Hi Michel,
HD Quiz uses WordPress’ CPT (Custom Post Type) for questions and a Custom Taxonomy for quizzes.
However, questions are NOT pages and do not have an “archive” – this means that there are no front-facing pages for questions. This was done very deliberately as allowing questions to have individual pages would almost certainly be negative for SEO along with causing a ton of unwanted bloat to a site.
ESPECIALLY in a case like yours where you have thousands of questions, you’d very likely get penalized by Google for having so many “low quality” and “spammy” pages on the site (ie: pages with little content, with no internal linking and whose existence is only known through your sitemap.xml file).
Best case scenario is that each “question page” would consist of the question as the title, possible answers, and maybe the extra text if you are using it. The problem with that is that it is nowhere near enough content to rank well in Google, the “content to HTML ratio” of the pages would be terrible, and worst of all, would contain “conflicting information” (since inevitably, some of your answers would be wrong).
So – I reallllyyy can’t recommend doing this.
The real benefit to HD Quiz and SEO is not individual questions, but the entire page where you put a quiz on. These pages are formatted correctly, use correct alt and title tags, have enough indexable content etc etc.
Hope this makes sense!
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Michel
(@michel92)
Hello Dylan,
Thanks a lot for your detailed answer. You are right, the content of each question is very light, and it would penalize the website. 20 years ago, I had a website with a Javascript cascading menu and a random quote (proverbs, humor…) for each connection. When I typed “site:” in Google, I saw hundreds of thousands of pages (the number of menu pages multiplied by the hundreds of quotes). But this golden age is over… and archive.org did not kept the javascript menu in its memory.
On the website which proposes the quizzes, I created “solutions” pages with a lot of text so that they are pleasant to Google.
I’ll ask other questions when I’ll seriously will install Adsense on chosen spots of the pages. For the moment, ads are anywhere on the mobile pages.
You are an expert, Dylan, you give relevant answers to all the questions 😉
