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:

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by org knopper

sir i am not using mod_rewrite my server don't support it i am using only Rewrite URLs and insert keywords

Rewrite URLs is the same thing, as far as I know. Disable that.

[org knopper]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Rewrite URLs is the same thing, as far as I know. Disable that.

sir that will also not solve my problem after disabling it url of forum is http://xxxxxxxxxx.com/forumdisplay.php?f=26 << look at @ last there number i want to submit my url @ digg.com they don't accept that type of urls which have numbers @ last of url

hope you get my problem

[WritersBeat]

Hey, so if you had the url_rewriting on for a while, and then turn it off. It's obviously going to do something with the search engines right?

Is there anyway to put a 301 redirect from "something-1231.htlm" back to "showthread?t=1231" ?

Otherwise I'm going to be hit pretty hard in terms of search engines right?

[nocte]

Originally Posted by WritersBeat

Hey, so if you had the url_rewriting on for a while, and then turn it off. It's obviously going to do something with the search engines right?

Is there anyway to put a 301 redirect from "something-1231.htlm" back to "showthread?t=1231" ?

Otherwise I'm going to be hit pretty hard in terms of search engines right?

there is

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]*)-([0-9]*)\.html$ /forum/showthread?t=$2 [R=301,L]

(not tested)

[WritersBeat]

Well, if I hit up :

http://www.writersbeat.com/obscene-a...ty-t10444.html

with this

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]*)-([0-9]*)\.html$ /showthread?t=$2 [R=301,L]

I get a no thread specified error.

If I remove the zoints rewrite rules, I get a 404...

Also, what should the zseo setting be set for 301 redirects? Should I turn that off?

thx, btw.

[nocte]

Originally Posted by WritersBeat

Well, if I hit up :

http://www.writersbeat.com/obscene-a...ty-t10444.html

I now get a 404, I guess that's better than a double page? :-p

sorry, try this one:

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]*)-([0-9]*)\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$2 [R=301,L]

[WritersBeat]

Hmm, whatever I try it still goes to a 404 or "No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

[nocte]

Originally Posted by WritersBeat

Hmm, whatever I try it still goes to a 404 or "No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

o.k. another try:

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]*)-t([0-9]+)\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$2 [R=301,L]

[WritersBeat]

omg, you rule

So, that will take care of both of these rules?

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]

Like, what if there is a page extension, like 25?

ahh, yeah, like take this:
http://www.writersbeat.com/writing-markets-f59p3.html

That fails 404 error.

p.s really appreciate the help. I'll send paypal your way.

Forum url's are also 404'd

[nocte]

take this code:

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]*)-t([0-9]+)\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]*)-t([0-9]+)p([0-9]+)\.html$ /showthread.php?t=$2&page=$3 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]*)-f([0-9]+)\.html$ /forumdisplay.php?f=$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9-]*)-f([0-9]+)p([0-9]+)\.html$ /forumdisplay.php?f=$2&page=$3 [R=301,L]

that should work for thread and forum views (with and without pagers). If you delete the "$"s the rules will work for URLs with (eg. highlight) parameters too. I don't know if there's a downside doing this - propably not.