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.

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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)
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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...
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