Search Engine Optimization quiz

More questions about Search Engine Optimization

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1. 1 Easy

   What type of "hat" SEO follows all search engine guidelines?

   Answer: White hat

   Why: The colour code comes from Western films, where heroes wore pale hats and villains dark ones; computer security borrowed the same labels.

2. 2 Medium

   Which factor is often considered the strongest for ranking?

   Answer: Backlinks

   Why: Google's PageRank counted every link as a vote, with votes from important pages weighing more; the company grew out of that idea.

3. 3 Hard

   Why did the Venice update change local search results?

   Answer: Geographic intent detection

   Why: It let results differ by city without the searcher typing a place name at all, which is why local businesses suddenly appeared for generic queries.

4. 4 Easy

   Which file is the most critical for instructing robots where to crawl?

   Answer: robots.txt

   Why: It only requests, it does not enforce, and a page blocked in it can still be indexed if other sites link to it.

5. 5 Medium

   What 2011 Google update targeted sites with low-quality content?

   Answer: Panda

   Why: Google took the label from its engineer Navneet Panda, and said the February 2011 launch noticeably affected 11.8% of US queries.

6. 6 Hard

   Why did the 2003 Florida update devastate many websites?

   Answer: Aggressive keyword stuffing

   Why: It hit on 16 November 2003, under two weeks before Black Friday, and many small retailers and affiliates lost their rankings overnight.