Domain forwarding to iWeb and Search word problems...

Hello out there. I have chosen to set up my company's website with iWeb. But because the url is not easy for marketing, I purchased my domain name and had that automatically forwarded to my cover page for my iWeb webpage.
example: my domain is www.SiegfriedsCall.com
this is what I advertise to my customers.
when you go to www.SiegfriedsCall.com , it is forwarded to my iWeb website http://web.mac.com/SiegfriedsCall/iWeb/SiegfriedsCall/Cover.html
This works fine, and for the most part I am happy, despite the strange changes internet explorer does to my published site. (another topic of discussion)
Question: As this is for my company, marketing the website is important. How can I verify the website in order to enter the website into the Google search engine???
Any assistance with this would be greatly appreciated.
Scott

google will eventually crawl your site anyway, and a good start is putting up links to your site. You can always post your url in this forum and also encourage others to link to your site from theirs. You will also want to consider using better titles for your pages as well as meta data and keywords. Google will use this information to index your site and make it searchable. On another note I play jazz trumpet and I really like how your site looks, well done! I don't have any sponsers yet either Kidding. Good luck

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