IWeb and Google's Website Optimizer

I am interested in using Google's Website Optimizer to analyze which of my web pages get the most attention and are the most effective. I need to modify the HTML in my web pages and "add HTML tags" but I don't know how to do that or if that's possible in iWeb? Can anyone help me figure this out? Thanks!

You can use the freewareiWeb SEO Tool to add keywords, page titles and photo alt titles which help search engines.
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Iweb and google and

ok i use iweb and i was wondering if it is possible to do this with it
http://mitchellbrownphotography.info/Picture%203.png
so it shows all my website pages under my website in google.
or if not i do actually use dreamweaver and i was wondering if i could do it with that if not can anyone help of you wanna contact me with extra info or anything else it is [email protected]
thanks Mitch

That is not something you have real control over. It is something Google will do automatically for your site if they feel it is necessary. Here are some of the things you can do to help your chances of having those links come up;
1) Link to your important pages from within your website using the same anchor text (ie the blue underlined text)
2) Get links to your important pages from third party websites using the same anchor text (This is difficult since it is hard to control how other sites link to yours)
3) Create an XML Sitemap file and create a Google Webmaster tools account. From here you can control what links Google displays for your website.
Keep in mind that this takes time. If your site is new, you will probably have to wait a few months before these additional links start appearing in Google's search results.

IWeb and Google

Dear iWebbers,
I have published a new site made in iWeb on my personal domain. Now Google doesn't seem to find my site anymore. I would very much appreciate any tips or solutions.
Thanks, Jeroen

It looks like your website is called Site_2 in iWeb so the sitemap.xml should go inside the folder of that name and its URL will be...
http://web.mac.com/joegramm/Site_2/sitemap.xml
You would be better to name your site JoeGramm or Joe_Gramm or Joe.Gramm.
Once you have submitted your sitemap to Google and had it verified, the spiders then crawl your text - they can't look at photos! You need to put your keywords like Joe Gramm, Upholstery etc in the text on your pages.
As far as I know the masking stops Google but you'll find that out for sure if you try to them to verify using that URL.
I use the application Google Sitemap Automator to create sitemaps.
I just read your latest post while writing this.

Iweb and google analytics

hi,
i am new to iweb, i am trying to insert a google analytics script to my new site, how can that be done? can i edit my site in HTML mode?
please advise, thanks, Meir

Salut,
I just tried 1000 combinations to implement that code and only had errorr... The solution proposed by Wyodor (thanks for the post btw) seems to be simple and easy but I definitely don't understand what I'm doing wrong...
- I changed the google analytics code thanks to "Fraise" (HTML editor) by deleting :<script type="text/javascript"> and </script>
- I uploaded the text file in a specific folder on my server (in the root)
- I finally added the HTML snippet on iweb with the code given by Wyodor...
- I publish
= Result : no google analytics when I check my source code...
Maybe my mistake comes from the code : newScript.src = 'http://url/of/the/file/named/analytics.js';
Could you tell me exactly what URL (of the file named) I have to put in the HTML snippet ?
I also read some articles where people say that iWebSEO is working well. Would you recommend to use it instead of that solution above ? Do you think that iWebSEO can be a good way implement meta tags in order to improve your visibility on search results ?
Thanks for your help
Merci !

IWeb and multiple users

So i'm trying to see how i can set up a website in iweb and edit that website from multiple computers and it stay up-to-date. is there a way to do this?

thanks, that does help a bit, i think i can figure that out. my next question is what happens to my existing iweb sites if i try to open a different DOMAIN file from a different source?
ie: i have like over 20 iWeb sites in my iWeb 2.0 that are in a DOMAIN file stored in the default location. if i go to open (by double clicking) a DOMAIN file from an iDisk for instance to edit it and it opens iWeb, what will happen with my other sites? and will this set that iDisk DOMAIN file location as my default?

