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:

[superjeff]

Hi,

I have a bad english, but look the attachements: I's a bug?

[ahmad6]

i have problem with site map

not show thread title and post only show title category

[Capt. GannA]

Originally Posted by ehsanix

works fine on any version of vbulletin till 3.6.4 (for me because i havn't upgarde to 3.6.7 yest)
just need some editing of htaccess

I'm using it with 3.6.7 PL1 without any issues whatsoever at all.

[superjeff]

Originally Posted by nimonogi

How can i remove the session id (=b23632a198eeb23bdb0367f5ca53e9a4&) ?

Pleas help.. It's very important (all my urls in google cache have this bug).

[da420]

It's not a bug, it's the vbulletin session ID.

[Calibre_k]

Installed it on 3.6.7 it wont work i get this.. installed added htaccess, what should it be CHMOD to?

Not Found
The requested URL /chat/intros.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.file

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Calibre_k

Installed it on 3.6.7 it wont work i get this.. installed added htaccess, what should it be CHMOD to?

Not Found
The requested URL /chat/intros.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.file

Turn off mod_rewrite.

vBulletin doesn't need it. And it won't help a vBulletin forum.

[Calibre_k]

BUT I WANTED IT TO WRITE THE URLS TO website_link.html

doesnt that work?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Calibre_k

BUT I WANTED IT TO WRITE THE URLS TO website_link.html

Why? Did you buy the myth that static URLs are better in some way?

Google Facts & Fiction

Fiction: Sites are not included in Google's index if they use ASP (or some other non-html file-type.)
Fact: We're able to index most types of pages and files with very few exceptions. A sampling of the file extensions we're able to index includes: pdf, asp, jsp, html, shtml, xml, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri, swf, cfm, and php.

Google and Dynamic Pages

If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a "?" character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few.

Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page.

Update to Google and dynamic pages

As the web continues to change and evolve, our algorithms change right along with it. Recently, as a result of one of those algorithmic changes, we've modified our webmaster guidelines. Previously, these stated:

However, we've recently removed that technical guideline, and now index URLs that contain that parameter. So if your site uses a dynamic structure that generates it, don't worry about rewriting it -- we'll accept it just fine as is. Keep in mind, however, that dynamic URLs with a large number of parameters may be problematic for search engine crawlers in general, so rewriting dynamic URLs into user-friendly versions is always a good practice when that option is available to you. If you can, keeping the number of URL parameters to one or two may make it more likely that search engines will crawl your dynamic urls.

Does Google index dynamic pages?

Yes, Google indexes dynamically generated webpages, including .asp pages, .php pages, and pages with question marks in their URLs. However, these pages can cause problems for our crawler and may be ignored. If you're concerned that your dynamically generated pages are being ignored, you may want to consider creating static copies of these pages for our crawler. If you do this, please be sure to include a robots.txt file that disallows the dynamic pages in order to ensure that these pages aren't seen as having duplicate content.

vBulletin by default removes session IDs for search engine spiders.

[Calibre_k]

Looks better