Iweb on Google

I have just received my copy of Ilife 06 and now want to create a web site for my music school in the UK.
If I use a .mac account with the long web address how do I get my web site on the google search engine.
I have looked at many of the sites made with iweb mentioned on the discussion board and then have tried to find them using key words on Google and none of them seem to appear.
Can anybody offer me some advice?
Thanks

Have you tried testing the position of your pages on Google using ranking software? Just because your page doesn't come up in Google's first few pages of results doesn't mean it isn't there.
Google uses complicated algorithms to "rank" web pages. It analyzes every page on the web and then decides how important each page is to a particular subject. So, because your page doesn't show up on the first Google results page when I type in "Portsmouth" doesn't mean that Google hasn't indexed the page, but rather than it considers lots of other pages more important or relevant than yours.
There are many ways that a person can boost their ranking on search engines. One is to get other sites to link to yours using your important keywords in the anchor text. Another is to use html code that validates and is clean. Another is to have text positioned properly in crucial parts of the page such as in the title tags, h1 tags etc. Search engine positioning is almost a science. A whole industry has grown up around it. And the problem is that the rules and algorithms change regularly (Google is getting ready to unleash another algorithm change at around the beginning of March I believe).
If you're really serious about it you will need to do your own research on the internet or find a couple of good books on the subject.

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After saving the automator workflow as a Finder Plugin,
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Apple is not a domain name registrar and you can only host your website with them, not your domain name.
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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;
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Bonjour,
J'ai créé mon site via iweb... jusque là la vie est belle
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Il y a t-il une méthode simple et compréhensible
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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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- I publish
= Result : no google analytics when I check my source code...
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Dear iWebbers,
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