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

[Zoints]

Your member and I think much alike

It makes sense to take tags personal.

[The Equivocate]

I'm at a loss as to where the Tags link in the navbar can be edited... the reason I need to change it is because I have to change the background of the cell because it doesn't match the rest of the header... here's my navbar:

<!-- logo -->
<a name="top"></a>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="fullheight">
<tr>
	<td height="105" style="background: url($vboptions[bburl]/images/blaze/header_background.gif)"><a href="index.php"><img border="0" src="images/blaze/logo.gif" width="300" height="105" /></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td height="31" style="background: url($vboptions[bburl]/images/blaze/navbar_background.gif)" align="center">
		<!-- nav buttons bar -->
		<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
		<tr align="center">
	<if condition="$show['member']">
			<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="usercp.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[user_cp]</a></td>
		</if>
		<if condition="$show['registerbutton']">
			<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="register.php$session[sessionurl_q]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[register]</a></td>
		</if>
		<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">$vbphrase[faq]</a></td>
		<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[members_list]</a></td>
		<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>
		<if condition="$show['popups']">		
			<if condition="$show['searchbuttons']">
				<if condition="$show['member']">
				<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a></td>
				<else />
				<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[todays_posts]</a></td>
				</if>
				<td id="navbar_search" class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="search.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="4" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[search]</a> <if condition="$show['quicksearch']"><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("navbar_search"); </script></if></td>
			</if>
			<if condition="$show['member']">
				<td id="usercptools" class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="$show[nojs_link]#usercptools">$vbphrase[quick_links]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("usercptools"); </script></td>		
			</if>
		<else />		
			<if condition="$show['searchbuttons']">
				<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="search.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="4">$vbphrase[search]</a></td>
				<if condition="$show['member']">
				<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a></td>
				<else />
				<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getdaily" accesskey="2">$vbphrase[todays_posts]</a></td>
				</if>
			</if>
			<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a></td>
			<if condition="$show['member']">			
				<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#" onclick="window.open('misc.php?$session[sessionurl]do=buddylist&amp;focus=1','buddylist','statusbar=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=250,height=300'); return false;">$vbphrase[open_buddy_list]</a></td>			
			</if>			
		</if>
		<if condition="$show['member']">
			<td class="vbmenu_control_alt"><a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout&amp;logouthash=$bbuserinfo[logouthash]" onclick="return log_out()">$vbphrase[log_out]</a></td>
		</if>
		</tr>
		</table>
		<!-- / nav buttons bar -->
	</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td height="2" style="background: url(images/blaze/under_navbar_background.gif)"><img src="images/blaze/under_navbar_background.gif" width="5" height="2" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td valign="top" class="fullheight">
<!-- /logo -->

<!-- content table -->
$spacer_open

$_phpinclude_output
<!-- CSS with support for IE -->
<style type="text/css">
 
<!--
#fixme {
     /* IE 5.0/Win and other lesser browsers will use this */
     position: absolute; right: 0px; bottom: 0px;
 
}
body > div#fixme {
     /* used by Netscape6+/Mozilla, Opera 5+, Konqueror, Safari, OmniWeb 4.5+, ICEbrowser */
     position: fixed;
}
--></style>
<!--[if gte IE 5.5]>
<![if lt IE 7]>
<style type="text/css">
div#fixme {
     /* IE5.5+/Win - this is more specific than the IE 5.0 version */
     right: auto; bottom: auto;
     left: expression( ( -0 - fixme.offsetWidth + ( document.documentElement.clientWidth ? document.documentElement.clientWidth : document.body.clientWidth ) + ( ignoreMe2 = document.documentElement.scrollLeft ? document.documentElement.scrollLeft : document.body.scrollLeft ) ) + 'px' );
     top: expression( ( +0 - fixme.offsetHeight + ( document.documentElement.clientHeight ? document.documentElement.clientHeight : document.body.clientHeight ) + ( ignoreMe = document.documentElement.scrollTop ? document.documentElement.scrollTop : document.body.scrollTop ) ) + 'px' );
}
</style>
<![endif]>
<![endif]-->
 
	<script type="text/javascript" src="js/ajax-dynamic-content.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="js/ajax.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="js/ajax-tooltip.js"></script>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/ajax-tooltip.css" media="screen" type="text/css">

There's actually TWO "Tags" links:
http://www.slamstocks.com/forum

Edit: Never mind, I just went back to the original header and added back in all the mod links...

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by The Equivocate

I'm at a loss as to where the Tags link in the navbar can be edited... the reason I need to change it is because I have to change the background of the cell because it doesn't match the rest of the header... here's my navbar:.

The readme file contains instructions for if you want to do manual template edits. You need to turn off the automatic template plugin first.

[Snake]

DChap, could you please help me out with this thread?

http://network.zoints.com/showthread.php?t=1969

I have been waiting for weeks and weeks just to get a reply. Is there any fix for this yet? Yes, I'm talking about the issues with vBSEO...

[4yBak]

Uninstalling this hack not clean. After uninstal version 1.2.1 I still have table in DB called zointstags_search. So, you need to fix your uninstall code to remove this table also

PS: waiting for new version that will be work correctly with russian/ukrainian words

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by Snake

DChap, could you please help me out with this thread?

http://network.zoints.com/showthread.php?t=1969

I have been waiting for weeks and weeks just to get a reply. Is there any fix for this yet? Yes, I'm talking about the issues with vBSEO...

The good news is that the links are rel no followed so it isn't going to hurt you.

The bad news is there isn't a whole lot we can do. We created a hook so that devs can create plugins for their software. Without a vbseo license or access to the code, we can't efficiently troubleshoot the issue.

[Snake]

Originally Posted by DChapman

The good news is that the links are rel no followed so it isn't going to hurt you.

The bad news is there isn't a whole lot we can do. We created a hook so that devs can create plugins for their software. Without a vbseo license or access to the code, we can't efficiently troubleshoot the issue.

Well, I can give you access to my files, vBSEO, FTP, etc. so you can find out the issue. How about that? If that's fine with you, then lemme know so I can send you the FTP details and all.

[Zoints]

Sure, however, we won't be able to get to it for a little while. We're releasing a big new modification soon which is keeping everyone really busy.

[Snake]

Are you talking about a new major version of THIS hack or some other mod? If that's the case, then I guess it'll have to wait until you're done with your current project. How does that sounds?

[tobybird]

Originally Posted by buro9

I've got another request

Members on my forum want a "favourite tags" option.

What they want is a place in their control panel to enter a list of tags, that then appears on the forum home as a list of shortcuts.

Essentially, every user gets their own list of virtual forums which they are interested in.

This is how it was described to me:


I'm not sure if that's the best place to surface it (if they've got a lot of favourite tags it will be cluttered) but it's certainly a great idea.

Originally Posted by DChapman

Your member and I think much alike

It makes sense to take tags personal.

I've been getting this request as well.