Problems with iWeb and mobile me

Ciao everyone,
I've been having a ridiculous amount of problems with my mobile me account and my iweb. 2 weeks ago I was fine with my iweb and mobile me but all of a sudden my iweb would say it publish but it really doesn't publish. The I went to the mac store a couple of times and thought I would get answers but I didnt get any answer even though I had a couple of one to one visits with a couple of stores in NYC. So when i publish it it shows that it published in my www.me.com/idisk/iweb folder but then it doesn't show in my website. Then one guy told me that I should just recreate a new site but copy and past all the old information to the new one. Now it won't publish at all because I guess its a lot of information to publish at once. I get an error message saying error iweb was not able to publish please try again later. Any help?

Hey you guys,
Thanks for the help, but I did try to publish all to my iweb and it didn't work. I do try to view my published website through the file/visit published site and for some reason only my intro page is there then when i go into the main page i get an error page. I also did go to my finder/Go/idisk/myidisk/iweb/site/iweb and saw my websites folder. Everything seems to be in it. I tried to take a screen shot of what is in my folder but I can't post pictures. In my folder I have a folder for gallery, index.html, site, shites.rss, and my website folder usvisualswebsite
Any other suggestions? This is really frustrating. I also created another test site with nothing in it and published it and it says it finishes publishing but the blank test page isn't there.

Can i create a website in iweb and convert it to wordpress?

Can I create a web site in iweb and then convert it to wordpress?

Yes, you can create a website in iWeb.
To convert the published pages, ANY webpage, to WordPress depends om your skills to do so.
Start here : http://www.google.com/search?q=convert+webpage+to+wordpress

How can I find and edit my website on iWeb? It has disappeared

I created my website on iWeb and published it on Google. I have revised it a couple of times but now, when I open iWeb, the website is not there. I just get a new templatae. "Visit" is unavailable. If I try to open it from the Finder via iWeb, it goes to the same place. PS-I just upgraded to Lion!

In Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
To open your domain file in Lion or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
You can download an already compiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
Just launch the application, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.
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IWeb '09 and Google Analytics

So, Apple finally released the feature I've been waiting years for - the ability to upload to FTP in iWeb '09. This is really awesome because iWeb can upload changes to a site only instead of having to export the site to my hard drive then upload the entire site via a separate FTP program.
The only problem is it has basically broken my Google Analytics support. I used to use a Automator script to automatically add Google Analytics code to each page before manually uploading, but now that iWeb does the uploading itself, I can't do this anymore. And the way iWeb implements HTML "widgets", it loads javascripts in a separate file instead of in the main HTML file of each page, which basically means Google analytics won't work.
Does anybody have a good way to get Google Analytics working in an iWeb page without exporting the page and uploading with a separate FTP program?

J-a-x:
I started using iWeb '08 when it first came out and have been very happy with it. I purchase iLife '09 and have switched to iWeb '09 with very few problems. I use Statcounter (and Google Analytics on one site) and ran into the same problem that you have indicated. Initially, I used the Publish to FTP function and used html snippets for the Statcounter code which worked OK.
One of the problems with using iWeb is that the pages do not always look the same in Safari as they do in IE7. What I do not is publish to a folder then through VMWare Fusion, look at the pages in Internet Explorer. The main difference that I am finding is the text boxes. This procedure allows me to make sure that the pages veiw correctly in IE7 before I publish them.
Once, I am happy with the pages in the website, (at the recommendation of Roddy) the pages are optimized through Website Maestro (WSM). This creates another folder in your Sites folder with each site optimized. I then use iTweak to add the Statcounter codes to the optimized pages and then upload to the server with Fetch. WSM has the upload function, but last night I could not figure out the paths correctly so I used Fetch.
FYI, I am also using Multisite with iWeb '09 and it seems to work fine. I maintain three websites, two of which have similar information. I can be working on a site, use Multisite to quickly switch to one of the other websites, copy information, then switch back to the previous site and paste the information. Seems to work well.
I think an important thing to remember is that most of the people that view your website are going to be using Windows Internet Explorer so it is very important that you make sure that the view they see is correct; in that case WSM is a must have.
Is iWeb '09 worth the upgrade? Yes, I think so even though I have chosen no to use the Publish to FTP function, the Publish to Folder option is much enhanced. There may be some additional enhancements that make it easier to use that I do not use and am unaware.
Hope this helps!

