Searchable on Google?

Hi-
I recently created a website using iWeb and am using a personal domain name through godaddy.com. I am fairly new to this process and don't understand exactly how the web publishing process works, but I was wondering if there is any way to make the text on my website searchable in google. For example, if someone searches for the name of my website, or for a block of text in my blog, will google find this? If not, can I make it possible to do so? It seems like when you publish, your text is an image that is not picked up by search engines. . . is this correct? Any information on this subject would be greatly appreciated!

Your blog text should be text — iWeb provides a Search bar for the Blog template which is functional when publishing to MobileMe. And publishing to +Go Daddy+, your text should still be there as text. You can confirm that your pages contain searchable text by viewing them in Safari and clicking on the View menu then choosing +View Source+.
The problem is that, if you don't generate a Sitemap, search engines may never go beyond your Home page to your sub-pages — because of the way iWeb's navigation bar is constructed. See the posts & links in this old thread:
_How to make my site top in the search engines for a high ranking?_
Problems with iWeb's blog are a recurring theme on these forums: Lost all blog entries or all comments or unable to publish, etc. If you switch to a dedicated blogging platform you're likely to have a better experience. For a success story using a non-iWeb blog hosted on WordPress, see this old thread:
_To blog or not to blog_
And a simpler alternative to WordPress is Posterous.
By the way, rather than setting up a conventional hyperlink to an external blog, there is a way to link to it directly from iWeb's navigation bar.

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> Joe, Thanks also for your suggestion. However, sometimes
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