[Wikia-l] Wikia on Google

[Christian Williams]

I'm sure bioshock was featured on the home page when Google indexed  
it. I don't have the URL handy, but there's a fairly lengthy video  
floating around in which Matt Cutts from Google explains how that  
piece of the Google search results is generated.

-Christian

On Mar 14, 2008, at 3:18 PM, "Charitwo (SrA Moliske Sean M)" <charitwo at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> Bioshock is 382 articles, almost 1200 pages in the database. There  
> are certainly more "major wikis" than that. I don't think it's as  
> automatic as you say it is. How they would it would index Bioshock  
> and keep it that way is beyond me. *shrugs*
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Christian Williams <christian at wikia.com 
> > wrote:
> It's calculated automatically by Google, based on what they think  
> the major sections of our site is, based on the content on the home  
> page. There is no way to control this other than reworking the  
> elemental structure of the page and waiting for Google to reindex  
> the page and take another guess.
>
> -Christian
>
> On Mar 13, 2008, at 10:18 PM, "Charitwo (SrA Moliske Sean M)" <charitwo at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
>> If you google Wikia, obviously Wikia.com comes up as the first  
>> results. However there are many sub-results under that.
>>
>> Bioshock Wiki     Category
>> About Wikia        Biggest Wikis
>> Search Wikia      Basic Editing Tutorial
>> Gaming
>>
>> My question is, and I never brought it up to anyone because I  
>> always forget, how are those put there or indexed that way? Some of  
>> those links are helpful, but Bioshock has been there forever too,  
>> seems to be getting a lot of publicity (not that it's a bad thing,  
>> but think of the other thousands of wikis). Does anyone know how  
>> these are chosen, and if so, how they can be changed? Perhaps we  
>> can add in an 8th one (maybe Entertainment Hub to compliment  
>> Gaming) and swap out Bioshock with another wiki and rotate every  
>> once and a while (every week?, every other week?, every month?)
>>
>> Thoughts?
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