SERP show text navigation in description

[grillcheese]

I am in the process of optimizing a site for the search engines and noticed that when I went to

[snip]

That the results show my text navigation in the description area. Is there a way to have the search result not display text nav areas and instead show what you'd like for it to show.

Right now it shows
MySite.Com
Home - About - Services - Contact

I'd like to see
MySite.Com
[snip], and ...

Thanks

[edited by: pageoneresults at 8:04 pm (utc) on Dec. 18, 2003]
[edit reason] Removed Specifics [/edit]

[simonuk]

Without seeing the site it could be any number of reasons to be honest.

1. No text on page
2. Not enough text on page
3. Bot unable to decide what the site is actually about
4. No title tag or description with no text on page
3. Bad use of frames
4. Bad coding with errors
5. only flash on page, no text
6. Badly designed page to begin with

There are many more things it could be, those were ones just off the top of my head.

If you do have lot of text on the home page then use h1 or h2 to tell google that the h1/h2 text is important enough to take notice of.

Simon.

<added> just seen you're a new member, welcome :) </added>

[grillcheese]

well if the moderator would actually keep the links instead of [snipping] them, then that might help me get my question answered. The link was to a free tool that allowed you to test to see what your page would look like in the search engines results.

I also cant figure out why he/she snipped my example. There was no personal information shared, or plugs for anything. Just an example. I'd appreciate a warning so that I can at least rephrase my question. Otherwise this is pointless.

[pageoneresults]

I'd appreciate a warning so that I can at least rephrase my question. Otherwise this is pointless.

The warnings should have come when you read the WebmasterWorld TOS [webmasterworld.com] where it states that links to tools are forbidden.

Also, you had some specific search phrases listed there which we don't allow.

If you can rephrase your question without including specifics, that would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your understanding.

P.S. This topic might get more exposure in the HTML and Browsers forum as it is specific to the positioning of your content in the HTML.

What's happening is the spider is showing the first indexed content of your page. Apparently you've got navigation that sits at the top of your page and therefore that is the first thing being indexed and shown.

Keep in mind that if you are referring to Google and its snippets, that snippet will be a direct reflection of the search term used so your navigation text may or may not appear in the SERPs.