SEO Exam

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Question 1 of 40

In Search, which of the following are considered important ranking factors?

Select one of the following:

Domain Authority of website
Page Authority of website
Proper category associations
Landing page title
All of these

Explanation

Question 2 of 40

Which on-page element carries the most weight for SEO?

Select one or more of the following:

The Title tag
Te META keywords tag
The Headers (h1; h2; h3; etc)
The META description
Description
On-page keywords

Explanation

Question 3 of 40

Which form of redirect/meta tag will transfer the most authority to the directed page?

Select one or more of the following:

302
301
Canonical

Explanation

Question 4 of 40

What do the acronyms PA, DA and PR stand for?

Select one of the following:

Page authority; Domain age; Page rank
Personal authority; Domain authority; Personal rank
Page authority; Domain authority; Page rank

Explanation

Question 5 of 40

Google's PageRank algorithm calculates the relative authority of a page on what scale?

Select one of the following:

1-10
1-100
0-10
0-100

Explanation

Question 6 of 40

Which of the following tactics can harm your search rankings?

Select one of the following:

Linking to your website from other websites
Using text is the same color as your page's background
Adding navigations links to your page's template

Explanation

Question 7 of 40

What are the names of the three latest algorithm updates Google has released?

Select one of the following:

Mobile; Penguin; Panda
Panda; Hawk; RankBrain
Fred; Hawk; Possum
Penguin; Panda; Possum
Pigeon; Hummingbird; Hawk

Explanation

Question 8 of 40

Dofollow links it is a type of link which has a potential to improve the ranking and the credibility of your website in Google.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 9 of 40

Nofollow links it is a type of link which has a potential to improve the ranking and the credibility of your website in Google.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 10 of 40

Where can we get permanent and good links (backlinks)Web 2.0; PBNs services for growth DA; PA and PR of the website?

Select one or more of the following:

News outlets
Blogs; Forums
Backlinks services
Web 2.0; PBNs services
Websites catalogs
Websites derictories

Explanation

Question 11 of 40

High-quality links to a site's homepage may help to increase the ranking ability of deeper pages on the same domain.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 12 of 40

In general, internal links pass about the same value as external links.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 13 of 40

What link format is used to fight blog comment spam?

Select one of the following:

rel="canonical"
rel="nofollow"
rel="author"
rel="attribute"
rel="follow"

Explanation

Question 14 of 40

When is using rel="nofollow" NOT appropriate?

Select one of the following:

Paid links
Untrusted content
Press releases with optimized anchor text
Widely distributed footer links
None; all of these are appropriate

Explanation

Question 15 of 40

Which of the following types of sitemaps is NOT supported by Google?

Select one of the following:

News
Product
Image
Mobile
Video

Explanation

Question 16 of 40

What is the optimal HTTP status code to permanently remove a URL from Google's index?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 17 of 40

A 301 redirect passes roughly the same link equity as using the rel="canonical" tag.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 18 of 40

If these URLs have the same content, example.com/camel and example.com/camel/ are technically considered duplicate content and should be fixed.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 19 of 40

Which of the following would be the best choice of URL structure (for both search engines and humans)?

Select one of the following:

www.wildlifeonline.com/animals/crocodile
www.wildlifeonline.com/category/277/article/563
www.wildlifeonline.com/O0665?id=563&cat=277
text.wildlifeonline.com/category/crocodile
www.wildlifeonline.com/563

Explanation

Question 20 of 40

How can meta description tags help with the practice of search engine optimization?

Select one of the following:

They're an important ranking factor in the search algorithms.
They help to tell the search engines which keywords are most important on your page.
They serve as the copy that will entice searchers to click on your listing.
Trick question; meta descriptions are NOT important.

Explanation

Question 21 of 40

Which HTTP server response code indicates a file that no longer exists? (File Not Found)

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 22 of 40

Pages generated by search results (Search within Search) are a good way to add content to your site.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 23 of 40

The default file type for your website sitemap is:

Select one of the following:

.pdf
.php
.png
.xml
.doc

Explanation

Question 24 of 40

All other factors being equal, which would be the most desirable link profile?

Select one of the following:

One link from each of 100 different domains
1,000 links all from one domain
10,000 internal links

Explanation

Question 25 of 40

Mobile-friendliness is a ranking factor in Google's algorithm:

Select one of the following:

True, it is a ranking signal for mobile results only
False, it is not a ranking signal at all

Explanation

Question 26 of 40

Which of the following statements about anchor text is true?

Select one of the following:

For non-commercial queries, anchor text is less influential on a result's rankings.
If a URL itself is the linking anchor text, Google will treat the page's title element as anchor text, while Bing will use the URL.
When an embedded image is linking, the alt attribute of the image may be treated as anchor text.
Anchor text is mostly ignored by Google in 2014, but was powerful in years past.

