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SEO Quiz for the Mindshare SEO team
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Question 1

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When was the Google Penguin algorithm update first announced?
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  • February 2011
  • April 2011
  • February 2012
  • April 2012

Question 2

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What is this: Text exists on the page but it's too small for a user to see.
Answer
  • Cloaking
  • Page rank sculpting
  • Hidden text
  • Keyword stuffing

Question 3

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What is the correct process to remove a page from the index?
Answer
  • Block the URL in Robots.txt
  • Use the NOINDEX tag on the page
  • Use the NOINDEX tag on the page then place the URL in the Robots.txt
  • Use the NOINDEX tag on the page then instruct Google to crawl the page using 'Fetch as Google' tool

Question 4

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Which of the following is a type of web server?
Answer
  • IIS
  • IHS
  • Apache
  • All of the above

Question 5

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What is keyword stuffing?
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  • When a keyword is mentioned more than 3% in a body of text
  • When a keyword is mentioned less than 3% in a body of text
  • When a keyword is mentioned too many times it looks unnatural
  • When a keyword isn't mentioned at all

Question 6

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What does a canonical tag do?
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  • Gives a ranking boost to the page
  • Tells Google not to index the page
  • Used to prevent duplicate content
  • Used as a way to flow link equity throughout the site

Question 7

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What algorithm update was announced prior to being launched?
Answer
  • Caffeine
  • Penguin
  • Panda
  • Mobile-Friendly

Question 8

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When implementing infinite scroll what tags should be used?
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  • Pagination tags
  • Pagination and canonical tags
  • Pagination, noindex and canonical tags
  • Pagination, noindex, canonical and alternate tags

Question 9

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In the following attribute: hreflang="en-US" "en" is the _____ and "US" is the _____.
Answer
  • alternate, language
  • language, region
  • United States, English
  • region, language

Question 10

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Which HTTP status code is best to serve when your site is down for maintenance?
Answer
  • 200
  • 404
  • 500
  • 503

Question 11

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Google's Panda update was also known as the ______ update.
Answer
  • Vince
  • Caffeine
  • Farmer
  • Link

Question 12

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Which Google update was closely associated with speed, faster indexing and fresher web results?
Answer
  • Caffeine
  • Vince
  • Venice
  • HTTPs

Question 13

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If the robots <META> tag is missing, the default is:
Answer
  • NOINDEX, FOLLOW
  • INDEX, FOLLOW
  • NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW
  • INDEX,NOFOLLOW

Question 14

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In the following URL: http://test.legalandgeneral.com/category/keyword?id=123#top "test" represents the ____ and "com" is the _____
Answer
  • Top-Level Domain, Protocol
  • Subfolder, Top-Level Domain
  • Root Domain, Subdomain
  • Subdomain, Top-Level Domain

Question 15

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Omniture is a suite of products and not just one, what is the main analytics tool called?
Answer
  • Discover
  • Analytics
  • Recommendations
  • Test and Learn

Question 16

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I am a script that redirects bots to see something different to a user; what am I?
Answer
  • Cloaking
  • Hidden text
  • Mobile friendly implementation
  • None of the above

Question 17

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How long should a title tag be?
Answer
  • 512 pixels, around 70 characters
  • 512 pixels, around 55 characters
  • 1024 pixels, around 70 characters
  • 1024 pixels, around 55 characters

Question 18

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Is the META description a ranking factor?
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  • Yes, it has been proven to show a 20% visibility increase.
  • Yes, it has been proven to show a 10% visibility increase.
  • No
  • None of the above

Question 19

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The minimum REQUIRED tags in an XML sitemap include:
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  • urlset, url
  • url, loc
  • url, loc, urlset
  • urlset, loc

Question 20

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rel="canonical" can be used to point to content on a different domain.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 21

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What does ROI stand for?
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  • Return on Interest
  • Return on Investment
  • Return on Indices
  • Rise on Investment

Question 22

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What word in the following sentence would be targeted by Google Hummingbird: What is the best place to find and eat Chicago deep dish style pizza?
Answer
  • best
  • Chicago
  • place
  • eat

Question 23

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What is a sitemap index file used for?
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  • To list all URLs in all sitemaps
  • It's the same as a sitemap file but with more fields
  • To reference all sitemaps
  • For hreflang targeting

Question 24

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What does EMD stand for?
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  • Extra Match Domain
  • Exact Match DNS
  • Equal Match Domain
  • Exact Match Domain

Question 25

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Which of the following ISN'T used for Black Hat tactics?
Answer
  • Build My Rank
  • Authority Link Network
  • Xrumer
  • Xenu Link Slueth

Question 26

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What's wrong with the following code? <link href="http://www.mindshareworld.com" meta="canonical" />
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  • The / at the end shouldn't be there
  • rel and the URL are the wrong way round
  • href should be an "a"
  • meta should be rel

