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

[biliboy]

Originally Posted by biliboy

why the mod didnt support hebrew?
can I fix it?
that hebrew words also be taged at the mydomain.com/tag


thnks alot!

Try last time
plz help me with this..

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by biliboy

why the mod didnt support hebrew?
can I fix it?
that hebrew words also be taged at the mydomain.com/tag


thnks alot!

Like I've mentioned a few times, this really isn't my area of expertise but have you tried the character replacements for Hebrew yet?

- Reid

[biliboy]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Like I've mentioned a few times, this really isn't my area of expertise but have you tried the character replacements for Hebrew yet?

- Reid

what do you mean when you say "replacements for hebrew yet" ??

[Strike3ForumsMH]

If you log into your vB Admin CP, click Zoints Thread Tags and then Options, there is a section called Character Replacements in which you can have a set of characters to be replaced by a safe equivalent so the URL structure isn't broken.

- Reid

[biliboy]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

If you log into your vB Admin CP, click Zoints Thread Tags and then Options, there is a section called Character Replacements in which you can have a set of characters to be replaced by a safe equivalent so the URL structure isn't broken.

- Reid

how this help me that hebrew letters will taged to?

thnks alot for all your help!

I have try to put א - א
it not working..

[Milktruck]

How can we place the tag collection on Forum Home, centered under the navbar?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by biliboy

how this help me that hebrew letters will taged to?

thnks alot for all your help!

I have try to put א - א
it not working..

Then it's quite possible that at this time it won't work with Hebrew characters. I am really sorry I haven't been of more help, but I haven't experienced any tickets with a user wanting to use Thread Tags in Hebrew.... so it's uncharted waters for me.

If I think of something or stumble upon something, I'll let you know.

Originally Posted by Milktruck

How can we place the tag collection on Forum Home, centered under the navbar?

Are you using the public release version of 1.22 or a private beta version 1.35? If it is the one you downloaded from here, 1.22, that isn't possible at this time. In future versions, it should be though.

- Reid

[biliboy]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Then it's quite possible that at this time it won't work with Hebrew characters. I am really sorry I haven't been of more help, but I haven't experienced any tickets with a user wanting to use Thread Tags in Hebrew.... so it's uncharted waters for me.

If I think of something or stumble upon something, I'll let you know.


Are you using the public release version of 1.22 or a private beta version 1.35? If it is the one you downloaded from here, 1.22, that isn't possible at this time. In future versions, it should be though.

- Reid

O.K
thnks anyway

[JWL]

I have a question, and I would appreciate some very serious and honest answers


How well does this really work and does it really improve site visits and crawling?

My personal observation is it looks ascetically unappealing with all those tags at the base of your forum, but that is just me.

I am trying to start a new site and really am bent to know end to get of off the ground and search able. So I am really wondering if this is simple "Snake Oil" No offense is intended

www.gotrackday.com

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by JWL

I have a question, and I would appreciate some very serious and honest answers


How well does this really work and does it really improve site visits and crawling?

My personal observation is it looks ascetically unappealing with all those tags at the base of your forum, but that is just me.

I am trying to start a new site and really am bent to know end to get of off the ground and search able. So I am really wondering if this is simple "Snake Oil" No offense is intended

www.gotrackday.com

when I had zoints tags installed all it did was add tons of duplicate content in the search engine results
I got little to zero traffic from the zoints network.