Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151201202536/@comment-452-20151213155142

It's a good thing that Wikia already pre-dodged people reporting negative results by saying:

"That said, thirty days post-change isn't enough time for the SEO pie to get baked - it'll take six months or more for google to completely re-crawl and update their historical rankings. We can do our best to play by the rules that we see set out before us, but we'll only know the results of following them after the pie gets baked. A coworker used the analogy, "it's like Battleship, except infinity ways to place your pieces and the enemy can re-place their ships after you hit them"."

- Wikia Staff

Wikia are playing battleship against us. No matter what we say, they will move their ships and tell us we "missed".

Wikia Staff's final statement in my support ticket was "We're confident this is the right move."

Confidence is what you have when you do not have evidence. The first definition in my dictionary explicitly uses the word "belief".

They do not care about "results" because "SEO" is a religion to them, not a science. They believe they are doing the right thing, and no amount of evidence will shake their faith in Google's SEO bible.

So far, out of my 16 test searches, 3 have negative changes, 1 has a positive change and 6 have no change.

edit: For the record, Wikia Staff have also tried to undermine my results by claiming that my google history effects my results: my results are identical with or without Incognito Mode, and I have encouraged them to verify my findings by doing the searches themselves.