What Stage Of SEO Career Are You At?

10 Questions | By Annsmarty | Updated: Mar 19, 2022 | Attempts: 1114

What Stage Of SEO Career Are You At? - Quiz

Do you think you have been doing SEO enough to be called 'expert'? Let's check what type of SEO consultant you are. Note: all cat-images from Icanhascheezburger. Com

You May Get

Novice

You feel thrilled and excited about all that SEO thing. The fact that Danny Sullivan has added you back to friends on Facebook makes you feel special. You love to read and comment at blogs and feel you learn something new every day, still there's so much more to learn! Your growing list in you feed reader seems to be out of control but you try to visit and read each blog there at least once a week.You love SEO community and find new friends daily. Everyone seems helpful and nice. You have spent one whole day to join each social media in Tamar's sidebar and add her to friends. Now you feel like a social media rock star but with time you come to understand that just registering there isn't enough. You start to wonder...You read SEJ daily :)

On the Path

You start feeling confident. You have successfully consulted your own clients and think you have firm opinion on anything SEO-related. You are now sure that Rand Fishkin, Danny Sullivan or even Matt Cutts are human being, you even exchanged a few messages / comments with them and probably saw them at a conference.You spend half a day sorting out your email box and talking to friends on Twitter and Facebook. You start feeling you used to do more before...You are now mutual friends with Tamar across most social networks you have joined. However you still can't understand how she manages to be virtually everywhere around the Internet. However you feel you are on the right path and you will still get it.You read SEJ daily :)

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Questions and Answers

1.

When you come across a great story on the web, you:
- A.
  
  Post it on Facebook with a witty comment
- B.
  
  Throw it in an email and forward to EVERYONE in my address book
- C.
  
  Tweet it baby! "tweet!"
- D.
  
  Send out a bulletin on MySpace (as long as their source code doesn't crash my browser first)
2.

Do you have a pet?
- A.
  
  Follow my dog on Twitter!
- B.
  
  My pet lives in a Facebook app
- C.
  
  I like to think of Googlebot as my own little pet
- D.
  
  Do LOL cats count?
3.

Black hat refers to….
- A.
  
  The color of the hat that my favorite movie villains wear
- B.
  
  An unethical method of SEO
- C.
  
  A PR 6 link farm
- D.
  
  All of the above
4.

On a typical Friday night I usually
- A.
  
  Hit the local pub and have a beer with the guys/gals
- B.
  
  Fire up Facebook chat and wait for the virtual beers to start flowing
- C.
  
  Send mobile Tweets about how bad my date is going."OMG" tweet!
- D.
  
  Twitter about all of the cool things I'm out doing (because my Followers don't know I'm actually sitting at home alone)
5.

A Google Robot is…
- A.
  
  A robot that works for Google
- B.
  
  Google Robots are our human-like machines that walk the earth to record information
- C.
  
  Hey as long as it's not like that movie with Will Smith we're in good shape
- D.
  
  Software used by Google, which collects Documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google
6.

Google SERP listings are determined by
- A.
  
  A group of trained monkeys at the Google headquarters
- B.
  
  Spider-Pig
- C.
  
  Webmasters secretly using search wiki
- D.
  
  Users who ultimately vote by clicking on search listings
7.

A Site Map generally is used to
- A.
  
  Lead you to the homes of various celebrities via Google maps
- B.
  
  Indicate the geographical location of Google headquarters
- C.
  
  Tell your future and determine your daily horoscope
- D.
  
  To give a representation of the architecture of a web site
8.

The Google sandbox is…
- A.
  
  A place where children go to play
- B.
  
  An urban legend
- C.
  
  When Google temporarily reduces the page rank of new domains
- D.
  
  None of the above
9.

A link farm is…
- A.
  
  A server in Iowa where links are grown and cultivated
- B.
  
  A great way to be removed from Google's index
- C.
  
  A group of web sites that all hyperlink to every other site in the group
- D.
  
  All of the above
10.

A troll is...
- A.
  
  A sculpture under a bridge in Seattle
- B.
  
  Friendly people who leave comments on Digg
- C.
  
  A supernatural creature of Scandinavian folklore
- D.
  
  All of the above