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

[viper357]

Originally Posted by 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...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.

Originally Posted by 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

Reid, I submitted a ticket (#2857) on the 22rd March and am still awaiting a response, can you please check up on it. Thanks.

[deLi_kurT]

installed

Thanks

[zeus_r6]

I'm running VBSEO, and installed this....immediately after install, the rank of almost every keyword I am tracking is plummeting .... ideas?

[zeus_r6]

http://network.zoints.com/showpost.p...72&postcount=2

apparently this is the fix...we'll see how it works

[bugzy]

How will the new vb3.7 tagging integrate?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by 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

Please open up a ticket. But just to check, are you by any chance using version 1.3.5?

Originally Posted by viper357

Reid, I submitted a ticket (#2857) on the 22rd March and am still awaiting a response, can you please check up on it. Thanks.

Sure thing, I'll take a look for it later today.

Originally Posted by zeus_r6

http://network.zoints.com/showpost.p...72&postcount=2

apparently this is the fix...we'll see how it works

You might want to also check out the following link, some with vBSEO really dig it (I use it myself):
http://vbmodder.com/forums/f41/zoint...emaps-692.html

Originally Posted by bugzy

How will the new vb3.7 tagging integrate?

I believe I recall hearing the AJAX needs to be rewritten, other than that it works.

- Reid

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by viper357

Reid, I submitted a ticket (#2857) on the 22rd March and am still awaiting a response, can you please check up on it. Thanks.

Viper, what is your Zoints name (or did you do it as a guest with an email)? I searched our various ticket lists, but I haven't seen a recent ticket by an account with viper.

Thanks!

[zeus_r6]

this mod is killing my keyword rankings...

[Strike3ForumsMH]

I can't explain your SEO setup or what you have done in the past, but I do know that a quite prominent site was calling out to us in panic last month due to a problem with his .htaccess file (he moved servers IIRC) and the absence of Thread Tags working like they did was hurting him. Now of course I can't say that it will work for everyone as there are a lot of unique situations to consider, but I can assure you that many (not all) usually have fair success with it. If it proves to be too detrimental to your forums, then I apologize and I hope you can find an appropriate solution.

All the best zeus.

- Reid

[zeus_r6]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

I can't explain your SEO setup or what you have done in the past, but I do know that a quite prominent site was calling out to us in panic last month due to a problem with his .htaccess file (he moved servers IIRC) and the absence of Thread Tags working like they did was hurting him. Now of course I can't say that it will work for everyone as there are a lot of unique situations to consider, but I can assure you that many (not all) usually have fair success with it. If it proves to be too detrimental to your forums, then I apologize and I hope you can find an appropriate solution.

All the best zeus.

- Reid

I'm not utilizing the .htaccess method...is this a problem?