How do i upload a demo page without being indexed by Google

Hi all

Just trying my hand at html.

Designed a page for a client. Want to upload a demo for him to see it before finishing up.

How do i do that without the search engines seeing/ indexing the page


thnx in advance

 

with noindex tag similar to this <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/>

 

add that in header

 

You can do above or put a dissallow entry in robots.txt

 

thx alot

 

This is the method I'd advocate -- if it's just for testing it should be in it's own directory, and none of the files it calls should be indexed, so lock out the whole thing with a robots.txt like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Code (markup):

Which nabs not just google, but all engines that obey robots.txt

I have that on my 'open' for_others directory filled with all the examples and code I've helped people with over the various years, so I don't steal their link/search mojo thus:
http://www.cutcodedown.com/for_others/robots.txt