SEO Guidelines Quiz

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All questions are based on the official Google SEO Guidelines.

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Quiz Part 1: SEO fundamentals

What should be the top goal of any website, according to Google?

• Pleasing the Google Gods.
• Providing a good user experience.
• Loading as fast as possible on any device.

Although Google can index different file types, text content is still the safest way to make sure that Google understands your page.

• True
• False

Quiz Part 2: Google’s Guidelines

How can you help Google understand the content of your pages?

• Include as many keywords as possible in your page content.
• Ensure that important elements, such as title tags or alt attributes, are descriptive and accurate.
• Indicate a target keyword for each page in Google Search Console.

Which of these issues can lead to multiple duplicate URLs pointing to identical or very similar content on a website?

• Filters that allow users to narrow down a set of items and dynamically add up in the URL
• A high number of keywords in the URL slug
• URL parameters such as session IDs

How can you prevent duplicate content issues if you have many pages with similar content?

• Just add a unique meta description to each page.
• There’s no need to prevent duplicate content.
• Consolidate the pages into one, if possible.

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How does Google determine the relative importance of individual pages, compared to all other pages on a website?

• By analyzing the internal links between pages on the site.
• By counting the number of users visiting each page.
• By analyzing the number of external links on each page.

How can you get other sites to link to your website (in a way that complies with Google’s guidelines)?

• By creating unique and relevant content that naturally attracts links.
• By offering them a guest post that includes dofollow links to your site.
• By telling them that you read through their blog and really enjoyed the high-quality content.

The file name and the alt text of an image help Google understand the image content. Which of these examples would be good for SEO?

<img scr="polar-bear.jpg" alt="white polar bear waving at camera" />

<img scr="john-mueller-G234Dk34-unsplash.jpg" alt="polar bear waving at camera" />

<img scr="polar-bear.jpg" alt="white polar bear waving at camera polar bear white bear waving bear cute ice bear north pole snow winter white fur super fluffy on ice" />

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Quiz Part 3: Control Crawling And Indexing

What are means to control how Google crawls your website?

• Sitemaps
• Robots.txt
• Structured data

What happens to files that are disallowed in a robots.txt file?

• Google will exclude the files from crawling but their URLs can still appear in search results.

When Googlebot crawls a page and detects a noindex meta tag this will lead to Google dropping the page from search results.

• True
• False
• It depends 😉

How can you request that Google recrawls your URLs after you made changes to the content?

• Use the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console.

What should you do if you have a single page that’s accessible by multiple duplicate URLs?

• Specify a canonical URL using a rel=canonical link tag or a rel=canonical HTTP header.

What are SEO best practices for multilingual websites?

• Use different URLs for each language version of a page.
• Let Google know about your different language versions using hreflang annotations.

Quiz Part 4: Change Your Search Appearance

How can you increase the chances of Google using your title tag as the title of your search result snippet?

• By writing a descriptive and concise title.

How do you create quality meta descriptions?

• By writing a unique description for each page of your website that accurately describes the page content.

Which structured data format does Google recommend in order to be eligible for rich results?

• JSON-LD

Quiz Part 5: Optimize your page experience

Which of these signals is NOT part of Google's Page Experience ranking factor in 2023?

• Bounce rate

How can you make sure that Googlebot can access and render your mobile page content?

• Don't lazy-load important content depending on user interaction.
• Don’t use different meta robots tags on the mobile and desktop site versions.

What is a critical element for making a page mobile-friendly using responsive web design?

• The meta name="viewport" tag

You passed this SEO Quiz with a score! 🤩

Your scores per category:

• SEO fundamentals:
• Google's Guidelines:
• Crawling and indexing:
• Search appearance:
• Optimize your page experience:

How does this quiz differ from other SEO quizzes?

Although there are many SEO quizzes out there, we found that their questions are often random and not relevant to the everyday work of an SEO.

How is the quiz structured?

The quiz consists of 5 parts, covering the 5 main chapters of Google’s SEO documentation:

• SEO fundamentals: General questions about SEO and the way Google Search works
• Guidelines: Google’s official SEO guidelines, including the Webmaster guidelines, general guidelines, content-specific guidelines, and quality guidelines
• Crawling and indexing: Ways to control how Google crawls and indexes your website
• Search appearance: How to improve the way your website appears in search results
• Optimize your page experience: How to improve your visitors’ experience by optimizing the core web vitals, mobile friendliness, and security of your website.