Question 1
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When was the Google Penguin algorithm update first announced?
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February 2011
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April 2011
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February 2012
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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.
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Cloaking
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Page rank sculpting
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Hidden text
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Keyword stuffing
Question 3
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What is the correct process to remove a page from the index?
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Block the URL in Robots.txt
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Use the NOINDEX tag on the page
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Use the NOINDEX tag on the page then place the URL in the Robots.txt
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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?
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IIS
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IHS
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Apache
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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
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When a keyword is mentioned less than 3% in a body of text
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When a keyword is mentioned too many times it looks unnatural
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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
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Tells Google not to index the page
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Used to prevent duplicate content
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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?
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Caffeine
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Penguin
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Panda
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Mobile-Friendly
Question 8
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When implementing infinite scroll what tags should be used?
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Pagination tags
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Pagination and canonical tags
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Pagination, noindex and canonical tags
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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 _____.
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alternate, language
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language, region
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United States, English
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region, language
Question 10
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Which HTTP status code is best to serve when your site is down for maintenance?
Question 11
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Google's Panda update was also known as the ______ update.
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Vince
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Caffeine
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Farmer
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Link
Question 12
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Which Google update was closely associated with speed, faster indexing and fresher web results?
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Caffeine
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Vince
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Venice
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HTTPs
Question 13
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If the robots <META> tag is missing, the default is:
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NOINDEX, FOLLOW
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INDEX, FOLLOW
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NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW
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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 _____
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Top-Level Domain, Protocol
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Subfolder, Top-Level Domain
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Root Domain, Subdomain
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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?
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Discover
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Analytics
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Recommendations
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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?
Question 17
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How long should a title tag be?
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512 pixels, around 70 characters
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512 pixels, around 55 characters
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1024 pixels, around 70 characters
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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.
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Yes, it has been proven to show a 10% visibility increase.
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No
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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
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url, loc
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url, loc, urlset
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urlset, loc
Question 20
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rel="canonical" can be used to point to content on a different domain.
Question 21
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What does ROI stand for?
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Return on Interest
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Return on Investment
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Return on Indices
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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?
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
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It's the same as a sitemap file but with more fields
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To reference all sitemaps
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For hreflang targeting
Question 24
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What does EMD stand for?
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Extra Match Domain
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Exact Match DNS
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Equal Match Domain
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Exact Match Domain
Question 25
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Which of the following ISN'T used for Black Hat tactics?
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Build My Rank
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Authority Link Network
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Xrumer
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Xenu Link Slueth
Question 26
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What's wrong with the following code?
<link href="http://www.mindshareworld.com" meta="canonical" />
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" />
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en_GB should be en-GB
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en_GB should be en_UK
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rel should be a meta
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link should be a meta
Question 28
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What response code should be served if a page will never exist again?
Question 29
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When is using rel="nofollow" NOT appropriate?
Question 30
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How many URLs are typically accepted in an XML sitemap?
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30,000
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40,000
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50,000
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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?
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Allow: /
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Disallow: page1
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Disallow:
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page1 : Disallow
Question 32
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What link format is used to fight blog comment spam?
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dofollow
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nofollow
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canonical
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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"
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Responsive Web Design
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Dynamic Serving
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Separate URLs
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None of the above
Question 34
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What is dwell time?
Question 35
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Which of the following are Search Engines? (Tick all that apply)
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Fedora
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Baidu
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DuckDuckGo
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Yandex
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Naver
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Kooboo
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Seznam
Question 36
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Which JavaScript library replaced the ga.js library for Google Analytics?
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analytics.js
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urchin.js
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gap.js
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s_code.js
Question 37
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By default, how long does a session last in Google Analytics, without any activity?
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12 hours
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6 months
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24 hours
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30 minutes
Question 38
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When using custom campaign variables for Google Analaytics, which parameters are required? (Tick all that apply)
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Campaign Source (utm_source)
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Campaign Medium (utm_medium)
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Campaign Term (utm_term)
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Campaign Content (utm_content)
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Campaign Name (utm_campaign)
Question 39
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What is Negative SEO?
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The practice of attacking a competitor's site with techniques designed to decrease its rankings
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The use of Black Hat SEO techniques
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The practice of causing a web page to rank highly in Google for unrelated or off-topic search terms
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A natural decrease in SEO rankings
Question 40
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Which of the following isn't an analytics platform?
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Google Analytics
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Adobe Analytics
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Webtrends
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Piwik
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Webalyser
Question 41
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Which of these is a genuine Google user agent? (Tick all that apply)
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Googlebot
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Googlebot-News
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Googlebot-Image
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Googlebot-Video
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Googlebot-Mobile
Question 42
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Which of the following are vocabularies for structured data? (Tick all that apply)
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Schema.org
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Microformats
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Data-Vocabulary.org
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JSON-LD
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Microdata
Question 43
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What is the main SEO benefit of implementing structured data on a web page?
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Structured data allows users to better understand the content on the page
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There is no SEO benefit
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Implementing structured data can result in a slight ranking boost
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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?
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name
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property
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content
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rel
Question 45
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In the following code:
<meta BLANK="twitter:card"
What should be in place of BLANK?
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property
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name
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content
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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
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A best practice guide for mobile websites
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A suite of tools from Google especially for mobile websites
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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
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Drupal
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Joomla
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Magento
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CQ5/Experience Manager
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Umbraco
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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
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allintext:ford +allintext:focus +site:en.wikipedia.com
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ford focus +site:en.wikipedia.com
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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?
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cache:
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googlecache:
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webcache:
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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?
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site:
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info:
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index:
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google: