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

[Mark.B]

That post referred to the AJAX rewrite, which has been done...it's been released as a separate 3.7 hack.

I know this to be so, as I have it running on my site.

[iogames]

Ok

I got installed 1.2.2 I guess I never received the upgrade email

although I don't see files to download

[iogames]

Strange...
now is 1.2.2 again and the zip is back...

So there's not 1.2.3 despite the fact that is listed on the Change Log?

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by iogames

Strange...
now is 1.2.2 again and the zip is back...

So there's not 1.2.3 despite the fact that is listed on the Change Log?

There is a 1.2.3, but it's only for 3.7 as the only change is the AJAX rewrite....

There's a separate thread for it.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=181111

[iogames]

Ok I'll be clear
- so Ok there's one for 3.7 [although 3.7x has its own Tag System]
- here is published in the changelog: "2008/05/01 - 1.2.3 * vBulletin CSRF Protocol Compatible" which I think isn't important for 3.6.x
- I will stay in vB3.6.x for a while so 1.2.2 is the way to go?
- why they removed the .zip and put it back?

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by iogames

Ok I'll be clear
- so Ok there's one for 3.7 [although 3.7x has its own Tag System]
- here is published in the changelog: "2008/05/01 - 1.2.3 * vBulletin CSRF Protocol Compatible" which I think isn't important for 3.6.x
- I will stay in vB3.6.x for a while so 1.2.2 is the way to go?
- why they removed the .zip and put it back?

There was some confusion at the time, but this is my understanding.

1) 3.6 users need to use the 3.6 version but I now don't know if that has CSRF in it or not. The original copy of version 1.2.2 obviously didn't, but I don't know if the copy that's up there now has changed.

2) 3.7 users like myself who DON'T want to convert to the vB tagging system found that although Zoints tags still worked in 3.7, the AJAX was broken, causing full page reloads whenever you submit or remove a tag. Thbe 3.7 version fixes this and presumably the CSRF.

I cannot confirm the CSRF in 3.7 since when I upgraded, vBulletin's automatic system inserted all the CSRF lines in Zoints for me without any action on my part. But I would assume it's done.

Zoints need to come and clear this up really.

[Zoints]

3.6.10 users - apply this patch, and the CSRF issues should be fixed.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=913


The 1.2.2 zip included in this thread is only for 3.6.9 and LOWER as per the changelog.

[iogames]

Aaah! some closure!

[Strike3ForumsMH]

Just to clear up a few other things. Yes, vBulletin does have their own tag system for 3.7 but each system does provide some different things of interest for forum owners. I apologize I couldn't be of much help but frankly after the ensuing posts, I was a bit confused myself.

As for the file removal, I am not sure how that happened to be honest and no one else is. When I saw your post io, I rushed to get that back up as it definitely is still a viable solution to tagging.

Sorry about the difficulty and I'll make sure to get someone to post the patch in the first post (or in the zip itself) to avoid further confusion. Thanks for being patient.

- Reid

[iogames]

Originally Posted by Zoints

3.6.10 users - apply this patch, and the CSRF issues should be fixed.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=913


The 1.2.2 zip included in this thread is only for 3.6.9 and LOWER as per the changelog.

Just to make sure, but zointstags_searchtags template doesn't contain any:

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />

So where do I place the security token fix?