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:

[eh9 daddy]

To remove the session_id from the url open the functions_zseo.php in the includes directory.

Remove3 times this code:

	$extra = $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . $extra;

[Chachacha]

Hello all. I'm new to the vbulletin software and this modification looks like too much for me. I'm sure I would run into problems and get stuck. It would be great if someone could do this one for me. Please PM me if you will install this mod on my site.

[dholt]

can we use the vbseo sitemap generator with this? I searched and other have asked this but no answers as there was a File that was uploaded called sitemap and I have another file for vbseo sitemap.

These 2 products will work nicly together or do I need to remove one.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by dholt

can we use the vbseo sitemap generator with this? I searched and other have asked this but no answers as there was a File that was uploaded called sitemap and I have another file for vbseo sitemap.

These 2 products will work nicly together or do I need to remove one.

Yes.

The vbseo sitemap generator produces a Google Sitemap (now also used by Yahoo and MSN Search).

The "sitemap" feature in Zoints SEO is about using the vBulletin Archive as a sitemap.

Not the same thing at all so they don't interfere with one another.

[dholt]

Thank you

[IrPr]

Thank for this AWESOME mod

I read this thread but couldnt find any fix for Quote Backlink url
sometimes its broken
also goto first unread post above first post at left
and paging using menu and entering page numer is borken

any suggestion?

[Chachacha]

Originally Posted by Chachacha

Hello all. I'm new to the vbulletin software and this modification looks like too much for me. I'm sure I would run into problems and get stuck. It would be great if someone could do this one for me. Please PM me if you will install this mod on my site.

Actually, this modification was easier than I thought. I successfully installed it this evening. Thanks for the great mod ...but I do have a suggestion to enhance it.

I would like to see the urls for member names to change from:

http://www.yourforum.com/forum/member.php?u=2000

to:

http://www.yourforum.com/forum/sweetgirl.html

^^depending on the user's name


Or something to that effect.

[P.Jackson]

Yea that would be very good

[turkerm]

Do sb have an idea about how to change the URLs into "thread123.html" style?

Or do someone have an idea about how to 301 redirect thread123.html style URLs to zoints seo style URLs?

Thanks.

[Capt. GannA]

I had no problems whatsoever installing this and it works great with my 3.6.4 board. Great plugin.. thanks