Iweb messed up on google?

So I have finally suceeded in getting google to post some of my sites on there search engine. I had a very hard time verifying and making a sitemap and webcrawler.
Finally got it to work and now look at my ads on google? The decribtions are all nonsense and html??
Web Results 1 - 3 of 3 from www.betterboa.com/betterboa. (0.02 seconds)
Cornsnakes - 1:18pm
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Boas
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please help

You need to put blocks of descriptive text on photo pages to give the spiders something to crawl.
They can't look at photos - particularly ones of snakes!
Your forum questions are coming up because you have given your URL and there is text for the spiders to crawl.

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Now that MobileMe has closed I cannot use Google Maps.
In iWeb, Why should my Google map be linked to MobileMe when I have never joined MobileMe?
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The Google map widget assets were hosted on MobileMe.
Use the Google Map code in an HTML Snippet instead.
Google has a good tutorial for creating basic maps...
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/getmaps/plot-one.html
If you want to make changes to the code or add features...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iweb-snippets/map-tutorial.html
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iweb-snippets/map.html
... or create an info slider...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iweb-snippets/map-2.html

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here is the page which is driving me mad:
http://www.graphtec-italia.it/Graphtec-Italia/CAMEO.html
As you can see, all goes fine in the first paragraphs, then after the first box (the one named "Carta e cartoncino") all goes wrong, and iweb messes up with fonts, layout, alignment
Needless to say that in the page I designed everything is neatly aligned.
I tried the local publishing already, and the output is the same as online.
For your reference, the smaller pictures have been pasted into textboxes, with text running around.
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I found the source of the problem:
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Why doesn't my iWeb page work with google chrome?

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I have never heard of a server free or otherwise that does not accept uploads via ftp?
There are plenty of other free hosts around - why not suggest to your friend that they find one and sign up for an account and use one that will accept upload via ftp?
Surely a lot simpler than wasting a lot of your time having to write code to make it work!!

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

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.

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'
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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
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More and better answers at http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster-forum/forums/13-Google-Discussion-Forum

Techie Question about iWeb, outbound links, and Google Analytics

Hi,
I have a kind of pretty technical question about using Google Analytics (GA) with iWeb sites to measure clicks on outbound links. Here's the setup:
1) My website's online, and GA is working properly.
2) I don't sell stuff directly, but I do have a "Purchase" page which contains a link to a specific Amazon page.
3) I'm pretty sure I can measure how many people go to the Purchase page using GA, but how do I measure whether visitors click on the Amazon link? It would be interesting to me to be able to gauge what the conversion rate is; that is, how many people actually proceed to purchase the product at Amazon.
I've checked the GA instructions and there's a page about manually tracking clicks on outbound links but it requires some code inputting. I know zero about coding, but I'm pretty sure that in iWeb you can't get access to the source code to input the required code.
Am I wrong about this? And if I am, then does anyone here know how to measure the clickthrough rate?
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I don't know about the link tracking but you could have the link take you to a redirect page which automatically sends them to Amazon.com after a preset time, 0 seconds to whatever you'd like. You can put a counter on that redirect page, like StatCounter. StatCounter can tell you how many, from where they came, i.e country and area, repeat visits, etc.
Tutorials #12 & #13 describe how to put a visible counter on a page but with a redirect page you wouldn't have to bother since it wouldn't be seen. You can get all of your information from your account on the StatCounter site.
The redirect page would be a simple plain text page titled redirect.html and would look like this:
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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content="0; Destination URL">
<title>Redirecting or whatever you'd like to appear at the top of the browser</title>
</head>
<body>
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0 Is the number of seconds to wait before redirecting the visitor. If set to zero the visitor would not know they were being redirected. Replace Destination URL with the Amazon URL you want them to go to.
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Third party html editor-allow google analytics to work on iWeb

I want people to find me via google search, so need to get inside frame of iWeb. Apple tech told me there is no access to the iWeb source file. Is there a third party html editor that I can use in front of iWeb? With apologies for an unsophisticated question.

work wonk wrote:
Matti-
First time in discussion and this is most helpful. (how do I cut the answer the way you did my question and then respond? Trying to do it inelegantly below.)
First, click the quote mark above the little box you're typing in ^. That makes the full text of the person you're responding to appear at the top of your response. Then, to cut it up, you just put your cursor where you want to respond and push return to start a new paragraph. Basically, anything with an ">" sign on the left gets put in the quote box. Your response, without the ">" sign, is regular text. You can Preview to see how it looks before you post.
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This is where someone else might have better advice, but as far I know, iWeb doesn't create "frames." It creates basic pages that can be catalogued by a search engine. Unless there's something about the template you're using that's creating frames within pages that are hard to search - not sure if that's the case - but perhaps that's what you're referring to.
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Reading your description of what you're trying to do, it does sound like it would work better on a 3rd party host. For lack of a better word, sites with "heft" do better on a 3rd party host.
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Hi
I added a blog for our Small Business site that I created with iWeb. We used Google Analytics and the Automator script add the HTML snippet to track visits on our site. Since I added the blog I realized that after running the GA automator script the "Add a comment" link disappears.
Kinda defeats the purpose of the blog. I have to choose between tracking how many visitors have been on the blog, or visitors posting comments, but I can't have both. How can I fix this and track how many visitors were on our site, and have a blog where visitors can leave comments? Any ideas and solutions would be most welcome. Thanks,
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Unfortunately, as you have discovered, inserting Google Analytics into your site requires post editing. This means that you cannot just publish directly to MobileMe from iWeb - to insert the analytics you need to publish to a folder, insert and then place the Blog directly on your iDisk - unfortunately, this way you loose the features that your iWeb blog provides when published directly to MME - i.e. Blog comments.
Do you have an ordinary website too or is it just a blog? If you have an ordinary website, what some people do, including myself, is set up a blog with WordPress, E-blogger, or http://www.posterous.com and link to it from your iWeb site.
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It may be obscure in iWeb but the Safari 4 update has messed up the Google maps in iPhoto big time. Be sure to report it as they are all related to the Safari 4 upgrade and probably only be solved by a Safari fix.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html
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Calendars on iWeb Question

Hi,
I'm making a website for a prefecture in Japan and I'd like people from all over to add to one calendar which I can post on the website I've made using iWeb. I don't want to have to invite 150 people to the google calendar or my mobileme account. And then again next year when new people come.
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I don't want to have to manage visitors to my site. I want people to be able to post events and read what's going on and do little work myself. The tungle app seems more like an appointment scheduler. Nifty for sure but not what I need.
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mate - your in the wrong forum. you have the latest iweb version, and this is the one previous to it. in any case, you might want to check out my tutorial for making iweb sites be on google:
http://guimkie.com/projects/iweb/get-on-google-with-iweb/
as a way to make your site be more keyword attractive - make sure that none of your text is as images. if you use simply textboxes, the content will be moved into the html code and can then be picked up by google. text in images cannot be picked up by google.
for those having iweb 06, i have this article:
http://guimkie.com/projects/iweb/get-on-google-with-iweb-1x
i have some ads on my site, meaning it might generate revenue if you visit it. this is apple policy. i have to state it in order to be allowed to post this link here.
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Can't find my iweb domain file when searching for it in iweb seo tool

I am trying to get my iweb website recognized by Google. Can't seem to get the google html code to work in html snippet. So am now trying to use the iweb seo tool but can't find my iweb domain file when searching for it in iweb seo tool. My file is in user/library/applicationsupport/iweb/name.sites2
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