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This video tutorial is going to show you how you can make your RapidWeaver URL shorter by eliminating the folder name that shows up in the URL. Learn how to get your RapidWeaver website ranking high in search engines with the SEO For RapidWeaver video tutorial.

Video Transcript

When you first create a website in RapidWeaver, you will notice that as you navigate to other pages on your site, the URL in your address bar will show your domain followed by the folder name followed by the page name. Some of your folder names and page names will look different, as these items are easily customizable, but I have left mine as is to show what the default folder names and page names are.

If you want to shorten this URL by eliminating one of these items, follow these simple instructions. What we are going to do, is shorten the URL by getting rid of the folder name. Once again, the folder is this second one which comes right after the domain name.

So to get rid of the folder, open up RapidWeaver, and highlight the page on the left hand side, and then press the Page info button. In the text box next to Folder, delete whatever is in there, and put in a forward slash. Repeat this process for the remaining pages on your site. You will notice that the homepage does not contain anything in the text box next to folder. You do not need to add a forward slash to the home page. Just leave it as is.

Now, when we publish our sites, that folder name will be gone, and we will be left with a smaller, nicer looking URL in the address bar. To learn how to get your RapidWeaver website ranking high in search engines, be sure to check out the SEO For RapidWeaver video tutorial at ragesw.com

Your website is ranking for keywords you may not even know it is ranking for and you can instantly boost the number of visitors you are getting from search engines with a single change to your site.

So you have your XML Sitemap file submitted to your Google Webmaster Tools account. Now, login to your account to see what search terms your website is appearing for AND what search terms people are actually clicking on to visit your site.

The trick is to find the relevant search terms that are appearing a lot in search results, but that customers are not clicking. By simply changing your Title Tag and your description tag, you can dramatically improve the number of visitors who visit your website.

Watch this step by step video tutorial to learn exactly how to do this;

Make sure you have created and submitted your XML Sitemap file. If you think you’ve missed a step and feel a little lost, we have our step by step walkthrough SEO videos which explain everything you need to know about optimizing your website for the best possible search engine rankings.

You’re walking in a shopping mall, among the hundreds of stores competing for your attention, one catches your eye.

Have you ever walked by a store and been so intrigued you had to go in? What if you could do the same thing with your website?

When someone does a search in Google for a keyword related to your site they are presented by hundreds of thousands of choices. Even on the front page they have 10 results to choose from. How can you make sure they click your site even if you may not be right at the top?

Your website title tag is the very first thing your visitor will see. That is why it is so important to make sure you have the perfect title tag for each of your pages. A title tag that both attracts web searches but also has your keywords for the best search engine rankings is extremely important. This video will explain in detail what a title tag is and how it is used.

Once you know why you need the title tag, you can learn how to create the perfect title tag that not only gets people clicking to your site, but also includes the keywords your customers are searching for you. Check out our walk through SEO video tutorials to learn how to improve your website’s title tags.

We are happy to announce a major update to WebDesign, the fully featured web authoring package and HTML editor for Mac OS X. This update adds a number of enhancements, most notably support for HTML 5.

If you are new to HTML 5, you’ll love the new features we added. You can now see what tags and attributes are new to HTML 5 and a description for each one in the attribute editor. Auto complete and syntax checking also support the new HTML 5 tags and attributes.

WebDesign Attribute Editor

Publishing from the Site manager has also been improved. WebDesign will now mark documents that have been changed with a modified tag and only publish those files that have been modified locally. To restore the behavior from version 3.0 you can hold option as you publish. This will do a one way sync to your FTP server.

Lots of other bug fixes and improvements can be found in this update. It is free for registered 3.x users.

Reports of a new version of iLife have been circulating for a few months now. It was first speculated that iLife ’11 would be released in August, then September and now November with a book listing on Amazon.com according to 9to5mac.com.

Whether or not iLife ’11 gets released next month with a new version of iWeb is yet to be known. What we do know is that all of our software will be 100% compatible with the new version of iWeb. The only product that may need an update is iWeb SEO Tool, but it is very unlikely that the new version of iWeb will cause conflicts with it. All of our other software will be fully functional in their current versions when iWeb ’11 is eventually released.

Our speculation for what will come with iWeb ’11 is new templates, twitter integration, updated blogging features and possibly some creative HTML 5 only features. 64-bit versions of all applications is also very likely. An iOS version is also very possible.

We have just posted a long awaited update to Macintosh Explorer bringing the application to version 5.0. This new update adds support for Quicklook, improves support for Snow Leopard, and fixes many minor bugs and issues with the previous version.

Macintosh Explorer 5.0 is a free update for all registered users.

We have just released a new update to Sitemap Automator, the easiest way to get your website listed in all major search engines.

This update will now show you any broken links on your website and where they can be found on your site. Just double click a broken link and Sitemap Automator will take you to the page that contains that link.

Broken links can negatively effect both your search engine rankings and your website visitor’s experience. Ensuring all your links work correctly is the starting point of a professional website.

This update is free for registered 2.x users.

iWeb SEO Tool, the search engine optimization tool for iWeb based sites, has been updated to version 1.9 and adds the two most request features.

It will now work properly with iWeb blogs that use commenting and with iDisk Syncing enabled. Loading a website from your iDisk will also work much faster than before.

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

We have a few important updates currently being beta tested. First and foremost, Macintosh Explorer, our file browser for Mac OS X has some new features including a new tabbed interface, support for Quick Look on Leopard and a few more enhancements.

We also have an update to iWeb SEO Tool which improves on some long standing issues. You can now properly use iWeb SEO Tool when you have MobileMe syncing enabled. You can also now optimize blog pages for search engines.

You can download both beta versions from;

http://www.trybeta.com/

Just create a free beta testers account at the above site and you will see both products listed. Try them out and please submit your feedback and any problems you encounter so we can fix them ASAP.

We are very excited to announce the first beta of MailShoot, a powerful newsletter and subscription management software. MailShoot will let you instantly create an online subscription form for your website, no programming skills necessary, where your visitors can subscribe to your newsletter. It even works with iWeb websites hosted on MobileMe.

From there, you can quickly and easily keep your visitors up to date with periodic email updates keeping them coming back to your website.

We have released the first beta version on Trybeta. Users who submit valuable feedback will get a free license when the final version is released. Just sign up as a beta tester to Trybeta below;

http://www.trybeta.com

We look forward to hearing your feedback.