Search boxes appear in Google results

[Rienne]

Hi

My site has 3 search drop down boxes at the top of the page. The search area where the boxes are is fixed and therefore appears throughout the site.

I am getting lots of Google supplemental results which show the options in these boxes together with the labels as the test in the result. Could this be why I have so many supplementals and few "real" results?

This is even with pages which have lots of text content and meta descriptions.

On the other hand I have a few pages which get indexed correctly.

The site is fairly new and has just started to become indexed.

Can / should I bar this text from being seen by the spiders? If so - how? (I am not a programmer so just an outline on what to do would be good please, I would have to pass it to my programmers to do).

Appreciate if anyone could assist

Many thanks

[ergophobe]

You can block the spiders from accessing certain pages. The only way to get some specific text out of the index is

- recommended solution: rearrange your pages. Put the search box further down in the code (it could still be at the top of the page.

- alternate solution: use a javascript drop-down.

I have the same thing with a Gallery default template. When I get the time, I will rearrange everything so that the center content is the first in the code as that solution works well and is also friendly to people coming to your site using alternative means (text browsers, screen readers).