FamilySearch Wiki talk:Localities Template to Replace Populated Places Section

This idea looks promising as long as it does not repeat the problem we had with Portal pages. Will putting templates on a page cause Google spiders to miss important data?


 * I Googled for our Baker County page and found the heading of "Municipalities and communities of Baker County, Oregon" right near the top of the Google hit list.
 * But the results were not quite so positive when I Googled some of the data deeper in the template. When I Googled "Discontinued Post Offices" I didn't get our Wiki near the top of the list until I changed to "Discontinued Post Offices" Oregon, at which time our Wiki appeared near the top of the Google results list.

Conclusion: As far as I could tell, using templates did not seem to have a significantly adverse affect of Google search results lists to cause me any concern.

But I am interested in whether any other users experience any Google search difficulties as a result of templates on a regular Wiki page? What say ye? Diltsgd 17:08, 28 August 2009 (UTC)