- Guest post the article to as many sites as possible
- Create an infographics and share it with relevant bloggers
- Create diverse and unnatural links
- Distribute links in comment sections of websites
Q2. What is a key reason the URL domain.com/apparel/jackets is preferable to the URL domain.com/p=141?
- It is longer
- It is not preferable
- It uses structured markup
- It is readable to a human
- 410
- 302
- 200
- 301
Q4. You notice a website is serving HTML to a Search Engine than to a human user. What is this an example of?
- Spam injection
- Cloaking
- Sneaky Redirect
- Splicing
- Provide a 150 x 80 pixel thumbnail image
- Add Schema.org VideoObject
- Convert .mp4 videos to .mov
- Embed video objects with JavaScript conditionals
- Responsive version
- Submitted version
- Mobile version
- Desktop version
Q7. You want to identify which US state has the most search interest for a particular keyword. What tool would help you determine this?
- Google Analytics
- Google Keyword Planner
- Google Search Console
- Google Trends
Q8. You want to block crawlers from accessing your entire website. What robots.txt entry would you use?
- :
User-agent: Allbots
Disallow: \*- :
User-agent: /
Disallow: \*- :
User-agent: /
Disallow:- :
User-agent: \*
Disallow: /Q9. Which result is most likely if you use an interstitial pop-up that requires a user to take action before you load the content of the page?
- Both the pop-up and the content of the page will be indexed
- The pop-up will be indexed instead of the desired body content
- An interstitial pop-up is treated the same as a soft 404
- The pop-up will be ignored, and the content of the page will be indexed correctly
Q10. You notice a particular product in an e-commerce storefront is no longer indexed, despite no technical issues. What is a likely reason for this?
- No title or meta description tags were provided
- The Keywords is too competitive
- Robots.txt is configured to allow access
- The product is out of stock
Q11. All byline dates for articles are suddenly no longer visible on a website's listing within Google Search. Assuming no changes have been made to the site programming or content, what is the most likely cause?
- The site has been delisted from Google Search
- A Google News sitemap was not provided within 30 days of setting up a publisher center account
- The site kept updating the dates to make the content appear fres, without changing
- The articles have aged more than 365 days without any significant updates to the content or the site
- Using a gTLD with subdomain
- using URL parameters
- Using a ccTLD
- Using a gTLD with a subdirectory
Q13. You have been asked to help a big e-commerce brand optimize their website for search engines. They currently have thousands of products listed on their website. What is your most appropriate first step?
- Recommend that they add more products
- Work on compressing image files
- 302 redirect all product pages to URL that contains target keywords
- Register the business with a Google My Business account.
- The Box With Paid Ads That Appear When You Perform A Search.
- This Is Where Sites Are Kept Till They Get Mature Enough To Be Included In The Top Rankings For A Particular Keyword
- A Special Category Of Sites That Are Listed In Kid-safe Searches
- The First 10 Search Results For A Particular Keyword.
- It Is The Main Body Of Text On A Particular Web Page
- It Is The Text Within The Left Or Top Panel Of A Web Page
- It Is The Visible Text That Is Hyper Linked To Another Page
- It Is The Most Prominent Text On The Page That The Search Engines Use To Assign A Title To The Page
Q16. Which Google search query should be used to return only PDF documents that reference Microsoft?
- Microsoft + .pdf
- "Microsoft" + "pdf"
- Microsoft AND "pdf"
- Microsoft filetype:pdf
-
<a href="http://domain.com"> -
<a onclick="newwin('domain.com')"> -
<a href="http://domain.com" class="blue"> -
<a href="../category-2/page">
- :
H1: How to Bak Bagels
H2: Ingredients
H3: Dry Ingredients
H4: Wet Ingredients
H2: Instructions
H6: Reviews- :
H1: How to Bak Bagels
H1: Ingredients
H1: Dry Ingredients
H1: Wet Ingredients
H1: Instructions
H2: Reviews- :
H1: How to Bak Bagels
H2: Ingredients
H3: Dry Ingredients
H3: Wet Ingredients
H2: Instructions
H2: Reviews- :
H1: How to Bak Bagels
H2: Ingredients
H4: Dry Ingredients
H5: Wet Ingredients
H6: Instructions
H1: ReviewsQ19. All byline dates articles are suddenly no longer visible on a website's listing within Google Search. Assuming no changes have been made to the site programming or content, what is the most likely cause?
- The site has been delisted from Google Search
- The site kept updating the date to make the content appear fresh, without changing the content.
- The articles have aged more than 365 days without any significant updates to the content or the site.
