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:

[Smiry Kin's]

very nice product you have here.

I'm already using a vbulletin seo product, but if i wasnt already using that, i would deffo use this,

/me installs for future ref.

[projectego]

I had completely forgotten about this hack until recently. I'll be installing this when I launch my new Mass Effect Forum - I can't wait. Great product.

[Capt. GannA]

I've suddenly started getting the "No Input File specified" error. Everything was working just fine before :/

This is how my .htaccess file looks like :

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php/$2 [QSA,L]

[PeteBlume]

Hello,

I have the following problem. I'm using a german vbulletin. Is there any possibility to replace ?,?,? maybe in ae, ue, oe or otherwise in ä ü ö?

Another Problem ist Characters like .; etc. For example I have the forum '1. Fachsemester'. The replaced URL is http://www.medforum-dresden.de/forum...-und-2-63.html
Is there any possibility to replace this characters with '_'?

Please help.

[Leecher24]

Hallo

I have at the moment the Domain xxxyyyz.BiZ with Zoints seo. And next week I will change my Board to the Domain xxxyyyz.to

What I must put in the .htacces that all links from the .biz domain (otherwebspace or redirection to .to domain).

That all links that are listed in google redirect to right thread.

Greetz L24

[Tact7626]

ok. feel free to laugh at me if you like. (i don't mind)

i've read like nearly (by nearly i mean like the first 10 and last 10 pages) of the entire thread.

and...i'm being forced to research this because i think maybe possibly i need this. O_o but i just wanna clarify the purpose of an SEO in general using super lamens terms. if someone can confirm my basice "idea" of what this is for, then i can go on ahead and continue researching a bit more in depth.


here i go.

is the whole idea to an seo the idea that you sort of "individualize" specific forum THREADS to kinda be stand-alone "mini-sites" each with their own little meta tag/description and POSSIBLY (though highly debabtle and generally not recommended) to even have a simpler url?

because if that's the whole point then i PERSONALLY find this ...somewhat interesting. like..not amazing, yet not useless either.


the whole decay thread thing seems useless though. maybe someone could explain that a bit more. um, the custom welcome headers for diffrent threads seems useless too. i mean.. i guess it's like if your thinking "every little teeny bit helps" for increasing registrations i GUESS you might appreciate that. O-o

but i find it odd that the only saving point (i think) is the meta tags and yet the thread starter himself is all like "they're deprecated who on earth uses them blah blah" so then if they were really that "useless" what's left? the mod_rewrite? lol

so um..yah. if anything. perhaps my forum is still just way to small for it but i really don't know.


would it be correct for me to say that another major "selling" point to this is getting as much of your site out there in searches? is that it? cause i can't understand how this thing does that better than me not having this installed at all. is it helping my forum show up more, or simply increasing the CHANCES it'll show up more? or increasing the POSSIBLITY of having chance at it showing up more? O_o

yah i'm lost i think. lol

[feroxltd]

I just received a report from a forum member of mine that after I installed this SEO he was not able to edit his post in Opera. Is this a known bug?

[sahinsivar]

i think on 3.6.7PL1 is working.....

3.Rewrite URLs and insert keywords, using mod_rewrite

http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com/forum/showt...ewpost&t=80633

proplem = HTTP 404


my .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://xxxxxxxxxxx.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://xxxxxxxxxxx.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.xxxxxxxxx.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*.(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ forumdisplay.php?$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_\-]*.(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$ showthread.php?$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index\.php|\.css) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ $1/index.php?$2 [QSA,L]

[IrPr]

Originally Posted by jawatkin

Has anyone successfully implemented this running lighttpd? I'm trying to swap over to lighttpd, and I've got the mod_rewrite running and put the rewrite rules in and nearly everything works, except when you click the "Arrow" on a forumdisplay that takes you directly to a certain post in the format :

http://www.url.com/forum/showthread.php?p=12345#post12345

This URL is rewritten as :

http://www.url.com/forum/thread-title-t123.html?p=12345#post12345

Apache can handle that, lighttpd gives a 404. Here's the rewrite rules I have in place for lighttpd. Anyone help?

url.rewrite = ( "^/forum/([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$" => "/forum/forumdisplay.php/$1", "^/forum/([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html)$" => "/forum/showthread.php/$1" )

Try this one

url.rewrite = ( "^/([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html(.*))$" =>
"forumdisplay.php/$1", "^/([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html(.*))$"
=> "showthread.php/$1" )

Add (.*) after any .html and make sure that ur pattern starting rule ( i mean ^/ ) matches ur forum path

[brattanek]

Hi all links work fine, but not when i login to forums with password, or in sitemap i get error 404.

my rules in lighttpd.conf

url.rewrite = (
      "(?i)^/([a-z0-9_\-]*-(f|all)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html).*$" => "/forumdisplay.php",
        "(?i)^/([a-z0-9_\-]*-(t|p)[0-9]+(p[0-9]+|/index[0-9]*)?\.html).*$" => "/showthread.php",
        "(?i)^/(archive|sitemap)/(.*)$ " => "/$1/index.php/$2",

How make this rewrite rules better ?