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

[innosonic]

1) (post 390 in this thread) is nearly already included in the current version.
I should have tried to use more than one page as optional setting . ;-)
Even 2) seems less important since I use more than one page in the zoints tags options.

I love that mod even though my users have started to click onto the tags like crazy cats. :-)
And as it seems googlebot is doing the same. :-)

Did I find a mini bug ?
Maximum Tags Per Thread: 15
But I can add 16 (and not more.)

Is 3) (post #390) possible ?

[efil]

Originally Posted by DChapman

We're working on a new build and I thought I would share a screenshot for those of you who were having issues with special characters. We still have a lot of work to do, but are making progress:

Did you try the hebrew lang?

[StarBuG]

It seems that there is another bug.

The tag length is set to 30 characters per tag but I get the message when I enter a tag with 21 characters.
This should be fixed.

[Make Money?]

My moderators are reporting no tag window visible with
Safari version 2.0.4 (419.3)

[rwilkins108]

I've got vB 3.6.4 as well as PhotoPost and vBlogetin. Is there a way to tie the tagging into those systems as well, PhotoPost has it's keywords which would be the same things as tags and vBlogetin (still in beta) will have tags, but I want the Zoints Tag search to return tags from all the features of my board.

Thanks!
Ron

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by innosonic

Is 3) (post #390) possible ?

Check the screenshot above that I posted.

Originally Posted by Make Money?

My moderators are reporting no tag window visible with
Safari version 2.0.4 (419.3)

We build for IE 6+, Opera 9+, and FF 1+

If our mods work in other browsers, great. If not, it's not something we support. There are just too many flavors of browsers out there these days and we have to already fight IE stupidity for hours at a time.

Originally Posted by rwilkins108

I've got vB 3.6.4 as well as PhotoPost and vBlogetin. Is there a way to tie the tagging into those systems as well, PhotoPost has it's keywords which would be the same things as tags and vBlogetin (still in beta) will have tags, but I want the Zoints Tag search to return tags from all the features of my board.

While I'm sure having the search return results for all areas is possible, it's not something we can support at this time. We don't even have copies of either piece of software. Sorry.

Originally Posted by StarBuG

It seems that there is another bug.

The tag length is set to 30 characters per tag but I get the message when I enter a tag with 21 characters.
This should be fixed.

Thanks for reporting this. I'm not bothered as I'm sure it's just a cultural or language difference, but I thought I would let you know for future interactions that stating "This should be fixed" would annoy many in the USA. Stating the obvious is never well received in our country.

[Zoints]

I wanted to bring attention to http://zoints.com -- as you can see the popular tag cloud now shows on the right side of our homepage. What does this mean for you if you choose to send your tagged threads to Zoints (this is entirely optional)?

1. Highly relevant, deep, inbound links to your forum threads.

2. As we now link via our front page, the PR of tag pages will no doubt increase nicely.

3. As we now link via our front page, you can expect even more traffic from Zoints.

Should be fun!

We're working hard on the new tag build. While we don't have a specific ETA, it is coming

[caliman]

This mod rules. The only burp I had was the navbar edit which I had to add manually. THANK YOU for your hard work.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by DChapman

... as you can see the popular tag cloud now shows on the right side of our homepage. ...

:banana:

Excellent, excellent.

[s25]

I love this mod so much.

Just some things I think would be great for the new version is:

Originally Posted by Floris

It would perhaps be nicer if this was automated, that the user doesn't have to enter any keywords each time they create a thread. But that the tags plugin actually generates these based on words from the thread title, first post, and with lower relevance the post replies to the thread.

and also an option to tag other pages of sites?But i donot know how you would go about this!

Thanks man this is one of my favourite mods I will submit it for motm