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
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
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
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
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