SEO Quiz 0% 0 Created by Yadeno GelasaSEO SEO Search Engine Optimization Quiz 1 / 99 1. What would be most beneficial in helping a site display rich features in Google's search results? A. Google search console B. Data-Vocabulary.org C. Google Result Generator D. Structured data 2 / 99 2. Which search query would be most difficult to determine search intent? A. Microsoft Office 365 B. XBox live coupon C. LAX airport directions D. LinkedIn login 3 / 99 3. A user enters a search _ to retrieve results from a search engine? A. query B. bar C. link D. parser 4 / 99 4. You want to identify which US state has the most search interest for a particular keyword. What tool would help you determine this? A. Google Trends B. Google Keyword Planner C. Google Search Console D. Google Analytics 5 / 99 5. _ analysis allows you to review requests made to your web server to identify insights such as how ofter a crawler arrives, what pages have 404 errors, and most crawled pages A. Log file B. Cron job C. HTTP/2 D. Resource packet 6 / 99 6. What is this code is an example of? <script> { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "url": "http://www.domain.com", "name": "Bradley Corp.", "contactPoint": { "@type": "ContactPoint", "telephone": "+1-555-555-5555", "contactType": "Customer service" } } </script> A. HTTP response B. XML sitemap C. structured data D. meta tag 7 / 99 7. You have been asked to help a big e-commerce brand optimize their website for search engines. They currently have thousands of products listed on their website. What is your most appropriate first step? A. 302 redirect all product pages to URL that contains target keywords B. Register the business with a Google My Business account. C. Recommend that they add more products D. Work on compressing image files 8 / 99 8. Which result is most likely if you use an interstitial pop-up that requires a user to take action before you load the content of the page? A. Both the pop-up and the content of the page will be indexed B. The pop-up will be ignored, and the content of the page will be indexed correctly C. The pop-up will be indexed instead of the desired body content D. An interstitial pop-up is treated the same as a soft 404 9 / 99 9. When you conduct a search, what are the bolded words within the search listing description? A. related search queries B. keywords that match the search query C. words with a <b> tag assigned in their meta description D. suggested search terms 10 / 99 10. Which approach is not advisable to Geo-targeting your website? A. Using URL parameters B. Using a gTLD with subdomain C. Using a ccTLD D. Using a gTLD with a subdirectory 11 / 99 11. Your site serves identical content when you visit domain.com/page or domain.com/page?ref=123. What should you implement? A. a rel=canonical link B. parameter stripping C. a 302 redirect D. URL cloaking 12 / 99 12. A user clicks an internal link resulting in this redirect chain: http://domain.com -> https://domain.com -> https://domain.com/. In this example, what is being consumed unnecessarily? A. velocity scale B. crawl budget C. domain authority D. redirect allotment 13 / 99 13. According to Google, what type of content includes topics such as news, legal issues, financial advice, and medical information? A. KYC B. YMYL C. RSS D. BDB 14 / 99 14. What is an example of a top-level domain (TLD)? A. www B. 301 C. .net D. domain.ai 15 / 99 15. What is a meta description used for? A. to bundle meta tags B. to describe images C. to summarize the content of a webpage D. to assign schema markup 16 / 99 16. What might help a search engine understand the difference between an article on a dog bark versus tree bark? A. ranked choice trees B. knowledge graphs C. semantic analysis D. tertiary analysis 17 / 99 17. In which scenario is using a 301 redirect preferred over a canonical link? A. With an on-site search results page B. When managing URL parameters C. When using faceted navigation D. When treating uppercase versus lowercase characters in URLs 18 / 99 18. What will take place if you type the word 'Certification-Python' in the Google search box? A. Google will certainly locate ALL the web pages having the word "Certification" and "Python". B. Google will locate ALL the web pages in which the words "Certification" and "Python" appear together. C. Google will certainly locate the web pages about "certification" and additionally consisting of the word "python". D. Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not consist of the word Python. 19 / 99 19. You are optimizing a website that sells supplies for banking donuts. Which approach is most appropriate to drive more organic traffic? A. Add the keyword "donut supplies" to every page. B. Create a new blog with high-quality donut recipes C. Join a link farm to rapidly build inbounnd links. D. Buy donutbakingsupplies.com and 301 redirect to your website 20 / 99 20. You want to get a rough idea of how many searches per month a particular search term gets. Which tool do you use? A. Google Keyword Planner B. Google Tag Manager C. Google Suggest D. Google Search Console 21 / 99 21. Why might using a subdirectory in place of a subdomain be beneficial? A. Using a subdirectory is never preferable to using a subdomain. B. The subdirectory is better for the end user experience. C. The subdirectory will benefit from the backlinks the domain has acquired. D. The subdirectory will allow for keyword dilution. 