How to PROMOTE your iWeb site...............

iWeb is soooooooo user friendly.
I'm new to creating a web site and I
was wondering, how you go about
promoting my website on search
engines such as Yahoo and Google.
Any suggestions?
Cheers

Here are some more details on how to get your site listed more/better/faster:
1. Go to http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl and submit your URL. Submit both yourdomain.com and http://web.mac.com/yourusername
FYI, if you use forwarding on yourdomain.com, Google will be happier/more likely to index your mac.com addresses. No way around this.
2. Submit your site (either URL) to http://www.iwebusersites.com
3. Get other people you know to post links to your site, and you should include your url when you post in bulletin boards/forums, etc. The more places your links are, the more likely Google is to find you.
4. Add Meta tags to your pages.
Get MassReplaceIt
http://www.hexmonkeysoftware.com
Here's a page on how to use it:
http://web.mac.com/will.englefield/iWeb/WillG4PB/MRI.html
Tell it to search for
</head>
Replace with
<meta name="description" content="insert description of your site"><meta name="keywords" content="keywords for your site separated by commas"></head>
5. This is a big one: Check the text on your page - perhaps it is being converted to images. Make sure you use a web safe font, put text in text boxes, not shape boxes, and don't add effects (shadows, etc) to the text or text boxes. This way Google has something to search on your pages.
6. Create a sitemap and submit it to Google
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html
in conjunction with this
http://www.sitemapdoc.com/Default.aspx
There are instructions for doing this all over the forum if you do a search.
7. Wait patiently. It takes time

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Hi there,
I am trying and trying, but I can't figure it out. Can anybody help me and tell me how to publish an iWeb site with Cyberduck??
Thank you so much!
Marc

Okay, this is not complicated at all.
When you want to publish an iWeb site to some place other than MobileMe, then you publish to a folder of your choice on your hard drive and iWeb will create all the files needed. It will create one folder that has the same name that you called your website inside iWeb plus an index.html page. So if you called your site Site in iWeb, then when you publish to a folder, your folder will be called Site, plus the index.html page.
You then need to open Cyberduck and enter your ftp info, plus your username and password and then you click on open connection. Once you click on open connection you will be connected to your hosting service and there will be a folder there called Public_html. You then need to upload your folder plus index.html file from your hard drive and once these have been uploaded, you just drag and drop them into the Public_html folder on your web space. To upload in Cyberduck, just click on Action at the top and click on Upload. Once you click here you will be shown all the files on your hard drive and all you need do is go to the folder where you site is stored and then click on index.html and it will be uploaded and then click on Site or whatever your site is called and upload this and it will be uploaded.
It is not difficult at all, but you do need to know what you are doing.

Is there a way to have files available for download on your iweb site?

Ok here's the question. If I wanted a image file or music file to be available for download on your iweb site.....would that be possible?
Kind of like when you go to a website and sometimes it has a link you can press to download a file. If you click the file then the "save as" or "download" window opens depending on your browser.
Is something like this available on an iweb site? If so then how would you create something like that? Any help would be appreciated.

audiophiler,
There are two ways to link to files with iWeb. The approach that iWebFaq outlines results in iWeb making a copy of the file in question and storing it in the domain.sites file. Then, when it publishes your website, it puts a copy of the file in the right place in the folders it publishes. Visitors to your site then download that copy.
You are correct that you can put things in your public folder of your iDisk for download. But the process of linking to those files is different. When you set up the link in iWeb (using the inspector) you need to choose "external link" and provide the url of the file in question.
For more background on the differences between these approaches, and the advantages of each, see this thread. That thread also has some good links for sorting out what the url of the files in your public (and other) folders of your iDisk are.
kabing
iBook G4 14 in Mac OS X (10.4.9) iMac 400 MHz G3 OS 9.2.2

Hosting Your iWeb Site From Your Mac

If you don't have a .Mac account or you don't want to pay a monthly fee to host your new website you created with iWeb, you can use OS X's built-in Apache Web server. To accomplish this, follow the steps in the link below.
Hosting Your iWeb Site From Your Mac >>
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I was able to get this to work, using the same configuration you mention. The way I did it was to set up the IP address on my LAN using fixed static addresses, and to have the router "forward" the http packets to the Mac running Apache. In Network system preferences panel, you also need to set the DNS servers address to the address of the router on the LAN. In order to reduce hackers trying to break in, I don't use the standard port 80 for my address, but use some other 4-digit port (e.g., 8182), so my website address ends up looking like www.whatever:8182. Instead of "no-IP.com" I used the free dynamic name service from http://www.dyndns.com/. I also put the web content on a firewire disk, which requires a little editing of the httpd.conf file. This was another security precaution. Anyhow, its been working great -- not a single problem. Also, Weblock is great shareware that lets you assign login IDs on the web folders.

