IWeb sites can't be found by Google

This can't be real: No iWeb site can be found by Google bots.
Apple offers an app for people who are NOT html-savvy (everyone else would use a different, more professional app) - and if they want their sites to be found by Google or any other search engine, they have to find (and pay) a web designer.
Not only that no meta tags are added. All main text is turned into something else, a picture format maybe, I don't know, but I can't select those texts in Safari any more - they aren't text any more. Thus, Google can't find the titles, main texts and picture subtitles either.
Or have I missed something withing the related threads here?
Thanks a lot for a clarification
Peter

Peter,
Glad you figured out the text-to-png problem. The real text should definitely help once Google's spiders crawl your site. I think the real answer is that it just takes time. When you add pages or blog entries or whatever, try to use what might be more unique keywords in your titles or phrases that might make your webpage more visible in search results. Once I did an experiment on my own blog and used "Paris Hilton" in the entry. It took about a week, but sure enough depending on your search terms, my little page shot up to number one out of about 1.6 million sites. Lasted probably for about 3 weeks that way. Pretty funny.
So I guess what I am trying to say is that ALL of the search engines will eventually find your site (even with all of iWeb's crazy URLs). The real quest if you care about these things (sounds like you do) is how to get your pages closer to the top of the heap when it does get noticed. That is where you have more control...page titles and text and also unique links to your pages from other sites. Start "optimizing" your pages now and it will pay off later.
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