Optimizing iWeb Sites for Search Engines

Does anyone know of a way to manually adjust the meta tags in iWeb publishing in an effort to improve SEO?

Welcome to the discussions. You could try this free iWeb SEO Tool:
http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-seo-tool.html
...It says: "Easily change title tags, meta tags and alternate image text to help improve search engine rankings."
See also this article:
_SEO For iWeb: How to get your iWeb Websites into Google & Other Major Search Engines_.

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Submit iweb site to search engines

Hi Everyone,
Whats the best way to submit your site to the search engines??

> How do you submit a site to search engines?
I don't. If it's a site I built, I just put a link to it on
my site. Well,
I usually also add it to my webmaster account at Google, too.
> web designers offer this as a "service."
They are selling snake oil.
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> How do you submit a site to search engines? I have done
what I can to
> optimise
> my meta data - just a kind of painting-by-numbers
approach, I notice that
> some
> web designers offer this as a "service." I googled it
and come accross
> offers
> to do it but I'm not sure what it's about. Some advice
would be great or
> a
> pointer to a tutorial that uses mostly single sylable
words.
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>

Iweb site on search engines

I have been trying my very best to make my website (http://web.mac.com/bjcarreon) available on search engines because I think it's a great site and people can learn from my experiences but I have been only 1/4 successful because when you try to search for me in google, you can only search what's on the welcome page and not the sub pages. how do i make all the pages in my site, searchable?
is there an easy way to have my iweb made website searchable on line? please help.

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.
max

Have published iweb site for five years with no problems and just opened a new site and get - 404: Page not found This error is generated when there was no web page with the name you specified at the web site.-is the problem with iweb or with hosting? T

I am sorry if thie is republished-My first time doing this and I am not sure what goes where and where to hear feedback.
Have published iweb site for five years with no problems and just opened a new site and get -
404: Page not found
This error is generated when there was no web page with the name you specified at the web site.-
Troubleshooting suggestions:
Ensure the page you are linking to exists in the correct folder.
Check your file name for case sensitivity . Index.htm is not the same as index.htm!
Temporarily disable any rewrite rules by renaming your .htaccess file if it exists
is the problem with
iweb or with hosting?
One Apple tech started to fix Iweb and had to end session and the next said problem with hosting at Network Solutions as it published
to local folder. NWS has checked sttting a few times-
Any help would be extremely appreciated as trying to fix this for about five weeks
Thanks VG
<Email Edited by Host>

It's a really bad idea to post your email address - it's an invitation to spam - and I've asked the Hosts to remove it. (Even though I've now noticed you mis-spelled it! - anyway, never post your address in a forum.)
You have a site here: http://virginiagordon.com/www.virginiagordon.com/WELCOME.html
If that's not the page you are having trouble with, what is that page's URL?

Making an iweb site for .mac on a computer with no internet connection

Hi.
I am making an iweb site for publishing to a .mac account on a computer that is supposed to have internet access via airport, but it's not working properly at the moment.
I would really like to transfer the site onto my other machine in my office which has a decent broadband connection (I have iweb installed on there too). Is it possible to transfer a site that is yet to be published from one computer to another?
regards
David T

David,
You might want to try burning your Domain file to a CD or DVD by using http://iWebFAQ.com/iWebBackup.zip and opening the file & Publish from the other computer while effectively backing up your Domain file in the process.
regards,
http://iWebFAQ.com/#Backup

Built iWeb site for friend with my account. How can I transfer site to his?

Hi everybody. I recently finished creating an iWeb site for a friend while using my MobileMe account. What's the best way to transfer this site to his MobileMe account (so his username, etc. shows up in the url; not mine). I'd like to avoid having to rebuild the entire site while using his version of iWeb/MobileMe.
Am I in trouble or is there a solution?
Thanks in advance!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Will your friend be maintaining the site once it's published to his MobileMe account? If so just copy the domain.sites2 file containing his site to his computer and put it in his User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder. Once he logs into his MobileMe account via the System/MobileMe preference pane he can make changes and published them to his account.
If you also have a site in that same domain file, duplicate that file, open it with iWeb and delete your site before transferring it to your friend's Mac. Then delete his site from your domain file leaving just your own site. You can delete his site from your MMe account by mounting your iDisk, going to the iDisk/Web/Site folder and deleting the folder that has his site's name.
OT

Meta tags for search engines needed only to homepage mainly ?

meta tags for search engines needed only to homepage mainly
?

