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How are the zen search URLs created?

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12 Jan 2012, 7:21 PM
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How are the zen search URLs created?

Hi,

I am using an SEO friendly URL overwrite, but I need to override it!

PROBLEM:
I am about to upload 16,000 products. But I have to clean up the data before uploading, trying to figure out a quick way to do it.

EXAMPLE:
There are about 500 kits (combination of 4 or 5 products, grouped together for a single lower price). At the end of the prod description, each one of these things has a hyperlink list of all the products.

So I need to change the hyper links so that they work on the new site.

OLD:
**https://www.OLDSITE.com/model_**1234abc

What I would like to do is do a find and replace that would generate a search on my new site if clicked on.

LIKE THIS:
** https://www.NEWSITE.com/Zen?search?model=**1234abc

Can that be done? What would be the correct gobblety gook to invoke a search? And if so, how could I prevent Google from following it? I don't want google to follow those links because it would create redundancy.

Thanks in advance,
Mike

12 Jan 2012, 7:29 PM
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Re: How are the zen search URLs created?

Sorry! I am using 139h, have not upgraded yet!

I posted this question in the CEON URI support thread, but I am pretty sure they will tell me it off topic. Here is that thread:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1094080#post1094080

12 Jan 2012, 9:29 PM
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Re: How are the zen search URLs created?

I think I solved my own problem! :clap:

Looks like I find/replace:
**https://www.OLDSITE.com/model_**1234abc

Changing to:
**https://www.NEWSITE.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=**12SQS

Will that create a redundant link and tick off the search engines?