How to export an iweb site to another mac

How to export an iweb site to another mac?

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, enter ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/ as the path, and move iWeb's domain package as desired.
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How do you hyperlink a rollover to another page from within your iweb site?

Ive made a bunch of rollovers for my iweb navigation bar. If youve created a rollover you know you have to link the images to a image hosting site. here as you would just normally drag and drop a image from your desk top. Because of the way iweb works, if you are using images from a image hosting sit, you can no longer adjust the characteristics of the images i.e. colors, size, and in this case the hyperlink. More specifically you cant change the hyperlink to a page within the iweb site.
So the problem im trying to figure out is how to link the rollover to a page within my iweb site.
now you can actually change the hyperlink of the rollover. however you must do this by adjusting the html within the snippet of the rollover. The problem i found is that iweb doesnt creat sub domains for each page. a entire iweb site with multible pages uses only one domain which is the homepage. so i cant just type a subdomain of another page into the snippet hyperlink because the subdomain doesnt exist.
here is the link to my site. youll notice i did figure out a work around with the "contact us" button but its a huge pain in the butt. i had to create a new domain and a new site then attach the referal index.html to that new domain. todo this for every single button is very difficult.
http://springgardenranch.tk
so i guess the bigger question is, is there a easier way to do this?
perhaps if there was a way to create a subdomains like springgardenranch.tk/contactus withing iweb for each page. but i dont even know if thats possible.
thanks for you help.

Because of the way iweb works, if you are using images from a image hosting sit, you can no longer adjust the characteristics of the images i.e. colors, size, and in this case the hyperlink.
Then use your own images. Then you can create them the way you want.
Here's how I do it :
http://cafenoir.atspace.com/Hover/
And here's the menu in an iWeb page :
http://cafenoir.atspace.com/HNBF/
And here you can learn how to do it. Follow the links to the How-To pages.
http://cafenoir.atspace.com/
You may have to learn HTML. CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, DOM and how iweb creates its webpages.

How to transfer an iWeb site from one MobileMe account to another.

I am creating an iWeb site for a friend. I am doing this using my mac and my MobileMe account. I understand that the iWeb site assets are all stored in my MobileMe iDisk. I want to take the finished site and transfer it to my friends computer and his MobileMe iDisk so he can manage it from there. How do I do this.

If you have your friends MobileMe login details, then you can publish the site to his MMe account directly from your Mac. Go to System Preferences and log out of your MMe account and then into his and then go back to iWeb and then publish the site directly to his MMe account.
As far as giving him the ability to manage the sites, just give him the relevant domain file for the site. Go to User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites and find the domain file and then you can e-mail it to his Mac and he can then put the domain file in the same place on his Mac.
Whatever you do, don't publish the site to your desktop - you won't be able to do anything with it. It is the domain file that you need if your friend wants to manage and alter the site in any way.

How to copy/paste iWeb site

Hi!
3 questions...
1) How do I copy and paste my existing iWeb websites pix and text and links and so forth into a newly created iWeb website?
2) How do I create new iWeb site name
3) How do I delete the old site?

The only inane question is the one not asked. The best way to backup your web site is to make a backup copy of your Domain.sites2 file that is in the User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder. Varkgirl has an Automator work flow that will copy it to another location of your choice. I believe you can find it on Varkgirl's iWeb Tips and Tricks site or use this link to directly download it: Click Here. I believe it makes a zipped copy of the domain file and moves it to the location of your choice. It can take a while depending on the size of your site.
Since I have over 45 individual sites I use a backup application to backup it up after each time I edit and/or publish. After the initial backup the application, Synk Standard,it only backs up those new or changed files in the domain file(s). Much quicker that backing up the entire file(s).
If you have an external hard drive you can just drag the domain file to it after each use, replacing the previous one - if you don't have a backup program.
It's all one big learning curve here in the discussions. Some of us are just on a different part of the curve than others. Good luck.
OT

Hosting your IWeb site

Hi,
I want to change my local IWeb site and upload it to a server host....(For example: "http://www.machighway.com") Will I be able to upload files just as they are locally and drop them unto the server? Otherwise, who offers the most affordable monthly plans for hosting an IWeb Site

What's affordable depends on how much you want to spend and where you live.
Here's one for starters. Its free and if you like it you can pay for it and get a free domainname :
www.000webhost.com
I use several of these webhosts, besides MobileMe.
Or do your own webhosting. Either on your own computer or on an external one.
Since I was in need of backup anyway I bought a Synology DS211 NAS with two 3TB Seagate harddisks.
bit.ly/pDg4Ka
bit.ly/oFa9j5
It has all the bells and whistles to run your own show. I just need to learn how to bell and whistle, lots of UNIX inside.
Today I got the mailserver up and running with my own domainname, so now you can reach me too.
The coming months I start migrating my website from MMe. But first I must get aquainted with some httpd.config directives I want to use on my current computer before I configure the NAS.
So lots of fun ahead.
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Can you put Keywords in your iWeb site?

