Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5313287-20140622032734/@comment-5732262-20140623085810

I can confirm that the number of views (hits - both unique and visitor/returning) are taken into consideration on the hit list for search engines.

You can pay to get higher up the list, but there are ways to optimise your search engine sourcing with better data.

I can show you those whenever you like guys :)

If we are not getting views, we need to have an autonomous redirect. After every article has been migrated, there should be a final 14 day warning issued to all users, via Wikia, social networks and Wikia email.

After which, the Wikia will be a forwarding page - one of the admins will have to talk to Wikia about that. If they cannot allow a simple PHP forward, then we can create a little javascript feature with an automatic forward built in after the warning of forwarding - the rest of the Wikia will be empty.

I like the look of the new Wiki, but it does need some work, as I am sure you are all aware; in time it will be better and more powerful.

I would like to make you aware of a notice I added to the admin noticeboard.