Originally Posted by
Egg Bramhill
If I understand you correctly you're creating a draft site on your own server so the client can preview your draft. Is this correct?
If so another way of doing it apart from those already mentioned by Acorn is to place it in a password protected folder on your server and give the client the username and password to log-in. Bots can't access this folder without the username & password.
Once the client is satisfied with your work you can upload the new site & overwrite the old site.