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Facebook allows companies, organizations, or individuals to start groups and fan pages to make it easier for Facebook users to keep up with all your news and upcoming events.

A couple of months ago they came out with widgets that you can add to your website. You can see an example of a Facebook widget on the side of this blog. It shows all the users that are a fan of RAGE Software and lets any blog reader to quickly become a fan as well.

Macworld.com recently published an article describing how to Integrate an iWeb website with Facebook.

It shows you how to add Facebook widgets to your iWeb site using HTML snippets. It also shows you how to get your RSS Feed on your Facebook page. This means all of your blog posts can automatically be added to your wall or fan page. There are many widgets to choose from, so it’s definitely worth a look to see what is available.

It’s a great article to read over if you would like to keep your facebook friends or fans updated on your website news and events.

Combined with iWeb SEO Tool to optimize your website for search engines, and Sitemap Automator, to get your website listed in all major search engines, this can be a great way to attract more visitors to your website.

We get many of the same error reports for iWeb SEO Tool. You may have received these error messages after getting a message saying you don’t have permission to copy files to your Applications folder when trying to copy iWeb SEO Tool to your Applications folder.

Once you try and launch iWeb SEO Tool, you will continue to get a dialog box asking you to report an issue to us.

The reason this happens is because you are trying to copy a new version of iWeb SEO Tool to your Applications folder while your current version is still running.

Before installing a new version of iWeb SEO Tool, quit any open version you have first and then copy the new version to your Applications folder. If you do not do this, you will receive continuous error messages.

iWeb SEO Tool 1.5.2 has just been released. It fixes problems with publishing to both FTP servers and MobileMe. If you previously had trouble publishing your website, try this new version.

It also improves compatibility with Snow Leopard.

This update is of course free and be download from the iWeb SEO Tool download page.

We have published an updated step by step video tutorial for getting your website listed in all major search engines with Sitemap Automator. The tutorial was created by courtesy of AppTorial Video Tutorials.

Whether you are using WebDesign, iWeb, Dreamweaver, RapidWeaver, Sandvox, or any other web development tool of your choice, follow the quick and easy step by step video tutorial to learn how to get your website listed in all major search engines with just a few minutes of work.

Sitemap Automator is the easiest way to create, publish and notify search engines of your industry standard XML Sitemap. XML Sitemaps are used to let search engines know about all pages on your website, how important each page is, and how often each page is updated.

We have posted a minor update for iWeb SEO Tool. It fixes an error message that would appear when applying tags to your iWeb site if you have never used the application folder.

If you were getting error messages about applying your analytics code, this update will fix those problems.

It will also fix a problem with the description and keyword fields not properly wrapping text so the text would go beyond the widths of the fields.

This update is of course free. Updating will not erase any previous data you have entered into iWeb SEO Tool.

With thanks to AppTorial Software Tutorials, we now have two new video tutorials for iWeb SEO Tool.

The first video explains step by step how to add Google analytics, title tags, meta tags and more to an iWeb website.

The second video tutorial explains what needs to be done each time you update your iweb website and need to re-apply your saved tags with iWeb SEO Tool.

We are pleased to announce a major update to iWeb SEO Tool the search engine optimization tool for Apple’s iWeb.

Version 1.5 brings some big improvements including support for Google Analytics (or any other analytical software such as mint or statscounter) to iWeb. Simply copy and paste your analytics code into the Site Settings tab of iWeb SEO Tool and let it take care of all the hard work for you.

We have also significantly enhanced MobileMe publishing as well as FTP publishing. Your iWeb website will now publish must quicker than before.

Lastly this new update fixes problems with some webpage title’s not updating.

The latest 1.5 version is of course completely free and can be downloaded from the iWeb SEO Tool download page.

For best results, why not use our iWeb Hosting solutions. Optimized for search engines, our iWeb Hosting has all the features you need to a fast loading, high performance iWeb web host.

We have gotten a lot of questions regarding how to properly create an XML sitemap using Sitemap Automator and get your iWeb based website into all major search engines. The process usually takes less than a few minutes, but can be confusing. This is why we have put together a short video tutorial on how to easily create an XML Sitemap and get your iWeb based website in search engines today.

This step by step video tutorial is still useful if you have not used iWeb.

We also provide detailed, written instructions for getting your iWeb based website into all major search engines if you require more help.

Today, WebCrusher 1.2 has been released with an all new Reports feature that details exactly where optimizations were made and where improvements to your website have been made.

This free update also includes important fixes for HTML tags with embedded PHP code in them. We have also eased some of the trial restrictions so that you can now view your entire website in your web browser. Please note however that random letters are still flipped around in optimized websites so do not use optimized websites from the trial version as your live website.

WebCrusher can be purchased safely and securely from our the RAGE Online Web Store.

So 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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Publish your website to your server, which can all be done through iWeb SEO Tool, whether you use MobileMe or your own hosting provider.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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!
8. For more secrets to high search engine rankings see the SEO for iWeb article on the RAGE Software SEO Blog.