How Much SEO Do You Know

Think you know SEO? Take our quiz and find out where you fall on the SEO knowledge scale. These questions pertain to the most up-to-date SEO practices so if you're not sure about them or would just like to know more we can help.

Are you a SEO Pro? Do you know everything you need to properly and effectively market your business on the web? Take our quiz and test your knowledge to see what you really know about SEO and Internet Marketing.

What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
What is your gender?
Male
Female
1. If you update your sites URL structure to create new versions of your pages, what should you do with the old URL's?
Add a meta robots tag with "noindex, follow" to the paginated pages
301 redirect them to the new URL's
404 redirect them to the new URL's
Delete them, you don't need them anymore
2. Which domain extensions are more often associated with greater trust and authority in the search engines?
.gov, .edu and .org
.biz, .net and .com
.edu, .mil and .gov
.us, .co.uk and .gov
3. High quality links to a site's homepage will help to increase the ranking ability of deeper pages on the same domain.
True
False
4. Which HTTP server response code indicates a file that no longer exists?
404
401
301
201
5. What is the first thing you should do when starting an internet marketing strategy for your online business?
Making sure I have a completed website
Keyword and behavioral research
sign up for pay per-click
Hire a web design firm
6. What is the difference between link popularity and link reputation?
They both mean the same thing
Link popularity is how popular the site linking to you is and link reputation what you get when popular sites link to you
Link popularity is how many links you have internally on your site and link reputation is who links to you
Link popularity is how many sites or pages link to you and link reputation is the quality of those pages linking to you
7. A new domain that has both on-site and off-site optimization with a well planned link building campaign and some pay per-click will have no difficulty ranking for its keywords or phrases?
True
False
8. Viral content creation and promotion is viewed as a legitimate and preferred tactic for obtaining links.
True
False
9. What is the proper format if you want to a page to pass value through its links but not get indexed by the search engines?
301 perminant redirect
Use meta robots="noindex, follow"
Only use your keywords in your link text
Use relative links when linking to the pages you want to pass the value to
10. Which of these is NOT considered spamming the search engines?
Using keywords where it makes sense in your title, description, keyword tags, content and link text
Having 30 or more keywords in your keywords meta tag
Listing several of your keywords in your alt text
Cloaking or showing one version of content for the search engines and a different version to your human visitors

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