The tutorial has been updated and spit into two parts:
The tutorial was aimed to be much simpler and shorter. If you however still wish to look at the look video tutorial, then feel free to do so:
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Now, before you start, let me give you a tip! Watch the whole tutorial through once, and then, only then actually do it while still watching it! That will make sure that you will get it correct in the very first place and thus, will save lot’s of time that you might later waste figuring out which step you missed!
Huddle, huddle and rush, rush will lead you absolutely nowhere!
- This video tutorial on how to get on Google, will require you do buy an application called iMap for just €8.99. iMap will also allow you to add sitemaps, add meta-tags, ping Google or even create a Verification File. You will also have to sign up for a Google Webmasters Tools Account.
- Now, add your Site to the following search engines, Google and Yahoo.
- Ready to watch it?
Launch Tutorial
Two things I forgot to mention in the video:
- If you publish to a folder, you of course have to upload the edited files after iMap has created them!
- If you use a “Personal Domain,” the only thing you have to type in iMap 2.6 is your domain. You do not have to add your site/folder name at the end. - Well Done! You have now completed all the big parts of this tutorial and there is nothing in the way that could stop you getting on Google! Don’t forget that you have to repeat the process with iMap about everytime you publish your site.
If you have any problems while doing the tutorial (or more likely; afterwards), then drop me a mail. Please do not post any of your problems in the comments section below! That is only for typing out your anger at me or thanking me…
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Great video!
allthe best
Hi Max,
at the moment I am mainly concerned with the http://www.perrinskinblends.com because it is more business oriented. I have another website for this product with a website company and using their templates also. I built a site (www.perrinskinblends.com) on my mac with iweb because i knew i could design it the way i wanted and more easily maintain and make adjustments. This was before i started to worry about keywords and meta-tags. Now i have this fully fuctional and designed website and found out that search engines don’t read it. Will imap help me get on yahoo and msn and various other minor search engines also? or just google. I am thinking that it was unwise to use iweb for this site. Basically i am wondering: will imap fill in all the gaps when it comes to all search engines?
thanks max,
I’ll probably have questions in the future when i start to apply imap.
thanks again,
james
Great new tutorial! Your old tutorial was great – but this is even better! Some parts are a bit confusing – but i am guessing that you will change this. at least you have always done so!
Peter
Thanks! Just watched it … wow
OH MY GOD!!! This tutorial is even more addictive than the one before. Thank you so much for both iMap and the tutorial. I haven’t seen my site on google, but i only submitted it yesterday
Max,
The tutorial is great!
Thanks
I’m blogging and adding to my website each day — does that mean I have to repeat the entire imap process every day, or just when I add new pages? Do I create a “new” website at the Google Dashboard every time? As a novice, I’m more than a bit confused by how often I have to re-do the process, and how much of it would be involved.
I’m hiding behind the old cliche, “there is no such thing as a dumb question” (this has to come close).
Hey I just have one quick question. After doing all of the boxes in IMap and then click on create, Im still having mete-tags error coming up. I also have the new IMap 2.4. Thanks for the help.
I am currently trying all of this again. I didn’t get it to work under the original tutorial and I have also purchased my own domain through godaddy. I am under the personal domain tab and I have entered my personal domain name with my site name as you instructed. At the bottom where I ping Google….do I type my personal domain as I did at the top or do I need to type web.mac.com/mysitename instead? And also, iMap freezes up more than it does anything else. What should I do?
When I publish any changed on iWeb, do I need to create a whole new sitemap and resubmit it to Google Webmasters?
Thanks a million, Max.
Thought I’d pass along a problem I ran into…In the ‘verify’ stage, I did see the gray Google screen, but when I clicked ‘Verify’ in the Dashboard, I got a 401 authorization error. I was also then unable to add my sitemap. After some head scratching I figured out that I had my site password protected in iWeb; once I turned that off, everything worked. So turn off your iWeb password or it won’t work!
Hi Max,
I did all of your Tutorials for my website. Go Daddy also tries to launch the GWA tools but builds some generic “webmaster” account. That SiteMap got 404 errors but the one I setup using my GMAIL account (the one I want to use), it seems to be working but how long have you noticed the Indexing takes?
I’ve done the “site:www.retreatlajolla.com” and nothing thus far, nor have I found “www.retreatlajolla.com” thus far either using Google.
Should I be much more patient?
Also, when using iTweak and iMap, please confirm the sequence of tasks…
1. Update site using iWeb
2. Publish to Folder
3. Open iTweak and make changes necessary
3.5 Process Site in iTweak
4. Open iMap and make changes necessary
4.5 Process site with iMap
5. Upload to GoDaddy.com Hosting Manager
Is this correct?
I am having issues with the sitemap file generated with imap. At one point it was putting urls that looked like this into it. http:///rehabandperformance.com It was giving it an extra backslash for some reason. I had to access the sitemap file and manually change this. However, I still can’t get google to recognize my sitemap without erros. It is saying the “This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location”. It is saying this for all the pages.
Your tutorial is great. I’m going to try it
Hi Max,
Hi, I am trying to work through iMap, but the first problem I can see is that I use iDisk syncing, and won’t be able to stop that. Is there any way around it? I have tried creating a short cut of the site on the desktop and navigating to that when I choose site (as it is greyed out normally?)
Thanks
Max
Hi Max, I was having some trouble at first, but I may have gotten it-we’ll see my sitemap is still pending. I forward through godaddy but have my site also as my personal domain on mobileme. I tried “other server” then personal domain (,mac) with no luck. I eventually just went through the .mac option and entered my username etc… etc.. My question is: I have various sites built and forwarded in iweb to godaddy. Is it possible to put them all through imap?
Hi Max,
Been building my Website with iWeb after using Dreamweaver for the past two years. Could you tell my why iWeb defaults at 700 pixels in width rather than the standard 760 pixels. Trying to adjust the templates in iWeb to conform to the 760 pixels is a bit of a pain. Also do you think iWeb will eventually make it quicker to upload pages to the internet without having to upload the whole website every time a change is made to the local site. Would it be possible to just upload the pages that have been worked on. If iWeb could update the links to the rest of the pages that would save so much time.
Hi, Just wanted to say that Imap is fantastic but just one query, how to I get the page title tag name on as all I get is the title “home”
Many Thanks
Ollie
Strange this post is totaly unrelated to what I was searching google for, but it was listed on the first page. I guess your doing something right if Google likes you enough to put you on the first page of a non related search.