SEO Crush It Trivia!
Quiz by Mac McArtor
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- Q1
What is the generally accepted difference between SEO and SEM?
SEO focuses on organic/natural search rankings, SEM encompasses all aspects of search marketing
SEO refers to the organic/natural listings while SEM covers paid search
SEO tends to be a West coast term, SEM is more East coast
No difference, they’re synonymous
30s - Q2
Which of the following is the least important area in which to include your keyword(s)?
Title Tag
Meta Keywords
Anchor text of internal links
Meta Description
30s - Q3
Having Google Analytics installed directly affects your rankings in Google.
falsetrueTrue or False30s - Q4
What does the directive "disallow" mean?
Crawl this page or directory, but don't index it
Block this page or directory from users
Don't crawl this page or directory
Don't rank this page or directory
30s - Q5
A rel=canonical tag can be used to point search engines to a particular page when tackling these issues.
Duplicate content
Indexation
Redirect
Slow content
30s - Q6
Minifying your CSS, HTML, and JavaScript files can increase your load time.
falsetrueTrue or False30s - Q7
Which link is more likely to pass the most value?
An external link within a noscript tag
An external link within the body of a page
An internal link high up on a page
An internal image link
30s - Q8
Which is NOT part of Google's new Core Web Vitals:
Largest contentful paint
First input delay
Cumulative layout shift
Site speed
30s - Q9
The August 2018 Google core algorithm update was known as the [blank] update and largely affected sites in the [blank] vertical.
Medic / health & wellness
Possum / hyperlocal
Fiat / automotive
August Core / lifestyle
30s - Q10
What was the “original” name of Red Ventures, inspired by the founders’ initials?
RE-DO
FRED Inc.
Red Dawn
Red F
30s - Q11
Short-tail keywords are much more general search queries consisting of one or two words, while long-tail keywords…
have been in SERPs for the longest amount of time, historically-speaking
are typically even less specific
are usually the most competitive
consist of three to five or even more words.
30s - Q12
What are hreflang tags?
it tells you which version of a URL (with the same content) is the dominant one to avoid duplicate content issues
it tells you what language your header is in
it tells Google which language you’d like Google Translate to convert it to
it tells Google which language you are using on a specific page, so the search engine can serve that result to users searching in that language
30s - Q13
What is the definition of “Thin Content”?
it is content that doesn’t have enough keywords stuffed in it
it is broadly defined as website content that provides very little value to users
it is exclusively when content is not long enough
it is when your content is not aligned with metadata
30s - Q14
What is keyword cannibalization?
When multiple pages on a site are optimized for the same keywords
When you analyze competitors to discover keywords to target
When your page tries to literally eat a page it internally links to
When you compete for more than one keyword on the same page
30s - Q15
RankBrain is a component of Google’s core algorithm which uses this to determine the most relevant results to search engine queries.
Natural language processing
Schema
Machine learning
Artificial intelligence
30s