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  1. Which HTTP status code indicates a permanent redirect that passes link equity and should replace 302 redirects for SEO purposes?

    Answer: 301 Moved Permanently

    A 301 redirect signals a permanent move and passes the majority of link equity to the destination URL, unlike the temporary 302.

  2. During a routine SEO audit, you discover pages returning 404 errors that previously had backlinks. What is the recommended preventive fix?

    Answer: Implement 301 redirects to relevant live pages

    Implementing 301 redirects from dead URLs to relevant live pages recovers lost link equity and improves user experience.

  3. What is the recommended frequency for running a full technical SEO crawl on a large e-commerce site with frequent product changes?

    Answer: Weekly or bi-weekly

    Large, frequently updated sites should be crawled weekly or bi-weekly to catch broken links, duplicate content, and indexation issues early.

  4. Which tool would you primarily use to monitor a site for unexpected drops in crawl coverage as part of ongoing maintenance?

    Answer: Google Search Console Coverage Report

    The Coverage Report in Google Search Console shows indexed, excluded, and errored URLs, making it the primary tool for monitoring crawl health.

  5. A site's robots.txt file accidentally blocks the /product/ directory. Which immediate preventive action should an SEO specialist take?

    Answer: Remove or correct the blocking directive and verify with Google's robots.txt tester

    Correcting the robots.txt directive and validating it with Google's tester is the fastest way to restore crawlability for blocked pages.

  6. What preventive measure helps ensure that pagination on a blog does not dilute the ranking signals of core content pages?

    Answer: Using rel='next' and rel='prev' annotations

    rel='next' and rel='prev' help search engines understand the paginated sequence without consolidating all signals onto a single page.

  7. As part of scheduled SEO maintenance, which metric in Google Search Console most directly signals that Google is having difficulty rendering your JavaScript-heavy pages?

    Answer: Crawled but not indexed status

    'Crawled but not indexed' often indicates Googlebot crawled the URL but could not fully render or extract meaningful content, common with JS rendering issues.