Major Additions - 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:
2008/06/31 - 1.2.3
* AJAX Now Compatible with 3.7
* 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

[Mrdby]

how do i remove zoints from my database? I uninstalled and deleted files and its still showing up on my database.

[legionofangels]

An additional question:

The automatic tag generator. Obviously I can do that when i first install it.

Can I set how many tags I want it to create per post?

Secondly let's say I have Zoints go for awhile and some users missed some threads, can I hit auto create again, and have it fill in the threads that have missed tags?

Will it overwrite threads that already have tags from a previous use of the Automatic Tag Generator?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by kemalyanal

thank you very much ,

zoints theared tags 1.2.2 is problem in 3.7.x ,

Now it(1.2.3) woks in 3.7.2

Great! Glad to hear it.

Originally Posted by Mrdby

how do i remove zoints from my database? I uninstalled and deleted files and its still showing up on my database.

By showing up on your database, what do you mean? If you removed the files and followed the uninstallation process, Thread Tags should be removed. If you are getting errors, that means that Google and other engines are looking for pages that no longer exist. But it really depends on what the error is, so please open up a support ticket to share it so we can sort it out for you.

Originally Posted by legionofangels

An additional question:

The automatic tag generator. Obviously I can do that when i first install it.

Can I set how many tags I want it to create per post?

Secondly let's say I have Zoints go for awhile and some users missed some threads, can I hit auto create again, and have it fill in the threads that have missed tags?

Will it overwrite threads that already have tags from a previous use of the Automatic Tag Generator?

With the automatic tagger there is no option that will allow you to set how many to do automatically per post, but I believe it does follow the general maximum rule set for tags per thread.

Yes it can. As for overwriting, it should maintain those same tags unless the threads have been moved or edited, or you change your stopwords. By and large though, if the content is the same and the rules are the same, the tags should stay that way as well.

- Reid

[SBlueman]

It's been over a year since I started looking for answers on this on this site and Zoints support forum and I still can't find any answers. Can anyone help?

I am looking to accomplish the following:

1. Have RSS feeds for topic tags. I know of a similar modification that has RSS feeds for topic tag searches. (Boardtracker Advanced Topic Tags)

2. Display the correct post icon in the tag search results page (example: http://gridironfans.com/forums/tags/index.php/49ers/)

[jpbryan]

O.K., I got it installed, but I cannot find the button to "Auto-generate" tags for existing threads and post.

Where do I find that button..?

Thanks for any and all help.

[realmr]

Is it possible to close the feature for few usergroups ?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

this was great for SEO, but is it still relevant with vb tags?

are ppl use this in LIEU of vb tags or with it? I'd love to be able to...but hard to justify doubling up the same feature.

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by jpbryan

O.K., I got it installed, but I cannot find the button to "Auto-generate" tags for existing threads and post.

Where do I find that button..?

Thanks for any and all help.

Hello jp,

On your sidebar in the vB Admin CP you should see an entry labeled "Zoints Thread Tags." From there you should see "Zoints Tag Manager" and on that link you should find the auto-generate option.

Originally Posted by realmr

Is it possible to close the feature for few usergroups ?

Hi realmr,

Currently with this version it is not, but we do have a beta version that has been out for some time which does do it. But I am not for sure if it works with a 3.7x forum, the product itself. If you are interested though, shoot me a PM (I use it on my live 3.68 forum.)

Originally Posted by GrendelKhan{TSU

this was great for SEO, but is it still relevant with vb tags?

are ppl use this in LIEU of vb tags or with it? I'd love to be able to...but hard to justify doubling up the same feature.

Hi Grendel,

Most people either continue using the Zoints Thread Tags or opt to use the default once upgrading to 3.7x. For SEO, many continue to use Zoints Thread Tags and some continue to use it for the different features it has. As a site owner and not someone who works with Zoints, I'd advise to just use one solution as that would provide the greatest usability (and least confusion) to your users.

- Reid

[jpbryan]

Found the option. I appreciate your tolerance with a NEWBIE!

One last question, I tried to generate the tags, but none were added. Then I deleted all of the "stop" words, tried again. Still no tags were added. Is there something I am not doing?

Again, thank you for your time.

jp

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by jpbryan

Found the option. I appreciate your tolerance with a NEWBIE!

One last question, I tried to generate the tags, but none were added. Then I deleted all of the "stop" words, tried again. Still no tags were added. Is there something I am not doing?

Again, thank you for your time.

jp

That's strange. All it normally takes to generate the tags is a simple click of the mouse. Open up a ticket with us jp so we can try it out for ourselves. Just provide us with a temporary admin account.

http://zoints.com/support.z

Thanks.

- Reid