Here are some more details on how to get your site listed more/better/faster:
1. Go to
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl and submit your URL.
Submit both yourdomain.com (if you have one) and
http://web.mac.com/yourusername
FYI, if you use forwarding on yourdomain.com, Google will be happier/more likely to index your mac.com addresses, since that is where your actual pages and content reside. No way around this.
2. Submit your site (either URL) to
http://www.iwebusersites.com
I recommend giving Will your mac.com URL - I have found through some personal research that this is THE KEY to getting iWeb/.Mac sites indexed! I have checked google stats on my many sites created in iWeb and hosted on Mac.com. The ones that I submitted as
http://web.mac.com/varkgirl are indexed thoroughly, others (for example, one of my recent creations,
http://www.affordabledigitalphotography.com) which I gave to Will in the format of mydomain.com instead are NOT indexed!!! (YET)
3. Get other people you know to post links to your site, and you should include your url when you post in bulletin boards/forums, etc (such as this one).
The more places your links are, the more likely Google is to find you.
Again, I believe the Mac.com URL is the way to go. Again, from my Google index stats, pages on my http://www.aardvarkland.com site which I frequently post on this board (specific iWeb tip pages for example) where I (or others) post the exact URL rather than my aardvarkland.com URL are indexed, other pages that have not been posted here are not.
4. Add Meta tags to your pages.
Get MassReplaceIt
http://www.hexmonkeysoftware.com
Here's a page on how to use it:
http://web.mac.com/will.englefield/iWeb/WillG4PB/MRI.html
Tell it to search for
</head>
Replace with
<meta name="description" content="insert description of your site"><meta name="keywords" content="keywords for your site separated by commas"></head>
You can also give your pages more descriptive titles by changing what it says between <title> and </title>
5. This is a big one: Check the text on your page - perhaps it is being converted to images.
Make sure you use a web safe font, put text in text boxes, not shape boxes, and don't add effects (shadows, etc) to the text or text boxes. This way Google has something to search on your pages.
6. Create a sitemap and submit it to Google
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html
in conjunction with this
http://www.sitemapdoc.com/Default.aspx
There are instructions for doing this all over the forum if you do a search for "google sitemap" or something like that.
7. Wait patiently. It takes time :)
