Iweb, SEO tool and Sitemap Automator

I am quite new to iweb and I am confused about how to go about getting my web site to different search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc...... Once I have created the web site in iweb do I need to use an SEO tool to put in tags, meta tags and alternate image text and then use a separate FTP program to upload those changes? When I try to upload changes directly from the iweb SEO Tool I either get a timed out error or login error. What am I doing wrong?
If I get the upload to work do I then use the Sitemap Automator?
Any advice would help at this point.
Thanks,
Eva

My hosting provider thinks that I just need to make the changes in SEO Tools and they are applied in iweb, and then I can just upload from iweb like I have been doing.
No you can't because the iWeb pages do not exist until they are published, either to the server or to a folder. SEO has to have the published files to be able to do its thing.
From my understanding I can't use the SEO Tool to upload the changes but what I need to be able to do is to publish to a file, use the SEO tool and then publish the changes I made in SEO with a separate FTP program like Classic FTP.
Correct. If Classic FTP doesn't work well for you give CyberDuck a try. It's free and is well though of here is the forum.
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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.
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I use iWebSEO to add tags and analytics to my own site, so I make changes and then publish from iWeb to a local folder.
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I have just opened iweb seo tools and I clicked on Load iDisk Sites. The system asked for my idisk username and password. I now have under "FROM IDISK" Headjam which is my iweb site's name then I have a list of files all with folders, when I click to open them there doesn't seem to be anything in them. First folder is "weddingstationeryfiles" etc etc. Then we come to folder "AboutUsfiles". Underneath that I have "index.html", "Home.html" etc etc. One html file for each page of site. At end is a folder saying "Gallery". Is this what I am meant to have. Roddy you told me to click on my html files which is what I have done this minute and noticed that the title of page comes up in the gap and I can press Apply but there is a message at the top of the page saying "Your title tag appears at the top of your browser window. It should be 60-120 characters long and contain 2-3 of your most important keywords for the associated webpage. I thought that putting all those words and phrases in SEKeyword should show up somewhere. What was the point of me doing all that if I still have to enter words into iweb SEO Tools. Very confusing.

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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.
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http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/Optimize.html
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http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/Sitemap.html
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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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Hello Roddy,
First of all: one of my motto's is: "live and let live"
I have nothing whatsoever against you nor ragesw.
Why should I ? I've never had the pleasure of meeting you nor him.
So I don't like nor dislike you or him.
My remarks are only on what you and/or he posted on this forum.
In an effort to clear it out, here's a summary:
MobileMe is for personal use, see the Terms of Use. (by Apple, not me)
If you don't agree with Apple's Terms of Use and do want a commercial website with a lot of visitors and thus generate unwanted network load : please, go elsewhere !
My father wants to download pictures of his granddaughter. When he wants to buy something over the internet he'll go to whatsoever website.
About ragesw:
I've used all his freeware for months, after reading all articles on his website and the articles on Google he is refering to himself + scanned the info about his freeware on Apple Downloads, Versiontracker, Cnet, etc.
Before making a comment on his software, I've always made clear to all that it is only my own experience, in my own situation. I've never said in general that his software "stinks" nor "is great".
My #1 issue with ragesw is :
when I invite people to visit MY webite, my link states : visit MY website.
when ragesw invites people to visit HIS website, his link states : visit THIS website, not MY website.
So, IMHO, my very own personal conclusion is : he's hiding something. What ? Is it a lure to his paid software ? I do not know ! It is my personal 'gut' feeling as I've made clear to all.
About you:
Eh, I have nothing against you, I've never made any negative/disrespectful comment about you.
So your post leaves me with one question : why do you react as if I 'attacked' you ?
Kind regards,
Leo

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.
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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...

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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.
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I've just been calling them 'stained glass link' or 'next arrow link' but that's pretty dull.
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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 !!
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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.
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If the search engines are picking up on stuff like "shapeimage5_link0" it means that you haven't supplied any unique and relevant text!

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