Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-27729796-20170904042722

Hello, we've discovered an issue (not a bug, just an annoying interaction) with the way our Wiki is appearing in Google searches, where despite having certain spoiler elements of our infobox collapsed by default, spoiler information is appearing in the Google Results, ie if you search for "Jimmy Jones" (not a real character, just an example) you get

Jimmy Jones Pre ToC introduction text blurb... Height: 5'11", Gender: Male Status: Deceased

However the status part of the infobox is only being chosen to appear for certain characters and not others, seemingly at random, for others it'll be "affiliation" or another part of the box. Templates don't get around the problem - they display as plaintext. For better or worse our wiki is #1 in SEO for webpages related to our game, so since its the first result for pretty much any character you Google this has the potential to become an issue for people searching for characters despite our efforts to hide spoilers.

Has anyone else ever had this issue and figured out how Google decides which infobox elements to show by default in the Google search results and how to work around it? We're currently experimenting with filling in additional infobox entries and increasing the length of the page introduction to see if that makes a difference. 