[paranoidxprod]

A few years ago, Path of Exile migrated from the fandom to a new site. GGG (Path of Exile's company) even decided to host the new wiki on their servers (https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3292958)! At this point, the new wiki ranks higher then the old one, but for a time it was an issue. Interesting to see more cases of games wikis leaving Fandom with how horrible the site is, and hopefully this is just the beginning of a trend.

[ykonstant]

Fandom PoE still pollutes the top of Google searches :(

[paranoidxprod]

Just tested a bunch and it seems like `path of exile [skill/currency]` usually ranks the Fandom higher while `poe [skill/currency]` ranks the new wiki higher which is why I never noticed (I actually never noticed because I block the PoE Fandom and pin the new wiki on Kagi)

[ykonstant]

That's good info.

[RheingoldRiver]

You may also want to install: https://getindie.wiki/

[entrox]

Consider switching to Kagi with its feature to personalize your results by biasing certain domains.

I've configured it to lower results from *.fandom.com and am really happy about it.

[dpbriggs]

There is an extension which automatically redirects you from Fandom to the new wiki. While that's convenient it probably helps Fandom stay near the top.

[iamacyborg]

It does, if you’re clicking on those fandom links and not subsequently providing any negative signals back to Google it’ll assume that’s where you wanted to go.

It was and remains a worthwhile trade-off to ensure folks got to the right wiki though.

[iamacyborg]

And we just launched the wiki for PoE2 which GGG are hosting for the community.

[BlueTemplar]

I think you mean "we are about to launch", since there is no information about it anywhere ?

(I'm guessing it does technically exist online, but access to it is limited to closed beta players (under NDA) for now ?)

[iamacyborg]

Hasn’t been announced by GGG yet but it’s up and available. No NDA breaching content, editors are only adding information that is publicly available.

https://www.poe2wiki.net/wiki/Path_of_Exile_2_Wiki

[BlueTemplar]

Right, so hardly anyone linking and so no presence on search engines yet.

(As a contributor for the wiki for PoE1 I really should have tried the obvious link... less obvious on the phone though !)

[iamacyborg]

Yeah, lots of work to be done on the visibility front but we’re in a better place with this one than the fork was at the same time.