Hi Gary, If you want to use your website for business and be found by search engines, then you are going to have to give iWeb a big shake - the defaults are not your friend.
As it stands, your website will be ignored by Google et al. iWeb's fault, not yours - it is optimised for simplicity/beauty, not search engines. Maybe not a problem for personal photo galleries / family sites. But for a business site, search engines usually matter. If you are curious about this, here are a few things you can check on your site and see for yourself: - use View, Page Source and look what is between the <title> </title> tags - your page titles are blank. Books have titles, so do web pages. Search engines pay a lot of attention to the keywords in page titles to figure out what they are about, and return page titles when delivering search results. Unique, descriptive titles for each page are a critical first step for search engines. - other than your domain name, your content is invisible to search engines. Pick any of your pages and use View, Page Source to see what the search engines see of your content - nothing. iWeb also has Javascript for menus, which block search engines from following the menus to index all your pages. These links show the issue is pretty common (2nd article provides a way for you to create unique titles and kill the Javascript menus): http://seo-expert-marketing.blogspot.com/2008/04/seo-and-apple-iweb.html http://www.ragesw.com/blog/2008/04/12/seo-for-iweb-how-to-get-your-iweb-websites-into-google-other-major-search-engines/ http://www.delamainit.com/articles_how-tos/web_design_seo/seo-guide-iweb-and-dot-mac-.mac.html So to use iWeb for business you might have a learning curve to make your site search engine friendly, it just hasn't been designed from this perspective. Glenn. OM4 2008/7/17 gary dorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > howdy , > I 'v been considering getting my dot mac web site transferred to may own > domain name. > > I looked up the archives for domain name registration recommendations, they > were mostly oldish dates, so I used google and manage to get .com name > for 5 years for 60$ at > http://www.netregistry.com.au/offer/ > > FYI > > chow > > > -- > Gary Dorn > Permaculture architect > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Perth, Western Australia, Australia > integrating Permaculture , Organic Solar architecture, > Straw bale construction & Solar and wind power systems > http://web.mac.com/dornworks/iWeb/HOME/Dornworks.html > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
