Now they are installed I am digging the tags!!!!

I'm glad you like it

Originally Posted by Make Money?

I want to allow two types of non moderators to tag OLDER threads...

Usergroup permissions will be coming in the next build.

[Make Money?]

Originally Posted by DChapman

Usergroup permissions will be coming in the next build.

Brilliant!

[SaN-DeeP]

Now that i have auto tagged all 90,000 threads written by my forums 25,000 members

how where you able to auto tag this threads ? Make Money ?

[SaN-DeeP]

DChapman can you suggest a way to auto tag thread title properly this shall be very helpful to tag all the threads on our sites.

For example if thread title is:
Zoints thread tags - great for seo

We can auto-tag this thread as
zoints, thread, tags, seo, great

Omit out common keywords/tags like for, the, is etc.

[Make Money?]

Its quite hidden..

You get to it by accessing

Zoints Thread Tags
Options
Zoints Tags Manager

Or clicking a 'more informaion' hyper link (now missing from my sight)

Mr Chapman might shine a better light on this question?

I too found it v hard to find...

[Zoints]

SaN-DeeP,

In your vBulletin admincp, do you have a Zoints Tags dropdown on the left side now? If so, go to the Zoints Tags Options in there. It allows you to do exactly what you requested.

[Calibre_k]

is this hard to install? will be okay on vb 3.6.4?

[SaN-DeeP]

thanks for the handy tip, are you planning to release a new version with some added/new features in near future ?
If so, please share the list of new features you have in mind and a timeframe.

/me nominates this hack for best hack of month award.