Google woes- here we go again- iweb site stopped coming up in Google

I have had such great support here- it was only about a month or two ago I got help here getting my site to come up on Google- everything was fine- then all of the sudden- BAM- nothing! It's just as it was before- I would check from time to time to just make sure it was still working and just today I found that it will not come up. It is still showing as verified with Google with a sitemap- I made a new sitemap and downloaded it- I don't know what else to do or where to look- any ideas? The domain name is www.maxalexanderjr.com my .mac is web.mac.com/boxingchick ...wha happened???

The more links you have to and from your website, the more likely you are to come up in a Google search. The more links you give the spiders to crawl, the more information they can gather about your site.
The sitemap you have uploaded is not very comprehensive. The one that I generated from your URL contains a lot more links. If you email me - click my name in the sidebar - I'll send you a copy and you can compare it to the one you have.
Your sitemap needs to be updated when you add a new page and/or a number of new links.
Did you try adding the .Mac URL to Google as well as the www.maxalexanderjr.com ?
I only use .Mac for testing sites before uploading to another server so I don't know what effect domain name forwarding and/or masking has - if any - with respect to Google.
Perhaps somebody else does - anybody?
All the registered domain names that I have pointed at websites uploaded to a server have only been added to Google once. They still come up - even after several years. There doesn't appear to be a rational explanation to yours "dropping out".

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Ok! Don't worry... At some point I was also lost. And I'm here to help, or at least try to...
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This is actually something very easy, that you should do regularly. Maybe once a month or so. If you go to /Applications/Utilities/ there's an Application called Disk Utility. Open it and in the tab "First Aid", there's a button that says "Verify disk permissions" and another one saying "Repair disk permissions". Just click the "Repair disk permissions" and wait for the task to finish. After doing that, try to publish. When installing things, file permissions get modified and that might cause problems. In your particular case I might speculate that by installing something, some permissions for accessing your iDisk were modified and that's why you can't access it anymore correctly.
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Peter,
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Elden...
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Isotopecrunch,
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