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

[SBlueman]

This starts at about line 370 of tags/index.php:

if ($vbulletin->options['zointstags_showresultsas'])
{
$thread['showicon'] = ($vbulletin->forumcache[$thread['forumid']]['options'] & $vbulletin->bf_misc_forumoptions['allowicons']);
$thread = process_thread_array($thread, '', $thread['showicon']);

if ($thread['showicon'])
{
$show['threadicons'] = true;
}

}

$threads[$thread['threadid']] = $thread;
}
}

Maybe something in there needs to be changed?

[class101]

Yep must be around this part just up look at the SQL query from Zoints index.php

			$_threads = $db->query_read("
				SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread
				WHERE forumid IN(" . implode(',', $visible) . ")
					AND threadid IN(" . implode(',', $threadids) . ")
				ORDER BY $orderby $direction
				LIMIT $limitlower, $pp
			");

the one made by forumdisplay.php catchs much datas

	$threads = $db->query_read_slave("
		SELECT $votequery $previewfield
			thread.threadid, thread.title AS threadtitle, thread.forumid, pollid, open, replycount, postusername, postuserid, thread.iconid AS threadiconid,
			$lastpost_info2, thread.dateline, IF(views<=replycount, replycount+1, views) AS views, notes, thread.visible, sticky, votetotal, thread.attach,
			hiddencount, deletedcount
			" . (($vbulletin->options['threadsubscribed'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']) ? ", NOT ISNULL(subscribethread.subscribethreadid) AS issubscribed" : "") . "
			" . ($deljoin ? ", deletionlog.userid AS del_userid, deletionlog.username AS del_username, deletionlog.reason AS del_reason" : "") . "
			" . (($vbulletin->options['threadmarking'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']) ? ", threadread.readtime AS threadread" : "") . "
			" . ($redirectjoin ? ", threadredirect.expires" : "") . "
			$hook_query_fields
		FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread
			$deljoin
			" . (($vbulletin->options['threadsubscribed'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']) ?  " LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "subscribethread AS subscribethread ON(subscribethread.threadid = thread.threadid AND subscribethread.userid = " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . " AND canview = 1)" : "") . "
			" . (($vbulletin->options['threadmarking'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['userid']) ? " LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "threadread AS threadread ON (threadread.threadid = thread.threadid AND threadread.userid = " . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . ")" : "") . "
			$previewjoin
			$tachyjoin
			$redirectjoin
			$hook_query_joins
		WHERE thread.threadid IN (0$ids) $hook_query_where
		ORDER BY sticky DESC, $sqlsortfield $sqlsortorder
	");

this is just supositions because I dunno really at coding but it looks like the zoints query doesn't retrieve what we do need the threadid. In function_forumdisplay.php included in the zoints index.php you see:

			if ($thread['threadiconid'])
			{
				$thread['threadiconpath'] = $vbulletin->iconcache["$thread[threadiconid]"]['iconpath'];
				$thread['threadicontitle'] = $vbulletin->iconcache["$thread[threadiconid]"]['title'];
			}

			// show poll icon
			if ($thread['pollid'] != 0)
			{
				$show['threadicon'] = true;
				$thread['threadiconpath'] = "$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/poll_posticon.gif";
				$thread['threadicontitle'] = $vbphrase['poll'];
			}
			// show specified icon
			else if ($thread['threadiconpath'])
			{
				$show['threadicon'] = true;
			}
			// show default icon
			else if (!empty($vbulletin->options['showdeficon']))
			{
				$show['threadicon'] = true;
				$thread['threadiconpath'] = $vbulletin->options['showdeficon'];
				$thread['threadicontitle'] = '';
			}

if ($thread['threadiconid']) is not defined I think and we land in the default post icon else if (!empty($vbulletin->options['showdeficon']))

[SBlueman]

Anyone have a clue? This is way out of my league....

[ballpnet]

Hello,

I'm experiencing a strange problem. When ever I click on "tags" and then on any of the pages at the bottom, it seems to log me out of the forum. My custom skin gets switched over to the default and I see the login widget on the right. However, when I click on any link taking me back to the forum, I'm all of a sudden logged into the system and have my theme back. Does that make any sense? Does this happen to anyone else? Thanks for any insight.

[ballpnet]

Originally Posted by ballpnet

Hello,

I'm experiencing a strange problem. When ever I click on "tags" and then on any of the pages at the bottom, it seems to log me out of the forum. My custom skin gets switched over to the default and I see the login widget on the right. However, when I click on any link taking me back to the forum, I'm all of a sudden logged into the system and have my theme back. Does that make any sense? Does this happen to anyone else? Thanks for any insight.

I found the problem: mod_rewrite was causing the the issue. Disabling it seems to have fixed the problem.

[Makc666]

What can cause an error when I type some word in Russian/Cyrillics for example:
"мама"
I get a result:
"u043cu0430u043cu0430"
So I see in URL "/u043cu0430u043cu0430/"

As you see "u043cu0430u043cu0430" consists of four letter:
u043c -> м
u0430 -> а
u043c -> м
u0430 -> а

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Hi Makc,

Have you tried using character replacements yet?

- Reid

[sabrawy]

i wanna ask please
i have an arabic forum when im adding any tag with arabic language its not adding anything
its reloading the page and give me nothing after i add my tags
any solutions please?

[kafi]

tag system is going to be default from vb 3.7. on.
If you are runging zoints tag and wish to switch to default tag system, please support my request with comment here
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1452523

[SBlueman]

I was just wondering if anyone had figured out how to make the post icons show in the tag results pages. This was talked about in post #741 to #745