Help:Description

The Description (or "meta description") of a Wikia community will be shown on search engines when the main page appears in the results. The description text is helpful for Search Engine Optimization, and tells viewers of search results what your wikia is about. The contents of the system message MediaWiki:Description will be placed inside the content of the  tag of the main page of a wikia.



Background
When main pages show up in Google results, they sometimes have odd text showing as the description. Keywords for the topic of the wikia sometimes appear in boxes and templates on the main page, rather than plain text, so what Google shows can be somewhat random.

MediaWiki:Description is a way for communities to customize what Google uses as the description for the main page. Right now, it's set to a default: " is a database that anyone can edit." (The term  is replaced by the name of your wikia.)

Administrators can edit that page to expand the description, up to 150 characters. Good descriptions include search terms that one would expect people to use when they're looking for your site on a search engine.

MediaWiki:Description in action

 * Wookieepedia
 * - MediaWiki code on Wookieepedia
 * http://www.google.com/search?q=wookieepedia - Wookieepedia on Google search results.


 * Wiccana - AoC server
 * - MediaWiki code on Wiccana AoC Server Wiki
 * http://www.google.com/search?q=wiccana+aoc+wiki - Wiccana AoC Server Wiki on Google search results.


 * Warriors Wiki
 * - MediaWiki code on Warriors Wiki
 * http://www.google.com/search?q=warriors+wiki - Warriors Wiki on Google search results.

Further help and feedback
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