Iweb struggle to have website verified on google

Hi
I designed my site with Iweb and it is histed with Mobileme. Domain Name was purchased at Godaddy.I just spent a few days already and about to get nuts... I tried adding a metatag, I tried uploading an html file but keep getting error messages from google. The one think that might be creating the problem is that when I try my url. my website reads as follow:
www.mydomain/mydomain/homepage... This extra folder I think is the problem. Can anyone help me figure it out?

In iWeb, does the first Site have the same name as your personal domain name ?
If so, you can change the name to Home or Portal or whatever is meaningful for you.
As for the Google problem,
what are you trying ? Google Webmaster Tools or Google Analytics ?
In both cases your personal domain name should be enough.
www.yourdomainname.xx(x)
Kind regards,

Iweb 08 AND google search???

Hey, I hope someone can help me. 1st off, I don't know much about page design and all that stuff. I know a little, but please simple terms.
I'm thinking of making a page in Iweb, however, I want my page to be indexed and search easy if someone should try to find my site on google. I have heard 2 stories.
1) if you make your website in iweb, don't expect to get much trafic as google probably wont find it or pick it up. SO for small business, iweb is NOT the way to go
2) Google will find your site if you add google maps and google products to your site.
I just want the world to know my site!!! But if google can't pick it up..or is unlikely to pick it up...then what's the point? Can someone please help??

With iWeb '08 you have the option to publish to a local folder to add tags and upload to MobileMe by drag and drop to Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites.
By doing this, you do lose some of the functions of iWeb as you will see in the Help files.
There's a lot of good reasons why you shouldn't rely on MobileMe for a business site but, if you have to use it, you can still get search engine attention.
You need to follow the steps in the section of iWeb for Musicians that I mentioned above and use your MobileMe URL to allow Google etc to get to your sitemap.
Its also more or less essential to build your own navigation menu rather than use the default iWeb one.....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/Navigation.html
.... and follow the guidelines to get your site to load on a PC running Internet Explorer .....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebandInternetExplorer.html
... if you want most of the rest of the world to be able to see your website.

How to create website on iweb and make it public, and tell me how to put a password on it.

Hi, can you tell me how to create website on iweb and make it public, and tell me how to put a password on it, thanks.

Find a webhosting company :
http://www.google.jo/search?q=webhosting+jordan
They will provide the instructions how to password protect a directory (=folder)?
Until you find one, you can practice on your own computer :
http://www.wyodor.net/Tutorials/iWebDemo/sFTP.html
Here's a some tutorials :
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/web/

My MacBook Pro won't load any websites on Safari (except this site, Facebook and Google), Opera, or Mozilla Firefox. I already did the "Reset Safari", restarted the computer half a dozen times, and I can't find this alleged "caches.db" file to delete.

My MacBook Pro won't load any websites on Safari (except this site, Facebook and Google). Opera and Mozilla Firefox won't load any sites whatsoever. I already did the "Reset Safari" several times, restarted the computer half a dozen times, and I can't find this alleged "caches.db" file to delete. I virus scanned the computer with Sophos, Avast, and iAntiVirus and it looks clean.

