Full SEO knowledge check
Twenty questions across every module. Click the answer reveal only after you’ve committed to a choice.
1. What is the first step in Google’s pipeline?
- a. Indexing
- b. Crawling
- c. Ranking
- d. AI synthesis
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b. Crawling.2. The strongest indicator of intent for a query?
- a. KD
- b. Volume
- c. The actual SERP top 10
- d. AnswerThePublic
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c. Search intent.3. Title tag length to target?
- a. ~30 chars
- b. ~60 chars / 580 px
- c. 90 chars
- d. Unlimited
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b. Title tags.4. Most under-used on-page lever?
- a. Schema
- b. Internal linking
- c. Headers
- d. Meta description
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b. Internal linking.5. INP good threshold?
- a. < 100ms
- b. < 200ms
- c. < 500ms
- d. < 1s
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b. Core Web Vitals.6. What does
Disallow: in robots.txt do?
- a. Removes from index
- b. Blocks crawling
- c. Sets canonical
- d. Sets meta
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b. Sitemaps & robots.7. Most reliable signal of a toxic backlink?
- a. Foreign language
- b. Low DR
- c. Same anchor across hundreds of unrelated sites
- d. New domain
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c. Backlink audit.8. A zero-traffic page with strong backlinks should be…
- a. Deleted
- b. 301’d
- c. Left alone
- d. Noindexed
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b. Content pruning.9. First “E” in E-E-A-T?
- a. Engagement
- b. Experience
- c. Expertise
- d. Editorial
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b. E-E-A-T.10. Tool with first-party Google data?
- a. Ahrefs
- b. GSC
- c. Semrush
- d. Surfer
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b. GSC.11. Five core weekly metrics for SEO?
- a. Clicks, indexed pages, ranked KWs, conversions, CWV
- b. DA, DR, AS, TF, CF
- c. Bounce, time on page, sessions, users, exits
- d. Impressions only
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a. Key metrics.12. Long-tail keywords usually beat head terms because…
- a. They have more volume
- b. Higher intent, lower KD, less SERP feature loss
- c. Google rewards length
- d. They have higher DA
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b. Long-tail.13. Two pages targeting the same query is…
- a. Helpful
- b. Cannibalisation
- c. Required
- d. Pruning
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b. Keyword map.14. When does an AI Overview typically appear?
- a. Brand queries
- b. Transactional
- c. Informational/beginner/multi-step
- d. Navigational
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c. AI Overview study.15. Best comparison period for ecom traffic?
- a. WoW
- b. MoM
- c. YoY
- d. Hourly
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c. Organic traffic.16. The cluster hub should link to…
- a. Top spokes only
- b. Every spoke
- c. Home only
- d. External authority only
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b. Content clusters.17. Click depth ceiling for important pages?
- a. 1
- b. 3
- c. 6
- d. 10
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b. Site architecture.18. Canonical chain A → B → C should be fixed by…
- a. Leaving it
- b. Pointing A directly to C
- c. Adding meta refresh
- d. Removing A
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b. Canonicalisation.19. FAQ schema on a page with no FAQ section?
- a. Boosts CTR
- b. Manual action risk
- c. No effect
- d. Better rankings
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b. Schema markup.20. Bounce rate as an SEO ranking signal?
- a. Critical
- b. Important
- c. Minor
- d. Not used