SEO Game – Find Hidden Keywords

This article recommends a puzzle game seen in foreign SEO communities. The goal of the game is to use some methods that SEOs use when diagnosing websites to find 20 keywords hidden on this website. When you have time, you can challenge it by yourself or with friends and colleagues.

In February this yeardigital engineAfter sharing it online, some forum friends came to ask about how to play or further tips, so I decided to compile an article. The author thinks that this game can test your sensitivity to Technical SEO, know what variables there are in which parts of the website, and your familiarity with the tools... etc. I strongly recommend that you play it yourself before reading the following tips!

Game website:https://hiddenkeywords.com/

How to play

The goal of this game is to find the English keywords hidden in the website. If you enter correctly, the question below will disappear. If you enter incorrectly, nothing will happen.Some questions will see prompts after moving the mouse over them, while others only have a "?", which means there is no prompt, which is also a headache for many people. Therefore, some additional tips are provided below so that players who are stuck will not be left without help.

hint

Adhering to the fun of the game, this article will only have hints but not answers. Some hints will be quite obvious once the answers are given, so it is recommended to take some time to solve the puzzles by yourself before reading. Please read the following content carefully!

Question 1

The web page for question 1 does not give any hints, the answer is hidden in"Where websites regulate the behavior of web crawlers"。

Question 2

The prompt for question 2 is "The keyword is here". The author got this question wrong."Hidden text in source code"Found in , but in fact, there are clear clues in the prompts.

Question 3

The webpage for question 3 did not give any hints, but I believe many people should have seen it but did not notice that there was a word hidden there, and the answer was placed"The requested page does not exist"place.

Question 4

The prompt for question 4 is "🍪", which means"Website Cookies", which can be seen through the developer tools.

Question 5

The prompt for question 5 is "inspect this", which can also be seen through the developer tools."A place where you can execute JavaScript or see console.log()"。

Question 6

The prompt for question 6 is "📈", which refers to Google Analytics. You can check it out."The GA code of the website is in the installation part"。

Question 7

The prompt for question 7 is "x-🤖", which stands for X-Robots-Tag. It can be found in"Inside the server response"turn up.

Question 8

The prompt for question 8 is "13th August, 2019". You need to find a solution for this question."See what this website looked like on this date."。

Question 9

The prompt for question 9 is "🐸", which refers to Screaming Frog. This question requires"Use this tool, or change user-agent to screaming frog", you can see additional information on the page.

Question 10

There is no hint for question 10, but it is related to Cloaking. Go check it out."Does the website provide different content to Google and users?"。

Question 11

There is no prompt for question 11, but it is related to the online world"The most common subdomain related"。

Question 12

The prompt for question 12 is "bingo", which is a homophone."Google is not the only search engine!"。

Question 13

There is no hint for question 13, but the answer is hidden in"Seen in the mobile device compatibility testing tool provided by Google"turn up.

Question 14

The prompt for question 14 is "ld+json", you can think about it"JSON-LD is often used by SEOs, and then uses a detection tool also provided by Google"。

Question 15

The prompt for question 15 is "🔓", which is related to SSL/TLS. Try to think about it."When the website has https, how should the http URL be handled?"。

Question 16

The prompt for question 16 is "Try Searching", just follow it."Found this website on Google"。

Question 17

There is no prompt for question 17, you can try to think about it"How to let Google know which URL is the standard URL when there are duplicate contents in different URLs" 。

Question 18

The prompt for question 18 is "🗺". The picture may be small and difficult to understand, but this is the meaning of the map, that is"Map belonging to the website"。

Question 19

The prompt for question 19 is "💡🏠", the light bulb and the house are「Lighthouse」!

Question 20

The prompt for question 20 is "🎨", a color palette, representing the main"File used to add layout and color to web pages"。

Conclusion

I hope you can find fun in this game and successfully see the above screen! If you think this kind of game is too interesting, here are three recommendations for you -

• https://somethinguseless.com/
• https://seopirates.ralgar.one/
• https://technicalseo.expert/