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Zoints Thread Tags - GREAT for SEO · **Released**: 09-21-2006

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

Zoints · #**212** 10-25-2006, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neal-UK

Damn, means a lot of template edits then for sites with some skins, like mine.

No way to have it set so you only have to do that navbar edit?

Actually, the new version should automatically fix the issue you're having.

Zoints · #**213** 10-25-2006, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StarBuG

I have upgraded to the latest version by uploading all new files and overwriting the product.

stept by step.

I go into a thread, and type "?" as tag and click on "Add".
Then the tag looks like "u00c4 [X]" or "T?r" and it looks like "tu00fcr [X]"
The auto-generated-tags use the replacement correctly as far as I can see.

You can see the Tags I mentioned in action here:
http://www.patientenfragen.net/chat-...forum-884.html

It also seems that the quote problem still exists:

"Zuk?nftige Geburtstage" -> geburtstagequot
Artikel: "Low Carb" ist schlecht f?rs Herz -> carbquot [X], quotlow [X]

I was finally able to reproduce it

No idea why we couldn't yesterday. We'll get this fixed ASAP.

Quote:

Originally Posted by StarBuG

There is something else
Everytime I generate tags automaticly I get a tag "0", if I click this tag I get back to the tag cloude, and if I try to delete it, nothing happens.

I think there should be an option to define the minimum characters for autogenerated tags

We'll look into it, thanks for the report.

abramelin · #**214** 10-25-2006, 10:34 AM

ok, here is a thread without any tags. (all the screenshots are from showthread page)
Attachment 55101

now what i am going to do is adding a tag with my foreign language
Attachment 55102

and here is the result
Attachment 55103

is this now clear?

spipo · #**215** 10-25-2006, 11:14 AM

is this Plugin compatible with VBSeo sitemap installed ?
that mean if i Install it it will work without problems on 3.6.2 ?

GrendelKhan{TSU · #**216** 10-25-2006, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DChapman

These freak problems should be fixed with 1.2.1. We found a bug where it was closing a row and table. Sorry 'bout that.

yay! works again.

bug/sugggestion:

can you make an option "below the navbar" in addition to the "above the posts"...

right now I have a header for threads and i can't move the tag location wihtou it showing two sets of tags. now I have one at the top of posts below my header (where I places the $zointstags) and below the thread (from admincp). lol. which is cool buuuut...

if you add tags they don't update from the bottom tag bar.

also, if you turn off the showthread tags, it doesn't work even if you manually add the $zointstag

example here:
http://www.clantsu.org/forums/showthread.php?t=766
(from our "name the movie - pictoral version" thread)

anyway... nice job on the improvements...taggin pwns.

Zoints · #**217** 10-25-2006, 04:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spipo

is this Plugin compatible with VBSeo sitemap installed ?
that mean if i Install it it will work without problems on 3.6.2 ?

I'm not 100% sure what you mean, so i'll cover all bases

1. This modification works with vBSEO once this plugin is installed.

2. There is no incompatibilities with the vBSEO sitemap. Both will function fine.

3. I'm not sure if the vBSEO sitemap generates a sitemap for /tags pages or not. But Google is eating these pages up. Example: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

Zoints · #**218** 10-25-2006, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

yay! works again.

bug/sugggestion:

can you make an option "below the navbar" in addition to the "above the posts"...

right now I have a header for threads and i can't move the tag location wihtou it showing two sets of tags. now I have one at the top of posts below my header (where I places the $zointstags) and below the thread (from admincp). lol. which is cool buuuut...

if you add tags they don't update from the bottom tag bar.

also, if you turn off the showthread tags, it doesn't work even if you manually add the $zointstag

It sounds like you have some manual template edits in there still. Either:

1. Remove the manual edits
2. Turn off the automated edits and do the rest of the edits.

abramelin · #**219** 10-25-2006, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by abramelin

ok, here is a thread without any tags. (all the screenshots are from showthread page)
Attachment 55101

now what i am going to do is adding a tag with my foreign language
Attachment 55102

and here is the result
Attachment 55103

is this now clear?

still waiting for this issue. why no answer ? this is the most important bug for users who are using foreign languages except from english :tired:

Lizard King · #**220** 10-25-2006, 06:29 PM

David is it possible to remove Forum Tags by Zoints from tag page titles ?

Zoints · #**221** 10-25-2006, 08:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lizard King

David is it possible to remove Forum Tags by Zoints from tag page titles ?

Yep, go for it

We plan to do that next release anyway.

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