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

[Darat]

Will do - thanks.

[DJ PİSAGOR]

Thank u for all comments
Because my all tags is deleted.
Thank u every think.

[wraggster]

Hi all ive installed this last night and for someone who isnt that good with php it was damn easy.

The installation went perfect and i have tons of Tags now - did the option to tag old thread

I have a question

At DCEmu UK we use VBulletin forums as news forums for over 20 of our sites (works great too) is there a way to include tags in the newsposts and also the tag cloud on the sites .

It would be an excellent way to get new visitors to the site.

Anyway thanks for a great mod and a damn easy to install one

[Strike3ForumsMH]

To be honest, I am not really for sure wraggster. Unless the code was changed, I believe it uses the variables such as the tagcloud to call upon the database it's attached to... so unless the database was shared among the forums I don't know if it's possible. Then again, this is a bit beyond my expertise, if you try asking over at network.zoints.com you might get a bit more confident answer from one of our engineers... but I do believe that it is not something easily done right out the box.

Glad to hear you love the tags though.

- Reid

[SBlueman]

Originally Posted by SBlueman

I was just wondering if anyone had figured out how to make the post icons show in the tag results pages. This was talked about in post #741 to #745

Just wondering if anyone had a chance to look into this request.

[nokalexander]

Thank you for another good mod

You could possibly add censorship options to this or integrate with vbulletin's censorship system. I think that would be nice.

Keep up the good work!:up:

[dip1232001]

great hack working fine with my site www.desidhamal.com thanks

[christi78]

Ok I have am issue with the seach not showing up. I had to manual do all the edits and all other edits work fine except for

</div>
	<!-- / header quick search form -->
$zointstags_searchform
</if>

The Automatic edit works fine except it messes up my navigation bar so I had to manually edit this as explained in the install. Please let me know how I can get this fixed.

Thanks

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by SBlueman

Just wondering if anyone had a chance to look into this request.

I tried looking into it and I really go nowhere with it. Right now the engineers are in one of the final beta stages for ZL, so hopefully they can tackle that issue in the future as they are a bit more skilled in that regard than I am.

Originally Posted by nokalexander

Thank you for another good mod

You could possibly add censorship options to this or integrate with vbulletin's censorship system. I think that would be nice.

Keep up the good work!:up:

Hi nokalexander,

Thanks for the comments. Censorship options would be a good feature, I am not for sure how that would work in conjuncture with the AJAX, but I'll suggest it to the engineers (this is the first I've heard that suggested!)

Originally Posted by dip1232001

great hack working fine with my site www.desidhamal.com thanks

Awesome, thanks for sharing dip and let us know if you have any problems in the future.

Originally Posted by christi78

Ok I have am issue with the seach not showing up. I had to manual do all the edits and all other edits work fine except for

</div>
	<!-- / header quick search form -->
$zointstags_searchform
</if>

The Automatic edit works fine except it messes up my navigation bar so I had to manually edit this as explained in the install. Please let me know how I can get this fixed.

Thanks

Hi christi,

Do you think you can open up a ticket with us? We'll be better able to help you if we can see the problem in action and possibly take a peak at your templates to see what we can do to make it display better.

http://zoints.com/support.z

Thanks.

- Reid

[vbob]

Great mod...!!!
Thank you...!!! :-)
I am using the tag system for a few days and everything seems to be ok...!!!
But Today I "tagged" one thread with key-words in Greek Language (my forum is in Greek Language) and i found out that I can't Save the tags written in Greek language...!!!
This is an issue..!!! Can this be fixed? How can I put tags in my threads both in English and Greek Language? Why is this happening?
(what I mean is that the thread is saved normally as usual without any problem but the tags themselves can't be saved because they are in Greek language) :-(