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- 1.
What is a mobile subdomain?- A.
A subdomain that the web server will send users to based on their user agent.
- B.
A subdomain that can be easily changed from one server to another.
- C.
A subdomain that serves different results to users based on their user agent.
- D.
A subdomain that dynamically sizes content to the screen size of the user's browser.
- 2.
What is responsive web design?
- A.
A site design that adapts to the specific needs of the user.
- B.
A site design that uses CSS to dynamically adapt the HTML to fit the user's device and screen size.
- C.
A site design that determines the user agent of the browser and sends different HTML sized for optimal viewing.
- D.
A site that provides different HTML to Google from the HTML it delivers to users.
- 3.
What does dynamic serving deliver?
- A.
A site that adapts to the specific needs of the user.
- B.
A site that serves HTML to the browser so it can dynamically adapt the content to its size.
- C.
A site that determines the user agent of the browser and sends different HTML sized for optimal viewing.
- D.
A site that provides different HTML to Google from the HTML it delivers to users.
- 4.
Of the items listed below, what is the single most important on-page SEO factor?
- A.
The number of uses of the target keyword.
- B.
Use of the keywords in the keywords metatag.
- C.
Use of the target keyword in the top heading of the page.
- D.
Use of the target keyword in the title tag.
- 5.
What is the most important heading tag on a page?
- A.
It doesn't matter; they are all the same.
- B.
The <h1> tag.
- C.
The highest level heading tag used on the page.
- D.
The <h0> tag.
- 6.
What is the most important SEO ranking factor related to on-page content?
- A.
The relevance and breadth of the content on the page.
- B.
The use of keywords in the heading tags.
- C.
The number of times the keywords are repeated in the content.
- D.
Whether or not the target keyword is used in the first 50 words.
- 7.What's the ideal length for content on a web page?
- A.
1,000 words or more.
- B.
It doesn't matter.
- C.
100 words on e-commerce pages, 500 words or more on article pages.
- D.
Whatever is most appropriate to the topic and focus of the web page.
- 8.What is keyword cannibalization?
- A.
When you analyze competitors to discover keywords to target.
- B.
When multiple pages on a site are optimized for the same keywords.
- C.
When you compete for more than one keyword on the same page.
- D.
When poor SEO implementation causes your page to be non-competitive for the target keywords.
- 9.
What is duplicate content?
- A.
When one page has the exact same content as another.
- B.
When you copy content from a competitor's site.
- C.
When there are substantive blocks of content on a web page that either completely match, or are appreciably similar to, content on another web page.
- D.
When one page has nearly the same content as another.
- 10.What are hreflang tags?
- A.
They are used to tell search engines what language and country a website is intended to serve.
- B.
They are used to tell search engines what language and/or country a website is intended to serve.
- C.
They are used to tell search engines what language, or what language and country a website is intended to serve.
- D.
They are used to indicate the preferred dialect of a language for a web page.
- 11.
What does the Vary: User-Agent HTTP Header do?
- A.
It tells web servers that users more about what a user needs.
- B.
It tells users that tells a site's content varies from time to time.
- C.
It tells ISPs to not cache a site's content.
- D.
It tells caching servers that a site's content varies by user agent.
- 12.
How do you recover from Panda?
- A.
Fix thin and poor-quality content on the pages of your site, and wait.
- B.
Fix thin, poor-quality and duplicate content on the pages of your site, and submit a reconsideration request.
- C.
Fix thin, poor-quality and duplicate content on the pages of your site, and wait.
- D.
Fix thin and poor-quality content on the pages of your site, and submit a reconsideration request.
- 13.
How do you recover from Penguin?
- A.
Remove all links to your site with a Domain Authority of 50 or less, and wait.
- B.
Remove all links that do not appear to be editorially given, and then wait.
- C.
Clean up links from web directories, article directories, countries where you don't do business and where you have too much rich anchor text, and then wait.
- D.
Remove or disavow all links that do not appear to be editorially given, and file a reconsideration request.
- 14.
How do you recover from a manual link penalty?
- A.
Remove all links to your site with a Domain Authority of 50 or lower, and wait.
- B.
Remove all links that do not appear to be editorially given, and then wait.
- C.
Clean up links from web directories, article directories, countries were you don't do business and where you have too much rich anchor text, and then wait.
- D.
Remove or disavow all links that do not appear to be editorially given, and file a reconsideration request.
- 15.
When do you use the rel="canonical" tag?
- A.
To implement 301 redirects.
- B.
To help resolve potential duplicate content problems.
- C.
To point to the desktop version of mobile pages when you have a mobile subdomain.
- D.
Both B. and C.
- 16.
When do you use meta robots noindex tags?
- A.
To prevent pages from appearing in search results.
- B.
To block search engines from crawling pages on your site.
- C.
To stop PageRank flow into low-quality pages.
- D.
All of the above.
- 17.What do rel prev/next tags do?
- A.
They are used by publishers to identify groups of paginated URLs.
- B.
They cause search engines to treat all links into any of the pages in a group of paginated URLs to be considered links to the entire group.
- C.
They help eliminate concerns with perceived duplicate content for paginated URLs.
- D.
All of the above.
- 18.Does Google care about where content is located on a page?
- A.
Yes; they only care about content visible to the user, as they want to emphasize user engagement.
- B.
Yes; they only care about content in the main body of the page, as the rest of the content is not page-specific.
- C.
Yes; placement on the page says something about the importance of the content.
- D.
No, they don't care.
- 19.
When implementing different filters or sort orders for products on your site, which of these should you leverage to minimize duplicate content/thin content risks?
- A.
Noindex
- B.
Robots.txt
- C.
Nofollow
- D.
Rel="canonical"
- 20.When implementing pagination for products on your site, which of these should you leverage to minimize duplicate content/thin content risks?
- A.
Rel=prev/next + noindex
- B.
Rel=prev/next + nofollow
- C.
Rel=prev/next
- D.
Rel=prev/next + robots.txt
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