Google indexing problem. sitemap and so on

Hi. I´ve been trying to get google to index my site but it asks for a sitemap. So I made one in one of those free services. But I have no clue what to do with it, where to put it and so on. I put my site out on .mac btw and here´s the url:
http://web.mac.com/jupiterpete/iWeb/Websted/Welcome.html
Any help?

It´s not located anywhere. I´ve tried to ad a folder Like this:
idisc/web/sites/iweb/public_html and I´ve put the sitemap.xml doc inside the last folder (witch I created.)
I cant find the web adress to this place. when I tried I got this;
"3. My Sitemap URL is:
http://idisk.mac.com/jupiterpete/
Example: http://web.mac.com/sitemap.xml
The Sitemap must be located at http://web.mac.com/. To add a Sitemap at http://idisk.mac.com/jupiterpete/, first add that site to your account and then click the Add a Sitemap link beside it."
So I still don´t get any results, but thanks for your reply.

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pity on me since it took me 15 months to learn DW and write this
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Hello,
I had no trouble seeing the page or the links.
Take a look at:
http://whois.domaintools.com/napatouristguide.com
If you expand the "SEO Text Browser" window, you'll see how
Google sees your
page.
The content looks good.
I do see 1 H1 tag that matches keywords in the Title and page
content, which
is good, but there are no other H2, H3, etc.
"The Best Hotels, etc" text could be in an H2 tag, the
keyword there being
Napa.
The words within these tags should be relevant" and don't
"Overdo it". For
example, using Napa in every single one.
In the often secret world of what helps rank, it also doesn't
hurt to add
ALT tags with a description to your images and titles to your
menu links.
IMHO, one of the keys to SEO is the number of relevant sites
that link to
yours.
This is believed to be a very large factor in ranking.
Stay away from sites devoted to simply linking to sites.
These aren't relevant and you might even get penalized for
this.
You can look in Google's webmaster tools to see sites that
link to yours.
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link:napatouristguide.com.
I did that and it showed no sites with links to yours.
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linked to yours
yet, that's likely the reason you aren't showing up in the
first "x" amount
of search results.
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as a keyword.
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in the search
results.
Napa Guide and Napa have millions of competing sites, and
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Valley..it's Napa Auto Parts and so on.
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the title
instead of just Napa.
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keywords that are
indexed for other sites using Napa, and get a better idea of
what works and
what sites there are that are unrelated to Napa Valley using
keywords
similar to yours. You don't need to buy ads, you can just set
it up.
As far as the Sitemap.xml, yours looks OK.
You should definitely resubmit it, once you've tested all the
links in it.
Sometimes it's a few hours, other times it's days or longer
to show it's
been crawled.
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half the links in
the sitemap indexed, 600 of 1000 links in one example.
I don't think that's uncommon, and it even states in Webtools
that it's not
an error if links in the sitemap are not indexed.
You only have a few links though, so I would think the
majority would be
linked.
I would say the biggest thing to focus on right now is to get
you site
linked to from other relevant sites.
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local sites, etc.
The way the link to your site is defined on the other site is
important.
-"Click Here"- as a link to your site isn't worth much to the
search engine.
-Click here for a great "Napa Tourism Guide"-, where Napa
Tourism Guide is
the link, is worth something.
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Image links are definitely not worth much.
Hope this helps.
Take care,
Tim
"garynng" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>I really need some help - I created this site in DW:
>www.napatouristguide.com.
>
> I submitted it to google, verified it, added a sitemap,
and waited a week
> so
> far. It shows that it found 15 urls in the sitemap, and
indexed 4.
> However,
> the only way you can find the site in google is if you
google the actual
> url.
> If you do any keywords, including the title of the site,
it comes back
> with
> nothing. (If you do this you might see my original test
pages which I
> posted
> under another site I do, www.localwally.com).
>
> Today, I accessed google webmaster tools and it show 31
404 errors. Many
> of
> the links are old links with old urls (I changed them a
few days ago based
> on
> the recommendation of a google faq to not use "_" to
separate words).
> However,
> some of the rejected pages are actual live pages, such
as my index page.
> When
> you click on the "linked from" data, it shows it came
from the sitemap. I
> originally thought it did this because I changed the
sitemap, but the
> index.html file did not change names, nor a number of
others which also
> showed
> as 404.
>
> Additionally, someone else on the google forum is
telling me that when he
> types in www.napatouristguide.com he gets a blank page!
When I do it, I
> get
> the actual page.
>
> Could someone please help me figure out what I need to
do? I realize this
> is
> a DW forum, but I am hoping someone out there takes pity
on me since it
> took me
> 15 months to learn DW and write this site and now it
feels like I am
> totally
> lost.
>
> Gary
>

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