.oO(123polis123)
>meta tags for search engines needed only to homepage
mainly ?
A title and maybe a meta description belong to every single
page. But
much more important is usable and properly structured
content.
Micha

Submit Site to Search Engines

How do you submit a site to search engines? I have done what
I can to optimise my meta data - just a kind of painting-by-numbers
approach, I notice that some web designers offer this as a
"service." I googled it and come accross offers to do it but I'm
not sure what it's about. Some advice would be great or a pointer
to a tutorial that uses mostly single sylable words.
Thanks
Martin

> How do you submit a site to search engines?
I don't. If it's a site I built, I just put a link to it on
my site. Well,
I usually also add it to my webmaster account at Google, too.
> web designers offer this as a "service."
They are selling snake oil.
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Adobe Community Expert
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"martcol" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:goc8r8$rsp$[email protected]..
> How do you submit a site to search engines? I have done
what I can to
> optimise
> my meta data - just a kind of painting-by-numbers
approach, I notice that
> some
> web designers offer this as a "service." I googled it
and come accross
> offers
> to do it but I'm not sure what it's about. Some advice
would be great or
> a
> pointer to a tutorial that uses mostly single sylable
words.
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
>

Keywording for search engines?

I'm a real novice at tech stuff and am interested in purchasing iWeb for a photography business site. Can I do keywording with this software so that my site will be found by search engines? Is this a professional enough web program for creating a business website? Thanks.

A lot of photographers use iWeb for their sites.
Most of them make the mistake of using the iWeb Photos and Albums templates which makes the images unsearchable.
A lot are drawn to the Darkroom theme which makes for slow downloading pages.
You'll find out about this on the 4 pages starting here.....
http://roddymckay.com/PhotoSatellite/iWebPhotoTemplates.html
Keywords are added into URLs, page titles, page names, captions, text etc and there's nothing magic or technical about this - just time and effort.
You can add the essential title tags into iWeb or do it post publishing.
I'm in the process of putting together a short tutorial on SEO which I hope to publish later today.
Look for it here in a few (or more than a few) hours...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWebMusicWebsite/iWebTutorials.html

How do I add different sites to search engines

How do I add other search engines or sites to my drop down list? When I visit a site nothing comes up in the drop down menu to 'add it' like the instructions say and you can't manage it to add. I want to add Dogpile and at the Dogpile site it says 'add to browser' but it doesn't. If I want to add cooking sites to the search engine box there is no icon to add it. I have 12 search engines to choose from, that is all.

OK i think i got what you want, correct me if i am wrong.
You want to add '''dogpile ''' in search bar, aren't i right. But you are not able to find '''add dogpile''' in the drop down.
As far as i know the '''Add XXXXXXX''' is shown only for popular website like TechCrunch etc or websites which have their search engine listed in [http://addons.mozilla.org addons.mozilla.org].
You can check whether the search engine you are looking for is in [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/search-tools/?sort=created mozilla add-on ] and add it.

IWeb Discoverable using search engines

Hello - how do you make an iWEB blog discoverable using search engine without paying to have it come up in search results?

+"iWeb websites are not made to be search engine friendly."+ ...Read more here:
_SEO For iWeb: How to get your iWeb Websites into Google & Other Major Search Engines_

When I use a search engine in Firefox, the links redirect me to some spam, and not the site the search engine found.

When I use a search engine in Firefox, whether it be google, or Yahoo, the links found by the search engine, re-direct me somewhere else. For instance when I searched for Places to Buy PC Games. www.gamestop.com popped up. When I clicked the link, it took me to some laptop hardware site. But if I type in the url for Gamestop, it takes me to their website. This has happened for several searches, several different links. I tried Internet Explorer thinking it may be a problem with the search engines. But IE is working fine for this.

