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1. The Panda's diet is primarily what food?

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Answer: D.
The Panda’s diet is 99% bamboo.

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Test Your Panda And Penguin Knowledge - Quiz

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?

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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:

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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:

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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:

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Answer: A
Penguins live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, especially Antarctica

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6. Google's Panda Update launched in what month?

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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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7. Where did the name for the Panda update come from?

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

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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?

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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?

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

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The Panda's diet is primarily what food?
How do you know if you've been hit by Panda or Penguin?
Google's Panda update is focused on devaluing sites which have which...
Google's Penguin update is designed to decrease search engine rankings...
Penguins live almost exclusively in:
Google's Panda Update launched in what month?
Where did the name for the Panda update come from?
List which one of the following is not a reason that Google continues...
 What would not be an example of something impacted by Google's...
Google's  Penguin update launched in what month?
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