Test site and robots

[saucysal]

Is there any reason why I cannot upload my actinic site to a sub-directory of my existing site, sub-directory called /test, to try it out. I want to hide it from search engine robots, obviously; do I have to put <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="none"> on every template (for brochure pages and shop), or is there another way of making the whole sub-directory invisible to spiders? Is there any other problem that I haven't thought of, other than that of sufficient space?

If I password protect a sub-directory of my website (/test) for the test shop, will this also protect it from robots so I don't need to do html on templates thing?

Sarah

[pinbrook]

use a robots.txt file to disallow spiders from indexing the test folder

here's a useful url

http://www.searchengineworld.com/rob...s_tutorial.htm