Help:Pagetitle

MediaWiki:Pagetitle contains the text that is shown in the title bar of your internet browser and on search results.

Your page rank is partly based on what's in the title bar at the top of the page. So if you want your wiki to show up when people search for "charles dickens", then "Charles Dickens Wiki" is a better title than "Scroogepedia".

Search for your topic's name on Google, and you'll see that the top ten results almost always have that phrase in the page title. That's where you want to be.

What to say
Resist the urge to give your wiki a clever name, or a cute URL. "Ugly Betty Wiki" is always going to rank higher than "Modepedia".

You should also make sure it describes the site well - i.e. rather than just "WoWWiki", which means little to many people, it helps to say "WoWWiki, the Warcraft wiki".

How to say it
By default, Wikia wikis use the code. This, in essence, produces the following code:

The effect of this is that the main page of the wiki does not show the page name in the title. This is advisable because "Main Page" means very little to search results, and just gets in the way of the actual site title. All other pages on the wiki are unaffected.

Therefore, if you wish to customize your wikis MediaWiki:Pagetitle, you should use code like the following:

This will give a page title of "Pony Wiki, the wiki all about ponies!" on the main page, and " - Pony Wiki, the wiki all about ponies!" everywhere else.