[andyman]

Hi, hope this is a clear enough question? is there a way of adding html code to , say ,a left side navigation menu so that google doesnt list it in your webpage desciption on a search engine and only indexes your page content first?

[Fyzbo]

You can tell the search engines not to index a page or not to follow links on that page with a meta tag or robots.txt file. You can also tell it to not could the link's content to affect that pages pagerank with a rel='nofollow'. I've never seen a way to tell it to ignore a section of the page. Most people are trying there hardest to get their pages into the search engines, why are you trying to have sections removed?

[madd74]

If you are refering to what the "description" is, then the simple way would simply be to add a META tag with the description you want people to see:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_meta.asp

[Sequal7]

I don't think there is, have you tried making it a SSI and adding it to your robots.txt file? I don't know if that will work or not since the output would be printed onto the webpage that is being crawled.
Do you have a "search phrase" that you are using and can share so we can test this out, or a link to your website?

[awatson]

Yeah, just put the desired description in the description meta tag, much easier.

Google will see whatever is sent to the browser, so SSIs wouldn't help, I don't think. You could probably do something with javascript if you really had to, but the meta tag fix should do the trick.