SEO MCQ Multiple Choice Questions Answers - Page 2 | Quiz for Practice

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

Correct Answer is: meta robots = no index, follow

Q: 17. The canonical tag is used to inform search engines

Correct Answer is: which URL to count as authoritative when dealing with several URLs leading to the same page

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

Correct Answer is: Content farms/Link farms

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

Correct Answer is: the head area

Q: 21. The Nofollow attribute:

Correct Answer is: does not pass on link juice but counts as a vote of approval

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

Correct Answer is: because you could be penalized by Google for duplicate content

Q: 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:

Correct Answer is: keyword density

Q: 24. What does anchor text mean?

Correct Answer is: the visible text which is hyperlinked to another page

Q: 25. What does broken link building tactic include?

Correct Answer is: Finding broken links on web sites and notifying the webmasters

Q: 26. What does search engine saturation mean?

Correct Answer is: the amount of pages of a website indexed by a search engine

SEO MCQ Questions for Practice

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

meta robots = index, no follow
None of the abve
meta robots = no index, no follow
meta robots = no index, follow

17. The canonical tag is used to inform search engines

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

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

Content farms/Link farms
None of the abve
Social media pages
Blogs about SEO techniques

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

10%
None of the abve
70%
50%

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

the footer r bottom of the page
None of the abve
the head area
the main body

21. The Nofollow attribute:

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

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

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

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:

keyword research
None of the abve
keyword stuffing
keyword density

24. What does anchor text mean?

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

25. What does broken link building tactic include?

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

26. What does search engine saturation mean?

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

27. What does SEM stand for?

Search Engine Marketing
None of the abve
Self Employed Marketers
Standard Elimination

28. What does SERP stand for?

Standard Enlisting Rank Protocol
None of the abve
Search Entry Rating Procedure
Search Engine Result Page

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

it instructs a spider not to follow a certain page
None of the abve
it tells not to index a certain page
it instructs a spider not a save a cache copy

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

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