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

[gonzek]

Originally Posted by NeutralizeR

Add these to the custom character replacements:

u03b1 yourgreekcharacter

u03b2 yourgreekcharacter

...

I have the same problem with polish characters. Unfortunately...

It is workin only with that list:
u00f3 o
u0107 c
u0105 a
u0119 e
u0142 l
u0144 n
...

But if I trying to add some like this:
u00f3 ?
u0107 ć
u0105 ą
u0119 ę
u0142 ł
u0144 ń
(with polish characters)
characters aren't showing up.

[nokalexander]

Thank you all for your replies. I have the same problem as gonzek, if I try replacing with latin characters it works fine, however it doesn't with Greek.

[viper357]

I have just discovered a problem with the tags index.php page on my site. Here is the link

http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/tags/index.php

If you click on one of the page numbers it shows this URL and doesn't go to the page but instead seems to be doing a search for - Threads tagged with "doview"

http://www.marineaquariumsa.com/tags/index.php?tag=?do=view&page=2


I have worked out that I need to remove the "tag=?" in the above link, which appears to be on line 190 in index.php

$pagenav = construct_page_nav($page, $vbulletin->options['zointstags_showtags'], $count, $tagsurl . '?do=view');

How do I remove the "tag=?" from the URL on the page numbers?

Thanks.

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Hi viper,

Please open up a support ticket and either myself or one of the engineers can help sort this out:
http://zoints.com/support.z

Thanks.

- Reid

[dinodonk]

the new 3.7 has the same tagging.. can i import to 3.7 later if i use this modification

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by dinodonk

the new 3.7 has the same tagging.. can i import to 3.7 later if i use this modification

There is an importer, I can't vouch for it, but it is here on vbulletin.org so just search for it.

As for the "same tagging," that's not entirely true as both offer some unique things. Some prefer vBulletin's take, others still prefer Zoints Thread Tags.

- Reid

[malag]

Hello,
How to replace in FURL special letters for usual letter?
In vBSEO it's edit in php file:
e.g.
'some_letter' -> a

Greeting

[zeus_r6]

It seems like only I as admin can add new tags to old threads in all forums...is there a way to extend this permission to moderators and registered users?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

It seems like only I as admin can add new tags to old threads in all forums...is there a way to extend this permission to moderators and registered users?

Hey Zeus,

I am not sure if I follow. Are you saying that once a thread is posted, no one outside of the administrator is able to tag the thread? If so, could you please open up a support ticket with us and provide a link to your forums, a regular temporary user account and a temporary admin account (no need to worry about special permissions for now, I would just want the ability to see what it is like as a user and what it is like as an admin.)

Thanks!

- Reid

[zeus_r6]

The following is how zoints tags is behaving with existing threads:
Registered Users = Cannot add tags
Moderators = Can add tags only to threads in sections they moderate
Admin = Can add tags anywhere