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:

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by BuzuL

i have a problem...
vBSeo working on forum. But when you set up the Zoints it says : "No input File". I don't understand. It isn't result of mod_rewrite because vBSeo is working. Please help me

vBSEO doesn't have any demo or limited version. You downloaded illegal version of vBSEO from a server or a warez board. I strongly advise you to contact vBSEO team and report them about where you downloaded the nulled version.

[Omerr]

da420, thanks for your response. I got confused with vBSEO indeed.

[Omerr]

OK guys, I have just finished installing and everything seems to work great!
HOWEVER, I still can't find myself in google, even if I insert my own domain!

My website's address is www.freehelp.co.il. And it's in Hebrew, so don't panic when you see the fonts.

Any suggestions?
Thank you!
Omer.

[project-Buckfas]

You need to submitt your site to google

http://www.google.com/addurl/

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Omerr

OK guys, I have just finished installing and everything seems to work great!
HOWEVER, I still can't find myself in google, even if I insert my own domain!

My website's address is www.freehelp.co.il. And it's in Hebrew, so don't panic when you see the fonts.

Any suggestions?
Thank you!
Omer.

It's not an instantaneous thing - it takes time to get indexed in any search engine. Wait a few months. On the net, patience is the key.

Use the site:freehelp.co.il query to get an idea of how many and which pages Google has indexed. There are similar queries you can use for Yahoo and MSN.

Originally Posted by project-Buckfas

You need to submitt your site to google

http://www.google.com/addurl/

You don't need to do this normally but it won't hurt,

[BuzuL]

Originally Posted by Lizard King

vBSEO doesn't have any demo or limited version. You downloaded illegal version of vBSEO from a server or a warez board. I strongly advise you to contact vBSEO team and report them about where you downloaded the nulled version.

Hello Lizard King ;

I have installed vbseo 2.4.0 i thought it was trial version but it was an illegal version so i unistalled the illegal version as fast as i can and i complaint the site that i had the illegal version.

Thanks.

and also i'm using zoints right now and i'm happy Thanks Zoints...

[djbaxter]

I can't see any reason why anybody would want both Zoints SEO and vBSEO installed at the same time in any case.

[Amenadiel]

Originally Posted by Amenadiel

I'm experiencing an odd problem when trying to submit a thread to user controlled sites like Digg, Meneame or Pligg based ones.

When I activate 301 redirect these sites take forever to accept the URL and if they do, they say they cannot retrieve the title due to a "414 Request-URI Too Large" error or a "403 forbidden", but usually those user content engines just reject the URL or think forever.

Ok I see there isn't an answer for my question, but I have another clue. I found this site which allows a webmaster to see a page rendered in different browsers:

http://browsershots.org/

When I enter the SEOed URL for one of my forum news:

http://www.chilehardware.com/foro/ub...re-t62423.html

I get the message:

Your request has been redirected. The server said '301 Moved permanently'. Please try again.

Ok, so the 301 redirection itself would be the problem... so we'll have to see another way to redirect normal URL to SEOed ones.

[Amenadiel]

<font size="3">EDIT: 5 hours later</font>

I found out that the problem was in the plugin showthread_getinfo

For some odd reason, the line

if ($request_uri != $supposed_uri)

was always true, so even the SEOed URL were being 301 redirected.

I inserted a few debug lines and found out that $request_uri resulted in an empty string... WTF, perhaps that's because I have register_globals off.

Anyway, I replaced the $request_uri for the original command $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] and everything works fine now.

[mommiesrus]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=127336&page=25#365" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...36&page=25#365</a>

Could you explain the difference between "PHP over CGI" and "PHP as a module"?

When I select "Rewrite URLs and insert keywords", I get "No input file specified."
When I select "Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, mod_rewrite option", I get a "Page not found" error.

I have noticed that the forum dir is not listed in the link with the mod_rewrite option.

I am running PHP 4.3.11 on a Linux Apache (cgi-fcgi) server. Is it possible that I am missing a MIME type in my .htaccess?