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:

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Calibre_k

Looks better

To each his own... It just looks amateurish and gullible to me.

[superjeff]

Originally Posted by da420

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

How can i remove it?

[superjeff]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

vBulletin by default removes session IDs for search engine spiders.

Tanks

[tsirung]

Installed, fatal error, had to re-install vbulletin...

[ahmad6]

please help me site map not work for me

[IMPAQ]

Fantastic product.

I guess my only beef, as with many modifications and skins here, please put the link in your copyright to open in a new window.

Otherwise, simply superb.

[jawatkin]

Originally Posted by jawatkin

He's right, I'm on 3.6.5, actually and it's working fine on Apache. I just really would love some insight on making this work with lighttpd. The rewrite rules just "almost" get there for lighttpd, and I've got mod_magnet installed, just don't know anything about using LUA for rewrites. Anyone got anything for me? I'm thinking about lighttpd serving all static content and forwarding any PHP/HTML requests to an apache back end, but I'm getting lag on certain web apps that I use (and others are fine). They work fine with just lighttpd, but I can't get the rewrites to work!

For those wondering, I finally gave up on lighttpd's poor rewrite rules and mod_magnet+lua. I am running lighttpd up front to serve static content, with an apache 2.2 back end and it's really cut down on RAM usage (I tested with 250 concurrent and the new setup uses about 220MB of RAM under the load, and only spawns 11-12 httpd's, while a full apache2 setup uses about 320-330MB of RAM and spawns 25-30 httpd's!!)

Thanks for this mod...

[Fireproof]

Okay, apparently there's a known issue with the archive with Zoints SEO on v3.6.7. (Note, I don't know if this problem goes away with "rewrite" enabled, because I am NOT using rewrites).

But here's the problem, which I've seen others report. Unfortunately, I'm no programmer so don't even know where to begin to track down the source of the problem or how to fix it. If anybody has any clues or can help, let me know.

If I enable "Use archive as a Sitemap" - the archive works fine, but eventually links the threads to the original threads (rather than the simple view of the thread per my setting in vb options).

If I disable "use archive as a sitemap" - then it breaks - the threads link to 404 errors.

I have noticed this, though...

In the second scenario above, when it's broken, my links to the archive are currently showing as this:

http://www.clutchfitness.com/forums/archive/t-3258.html

Note- they are missing an "index.php?" in there, - they should be showing like THIS:

http://www.clutchfitness.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-3258.html

If I manually input that into the address in the right spot, it works fine.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Fireproof

Okay, apparently there's a known issue with the archive with Zoints SEO on v3.6.7. (Note, I don't know if this problem goes away with "rewrite" enabled, because I am NOT using rewrites).

But here's the problem, which I've seen others report. Unfortunately, I'm no programmer so don't even know where to begin to track down the source of the problem or how to fix it. If anybody has any clues or can help, let me know.

If I enable "Use archive as a Sitemap" - the archive works fine, but eventually links the threads to the original threads (rather than the simple view of the thread per my setting in vb options).

This is actually the best behavior from an SEO standpoint since it avoids "duplicate content". I have it set that way intentionally.

[Fireproof]

Oh - well there you go.