Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151201202536/@comment-26402117-20151214210203

Speedit wrote: The main reason why this is an issue is because the staff chose to rollout on Thursday expecting indexing to recache for Friday and any potential changes in the SEO metric of Wikia to occur in the weekend without the community team available to provide support. Natural keyword placement is still highly beneficial and subjectual - the key in all of this and the explanation of the untold damage Wookiepedia will suffer ahead of the premiere on Tuesday, 15th December 2015.

I think the pages have recovered a lot, the ranking is now the same on pages I was manually following from Thursday. A comment on traffic statistics - they may not apply to this case because of the Taboola "You May Also Like" thing taking users by surprise a little. (Wanna discuss that, hit the forum and let the staff respond here about pagetitles seeing as its office hours now). "The Force Awakens" is back to #2, disaster averted - I think Google served me the page as #1 as I use Wikia a lot. The statistical disrepancy in the traffic stats here is due to an advertisement rollout powered by Taboola.

PS: Its unlikely that it will be changed back in order to comply with Google's SEO documentation.