Indexing a Search Engine??????

[SprocketTech]

do anybody know how to get a search engine to start indexing/spidering a page at a
given location?

for instance, they use the<title>Title</title> of the page for the
title of the results
returned by the query and for the content of the query it uses the first
text it
encounters on the web page. The problem with this is that the first text
on ALL
of our pages is the menu on the left side, not the actual 'content' of
the page...
i know you can use a meta description tag, but then i would have to
write a
description for each page (over 600) ....

any ideas....

<START INDEXING/SPIDERING HERE>

thanks for the help.

[qball]

You don't want to write out your <meta> tag for over 600 html pages, yet you don't mind adding a tag to same 600 html pages?

The <meta> defines the content for a given page and should be used in this manner.

I'm curious as to why you maintain such a large number of static html pages. With existing technology you should be able to redesign the site for dynamic generation of html strings. In this manner adding/changing a tag or content becomes a much more trivial matter.