Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Bryan Stevenson
.HTAccess file...or robots.txt Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com - Original Message - From: Jim McAtee [EMAIL

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Jim McAtee
an end date, so any time someone edits a record I might have to rewrite the whole robots.txt file. - Original Message - From: Bryan Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:56 PM Subject: Re: How to remove dynamic content

Re: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Bryan Stevenson
: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com - Original Message - From: Jim McAtee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:13 PM Subject: Re: How to remove dynamic content from

RE: How to remove dynamic content from search engines?

2005-02-03 Thread Burns, John D
: 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?

2005-02-03 Thread Matt Robertson
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?

2005-02-03 Thread Jim McAtee
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?

2005-02-03 Thread Matt Robertson
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