- A Google New sitemap was not provided within 30 days of setting up a Publisher Center account
- Google Ads result
- featured snippet
- related searches
- autocomplete
- transcript
- thumbnail
- Flash Player
- event tracking
Q22. You are optimizing a website that sells supplies for banking donuts. Which approach is most appropriate to drive more organic traffic?
- Buy donutbakingsupplies.com and 301 redirect to your website
- Add the keyword "donut supplies" to every page.
- Create a new blog with high-quality donut recipes
- Join a link farm to rapidly build inbounnd links.
- There is a limit to how many links you can create.
- all of these answers
- Any follow links reduce your PageRank by 1.
- Your site's reputation is tied to the sites you link to.
- It has no relation to JSON.
- It is the only structured data format available.
- It is considered the most complicated approach to adding structured data.
- It is Google's preferred structured data format.
- It creates an inability to use canonical URLs, which dramatically reduces crawl effectiveness,
- It requires using a 302 redirect, which dilutes PageRank.
- It triggers an immediate manual action penalty, which delists an entire domain until the duplicate content is removed.
- It makes it difficult for a search engine to determine the original and authoritative content source.
- tabindex
- longdesc
- src
- alt
Q27. You are researching keywords for a client and creating list for an optimization plan. Which is not a recommended method of creating keyword lists?
- synonyms and related words
- queries about benefits, features, problems
- how-to and question-based queries
- focusing on only high-volume, high-popularity words
Q28. You want to get a rough idea of how many searches per month a particular search term gets. Which tool do you use?
- Google Keyword Planner
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Search Console
- Google Suggest
- RSS
- CTR
- PPC
- LSI
- They move from simple to more complex as searchers gather more information and then refine their choices.
- The stay simple, as searchers try to use as few words as possible.
- The keywords do not change much at all.
- They move from complex to simple, as searchers find answers to their questions.
- cloaking
- keyword research
- useful content
- on-page optimization
Q32. A local accountant wants to start attracting more business directly from Google organic search. What is the best piece of advice to give to her?
- Use the pharse "local accountant" as a keyword to focus her website on.
- Focus on short-tail keywords.
- Register her business with a Google My Business account.
- Leave a link to her website in the blog comments of popular accounting websites.
<a href="catalog/gloves.html">Blue Gloves</a>
- Blue Gloves
- href
- catalog/
- gloves.html
Q34. _ analysis allows you to review requests made to your web server to identify insights such as how ofter a crawler arrives, what pages have 404 errors, and most crawled pages
- Log file
- HTTP/2
- Cron job
- Resource packet
- Mega List of Teams Going to the Olympics
- Complete Coverage of Microsoft's Latest Announcement
- The Future of SEO in 2020
- How to Reheat Pizza
Q36. You load a page and start reading an article, and suddenly the content on the page moves. What metric is used to quantify this impact on user experience?
- First Meaningful Paint (FMP)
- Recalculated Style Timing (RST)
- Latent Loading Signal (LLS)
- Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"url": "http://www.domain.com",
"name": "Bradley Corp.",
"contactPoint": {
"@type": "ContactPoint",
"telephone": "+1-555-555-5555",
"contactType": "Customer service"
}
}
</script>
- meta tag
- HTTP response
- XML sitemap
- structured data
- XBox live coupon
- Microsoft Office 365
- LinkedIn login
- LAX airport directions
- suggested search terms
- related search queries
- keywords that match the search query
- words with a
<b>tag assigned in their meta description
- SERP (Search Engine Results Page)
- INDX
- PARS
- SEM
Q41. Which statement is true regarding the use of social signals, such as LinkedIn shares, by Google in its ranking algorithm?
- Google does not use social signals to determine rank
- Social signals are identical to backlinks
- Social signals are used to determine topic authority
- Social signals provide a benefit only if they have structured data markup
Q42. A user clicks an internal link resulting in this redirect chain: http://domain.com -> https://domain.com -> https://domain.com/. In this example, what is being consumed unnecessarily?
- redirect allotment
- crawl budget
- velocity scale
- domain authority
Q43. You are planning for the development of an e-commerce website. Which approach will be more beneficial for rankings?
- Optimize the front page of your website to drive traffic from all category search terms.
- Optimize product category pages to drive traffic from individual category search terms.
- Optimize all pages on the site for all category search terms.
- Optimize product pages to drive traffic from individual category search terms.
- The deeper the click depth, the lower the PageRank
- PageRank and click depth have no relation
- The deeper the click depth, the higher the PageRank
- Click depth and PageRank are equal
Q45. What is a popular technique for writing content with the goal of having it appear in a features snippet?
- Write the question in a headline tag, and then answer it below in a format that matches the snippet type.
- Use the features snippet schema and apply an object that matches the correct snippet type.
- Google manually generates featured snippets, so there is no special technique.
- Submit the content through Google Search Console, and tag it with the correct snippet type.
