Finding website in Google

iWeb SEO Tool is not built for what you want to do. You are probably looking for a product like Sitemap Automator.

http://www.ragesw.com/products/googlesitemap.html

Hope this helps.

Edit: Forgot to mention xml-sitemaps.com doesn't work for iWeb sites because of the way the navigation links are made.

Message was edited by: apptorial

do you have your own navigation set up or do you use the built in one? I have used the XML sitemaps and it indexes mine website just fine (I have my own navigation).

Since +"iWeb websites are not made to be search engine friendly"+, you may want to consider using a web-design app which integrates search engine optimization — Sandvox Pro is an example:



http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/getyour_site_noticed_andb.html

I have read with much interest various topics covering iWeb and SEO.

My planned workflow is to use iWeb for design and layout of pages, making use of ease of placement of text, images, blog stuff, gallery, google maps etc.
Then, I will use Dreamweaver to make my site SEO friendly as this is critical.

My question is this (which I could probably answer myself if I tried it but wondered if anyone knows for sure):

If I SEO my content using dreamweaver and then make any changes to the site using iWeb, will re-publishing from iWeb completely overwrite all my good work in Dreamweaver such that I will have to do it all again?

If so, perhaps it's best to just make myself a good layout and css using iWeb and then use these pages as templates, sticking with Dreamweaver from that point on?

Seems such a shame that iWeb is just not quite there. It is such a fantastic and intuitive product, missing just the ability to get the search engine to find the site!

As has been pointed out, creating your own text based navigation will allow you to compile a comprehensive sitemap.xml. The worst thing you can do is use the default navigation or flash.

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/Navigation.html

I publish to a local folder and add tags using SEO Tool before optimizing and uploading. The tags have to be refreshed every time you publish the HTML files from iWeb.

If you go about things the right way you can get your sites found. Its not really a limitation of iWeb so much as putting effort into SEO.

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/SEO.html

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You will find details about sitemaps here....

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/Sitemap.html

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You have to create your own text based navigation to be able to get a comprehensive sitemap.
If you have done this and are still having problems, please publish your homepage URL.

Without seeing your website it is likely that you are using domain masking. You will know if you are using domain masking if the path bar at the top of your browser doesn't change as you navigate to different pages on your site.

Email your webhost and tell them to use CNAME forwarding without domain masking.

Otherwise, please post your website here and I can have a look at it for you.

You are forwarding your domain name using masking and this prevents search engines from crawling your site and will result in only one page being indexed in the sitemap