Question 27

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What is wrong with the following piece of code: <link href="http://www.landrover.co.uk/vehicles/range-rover/hybrid.html" hreflang="en_GB" rel="alternate" />
Answer
  • en_GB should be en-GB
  • en_GB should be en_UK
  • rel should be a meta
  • link should be a meta

Question 28

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What response code should be served if a page will never exist again?
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  • 404
  • 410
  • 415
  • 403

Question 29

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When is using rel="nofollow" NOT appropriate?
Answer
  • Footer links
  • Press releases with optimised anchor text
  • Untrusted content
  • None of the answers listed

Question 30

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How many URLs are typically accepted in an XML sitemap?
Answer
  • 30,000
  • 40,000
  • 50,000
  • 60,000

Question 31

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If you have a page at www.example.com/page1, which of the following robots.txt directives prevents search spiders from crawling the URL?
Answer
  • Allow: /
  • Disallow: page1
  • Disallow:
  • page1 : Disallow

Question 32

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What link format is used to fight blog comment spam?
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  • dofollow
  • nofollow
  • canonical
  • noindex

Question 33

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Which type of mobile setup does this refer to: "URLs are the same for desktop and mobile sites. HTML and CSS is different depending on the user's device"
Answer
  • Responsive Web Design
  • Dynamic Serving
  • Separate URLs
  • None of the above

Question 34

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What is dwell time?
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  • Average time-on-site
  • Bounce Rate
  • Time between clicking on a search result then returning back to the SERPs
  • None of the above

Question 35

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Which of the following are Search Engines? (Tick all that apply)
Answer
  • Fedora
  • Baidu
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Yandex
  • Naver
  • Kooboo
  • Seznam

Question 36

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Which JavaScript library replaced the ga.js library for Google Analytics?
Answer
  • analytics.js
  • urchin.js
  • gap.js
  • s_code.js

Question 37

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By default, how long does a session last in Google Analytics, without any activity?
Answer
  • 12 hours
  • 6 months
  • 24 hours
  • 30 minutes

Question 38

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When using custom campaign variables for Google Analaytics, which parameters are required? (Tick all that apply)
Answer
  • Campaign Source (utm_source)
  • Campaign Medium (utm_medium)
  • Campaign Term (utm_term)
  • Campaign Content (utm_content)
  • Campaign Name (utm_campaign)

Question 39

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What is Negative SEO?
Answer
  • The practice of attacking a competitor's site with techniques designed to decrease its rankings
  • The use of Black Hat SEO techniques
  • The practice of causing a web page to rank highly in Google for unrelated or off-topic search terms
  • A natural decrease in SEO rankings

Question 40

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Which of the following isn't an analytics platform?
Answer
  • Google Analytics
  • Adobe Analytics
  • Webtrends
  • Piwik
  • Webalyser

Question 41

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Which of these is a genuine Google user agent? (Tick all that apply)
Answer
  • Googlebot
  • Googlebot-News
  • Googlebot-Image
  • Googlebot-Video
  • Googlebot-Mobile

Question 42

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Which of the following are vocabularies for structured data? (Tick all that apply)
Answer
  • Schema.org
  • Microformats
  • Data-Vocabulary.org
  • JSON-LD
  • Microdata

Question 43

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What is the main SEO benefit of implementing structured data on a web page?
Answer
  • Structured data allows users to better understand the content on the page
  • There is no SEO benefit
  • Implementing structured data can result in a slight ranking boost
  • Some of this data can be used to create and display rich snippets within search results

Question 44

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In the following code: <meta BLANK="og:url" What should be in place of BLANK?
Answer
  • name
  • property
  • content
  • rel

Question 45

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In the following code: <meta BLANK="twitter:card" What should be in place of BLANK?
Answer
  • property
  • name
  • content
  • rel

Question 46

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What is Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)?
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  • A project aimed at improving the mobile web experience
  • A best practice guide for mobile websites
  • A suite of tools from Google especially for mobile websites
  • A stripped down version of Java code that can help to improve the load speed of pages on mobile

Question 47

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Which of the following are CMS platforms? (Tick all that apply)
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  • WordPress
  • Drupal
  • Joomla
  • Magento
  • CQ5/Experience Manager
  • Umbraco
  • Azure

Question 48

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What would you search in Google if you wanted to find all of the English pages on Wikipedia that talk about the Ford Focus?
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  • allintext:ford focus +site:en.wikipedia.com
  • allintext:ford +allintext:focus +site:en.wikipedia.com
  • ford focus +site:en.wikipedia.com
  • ford +focus +site:en.wikipedia.com

Question 49

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Which advanced search operator would you use in Google to view the Google cached version of a web page?
Answer
  • cache:
  • googlecache:
  • webcache:
  • view-source:

Question 50

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Which advanced search operator would give you a quick/rough idea of the number of indexed pages for a site?
Answer
  • site:
  • info:
  • index:
  • google:
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