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

[djbaxter]

Dumb question perhaps but worth asking... have you checked to see if you even have a /tags directory? or whether you uploaded zointstags.js correctly to that directory?

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[The Librarian]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Dumb question perhaps but worth asking... have you checked to see if you even have a /tags directory? or whether you uploaded zointstags.js correctly to that directory?

Not a dumb question, I'm the dumb one. That was it. In my defense I'll say that was the first mod I ever installed...and everything else was there. I don't know how I skipped that.

Thank you! That stopped the error messages.

Furthermore, now that I know what to look for, I'll know how to fix future error messages. I confess that I'd never looked at the error log before....let me blush again. I'm learning.

[arena]

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[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by arena

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So everything is now corrected with this problem arena? If not, let me know and I'll help.

Originally Posted by The Librarian

Not a dumb question, I'm the dumb one. That was it. In my defense I'll say that was the first mod I ever installed...and everything else was there. I don't know how I skipped that.

Thank you! That stopped the error messages.

Furthermore, now that I know what to look for, I'll know how to fix future error messages. I confess that I'd never looked at the error log before....let me blush again. I'm learning.

Trust me, EVERYONE from the most skilled to the new guys like yourself can make those types of oversight, so don't sweat it.

Thanks djbaxter for helping out The Librarian.

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Login to your vBulletin Admin CP, click vB Options, click Zoints Thread Tag Options and input the replacements (in the format described) at Character Replacements.

- Reid

[coberr]

Very nice mod,

I have a question..

Look at pic..


And there where "Tema" is it possible to make to see from which Forum it is.

Thanks

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Hi Coberr,

I am sure that is possible, but it would require coding on your end as it's not an option you can simply flick on or off.

- Reid

[coberr]

I am prepare to wait if Zoints make it,
If not, I would ask someone to help me with it.

EDIT: Is it possible to make that the Zoints Thread Tags mod automaticlly reaches for tags in threads, so I don't need to Automaticlly reaches for threads in AdminCP.

Thanks

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by coberr

I am prepare to wait if Zoints make it,
If not, I would ask someone to help me with it.

EDIT: Is it possible to make that the Zoints Thread Tags mod automaticlly reaches for tags in threads, so I don't need to Automaticlly reaches for threads in AdminCP.

Thanks

With the first part of your post, I can't guarantee it would be done in the future, but I will suggest it to the engineers for them to consider.

And with the second part, are you talking about the auto-generated tags? It could be done like you described perhaps, but it would probably add queries and thus slowdown for each time a thread is posted (as well as a lot of coding on your part I would imagine.) Really the goal of the current setup is to tag threads prior to Synergy and hope that it is a system used by yourself and your members enough where tagging threads in that manner isn't needed, as of course the ones created by the members are much more relevant.

- Reid

[coberr]

Hm, I thought if it is possible to add tags automaticlly when thread is posted or to check for all new threads every 1h and add tags automaticlly.

I think that second thing can be done.