Is iAntiVirus the best virus protection to use for a MacBook?
The best anti-virus protection is your own common sense, and what you already bought and paid for with your Mac. Third party products such as "iAntiVirus" convey no additional benefit, and as you already determined are very capable of causing trouble.
OS X already includes everything it needs to protect itself from viruses and malware. Keep it that way with software updates from Apple.
A much better question is "how should I protect my Mac":
Never install any product that claims to "speed up", "clean up", "optimize", or "accelerate" your Mac. Without exception, they will do the opposite.
Never install pirated or "cracked" software, software obtained from dubious websites, or other questionable sources. Illegally obtained software is almost certain to contain malware.
Don’t supply your password in response to a popup window requesting it, unless you know what it is and the reason your credentials are required.
Don’t open email attachments from email addresses that you do not recognize, or click links contained in an email:
Most of these are scams that direct you to fraudulent sites that attempt to convince you to disclose personal information.
Such "phishing" attempts are the 21st century equivalent of a social exploit that has existed since the dawn of civilization. Don’t fall for it.
Apple will never ask you to reveal personal information in an email. If you receive an unexpected email from Apple saying your account will be closed unless you take immediate action, just ignore it. If your iTunes or App Store account becomes disabled for valid reasons, you will know when you try to buy something or log in to this support site, and are unable to.
Don’t install browser extensions unless you understand their purpose. Go to the Safari menu > Preferences > Extensions. If you see any extensions that you do not recognize or understand, simply click the Uninstall button and they will be gone.
Don’t install Java unless you are certain that you need it:
Java, a non-Apple product, is a potential vector for malware. If you are required to use Java, be mindful of that possibility.
Java can be disabled in System Preferences.
Despite its name JavaScript is unrelated to Java. No malware can infect your Mac through JavaScript. It’s OK to leave it enabled.
Block browser popups: Safari menu > Preferences > Security > and check "Block popup windows":
Popup windows are useful and required for some websites, but popups have devolved to become a common means to deliver targeted advertising that you probably do not want.
Popups themselves cannot infect your Mac, but many contain resource-hungry code that will slow down Internet browsing.
If you ever see a popup indicating it detected registry errors, that your Mac is infected with some ick, or that you won some prize, it is 100% fraudulent. Ignore it.
Ignore hyperventilating popular media outlets that thrive by promoting fear and discord with entertainment products arrogantly presented as "news". Learn what real threats actually exist and how to arm yourself against them:
The most serious threat to your data security is phishing. To date, most of these attempts have been pathetic and are easily recognized, but that is likely to change in the future as criminals become more clever.
OS X viruses do not exist, but intentionally malicious or poorly written code, created by either nefarious or inept individuals, is nothing new.
Never install something without first knowing what it is, what it does, how it works, and how to get rid of it when you don’t want it any more.
If you elect to use "anti-virus" software, familiarize yourself with its limitations and potential to cause adverse effects, and apply the principle immediately preceding this one.
Most such utilities will only slow down and destabilize your Mac while they look for viruses that do not exist, conveying no benefit whatsoever - other than to make you "feel good" about security, when you should actually be exercising sound judgment, derived from accurate knowledge, based on verifiable facts.
Do install updates from Apple as they become available. No one knows more about Macs and how to protect them than the company that builds them.
Summary: Use common sense and caution when you use your Mac, just like you would in any social context. There is no product, utility, or magic talisman that can protect you from all the evils of mankind.

I made a free website using iweb and my host is dropbox but it is not showing in every search engine,i have to use a proxy for my site to pop up

i made a free website using iweb and my host is dropbox but it is not showing in every search engine,i have to use a proxy for my site to pop up

Possibly because dropbox is not really a proper webhost - it might be better if you went and signed up for proper web hosting from somewhere like http://www.godaddy.com or http://www.hostexcellence.com.
Have you told Google that you site exists? If not, then you need to do so - http://www.google.com/addurl.

HT4686 How can I publish my website developed using iWeb and have all functions of the blog page work as it did with MobileMe?

I have developed a website using iWeb and it includes a blog page selected from stock pages in iWeb. I'm publishing it with GoDaddy and when I do that the interactive functions of the blog page don't work. (Adding comments and photos as well as searching). Is there any simple way to host this site somewhere so that those functions work?

No, because all those functions were MobileMe only and now that MobileMe has gone, they won't function any longer.
To enable these to function, you either need to add them yourself or change your blogging platform to something else such as WordPress etc., and create a link from iWeb to your WordPress blog or embed the blog page using iframe into your iWeb site.
Commenting systems such as Disqus or http://www.intensedebate.com work quite well.

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