SEO Quiz (A)

Date First Published: 6th April 2023

This is the first quiz about the SEO subtopic. All 15 questions in this quiz are covered in the articles.

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Question 1

The correct answer is: c: Search Engine Optimisation

Question 2

The correct answer is: a: Pages with a faster loading time will be given a minor ranking boost than pages with a slower loading time.

Question 3

The correct answer is: b: Be deindexed in the Google search results.

Option A and C are incorrect as getting a Google penalty has no effect on the content inside a website. Google cannot control the content of other websites.

Option D is incorrect as Google does not publicly announce sites that have received penalties.

Question 4

The correct answer is: d: SEO is unpaid, whilst SEM is paid.

SEO is an unpaid strategy as it focuses on optimising a website to show up in the free, organic search results, whilst SEM is a paid strategy that involves promoting a website using paid advertising in the search results.

Options A and B are incorrect as both SEO and SEM require a website.

Question 5

The correct answer is: b: Content is 10 times better than any other content that can be found in the search results page.

Question 6

The correct answer is: a: Guest posting

Options B, C, and D are incorrect as those are all unethical methods of building links that are likely to lead to a Google penalty if detected.

Question 7

The correct answer is: d: Yandex Search

Yandex Search is a search engine and does not provide any SEO tools.

Options A, B, and C are all examples of SEO tools.

Question 8

The correct answer is: b: False

Originally, keyword density was a key ranking factor for search engines. Adding more keywords to the page could easily be used to move a page up in the search engines for specific keywords. However, as search engines started removing spam and adding more ranking factors to improve the search results shown to searchers, search engines did not take as much notice of keyword density.

Question 9

The correct answer is: a: Adding the "noindex" meta tag.

Adding the "noindex" meta tag is the most effective way of keeping a specific page out of a search engine because it instructs search engine bots to not index that page.

Option B is incorrect as the page can still appear in the search results if a page links to it.

Options C and D are incorrect as these are not proper ways of keeping pages out of a search engine.

Question 10

The correct answer is: b: False

It is the other way around. Even though both types of SEO are important, it is better to focus on on-page SEO first before focusing on off-page SEO.

Question 11

The correct answer is: c: A featured snippet

Question 12

The correct answer is: b: The data is not always applicable to all search engines.

Keyword research tools often only perform the analysis based on a limited number of search engines, so the data is not always applicable to all search engines.

Option A is incorrect as this is a key feature of keyword research.

Option C is incorrect as not all keyword research tools require a fee to be used. A lot of them are free.

Option D is incorrect as keyword research tools are often used to do this.

Question 13

The correct answer is: d: The meta title tag.

The title of a webpage is the most important meta tag for SEO as it is used by search engine algorithms to decide the order when listing pages in the search results based on whether the searcher's query matches the title. The title tag is required in every HTML document. Without it, the web browser will only display the name of the HTML file and search engines, such as Google will automatically create a title for a webpage based on the content of the page, which does not always lead to good results. The title of the page is more important than all the other meta tags.