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]

Originally Posted by 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

[SpadMan]

Originally Posted by MotMann

@ Zoints:



I have the same problem. How i fix that?
I think you fix that in October 2006?

Originally Posted by nocte

I have the same problem. the replacement just don't work with the ajax tag saving on showthread. On newthread.php and editpost.php they work!

Here's what I did to work around the umlauts problem. I modified my Character Replacements list:

Before:

? ae
? AE
? oe
? OE
? ue
? UE
? ss

After:

? ae
? AE
? oe
? OE
? ue
? UE
? ss
u00e4 ae
u00C4 AE
u00d6 oe
u00D6 OE
u00fc ue
u00dc UE
u00df ss

Hope this helps,

Scott

[mtlcore]

I still get database errors when i Uninstalled it....is it because of search engine hits???

[Amenadiel]

Originally Posted by class101

Have been searching the rules for lighttpd in the thread and no one figured out yet to post lighttpd rewrite rules ?? OMG

this worked for me, it has to be inserted among your other url.rewrite rules (not url.rewrite-once).

"^/foro/tags/(.+)/([0-9]+)/$" => "/foro/tags/index.php?tag=$1&page=$2",
"^/foro/tags/(.+)/$" => "/foro/tags/index.php?tag=$1",
"^/foro/tags/$" => "/foro/tags/"

of course, match /foro/ to your forum path

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by chadi

Anyone figure out how to get $tagcloud working on a vbulletin custom page, plus forum home custom location?

No guarantees, but I will have a bit of free time coming up and I will spend some time tinkering to see if I can't get that to work. I have to think there is some kind of problem with a hardcoded file, which I likely won't be able to fix, but should I figure out anything I will let you know.

Originally Posted by SBlueman

See above SBlueman.

Originally Posted by SpadMan

Here's what I did to work around the umlauts problem. I modified my Character Replacements list:

Before:

? ae
? AE
? oe
? OE
? ue
? UE
? ss

After:

? ae
? AE
? oe
? OE
? ue
? UE
? ss
u00e4 ae
u00C4 AE
u00d6 oe
u00D6 OE
u00fc ue
u00dc UE
u00df ss

Hope this helps,

Scott

Thanks for posting this Scott!

Originally Posted by mtlcore

I still get database errors when i Uninstalled it....is it because of search engine hits???

Ah, that makes sense, I was thinking of something totally different (that you or your users were somehow witnessing database errors while viewing the forum.) Tags do get linked to search engines and to your sitemap if you do a few modifications, as well as sent to Zoints.com (should you have chosen that), so they will be accessed even when uninstalled.

Originally Posted by Amenadiel

this worked for me, it has to be inserted among your other url.rewrite rules (not url.rewrite-once).



of course, match /foro/ to your forum path

Thanks for posting this Amenadiel!

Merry Christmas gang.

- Reid

[SBlueman]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

No guarantees, but I will have a bit of free time coming up and I will spend some time tinkering to see if I can't get that to work. I have to think there is some kind of problem with a hardcoded file, which I likely won't be able to fix, but should I figure out anything I will let you know.

Thank you, your efforts will be greatly appreciated! :up:

[Konstantinos]

adding tags in showthread doesnt work

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by Konstantinos

adding tags in showthread doesnt work

There are a few simple things that could be the culprit.

First could you please disable AJAX tag submission if enabled to see if that corrects the problem? This can be done by logging into your Admin CP, clicking options for Thread Tags and selecting yes for the Disable Ajax Tag Submission option.

Merry Christmas Konstantinos.

- Reid

[Konstantinos]

merry xmas to u also. hmm in zoints thread tags settings there is no ajax settings , do u mean somewhere else ? in the screenshots it also doesnt seem to be anywhere

also how do i add forum jump in tag cloud page and in /index.php/tagname

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Thanks for the holiday wishes.

And you're right, I was mistaken on the AJAX but I sent you a PM regarding this so please check it out.

As for adding a forum jump, edit the templates zointstag_tagcloud and zointstag_viewtag.

- Reid