Im not understanding what your on about here. I dont have a clue about what "google wants" nor am i sure what your meaning here.........
Google reads the source code of your page. This is human readable text and you can see it in your web browser (normally a right click option "View page source" or similar depending on your browser). It ignmores all the HTML on the page and picks up the text on it. The main text it comes across on your home page is:
Code:
</div>
<div id="homepage_text" class="contentsection contentsection-text contentsection-maincol_bottom ">
Copyright statement<br>
All images contained on this website remain the property of Gregory Hicks. Images may not be downloaded, reproduced, or used in any way without express written permission.
</div>
It will also see the "Welcome to..." but has probably decided that it isn't as "interesting" to display.
What you are after is for something descriptive to appear on google so that it ranks you higher for the areas you are interested in. For example, something like:
"Welcom to Gregory Hicks photograpy, a Portsmouth based photographer specialising in wedding and sports photography throughout Devon, Wiltshire and Hampshire"
is going to get far more "hits" from googles search engine (assuming you want hits from things like "Portsmouth wedding photographer" rather than your copyright notice.
If you don't actually want to have that on the site visibly, there are ways of getting it on there so google will see it. You could have the page title to be "Gregory Hicks | Portsmouth based wedding and sports photographer" and you can also put a tag in the header, called a meta-tag. The one Google uses most is the "description" meta tag. Whichever CMS system you are building with, it should allow you to enter this text in somewhere.
Fundamentally, google wants plain descriptive text that it can use to present pages to the searcher. Figure out how you'd search for your website via google, what words you'd use, and get them on the page somehow. Repeat them a few times... Make google think you know what you're on about and that it's interesting. Yes, I know it's a program, but lots of stuff about how you got to being a photographer is irrelevant if you are trying to attract customers. For example - on your "About Me" page there is only one mention of what you are interested in photographing: "Weddings and Sports events are my favourite subjects to photograph" with hundreds of words surrounding them. If you are trying to get business based on that, you need to be:
- Consistent with the words you use across the site
- Choose the words to describe what you do so that they'd be the words others would use if searching for you
- Get the words placed prominently and repeated (although not ad-nauseum) in the title, meta description and text of the page
Any clearer?
