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

[GuaRRand]

nvm. i disabled "automatic template update" and am now doing it manually through readme.

[GuaRRand]

Only thing that doesnt work atm is this:
(from the readme.txt)

d) The tag entry field does not show up when editing threads through the first post

Edit template: editpost
==== FIND ==================================
============================================
<!-- / subject field -->
==== BELOW, ADD ============================
============================================
$zointstags_tagform
============================================
============================================

e) The tag entry field does not show up when editing threads using thread tools > edit thread

Edit template: threadadmin_editthread
==== FIND ==================================
============================================
<!-- / subject field -->
==== BELOW, ADD ============================
============================================
$zointstags_tagform
============================================
============================================

It doesnt produce a "tags" field to fill in

[GuaRRand]

Oh, and when you search through the tags page, the topics that show up all SEEM to have new posts....but they dont.
How come?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Since you were posting issues to both here and the support forums and some have been resolved from what I can tell, are there any prevailing issues left for me to help with or look into?

- Reid

[adwade]

I for one would like the details of how to accompolish a clean uninstall if/when I do decide to remove Zoints. Being a newbie at all this anyway, SQL errors scare me when I read of them.

[GuaRRand]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Since you were posting issues to both here and the support forums and some have been resolved from what I can tell, are there any prevailing issues left for me to help with or look into?

- Reid

Hehe, yeah sorry, i;ve been implementing alot of zoints/seo stuff lately

the only thing i'd still like to get working is this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1321

and great support btw

[gonzek]

hi, how can I put the table with tags on main site of board? for example below the forums

[nokalexander]

Hi, first of all a very nice hack


Now, despite the fact that this is an awesome hack, i've run into a problem with Greek characters. When i try to use Greek characters they will be shown as u03b1 u03b2 etc.

Any idea how could I possibly fix this?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by adwade

I for one would like the details of how to accompolish a clean uninstall if/when I do decide to remove Zoints. Being a newbie at all this anyway, SQL errors scare me when I read of them.

Sorry about the late response adwade, I totally missed this. The uninstall is a clean one, the problem with those errors is sites like Google and such searching links that are no longer there (due to the install.)

Originally Posted by gonzek

hi, how can I put the table with tags on main site of board? for example below the forums

Open up a support ticket with us gonzek and I'll see if I can't do it. If not, there is one possible alternative I'll mention to you.

Originally Posted by nokalexander

Hi, first of all a very nice hack


Now, despite the fact that this is an awesome hack, i've run into a problem with Greek characters. When i try to use Greek characters they will be shown as u03b1 u03b2 etc.

Any idea how could I possibly fix this?

Greek tags seem to be a problem. I really can't help but would advise to see if anyone on network.zoints.com has had any luck or know any possible solutions.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

- Reid

[NeutralizeR]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Sorry about the late response adwade, I totally missed this. The uninstall is a clean one, the problem with those errors is sites like Google and such searching links that are no longer there (due to the install.)


Open up a support ticket with us gonzek and I'll see if I can't do it. If not, there is one possible alternative I'll mention to you.


Greek tags seem to be a problem. I really can't help but would advise to see if anyone on network.zoints.com has had any luck or know any possible solutions.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

- Reid

Add these to the custom character replacements:

u03b1 yourgreekcharacter

u03b2 yourgreekcharacter

...