Get On Google with iWeb 1.X
Here is the story: You created your cool Site with iWeb, shared it with your family and now you want the world to see your Site. You type your address in Google and you find nothing! Then you searched Google for Help on how to get iWeb-Sites on Google and you find this! Now you are here and I will show you how to get your iWeb-Site at No.1 on Google.
Watch out! This tutorial is only for those who use iWeb 1.X (iLife ‘06). This tutorial will not work with iWeb 2.X. There is a seperate tutorial I have made for those who use iWeb 2.X.
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- Add your Web-Site URL to the two most-used Search Engines, the Google Search Engine and the Yahoo Search Engine. Then add your site to the iWeb User Sites. This will help you to get on Google and will enlarge the Community for iWeb Sites!
- Now watch my Video Tutorial and follow all steps very, very, very closely! Many people make errors because they are not watching the tutorial correctly! Huddle, huddle will surely lead you nowhere in this tutorial!
Importand. Google has changed their Webmasters Tools Account Interface. You do no longer need to type in the whole address in the “Add Sitemap” step. You now only have to type in
sitemap.xml. Below the text field is an example! Don’t get lost.» .Mac Users, please launch this Video Tutorial.
» Folder Publishers, please launch this Video Tutorial!The links mentioned in the Video Tutorial are the Sitemap Generator and the Google Webmasters Account.
- Now your done!
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02 Nov 07 at 9:01 am
Found this tutorial very helpful
07 Nov 07 at 2:54 pm
Fantastic advice. Thanks for your help - it probably saved me hours and hours of work.
Fingers crossed the site will now stand a chance of being noticed.
david
09 Nov 07 at 2:16 pm
Thanks so much. What a great tutorial! You make a complicated technical set of steps very easy to understand, and allow us to get a critically important task completed without stress.
09 Nov 07 at 7:52 pm
glad you all liked it
10 Nov 07 at 12:54 am
Not a chance I could have figured out how to do this (properly) without your very clear tutorial. Many thanks!
13 Nov 07 at 7:52 pm
Good job on the tutorial! Thank you
13 Nov 07 at 8:55 pm
Thank you for the tutorial…before I proceed I wanted to make sure that my domain forwarding will not effect the process. I currently forward my chosen domain (http://www.andyluse.net) to my .mac site (http://web.mac.com/aluse/iWeb/Andy/Welcome.html). When it is listed on Google i want the http://www.andyluse.net to appear rather than the .mac url. Which one should I enter on the sitemap page that you referenced on your tutorial?
Thank you very much.
13 Nov 07 at 9:24 pm
you always have to enter the .mac address!! except for step 1.
you cannot get a forwarded domain on google. the reason for this is that the sitemap is not on the forwarded domain server - therefore google cannot take that url
max
17 Nov 07 at 6:33 pm
Great Stuff on your site. Very useful. Thanks a lot.
26 Nov 07 at 11:39 pm
Thanks for the tips. Outstanding video. I searched for hours to find proper directions and this site is it.
26 Nov 07 at 11:40 pm
http://www.creditrenovation.org
10 Dec 07 at 10:56 am
I’d given up on being able to sort this out - you are the man. Words cannot describe how grateful I am
08 Jan 08 at 5:15 am
Awesome site, thanks for the help. Does placing “key words behind images and in invisible color help add to the hits for sites?
08 Jan 08 at 8:48 am
id say yes
it adds invisible content to your site that google still picks up.
max
17 Jan 08 at 2:02 pm
Thank you for your excellent site, Max. I am having some difficulty with creating a sitemap for my webpage at the moment; when I paste the sitemap into textedit (in plain text format) and I try to save it on the idisk, I am unable to save it (the save button becomes gray and a non-option once I click on the idisk). Can you help me with this? Thank you very much for your time.
Sincerely, Amy
22 Jan 08 at 1:58 am
Which steps do I have to redo (if any) when making simple text edits? Thanks so much for your help!
22 Jan 08 at 8:14 pm
Thankyou so much for your excellent tutorial. I have been going round in circles for weeks. Couldn’t have done this without you.
Amy, I had the same problem, I’m no techno wizz but try this:
Apple - System Preferences - .mac - idisk - idisk sync:off
I had this turned on and had the same problem. Good Luck
23 Jan 08 at 6:55 pm
@amy: I have no answer to this! try posting in the apple discussion forums!
@adam: not sure what you mean?
@karen: thanks for helping out
23 Jan 08 at 7:44 pm
Thank you so much for the time you have put in to help us amateurs get things out there on the web. I created my site as a Christmas gift for my bro in law, and believe me, I couldn’t have done it without you!
05 Feb 08 at 8:23 pm
Fantastically clear if mysterious - thank you so much.
I followed it to the last detail but still it showed errors on google, so I will wait and see. I was also forwarding my domain to dotmac, but have redone it using the dotmac url. Any way of getting my forwarding url to show instead of dot mac?
It is so great there are people like you out there- thanks again
04 Mar 08 at 8:20 am
Hi in step II, I’m not getting the link when I go to the
» .Mac Users, please launch this Video Tutorial.
11 Mar 08 at 1:24 pm
Um, the tutorials don’t work?
12 Mar 08 at 9:27 am
Sorry guys - I accidentally deleted the video from my server. I am uploading it later today.
Max
26 Mar 08 at 10:06 am
anxiously awaiting those tutorials…:-)
02 Apr 08 at 7:19 pm
likewise anxiously awaiting the tutorials. they are still not available as of this time.
21 Apr 08 at 8:01 am
[...] … dunno why - but they are back up there now! You can find the tutorials right here and here. Sorry for those who might have tried to do the tutorials but failed cause my videos weren’t [...]
25 Apr 08 at 8:53 am
Amazing I found your tutorial (for 1.x “to folder”) the day you got them back up. I had just uploaded my new website, and then learned of the iWeb issues regarding search engines. Your tutorial was great and very clear….. thank you! Only thing I couldn’t do was ping google, since your ping box just says error404…. been looking where else I could ping google, any suggestions? Also downloaded iTweak…. tried adding a favicon, but it didn’t seem to work…. will try again later. Thanks again!
11 May 08 at 11:55 pm
Hi great tutorial, thanks a lot, am now on google but my search result (the underlined bit in google) says ‘home’ rather than my url. Any idea how to get this changed?
thanks
13 May 08 at 8:07 am
@Steve - I am planning to put the pinger back up. For iTweak, what error are you getting? None?
@Rob - Sadly I dont have an answer to that. THough, I think you can find the answer in the Google Webmaster Tools.
01 Jul 08 at 6:19 pm
dear Max Karreth,
Many thanks for your tutorial re iweb 1.x. I finally managed to get my personal web page on the google search. It was very helpful and very successful.
cheers,
Marwan