Exvius gamepedia11/11/2022 ![]() ![]() Even before the merger of these two platforms, the Gamepedia team noticed that changes to Google’s search algorithm seemed to hurt Gamepedia wikis, while Fandom wikis did better. It is of vital importance for wikis, since 90% of overall wiki traffic comes from Google searches. SEO, as a reminder, is the process of improving the quality and quantity of traffic to web pages through search engine results. We’ve been digging deep into the SEO of Fandom and Gamepedia over the last two years. For now this only impacts the domain, and is separate work to the design changes that will come in the next phase of the Unified Community Platform (UCP), some of which we’ll start to cover at the end of this announcement. To confirm the expected scope of the SEO impact, including its impact on incoming traffic, we will be doing a test migration of a few dozen wikis in a few weeks. Migrating the domain is an action we are taking to resolve the risk, preempt future losses, recover some of that lost visibility, and then perhaps even grow the discoverability of your content on Gamepedia. With an average of four changes per year, the total annual loss of visibility for Gamepedia wikis is staggering, making it harder for your content on Gamepedia to find an audience. On average, each change Google has made has reduced visibility for Gamepedia wikis by up to 10%, while boosting Fandom wikis by up to 18%. This affects how readers, as well as future editors, find your wikis. Over these two years, changes to Google’s algorithms-meaning, the secret sauce Google uses to determine how pages show up and rank in their search results-have negatively affected Gamepedia’s search engine optimization (SEO). I know this is a big change, but that search result visibility makes it a necessary one. There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the primary ones is to ensure that Gamepedia wikis and the hard work editors put into them continue to rank well in search results. After nearly two years of working together to bring Fandom and Gamepedia wikis onto one platform, we will be starting to migrate all Gamepedia wikis to a domain in early 2021. Please whitelist the wiki to fix the bug with your browser. ![]() EXVIUS GAMEPEDIA SOFTWAREIf you are seeing blank wikis on Firefox or using Ghostery, those are caused by that software and not something we can fix on the server side. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Update on how our initial test went can be found here Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. ![]() If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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