Zoints - Driving Traffic to Your Forum with Social Networking Integration?

[DChapman]

Nice reply David and thanks for answering some questions and bringing some issues to light.

Thanks Rex! And congratulations again on your recent sale of vbhackers. Well done

Fastastic David. I appreciate you taking the time to provide such a detailed response within our Zoints discussion.

And thank you again for granting me permission.

I think that the Zoints approach to bringing the social networking phenonmenon enjoyed by operations like mySpace is very intriquing indeed. I'm sure that all forum admins will universally agree that if Zoints delivers on its promise of improved member acquisition, retention, and resulting profitability, they will join your early adopters post-haste!

Indeed. If we can hit that critical mass then things will get very interesting, very fast We're still small by social networking standards (less than 100k members) but we're growing fast and now utilized by more than 200 forums including 17 big-boards. We're also partnered with Big-Boards and the owner (Quentin) is one of our engineers for those who didn't know.

Best of luck with your new venture.

Thank you kindly Joe. And continued success to yours

I can attest that David has been nothing but helpful, and so far, I have had no complaints with the two forums that I am testing Zoints on.

Thanks for your kind words Mike. I'm glad things are going ok so far; I greatly appreciate you giving Zoints the opportunity to prove itself. It's early adopters like you who will allow us to hit critical mass. We're not sure yet HOW we'll be thanking those of you with the vision to give things a shot, but if things work as planned, you have my word we will. We would be nothing without you. If any problems do start to arise, please let me know and we'll get the resolved as quickly as possible. We'd also like to target your section of the directory directly with Adwords and Adbrite, so get those keyword/keyphrase submissions in

David even took the time to PM me with a mistake in one of my welcome headers, and took my logo on one of the forums and compressed it to half the size. Neither of these were major things, but still, it is nice to see something like that.

We've been training a group of "Community Consultants" who double as our customer support reps. In time, we'll be sending them out to check over forums that utilize Zoints and provide services along the lines of what I did. Every little thing can make a huge difference when it comes to running a succesful forum. A minor tweak here, a bug fix there, and the next thing you know, you're sitting pretty But i'm preaching to the choir here, sorry about that.

David is a stand up guy. I just don't like the concept of Zoints and see no value in me running it.

Thanks Brent I owe you a beer one of these days. Hopefully someone puts together a forum owner conference so we can all sit back and have a few laughs while sharing a cold one. And then I can make fun of you for driving a Mustang (kidding).

FYI There was a reported issue with vBSEO member rewrites and Zoints "Create Profile" link: http://www.vbseo.com/f77/vbseo-zoints-7495/

RC4+ should work fine without any template modifications.

Thanks Joe! That's great news. If Zoints code ever causes issue with vbSEO, please let me know and we'll remedy it as quickly as possible. Maybe our industry can set a better standard of business conduct unlike some others who seem to enjoy breaking each others' software.

[sensimilla]

I am testing it on my site, So far I dont see good or bad influence on my forums.
If so why not to advertise my site on it? Let's wait and see what happens.

[Mike]

I am getting visits to all of my forums via Zoints, no complaints so far and my members have taken to it pretty well. I was surprise at how it has had a positive impact on my sports forum.

[sensimilla]

After one week I have 0 visits via Zoint.com, I will post in 1 month my stats here.

[mototips]

I am going to give this a go. Will let you know if it affects my forums any.

[DChapman]

After one week I have 0 visits via Zoint.com, I will post in 1 month my stats here.

Unfortunately, that's not surprising. As you run a community with adult content, Zoints members (like on Google) have to actively opt into being able to see adult orientated sites. At present, very few have done so. I don't forsee you getting much traffic for quite awhile :(

[sensimilla]

We moved it there on my request, my bad. Thanks for your reply DChapman.

[Mike]

So far, so good for me. It has been accepted very well on my two busiest forums

[Code Monkey]

So I see Zoints is releasing a free vBulletin SEO product into the community.

[john]

Is there any way to make the tags links link to SEOd (vBSEOd) URLs, rather than the forum default?

Example: Popular Tags - Forum Tags By Zoints

[NeutralizeR]

I like Zoints msxlabs's Zoints Profile and the style is ok if you design yourself

[tyler_d]

Unfortunately, that's not surprising. As you run a community with adult content, Zoints members (like on Google) have to actively opt into being able to see adult orientated sites.

What actually surprised me was that vBSEO is allowed to run on that adult forum despite declarations I had witnessed in various threads about vBSEO standing strong by their non-adult usage policy. Just happened to find that odd when I checked out his particular zoints implementation. (lucky guy he is)

Anyway, I just got my zoints up and running tonight and am looking forward to reporting back whatever results I get after I give it some time.

[Keith Cohen]

The content of that site changed at some point after purchasing vBSEO, and due to that, their license was revoked. (You'll note the lack of "vBSEO Owner" beside the username.)

[Mike]

Another testimonial to vbseo. The standards are in place, and they do not sell out.

[tyler_d]

note the lack of "vBSEO Owner" beside the username

I'm not sure if that designator is working properly. For example, eJM is an owner, and has no "vBSEO Owner" next to his username