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  1. What does a 301 HTTP status code indicate to search engines?

    Answer: The resource has permanently moved to a new URL

    A 301 redirect signals a permanent move, transferring most link equity to the new URL.

  2. Which structured data format is recommended by Google for implementing Schema.org markup?

    Answer: JSON-LD

    Google recommends JSON-LD because it is easy to implement and keeps markup separate from HTML content.

  3. What is the purpose of the 'rel=canonical' tag?

    Answer: To tell search engines the preferred version of a duplicate page

    The canonical tag consolidates ranking signals to the preferred URL when duplicate or near-duplicate content exists.

  4. Which Core Web Vital metric measures visual stability of a page?

    Answer: Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)

    CLS measures the sum of unexpected layout shifts during the page's lifetime, with a good score being below 0.1.

  5. What does an XML sitemap primarily help search engines do?

    Answer: Discover and prioritize URLs for crawling

    XML sitemaps list URLs and optional metadata to help crawlers efficiently find and prioritize pages.

  6. A site uses HTTPS but some page resources (images, scripts) load over HTTP. What is this called?

    Answer: Mixed content

    Mixed content occurs when a secure HTTPS page loads sub-resources over HTTP, which browsers warn about and may block.

  7. What is 'crawl budget' in the context of technical SEO?

    Answer: The number of pages Googlebot crawls on a site within a given timeframe

    Crawl budget is the number of pages Googlebot crawls and indexes in a given time period, influenced by site authority and crawl demand.