iweb site & google

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iweb site & google

Hi there,

I've created my bands website using iweb (feel free to take a look www.soundofthefear.com) and I'm trying to go about getting it listed on google for certain search words.

I can currently only find it if i google "soundofthefear.com"

When i go into the webmaster tools the keywords it "detects" are

widget, archive, blog, feed... and other things that dont help

I dont think that google is "seeing" my site correctly & when i try to create a site map using an online generator it only seems to include the news and archive pages.

I do know the basics of seo but have no idea how to implement it with the way iweb structures the site.

any tips would be greatly appreciated

(p.s. I do have google analytics code on there as a "html widget" but that doesnt seem to get all of the data for the pages correctly, is there a better way to put the code in there?)

Macbook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6), Total Mac Noob

Posted on Oct 20, 2010 5:27 AM

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Answer 1

Koeklin

Level 4

1,125 points

Oct 20, 2010 7:14 AM in response to TomDefyingLife

Some tricks 100% iWeb:
1. Google must find links to your website on the web.
2. Avoid iWeb navigation menu. Make a menu with links (inspector > link > hyperlink > Enable as link > Link to your pages)
3. You must have good title that we can read in the bookmarks of our browser and in Google. iWeb have one (or two) special textbox where you can write the title inside. Don't remove it, use it. Eg a title like "The Fear: bio" is better than the simply "bio". Know that the title is the main thing that the Google users will see.
!http://i22.servimg.com/u/f22/09/02/44/99/title10.jpg!
But you can alos use this code in a HTML snippet widget to create a new title

<script type='text/javascript'>
parent.document.title = 'your new title';
</script>

change _your new title_ in this code
4. Write, write, write: three lines of words in a page are not enough for Google to take you seriously.
5. Don't remove any textbox, write your page description inside. In blog main page, google doesn't use the blog summary for its page description, Google looks for text boxes. In this page, the only one textbox is "UPCOMING GIGS 28/10/10 - Leeds 02/11/10 - York"

So what do you think that we can find in Google?...
!http://i22.servimg.com/u/f22/09/02/44/99/google11.jpg!
You should have a better page description and a better title.

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Answer 2

Roddy

Level 6

17,265 points

Oct 20, 2010 9:43 AM in response to TomDefyingLife

The easiest way to add tags, descriptions and analytics to your website files is to use the freeware iWeb SEO Tool. Adding analytics to the whole site is a one click deal.

The title tag that you add becomes the heading of the result of a Google search and the meta description becomes the text.

More info about this and SEO in general here.....

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

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