Is there a way to mark a section of a page as being less important for snippets?

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Dan W. from San Francisco, CA asks: "Can Google provide a way to mark a section of our pages as being less important for being indexed/snippeted by Google? Sort of like the AdSense section targeting comments. The snippet that Google SERPs often shows is one's site menu or similar."



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