IWeb Site Tool

Checkout this cool app for iWeb:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29679
It allows you to work on multiple iWeb sites without the need for having one big Domain file.
Hopefully this will be added into the next version of iWeb. It certainly should have been in this version.

iWeb SEO Tool is an excellent application but it is not a fully fledged FTP app. It adds the info to the HTML files associated with each page.
Try publishing your site to a local folder, add the SEO info with SEO Tool and then upload the files to your server using the freeware Cyberduck if you don't have an FTP app. Make sure you upload ALL the files.

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    I have two sites of consideration both registered and forwarded from GoDaddy:
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    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

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    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.
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  • 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

  • Can't find correct site in Iweb seo tool

    I've got several sites built in Iweb. The first one is published through mobileme. My others are through godaddy. I may have a mess with how this site is named, as I changed the domain name of it after I initially published it. I am clicking "open website" and opening all the different folders with variations of what i have this thing named (the domain is jimsavage.net; on the left hand side of Iweb it's titled JIMSAVAGE)
    I find one folder that is old stuff, when I first began working on it, the one titled JIMSAVAGE has nothing in it. There's one called JIM_SAVAGE.NET that has numerous pages that are titled "blank"_x.) I don't find anything that has the current site.
    I'd appreciate any help- i realize this may be tough to make sense of.

    iWeb SEO Tool saves the info for each site in the same way that most apps do. Just add a new site in this window...
    Make sure you have updated to the latest version V 2.1...
    http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-seo-tool.html

  • Made a tool to reduce iWeb site size

    Hi!
    I created a small tool to reduce the size of iWeb sites.
    The manual can be found here:
    http://software.bitwaves.de/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=6
    The tool can be downloaded here:
    http://software.bitwaves.de/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=5
    (Uses java webstart to always give you the latest'n'greatest version)
    I don't have iWeb, since I live in germany and have no copy yet. As soon as it arrives I will do some more checking.
    In the meantime, please download the tool and send me info on how well it works for you in the forum:
    http://software.bitwaves.de/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=6
    (Please backup your iWeb sites prior to using this tool on them, it's in beta stage)
    Regards,
    Normen

    It does work, to a extent. The navigation bar images dissapeared but the links stayed there. The quality of the jpg pics was decreased too much. Anyway, a great attempt! The only critic I have for iWeb is the inefficient use it makes of files that repeat in more than one page and this program does a good attempt trying to solve it. Let me know when you have v. 2.0

  • 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 site registered but not showing up in Google

    I've registered my iweb site through google's webmaster tools using DNS since my domain name is registered through go daddy. I've also got an account for it on google analytics using iWeb SEO but when i search google for my site, nothing shows up. I've even typed my website in verbatim and I still get nothing.
    is there something else I need to do to get my site listed? I've started adding title tags and meta data to my most important pages (home and blog) to see if that would help. When I had my blog on wordpress and verified it through google webmaster it showed up the next day in search and i didn't even have to do any of the SEO like meta data.
    I feel like i've missed a step, or maybe iweb is not as easily indexed?
    HELP!

    Further information regarding the details would be helpful. However, if the site is unreachable it may be due to a known issue between GoDaddy and MobileMe. I spoke with tech support today regarding a similar issue with a iweb account that I have a DNS for through GoDaddy. The issue is being looked at by the support team and hopefully will be resolved quickly, but it I was advised that the issue appears to be from attacks on the iweb side which require the DNS address to be taken offline temporarily.

  • 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
    "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link."

  • Iweb site, listing in search engine looks bizarre??

    How do I change what appears in the search listing, I get this below:(
    Welcome2
    Welcome | Bridal | Bridesmaid | Communion | Accessories shapeimage1_link0 shapeimage1_link1 shapeimage1_link2 shapeimage1_link3 shapeimage1_link4 ...
    www.boutiquebrides.com/ - Cached - Similar
    It appears to be picking up info from my menu... Why is this?
    thanks

    Roddy is right. You are not giving the search engines enough content to display in the search results. This can be fixed by a better title tag, as well as adding a decent description.
    To do this, download iWeb SEO Tool, as Roddy has mentioned. http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-seo-tool.html
    Here is a video which shows you how to use this application. http://apptorial.com/how-to-use-rage-softwares-iweb-seo-tool/
    I would also recommend the iWeb SEO Video walkthrough which will teach you everything you need to know about your site and search engine optimization.
    http://www.ragesw.com/educate.php

  • Has anyone tried editing an iWeb site with Contribute or Dreamweaver?

    Before iWeb, I liked using Adobe Macromedia Contribute to edit the.Mac homepages. I've been giving iWeb a spin, and it seems to occupy the same place in Apple's stable as the rest of its siblings — a pre-pubescent version of Contribute, which is a subset of Dreamweaver.
    I haven't yet tried it, but it seems as if the iWeb templates would be a good starting point, and Contribute/Dreamweaver would be great tools to polish the site.
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    yes you can use other websoftware to modify iweb sites either after it is on the webserver or if you save it to a folder before publishing.
    I tried the demo of Dream weaver and it worked fine..also I used Rapidweaver which works too. Heck you could use anything that can edit HTML which is really just a text file.
    The problem with iweb is it is using those stupid PNG files which are big and to make it worse it duplicates all your images rather than having them in a shared folder you can end up with dozens of the same image which when someone visits your site and changes pages it has to download the same image again!
    pretty crazy stuff.
    iweb looks nice and as long as people are viewing it with broadband you'd be ok but dialup users are "toast" even on a simple site.
    I got the demo of rapidweaver which is not as intuiative but in someways is more complete and have done a 3 page site.. others are developing themes for it and also there are plugins which add alot of functionality.
    at $35 USD it is cheap and if you go to http://www.screencastsonline.com there are 3 videos to show you how to use it and a discount code.
    I personally thing iweb is great but has some design flaws that will need to be delt with.

  • 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.

  • Trying to embed images from my iWeb site

    Sorry if this has been asked before but I did a search and could not find any answers.
    I upgraded from iLife 06 to 08 and managed to get a seamless transition of my iWeb site. The only problem now is that I seem unable to embed images from my site into other web pages on other sites. It used to be a case of copying and pasting the image address into the other web page. Now however it comes up with a very different looking image address that no longer ends with .jpg(jpeg) I have tried adding the .jpg to the end of the address without any success. Am I simply missing the obvious or is this feature no longer available?
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  • Iweb site working great but blog not showing in Google Search

    Not sure how to get my iweb blog to show up in Google searches.  I am using iweb seo tool, and all my other pages on the site are searchable on Google, but the blog entries are not. It's been a month or more.  Is this something that's happening on the blog pages only because I"m using my ftp and not publishing through mobileme?  Not necessary that I have comments, but I would like the blog entries to be searchable.  Thanks!

    iWeb SEO Tool allows you to add the title tag and meta descritption for the Google entry...
    http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Tags.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.
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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!

  • Working with an iWeb site in Design view CS5

    I brought in an iWeb site to Dreamweaver CS5 using the mange sites panel successfully with all assets.  The site is perfect in Live Mode but is not workable in Design Mode.  I have also FTP it to Business Catalyst and can see it in their design mode better than in Dreamweaver.  Any assistance that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
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    iWeb and other so called WYSIWYG web authoring systems typically use poor code and bad layout practices which will cause experienced web developers and DW to puke.
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    HTML - http://validator.w3.org/
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    http://alt-web.com/
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