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Zoints Thread Tags - GREAT for SEO
Version: 1.2.2, by Zoints Zoints is offline
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Category: Integration with vBulletin - Version: 3.6.x Rating:
Released: 09-21-2006 Last Update: 06-15-2008 Installs: 494
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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




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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

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  #712  
Old 10-18-2007, 10:49 AM
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If a fix is developed, I will make sure to post it here yahoooh. We understand the difficulty of that problem and why it's important to fix, it's just a matter of fitting it in amongst all the work we have.
Like I said over at Zoints, this is a great hack hindered by a total lack of vision. You claim to provide "networking solutions" but can't support other languages/characters and keep putting people off. At Zoints your staff has made it very clear that this is just not a priority which is the same as "we don't care". I've given up on this mod. :down:
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Old 10-21-2007, 12:49 PM
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that is excellent product but i have a small question .

How can we make a cron that auto generate tags which forums didn't have tags .

Any Scheduled Tasks for this?

My settings is, Require tags for new threads is NO
so mostly, thread dont have tags and i want make them auto with a Scheduled Tasks
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Old 10-21-2007, 09:02 PM
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Like I said over at Zoints, this is a great hack hindered by a total lack of vision. You claim to provide "networking solutions" but can't support other languages/characters and keep putting people off. At Zoints your staff has made it very clear that this is just not a priority which is the same as "we don't care". I've given up on this mod. :down:
Ive seen this many times, a good VB hack/mod will come out, then sooner or later it is dropped like a rock, zoints is still runing VB 3.5 so you know this has already gone down the crapper...most of the time it has something to do with not making any money.

one thing about VB hacks/mods, I think they are the shortest lived scipts ever...
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Old 10-21-2007, 11:29 PM
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that is excellent product but i have a small question .

How can we make a cron that auto generate tags which forums didn't have tags .

Any Scheduled Tasks for this?

My settings is, Require tags for new threads is NO
so mostly, thread dont have tags and i want make them auto with a Scheduled Tasks
I really couldn't tell you how to do that, it's a bit out of my forte, but I would suggest heading over to network.zoints.com and see if an engineer or someone else with that knowledge can't help you out if possible.

I hope you find what you need.

- Reid

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Ive seen this many times, a good VB hack/mod will come out, then sooner or later it is dropped like a rock, zoints is still runing VB 3.5 so you know this has already gone down the crapper...most of the time it has something to do with not making any money.

one thing about VB hacks/mods, I think they are the shortest lived scipts ever...
I hate to break it to you, but you're wrong here. Considering we just put out a release for Zoints Local (working on the feature laden one) and have an active support team that supports all of our products.... we are far from dead. Some have a problem if we can't solve a problem that plagues them and takes almost a personal offense to it, but Zoints Thread Tags is a product that works great for many communities and one we plan to continue to improve on for the future. It's no secret that we had a period of transition that was hard to bounce back from, but we pride ourselves on being honest and providing the best support we can. Dennis doesn't believe that we care about his issue, even though we have discussed the issue extensively in private, we just happen to not work at the pace he demands of. But if we could work faster and magically solve all issues, we certainly would as we understand the problems with modifications not being supported or developed any longer and we know how much we would personally like that from other developers.

Besides, I wouldn't be responding to you this quickly if this was a dead and forgotten issue.

- Reid
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Old 10-24-2007, 12:50 AM
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And,

if we using vbseo 3.0, we need any change a plugin or file for this mod ?

Cause u linked that but this need with vbseo 3.0 ?
http://network.zoints.com/showpost.p...72&postcount=2
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Anyone figured out yet how to make this work on forumhome?
maybe you can check my site...
http://ricoh.grfan.net

anyway,i use a stupid way to realize this function...
i use ifram ...

I know it might be dangerous for security issue , but in some way, i need this function.

If anyone interesting for this , i post it later.
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Sorry, but anybody knows how to make tags work with non-english charecters(russian)?
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Hi guys, I am really sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner, but my life has essentially been meetings and presentations this week.

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And,

if we using vbseo 3.0, we need any change a plugin or file for this mod ?

Cause u linked that but this need with vbseo 3.0 ?
http://network.zoints.com/showpost.p...72&postcount=2
maxicep, I would suggest asking over on the vB SEO forums. I know some have had that solution posted work for them, but I personally did not. I did an assortment of things (some posted on this thread or at our support forums and some on my own) but I really wouldn't be confident in relaying that back to you as I am pretty hazy on what I did. Being a vB SEO user as well, I know that there has been discussion about this in the past, so I would check to see what the group consensus on what to do is.

There is one modification (for the tags) posted at another vBulletin development forum (the name escapes me) but I am relatively certain I found it on a thread at vB SEO, so be on the lookout for that in particular.

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Sorry, but anybody knows how to make tags work with non-english charecters(russian)?
vrom, I am assuming you tried Russian character replacements but they didn't work? If you haven't, please try adding a character replacement set.

- Reid
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Great just tested http://network.zoints.com/showpost.p...72&postcount=2 to fix the zoints thread tags to be rewrote by vbseo, works like a charm, if you can put this in futur release would be awesome, or at least make it optional , vbseo is really good product
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Glad to hear it works for you. I know the engineers realize how important SEO is to a good tags system so I will note them on that fix to try out and possibly implement.

Thanks for letting me know.

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