Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24739709-20151201202536/@comment-5558012-20151204180339

452 wrote: For anyone wondering if this will effect their search rankings: the best way to find out is to test it yourself. Conduct searches today which include your keywords, and note down your results, then perform the same searches in a month. The more people who test this, the more results we will have to show Wikia if it does turn out to hurt search results. I've done a number of searches and collected some screenshots with the results. I'm likely to do this a few more times over the next month or so as rankings still change for other factors (the first search result I listed above is wrong today as we've dropped half a page, given Google likes to flood the results with videos).

I honestly don't see a problem with people being responsible in their use of terms/pagetitle. The "Cocktails Wiki" example is clearly overreaching. Even the Google doc I was linked to states "it's sometimes helpful to have a few descriptive terms in the title."