This type of behaviour can be caused by malware. Try running several malware scanners. It is best to run several as each will pick up things that the others miss. Some scanners you can try are:
* [http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php Malwarebytes]
* [http://www.superantispyware.com/ SUPERAntiSpyware]
* [http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php Ad-Aware]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx Windows Defender]
* [http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html Spybot S&D]
This site may also be of use - http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2010/02/remove-google-redirect-virus.html
If the above malware scanners do not find any malware or can not clear it, you should consider posting in one of these forums for specialized malware removal help:
* http://forums.spybot.info/
* http://www.spywarewarrior.com/index.php
* http://forum.aumha.org/
* http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/
* http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/

Hidden Content for Search Engine Use

Has anyone heard of web sites having hidden layers full of
text content that they don't necessarily want on the front page but
is there so that search engines could index their site much
better?

Are you willing to take the chance? And - why would you have
such a thing
so far out of the main content section anyhow?
It smacks of spamming, and if you were my competitor for
position, I'd
report you.
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quote:
Originally posted by:
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> > Really, why would they do that? What's a better
method to promote your
> > site
> > more without having to bog your front page down
with information you
> > really
> > don't want to display?
>
> That's the point Google is making. If it's not content
you don't want
> people
> to see, then it must not be very legitimate or important
information.
>
> The main argument is that you could spam Google to rig
the search results.
> For instance:
>
> CocaCola.com
>
> <p>Welcome to Coke's web site</p>
> <p class="hiddenOffScreen">Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi Pepsi
Pepsi Pepsi </p>
>
> So, searching for 'Pepsi' would return CocaCola.com
>
> I tend to agree completely with google here. If it's
viable/important
> content, put it on the page. It's a design issue, not an
HTML issue.
>
> -Darrel
>
>
>
> Good point but does this really come up often enough for
it to be an
> issue?
>
> For all they know, I could have a button in the bottom
left hand part of
> my
> screen that if you rollover, it'll simply display that
hidden layer full
> of
> that text content.
>

Listing JSP site on search engines

I am hoping that there are some methods to get dynamically JSP generated webpages listed on search engines. I know that there are issues when using a query string because of spiders avoiding the '?' Is there a mod_rewrite type of option that can be accomplished in web.xml or anywhere else that could translate a site so that I could use:
http://somesite.com/product/id/324
instead of:
http://somesite.com/product.jsp?id=324
Even if there is a completely different approach to solving this, I welcome any and all suggestions.
Thank you all in advance,
Steve

Or, to make your site more portable (if this is an issue), design your pages such that direct access without query variables provides a meaningful result in the first place, and your problem is solved. I know i have a habit of just erasing extra query stuff on pages i'm viewing to try to get to a root page.. it's incredibly annoying when one doesn't exist, or craps out on you because you're missing parameters.
Although using Apache is a good idea... hadn't thought of that.

Looking for search engine-like word matching

I wonder if there's any package that can do word matching along the lines of search engines.
Let's say I have two ArrayLists of Strings:
'keywords' containing the Strings to search: "one", "two" and "three"
'match' containing the search criteria.
If 'match' contained "one" then the method would return 'true'. If 'match' contained "seven", the method would return 'false'.
Not really difficult, but the search engine syntax specifies the following:
Keywords that begin with "+" are mandatory
Keywords that begin with "-" must not be found
Keywords without prefix may be found
E.g. "+one", "+two" would return 'true', but "+one", "+four" would return 'false'. "+one", "four" would return 'true', since "four" doesn't have to be found. "+one", "+four" would return 'false', since "one" was found, but "four" was not. "-four" would return 'true', since "four" isn't part of the Strings to search. etc. etc. etc.
Does anyone know where to find a package that does this?
Regards,
Eric

Well, why write something if someone else has already done it? :-)
As for the searching of "four": Keywords that have a "+" or no prefix must be matched, so it returns 'false'. So it only returns 'true' if the list contains "four".
The whole point of the "+" is that if you have several keywords, the ones with "+" are mandatory, the ones without aren't.
So "+one", "+two" means "one" AND "two", whereas "one", "two" means "one" OR "two".

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