Q46. What is a common best practice for handling search result pages on a blog's built-in site search?
- Set site research results to no-index.
- Do not use site search.
- Set site search to 404.
- Add a canonical from the search result page to the home page.
Q47. What might help a search engine understand the difference between an article on a dog bark versus tree bark?
- tertiary analysis
- ranked choice trees
- semantic analysis
- knowledge graphs
Q48. A webpage has this tag: <title>Brad's Bagels: How to Bake a Bagel</title>. However, the Google search result for this page displays this title: _Brad's Bagels: Baking Bagels in the Oven_. What is a likely explanation?
- The title tag was placed within the section of the webpage, but not before the meta content tags, so Google cannot identify the actual title.
- The page is using structured data to define an alternative title object, which allows the search engine to pick a preferable version.
- A breadcrumb navigation is in use, which overrides the title tag supplied in the HTML.
- Google generated a new title using text on the page that more closely matched the search query.
Q49. What alt attribute should be assigned to an image of a decorative line being used to separate content
- alt=""
- alt="Thin black line being used to seperate two blocks of content"
- alt="dec"
- alt="thin-line"
Q50. Your site serves identical content when you visit domain.com/page or domain.com/page?ref=123. What should you implement?
- parameter stripping
- URL cloaking
- a 302 redirect
- a rel=canonical link
- vocabulary.org
- RDFa.org
- schema.org
- data-vocabulary.org
Q52. According to Google, what type of content includes topics such as news, legal issues, financial advice, and medical information?
- RSS
- KYC
- YMYL
- BDB
Explanation: Google describes YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) sites/pages as ones that could potentially impact a person’s happiness, health, financial stability, or safety.
- when parameters are used in URLs
- when migrating from HTTP to HTTPS
- when launching a new redesign
- when creating a new subdomain
Explanation: From article: 301 Redirects for SEO (2020)
- Content does not match search intent.
- Page returns 404 error.
- Content reflects search intent.
- URL uses parameters.
- backlinks
- NAP
- LRP
- inbound links
- query
- parser
- bar
- link
- fresh keyword
- operative keyword
- short-tail keyword
- long-tail keyword
Q58. What tool enables companies to display extra information within the natural search results without the need of any structured data?
- Google Input Tools
- structured data testing tool
- Google Tag Manager
- Google My Business
Q59. Your client is ready to start a blog. but has read that they should put the blog on a subdomain instead of subdirectory in order to create more external links to their website. How would you advise your client about this strategy?
- Not only should the blog be on a subdomain, but each of the major navigation areas should be on separate subdomains in order to increase the number and value of the links into the primary domain.
- It is best to have the blog on a subdirectory and build links to primary domain.
- It is an advisable choice as it will enable interlinking between the domains and increase the number of links.
- The blog should be on a separate URL to avouud building too many links between the same domain or IP.
Q60. Blog author pages, each with only one sentence about the author, are at risk of being flagged as _ content.
- non-indexable
- irrelevant
- biased
- thin
- They are less competitive, and may have higher conversion rates.
- Long-tail keywords are no longer relevant in today's SEO landscape.
- They are less grandular, so you capture broader searches.
- They are more competitive, but drive significantly more traffic.
Q62. You have been asked to help a big e-commerce brand optimize their website for search engines. They currently have thousands of products listed on their website. What is your most appropriate first step?
- Set campaign goals.
- Conduct a technical audit.
- Conduct a backlink audit.
- Determine keyword strategy.
Q63. You are optimizing a large e-commerce website. Which strategy will likely yield the most organic traffic?
- Launch a Smart Shopping Campaign in Google Ads.
- Optimize the home page of your website.
- Optimize each product page with a unique product-specific keyword.
- Optimize your product category pages.
Q64. Google's Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines describe that experts should write content, especially YMYL content. This is one of the principles seen in the commonly used acronym__
- A.C.E
- L-E-A-F
- T.R.U.S.T.E.D
- E-A-T
- Using a subdirectory is never preferable to using a subdomain.
- The subdirectory will allow for keyword dilution.
- The subdirectory will benefit from the backlinks the domain has acquired.
- The subdirectory is better for the end user experience.
- Use the tag.
- Use the search engine's Remove URL tool.
- Use a robots.txt file.
- Use structured data
Q67. You are optimizing a site that receives a lot of user-submitted comments, many of which contain a promotional links. According to SEO best practices, how should you treat the comments?
