Free SEO Quiz by  Softlogic.Inc

I am forever searching for new ways in which I can make my articles more informative and fun to learn from. Till date, I always picked up a topic and wrote about them; however, I came across a blog, who incorporated a small quiz In order to provide information to their visitors. Now, I had never come across a SEO Quiz and got really fascinated by this article by Mr. Rajeev Samuel.

The Quiz has been divided into 3 sections:

• A mix of all topics
• Link Building Quiz
• General SEO Quiz

Each section has 7 MCQ’s with answers provided at the end of it. Let us go through a question from each section.

How many words should you consider writing in a page of pure content (such as an article, a blog post or a product review)?

a. 100-200
b. 500-800
c. 200-400
d. 800+

Ans: b)
While there is no set length of pages that works best in search engines (ecommerce stores have little content and still rank high, while many pages ranking high have 1000+ words as a minimum), but if you are going towards publishing quality content (either through blogs or articles), then the 500 to 800 word count is a good range for the following reasons:

• Gives you enough room to discuss one focused topic in detail.
• Forces you to keep it interesting and relevant.
• More content = better contextual advertising – this limit gives you targeted ads for your article quite easily (whereas a small word count may result in generic, site-specific ads).
• Since you cannot cover more than one main idea in such a short range, you must create separate content pages for different ideas – giving you more opportunities to create fresh content (remember to always “drill down” in your content writing and differentiate multiple aspects of the same topic).

How many links should you get for your site in the first 6 months (on average)?

a. 50-70 links a month.
b. 100+ links a month.
c. As many quality links as you can.
d. 25-40 a month.

Ans: d)
While the Google Sandbox is not a myth (nor is it as strictly defined as some people might say it is), there are no penalties for building too many links. In fact, the ‘pace’ at which you build your links only becomes suspicious if it is unnatural – for example, if you suddenly get 100+ links to your website in 2 weeks that are from a link network (assuming this link network can be detected by the search engine) and you have made little or no addition to your site content, this would constitute as suspicious, unnatural link building.
On the other hand, if you’re continually adding content and getting deep links (through article submissions as well as through your link building efforts), you may get 300+ links in a week (like seomoz did for its ranking factors list) and the search engine will recognize these as natural – and something viral like this can even propel your site out of the Sandbox.

What is the best way for websites with very little content (like ecommerce stores) rank highly for competitive product terms?

a. They have a lot of natural links (one-way, contextual) with optimal anchor text from a wide variety of websites.
b. Their pages are stuffed with keywords and “white text”.
c. They use content-generating software to spam the search engines and attain false rankings.
d. They pay a lot of money to get high PR links.

Ans: a)
This comes under the whole content vs. links debate: which is more important? Search engines value both, thus the only way to rank well if you have less of one of them is to have more of the other.
In the context of ecommerce stores, they face stiff competition from other stores that buy high PR links to artificially inflate their rankings. The best way to beat them is to go for contextual, one-way links from trusted websites – this is harder and takes more time, but the benefits include first page rankings on SERPs.

You can find rest of the questions at:  SEO Quiz at Softlogic.Inc
I hope you find this quiz as Informative as I did. Feedback would be appreciated. Plus, if you can think of any more categories for a SEO Quiz, do add that in your comments. Till then, Keep Learning & Implementing !!