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]

Ok...so I am looking at the tags/index.pho file looking for ways to edit the order posts are displayed. I want to display them in order by first post with the newest listed first. By default the threads are listed by last post. So I am looking at the code and find some places this can be edited in the file.....

This spot in the file:

		$count = $count['count'];
		$orderby = 'lastpost';
		$direction = 'DESC';

I bet if I change 'lastpost' it will pop out the results I am looking for....I just don't know what it needs to be changed to....and I am wondering if this is the file that I need to edit to display the correct post icons...

So can anyone help with this? Thanks in advance.

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by Loco.M

There was a tag cloud with the zoints setup like the one you linked to and it had different color and sized fonts.. it was on the zoints site

This is for vBadvanced, so I am not for sure if this is what you are referencing, but I use it and I think it's great.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=127749

Originally Posted by longgsm

How about change to utf-8? I want to type vietnamese language. Thanks for support!

I am not for sure what they'll do, but with Zoints Local, the upcoming version is much easier to convert to other languages so I know the engineers will look at that for the future with tags.

Originally Posted by SBlueman

Ok...so I am looking at the tags/index.pho file looking for ways to edit the order posts are displayed. I want to display them in order by first post with the newest listed first. By default the threads are listed by last post. So I am looking at the code and find some places this can be edited in the file.....

This spot in the file:

		$count = $count['count'];
		$orderby = 'lastpost';
		$direction = 'DESC';

I bet if I change 'lastpost' it will pop out the results I am looking for....I just don't know what it needs to be changed to....and I am wondering if this is the file that I need to edit to display the correct post icons...

So can anyone help with this? Thanks in advance.

Hi SB,

Danny, one of our engineers, suggested to try changing $direction to 'ASC'

- Reid

[SBlueman]

Shouldn't the $orderby be changed to something that refers to the first post? I want them to descend after that, I just want it to descend in order by first post, not last post.

And any word on what to do to display the correct post icons?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

I really don't know to be honest. It would probably be best to open up a thread at network.zoints.com and talk it over with Danny.

As for the other issue, no work that I know of. I know they are about done with getting tags perfectly compatible with 3.7x so I don't think they have worked much on the features.

- Reid

[marcos_]

i upload another theme then seo is working but tag isnt working why?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by marcos_

i upload another theme then seo is working but tag isnt working why?

Hi Marcos,

What do you mean tags aren't working? Do you not see the tags sections on your new style or are they there but the submission is not working?

- Reid

[iogames]

Originally Posted by Strike3ForumsMH

Our engineer who is working on that had to put it a bit to the side as he was busy with his classes last week, but he's hoping to finish up work on it this week.

- Reid

so still in the works?

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Originally Posted by iogames

so still in the works?

It's done. We released a 3.7x version just a bit ago with the rewritten AJAX, the last update posted on this thread should work fine for 6.10 however.

- Reid

[Megatr0n]

Reid, check your e-mail when you can. Thanks.

[iogames]

So no engineer and no working?

Our engineer who is working on that had to put it a bit to the side as he was busy with his classes last week, but he's hoping to finish up work on it this week.

- Reid