Google is indexing my navigation bar rather than content

[jrthib]

Any ideas what i can do to my page so that google index's the page's content before indexing the navigation bar. When i search for my site in google all that shows on the brief description of the site under the heading is the navigation bar links...

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

[Setek]

Do you have a META for your document description?

<meta name="description" content="Description of your document/website in general" />

It should come up with that first if you have it.

Otherwise, there is always source-ordered documents :)

Put your navigation menu down the bottom, so content is always on top, and then use CSS absolute positioning to switch them around :)

[simonuk]

Are you using frames?

SE's hate them and can do really weird things when they encounter them.

[Fotiman]

In your page content, you could move the navigation to appear after the page content and then use CSS to position it before the content on screen.

<div> 
  <div id="main-content">...</div> 
  <div id="nav">...</div> 
</div> 

[abhishekkaushik]

Any ideas what i can do to my page so that google index's the page's content before indexing the navigation bar. When i search for my site in google all that shows on the brief description of the site under the heading is the navigation bar links...

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Similar thing happened to my site as well two month back, but when i changed the navigation scheme from "left menu item" to "top nav bar" things are going smoothly

[Frank_Rizzo]

Same happened to me - messageboard with thousands of pages.

One gotcha which I only just realised :-) is that you should not worry too much about the descriptions returned if searching for site:widgets.com

As there is no keyword in that search google will (now) tend to grab the first main block of text, namely a menu structure, rather than the main body of the text.

If you search for site:widgets.com mainkeyword you should see an adaptive description.