IWeb & Rage SEO Tool Problem

I've created some nice sites with iWeb but Rage's SEO Tool is corrupting the test. Once SEO Tool republishes them I'm getting diamonds with ? marks instead of apostrophies and bullets. Also when I publish with SEO Tool when entering the path it says "directory already exists." So I can force the new files in with FTP Fetch but the fonts are still messed up.

This doesn't sound like a font problem, it sounds like something is being removed from your website that shouldn't be. Specifically the meta content type tag.
What is your website URL?
Also the error you are getting fro the directory already exists means that you didn't enter your root directory path correctly. Email your web host and ask them what your root directory path is and enter what they give you.

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Problem uploading using Rage SEO tool

I can't upload my website through Rage SEO tools on my home router anymore. Has anyone else had this problem or know what might be causing it? I've tried to reset my router and did nae work

Try using another FTP application to see if the problem is with your internet connection or with SEO Tool...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Upload.html

IWeb SEO Tool problem

I´m trying to ad some tags etc. to my website. But iWeb SEO Tool can´t see the html for my front pages?
I´ve been searching the net, and Rage home page - but no luck?
www.frederiksenproductions.dk

You publish to MobileMe.
If you click the Load iDisk Sites you can update the Site on iDisk without wasting your time following the brilliant advice by publishing to a folder first :
!http://www.wyodor.net/_Discussions/SEORageiDiskLogIn.png!
!http://www.wyodor.net/_Discussions/SEORageiDiskSelect.png!

IWeb and SEO Tool - best practice?

I have made an iweb website (published to a MobileMe account) and have downloaded iWeb SEO Tool.
I have understood that there is one certain procedure in doing SEO that's a lot better than the other.
What I usually do after making changes in iWeb is choose publish to MobileMe. But after following the instruction video from iWeb SEO Tool they say one should choose publish to folder and then open the iWeb SEO tool and the local folder and after that make tags and publish to mobile me.
I have noticed that my counter sometimes disappears when I have published (and have from other topics understood that this can happen if you do the procedure with SEO-ing the wrong way). I would just like to set a SEO-routine that I always follow after making changes in my site. Pleeeeeease can someone follow me through easy step by steps from saving changes in iWeb and to publication.
Many many thanks in advance!
/the Novice

If you publish to a folder and then upload the files it's the same as publishing to a non-Mac server with these restrictions:
Features Unavailable When Publishing to a Non-Mac Server:
◼ Password protection
◼ Blog and photo comments
◼ Blog search
◼ Blog RSS Subscription
◼ Hit counter
◼ Enhanced slideshows
So if you use any of these features you will have to published directly to MobileMe to keep them.
However, if the hit counter is your only loss you can add a much more informative 3rd party counter, like that from StatCounter, which would not be affected by the publishing to a folder. StatCounter also gives you much more information about your visitors other than just number. Old Toad's Tutorial #13 - Adding a StatCounter as an HTML Snippet has more information on that.
If you decide to go the 3rd party counter method you can publish to a folder on the desktop, process with SEO Tool and then use the free Cyberduck ftp client to upload the files to your MobileMe account. Cyberduck has the capability of uploading only the new or changed/editied files saving considerable uploading time.
OT

SEO tool, image tagging-is it possible using iWeb photo album?

Hi,
Quaetion as above really, I've recently started to use the Rage SEO tool to tag my website, I came to start doing the images within the iWeb photo album and it cant access these, I read on here(04/09) its because its Javascript, is there a way round this yet, other than creating a html page for each photo myself? With over 100 photos to show this isnt my preference, as there is a lot more work involved in the iweb construction.
Any help greatly apprected
Cheers
Paul

How long have you waited before trying to find your images? Google can take 2 weeks or longer to list them. Secondly, your images might not return results for thousands of pages depending on the keywords you used. It will also help to submit a sitemap as discussed.
Your Lightroom keywords are for Lightroom/searching use, not web use.
There are free photo galleries you can add your photos to and link to from your website, but unless you're willing to get into something fairly complicated, this will not help the search ranking of your actual site (though it may help get the images themselves ranked).
Another alternative is to create a few separate pages with a single picture on each, a good text description, image name and ALT text, and then link to your complete photo gallery for people to view. This might be worth doing with images which have unusual keywords or phrases (and so people would be likely to return them when searching).
Getting your pictures ranked in Google image search, whilst useful in some ways, can end up being counter-productive as people are more likely to just grab your image for their own use (or ignore it if it's water-marked) and not even visit your website.
Message was edited by: star-fish