22 / 99 22. What alt attribute should be assigned to an image of a decorative line being used to separate content A. alt="thin-line" B. alt="" C. alt="Thin black line being used to seperate two blocks of content" D. alt="dec" 23 / 99 23. You are optimizing a site that receives a lot of user-submitted comments, many of which contain a promotional links. According to SEO best practices, how should you treat the comments? A. Bold important keywords in comments B. Be sure links are using keywork-rich anchor tags C. Disallow each link submitted D. Set links in comments to be Nofollow 24 / 99 24. Which tool would be best to use to research how many searches per month a term gets? A. Google Keyword Planner B. Google Tag Manager C. Google Suggest D. Google Search Console 25 / 99 25. Which of the following link building techniques do online search engine tacitly recommend? A. Renting out pages from trustworthy domains and also positioning web links on them. B. Reciprocal link exchange programs. C. Purchasing web links from web link brokers & networks. D. Viral content creation & promotion. 26 / 99 26. Which link is not crawlable? A. <a href="http://domain.com" class="blue"> B. <a href="http://domain.com"> C. <a href="../category-2/page"> D. <a> 27 / 99 27. Blog author pages, each with only one sentence about the author, are at risk of being flagged as _ content. A. biased B. non-indexable C. thin D. irrelevant 28 / 99 28. When would it be necessary to 301 redirect every page on a site? A. When migrating from HTTP to HTTPS B. When creating a new subdomain C. When launching a new redesign D. When parameters are used in URLs 29 / 99 29. What would contribute to a low bounce rate? A. Page returns 404 error. B. Content reflects search intent. C. URL uses parameters. D. Content does not match search intent. 30 / 99 30. You have been asked to help a big e-commerce brand optimize their website for search engines. They currently have thousands of products listed on their website. What is your most appropriate first step? A. Determine keyword strategy. B. Conduct a backlink audit. C. Set campaign goals. D. Conduct a technical audit. 31 / 99 31. When creating accessible video content, what should you consider including? A. Event tracking B. Flash Player C. Thumbnail D. Transcript 32 / 99 32. The search query "How to make donuts without yeast" is an example of what? A. operative keyword B. long-tail keyword C. short-tail keyword D. fresh keyword 33 / 99 33. What is Page Rank? A. The method Google measures exactly how popular a provided page is based upon the number and also quality of sites that connect to it. B. The means Yahoo! actions just how popular an offered web page is based on the number as well as quality of websites that connect to it. C. The search significance of a web page contrasted to the other web pages in the online search engine. D. The Alexa modern technology for ranking web pages. 34 / 99 34. What term is typically used to explain the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between significant updates? A. Shuffling B. Waves C. Swaying D. Flux 35 / 99 35. Your sitemap shows this entry: 2020-09-09T19:34:00+01:00. What does +01:00 refer to? A. time between publishing and updating B. suggested content priority C. time since last sitemap crawl D. time zone designator 36 / 99 36. Which technique is an example of black hat SEO? A. On-page optimization B. Cloaking C. Keyword research D. Useful content 37 / 99 37. What elements of a hyperlink are not important for SEO? A. The area from which the web link stems. B. The anchor text, particularly the keywords in it. C. The location to which the link leads. D. The exposure of the link text. 38 / 99 38. What is the best way to provide a search engine with crawl instructions? A. Use the search engine's Remove URL tool. B. Use a robots.txt file. C. Use the tag. D. Use structured data 39 / 99 39. You are optimizing a large e-commerce website. Which strategy will likely yield the most organic traffic? A. Optimize the home page of your website. B. Optimize each product page with a unique product-specific keyword. C. Launch a Smart Shopping Campaign in Google Ads. D. Optimize your product category pages. 