Thread:SEOkitten/@comment-168424-20150917174429/@comment-26321732-20150918163711

Just jumping back in to note that this discussion is about two different things. Apologies to Deadcoder since this is a bit of a repeat of some previous messages!

The clean up project I mentioned is for the meta tags in the head of our HTML documents. These are known SEO ranking factors (title more so than description/keywords, but some search engines still consider all three), so that is where we are starting! For the most part, users cannot edit meta tags on Wikia&mdash;the main exceptions being MediaWiki:Pagetitle and MediaWiki:Descrption.

Schema can help search engines understand the content of pages too, but microdata is not considered in search algorithms. This markup is designed to aid in data extraction, and the impact on SEO is unproven. Still worth testing and perhaps supporting! Just different. ;)