IWeb and SEO

Hi,
Im struggling to know what to do at the moment, I have an iWeb site at the moment which I really like, have bought Rage SEO Tool and have updated all of the tags etc, submitted the sitemap etc and know the site has been crawled but I am not even on the top 10 pages of google for anything other than lost on page 6 for one term.
I have a header tag on there, you can see not very well formatted but wanted to know if it is time to bite the bullet, can the site and move to wordpress which seems to be what all of the other Photography sites are doing and the ones at the Top of Google.... any thoughts, should I keep trying to optimise my site or just move on!
Site is Hampshire Wedding Photography
Thanks in advance for advice....

Perhaps Hampshire Wedding Photography is not very unique :
http://www.google.com/search?q=Hampshire+Wedding+Photography
About 6.320.000 results.
But whiteley weddings is :
http://www.google.com/search?q=whiteley+weddings
Bingo. First page!
So decide what your name is and what people should search for.
And why is this an iWeb issue?
Edit :
What is the purpose of the text at the top and bottom of the page ?
Check with your 3rd party app.

I changed web hosts and can't publish through iWeb SEO Tool or Rage Site Map Automator. Do I need to delete the old site map?

I switched to iPage hosting since Mobile Me is expiring. Also recently upgraded to OS X 10.7.3 and am using iWeb 3.0.4 for my web site design. I published directly to the FTP from iWeb but all title tags, meta tags have disappeared and I'm not showing up in Google or others. I tried publishing from iWeb SEO but it couldn't complete the process.
Should I first publish to a folder as I did before with Mobile Me, then delete all old sitemaps and start over with the Site Map Automator and then try to publish from the SEO tool? Will I lose the key words and meta tags that are already in iWeb SEO?
Thanks!

The problem is that most tech support people don't understand how iWeb structures a site.
When a visitor types in "domain-name-com" the browser expects to find an index.html in the root folder on the server. In "normal" websites the index.html file is the first page of the site.
The iWeb index.html file is a redirect to the first, or landing, page of the site which is the one at the top of the left column in iWeb just below the site name.
iWeb produces two index.html files.
One is outside of the folder containing the rest of the files and directs to - folder-name/home-page-name.html
The other one is inside the folder and directs to - home-page-name.html
You have two choices of how you upload the files since you are publishing to a local folder.
You can upload the whole folder plus the external index.html to the root folder on the server and the URL to any page will be...
http://www.domain-name.com/site-name/page-name.html
If you upload the contents of the site folder, and not the folder or the external index.html, the URL will be...
http://www.domain-name.com/page-name.html
See this page for more info and the warning about breaking the RSS feed....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/URLs-Favicons.html

Problems with my Iweb site after using Iweb Seo Tool!!

I just used the Iweb Seo Tool with my Iweb 09. I followed the Seo webpage instructions to use it. I published it and everything seemed to work well.
I added Google analytics and used every option available that the tool offers
As of today. When trying to use my bookmarked link in my bookmarks toolbar, it didnt work.I entered my site into the address bar and my site loaded fine.
But...I have some problems.
My comments in my blog have disapeared
I cant log into my MobileMe account through my system preferences
My password and use name are rejected
I can log into my site through MobileMe.com and I have even changed my password.
I have tried to publish my Iweb site and I get the error "Couldnt reach the MobileMe configuration server"
I publish using my idisk and mobileme account
I have looked on other forums and found out that if i move my "cache" from my "home" folder, to the desktop that it should work... no luck!!
Please Help!!!!
my website is www.kulturetattoo.com if you want to see where my comments are. They are listed under "testimonials" on my home page
Can I just delete the Iweb Seo Tool and get rid of any metatags, google analytics and everything else? and have my old website back?

iWeb SEO Tool can modify your site after you've published to MobileMe. It will do it on the MMe server. Takes longer but you can avoid having to publish to a folder and then uploading from there. Also the latest version, 1.7.2, is supposed to work with blog pages according to the developer: http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-seo-tool.html
OT

How do I get site analytics with iWeb 09 MobileMe Rage iWeb SEO tool?