40 / 99 40. You are researching keywords for a client and creating list for an optimization plan. Which is not a recommended method of creating keyword lists? A. How-to and question-based queries B. Synonyms and related words C. Queries about benefits, features, problems D. Focusing on only high-volume, high-popularity words 41 / 99 41. What is a key reason the url doamin.com/apparel/jackets is preferable to the urldomain.com/p=141? A. It uses structured markup B. It is not preferable C. It is longer D. It is readable to a human 42 / 99 42. What is a popular technique for writing content with the goal of having it appear in a features snippet? A. Use the features snippet schema and apply an object that matches the correct snippet type. B. Google manually generates featured snippets, so there is no special technique. C. Submit the content through Google Search Console, and tag it with the correct snippet type. D. Write the question in a headline tag, and then answer it below in a format that matches the snippet type. 43 / 99 43. Google's Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines describe that experts should write content, especially YMYL content. This is one of the principles seen in the commonly used acronym__ A. L-E-A-F B. E-A-T C. A.C.E D. T.R.U.S.T.E.D 44 / 99 44. What is a key reason why duplicate content might cause an issue with ranking? A. It requires using a 302 redirect, which dilutes PageRank. B. It triggers an immediate manual action penalty, which delists an entire domain until the duplicate content is removed. C. It makes it difficult for a search engine to determine the original and authoritative content source. D. It creates an inability to use canonical URLs, which dramatically reduces crawl effectiveness, 45 / 99 45. Which of the technique is NOT an "ideal practice" for developing excellent quality title tags? A. Make sure the title is unique for every page B. Write compelling copy that encourages users to “click” your listing C. Limit the tag to 65 characters, including spaces D. Include an exhaustive list of keywords 46 / 99 46. What is the generally approved distinction in between SEO and also SEM? A. SEO has a tendency to be a west shore term, sem is much more eastern shore. B. No difference, they're synonymous. C. SEO refers to organic/natural listings while sem covers pay per click, or paid search. D. Search engine optimization focuses on organic/natural search positions, sem encompasses all facets of search marketing. 47 / 99 47. What is a common best practice for handling search result pages on a blog's built-in site search? A. Do not use site search. B. Set site search to 404. C. Add a canonical from the search result page to the home page. D. Set site research results to no-index. 48 / 99 48. You are searching for a website that was published within last week. When you type in the URL, the site does not appear in Google search results. Why might this be? A. The website does not have a high enough domain authority B. You are searching on desktop and must wait for mobile-first indexing C. The site is not in Google's index D. The website needs backling to be discovered by Googlebot 49 / 99 49. All byline dates for articles are suddenly no longer visible on a website's listing within Google Search. Assuming no changes have been made to the site programming or content, what is the most likely cause? A. The articles have aged more than 365 days without any significant updates to the content or the site B. The site kept updating the dates to make the content appear fres, without changing C. The site has been delisted from Google Search D. A Google News sitemap was not provided within 30 days of setting up a publisher center account 50 / 99 50. What is keyword density? A. The number of times the search phrase is used in the web page title. B. The number of times the keyword is used/ the total word count on the web page. C. The number of times the keyword is utilized in the page description. D. The variety of times the keyword is used x (multiply by) the total word count on web page. 51 / 99 51. How do keywords change as people progress through the buying cycle? A. The keywords do not change much at all. B. They move from complex to simple, as searchers find answers to their questions. C. The stay simple, as searchers try to use as few words as possible. D. They move from simple to more complex as searchers gather more information and then refine their choices. 52 / 99 52. Which statement is true about JSON-LD? A. It is the only structured data format available. B. It is Google's preferred structured data format. C. It has no relation to JSON. D. It is considered the most complicated approach to adding structured data. 53 / 99 53. Which of the following search engines or directories supplies the major search results for AOL? A. Google B. DMOZ C. Lycos D. Yahoo 54 / 99 54. Which of the following is the process of fetching all the web pages connected to a web site? A. All of the Above B. Indexing C. Crawling D. Processing 55 / 99 55. When developing a backlink strategy, what approach would be most beneficial? A. Create diverse and unnatural links B. Guest post the article to as many sites as possible C. Distribute links in comment sections of websites D. Create an infographics and share it with relevant bloggers 56 / 99 56. What Is Anchor Text? A. It Is The Most Prominent Text On The Page That The Search Engines Use To Assign A Title To The Page B. It Is The Text Within The Left Or Top Panel Of A Web Page C. It Is The Visible Text That Is Hyper Linked To Another Page D. It Is The Main Body Of Text On A Particular Web Page 57 / 99 57. What is the relationship of click depth to PageRank? A. Click depth and PageRank are equal B. The deeper the click depth, the higher the PageRank C. PageRank and click depth have no relation D. The deeper the click depth, the lower the PageRank 58 / 99 58. Which HTTP web server reaction code