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Is it possible to enter some metadata for an iWeb page?
iWeb '08
What do you mean by 'metadata' - please be more specific?
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Meta data is entered into the head of the html doc for every page of your site. You can do this post publishing or use an app like iWeb SEO Tool...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Tags.html
With both methods you will need to publish your site to a local folder ....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Publish-Website.html
Which ever method you choose, you need to run this every time you publish changes to your website.
iWeb provides a hidden text box in each page for entering the "title" for the page. If you don't use this, the app substitutes the page name which is not very helpful for SEO since the page title tag is probably the most important.
The next most important is the meta description since it is the content of the Google entry.
Open each HTML file in a text editor and add these as shown below...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Page Title goes here</title>
<meta name="description" content="Page description goes here" />
</head>
Now that iWeb SEO Tool is no longer free some people may be tempted to add their own meta data to the HTML files. Here's an example of how not to do it!
One iWeb user asked me why his page took so long to download in Firefox. Checking it in the Error Console revealed this ...
"The character encoding declaration of the HTML document was not found when prescanning the first 1024 bytes of the file. When viewed in a differently-configured browser, this page will reload automatically. The encoding declaration needs to be moved to be within the first 1024 bytes of the file."
This particular genius had added, not only a meta description, but a huge number of meta keywords and a link to an apple icon before the encoding declaration.
Open the HTML doc in an editor and look for the <title> tag. Enter your page title here and add any meta data after the closing (</title>) title tag.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="Generator" content="iWeb 3.0.4" />
<meta name="iWeb-Build" content="local-build-20120925" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=980" /><title>Page Title HERE</title>
<meta name="description" content="Page description goes here" />
The slow downloading was compounded by having an autoplay banner on the page.
There really isn't much point in testing your site in Safari. Test in Chrome and Firefox and use the Error Console to look for website killers like the above.
I am pulling my hair out trying to get this seemingly simple task done.
Where might I find a folder with these "HTML" files in them? I have iWeb save to a folder on my desktop and there are many folders in there but none that I am able to open with a "text editor". When I select "Home.html" and choose Open with > "Text edit" I get a window with a black screen and a few words, nothing like what you show. Pages doesn't work at all, what "text editor" should I use?
I also have an updated version of iWebSEO and yet nothing seems to work there either. My url still reads: http://www.bottomline-productions.com/Home.html - when what I want to do is replace "Home" with "HD Video Production"
What am I doing wrong here???????
Thanks in advance....
Here's a free html editor...
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33751/fraise
The title tag is the one above the URL on the browser...
Roddy - Thanks but I know where my title tag ought to appear on the webpage, just not in the file.
I have now changed it as follows (with Fraise, thanks!) to this:
And yet my site still looks the same....http://www.bottomline-productions.com/Home.html
Any ideas?
Did you empty the browser cache before visiting the published site - in Safari its Option/Command/E
"I also have an updated version of iWebSEO and yet nothing seems to work there either. My url still reads: http://www.bottomline-productions.com/Home.html - when what I want to do is replace "Home" with "HD Video Production""
Are you talking about replacing Home.html with HD Video Production.html? If so, you just need to change the page name from Home, to HD-Video-Production. The reason I added those hyphens is because if you put it as 'HD Video Production' iWeb will product it as HD_Video_Production.html. You can change page names by highlighting the page in the left hand side, and then hitting enter or return on your keyboard.
If you were trying to change the title tag from Home to HD Video Production, then try clearing the browser chache as Roddy pointed out. Right now, I see your home page's title tag as MIlwaukee Video ProductIon | Bottom Line
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