I'd like to add some keywords to my iWeb site so that search engines can find me faster. I have looked this up in Apple help and a search for keywords and meta tags comes up with nothing. How can I put some keywords in?
janerain

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...Quoted from here.

Hosting your iWeb site with a third party

Where is the best place to host my iWeb site so that I can get it indexed by the various search engines? Apparently, .Mac blocks spiders and therefore I cannot get my site to come in search results. Obviously, my primary goal is to have my site prominent on google. I would like to find a host that would submit my sites for me if possible. Thanks.

.Mac doesn't block spiders. You have to get rid of the iWeb standard navigation and build your own.
Create a sitemap and upload it to Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites.
The URL for your sitemap is ...
http://web.mac.com/username/sitemap.xml
... and the URL you submit to Google is ...
http://web.mac.com/username/
Rage Sitemap Automator will create the map, upload it and enter it into the four major search engines..
http://www.ragesw.com/products/googlesitemap.html
A more basic, and cheaper, version is iMap...
http://guimkie.com/projects/imap/
Or you can use the freeware Carto and do all the hard work yourself....
http://www.freemacware.com/carto/
Lots of information here...
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWebiWebGoogle.html

How to import old iWeb sites

I recently did a clean install of Lion and setup a new User for myself, rather than migrate my old user data. I copied my Sites folder from my Snow Leopard User folder into my User folder in Lion, but when I open iWeb, I can't see any of my iWeb sites. How can I import the sites that I've already built in SL into iWeb running under Lion?

The website data is stored in a Domain.sites2 file whose default location is Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb. This is the file you need to transfer.
In Lion the Library is hidden and there is a slight problem with opening Domain files. See this page under "iWeb and Lion" for info...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/iWeb-Tips.html

Have your iWeb site critiqued.

If anyone would like to have their iWeb site critiqued post it here. All graphic designers and professionals alike are encouraged to critique as well. I have been working as a graphic designer for over 8 years, and am working towards my masters degree in graphic design. I have strong knowledge about typography and layout, and can offer constructive criticisms to help improve the look of your site. Anyone who is interested is welcome to post.

Juejuegirl:
I think you have some nice things going on here. What I like the most is the "Blog" page. I think the background here and the fonts fit your theme more so than the other pages.
An important thing in design is to be consistent, especially when designing a multiple page layout. This will bring the site together as a whole. Having the navigation menu change for each page can be a bit confusing and can "throw off" the viewer.
Maybe finding a page you really like (my vote is for the blog page) and matching the other pages to this style would bring the whole site together.
Also, you don't want to use too many different type faces. I would use the same font and style for subheadings throughout (say Garamond semibold 14 pt), and then for the paragraph text below a contrasting font (say Arial or Verdana 10 pt.) This will embed in the viewers head and they will be able to navigate through the site easily.
For example on the "who are we" page you have the subheading "who lives downtown", and then paragraph type below it. This looks nice, but then immediatly below it the next subheading "featured product" and its paragraph type changes. Make these the same throughout and your site will become more cohesive.
If you stick with the first page, bring up the blog button so the nav menu is on one line. Its hanging by itself right now, and needs to be with its buddies.
Hope this is useful. Nice job.

Does anyone know how to save an iweb site to dvd so that a Windows user...

can put it in their computer and view it? This would be a hard copy of the site with all files. Have created a very media rich iweb site and am hoping to enable several people to view the site without accessing the internet.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions. You all are always so helpful.
Best,
Kim

Publish your Site to a folder and burn it to disk.
The disk doesn't know it's a website.
Your webpages have to be viewed in a Browser.
And as long they do not contain outside links, there's no need for an Internet connection.
Practice with a RW disk. Then you can erase the disk and start over.
All kind of tricks such as autostart can be found on the internet.
PS. Scan for virusses too, otherwise Windows and/or its users get hysterical.

How to unpublish my iweb site

Hi,
What do I need to do to unpublish my iWeb site? Should I just delete the files from my iWeb program?
Thanks for your help.

If you have published your website, then yes, of course it will still exist, whether you delete from iWeb or not.
You need to go and delete your site from where you published it - so if you published to MobileMe, then you need to log into MobileMe and go and delete your site from your iDisk.
If you published to a server/host, then you need to download Cyberduck and connect with your host so that you can actually see what files are on your server and use Cyberduck to delete these.
Also, never delete anything from iWeb that you want to alter or keep without backing up. If you ever need it again, you will end up re-building it.

How to PROMOTE your iWeb site...............

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