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

[Calibre_k]

How can i get rid of the Search Tags box?

When i add a tag i see the 2 boxes Tags: with an add button how can i delete the extra one?

Also when i add tag And try to view I get error: (tags/index.php/add/ in browser link) No input file specified.

[SBlueman]

I have two questions:

Is there any way to create RSS feeds for each topic tag?

Second....when you click on a particular topic tag to see other topics with the same tag, is there a way to get the post icons to show up? Right now it's only showing the default icon on my site:

http://gridironfans.com/forums/tags/...p/transaction/

[SBlueman]

Originally Posted by SBlueman

I have two questions:

Is there any way to create RSS feeds for each topic tag?

Second....when you click on a particular topic tag to see other topics with the same tag, is there a way to get the post icons to show up? Right now it's only showing the default icon on my site:

http://gridironfans.com/forums/tags/...p/transaction/

Anyone?

[nocte]

Originally Posted by mfyvie

Additional Functionality for Zoints Thread Tags

Would you like to give additional users or user groups the ability to add or delete tags in areas which they don't moderate?

If so, you can use the attached extension for Zoints Thread Tags 1.2.1 which will give you that ability via additional options in the AdminCP.

Please see the attached file for full instructions and follow them CAREFULLY.

No support will be provided for this extension - if it doesn't work for you - I'm sorry. This extension is not endorsed or supported by Zoints. I simply built this for myself, and am sharing it.

Note that any future upgrade to Zoints Thread Tags will erase many of these edits and they will have to be redone.

Hopefully Zoints will like this idea and incorporate these changes into their next version!

Thank you for this. That's exactly what i need.

in your instructions.txt you say find this line:

    if ($thread['postuserid'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND !can_moderate($thread['forumid'], 'caneditposts'))

This line does not exist in my plugin "Zoints Thread Tags ajax support functions" (Hook ajax_start). instead i have

    if (!$thread['threadid'] OR ($thread['postuserid'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND !can_moderate($thread['forumid'], 'caneditposts')))

[mfyvie]

Originally Posted by nocte

Thank you for this. That's exactly what i need.

in your instructions.txt you say find this line:

    if ($thread['postuserid'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND !can_moderate($thread['forumid'], 'caneditposts'))

This line does not exist in my plugin "Zoints Thread Tags ajax support functions" (Hook ajax_start). instead i have

    if (!$thread['threadid'] OR ($thread['postuserid'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND !can_moderate($thread['forumid'], 'caneditposts')))

I'm sorry, but I don't know. I looked for the line you said you had, and I didn't have it in my module. You are running the latest version right? That line was definitely in my version, because I installed it the day before I wrote those modifications.

My only suggestion is to double check. Download the .xml file for this mod and load it into a text editor - you should see the line I have referenced if you do a search through the XML file.

[PlymWS]

EDITED : Not Required

[Robi_Kenobi]

I've installed it too, running great so far.

But is it not possible to search for a list of tags in the advanced search.
I mean for example search all the threads wich have Tags "aaa" and "bbb".

If i search for two or more tags at the same time i always get an empty search result.

Without this the whole "tag search" thing it is quite senceless for the forum users, i think.

[SBlueman]

Originally Posted by SBlueman

I have two questions:

Is there any way to create RSS feeds for each topic tag?

Second....when you click on a particular topic tag to see other topics with the same tag, is there a way to get the post icons to show up? Right now it's only showing the default icon on my site:

http://gridironfans.com/forums/tags/...p/transaction/

Nothing?

[PlymWS]

Would it be possible to create an option to search for threads that haven't been tagged ?

I installed this with about 1000 threads already on my board. It would be helpful to be able to search for threads with no tags so I can tag them easily.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by PlymWS

Would it be possible to create an option to search for threads that haven't been tagged ?

I installed this with about 1000 threads already on my board. It would be helpful to be able to search for threads with no tags so I can tag them easily.

You can do this already:

Admin CP | Zoints Thread Tags | Zoints Tags Manager | Automatically Tag Old Threads