Utility Bar Text being Indexed in Meta Description by Google

[Tom]

Hi Guys,

Carrie has a nice simple tutorial for adding a 'Utility Bar' above the Header of any Genesis Theme. Always handy! I noticed that the text within this Widget Area is the first to be indexed by Google in the meta description.
Is there a way to stop this from happening so as normal, by default the Page Content is Indexed and NOT the first text which appears on the entire page. In this case the text within the Utility Bar.

Meta Descripton Example on SERP:

Utility Bar Tutorial by Carrie Dils

http://www.tenterdenwills.co.uk/tenterden-wills-launches-a-new-website/

[neilgee]

The meta description will change depending on the search query - you can try and sway what Google displays with the meta description tag but you can't ultimately control it.

For example the 2nd result above does use it.

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Neil Gee
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[Tom]

Hey Neil,

Thanks for this, I just thought it was a little odd how it was indexing this text and not the Post Content.

Also something else I noticed is the date appearing in front of the Meta Description for Pages. For example, the 'about-us' page in your screenshot. Which is something I haven't seen before for Pages...

Do you know of a way to hide the date for Pages?

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