Your iWeb Website, Top Search Engine Rankings
October 7th, 2008So you’ve created your website in iWeb, using Apple’s easy to use webpage builder. Its published online ready for the world to see. The only problem, nobody knows about it.
We get hundreds of requests from iWeb users who have created business and even personal websites, trying to figure out how to get traffic to their site. Most users know that search engines provide the number one source of targeted traffic to a website. So how do you get your website to the top of search engines and start getting new visitors and customers?
Today we have made this difficult task much easier for you iWeb users with iWeb SEO Tool. Combined with our suite of Mac SEO Software, iWeb users can now enjoy the same search engine benefits and fairly compete for top search engine rankings.
Here are your steps to high search engine rankings for iWeb based websites. Keep in mind, the following strategies are not instant, but over time will help you get the top spots on all search engines.
- Research the keywords your visitors are searching for in major search engines. To find out exactly what keywords are being searched for, download RAGE SEKeyword, the free keyword research tool from RAGE Software.
- Make sure these keywords are placed in the right places on your website. That means in your title tag, meta tags, alternative image text and your actual webpage content. This is where iWeb SEO Tool comes in handy. Use iWeb SEO Tool to add your keywords to your title tags, meta tags and alternative image text. This step is known as on-page search engine optimization since they are strategies you apply directly to your website.
- Publish your website to your server, which can all be done through iWeb SEO Tool, whether you use MobileMe or your own hosting provider.
- Submit your website to all major search engines the proper way with XML based Sitemaps. Create your XML Sitemaps with Sitemap Automator, the only tool built specifically for iWeb based websites.
- Get third party websites to link to your website with the keywords you researched in step one. The more links you have to your website, the better chance you have of ranking high for these keywords. This step is known as off-page optimizations and combined with on-page optimizations, puts your website in the best possible chance of ranking at the top of search engines. To find high quality link partners try Domainer the domain management and SEO tool. It will give you important search engine statistics about your website and any another website online.
- Continually repeat step 5 in order to climb to the top of search engines. Remember, be patient as top search engine rankings do not happen over night. They take time as search engines update their indexes and algorithms.
- Check your search engine rankings with RAGE SERank, the number one search engine rank checker for Mac OS X to see exactly where your website ranks for your most important keywords. Plus, you can see where your competitors rank too!
- For more secrets to high search engine rankings see the SEO for iWeb article on the RAGE Software SEO Blog.
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:17 am
I have used the Rage iWeb SEO tool and it was very easy to use.
In 2-3 months from now I will be able to give feedback on how well I think it works.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
im still confused about metatags thing, i new to this and i thought i would buy an apple mac because it give the impresion it a pro iweb should have this built in. Anyway i have downloaded the seo to put metatags in but when going throught the prosses i go bact to view the source and theres no tags there.
what am I doing.
LOL.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Thanks for all your information. I had already made a navigation bar on my own and still Go Daddy is showing there are no internal or external links on my sight. This doesn’t make any sense because I had done everything you suggested and there are links all over my sight to other sites as well as internal pages. What else can I do????? I hope you can help.
April 1st, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Hi Lisa,
Don’t believe what Godaddy’s traffic blazer tells you. Once you have created your XML Sitemap and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools you will get feedback from Google letting you know if there are any problems with your site.
July 27th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Hi. I finally got my iWeb site up (www.therapyforwomenindenver.com ).
I was THRILLED to find this site – I have downloaded the SEO kewords and SEO Tool – but my problem is there are no instructions that I can find (I downloaded the Guide but is seemed to be just general info on all of the Rage products). Can someone briefly explain what I am supposed to do – on keywords the box opens, i get that i am supposed to put in keywords but am I supposed to have iWeb open? Do I just put in my web name some where? And with the tool – Is this going to change my text?
If this is posted else where, please point me into the correct direction – I have NO IT experience and am flying blind here! Thank you so much!
August 11th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Hi Karen,
While using iWeb SEO Tool go to the Help menu at the top of your screen. Select ‘iWeb SEO Tool Help’ and you can access the step by step guide.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Hi Paul,
Great Blog, lots of excellent info for all!!!
Just reading thru it has given me suggestions and helped me greatly. Confirmed some things I’ve done, and told me of changes I need to make.
Question on your #5 suggestion above.
How do I get third party websites to link to my website with the keywords I researched in step one?
Keep up the good work!
August 23rd, 2009 at 6:07 am
You can do various things to get other sites to link to yours. You need to be creative in this area and make people want to link to you.
1) Create unique and compelling content that would make other sites want to link to you. Such as providing free information related to your website content.
2) Join forums and blogs related to your website content and include your URL in your signature
3) Send out a press release announcing your website
4) Ask related websites to provide a link
October 9th, 2011 at 1:44 am
Anyone with an iweb website ranking on the top of google?
October 9th, 2011 at 1:56 am
@Dom: There are many top ranking iWeb websites. It depends on the keyword they are targeting. See here for how customer’s have improved their iWeb sites; http://www.ragesw.com/testimonials.php