suggests a file that no more exists? (File Not Found). A. 404 B. 40A C. 500 D. 30A 59 / 99 59. You notice a website is serving HTML to a Search Engine than to a human user. What is this an example of? A. Spam injection B. Sneaky Redirect C. Cloaking D. Splicing 60 / 99 60. A landing page with no internal or external links is an example of what? A. Orphaned content B. Doorway content C. Dynamic hierarchy D. Flat Hierarchy 61 / 99 61. Changing the title tag and/or meta description will have a measurable impact on your _. A. CTR B. PPC C. LSI D. RSS 62 / 99 62. Google looks down upon paid links for enhancing page ranking. If a web site sells web links, what action/s does Google suggest to avoid being penalized? A. The text of the paid links should state words "paid text link" for Google to recognize it as a paid web link. B. Paid links need to be divulged via the "rel= nofollow" attribute in the hyperlink. C. Paid links ought to be disclosed through the "index= nofollow" attribute in the hyperlink. D. Only Paid text web links to non profit websites should be accepted. 63 / 99 63. A local accountant wants to start attracting more business directly from Google organic search. What is the best piece of advice to give to her? A. Focus on short-tail keywords. B. Leave a link to her website in the blog comments of popular accounting websites. C. Use the pharse "local accountant" as a keyword to focus her website on. D. Register her business with a Google Business Profile account. 64 / 99 64. Which Google search query should be used to return only PDF documents that reference Microsoft? A. "Microsoft" + "pdf" B. Microsoft AND "pdf" C. Microsoft + .pdf D. Microsoft filetype:pdf 65 / 99 65. A webpage has this tag: <title>Brad's Bagels: How to Bake a Bagel</title>. However, the Google search result for this page displays this title: _Brad's Bagels: Baking Bagels in the Oven_. What is a likely explanation? A. A breadcrumb navigation is in use, which overrides the title tag supplied in the HTML. B. The page is using structured data to define an alternative title object, which allows the search engine to pick a preferable version. C. The title tag was placed within the section of the webpage, but not before the meta content tags, so Google cannot identify the actual title. D. Google generated a new title using text on the page that more closely matched the search query. 66 / 99 66. How many outbound links should you include in each blog posting? A. at least 2 B. as many as are relevent C. at least seven D. at least five 67 / 99 67. What is an example of a Google search result that can be found in position zero? A. Autocomplete B. Google Ads result C. Featured snippet D. Related searches 68 / 99 68. What is a common benefit to long-tail keywords? A. They are less competitive, and may have higher conversion rates. B. They are more competitive, but drive significantly more traffic. C. They are less grandular, so you capture broader searches. D. Long-tail keywords are no longer relevant in today's SEO landscape. 69 / 99 69. Which of the following statement about FFA web pages hold true? A. They are Paid Listings. B. They are additionally called Link Farms. C. They contain various incoming links. D. They are significantly beneficial to SEO. 70 / 99 70. Why is it important to be mindful of outbound follow links? A. Your site's reputation is tied to the sites you link to. B. All of these answers C. There is a limit to how many links you can create. D. Any follow links reduce your PageRank by 1. 71 / 99 71. What attribute would you use to describe the content of an image? A. tabindex B. src C. alt D. longdesc 72 / 99 72. What markup language is most commonly used for sitemaps? A. Javascript B. RSS C. XLS D. XML 73 / 99 73. What is the anchor text in this code sample? <a href="catalog/gloves.html">Blue Gloves</a> A. catalog/ B. href C. Blue Gloves D. gloves.html 74 / 99 74. What should be as consistent as possible across the web when developing a local SEO strategy? A. NAP B. Inbound links C. LRP D. Backlinks 75 / 99 75. What data vocabulary is most commonly used when marking up content on a page? A. data-vocabulary.org B. RDFa.org C. vocabulary.org D. schema.org 76 / 99 76. Which statement is true regarding the use of social signals, such as LinkedIn shares, by Google in its ranking algorithm? A. Social signals provide a benefit only if they have structured data markup B. Google does not use social signals to determine rank C. Social signals are identical to backlinks D. Social signals are used to determine topic authority 77 / 99 77. Which of the following methods can help you get around the Google Sandbox? A. Buying a Google Adwords PPC campaign. B. Getting a DMOZ listing. C. Placing the website on a sub domain of a ranked site and afterwards 301 re-directing the site after it has actually been indexed. D. Buying an old Website as well as getting it ranked. 78 / 99 78. You are planning for the development of an e-commerce website. Which approach will be more beneficial for rankings? A. Optimize product category pages to drive traffic from individual category search terms. B. Optimize all pages on the site for all category search terms. C. Optimize product pages to drive traffic from individual category search terms. D. Optimize the front page of your website to drive traffic from all category search terms. 