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

[zeus_r6]

I added the rewrite rules to my .htaccess file. The site hasn't thrown any errors....so does this mean apache mod_rewrite is enabled on my shared hosting server?

[CoryHawk]

Even after removing the product I still get 50 or so emails a day with this database error.

Subject: vBulletin Database Error!


Database error in vBulletin 3.7.0 Release Candidate 2:

Invalid SQL:

			SELECT COUNT(*) count FROM zoints_tag zoints_tag
			LEFT JOIN thread thread ON(zoints_tag.threadid = thread.threadid)
			WHERE zoints_tag.tag = 'ojt'
				AND thread.forumid IN(1,72,2,62,75,87,60,95,61,63,92,101,91,102,103,105,64,65,66,67,68,69,96,104,85,100,73,77,99,88,90,93,6,7,8,84,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,82,94,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,83,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,70,71,97,98,76);

MySQL Error   : Table 'prison_forums.zoints_tag' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Date          : Saturday, April 12th 2008 @ 10:07:22 AM
Script        : http://forums.prisonofficer.org/tags/ojt/
Referrer      : 
IP Address    : *.*.*.*
Username      : XXXXXXX
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 4.1.22-standard

I know it is that the table doesn't exists.. which it shouldn't.. because it was uninstalled, however.. I have searched my styles for anything to do with zoints or tags and can not figure out why this is called.


SOLUTION: Figured it out. Needed to remove the directory '/tags/' and the files in it under the forum root directory.

[kube]

I`am just able to create tags, when I start the thread, afterwards I can delete, but not add.

Same with old threads....no chance to add tags.

The tag entry field is shown and when I add a tag and click "add", something is happening, but the new tag is not shown....

Any Ideas ?

(vb 3.6.7)

thanks

[nickypoooo]

Thank you for this great mod!! I was wondering if this support charset iso-8859-8-i (Hebrew)

I am having a problem with Hebrew tags. It does not display the tags but English tags are display fine

Thank you

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Hey everyone, sorry about the delays in response. I am a full-time student with a boatload of 400 level classes so my time as of late has been rapidly disappearing with major projects (one that is over 100 pages) due soon.

Originally Posted by kube

I`am just able to create tags, when I start the thread, afterwards I can delete, but not add.

Same with old threads....no chance to add tags.

The tag entry field is shown and when I add a tag and click "add", something is happening, but the new tag is not shown....

Any Ideas ?

(vb 3.6.7)

thanks

Hey kube,

It sounds as if AJAX is not working. Could you please login to your Admin CP, go to Options for Zoints Thread Tags and set Disable AJAX Submission to Yes? If you do, let me know the results. I know that the AJAX has had some problems for some (and needs to be rewritten) so that might be it.

Originally Posted by nickypoooo

Thank you for this great mod!! I was wondering if this support charset iso-8859-8-i (Hebrew)

I am having a problem with Hebrew tags. It does not display the tags but English tags are display fine

Thank you

Hi nicky,

The character sets Thread Tags display are pretty limit from what I've seen (based on the problems with some) but sadly it seems like Hebrew is one of the sets that have difficulty working. Possibly someone has gotten it to work on their own, but I wouldn't know about that.

Sorry.

(Thanks for being patient everyone and I apologize again.)

- 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.

[kube]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Hey kube,
It sounds as if AJAX is not working. Could you please login to your Admin CP, go to Options for Zoints Thread Tags and set Disable AJAX Submission to Yes? If you do, let me know the results. I know that the AJAX has had some problems for some (and needs to be rewritten) so that might be it.
- Reid

I can`t find there anything about AJAX submissions !?


Thx for your answer

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by SBlueman

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

I did try my hand at one of them to no luck. I don't believe the engineers have looked at them either, at least recently, as they are crunching away at the last set of features for ZL. I did put them in a thread for them to look at regarding user suggestions for Thread Tags, so I hope they do look at them when beginning work on that.

Originally Posted by kube

I can`t find there anything about AJAX submissions !?


Thx for your answer

Could you please open up a ticket with us kube?

Please provide me with a temporary admin account and a link to your forum through our ticket system:
http://zoints.com/support.z

I'll take a look so I can see both the problem in action and to see your setings.

Thanks.

- Reid

[kube]

thanks reid,
I installed it now in my normal forum, there it works fine and with no problems.
seems for me that my test-forum has some problems - but they are not important ;-)

thanks for the help !

[amro yehia]

i have arabic forum

i wante to install it

please help me