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

[perfphysio]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

http://zoints.com/support.z

Just be logged in with your Zoints.com account.

- Reid

Thanks I posted the ticket yesterday,

[SBlueman]

I was wondering if there was any way to create RSS feeds from topic tags using the Zoints Thread Tag mod and if there was a way to view the thread results when you clicked on a tag with the threads in order by first post, not last.

I tried to create rss feeds using Dapper.net's service but of late it's not been working.

I also had another idea....is it possible to create a bbcode where you wrap any keywords in a post and it then becomes a link to that tag on your site? Say for example:

PHP Code:

The [tag]Raiders[/tag] waived RB [tag]Adimchinobe Echemandu[/tag]. The Raiders had to make room for [tag]Dominic Rhodes[/tag], who is coming off the suspended list. Echemandu showed promise in camp, but his upside is limited. The [tag]Broncos[/tag] could be interested, as he knows their blocking scheme.

[B]Source:[/B] [URL="http://www.ibabuzz.com/raidersblog/2007/10/06/trade-winds-likely-a-light-breeze/"][I]Oakland Tribune[/I][/URL] 


Would give you:

The Raiders waived RB Adimchinobe Echemandu. The Raiders had to make room for Dominic Rhodes, who is coming off the suspended list. Echemandu showed promise in camp, but his upside is limited. The Broncos could be interested, as he knows their blocking scheme.

Source: Oakland Tribune

That way when they click on the links it takes them to the stories with that tag?

[yahoooh]

i still wait for fixing the error when i use tags in arabic font
i will not convert my site to utf-8 encoding because it is very very diffecult to success

so any news to fix the error in special charachter

as i said there is alot of tags module in some product that accept arabic font without any errors

but in zoints tags it give 23%h& like character !

[Flep]

My tags cloud does not work

[tpearl5]

Lets say I have two tags: cell & phone. How would I go about merging the two?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

i still wait for fixing the error when i use tags in arabic font
i will not convert my site to utf-8 encoding because it is very very diffecult to success

so any news to fix the error in special charachter

as i said there is alot of tags module in some product that accept arabic font without any errors

but in zoints tags it give 23%h& like character !

If a fix is developed, I will make sure to post it here yahoooh. We understand the difficulty of that problem and why it's important to fix, it's just a matter of fitting it in amongst all the work we have.

Originally Posted by Flep

My tags cloud does not work

Hi Flep, if you open up a ticket here:
http://zoints.com/support.z

with a link to your forums, we can take a look and see if there is any specific reason that could be causing the problem or if we need access to your site to help solve it.

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Lets say I have two tags: cell & phone. How would I go about merging the two?

I really don't know of any easy (or hard way) to do that, although one may exist. I would simply just find all the threads tagged with phone and cell, and add the new tag of cellphone to it. I know that's tedious, especially if there are many tags, but that's what I would do if it was my forum.

- Reid

[BamaStangGuy]

Originally Posted by kall

Any idea when an updated version will be released that DOESN'T result in URLs without a trailing slash getting 404 errors/redirected to forumhome?

It's almost a year since I reported it here: http://network.zoints.com/showthread...ighlight=slash and I still receive many hundred erros in my cPanel log every day.

Hi Kall,

I have fixed this issue. Please place the following within your .htaccess directly after RewriteEngine On in the tags folder:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /+[^\.]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /forums/tags/
RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ /forums/tags/$1/ [R=301,L]

Be sure you adjust the /forums/tags/ path to reflect the path to the tags folder.

[tpearl5]

ah, thanks for that, I was trying to figure it out myself.

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by BamaStangGuy

Hi Kall,

I have fixed this issue. Please place the following within your .htaccess directly after RewriteEngine On in the tags folder:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /+[^\.]+$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /forums/tags/
RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ /forums/tags/$1/ [R=301,L]

Be sure you adjust the /forums/tags/ path to reflect the path to the tags folder.

Seems like the fix that's needed (at least from what I can see on my forum), I'll pass this along to our enginners. Thanks Bama!

- Reid

[acegames]

I have had this installed since release without any problems but now it is giving me database errors on the hourly cleanup cron , any ideas please ?

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:

UPDATE user AS user
SET user.threads =
(
SELECT COUNT(threadid)
FROM thread AS thread
LEFT JOIN forum AS forum ON forum.forumid = thread.forumid
WHERE visible = 1
AND (forum.options & 4096)
AND user.userid=postuserid
);

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual
that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to
use near 'SELECT COUNT(threadid)
FROM thread AS thread
LEFT JO
Error Number : 1064
Date : Thursday, October 18th 2007 @ 02:13:36 AM
Script : http://www.acegames.us/forum/cron.php?&rand=256860
Referrer : http://www.acegames.us/forum/
IP Address : 195.93.21.5
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vb_database