79 / 99 79. Informational, navigational, commercial, transactional are four categories of what? A. Crawling B. Keyword search intent C. Indexing D. HTTP responses 80 / 99 80. Which acronym is used to describe the page a user sees after submitting a search? A. SERP (Search Engine Results Page) B. SEM C. PARS D. INDEX 81 / 99 81. You notice a particular product in an e-commerce storefront is no longer indexed, despite no technical issues. What is a likely reason for this? A. No title or meta description tags were provided B. The product is out of stock C. The Keywords is too competitive D. Robots.txt is configured to allow access 82 / 99 82. Which of the following declarations about RSS are proper? A. It is a form of XML. B. It is an excellent way of presenting static information. C. It stands for Realtime streamlined syndication. D. It is a microsoft technology. 83 / 99 83. Google gives priority to themed in-bound links. A. True B. False 84 / 99 84. Which statement is true regarding the use of social signals, such as LinkedIn shares, by Google in its ranking algorithm? A. Google does not use social signals to determine rank B. Social signals provide a benefit only if they have structured data markup C. Social signals are identical to backlinks D. Social signals are used to determine topic authority 85 / 99 85. What tag should you use to signal the main topic heading of a page? A. <strong> B. <h1> C. <em> D. <strong> 86 / 99 86. What tool enables companies to display extra information within the natural search results without the need of any structured data? A. Google Tag Manager B. Google My Business C. Structured data testing tool D. Google Input Tools 87 / 99 87. What is not a primary component of a SERP snippet? A. Description B. Cache C. URL D. Title 88 / 99 88. Your client is ready to start a blog. but has read that they should put the blog on a subdomain instead of subdirectory in order to create more external links to their website. How would you advise your client about this strategy? A. It is an advisable choice as it will enable interlinking between the domains and increase the number of links. B. The blog should be on a separate URL to avouud building too many links between the same domain or IP. C. It is best to have the blog on a subdirectory and build links to primary domain. D. Not only should the blog be on a subdomain, but each of the major navigation areas should be on separate subdomains in order to increase the number and value of the links into the primary domain. 89 / 99 89. How many H1 tags are typically found on a single page? A. up to five B. as many as necessary C. two D. one 90 / 99 90. Which HTTP response status code would indicate a page has been moved permanently? A. 200 B. 301 C. 302 D. 410 91 / 99 91. You load a page and start reading an article, and suddenly the content on the page moves. What metric is used to quantify this impact on user experience? A. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) B. Recalculated Style Timing (RST) C. Latent Loading Signal (LLS) D. First Meaningful Paint (FMP) 92 / 99 92. Google primarily determines indexing and ranking by crawling which version of a page? A. Submitted version B. Desktop version C. Mobile version D. Responsive version 93 / 99 93. What does the 302 server response code signify? A. It symbolizes dispute, way too many individuals desired the exact same documents at the same time. B. The technique you are making use of to access the file is not allowed. C. The web page has actually been permanently removed. D. The web page has actually temporarily moved. 94 / 99 94. What does the 301 server response code signify? A. Payment is required B. Syntax error in the request C. Moved Permanently D. Not Modified 95 / 99 95. What would significantly improve Google's ability to a non-YouTube video in its Search Results? A. Provide a 150 x 80 pixel thumbnail image B. Embed video objects with JavaScript conditionals C. Convert .mp4 videos to .mov D. Add Schema.org VideoObject 96 / 99 96. What is the full form of SEO? A. None of the above. B. Search Engine Optimization. C. Search Engine Optimum. D. Search Electronic Optimization. 97 / 99 97. What is the best type of domain name for a new business to use? A. a broad match domain name B. a domain name that fits their branding C. a partial match domain name D. an exact match domain name 98 / 99 98. Which page title references content that is evergreen A. How to Reheat Pizza B. Complete Coverage of Microsoft's Latest Announcement C. Mega List of Teams Going to the Olympics D. The Future of SEO in 2020 99 / 99 99. What Does The Term "Sandbox" Mean In SEO? A. This Is Where Sites Are Kept Till They Get Mature Enough To Be Included In The Top Rankings For A Particular Keyword B. A Special Category Of Sites That Are Listed In Kid-safe Searches C. The First 10 Search Results For A Particular Keyword. D. The Box With Paid Ads That Appear When You Perform A Search. Your score isShare Your Result! Facebook You can follow me here! 0% Restart quiz Exit
