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

[passwords]

wonderfulll!!
Is it possible to show the tags in other caracters ? " arabic , chinise , japan etc.."

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by 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.

Hi kall,

I am going to link over our engineers to that again as a reminder. I actually never knew of that problem and I can see why it would be so troublesome. When the guys start working on Thread Tags again, I'll try my best to see if they can resolve it (and if they can not, then why they can't.)

Originally Posted by passwords

wonderfulll!!
Is it possible to show the tags in other caracters ? " arabic , chinise , japan etc.."

Have you tried using the character replacement function in the options for Thread Tags? That is for replacements, not just adding new sets of characters so I don't know if it's really possible to do it for several languages (at least with using a standard, un-modified version.)

- Reid

[AHMUDEM]

tags font size to smooth



zointstags_forumdisplay_tagbit templates edit

<if condition="!$firsttag">, </if><a href="$tagsurl/$zointstag_link/" rel="tag"><font size="1">$tag</font></a><if condition="$show['zointstags_delete']"><font size="1"> [</font><a href="tags/?do=delete&amp;tag=$zointstag_link" title="$vbphrase[delete]"><font size="1">X</font></a><font size="1">]</font></if>

[perfphysio]

Great idea this. I am still waiting for two things to be answered or developed:
1. An option in admin to permit tagging only but usergroup e.g. just for admins and moderators as I spend hours removing useless tags that make no sense and devalue the mod.

2. When an admin deletes a tag they are always taken back to the tag cloud rather than the topic are they were cleaning up. This is particularly annoying. How to we make it redirect after confirming the deletion to the page you were on when you removed it rather than the tag cloud

Many thanks

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by perfphysio

Great idea this. I am still waiting for two things to be answered or developed:
1. An option in admin to permit tagging only but usergroup e.g. just for admins and moderators as I spend hours removing useless tags that make no sense and devalue the mod.

2. When an admin deletes a tag they are always taken back to the tag cloud rather than the topic are they were cleaning up. This is particularly annoying. How to we make it redirect after confirming the deletion to the page you were on when you removed it rather than the tag cloud

Many thanks

Hey perf,

We actually do have that feature in a planned release, the ability to control by usergroup who can add tags as we certainly understand several admins had the same concern as you do. As for your problem, is this when you're trying to delete a tag via the tag box on show thread? If so, it should be an AJAX like delete.

And thanks for the compliments on the mod, we love to hear them.

- Reid

[perfphysio]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

As for your problem, is this when you're trying to delete a tag via the tag box on show thread?

Yes this is correct. Any ideas how to make this work the way I wish it to?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Would you mind opening up a ticket on network.zoints.com with a link to your forums and an admin account so I can try it for myself? This will help me out in sorting what the problem could be.

Thanks perfphysio.

[perfphysio]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Would you mind opening up a ticket on network.zoints.com with a link to your forums and an admin account so I can try it for myself? This will help me out in sorting what the problem could be.

Thanks perfphysio.

Which section do I post this in that is private for any username I provide etc. Can you post a link to the area as I am logged in on zoints but not sure where to post

[Strike3ForumsMH]

<a href="http://zoints.com/support.z" target="_blank">http://zoints.com/support.z</a>

Just be logged in with your Zoints.com account.

- Reid

[kall]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Hi kall,

I am going to link over our engineers to that again as a reminder. I actually never knew of that problem and I can see why it would be so troublesome. When the guys start working on Thread Tags again, I'll try my best to see if they can resolve it (and if they can not, then why they can't.)

Good to hear, thank you.

My feeling is that it has something to do with the base href being used.