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    The Panda’s diet is primarily what food?

    • Eggs
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    • Wild tubers
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Explore the intricacies of Google's Panda and Penguin updates with this quiz. Understand their origins, purposes, and impacts on website rankings through engaging questions that bridge technology and digital marketing.

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  • 2. 

    How do you know if you’ve been hit by Panda or Penguin?

    • An image of a Panda or a Penguin will appear on your website

    • Google will call your webmaster

    • You will see a drop in visits to your site

    Correct Answer
    A. You will see a drop in visits to your site
    Explanation
    Answer: C.
    In most cases, if you are hit by an algorithm update such as Penguin or Panda, you will see a decrease in site visits. Google may also contact you; however, they won’t call, they will provide a message via Webmaster Tools.

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  • 3. 

    Google’s Panda update is focused on devaluing sites which have which of the following attributes:

    • More than 1,000 web pages

    • Poor site architecture

    • Web pages with very little content

    Correct Answer
    A. Web pages with very little content
    Explanation
    Answer: C.
    Google’s Panda Update is focused on lowering the rank of sites with very little content (also known as thin websites) and return higher-quality sites near the top of the search results.

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  • 4. 

    Google’s Penguin update is designed to decrease search engine rankings of websites that:

    • Focus on aquatic animals

    • Participate in link schemes

    • Use White-Hat SEO tactics

    Correct Answer
    A. Participate in link schemes
    Explanation
    Answer is B.
    Google created Penguin to decrease the search engine rankings of websites that participate in link-building schemes and link spam. These are generally referred to as Black-Hat SEO Techniques – as opposed to White-Hat SEO techniques, which Google approves.

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  • 5. 

    Penguins live almost exclusively in:

    • The Southern Hemisphere

    • The Northern Hemisphere

    Correct Answer
    A. The Southern Hemisphere
    Explanation
    Answer: A
    Penguins live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, especially Antarctica

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  • 6. 

    Where did the name for the Panda update come from?

    • A very smart engineer

    • In honor of Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing pandas that were a gift from China to the US

    • It was a favorite childhood toy of Google co-founder, Sergey Brin

    Correct Answer
    A. A very smart engineer
    Explanation
    Answer: A.
    Google was named after a search engineer at Google named Navneet Panda, who created a machine learning-algorithm that could identify similarities between low quality websites and high quality websites.

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  • 7. 

    Google’s Panda Update launched in what month?

    • January 2011

    • February 2011

    • March 2011

    • April 2011

    Correct Answer
    A. February 2011
    Explanation
    Answer: B.
    Google originally launched Panda in February of 2011, however it did not get widely publicized until later in the year when it was rolled out globally.

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  • 8. 

    List which one of the following is not a reason that Google continues to make changes to its search engine?

    • Provide better search results

    • Google hates SEO

    • Make life difficult for companies like Top Floor Technologies

    Correct Answer
    A. Make life difficult for companies like Top Floor Technologies
    Explanation
    Answer: C.
    According to Matt Cutts, who is Google’s head of Webspam, Google doesn’t hate SEO. In fact, they provide a listing of guidelines on Webmaster Tools to help companies optimize their websites the right way. However, Matt has also said that Google intends on making it more difficult for companies like Top Floor Technologies, who specialize in Search engine Optimization.

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  • 9. 

     What would not be an example of something impacted by Google’s Over-optimization Penalty?

    • Putting 10 keywords in a title tag

    • Excessive use of no-follow tags

    • Unnecessarily repeating keywords just so you have a higher chance of ranking

    Correct Answer
    A. Excessive use of no-follow tags
    Explanation
    Answer is B.
    Google will not penalize you for having too many no-follow tags, which is an HTML tag that protects a website by preventing page authority to be passed to other websites. Google doesn’t care how many no-follow tags your site has.

    While Google doesn’t have hard and fast rules on what constitutes over-optimization, it will look for sites that do things (such as stuffing 10 keywords in title tag or unnecessarily repeating keywords) for the explicit purposes of ranking high for a keyword.

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  • 10. 

    Google’s  Penguin update launched in what month?

    • January 2012

    • February 2012

    • March 2012

    • April 2012

    Correct Answer
    A. April 2012
    Explanation
    Answer: D.
    Google’s Penguin update was first launched on April 24, 2012.

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