Free Technical SEO Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

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1. What happens if robots.txt returns a 404 error? A. Google will treat it as if all website pages are disallowed for crawling B. Google will treat it as if all website pages are allowed for crawling C. Google will ignore the error D. Google will remove all the pages from its index

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2. What is the best HTTP status code to return when a website is on maintenance? A. 200 B. 504 C. 503 D. 302

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3. Will Google respect the <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag added to the page <body> ? A. No, Google will ignore it B. Yes, Google will respect it C. It depends D. The <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> cannot be added to the <body>

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4. What is the best course of action after a staging website got indexed by Google? A. Add noindex meta robots tag B. Disallow it in the robots.txt C. Both A. & B. D. Neither A. Nor B.

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5. What is the most possible reason why Google canonicalizes page A to page B even though these pages are very different? A. There's a canonical tag pointing from Page A to Page B B. Page B is added to the sitemap, and page A is not C. Page B has more internal links D. A JavaScript issue

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6. Which of these links will Google crawl as a standalone page? A. <a href=”/page.html”> B. <span href="/attribution.php"> C. <a href=”page/shoes#description”> D. All of the above

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7. What is the best way to handle pagination? A. Noindex all paginated URLs B. Set canonicals from all paginated URLs to the first page C. Set self-referencing canonicals for all paginated URLs D. Disallow crawling of the paginated URLs

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8. Which of these URLs cannot be indexed by Google as separate pages? A. URLs with / B. URLs with ? C. URLs with !# D. URLs with #

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9. What is the most significant difference between rendering by a browser and rendering by Google? A. Browsers don’t render pages B. Browsers don’t respect crawling directives C. There’s no difference D. Google renders 2.5x times slower than a browser

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10. The title tag displayed in the search results is different from the one you see on the page. What might be the reason(s)? A. Google overwrote your title tag B. A JavaScript issue C. You’re checking from the wrong location D. Both A. & B.

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11. What is the main source of all SEO information about any website? A. Website crawl B. Source code C. Rendered HTML D. None of the above