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

[SBlueman]

Some questions.....

Question #1: What template does this page use?

http://gridironfans.com/forums/tags/index.php/49ers/

I am trying to edit it so it shows the correct post icon. What template needs to be edited?

Question #2: Is there a way to make it so when you click on a tag you see the posts for that tag in order by first post, not last?

Question #3: Is there any way to have a RSS feed for each topic tag?

[powerful_rogue]

Hi,

Great mod

One question though, How do I remove the link from the navbar? Ive tried searching through the navbar code but cant seem to locate the zoints reference.

[tanujdude91]

Will this work with 3.6.8?

[powerful_rogue]

Hi,

Ive installed the mod and its working great, however if you click on the search button on the navbar, theres a large white space. Ive attahced an image.

How can i get this to strecth and get rid of the white space?

[inciarco]

GREAT HACK Zoints !! :up:

Originally Posted by powerful_rogue

Hi,

Ive installed the mod and its working great, however if you click on the search button on the navbar, theres a large white space. Ive attahced an image.

How can i get this to strecth and get rid of the white space?

STEP 1:

In Plugin "Zoints Thread Tags (automatic template edits)"

Find:

	</div>
	<!-- / header quick search form -->

Add BEFORE:

		</table>

So The Final Result Is:

		</table>
	</div>
	<!-- / header quick search form -->

STEP 2:

In Template "zointstags_searchform":

Search:

<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">

Delete That Line or Replace with

<!-- <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0"> -->

And Search:

</table>

Delete That Line or replace with:

<!-- </table> -->

The <!-- and --> are to Ignore those Code Lines.



STEP 3:



VOILA!! Thats It!! :up:

You Can Change the Width of the Search Text Box in Template "zointstags_searchform" in the Line:

<div><input type="text" class="bginput" name="search" size="25" />$gobutton</div>

By Changing the 25 for the Width you Wish!!

My Best Regards!!

[class101]

Hey Zoints I have found a bug while debugging Zoints Tags and requesting Tags:

There is always a 404error on the file cron.php, for exemple I click a tag:

http://<website>/forums/tags/news/

then when the page loads it try to request

http://<website>/forums/tags/news/cron.php?rand=66755 (wich produce the 404 error)

To note that I'm using the modrewrite option , I have tested of course with the by default system and I get always a 404 error but cron is called from /tags/ this time, I bet cron.php must be called on the forum root and not the tag root.

//note: If I go back to the standard write index.php?tag= and delete the .htacess rule, works fine cron.php is correctly called

[class101]

Cool I just would like to say I got it fixed with this addon, this is not really Zoints Tags bug but a behaviour with the $cronimage relative path. Check this addon:

True Asynchronous Cron Jobs using Javascript

Hope that helps

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by inciarco

Interesting Hack Zoints!! :up:

I Found a Bug In The Hack and I Don't Know Why Is happening (Almost Don't Have a Logic)!!

I Made The Manual Template Edits.

I Deactivated the Plugin (Zoints Thread Tags (automatic template edits)), as Instructed in the Manual, because I prefer Manual Template Edits.

When I did That Most of the Tag Edit Don't Show, Like the Tag Link on the Navbar, and the Search Tags in the Search Dropdown Menu, but some Show like the List of Tags on the Threads and the Popular Tags on the Thread List.

I don't Know Why That Happens, is like if one of the Plugins when the Automatic Template Edits Plugin is Deactidated Avoids the Display of the Code.

And When the Plugin (Zoints Thread Tags (automatic template edits)) is Activated, then Most of the Hack Features are Displayed Twice (logical, I made the Template Edits), but I prefer to have the Manual Choice to Edit the Templates (I prefer the Tag Link in the "Quick Links" Dropdown Menu), and other Things, so I'm having the Trouble I Mentioned Above.

I Hope You Can Tell me What's Wrong; I Think is a Bug in one or more of the Plugins that Condition the Display of the Code to the Active Condition of the Plugin "Zoints Thread Tags (automatic template edits)"!!

My Best Regards!!

Would you mind opening up a support ticket with us so our engineers can see this in action? Personally I think a future tags system needs to have the ability to disable the template edits as an option in Thread Tags Options. But obviously it's a bit hard to fully comprehend your problem without seeing it action so open up a ticket when you get the chance.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by ujai

thanks.. installing it

Great, we hope you enjoy.

Originally Posted by SBlueman

Some questions.....

Question #1: What template does this page use?

http://gridironfans.com/forums/tags/index.php/49ers/

I am trying to edit it so it shows the correct post icon. What template needs to be edited?

Question #2: Is there a way to make it so when you click on a tag you see the posts for that tag in order by first post, not last?

Question #3: Is there any way to have a RSS feed for each topic tag?

Hi SBlueman, I am in a bit of rush but I believe that is on zointstags_viewtag (but that's just form the top of my head.)

As for question 2, I am not really sure to be honest.

RSS feed functionality is not currently a feature with Zoints Thread Tags, as mentioned in the past, it is something we plan to look at but it would likely require a good deal of work which is not possible at this point of time as we're nearing completion of our next version of Zoints Local.

Originally Posted by powerful_rogue

Hi,

Great mod

One question though, How do I remove the link from the navbar? Ive tried searching through the navbar code but cant seem to locate the zoints reference.

Well, it seems as if at least one user has a problem with this, but I would suggest going to the plugin manager and deactivating "Zoints Thread Tags (automatic template edits)" and then manually do all the template edits you want to show. IF you do that, let us know how it works for you.

And thanks for the compliment.

Originally Posted by tanujdude91

Will this work with 3.6.8?

Yes, Zoints Thread Tags will work with vBulletin 3.6.8

- Reid

[SBlueman]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Hi SBlueman, I am in a bit of rush but I believe that is on zointstags_viewtag (but that's just form the top of my head

Ok, looks like in that template there is a hook to display the threads:

$threadlist

Now....does anyone know how that can be edited to include the correct post icons?

[class101]

Originally Posted by SBlueman

Ok, looks like in that template there is a hook to display the threads:



Now....does anyone know how that can be edited to include the correct post icons?

Interesting question SBlueman, I have got a quick look yet and found the url controling the icon link, this is in the template "threadbit" , the variable $thread[threadiconpath] takes the default posticon in zoints when it takes the custom one with forumdisplay, I think it has something to do with the SQL query loaded in index.php of zoints and the iconcache but not sure, well at least the patch must be made in the tags/index.php I'm almost sure, please let me know if you find a workaround I'm interested in patching this, I'll do the same if I'm finding a solution.