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

[aacircle]

What are the steps to upgrade? Nothing was mentioned in the README file. I also noticed the product xml file was titled "product-zointstags-1.2.1", even though the product is 1.2.2.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by aacircle

What are the steps to upgrade? Nothing was mentioned in the README file. I also noticed the product xml file was titled "product-zointstags-1.2.1", even though the product is 1.2.2.

You can upgrade by re-importing the product xml file (and checking the overwrite setting during import) and just overwrite the /tags/index.php file on your server with the one included in the new zip file.

Thanks for noticing the 1.2.1 on the product files - it will be amended and we will also add an UPGRADE.txt file in the zip as well.

[class101]

Btw keep it up maintaining all the great stuffs that are not in vbulletin tag system because I think your plugin could receive lots of new users that are not very happy with the too basic system built now in vbulletin

The "Search" popular tags cloud implemented in vb3.7 is an interesting feature for example that could be implemented in the zoints plugin one

demo http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/search.php

[xcingix]

Originally Posted by Zoints

You can upgrade by re-importing the product xml file (and checking the overwrite setting during import) and just overwrite the /tags/index.php file on your server with the one included in the new zip file.

Thanks for noticing the 1.2.1 on the product files - it will be amended and we will also add an UPGRADE.txt file in the zip as well.

I don't have to search the thread for the updated version right? He updated it in the mod post right?

[class101]

yes of course 1.2.2 is ok, most important thing to do is to replace tags/index.php and reimport the product xml to add a plugin managing CSS/templates definitions for the nopermission page.

[Mecho]

Thanks for update ..

but still it has Bug . i have many numbers in my Tags page , when i want to delete them i got this :

There are currently 0 threads tagged with the word "". Are you sure you want to delete it? This process cannot be undone.

and when i try to delete them , nothing would be happen ...

any idea ?
thanks

[class101]

Originally Posted by Mecho

Thanks for update ..

but still it has Bug . i have many numbers in my Tags page , when i want to delete them i got this :

and when i try to delete them , nothing would be happen ...

any idea ?
thanks

+1 this is old bug yeah

[FleaBag]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Could you either post a link for me to see FleaBag, or PM me if you are more comfortable with that?

Thanks.

ALSO: I know the hack is now listed as updated, I just wanted to post here to let everyone know that our engineers posted an updated solution today despite it being a holiday with the help of class101. So a big thanks goes out to Danny (the engineer who posted the update) and class101.

- Reid

Sure;

http://www.dragonninja.co.uk/tags/aberdare/

All links are SEO'd (at least the ones I have set to be in vBSEO). You'll see the last post link is formatted a little incorrectly, as below for example;

http://www.dragonninja.co.uk/29422/d...87/#post474487

It correctly forwards to the correct URL though;

http://www.dragonninja.co.uk/29422/d...ow/#post474487

I remembered I had tried an earlier plugin, but it never worked for me for some reason - this may still be present, although I remember it never worked for last post URL's.

[class101]

You could check in my forum , I 've applied this patch to rewrite zoints links with vbseo and they appear and works correctly

patch: http://network.zoints.com/showpost.p...72&postcount=2

[FleaBag]

It seems you're right. I'm sure they didn't work before lol.