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:

[alexgeek]

Seriously I really need help with this.
This is destroying my SEO.
I've been trying to write my own htaccess to get this to work but I can't.
What are everyone's settings for archive page navigation and all other options for archives?
Please!!

I'll even take a way to disable rewrites on the archive!

[bklynjava]

Has anyone tried with vb3.6.8?

[djbaxter]

1. Don't use mod_rewrite. You don't need it. It puts an extra load on your server and provides no SEO benefits whatsoever.

2. Don't use the archive as a sitemap. Set it so that the links in the archive lead back to the original posts.

3. It works fine on 3.6.8.

[bklynjava]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

1. Don't use mod_rewrite. You don't need it. It puts an extra load on your server and provides no SEO benefits whatsoever.

2. Don't use the archive as a sitemap. Set it so that the links in the archive lead back to the original posts.

3. It works fine on 3.6.8.

Thanks for the info.

I keep getting the infamous ---> "No input file specified"

I read a few posts that say Godaddy is the problem, is there a solution to this?

[Marc.F]

I have a problem that when I try to log in at the index, it doesn't recogise it although when i click on a link to another area, It does. This must be a problem with this tool or vBulletin 3.6.8. Also, the archive doesn't work: http://www.webtutorialz.com/forum/archive/index.php.

[alexgeek]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

1. Don't use mod_rewrite. You don't need it. It puts an extra load on your server and provides no SEO benefits whatsoever.

2. Don't use the archive as a sitemap. Set it so that the links in the archive lead back to the original posts.

I need to use mod_rewrite for SEO don't I?

How can I set it so that the links lead back to the original posts? Will this fix the archive links not working? :S

[jbekas]

vBulletin 3.6.8 (patch 2)
Zoints SEO 2.2.2

It sounds like others are having the same problem as me:
1) Cannot get rid of index.php with or without mod_rewrite
2) Archive/sitemap gives "No input file specified" if you just hit /archive/ or /sitemap/
3) If you go to /archive/index.php or /sitemap/index.php you get the main forum list, but the links just regenerate the same page.

Anyone making progress on this?

I'd love to help fix it, but I just installed everything and have never seen it working properly. Not sure where/when the problem was introduced.

[mattonline]

Having trouble on this one a little, i had it installed before worked fine

but i reinstalled my forum and cleaned the sql out a bit and not im getting an error, which is attached...

[iettafune]

this mod doesn't created XML page for google sitemap??

[djbaxter]

No it doesn't.