SEO MCQ Questions Answers

1. Different search engines often differ in the _____.

2. A search engine attempts to catalog every webpage by topic through the use of a ____.

3. What is the best way to provide a search engine with crawl instructions?

4. 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__

5. What is a common benefit to long-tail keywords?

6. Blog author pages, each with only one sentence about the author, are at risk of being flagged as **

7. 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?

8. What tool enables companies to display extra information within the natural search results without the need of any structured data?

9. The search query "How to make donuts without yeast" is an example of what?

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

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

12. What would contribute to a low bounce rate?

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

14. According to Google, what type of content includes topics such as news, legal issues, financial advice, and medical information?

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

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

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

18. A webpage has this tag: Brad's Bagels: How to Bake a Bagel. However, the Google search result for this page displays this title: _Brad's Bagels: Baking Bagels in the Oven_. What is a likely explanation?

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

20. What is a common best practice for handling search result pages on a blog's built-in site search?

21. What is a popular technique for writing content with the goal of having it appear in a features snippet?

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

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

24. 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?

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

26. Which acronym is used to describe the page a user sees after submitting a search?

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

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

29. 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?

30. Which page title references content that is evergreen

31. _ 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

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

33. 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?

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

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

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

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

38. You are researching keywords for a client and creating list for an optimization plan. Which is not a recommended method of creating keyword lists?

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

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

41. Which statement is true about JSON-LD?

42. Why is it important to be mindful of outbound follow links?

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

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

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

46. 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?

47. Which link is not crawlable?

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

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

50. 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?

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

52. 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?

53. 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?

54. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

61. When developing a backlink strategy, what approach would be most beneficial?

62. The most popular commercial search engines, google and bing, are based on ________ technology.

63. A(n) _____ is a search performed on google or any other search engine.

64. The ____ is the most commonly used internet search type.

65. Which HTTP server response code indicates a page that no longer exists? (Page Not Found)

66. Which URL structure is considered to be the best?

67. What is the best link building strategy?

68. Creating a ___________ page instead of home page is considered unethical because these pages are aimed at misleading search engines.

69. Which tools help webmasters to have better control of how Google interacts with their website and get useful information from Google about their site?

70. What will be the effect of the entry in your website's robots.txt file? User-agent: googlebot Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: /

71. What is keyword density and what is the formula for it?

72. _________________ is the practice to sell a blog when it becomes famous and popular as well as driving a healthy amount of traffic.

73. What is the difference between exit rate and bounce rate? 

74. Which will not prevent content from appearing in search results?

75. What do you call the filename that tells search engines whether they can access and therefore crawl parts of your site?

76. If over the time your website URL structure changes, which method will you use to not lose your website visitors?

77. What is the best practice to use when you are using images as links?

78. What should be the ideal value of a Title tag of an HTML document?

79. Which of the following can you do with Google Analytics?

80. Which is/are not Google’s Webmaster tool services?

81. Which is false about X-Robots-Tag?

82. Which is not the best practice in putting a HTML sitemap and XML sitemap on your site?

83. What is sitemap.xml file?

84. How many disavow files are allowed for a website at a time?

85. Which is part of Google's Webmaster tools?

86. What is PPC?

87. Google analytics is a tool used for

88. Which is not a White hat SEO technique?

89. Which is the best practice for using a heading tag?

90. What will be the effect of the meta tag (rel='index, nofollow') on a webpage?

91. Which is the least important area in which to include your keyword(s)?

92. _____ refers to the practice of presenting different content or URLs to human users and search engines.

93. What is the best practice if you just created a mobile version of your website?

94. Till October, 2016, which was the latest Google algorithm update?

95. How would you make a text link useful to your visitors?

96. Which is the best SEO method if you want to stop search engine from indexing a web page?

97. It is better to show a 404 error page over sitemap page every time a user can’t find a page on your site.

98. Having a custom 404 page is useful but which should you avoid?

99. What is better to show than a 404 error page over sitemap page every time a user can’t find a page on your site?

100. What is disavow tool?