SEO Exam

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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!
Igor Antonov
Quiz by Igor Antonov, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

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In Search, which of the following are considered important ranking factors?
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  • Domain Authority of website
  • Page Authority of website
  • Proper category associations
  • Landing page title
  • All of these

Question 2

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Which on-page element carries the most weight for SEO?
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  • The Title tag
  • Te META keywords tag
  • The Headers (h1; h2; h3; etc)
  • The META description
  • Description
  • On-page keywords

Question 3

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Which form of redirect/meta tag will transfer the most authority to the directed page?
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  • 302
  • 301
  • Canonical

Question 4

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What do the acronyms PA, DA and PR stand for?
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  • Page authority; Domain age; Page rank
  • Personal authority; Domain authority; Personal rank
  • Page authority; Domain authority; Page rank

Question 5

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Google's PageRank algorithm calculates the relative authority of a page on what scale?
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  • 1-10
  • 1-100
  • 0-10
  • 0-100

Question 6

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Which of the following tactics can harm your search rankings?
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  • 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

Question 7

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What are the names of the three latest algorithm updates Google has released?
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  • Mobile; Penguin; Panda
  • Panda; Hawk; RankBrain
  • Fred; Hawk; Possum
  • Penguin; Panda; Possum
  • Pigeon; Hummingbird; Hawk

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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Where can we get permanent and good links (backlinks)Web 2.0; PBNs services for growth DA; PA and PR of the website?
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  • News outlets
  • Blogs; Forums
  • Backlinks services
  • Web 2.0; PBNs services
  • Websites catalogs
  • Websites derictories

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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What link format is used to fight blog comment spam?
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  • rel="canonical"
  • rel="nofollow"
  • rel="author"
  • rel="attribute"
  • rel="follow"

Question 14

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When is using rel="nofollow" NOT appropriate?
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  • Paid links
  • Untrusted content
  • Press releases with optimized anchor text
  • Widely distributed footer links
  • None; all of these are appropriate

Question 15

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Which of the following types of sitemaps is NOT supported by Google?
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  • News
  • Product
  • Image
  • Mobile
  • Video

Question 16

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What is the optimal HTTP status code to permanently remove a URL from Google's index?
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  • 301
  • 302
  • 404
  • 410
  • 500

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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Which HTTP server response code indicates a file that no longer exists? (File Not Found)
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  • 500
  • 301
  • 401
  • 404
  • 302

Question 22

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

Question 23

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The default file type for your website sitemap is:
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  • .pdf
  • .php
  • .png
  • .xml
  • .doc

Question 24

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All other factors being equal, which would be the most desirable link profile?
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  • One link from each of 100 different domains
  • 1,000 links all from one domain
  • 10,000 internal links

Question 25

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Mobile-friendliness is a ranking factor in Google's algorithm:
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  • True, it is a ranking signal for mobile results only
  • False, it is not a ranking signal at all

Question 26

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Which of the following statements about anchor text is true?
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  • 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.

Question 27

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Keywords research help us?
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  • 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

Question 28

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What does anchor text mean?
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  • The largest body of text on the page
  • The visible text which is hyperlinked to another page
  • The prominent part of the title tag

Question 29

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Domain authority and Page authority is a metrics maintained by?
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  • Google
  • Moz
  • Bing

Question 30

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Google prefers lengthy content over content that contains approximately?
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  • 1500 words
  • 2000 words
  • 700 words

Question 31

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Google Penguin algorithm targeted on links?
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  • Paid links
  • Links from automated link building process
  • Spam Links
  • Low quality content
  • Quality content

Question 32

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What does SERP stand for?
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  • Search Engine Result Page
  • Search Entry Rating Procedure
  • Standard Engine Rank Protocol

Question 33

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Which type of link carries the most value or prefernce for a webmaster or SEO?
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  • Manual outreach link
  • Natural editorial links
  • Self Promotional links

Question 34

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

Question 35

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What is keyword cannibalization?
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  • 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

Question 36

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What is duplicate content?
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  • 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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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What is the most important heading tag on a page?
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  • It doesn't matter; they are all the same
  • The <h1> tag
  • The highest level heading tag used on the page
  • The <h0> tag

Question 39

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

Question 40

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Page Rank Tools helps to analyze keyword performance.
Answer
  • True
  • False
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