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Zoints Thread Tags - GREAT for SEO · **Released**: 09-21-2006

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

GrendelKhan{TSU · #52 09-25-2006, 06:11 AM

sweeet!! LOL! I didn't even notice you were posting so many mods!! I've been too busy spicin up my zoint.

lol

ok.. I was going to install a tag system I found somewhere but afraid wouldn't be supported at all... but this looks great and I've all over zoint.

(sup chap!)

<< runs to install!

GrendelKhan{TSU · #53 09-25-2006, 08:20 AM

installeD!!
so far so good v3.6.0!! everything seems to be working fine and people are already tagging.

Demo:
main cloud: http://www.clantsu.org/forums/tags/
tag in showthread: http://www.clantsu.org/forums/showthread.php?t=766

Questions:

-- how do we check where/if its successfully sending our tags to zoints? none of the tags I've created seem to be listed at zoints.
-- can I change the exact position of where the tags get listed in the showthread? I have H1 tag displays set as well and I want it to display BELOW that instead above
eg: http://www.clantsu.org/forums/showthread.php?t=274
-- is there/will there be a way to tag individual pages or posts?

ronoxQ · #54 09-25-2006, 02:11 PM

Idea: could you possibly let the tags influence vBulletin's list of Similar Threads if that comes up? That would really help categorize everything on a site.

perfphysio · #55 09-25-2006, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronoxQ

Idea: could you possibly let the tags influence vBulletin's list of Similar Threads if that comes up? That would really help categorize everything on a site.

NOw that's a great idea, not to replce vbulletin's similar threads but to add a few "similar tagged threads" underneath

Morrus · #56 09-25-2006, 04:13 PM

Very nice hack.

Question - does the length of a thread affect the tag "size" in the cloud? For examle, would a 50 page thread on a subject count for more than a single post thread which everyone ignored?

kafi · #57 09-25-2006, 08:33 PM

good hack thank you.

1. is there any chance to allow any user to edit thread tag (not only starter)
2. can I link the tag anywhere within the posts?

Why am I asking these? Because I am going to use this as cross-reference system for some relation between articles and threads... and some newbies can not assign certain tutorial/article to thread they started (with question)...

Thank you !

Zoints · #58 09-27-2006, 07:15 AM

For those of you running the tag system, run a site:domain.com command in Google. Google is eating these up

Zoints · #59 09-27-2006, 07:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tansu

That's really a cool hack.. But I am having issues with Turkish characters. They are not shown.. any ideas?
Thanks in advance

This will be remedied soon.

Quote:

Originally Posted by joffer

Is there a way to make tags automaticly from Title ?

That will be available soon.

Zoints · #60 09-27-2006, 07:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AyeCapn

Hi Dave,

I have installed, as well as performed the manual template hacks. I get the "Tags" option on the navbar, the tag search box in the search drop-down, but no text box to enter tags on new threads or editing exisitng threads. I have the default style and one additonal style with pretty minimal mods.

Any thoughts?

reusers.server-planet.com

Can you please open a support ticket at http://zoints.com/support.z with a temp admin account and temp FTP account? I'll then have an engineer take a look.

Zoints · #61 09-27-2006, 07:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

-- how do we check where/if its successfully sending our tags to zoints? none of the tags I've created seem to be listed at zoints.
-- can I change the exact position of where the tags get listed in the showthread? I have H1 tag displays set as well and I want it to display BELOW that instead above
eg: http://www.clantsu.org/forums/showthread.php?t=274
-- is there/will there be a way to tag individual pages or posts?

1. It is sent every hour via cronjob. Check zoints.com/tag/Your-Tag-Here and see if the thread is listed.

2. That would require disabling the automatic install and doing manual templates.

3. Not at this time. Maybe in the future, i'm not sure yet.

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