Ecommerce SEO Questions
How much do you know about SEO and shopping carts? Find out!
- 1.
Which of the following is the best way to get links?
- A.
Exchange reciprocal links with other sites
- B.
Create high quality content and encourage people to link to it
- C.
Link building isn't important as long as the site has the right keywords
- D.
Add social bookmarks
Correct Answer
B. Create high quality content and encourage people to link to itExplanation
Creating high quality interesting content will attract links over the long term, as well as tweets, etc, which search engines like. Reciprocal links and social bookmarks are of little value.Rate this question:
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- 2.
If you migrate to a new shopping cart, what is the best way to make sure all your old URLs still work?
- A.
Redirect all old URLs to the homepage of the new site
- B.
Make pages with meta refresh tags on them
- C.
Make redirects with HTTP 301 sending all old pages to the homepage
- D.
Make redirects with HTTP 301 sending all old pages to their equivalent new page
Correct Answer
D. Make redirects with HTTP 301 sending all old pages to their equivalent new pageExplanation
Redirecting all old pages to new pages will ensure that all links have their maximum value on the new site.Rate this question:
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- 3.
What's the most important place of your pages to contain your key phrase(s)?
- A.
Meta keywords tag
- B.
Meta description tag
- C.
Page title
- D.
H1 tag
Correct Answer
C. Page titleExplanation
The page title is by far the most important SEO element on the page and should contain your top key phrases for that page.Rate this question:
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- 4.
Which of these URLs would be best for SEO?
- A.
Www.yoursite.com/pagename?id=2932
- B.
Www.yoursite.com/widgets/greenwidget
- C.
Www.yoursite.com/widgets/smallwidgets/green/widgets
- D.
Www.yoursite.com/?category=widgets&product=green
Correct Answer
B. Www.yoursite.com/widgets/greenwidgetExplanation
Short but logical URLs almost always perform the best.Rate this question:
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- 5.
What is the best way to make sure that search engines find all the pages on your site?
- A.
Create a sitemap.xml file
- B.
Create a robots.txt file
- C.
Create a .htaccess file
- D.
Create a PHP file
Correct Answer
A. Create a sitemap.xml fileExplanation
sitemap.xml files contain (or should contain!) all pages on the site to help search engines discover all pages.Rate this question:
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