Site Description For Sub Category Pages

[zampik]

Hi,
I have a website with static Menu items on my homepage and each subcategory page. When I checked which pages of my site has been indexed, I have been seeing that the "Description" part of the sub categories all appear to list the menu items that I have, which kinda looks ugly and may shy away the visitors.

The menu is located on the left end side of my page appearing right after my logo. I have heard that the search engines start to read a website from the left. Is that true? Can I correct this somehow so that the search engine would take something other than the menu item names in my sub category pages for a better result set look and feel.

Thank you,

[caveman]

zampik, getting indexed and appearing in the SERP's are different. Are you saying that when you look at the SERP's (Search Engine Result Pages) and see your site listing, that the snippet (text description) below the link/title of your listing is showing parts of your pages that you'd rather not be seeing there (from the navigation)?

As for spidering, the search engines read your pages top down as the code appears to them, not according to how it is displayed on the page.

[zampik]

Hi Caveman,

Sorry, I really meant that my site description appearing on the SERP's (google) is just showing my navigation menu items...

How can I change it so that it shows something more related to the page? I know I can change the title on the page for the title on the SERP, but I don't know how I can change the description on the SERP.

I would appreciate you advice...

[caveman]

I'm wondering: Do you have a META description tag on your pages?

[zampik]

Hi Caveman,

I thought meta description tag would only help the Main page... Does it help to have a proper description on Serps for your sub pages?

I will definitely give that a try...

[caveman]

G uses mainly ODP snippets and META descriptions for their SERP's snippets, and other SE's make use of them too, as do other webmasters who decide to link to your pages. The META description comes from the code on each page, and of course, should be unique for each page, since it describes the content of the page it's on. In other words, META tags refer to their respective pages. Now you know how imortant they are, at least in the case of the META description.

[zampik]

Thank you very much for the information cavemand. That definitely makes sense... Now that I added descriptions... I can expect more visitors in the upcoming weeks from SERPS :)