Is there a way make an iWeb site appear on Google?

Question

With other software I know you need code to do that. I was wondering if iBank had some other way to do it since it doesn’t let you add code to websites.

Answer 1

I use iWeb '09 for my company's site (www.inchwormdesign.com), and I have done everything mentioned here. All is good, but you need to do one more thing.
Download the free program called iWeb SEO Tool (http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-seo-tool.html), and do the following:
1. from iWeb, publish site to folder on hardrive (i.e. user-sites-'your site')
2. open up iWeb SEO Tool
3. click on 'OPEN WEBSITE' from top left corner of program window
4. select the entire site folder you published to, and click 'CHOOSE'
5. now, all the files will appear on the left hand side of the program. You will need to select every .html page that is associated with your site (e.g. if you have a 'HOME' page, then you will have a folder called "HOME FILES" and you'll have just below or above called "HOME.html"). After you have selected a .html from the left, you simply fill in the info on the right side of the program.
6. after you've finished all pages info, simply select 'PUBLISH', and fill out your FTP settings for your host (this should be the same info you use on iWeb's publishing attributes).
The most important information to fill is the Title Tags & Meta Tags. Be sure you take some time to thoroughly figure out your site's information. All this information is then picked up by Google's spiders and other search engines. The more and more your site pops up around the internet (i.e. visitors, blogs, links, etc.), the more these spiders will detect your tags and will therefore rank your site higher. A lot of this stuff is completely up to you, though. If you don't get visitors and you don't share and network your site, then your rank on search engines will not be very high.
Another very important thing about the iWeb SEO Tool:
- say you want to make changes to your site and edit pages, etc. as everybody always does, how do you republish the site with all the same tags you added before? Once you've used iWeb SEO Tool, you'll never want to publish via iWeb again, because you'll lose all those very important tags. Luckily the iWeb SEO Tool allows you to do this pretty painlessly.
1. make changes to site using iWeb
2. publish site to folder (same folder as before)
3. open iWeb SEO Tool
4. open your website in same fashion as before
5. when your site is loaded, select the button on the right pane called 'RE-APPLY SAVED TAGS'. This will apply all the same information for every page you did previously. If you add or subtract pages, you will have to do some tweaking, and add new information for new pages, but all pages that you've had before will have all the same information applied.
6. publish site
This is pretty cool, and works really well. It's a perfect complement to iWeb, since iWeb has very limited control when it comes to Search Engine Optimization.
Hope you find this helpful.
Cheers,
jeff