How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

What are some strategies for removing references to old dynamically generated pages from search engine indexes? The problem I run into is that the CFM page will exist, it will execute, but the referenced data is often expired. A typical URL might look like:

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

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Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

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Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

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RE: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines? That sounds like a maintenance nightmare. We're talking about thousands of entries over the course of a year or two. For example, news stories or event postings might run a few days

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

If robots.txt entries aren't an available option, make all CF 404's redirect to a certain page via CF's 404 handler. You can do the same with IIS 404's. This can be an 'oops' page or it can just be a redirect to the site's home page. If the content is statically published and expired, I

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

dynamic content from search engines? If robots.txt entries aren't an available option, make all CF 404's redirect to a certain page via CF's 404 handler. You can do the same with IIS 404's. This can be an 'oops' page or it can just be a redirect to the site's home page. If the content

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

I've got what I call 'pseudo-static' pages that are named like http://www.mysite.com/invalidpage.cfm but are in fact dynamic. Once they are deleted the aftermath is handled by the 404 handler or by publishing a linkrot page that does a redirect. For your first example, I check for that ID