.mac and search engines

Most of my pages can be found in search engines. Some make it to the "top ten" list.
I manually added meta tag code years ago and submitted my pages for search. Having other pages link back to you also improves your standings.
A Google search for "quicktime pro" lands my book page at number 19. Pretty good ranking for such a common search term.
It only takes time to be found.

abu-safe,

I am having the same problem. I have tried to add html to the index header. I have tried to add meta tags. I have tried to call apple and they said they don't support search engine optimizations. I would also like to know how to have my website seen by search engines.

Hi

To get your site to google first submit the url of your site to http://www.dmoz.org/

( web.mac.com/yourname/ and not personal forwarding domains)

and then follow these steps
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWebiWebGoogle.html

Further use synonyms in your content. Write your content so that it fits as good as possible all a 'googler' could search for.

Search engines don't look for tags, they look for the content of your pages.

Regards,
Cédric

"Just enter your web site address and RAGE Google Sitemap Automator will take care of the rest, generating Google, Yahoo, and MSN compliant Sitemaps allowing you to take control of how search engines treat your webpages..."

Alancito wrote:
"Just enter your web site address and RAGE Google Sitemap Automator will take care of the rest, generating Google, Yahoo, and MSN compliant Sitemaps allowing you to take control of how search engines treat your webpages..."

Yes and no.
No because it can't look through the iWeb '08 navigation bar as the nav bar is Javascript rendering. So what does that mean? It means that the sitemap RAGE Google Sitemap Automator creates contains only the first page 'cause it can't follow the javascript links. Thus it's not a good solution to me.

Regards,
Cédric

The "automatic" generation of the navigation menu in iWeb is probably appealing to those who want to make a small personal site quickly but then there is no reason to submit such a site to Google.
Once you get into commercial sites of more than a few pages, the iWeb navigation proves to be so limited in so many ways that it is virtually useless.
Most commercial sites are designed with "master" and "sub" pages and therefore "master" and "sub" menus. Also, it is good practice to duplicate the main menu at the bottom of the page and/or provide "next" and "previous" buttons.
Prior to iWeb '08 I seldom used the standard navigation. When V2 introduced the horrendous "expanding" navigation text problem, I stopped using it altogether.
Rage Sitemap Automator therefore works well for me and has paid for itself very quickly.
Having said that, I think iWeb users should be made aware of this limitation.

Ok I looked at the automated google program and it asked for the ftp:// site. does anyone know where iweb posts to?

Click the "visit" button in iWeb and, when your website launches in your browser, copy the URL from the address bar and save it as a bookmark. Then you can paste it into the Google Sitemap Automator box.