Need Help With Robots.txt Question

[BlueLeaf]

I have a website hosted on a shared server, and I don't have the ability to access or edit the robots.txt [it's predefined by the hosting company]. My website is a family travel blog, and I don't want it indexed by any search engine. Can I place the robots.txt into the head tag or meta tags, or will the search engines ignore it?

[leadegroot]

Yes, robots commands can also be issued as a meta string in the head of each webpage and ethical robots will obey it.
In fact, at least for Google, this is the only way to really be sure that a specific page is not in the results.
if you block in the robots.txt Google may still return your pages (with poor descriptions) if enough pages link to you.
If you block in the meta they will take the hint and refuse to index you.
i usually google for something like

robots protocol meta

when I am trying to get the exact syntax to use

[james_plato]

I would host your blog elsewhere if you don't want to be indexed. There are many free hosts that offer you the ability to have a private blog :)

[BlueLeaf]

Thanks for your help leadegroot.