Forum:How to Win at Google

Hi, all! I'm Scott from Wikia Entertainment. We're working on a project to help some of our best wikis recruit new members into the community by improving content placement in Google. Since the new Harry Potter movie is coming out in a month, there are some tricks I'd like to suggest. We've been studying search trends and figuring out the best way to get indexed higher in search results, and put together a page that breaks down some interesting information.

How to win at Google/Harry Potter Wiki

Now, that might be a lot of data to take in, and I don't want to overwhelm, so I'll try to simplify.

The Keywords section shows the terms that are most searched for on the wiki, and how the articles for them on this wiki perform in Google. The sections below include a number of suggestions for how we can greatly improve our page rank. Here are the most important ones I'd like to help out with before the movie comes out.


 * Main Page optimization: Google suggests less than 100 links on a page for best results. There are 193 right now.
 * The category structure set up for characters is quite complex. This is enormously helpful for Google since every article in a category links to the category page, and vice versa. The top searches for Harry Potter Characters unfortunately doesn't send anyone to this wiki because of the way this is named. The same goes for the Films and Real books categories which would perform much better as Harry Potter Movies and Harry Potter books.

This is quite a lot to take in, so I'll stop there for feedback. Please respond here with questions, concerns, ideas, etc. The Wikia Entertainment team would love to start helping out and attracting new members who don't know about this wiki yet. Thanks! —Scott ( talk ) 18:26, 15 June 2009 (UTC)