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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

johnstires · #**402** 12-07-2006, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DChapman

Can you elaborate on what you mean please? Thank you

Having the tag cloud in the search menu would be nice as it consolidates search options.

Other things that would be helpful:

Instead of a tag cloud have a multi-choice check box search. I am using a restricted set of keywords for tags so that information is properly organized. With a multi-choice is allows people to search for more than one tag thus narrowing searches.

Also restricting the tag cloud and tag addition to certain usergroups.

Allowing capitals in tags. (ie "Zoints" instead of "zoints")

caliman · #**403** 12-07-2006, 06:19 PM

Is there a way to put the cloud on a non-vb php page?

Zoints · #**404** 12-08-2006, 12:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by caliman

Is there a way to put the cloud on a non-vb php page?

Not at this time, sorry.

Capper5016 · #**405** 12-08-2006, 03:38 AM

I;m getting the two following errors in my error log

File does not exist: /home/******/public_html/forums/tags/cron.php
File does not exist: /home/******/public_html/forums/tags/power/cron.php

any idea whats causing this? I don't see those file in the upload folder, nor any reference to them in the install text

caliman · #**406** 12-08-2006, 05:21 AM

Quote:
Originally Posted by caliman View Post
Is there a way to put the cloud on a non-vb php page?
Not at this time, sorry.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DChapman

Not at this time, sorry.

Please give it some thought.
I'll see if I can pull it off.

serhat_kk · #**407** 12-08-2006, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by serhat_kk

First of all thanks for this great work!

I have the same trouble with kingpin6. VBseo runnin at my site... And im getting blank white page when i enable zoints thread tags... How do i fix it?

thanks...

bump!

Snake · #**408** 12-08-2006, 05:42 PM

Thank you for this!

Zoints · #**409** 12-08-2006, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by caliman

Is there a way to put the cloud on a non-vb php page?

Can you link me to an example of a page you want the cloud on? Thanks!

Zoints · #**410** 12-08-2006, 11:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by serhat_kk

First of all thanks for this great work!

I have the same trouble with kingpin6. VBseo runnin at my site... And im getting blank white page when i enable zoints thread tags... How do i fix it?

thanks...

Other people who are having this issue, please answer too:

1. The tag pages are white? Or all pages on your site?

2. Which rewrite option are you using in the tag options?

3. If you're using mod_rewrite, did you add our .htaccess to the /tags/ folder?

4. What version of vbseo are you using?

tansu · #**411** 12-09-2006, 03:17 PM

Hi,
I have noticed that my tags are not indexing in google, than ı noticed that my url's are strange:

Code:

http://doctus.net//tags/index.php?tag=/antispyware/

How can I fix this "//" issue

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