How to deal with missing items the SEO way?

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Published on 2010-06-16T14:29:53Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 14:32 UTC
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I am working on a public-facing web site which serves up articles for people to read. After some time, articles become stale and we remove them from the site. My question is this: what is the best way to handle the situation when a search engine visits a URL corresponding to a removed article? Should the app respond with a permanent redirect (301 Moved Permanently) to a "article not found" page, or is there a better way to handle this?

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