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

[jw00dy]

Originally Posted by DChapman

You don't have to tie into Zoints if you don't want to. That's just an option you have. Of course, with our tag cloud now on http://zoints.com you'll get some nice inbound links for PR and traffic.

These are great for search engines, searching, navigation, and many other things.

Thank you for this answer. I have no problem tying into Zoints. It's a great service.

Nice job on this. I'm having a lot of fun tagging stuff. Just need to get my members on board (they are slacking )

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by T.S.

When I try to delete the tags "0" and "1" from the cloud I get this "There are currently 0 threads tagged with the word "". Are you sure you want to delete it? This process cannot be undone." I have vBseo installed and added the extra plugin for it, I don't know if that matters. I can't add "0" or "1" to the automatic generation stoplist either.

That is a known bug that will be fixed in the next build. Sorry for the trouble

[BigJimTheLug]

This works for 3.6.4, right? It is very awesome, I love it!

[kdemonte]

I installed this then when I look at my forum and click on a thread and try to open it to read it I get this message now, what did I do wrong?

Warning: Unknown: Unable to access /var/www/vhosts/stupidworld.net/httpdocs/includes/class_zointstags.php in /showthread.php(1953) : eval()'d code on line 21

Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /showthread.php(1953) : eval()'d code on line 21

Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/var/www/vhosts/stupidworld.net/httpdocs/includes/class_zointstags.php' (include_path='.:') in /var/www/vhosts/stupidworld.net/httpdocs/showthread.php(1953) : eval()'d code on line 21

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by MARKETPROFITS

This works for 3.6.4, right? It is very awesome, I love it!

yup

[Mythor]

Reposted at the official support forum, here.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by kdemonte

I installed this then when I look at my forum and click on a thread and try to open it to read it I get this message now, what did I do wrong?

What version of php are you running?

[kdemonte]

5.0 php
vB 3.6.4

[SaN-DeeP]

DChampan we are awaiting for new release anxiously.

[buro9]

I've got another request

Members on my forum want a "favourite tags" option.

What they want is a place in their control panel to enter a list of tags, that then appears on the forum home as a list of shortcuts.

Essentially, every user gets their own list of virtual forums which they are interested in.

This is how it was described to me:

How difficult would it be to have a row of favourite tags along the top of each page?

Sort of like:

Advantages:

• no need to subscribe to threads
• only one click away
• encourages tag use

I'm not sure if that's the best place to surface it (if they've got a lot of favourite tags it will be cluttered) but it's certainly a great idea.