Search Engine Optimization MCQs

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What is the correct order of the stages a search engine goes through?
Indexing → Crawling → Ranking
Ranking → Crawling → Indexing
Crawling → Indexing → Ranking (serving)
Crawling → Ranking → Indexing
What does 'mobile-first indexing' mean?
Desktop sites are no longer indexed
Google mainly uses the mobile version of a page's content for indexing and ranking
Mobile sites rank first
Only apps are indexed
What does 'crawl budget' refer to?
The number of URLs a search engine is willing and able to crawl on a site within a given time
Money paid to Google for crawling
The size of the XML sitemap
The number of backlinks
What is an orphan page?
A page with no internal links pointing to it, making it hard for crawlers and users to find
A 404 page
A page without a title
A page with no images
How does Google handle JavaScript-rendered content?
It can render JavaScript, but rendering may be deferred; server-side rendering makes content available sooner and more reliably
JavaScript content always ranks higher
Google cannot read JavaScript content at all
Google executes JavaScript only for HTTPS sites
Which metric, such as 'Domain Authority', is NOT an official Google ranking factor?
Page experience signals
Page relevance
Links from other sites
Domain Authority (a third-party metric from Moz)
Does Google use the meta keywords tag for ranking?
Only when there are fewer than 10 keywords
Yes, it is the most important tag
Only for local search
No, Google has ignored it for ranking since at least 2009
Which statement about the meta description is correct?
Google always shows it exactly as written
It must contain at least 20 keywords
It is not a direct ranking factor, but a good description can improve the click-through rate; Google may rewrite it
It is the strongest ranking factor