I have two sites of consideration both registered and forwarded from GoDaddy:
bicycedriver.com    several pages
bicycledriver.org     just one page
I was not getting site analytics data on referring sites and search engine/keyword data with code applied to bicycledriver.COM. Thats the site I'm interested in getting data. Then with the iWeb SEO tool, I accidentally applied the StatCounter and Godaddy Site Analytics code to bicycledriver.ORG, another one of several sites.
Now I get referring sites and searchengine/keyword data on bicycledriver.ORG but NOT on bicycledriver.COM
Should I find some way to reverse the above situation,... what would that be, or can someone tell me what's going on and how to fix it?
David

Ethmoid:
You're right. I did know that, got it from this post by Akdream but miscopied it to my note pad where I copy and paste. Thanks.
bicycledriver:
There is no performance difference between CNAME and regular URL forwarding. But if you mask with URL forwarding then the restrictions that Ethmoid pointed out come into play.
The drawback to using domain name forwarding with masking:
Visitors can only enter your web site via the first page.
Visitors can only bookmark the first page of your site.
If a visitor refreshes a page they will be taken back to the first page of the site.k
Search engines will only be able to use the first page of your site for indexing and rating your site.
#4 is a big drawback. That can seriously minimize what search engines can learn about your site.

Does iweb SEO tool from Rage replace the Google Analytics Automator?

Until now, I ran Google Analytics Automator on my website which is saved in a local folder on my hard drive, then republished the site so that my results (visits, page views, etc.) will show up in Google Analytics reports. I just bought the iweb SEO Tool so that I can add keywords so my site will get better traffic. It asks for Googles UA number. Does this mean that the iWeb SEO Tool replaces the Automator tool I previously used so that I don't need to use the Automator tool each time I make a change and republish my site? If I do both, what happens?

SEO Tool will apply analytics to all the pages of the site with one click.
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Tags.html
There's not a lot of point in adding analytics twice!

Iweb SEO tool question

I tried to add a don't follow don't index tag to the header section
in the site settings tab in iweb SEO but then after applying it to the entire
site and uploading the pages I wanted including this tag found that
except for a few elements the pages once uploaded looked blank.
So I went back and deleted the new tag out of iweb SEO but now it
is still messing up the pages I try and use it with.
I have a huge site and tons of tags entered in the iweb SEO tool
and so I don't want to start fresh.
It all looks okay in the tool but it is messing up every page on the site
in the same way when I apply the tool.
Is there anyway I can do some kind of reset without losing all my titles and
tags?
I have searched the web and Rage softwares site but can't
find an answer to this so if anyone here has any ideas I would really appreciate it.
I don't even really care about the don't follow tags now - I just want to fix my site.
K

Please email us and we can help you solve this problem. Please include your website URL and anymore details such as a screenshot of what the page looks like after applying your tags.
You can take a screenshot by holding down the COMMAND and SHIFT keys on your keyboard and then pressing the number 3. An image file will appear on your desktop, please send that to me. If your email client asks, select the option to send the full size, or original image file.
I suspect this is a very easy thing to fix once we have more details about the problem.

IWeb SEO Tool Help

I have added new title tags, meta tags and image attributes using iWeb SEO Tool, I did the whole process, saved my iWeb site to a folder on my desktop, opened it in SEO Tool, made the changes I wanted to make, and published to MobileMe using SEO Tool... however when I went to my website the changes were not made.
i tried completely deleting my website from my iDisk and doing the whole republishing process through SEO Tool again and it worked. After making changes to my site through iWeb i did the whole process like I am suppose to do, and the changes from SEO Tool did not show up on my site. So once again I deleted my website in iDisk and republished through SEO Tool, and this time my website uploaded to my iDisk, but when I went to my website it said that the mobileme site i am trying to access is unavailable in about 5 different languages.
anyone else have a problem like this at all and how did you fix it? I replublished to MobileMe using iWeb and my site is now up, but I would really like to use SEO Tool to get my sites ranking up.

I did apply meta tags to every page and I did republish to a folder using iWeb, but then I made the all of the changes I originally made using the re-apply all save changes button in SEO Tool, then republished to MoblieMe using SEO Tool.
The only one that makes sense is the 4th reason. Just yesterday, about the same time I started using SEO Tool, I also had my domain forwarded. I just checked on godaddy.com and it says that my domain is forwarded only and does not say anything about masking, but I will email them and see if thats the problem.
If it is NOT the problem, any ideas on what else it could be?
also, i dont know if this is relevant, but last night I started to have some publishing issues using iWeb. (This was after the SEO Tool incident, when I decided that a non-web search optimized site is better then not having one up at all) I started getting errors that said "could not publish, unknown problem occurred" and then i started getting "could not publish domain" But it did eventually start working properly again...

