Are You an SEO Novice or Expert?

Test your SEO skills and see how you score

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* 1. When preparing your site for launch and indexation, what is the proper order of directing crawlers to your pages?

Point your XML Sitemap to your Robots.txt

Point your Robots.txt to your XML Sitemap

The order doesn’t matter

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* 2. When selecting keywords for a brand-new site, where do you start?

Selecting long tail keywords with low competition

Selecting head terms with high competition

Selecting only branded terms

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* 3. How do you start your Technical SEO process?

We don’t have a process

Checking the load speed of key pages

With a crawl and site audit

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* 4. Does your site utilize compression for images or Javascript/CSS files?

Yes

I don’t know

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* 5. Is your site hooked up with a webmaster portal?

I haven’t heard of that

Yes, Google Search Console and/or Bing Webmaster Tools

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* 6. How do meta descriptions impact SEO?

Directly, the keywords mentioned count for page relevance

Indirectly, the description can impact click-throughs which helps rank

Directly, the description’s relevance to the title tag is important for boosting rankings

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* 7. Does your site have a plan for migration to SSL/HTTPS?

Yes, everything is migrated/in the process of migrating

Yes, pages have migrated, but some content is still HTTP

No, there is not a plan

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* 8. Is keyword density a metric for SEO?

Yes

I’m not sure

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* 9. What are featured snippets?

Prioritizing the top search result in a box

Prioritizing relevant content from a single website in a box for a quick query answer

The same as knowledge graph

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* 10. Should you have a voice search strategy?

No, it’s the same as a regular SEO strategy

I’m not sure

It depends on the site/business

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* 11. What is a way to optimize your crawl budget?

I have no idea what that is

Cleaning up redirect chains/loops

Add a page for 404 responses

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* 12. What kind of link-building strategy is best for SEO?

Attaining a volume reputable links where there is relevance to my site(s).

The same strategy as the past 10+ years: Get a high volume of links.

No strategy, the Penguin update rendered link-building useless.

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