- Be sure links are using keywork-rich anchor tags
- Disallow each link submitted
- Set links in comments to be Nofollow
- Bold important keywords in comments
- Description
- Title
- Cache
- URL
- Dynamic hierarchy
- Doorway content
- Orphaned content
- Flat Hierarchy
- keyword search intent
- crawling
- indexing
- HTTP responses
- up to five
- one
- as many as necessary
- two
- to summarize the content of a webpage
- to bundle meta tags
- to describe images
- to assign schema markup
- Google Search Console
- Google Suggest
- Google Keyword Planner
- Google Tag Manager
- .net
- domain.ai
- www
- 301
- Not Modified
- Moved Permanently
- Payment is required
- Syntax error in the request
Explanation: The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 301 Moved Permanently redirect status response code indicates that the requested resource has been definitively moved to the URL given by the Location headers. A browser redirects to the new URL and search engines update their links to the resource.
-
<h1> -
<h0> -
<strong> -
<em>
Q76. What term is typically used to explain the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between significant updates?
- Flux
- Waves
- Swaying
- Shuffling
- They are paid listings.
- They are also called link farms.
- They are significantly beneficial to search engine optimization.
- They contain various inbound links.
- SEO refers to organic/natural listings while sem covers pay per click, or paid search.
- Search engine optimization focuses on organic/natural search positions, sem encompasses all facets of search marketing.
- No difference, they're synonymous.
- SEO has a tendency to be a west shore term, sem is much more eastern shore.
- Reciprocal link exchange programs.
- Viral content creation & promotion.
- Renting out pages from trustworthy domains and also positioning web links on them.
- Purchasing web links from web link brokers & networks.
- Search Engine Optimum.
- Search Engine Optimization.
- Search Electronic Optimization.
- None of the above.
- Indexing
- Crawling
- Processing
- All of the Above
- It symbolizes dispute, way too many individuals desired the exact same documents at the same time.
- The web page has actually been permanently removed.
- The technique you are making use of to access the file is not allowed.
- The web page has actually temporarily moved.
- What you requested is just also large to process.
- It is a form of XML.
- It stands for Realtime streamlined syndication.
- It is an excellent way of presenting static information.
- It is a microsoft technology.
Q84. Which of the following search engines or directories supplies the major search results for AOL?
- Lycos
- DMOZ
- Yahoo
- True
- False
- Buying an old Website as well as getting it ranked.
- Buying a Google Adwords PPC campaign.
- Placing the website on a sub domain of a ranked site and afterwards 301 re-directing the site after it has actually been indexed.
- Getting a DMOZ listing.
Q87. Google looks down upon paid links for enhancing page ranking. If a web site sells web links, what action/s does Google suggest to avoid being penalized?
- The text of the paid links should state words "paid text link" for Google to recognize it as a paid web link.
- Only Paid text web links to non profit websites should be accepted.
- Paid links need to be divulged via the "rel= nofollow" attribute in the hyperlink.
- Paid links ought to be disclosed through the "index= nofollow" attribute in the hyperlink.
- Google will certainly locate the web pages about "certification" and additionally consisting of the word "python".
- Google will certainly locate ALL the web pages having the word "Certification" and "Python".
- Google will locate ALL the web pages in which the words "Certification" and "Python" appear together.
- Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not consist of the word Python.
- The number of times the keyword is utilized/ (separated by) the total word count on page-- (minus) the complete words in HTML on the page.
- The variety of times the keyword is used x (multiply by) the total word count on web page.
- The number of times the keyword is utilized in the page description.
- The number of times the search phrase is used in the web page title.
- The number of times the keyword is used/ the total word count on the web page.
- They are significantly beneficial to SEO.
- They are additionally called Link Farms.
- They are Paid Listings.
- They contain various incoming links.
- The exposure of the link text.
- The anchor text, particularly the keywords in it.
- The area from which the web link stems.
- The location to which the link leads.
- Make sure the title is unique for every page
- Include an exhaustive list of keywords
- Limit the tag to 65 characters, including spaces
- Write compelling copy that encourages users to “click” your listing
- 40A
- 30A
- 500
- 404
- The Alexa modern technology for ranking web pages.
- The means Yahoo! actions just how popular an offered web page is based on the number as well as quality of websites that connect to it.
- The search significance of a web page contrasted to the other web pages in the online search engine.
- The method Google measures exactly how popular a provided page is based upon the number and also quality of sites that connect to it.
- time between publishing and updating
- time since last sitemap crawl
- time zone designator
- suggested content priority
- RSS
- XLS
- Javascript
- XML
- RSS
- XLS
- Javascript
- XML
Q98. You are searching for a website that was published within last week. When you type in the URL, the site does not appear in Google search results. Why might this be?
- You are searching on desktop and must wait for mobile-first indexing
- The site is not in Google's index
- The website needs backling to be discovered by Googlebot
- The website does not have a high enough domain authority
- When using faceted navigation
- when treating uppercase versus lowercase characters in URLs
- with an on-site search results page
- when managing URL parameters