SEO Multiple Choice Questions and Answers for Practice

16. Suppose you want a page to pass on value but not to be indexed, which tag would you use?

1. meta robots = no index, no follow
2. meta robots = no index, follow
3. meta robots = index, no follow
4. None of the abve

17. The canonical tag is used to inform search engines

1. which URL to count as authoritative when dealing with several URLs leading to the same page
2. which pages is the homepage of a website
3. which pages should not show up in SERPs
4. None of the abve

18. The first Panda update (also known as farmer) targeted which type of websites in specific?

1. Social media pages
2. Blogs about SEO techniques
3. Content farms/Link farms
4. None of the abve

19. The long-tail on search demand curve accounts for roughly ..........of search traffic

1. 70%
2. 50%
3. 10%
4. None of the abve

20. The Meta Robots tag should be placed in which part of an HTML file?

1. the head area
2. the main body
3. the footer r bottom of the page
4. None of the abve

21. The Nofollow attribute:

1. doe not count as a vote of approval but passes on link juice
2. does not pass on link juice but counts as a vote of approval
3. does not pass on link juice and does not count as a vote of approval
4. None of the abve

22. The reason why you should avoid hosting free articles or content that is common on the web?

1. because you will not gain new traffic
2. because you could be penalized by Google for duplicate content
3. because they might be controversial
4. None of the abve

23. Using the same keywords too many time on your web pages, which has a negative effect on user experience and ranking, is a practice called:

1. keyword stuffing
2. keyword density
3. keyword research
4. None of the abve

24. What does anchor text mean?

1. The largest body of text on a page
2. the visible text which is hyperlinked to another page
3. the prominent part of the title tag
4. None of the abve

25. What does broken link building tactic include?

1. Finding broken links on web sites and notifying the webmasters
2. Fixing internal links on ones website
3. Hosting redirects from broken links on our own website.
4. None of the abve

26. What does search engine saturation mean?

1. the amount of websites competing for a particular keyword
2. the limit of a search engines indexing capacity
3. the amount of pages of a website indexed by a search engine
4. None of the abve

27. What does SEM stand for?

1. Self Employed Marketers
2. Standard Elimination
3. Search Engine Marketing
4. None of the abve

28. What does SERP stand for?

1. Search Entry Rating Procedure
2. Search Engine Result Page
3. Standard Enlisting Rank Protocol
4. None of the abve

29. What does the no archive tag instruct a spider?

1. it tells not to index a certain page
2. it instructs a spider not a save a cache copy
3. it instructs a spider not to follow a certain page
4. None of the abve

30. What does the No Snippet tag tell a search engine?

1. it tells a search engine not to display a description with the pages title and URL
2. it tells the search engine to overlook any keywords on a page
3. it tells a search engine to ignore the images on a page
4. None of the abve