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    Default Music Typefilters without Typefilter in URL -

    v: 1.5.1
    I do not believe any modifications will affect this (you'll be able to quickly check this on a standard install)

    For product type: Music
    When viewing either Artist, Genre or Record Company typefilters in an index/listing (main_page=index&typefilter=artist&artists_id=1)

    If the typefilter variable in the URL is removed (main_page=index&artists_id=1), the page loads, displays the correct title but displays no products ("There are no products..."). This of course was tested with filters including in stock and active productions.

    As far as I can tell there are no internal links being generated with this omission, however google at least has indexed some pages like this (maybe thinking it acts like manufacturers_id).

    I wonder if it might be possible to serve this as a 404?
    Other alternatives could be redirecting, blocking with robots, other? But I wanted to see if this was considered a bug first (plus the way variables can be mixed around by search engines, that could be tricky).

    If this is not considered a bug, my apologies. Thanks

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    Default Re: Music Typefilters without Typefilter in URL -

    You might look at this add-n plugin if you are using Music Products as it is rather nice and handles artists:
    http://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1599
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    Default Re: Music Typefilters without Typefilter in URL -

    Thanks Ajeh, I'm interested to see the plugin could you please check the id (1599 is coming up as invalid)?

    This is really only an "seo" issue, customers landing on an incorrectly empty artist/genre etc. listing is not great, but it's only going to happen if Google and others keep indexing without that parameter.

    For anyone finding this thread in the future, one possible solution is in robots.txt:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /index.php?main_page=index&music_genre_id=*

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    Default Re: Music Typefilters without Typefilter in URL -

    Hmmm ... I will have to hunt for it as I could of sworn it was there ...
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