Submitting Sitemaps

My site was made in Muse and is hosted with Business Catalyst. I now want to submit a sitemap to Google using the Google webmaster tools. I can create a sitemap using third party tools like XML Sitemaps Generator. But now I'm supposed to upload the file to the "root directory." How do I do this with this scenario when I am publishing directly from muse?

Hello SarahSchwartz,
You can login to your admin console of your site, for example you own domain.com, then you need to go to domain.com/admin and log in with your ID & password. Then you can click on the "Help & Support" link on the top right corner and in the opening page scroll to the bottom where you will find the "FTP Configuration" settings.
More helpful details in the KB related to this matter from BC: http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/153/bc_153.html
Make sure to first log in into the admin console and just then through FTP.
Cheers,
Cristian

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That really is a load of nonsense at the end of the day.
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I sort of glommed on to the end of the thread "meta and google-ing...i give up," but I'll start a fresh post here with this:
I have three sites in iWeb, all of which have their own registered Go Daddy domain names and are forwarded to .mac without masking. I followed James Tseng's instructions and successfully submitted to Google and verified my "www.mac.com/user/iWeb" url.
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Hi Mitch....
I hope you've been finding all this helpful so far! It's always fun to see just how much feedback you can get from Google. Sort of gives you a feeling that "you've arrived". haha.
Regarding your question about sitemaps and multiple sites.... My strategy is this... I like to give Google sort of the broadest catch that I can. That's why I really suggest to people that they register the most general URL... http://web.mac.com/username/iWeb/ . You see how that really leaves the door open for the possibility of multiple sites, without having to register multiple sites. Google really doesn't care that you call them separate sites...to Google they appear as part of the same site...with the same base verified URL.
So with that registered URL, there really is only one place where the verification file and sitemap.xml file can go. And that place is in the iDisk/Web/Sites/iWeb/ folder. And there is really only a need for a single verification file and a single sitemap.xml file, no matter how many sites you have. The point here isn't telling Google that you have more sites...it's just about telling Google that you have more LINKS in the site that it already knows about.
So how do you do this? Just spider your new site or gather the links in your own way and then copy and paste the links (just the links section...not the first two lines or the last line of the code) into the sitemap.xml file that you have already submitted before. Then resubmit it to Google.
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I've used a sitemap generator, download the file. How do I open it?

Hello
I've textwrangler, textedit and office. They open the file, but to save it as a sitemap.xml is not working. When I preview it online the code is not rendering.
Which software do I use to open this file and save as plain sitemap.xml to upload to my host and submit to the search engines.
By the way, preferably a really free software, not a trial one since I've no money to buy one+pointless to buy one to use only once.
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Hello
I'll try to explain myself better. With either sitemap generators I'm using online:
http://www.sitemapdoc.com
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
They build the sitemap nicely. I don't need to edit it, just download or copy the code and save as xml.
When I download the code, it has the Final Cut (I've it installed) as the open the file as default.
I'm assuming it is happening since I do not have a suitable software to open and save the file with.
There are endless sitemap generators online, but I've to save them as sitemap.xml and upload to my host, to submit it to the search engines.
It is not a new process, I do believe that they start this way of submitting your website about 3/4 years ago.
I did not use iWeb to build my website since it uses iFrame.
The softwares you mentioned above are not free and I don't need to edit my Sitemap.
Only to save it as Sitemap.xml and upload to my host.
I'm trying version tracker as recommended above, but xml editors are not easy to use + plus most are trial software.
Doesn't mac have an application to open and save this kind of file?
Or maybe you could direct me to another forum where I could post my dumb question. Thank you.
Regards

IWeb sitemap and Google search

I'm sorry, I mistakenly formerly entered this topic as a post on a previously answered question regarding Google Keywords. I have more questions on this topic.
I have two questions:
2. I have .mac and am using domain forwarding. I obtained and followed step by step instructions from iweb Faq - show up on Google. I obtained the sitemap and placed it in the Web/Site folder. When I check with Google webmaster tools, I get the following warning:
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2. How do I refresh my iweb sitemap?
I'm a genuine newbie, and don't know anything about html.
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