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

[Wongod]

So I've been playing around with the hack for a while and it works really well. However, how come only the mods and the thread poster can add tags? Wouldn't it be a lot more powerful if any registered user could add relevant tags? Is there a way to let this happen?

[ubuntu-geek]

Just had a cool feature come to mind.. Have the option for the user to select from a pre-defined drop down menu of tags and have then auto inserted into the field.

[Klaymen TK]

This is a beautiful hack. Thanks, I think I'll install it.

[Zoints]

1.1.1 has been uploaded. This is a major upgrade:

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

This upgrade not only allows ajax adding and deleting of tags, but it also includes the ability for you to tag all of the old threads on your forum automatically by incorporating words entered into the thread title.

A new navigation bar appears in your admincp:



The new tag manager screen:

[NeutralizeR]

First bug reports for the new version (1.1.1):
- My Turkish chars. don't display properly in some tag descriptions:
http://www.msxlabs.org/forum/tags/2006/
- When i click [x] link to remove a tag in a showthread page, the tag name disappears but the comma after it stands there.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by NeutralizeR

- When i click [x] link to remove a tag in a showthread page, the tag name disappears but the comma after it stands there.

I'm not able to recreate that. Can you link me to an example of where that has happened please.

[NeutralizeR]

Originally Posted by DChapman

I'm not able to recreate that. Can you link me to an example of where that has happened please.

Delete the first tag.

Tags: tag1 [X], tag2 [X], tag3 [X]


Tags: ,tag2 [X], tag3 [X]

[NeutralizeR]

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Special character problem... must be releated to this: "Preventing all HTML from being parsed inside tag descriptions."

[wcbryant]

I'd like to relocate the tags, as they show up on the thread. Either in line and just to the right of the 'post reply' button, or below the thread. Really I want to avoid pushing the thread content down even further than it already is, and having that tags box floating in the middle above it is a big divide as-is. Oddly, I don't see the edits in the template, do I need to be editing something in the plug-in manager instead?

Love the hack and concept, just not in love with the aesthetic (for my own site) as-is. Thanks in advance!

[NeutralizeR]

Originally Posted by wcbryant

I'd like to relocate the tags, as they show up on the thread. Either in line and just to the right of the 'post reply' button, or below the thread. Really I want to avoid pushing the thread content down even further than it already is, and having that tags box floating in the middle above it is a big divide as-is. Oddly, I don't see the edits in the template, do I need to be editing something in the plug-in manager instead?

Love the hack and concept, just not in love with the aesthetic (for my own site) as-is. Thanks in advance!

Plugin Manager > Zoints Thread Tags (automatic template edits) > Disable

Follow README.TXT file.