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

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by xcingix

I don't have to search the thread for the updated version right? He updated it in the mod post right?

Yep, whenever we update the files we just update the original post which is seen at the top of every page.

Also make sure to check your PM's xcingix.

Originally Posted by Mecho

Thanks for update ..

but still it has Bug . i have many numbers in my Tags page , when i want to delete them i got this :

and when i try to delete them , nothing would be happen ...

any idea ?
thanks

This is still a bug Mecho, the release yesterday was to correct a permissions problem. We however are aware of the problem and I will make sure to remind the engineers of it for the next release.

Originally Posted by class101

You could check in my forum , I 've applied this patch to rewrite zoints links with vbseo and they appear and works correctly

patch: http://network.zoints.com/showpost.p...72&postcount=2

Yep, that is the post to go to, thanks for posting it class101.

Also, if anyone uses vB SEO sitemap generator, this has been a helpful link for some:
http://vbmodder.com/forums/f41/zoint...emaps-692.html
(it's a third party release obviously.)

I hope everyone had a great day with their families today.

- Reid

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by class101

Btw keep it up maintaining all the great stuffs that are not in vbulletin tag system because I think your plugin could receive lots of new users that are not very happy with the too basic system built now in vbulletin

The "Search" popular tags cloud implemented in vb3.7 is an interesting feature for example that could be implemented in the zoints plugin one

demo http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/search.php

I wanted to comment on this separately so it wouldn't be lost above. We appreciate the support class though and the suggestion. I am not an engineer so I can't comment on whether we can do that or not, but it would certainly be cool (I thought of the same thing quite awhile ago.) I'll make sure to post it to our possible ideas thread for Thread Tags.

- Reid

[MotMann]

Originally Posted by SpadMan

Here's what I did to work around the umlauts problem. I modified my Character Replacements list:

Before:

? ae
? AE
? oe
? OE
? ue
? UE
? ss

After:

? ae
? AE
? oe
? OE
? ue
? UE
? ss
u00e4 ae
u00C4 AE
u00d6 oe
u00D6 OE
u00fc ue
u00dc UE
u00df ss

Hope this helps,

Scott

No, its not working...

[Darat]

Just installed the update and now all users can now only update their own thread tags? So admins and moderators can't even delete tags from threads.

[karnevil]

darn - am getting error message - was working okay earlier

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"' in /mounted-storage/home66c/sub005/sc39562-VQLH/www.legal-beagles.co.uk/forums/tags/index.php on line 530

line 530 is

PHP Code:

        $headinclude = "<base href="" . $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . "/" />rn" . $headinclude; 


what have I done ?

I haven't done the update from the 24th as yet.

[karnevil]

I'll do the update which should fix the error ?

[karnevil]

Yep all fixed

[iogames]

the .XML's product still hasn't been updated to 1.2.2?

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by iogames

the .XML's product still hasn't been updated to 1.2.2?

Voila, it's updated.

You can just go into the Product Manager, click edit for the Zoints Thread Tags, and manually change the version number to 1.2.2.

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by Darat

Just installed the update and now all users can now only update their own thread tags? So admins and moderators can't even delete tags from threads.

Hi Darat,

Like I posted over at network.zoints.com, please open up a support ticket as we are not experiencing that with the forums we installed on or have heard from others with a similar problem. We would love to figure out why you are experiencing this though and solve it for you.

- Reid