Posted by Ken Sims on 11/30/05 00:05

Hi Scott -

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:19:32 -0600, Scott <golden@uslink.net> wrote:

>Darn. My website is: www.uslink.net/~golden. It's not my own domain,
>so it looks like the host root is out of my reach. The page that I don't
>want to be indexed is www.uslink.net/~golden/order1.html.

Yes, robots.txt has to be at http://www.uslink.net/robot.txt

Your only option for robots.txt is to see if you can convince USLink
to add a robots.txt with your Disallow. If you click the above link,
you will see that they don't have a robots.txt.

>I'm trying not to use a password. It's only this one page that I want to
>prevent from being indexed. Everything else on the site is fair game.
>
>What are the chances that <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
>will do the job?

It's better than nothing, but that's all I can say.

I think you are at the point where you need your domain. Not just so
that you can have a robots.txt but also to make what you are doing
look more professional.

--
Ken
http://www.ke9nr.net/

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