Search Engine Optimization MCQs

100 MCQs  (Page 3 of 10)

What is 'thin content'?
Pages without images
Pages that add little value, such as auto-generated, scraped, or very shallow pages
Short URLs
Text in a light font
What are breadcrumbs on a website?
Hidden links
Tracking cookies
A secondary navigation trail showing the page's position in the site hierarchy (Home > Weather > Karachi)
Error logs
What does 'search intent' mean, and which type is the query 'buy rain gauge online'?
The goal behind a query; this one is transactional
The search volume of a query
The goal behind a query; this one is informational
The goal behind a query; this one is navigational
Why are long-tail keywords valuable?
They must be longer than 10 words
They always have the highest search volume
They have lower search volume but less competition and often higher conversion rates
They are ignored by Google
A URL is disallowed in robots.txt. Can it still appear in Google's index?
Yes; if other pages link to it, Google may index the URL without crawling its content
Only if it has a meta description
No, robots.txt always prevents indexing
Only if the page is HTTPS
Why does adding <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> fail on a page that is also blocked in robots.txt?
noindex works only for images
Googlebot cannot crawl the page, so it never sees the noindex tag
noindex requires a sitemap
The two directives cancel each other out by design
How can you apply noindex to a PDF file, which has no HTML <meta> tag?
With the X-Robots-Tag HTTP response header
With an alt attribute
With a robots.txt Allow line
It is impossible
Where must the robots.txt file be placed?
In any folder
At the root of the host, for example https://example.com/robots.txt
In the <head> of each page
In the sitemap
What is the main purpose of an XML sitemap?
To help search engines discover URLs and understand which pages are important; it does not guarantee indexing
To replace internal links
To block pages from crawling
To guarantee every listed page ranks
What are the limits for a single XML sitemap file?
10 MB
50,000 URLs or 50 MB uncompressed
There is no limit
1,000 URLs