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

[yahoooh]

dose not work with arabic font
charset :windows1256 and database @latin_swedish_ci

tags like idea that have been used in https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=119041
works great

so we need to fix this error and thanks

[yoyoyoyo]

many thnaks - works as advertised - excellent addition - should be standard in vb

[yoyoyoyo]

one suggestion for a future update/release - it would be nice to have an option where the zoints tag plugin would automatically add keywords to posts where people don't bother to add tags themselves. I hate having to force posters to fill in another text field if they don't want to (or know how). Maybe a cron job could go through and add tags to posts every so often if it can't be done immediately upon submitting the post.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by yoyoyoyo

one suggestion for a future update/release - it would be nice to have an option where the zoints tag plugin would automatically add keywords to posts where people don't bother to add tags themselves. I hate having to force posters to fill in another text field if they don't want to (or know how). Maybe a cron job could go through and add tags to posts every so often if it can't be done immediately upon submitting the post.

Go to http://network.zoints.com/ to make suggestions for new features. I don't think the new owner hangs out here much.

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Go to http://network.zoints.com/ to make suggestions for new features. I don't think the new owner hangs out here much.

thanks - I was just doing that

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by home9000

Is it support Arabic ُُEncoding ?
I try it but without success

I really can't attest to whether it works with Arabic characters or not, but I am assuming you tried using the character replacements only to have it not work?

Let me know home9000.

Originally Posted by fSpeeD

how can i use this hack for v 3 5 4 ?

Hi there fSpeeD,

We do have a 3.5x version located here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=127820

Originally Posted by yahoooh

dose not work with arabic font
charset :windows1256 and database @latin_swedish_ci

tags like idea that have been used in https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=119041
works great

so we need to fix this error and thanks

If you have the system still installed (but disabled) you might want to open up a ticket at network.zoints.com to let one of the engineers poke around. I really can't say why it wouldn't work, but as none of the staff members have a forum in Arabic, it could help them locate the problem more easily.

Originally Posted by yoyoyoyo

one suggestion for a future update/release - it would be nice to have an option where the zoints tag plugin would automatically add keywords to posts where people don't bother to add tags themselves. I hate having to force posters to fill in another text field if they don't want to (or know how). Maybe a cron job could go through and add tags to posts every so often if it can't be done immediately upon submitting the post.

Have you looked into the automatic tag generation for threads that have not yet been tagged? I know it's not really automatic after the post, but it might be a viable solution. If I mis-interpreted what you said, please let me know.

Originally Posted by djbaxter

Go to http://network.zoints.com/ to make suggestions for new features. I don't think the new owner hangs out here much.

Either here or there is absolutely fine. I do try my best to make sure all of your guys suggestions make their way over there, but if it's an expansive idea you could get more communication from more than myself over at network.zoints.com

And my apologies about the delay in response everyone, it's been a busy past few weeks.

- Reid

[yoyoyoyo]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Have you looked into the automatic tag generation for threads that have not yet been tagged? I know it's not really automatic after the post, but it might be a viable solution. If I mis-interpreted what you said, please let me know.

yes, I am aware of that feature - the code is already there, so it would be nice to see it automated somehow.

[yahoooh]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

If you have the system still installed (but disabled) you might want to open up a ticket at network.zoints.com to let one of the engineers poke around. I really can't say why it wouldn't work, but as none of the staff members have a forum in Arabic, it could help them locate the problem more easily.

already posted there
http://network.zoints.com/showpost.p...43&postcount=4

if u can plz fix because the idea of tags works great in ldm
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=119041

[principino1984]

great!!! i didn't know about this hack!!!

It's awesome!!!
thansk for sharing!!!

Marco

edit. installed and nominated!

[kall]

Any idea when an updated version will be released that DOESN'T result in URLs without a trailing slash getting 404 errors/redirected to forumhome?

It's almost a year since I reported it here: http://network.zoints.com/showthread...ighlight=slash and I still receive many hundred erros in my cPanel log every day.