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Zoints Thread Tags - GREAT for SEO · **Released**: 09-21-2006

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

Chadi · #**912** 05-12-2008, 08:14 PM

After doing the upgrade to 3.7 and playing around with the new functions, is Zoints tag mod even necessary anymore? Perhaps I'm missing something, but the default new vbulletin tags feature is pretty much the same. If that's 100% true, any possible import from Zoints to the default tag system?

therogueforums · #**913** 05-14-2008, 01:02 AM

I'm also getting this error after upgrading to 3.7.0

Will a Zoints update be released? I'd like to keep the Zoints thread tags if at all possible, as I prefer them to the vB tag system.

Lorani1 · #**914** 05-14-2008, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadi

Just upgraded VB to 3.7.0 and latest Zoints tag (as of today).

I now get this error when submitting new tags:

I encountered the same problem. Here is the solution:

Go to your admin cp > styles and templates > style manager

find the following templates:

zointstags_showthread
zointstags_searchtags
zointstags_searchform

and do a search for:

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

directly below this add:

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />

This should sort the error. :up: It did for me, at least.

Chadi · #**915** 05-14-2008, 10:13 PM

Great, that works even though that code was not found in the searchtags template, but in the other two at least

Strike3ForumsMH · #**916** 05-15-2008, 06:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by therogueforums

I'm also getting this error after upgrading to 3.7.0

Will a Zoints update be released? I'd like to keep the Zoints thread tags if at all possible, as I prefer them to the vB tag system.

A Zoints release will be out soon hopefully. The engineer who was working on it has had finals and other life issues to contend with. Sadly the AJAX rewriting was a bit too complex for him to fit in his schedule without doing a rush job.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lorani1

I encountered the same problem. Here is the solution:

Go to your admin cp > styles and templates > style manager

find the following templates:

zointstags_showthread
zointstags_searchtags
zointstags_searchform

and do a search for:

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

directly below this add:

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />

This should sort the error. :up: It did for me, at least.

Thanks for the help on this. I am still on 3.68 myself so I can't confirm this but hopefully this helps others out.

Very much appreciated Lorani.

- Reid

therogueforums · #**917** 05-15-2008, 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lorani1

I encountered the same problem. Here is the solution:

Go to your admin cp > styles and templates > style manager

find the following templates:

zointstags_showthread
zointstags_searchtags
zointstags_searchform

and do a search for:

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

directly below this add:

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />

This should sort the error. :up: It did for me, at least.

Worked perfectly! Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadi

Great, that works even though that code was not found in the searchtags template, but in the other two at least

For the zointstags_searchtags template, search for:

Code:

<input name="s" type="hidden" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

For whatever reason, it's slightly different.

Chadi · #**918** 05-23-2008, 09:24 PM

How do I get the subject field and zoints tag field in one row? I cannot find the code in the newreply / newthread templates.

Also, it would be nice if Zoints once and for all finally supported global tags (custom locations), especially various font sizes.

Example:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=import+tags

Brandon Sheley · #**919** 05-23-2008, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadi

How do I get the subject field and zoints tag field in one row? I cannot find the code in the newreply / newthread templates.

Also, it would be nice if Zoints once and for all finally supported global tags (custom locations), especially various font sizes.

Example:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=import+tags

There was a tag cloud with the zoints setup like the one you linked to and it had different color and sized fonts.. it was on the zoints site

Chadi · #**920** 05-23-2008, 10:19 PM

Where is it (instructions)? I cannot find it, sorry. I'm only aware of the official tags.php page
which has it in various font sizes, not colors. Nor am I aware how to do this globally, especially
the default tag clouds that show up on forum display and thread display.

longgsm · #**921** 05-25-2008, 12:29 AM

How about change to utf-8? I want to type vietnamese language. Thanks for support!

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