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

[ajm4481]

not really sure how to change the font colour of the TAG word itself.. I was hoping to change it from grey which happens to be the colour of my boards ^^ to red instead so that its more visable. Thanks for any help
http://www.koomid.com

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by vbob

Great mod...!!!
Thank you...!!! :-)
I am using the tag system for a few days and everything seems to be ok...!!!
But Today I "tagged" one thread with key-words in Greek Language (my forum is in Greek Language) and i found out that I can't Save the tags written in Greek language...!!!
This is an issue..!!! Can this be fixed? How can I put tags in my threads both in English and Greek Language? Why is this happening?
(what I mean is that the thread is saved normally as usual without any problem but the tags themselves can't be saved because they are in Greek language) :-(

Do you have AJAX turned on for the submit tags vbob? If I recall correctly, there is an issue with that and foreign characters so try disabling AJAX to see if you can then submit a tag with foreign characters.

Originally Posted by ajm4481

not really sure how to change the font colour of the TAG word itself.. I was hoping to change it from grey which happens to be the colour of my boards ^^ to red instead so that its more visable. Thanks for any help
http://www.koomid.com

Hi ajm,

I am pretty sure it just follows the colors you have designated as link colors in your style. If you go to your style manager, try editing some of the zointstags_ templates to see if you can't change it there, you should be able to.

- Reid

[GuaRRand]

i would LUV to have this on my forum, only when i read the install instructions it kinda blew my mind.
I am no noob in forum management, but this just went straight over my head and out the window.

Any chance that someone here with more knowledge (shouldnt be that hard ) who can help me implement this?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Hi there GuarRRand,

I can help you out, no problem. Let me know what step you are having trouble on or any specific things that confused you that I might be able to clarify.

- Reid

[GuaRRand]

Ok thanks alot.
I'm gonna give it a shot tomorrow evening. if i run into anything and dont knock myself out, i'll let you know.

[vbob]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Do you have AJAX turned on for the submit tags vbob? If I recall correctly, there is an issue with that and foreign characters so try disabling AJAX to see if you can then submit a tag with foreign characters.

Strike3ForumsMH (Thanks for your help)
but...I disabled AJAX but still don't work with Greek Characters/words....
It didn't work...!!!

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Hey vbob,

Foreign characters with thread tags have never been my specialization, but please open up a support ticket with us and we'll see if we can't troubleshoot it (or at least get some info so we can solve in the future.) I don't know if it's dependent on the language or not, but it seems to be hit or miss.

- Reid

[vbob]

I've got Extra information for the problem. :-)
Today, i tagged a thread with the keywords "email, e-mail, mail" (Only English)
The Tagged result was the above:
"email, e mail, mail" (it chopped the leter "-" in the word "e-mail" and replaced it with a space character)

So, because the character "-" of the word "e-mail" is not a Greek character, I believe that the problem is not in foreign Languages. I am considering that the problem's root, is something else and not a foreign language problem or maybe a language problem plus something else. :-)

(My forum is vbulletin 3.6.8 PL2 and vbadvanced v.3.00)

I hope I helped a little bit more in "decompiling" the problem. :-)
Thank you a priori for your answer.

ps. if someone use the mod and using another language than English in his boards, please give us a feedback if the mod works with other languages or not, so we can locate the problem easier. Thank you. :-)

[biliboy]

why the mod didnt support hebrew?
can I fix it?
that hebrew words also be taged at the mydomain.com/tag

thnks alot!

[biliboy]

Some one plz ?