iWeb and Google: Getting your pages indexed

[IJ Reilly]

My iWeb pages were finally indexed by Google. It took some time, weeks as I recall. The problem which came later is that sometimes they would not turn up in a Google search when I searched for an explicit text string that I knew was on one of my pages. Less explicit searches did list my pages, but also generated a lot of irrelevant results. Some insight into how Google's search engines work (and don't), I suppose.

 

[Willis]

Actually you can edit the iWeb created web site directly. When you publish them to MobileMe, the files are stored in your iDisk. Navigate to "iDisk"/Web/Sites/ and you'll find the web site you created. You can edit the html files directly and add whatever meta tags you like.

I wanted to hide my sites from search engines so I added a robots.txt file to the web site root to ensure it would be ignored. It's a family pictures site so I don't want it showing up in search results.

The contents of the robots file is:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

How do you edit them?

 

[jonnysods]

I didn't read the whole thread, but I use some programs to add the google crawling functionality by adding a sitemap to google as well as meta tags and keywords by using these:

- RAGE sitemap Automator (costs money)
- and RAGE SEO Tool (free) - let's you add tags and keywords etc

These have been invaluBle to me!