Explanation

Question 27 of 40

Keywords research help us?

Select one or more of the following:

Determine the keyword destiny on your website
Explore the competitiveness of the keywords and estimated amount of traffic for those keywords
Find out how to use keywords in the content

Explanation

Question 28 of 40

What does anchor text mean?

Select one of the following:

The largest body of text on the page
The visible text which is hyperlinked to another page
The prominent part of the title tag

Explanation

Question 29 of 40

Domain authority and Page authority is a metrics maintained by?

Select one of the following:

Google
Moz
Bing

Explanation

Question 30 of 40

Google prefers lengthy content over content that contains approximately?

Select one of the following:

1500 words
2000 words
700 words

Explanation

Question 31 of 40

Google Penguin algorithm targeted on links?

Select one or more of the following:

Paid links
Links from automated link building process
Spam Links
Low quality content
Quality content

Explanation

Question 32 of 40

What does SERP stand for?

Select one of the following:

Search Engine Result Page
Search Entry Rating Procedure
Standard Engine Rank Protocol

Explanation

Question 33 of 40

Which type of link carries the most value or prefernce for a webmaster or SEO?

Select one of the following:

Manual outreach link
Natural editorial links
Self Promotional links

Explanation

Question 34 of 40

Of the items listed below, what is the single most important on-page SEO factor?

Select one of the following:

The number of uses of the target keyword.
Use of the keywords in the keywords metatag.
Use of the target keyword in the top heading of the page.
Use of the target keyword in the title tag.

Explanation

Question 35 of 40

What is keyword cannibalization?

Select one of the following:

When you analyze competitors to discover keywords to target
When multiple pages on a site are optimized for the same keywords
When you compete for more than one keyword on the same page
When poor SEO implementation causes your page to be non-competitive for the target keywords

Explanation

Question 36 of 40

What is duplicate content?

Select one of the following:

When one page has the exact same content as another
When you copy content from a competitor's site
When there are substantive blocks of content on a web page that either completely match, or are appreciably similar to, content on another web page
When one page has nearly the same content as another

Explanation

Question 37 of 40

Does Google care about where content is located on a page?

Select one of the following:

Yes; they only care about content visible to the user, as they want to emphasize user engagement
Yes; they only care about content in the main body of the page, as the rest of the content is not page-specific
Yes; placement on the page says something about the importance of the content
No, they don't care.

Explanation

Question 38 of 40

What is the most important heading tag on a page?

Select one of the following:

It doesn't matter; they are all the same
The <h1> tag
The highest level heading tag used on the page
The <h0> tag

Explanation

Question 39 of 40

If a number of keywords for a particular website ranks at first page of Google, then it will increase traffic to the website.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 40 of 40

Page Rank Tools helps to analyze keyword performance.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

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So, you think you know your SEO inside and out, right? The SEO Exam has 40 action-packed questions and takes 25 minutes to complete. Let the test begin!

SEO Exam

SEO Exam

Question 1 of 40

In Search, which of the following are considered important ranking factors?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 40

Which on-page element carries the most weight for SEO?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 40

Which form of redirect/meta tag will transfer the most authority to the directed page?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 4 of 40

What do the acronyms PA, DA and PR stand for?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 40

Google's PageRank algorithm calculates the relative authority of a page on what scale?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 6 of 40

Which of the following tactics can harm your search rankings?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 7 of 40

What are the names of the three latest algorithm updates Google has released?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 40

Dofollow links it is a type of link which has a potential to improve the ranking and the credibility of your website in Google.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 9 of 40

Nofollow links it is a type of link which has a potential to improve the ranking and the credibility of your website in Google.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 40

Where can we get permanent and good links (backlinks)Web 2.0; PBNs services for growth DA; PA and PR of the website?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 40

High-quality links to a site's homepage may help to increase the ranking ability of deeper pages on the same domain.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 40

In general, internal links pass about the same value as external links.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 13 of 40

What link format is used to fight blog comment spam?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 14 of 40

When is using rel="nofollow" NOT appropriate?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 15 of 40

Which of the following types of sitemaps is NOT supported by Google?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 16 of 40

What is the optimal HTTP status code to permanently remove a URL from Google's index?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 17 of 40

A 301 redirect passes roughly the same link equity as using the rel="canonical" tag.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 18 of 40

If these URLs have the same content, example.com/camel and example.com/camel/ are technically considered duplicate content and should be fixed.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 19 of 40

Which of the following would be the best choice of URL structure (for both search engines and humans)?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 20 of 40