Google.com

Urgent Page Cache Removal Request

Outdated Page Link

Yahoo (Slurp)

Delete URLs from Yahoo Index

Report Search Spam abuse

Yahoo! Site Explorer

Yahoo! Customer Care

Live.com

Request a page to be removed

Teoma, (the engine that powers Ask’s search)

Usually when the Ask.com spider encounters a 404 page, or a Directory Denied Server level URI request response, the bot will remove it from it’s listings.

Robots.txt

you also want to add a definitive Disallow instruction for that directory in your top level website robots file for your website.

Meta Follow

If you have access to append you can also instruct per page request robot instructions if you want to get this granular. (note: this is not always effective).

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