Major Additions - Zoints SEO

********Please do not use this modification unless you are VERY well educated on SEO and forum modification********

Zoints is a company that believes that forums are the killer application of the internet. We want to empower forum owners to take their community to the next level. Therefore, Zoints has been developing an extremely powerful vBulletin forum SEO and revenue enhancing solution for more than two years now. However, because we are focusing on our Forum Network and Thread Tagging System, we have decided to release this SEO solution to the vBulletin community under the lgpl license. Zoints SEO is now open source and NOT supported by us. We hope that the vBulletin dev community comes together to take this already powerful solution and make it even better. Empower yourselves

Zoints SEO can be discussed here or http://network.zoints.com (again, we will not be providing official support).


Known bugs

1. If a user disables cookies, infinite redirect loop.
2. index2, index3 pagination breaks some things. Standard p2, p3 works fine.


Zoints SEO is currently incompatible with: POSSIBLE FIX. PLEASE TRY THIS AND REPORT BACK. THANK YOU!
1. Incompatibility with vBA Gallery link.
2. Incompatibility with vBA Links
3. Improper linking from vBA CMPS Recent threads
4. Google Maps
[s]5. Non english characters[/s] - Character replacement is now available.


Without further ado:

[kofoid]

Hi there! THANK YOU for this - excellent add on!

I too am having a problem with "View First Unread" - when my members click on it they are taken back to the homepage. Can anyone help?

Here's the View First Unread liknk: http://www.lets-yada-yada-yada.com/#post488154 I believe it's missing "showthread.php. I am guessing I can just fix this with a template edit

[bgtfamily]

Has anyone ran into this error when enabling the seo system.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function fetch_dynamic_permission_message() in

[3dpirate]

Will this mod work for 3.6.4?

If so I need to install right now!

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by 3dpirate

Will this mod work for 3.6.4?

If so I need to install right now!

Yes. It works just fine with 3.64 and 3.65.

[lovelypk]

any plan for updating the mod?

[mrxbma]

just so everyone knows, this mod will NOT work with godaddy hosting, or any other PHP as CGI hosting

[dholt]

Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, using mod_rewriteThis requires mod_rewrite support on the web server.

I asked my host and they said I could use this but when I activate it it sends each forum to a 404

everything else works greats thanks so much for this

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by lovelypk

any plan for updating the mod?

Updating it to what? It doesn't need updating. It works just fine as it is.

Originally Posted by mrxbma

just so everyone knows, this mod will NOT work with godaddy hosting, or any other PHP as CGI hosting

What about it won't work? I just installed it on a CGI forum and it's working fine (without mod_rewrite - see below).

Originally Posted by dholt

Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, using mod_rewriteThis requires mod_rewrite support on the web server. I asked my host and they said I could use this but when I activate it it sends each forum to a 404. everything else works greats thanks so much for this

You really do NOT need mod_rewrite. No major search engine has trouble with the native vBulletin URLs. Use some of the other Zoints SEO features and turn off mod_rewrite. Apsart from being unnecessary, it does exact an extra load on your server,

[Ducks]

I'm using ZointsSEO on my board to optimize the URLs, but I think they could be even more optimized for.

We have 3 common special characters in Denmark I wanna replace with something else than an underscore:
? should be replaced by ae
? should be replaced by oe
? should be replaced by aa
I would also like if the URLs look like http://domain.dk/thread/ID/title/ instead of http://domain.dk/titl-tID.html

Here's the .htaccess from ZointsSEO:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]

[djbaxter]

Ducks, why do you think you need to do this? Honestly, the value of rewriting URLs is vastly overstated.