Making a .Mac Site Private Without a Password

I have a website published to .Mac with a fair amount of personal information. Enough that a pedophile could do damage to my young kids, or whatever...
I have always thought I was protected by .Mac's obscure URL that no one would stumble across it, and my searches on Google have always turned up no results, so I thought I was safe (like the default robot.txt file disallowed search engines from archiving my pages)-- until recently. My friend searched my name and came up with my website. I would rather that didn't happen.
I have quite a few readers of my blog from around the world and I think the growth has been organic enough to keep weirdos out-- and would continue to grow that way. I hate to make entering my blog a pain in the neck (as it is to leave comments) by having it password protected.
The inspector palette doesn't have a robot setting. I don't see a way to enter metatags (which would be a pain anyway on every single page), and the preferences doesn't give me this option, either... Am I missing something? Is there a workaround? Any help would be awesome.

I don't see a way to enter metatags (which would be a pain anyway on every single page)
Any changes you make to your html also have to be redone everytime you republish your site.
In any case, robots.txt is not part of the html but a separate file. You could try putting it on your iDisk either inside or outside your sitename folder. I don't know if it would work, and you might also need to replace it every time you republished.
http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

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