Major Additions - Zoints SEO

********Please do not use this modification unless you are VERY well educated on SEO and forum modification********

Zoints is a company that believes that forums are the killer application of the internet. We want to empower forum owners to take their community to the next level. Therefore, Zoints has been developing an extremely powerful vBulletin forum SEO and revenue enhancing solution for more than two years now. However, because we are focusing on our Forum Network and Thread Tagging System, we have decided to release this SEO solution to the vBulletin community under the lgpl license. Zoints SEO is now open source and NOT supported by us. We hope that the vBulletin dev community comes together to take this already powerful solution and make it even better. Empower yourselves

Zoints SEO can be discussed here or http://network.zoints.com (again, we will not be providing official support).


Known bugs

1. If a user disables cookies, infinite redirect loop.
2. index2, index3 pagination breaks some things. Standard p2, p3 works fine.


Zoints SEO is currently incompatible with: POSSIBLE FIX. PLEASE TRY THIS AND REPORT BACK. THANK YOU!
1. Incompatibility with vBA Gallery link.
2. Incompatibility with vBA Links
3. Improper linking from vBA CMPS Recent threads
4. Google Maps
[s]5. Non english characters[/s] - Character replacement is now available.


Without further ado:

[lovelypk]

Will this work for 3.6.4??

[da420]

Originally Posted by lovelypk

Will this work for 3.6.4??

Yes, it does.

[project-Buckfas]

I'm looking forward to this!

Originally Posted by LocutusofBorg

we at DaemonTools forum decided to use Zoints SEO, too (at least partially, as
some of the code is not working like we want it and already replaced )

However, we try to iron out now the bugs, then we will forward our modifications
to DChapman for consideration and release of course -

Personally, I think DChapman is right. We have a fine piece of software here,
now it's up to us all to improve the code until such products like vBSEO are not
a MUST anymore and everyone CAN chose. vBSEO seems to be a fine product,
however, there has to be a free alternative for those that doesnt fit in their AUP
or can't afford the money. And last, opensource is not a must, but preferrable.

[s25]

That sounds great I love this mod so much! It is working flawlessly for me at the moment pity the seo does not move across to vbPortal, Any ideas on how to make it work in that as well?

[quadinfotech]

Installed the hack on my test board and can now see the options on the panel,
several template modifications where not done even though the board is completely clean and just installed prior to installation of this hack, so I went ahead and did the mods manually,

added the included .htaccess file to the forum directory (/testforum/)
when I set the "Rewrite URLs" option to "Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, using mod_rewrite", clicking on any forum or thread gives me a blank page with this line on top left corner "No input file specified."
the other "Rewrite URLs and insert keywords" works fine.

need directions on how to go about fixing it,
Thank you

edit: also would like to know how one can tell that this is actually working?
I'm talking about SEO part?being more visible to search engines?
also what's the difference between "Rewrite URLs" and "mod_rewrite"?

[rogersnm]

Option 1 is forumdisplay.php/i-love-you-f111 - more or less xD
option 2 is i-love-you-f111.html

As for fixing it if it's not working are you sure your server allows mod_rewrite?

[quadinfotech]

Originally Posted by rogersnm

Option 1 is forumdisplay.php/i-love-you-f111 - more or less xD
option 2 is i-love-you-f111.html

As for fixing it if it's not working are you sure your server allows mod_rewrite?

thanx for the response, option two surely looks better, not sure if it necessarily works better or not as it is in fact shorter,

I was under the impression that adding the .htaccess would enable "mod_rewrite" at server, if not I suppose I need to contact them and have them enable it if at all possible.

[rogersnm]

Adding the htaccess file just means your trying to use mod_rewrite not actually installing it.

[Cloudrunner]

If you disable the rewrite of urls completely and use the standard vb navigation all is fine.

If you turn on the rewrite or the zoints nav in the archive, then the system hiccups and won't link properly, it just reloads the page.

That said, I've turned off the rewriting of the URLs since the big SEs are now able to spider dynamic urls anyways, and have turned off the zoints navigation in the archive. I did allow for the archive to be renamed however, and that is working as expected.

I don't know if anyone is working on this problem, but I cannot expect the zoints team to do it since they released it to us to finish up.

Any thoughts?

[quadinfotech]

Originally Posted by rogersnm

Adding the htaccess file just means your trying to use mod_rewrite not actually installing it.

got it, I'll contact the host and ask them to enable this option,
hopefully they'll know what it is,lol
thanx for ur help.