Google indexing

I'd like to hear from other iweb 08 users about how long you've had to wait until your websites show up on Google. I submitted my iWeb site two weeks ago, with about 45 pages, and it still hasn't been indexed. I also submited a sitemap...

Hi Guys,
I've never been able to get my website listed whilst it has been published on .mac, but now I have it hosted eslewhere it is fine.
Few tips... Make sure you have a robots.txt also make sure you have a meta tag for the robots. Goto http://www.forkliftagency.co.uk and take a look at my site source.
Also make sure that the sitemap you have has been submitted to Google via the online Dashboard. Doing this helps you find any mistakes. Again, you are more than welcome to use my sitemap as an example, although you may need Dreamweaver to edit it.
Also been told this week that setting up an adwords campaign can help get a site listed, although I don't know how true this is... as I was told this by Google staff!
Cheers
Rhys

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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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