IWeb SEO Tool not working

I've think I fully understand the procedure to add Meta tags and change the Titles for pages created by iWeb using the iWeb SEO Tool but it is just not working for me, can somebody help?
The site in question www.thepropertyphotoclinic.co.uk is an iWeb constructed site uploaded by FTP to a server (not MobileMe). As I understand it I publish this site to a folder on my Mac. I then access this (folder) site using the SEO Tool. I add tags, headers etc. At first I assumed you could then republish by the FTP from iWeb with the new tags in place. I now understand that you have to publish by FTP using the 'publish' button on the SEO Tools dialogue. This I have done, but the tags and titles do not appear on the published site (when I check 'view source' in Safari).
1. Why after taking about 10 minutes to publish via SEO Tools doea the site not appear with tags?
2. Do I take it that had this method worked for me, I would have to do this whole procedure EVERY time I make a change to the website? ie, publish to a folder, reapply the tags, re-upload? This would be impossible for one of my sites which changes daily and is about 300Mb, as it takes hours to upload.
Heeeelp!!

Your title tags are present in the HTML files and at the top of the browser window. Perhaps you didn't empty the browser cache and refresh the window when you viewed it?
You have to publish your site to a local folder to be able to add title tags, meta tags and meta descriptions whether you use iWeb SEO Tool or an editor. The advantage of the Tool is that it remembers the previously applied tags and, if you haven't added any pages or changed them significantly, refreshing them is a matter of moments.
Apart from adding tags, the other very important reason for publishing to a local folder is to optimize your files. This will result in pages that download around 50% faster in the browser and is particularly important for a business site.
Rage software's WebCrusher and Ton Brands Web Site Maestro will not only do this but also upload the changed files only....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/Optimize.html
When you add pages, hyperlinks or make significant changes to your site you should also refresh and upload the sitemap.xml and notify the search engines. Sitemap Automator takes all the work out of this time consuming task....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/Sitemap.html
There is a workflow that has to be repeated every time you publish. You can get a copy of the checklist by going to this page.....
http://www.iwebforbusiness.com/SEO/SEO-Book-Sample-Request.html
Although the optimizer applications will find and upload the changed files only, I also build larger sites - bigger than about 3Mb - in sections on separate domain files to make them easier to handle and update.....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/SiteLayout.html
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IWeb SEO tool question about tagging images: what do others do?

I've been reading everybody's posts and started to use iWeb SEO Tool to add meta tags to all my pages. (since google couldn't verify my site with html) The page titles, keywords, and meta tags are relatively easy to decide on, but I don't know what to do about some of the images.
If it's a definite photo of a subject, no problem, but what about those pesky shapeimage5_link0 and shapeimage_1.jpg files?
What do i name them ? line 1, thicker line 2, arrow? (I'm being flippant here, ... really).
I've just been calling them 'stained glass link' or 'next arrow link' but that's pretty dull.
In some cases (for the lines) i've titled them with the name of the webpage again, but with several lines on the page, that tag is repeated, a lot. (And i read that if you repeat the same tag too frequently, your site is banned from google, which i don't want.)
I thought they didn't matter too much but when i did a search from one of the search engines, the description of the web page actually included shapeimage5a.png or some such thing, and i don't want that to appear in people's searches !!
So what do other people do about these? How do you name them?
Thanks for the suggestions
Elizabeth

You'll get instructions about the HTML verification file here....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/Tools.html
The main thing with images is TEXT. Put a text caption for each. If possible, don't use the iWeb Photos and Albums templates.
Put a text description at the top of every page with keywords in both the title and text. The spiders will pick up on this.
If you don't do this, at least put a fairly long title tag in. Make sure the first few words are descriptive of the page so that they are relevant to a page bookmark.
If the search engines are picking up on stuff like "shapeimage5_link0" it means that you haven't supplied any unique and relevant text!

Used SEO tool for iWeb now site not displaying properly on iPhone....

Hello!
I used the SEO tool for Iweb for my site and it;s displaying perfectly on my macbook but when I look at it on my iphone it's a mess... No background, no header, can't change pages etc....
HELP!
Thanks in Advance.

So the problem occurs when you use that application.
Does the problem occur when you do not use that application?
If not, then SEO Tools is the problem and iWeb is not involved.
Ask here : http://www.ragesw.com/forums/

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