New Google and Traffic Triumphs

I think I remember when Wikipedia was first.....

Actually for the Google subdomains, we fail at the Canadian search, but pwn the American one, hmm...

888: Avatar Wiki definitely came up with the "The Last Airbender" term, at least by the time MediaWiki:Description was created in February, which was four months before you changed the Pagetitle-view-mainpage (two months ago by tomorrow). So, by "long ago" I mean six months.

I know what you meant for "first page". I didn't mean that the site came up if you typed "The Last Airbender". I meant that by typing the terms "avatar: the last airbender" and "avatar the last airbender" the keywords "The Last Airbender" was one of the highlighted terms because of MediaWiki:Description. Like I said, that has been the case for months.

I also don't get any results in the top ten by using "The Last Airbender", but I do if I type only "Last Airbender." Avatar Wiki comes up in forth place.

Well, I'm afraid these arguments are not exactly something that can be verified at this point. I'm telling you that by using the terms you specified Avatar Wiki has been coming up for me on the top ten for months, presumably because of MediaWiki:Description, which is what that is for actually. I can't see why it didn't come up for you. Other than Wikipedia, there aren't many sites that come up with the keywords "avatar: the last airbender", so I'm not sure what other sites came up for you with those terms on a top ten. Most of the others are sites about games or to download episodes.

I'm not sure what the case was by simply using "Avatar" but now it comes up on the end of the top ten, which are good news.

I don't like where this conversation is going. I'm not accustomed to have my word being doubt of. If I say they came up before, then they did. And if by "no-one else" you mean Joey and you than that's only two people, and last time I checked that's not enough to disprove my statements, especially since none of us are presenting verifiable evidence. This discussion is pretty much based on what we know, which to everyone else here is very close to hearsay. Unless, of course, you are implying you are more credible than me, and everyone should just take your word for it.

I'm well aware that MediaWiki:Description is not a sole factor for small wikis, but it certainly does give a jump in search engine listings when the site in question has a decent traffic count, which Avatar Wiki did before the merger.

To conclude, I know what I know. However, if you insist in contradicting me with little to no facts, then you can keep this self-congratulatory blog about how you two were right, and mislead everyone else into believing that this sudden google listing jump was due to the merger done only three days ago, because I won't stand in your way. I already regret posting in the first place.

Browser doesn't affect search results, which search engine and 'your information' does however. For example, Google is notorious for recording information on searches and using that to relay subsequent search results, in other terms, Google's results can change for you if you search a term a lot. This is most likely the cause for differences in both of your search results, which honestly suck :(

I'll agree hoever that since the merge just happened, not much could have, or would have changed yet, except for the plethora of links we got added to, which of course helps SEO, but doesn't do too much. Personally, I haven't checked Google results for about a month now, and I'll admit sometime between now and the end of May something changed for the big term "Avatar: The Last Airbender" (the character terms were always good for us)

But I will openly admit that we can't and won't mark any of our traffic/SEO changes on the merge (yet) as it is too soon to tell. Let's give it some time before we go critiquing or praising it.

Also, I'll be the mom here and tell both of you to stop bickering over petty differences ;)

I personally regret making this blog. I know Google's results can change based on personalisation, that's why I checked them on multiple computers - but I'm not going to pursue this any further. I disagree in opinion and I also am not very happy about how some things were said to me, but in the interest of keeping peace here I'm going to shut up and go elsewhere. I will however say - ...stuff this, I don't want anyone to post anymore.

pleased 4 u guys!

I have Google Chrome and I typed "avatar the last airbender", I saw avatar wiki on the search list and it is awesome.

Hi, Toughpigs! Nice to see you here, even though it's a bit out of the blue. Please note that no one here said that Google rank for the search term "avatar the last airbender" didn't go up. What was said was that the rank didn't go up due to the merger done three days ago, which is what the original post is declaring. Moreover, if in May the site was in 14th place, then it's unlikely that it would go up four whole places on the last three days. More so, that confirms what I have been trying to say: the site was well positioned at least two months ago, which is why it came up on the top ten for me. That's the confirmation I was looking for. Thanks!

Thanks Danny and Doug! Thanks also for that main page tip, I didn't realise that there were that many links, I'll see what I can do about it. :)

Thailog - I probably made that point badly/shouldn't have made that point but I reckon we should just forget about it and be pleased with our overall progress - our work here is definitely paying off.  :)