Get On Google With iWeb ‘08

13 Feb '08 Filed under Tutorials, iWeb -

17 Comments

  1. pierrot! posted:

    Great video!

    allthe best

  2. james posted:

    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?

  3. Max Karreth posted:

    google is the king of search engines. once it is fully on google, it will be on everything else in several seconds. the sitemaps that imap produces are both yahoo, msn and google functional. same goes for meta tags. yes, imap will surely fill in some gaps that iweb has made.

    max

  4. james posted:

    thanks max,

    I’ll probably have questions in the future when i start to apply imap.

    thanks again,

    james

  5. Max Karreth posted:

    james,

    ill always answer your questions :-D

    max

  6. Peter posted:

    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

  7. Mel posted:

    Thanks! Just watched it … wow

  8. Fred posted:

    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 :-D

  9. Michael posted:

    Max,

    The tutorial is great!

    Thanks

  10. Lawrence posted:

    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).

  11. Alex rodrigo posted:

    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.

  12. Ian posted:

    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?

  13. dave posted:

    When I publish any changed on iWeb, do I need to create a whole new sitemap and resubmit it to Google Webmasters?

  14. Max Karreth posted:

    People,

    Sorry for not replying to any of your comments - but I rarely check them. Better to drop me an email about it!

    @Lawrence: You run iMap each time you publish. The GWA stuff only once.

    @Alex: Make sure you are connected via ethernet and not WLAN. Secondly, try deleting your site off the iDisk and republishing. Then run iMap again.

    @Ian: You should be typing the personal domain address. Drop me a line about the iMap freezing. Go to the “Contact” page for sending me a mail.

    @Dave: Yes, rebuild the sitemap in iMap. Don’t resubmit it to the GWA.

    –>
    Everyone else, drop me an email using the “Contact” page for any question. I do not answer any stuff here.
    –>

    Regards,

    Max

  15. Brennan posted:

    Thanks a million, Max.

  16. Nelson posted:

    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!

  17. Max Karreth posted:

    Yes of course, with a password only Google you would be able to find your site and absolutely no one else!

    Max

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