Zoints Thread Tags System - GREAT for SEO

There will be no future releases of the 3.5.x version of the tags system, only the 3.6.x and later revisions. AJAX support in vB 3.5.x is far too problematic to work with and slows down development time significantly. Due to most forums being on or making the transition to 3.6.x, we've decided to do this so that we can provide more features and better support in a timely manner going forward. I apologize for the trouble, but feel this is the best decision for the community at large.

Demo:

http://network.zoints.com/tags

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:

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

[kompakt]

Thanks DChapman, the latest build fixed my issues with adding new tags via ajax. However, this addon does not seem to get to my vba CMPS. When I added the zoints profile it worked fine and did all the automated template edits including the navbar on cmps. With the thread tag system it is no where to be seen on cmps and I could not get a tags module working for that matter either.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by ushkand

Thanks for the great hack. Looks like this is the perfect hack for what I was looking for. I have a question - How would I add a tag automatically to a new thread link? something like this? what is the right syntax?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/newthread...wthread&f=112&tag=xxx

Also what is the syntax for searching based on a specific tag?

I apologize, i'm not quite following what you're trying to accomplish. What do you want to do and why?

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Chapman, do you work for Zoints? I've gotten e-mails from them before regarding their services, but this actually looks interesting.

Yes I do. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Originally Posted by kompakt

Thanks DChapman, the latest build fixed my issues with adding new tags via ajax. However, this addon does not seem to get to my vba CMPS. When I added the zoints profile it worked fine and did all the automated template edits including the navbar on cmps. With the thread tag system it is no where to be seen on cmps and I could not get a tags module working for that matter either.

Did you do this with your CMPS?

5. Note for vBadvanced CMPS users
============================================
In order for the automatic template edits to work, login to your admin cp, click on the
"Default Settings" link under the "vBa CMPS" section. Once there, add the following to the
"Portal Output Global Variables" setting

zointstags_searchform
zointstags_tagslink

[Hammon]

This hack is amazing!
But as I can see is not possible to search multiple tags, why? It would be great to have this possibility (ie comma separated words in search).

Adding tags to threads with char like "àèìòù" tags are incorrect added to thedatabase: (ie. "velocita" -> "velocitu00e0").
p.s. I use UTF-8 encoding

[ChrisSy]

Great hack, thanks.

Has anyone got this working with vbseo? Would be great to have the threads that are pulled by the tag search to use vbseo rewritten urls rather than the vb default.

Thanks.

Edit: Found the answer here http://network.zoints.com/showpost.p...72&postcount=2

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by Hammon

This hack is amazing!
But as I can see is not possible to search multiple tags, why? It would be great to have this possibility (ie comma separated words in search).

Adding tags to threads with char like "?????" tags are incorrect added to thedatabase: (ie. "velocita" -> "velocitu00e0").
p.s. I use UTF-8 encoding

We hope to allow for multiple tag searching in the future. And we'll have better multi language support in the next release.

[tbaleno]

Nice. I second the multiple tags search feature request.

[kafi]

Is there a way to set up different tag-systems or probably just clouds for different forums?

I see that there is already option to exclude some forums from tag system, but that will work only for one topic.
I have few topics on my board and that is why I wish to have separate cloud for each one....

Is this possible with current version or doable in future?
Thanks!!!

[Zoints]

Kafi,

I forsee that being doable in the future.

To everyone else here. There will be no future releases of the 3.5.x version of the tags system, only the 3.6.x and later revisions. AJAX support in vB 3.5.x is far too problematic to work with and slows down development time significantly. Due to most forums being on or making the transition to 3.6.x, we've decided to do this so that we can provide more features and better support in a timely manner going forward. I apologize for the trouble, but feel this is the best decision for the community at large.

[kafi]

Thanks DChampman .-)

hope you can add this feature ASAP .-) ... and you made another bit to push me into 3.6x .-)

[999s.net]

i want Zoints show on ForumHome, not CMPS. Everybody help me ?