Hi,

It seems to me that the search engines and Adsense don't get a great view of my DNN pages.  In particular my Adsense ads (using the DNN Adsense module) strike me as 'not even close' to the content of the page.

Acting on some advice elsewhere on the site I got a view of what the Search Engine sees by looking at the Google Cache of a few pages.  The text in the cache was largely dominated by the text of the menu on my site.  The menu has little relevance to the content of one page.  I'm wondering if I can somehow prevent the menu from rendering to the search engines.  I am assuming that the search engine can still crawl my site because I have and use a site map.  So the search engine should know about all the pages in the site.

Does this idea make sense?  How do I do it?

That bit makes no sense.. if the menu doesn't relate to the page then one or the other is wrong.

JK Is right - that's exactly what I meant.   Thank you JK - you expressed it better than I did.

I took a look at the link you (JK) posted, but I think I have to learn all about CSS to apply that information.  Whilst I'd like to know more about CSS it's not high enough up my priority list to solve this one niggle.

Given I have a site map do how much do I need to care about how the menu renders to the search engine?  The site map tells Google where everything is - right?  So I only need to worry about other search engines - also right?

Thanks everyone for your contributions.