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

[caliman]

Originally Posted by DChapman

Can you link me to an example of a page you want the cloud on? Thanks!

My homepage (link below). I run vbportal so I have the ability to put HTML or PHP blocks on my homepage. So I ideally would just make a block and slap the code in there.

[Netaudio]

Merci!

[sabret00the]

just installed, modified it a wee bit but it's nicely installed now.

[4yBak]

is it possible to do hack understanding russian/ukrainian words? Character Replacements it's not helpfull because all tags will be with english words but I need tags at russian/ukrainian words. Without this ability this hack not needed for russian/ukrainian/etc peoples

[SaN-DeeP]

Well, there is yet another big problem for a forum with more then 500,000 threads tags are generated fine but !
The tags page takes more then 40+ seconds to load on a dedicated server, test this please here:

http://forums.techarena.in/tags/

While I am trying to delete this tags TAGS tables are copied to tmp table on server and then the process continues, meanwhile all rest operations on database are locked

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

just installed, modified it a wee bit but it's nicely installed now.

ok, found that if you embed the thing into the first post of the thread then if you try and submit a new tag it thinks you're trying to moderate a thread. the work around is something i'm working on now. i'm gonna try and get the form to be a drop down ala the reputation for AJAX users and a separate form for non-AJAX users.

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

ok, found that if you embed the thing into the first post of the thread then if you try and submit a new tag it thinks you're trying to moderate a thread. the work around is something i'm working on now. i'm gonna try and get the form to be a drop down ala the reputation for AJAX users and a separate form for non-AJAX users.

While i'm on a roll, talking to myself and all. i finally managed to get it all working, haven't sorted out the AJAX drop down yet but all else is working.

[Make Money?]

My users are making a mess of the tags.

I want them moderator / admin only

Is there a way I can disable all non modererators from tagging?

Or will that be an update?

If so any ETA on it?

Thanks v much!!

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

just installed, modified it a wee bit but it's nicely installed now.

Oooh, what sort of modifications did you make?

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by 4yBak

is it possible to do hack understanding russian/ukrainian words? Character Replacements it's not helpfull because all tags will be with english words but I need tags at russian/ukrainian words. Without this ability this hack not needed for russian/ukrainian/etc peoples

That's what is taking a long time with the new build. We're working to provide proper language support. The problem we've run into is the fact we have tags in the url so we're having to provide quite a few options and write a lot of new code. But by the time we're done, your language should be supported.