FAQ for Search Engine Optimization

The “503 Service Unavailable” error is an HTTP status code which indicates the server is not available right now to handle the request. It often occurs when the server is too busy or when maintenance is performed on it. Generally, it is a temporary state which is resolved shortly. In the context of SEO (Search … Read more

HTTP 404 error is technically a client-side error which means it is your mistake, i.e., the requested page is not present in your website. If you had maintained that page in your site, it would have been indexed by the crawler and thus would have been present in the server. Furthermore, you also receive this … Read more

404 error is an HTTP response status code which indicates that the requested page could not be found on the server. This error is generally displayed in the internet browser window just like web pages. In the context of SEO (Search Engine Optimization), a 404 error is an HTTP status code that indicates that the … Read more

301 redirecting is a method of redirecting users and search engines from the old page URL to a new page URL. The 301 redirect is used to pass the link traffic from the old URL to the new URL. It is a permanent redirect from one URL to another site without typing the URL of … Read more

A sitemap refers to the map of a website. It is the detailed structure of a site that includes different sections of your site with internal links. For an SEO interview question asking about what a sitemap is, the correct answer would be: “A sitemap is a file that contains a list of all URLs … Read more