Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Q2. What is a key reason the URL domain.com/apparel/jackets is preferable to the URL domain.com/p=141?

Q3. Which HTTP response status code would indicate a page has been moved permanently?

Q4. You notice a website is serving HTML to a Search Engine than to a human user. What is this an example of?

Q5. What would significantly improve Google's ability to a non-YouTube video in its Search Results?

Q6. Google primarily determines indexing and ranking by crawling which version of a page?

Q7. You want to identify which US state has the most search interest for a particular keyword. What tool would help you determine this?

Q8. You want to block crawlers from accessing your entire website. What robots.txt entry would you use?

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    User-agent: Allbots
    Disallow: \*
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    User-agent: /
    Disallow: \*
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    User-agent: /
    Disallow:
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    User-agent: \*
    Disallow: /

Q9. Which results 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?

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?

Q11. All bylone 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?

Q12. Which approach is not advisable to Geo-targeting your website?

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?

Q14. What Does The Term "Sandbox" Mean In SEO?

Q15. What Is Anchor Text?

Q16. Which Google search query should be used to return only PDF documents that reference Microsoft?

Q18. Which choice represents the best header structure?

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    H1: How to Bak Bagels
    H2: Ingredients
    H3: Dry Ingredients
    H4: Wet Ingredients
    H2: Instructions
    H6: Reviews
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    H1: How to Bak Bagels
    H1: Ingredients
    H1: Dry Ingredients
    H1: Wet Ingredients
    H1: Instructions
    H2: Reviews
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    H1: How to Bak Bagels
    H2: Ingredients
    H3: Dry Ingredients
    H3: Wet Ingredients
    H2: Instructions
    H2: Reviews
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    H1: How to Bak Bagels
    H2: Ingredients
    H4: Dry Ingredients
    H5: Wet Ingredients
    H6: Instructions
    H1: Reviews

Q19. 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?

Q20. What is an example of a Google search result that can be found in position zero?

Q21. When creating accessible video content, what should you consider including?

Q22. You are optimizing a website that sells supplies for banking donuts. Which approach is most appropriate to drive more organic traffic?

Q24. Which statement is true about JSON-LD?

Q25. What is a key reason why duplicate content might cause an issue with ranking?

Q26. What attribute would you use to describe the content of an image?

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?

Q28. You want to get a rough idea of how many searches per month a particular search term gets. Which tool do you use?

Q29. Changing the title tag and/or meta description will have a measurable impact on your _.

Q30. How do keywords change as people progress through the buying cycle?

Q31. Which technique is an example of black hat SEO?

Q33. What is the anchor text in this code sample?

<a href="catalog/gloves.html">Blue Gloves</a>

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

Q35. Which page title references content that is evergreen

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?

Q37. What is this code is an example of?

{
   "@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>

Q38. Which search query would be most difficult to determine search intent?

Q39. When you conduct a search, what are the bolded words within the search listing description?

Q41. Which statement is true regarding the use of social signals, such as LinkedIn shares, by Google in its ranking algorithm?

Q43. You are planning for the development of an e-commerce website. Which approach will be more beneficial for rankings?

Q44. You want to block crwlers from accessing your entire website. What robots.txt entry would you use?

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    User-agent: Allbots
    Disallow: *
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    User-agent: /
    Disallow: *
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    User-agent: *
    Disallow:
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    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

Q45. What is the relationship of click depth to PageRank?

Q47. Which approach is not advisable to geotargeting your website?

Q49. What might help a search engine understand the difference between an article on a dog bark versus tree bark?

Q50 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?

Q51. What alt attribute should be assigned to an image of a decorative line being used to separate content

Q52. Your site serves identical content when you visit domain.com/page or domain.com/page?ref=123. What should you implement?

Q53. What data vocabulary is most commonly used when marking up content on a page?

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.

Q55. When would it be necessary to 301 redirect every page on a site?

Explanation: From article: Types of redirects

Q56. What would contribute to a low bounce rate?

Q57. What should be as consistent as possible across the web when developing a local SEO strategy?

Q58.A user enters a search _ to retrieve results from a search engine?

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