Friday, December 5, 2008

How Well Do You Know Your SEO?

I thought that it would be a useful concept to spend some day reviewing what you"ve learned in the past unusual months through the SEO Elite newsletter. One part to remember in any learning transaction is that unless you apply what you"ve picked up on a daily basis, you"re not going to benefit from your investment. It doesn"t complication how expensive or valuable that advice is; still simple, common sense tips are rendered meaningless by a lack of application. To relieve you recap what you"ve learned so far, I"ve prepared a short quiz (20 questions) on the most valuable SEO topics. I hope that at the end of it, you will be able to worthier evaluate your contemporary SEO efforts, and should be able to pinpoint the areas where you want to improve. The quiz is divided into 3 sections (On-page optimization, link building and regular SEO), and is geared towards the basics - so hopefully you should all be doing nice well in it. The answers are at the end, on the contrary
please don"t peek: Let"s get started. SEO Elite Refresher Quiz #1 On-Page Optimization 1. Your website sells Green Widgets - what is the best Title tag for your main page? a. Get Green Widgets, Acquire Green Widgets, Green Widgets, Green Widget b. We have Cheap Green Widgets with great prices and selection c. Obtain Green Widgets | Discount Widgets d. Habitat | Greenwidgets.com 2. Your site map has more than 100 links to your pages. Do you: a. Create a hierarchy of links, and split up the site map into multiple pages. b. Keep adding latest links, no problem. c. Add a second stage to your site map and add modern links to that. d. Stop adding links to your site map completely. 3. How many words should you consider writing in a chapter of pure content (such as an article, a blog advise or a product review)? a. 100-200 b. 500-800 c. 200-400 d. 800+ 4. What is the optimum keyword density you should aim for? a. 2%-5%. b. Keep the content normal, however stuff the episode
with hidden contents in alt tags, meta tags and "white-on-white" paragraph to maximize keyword density. c. As much as possible, while keeping the content human-readable. d. Forget keyword density - search engines pay very petty attention to it any more. Just focus on writing content that human beings will thirst for to link to. 5. What should you deposit inside meta tags? a. Assign your entire keyword list in the meta keywords tag, and settle your most leading keywords in the meta description tag. b. Ignore the meta tags - search engines don"t application them. c. Put in writing a short description of your website in the meta description tag, and lay your most essential keywords in the meta keywords tag. d. Levy your most influential keywords in the meta keywords tag and don"t employ a meta description tag. 6. How should you operate images on your site? a. Apply the alt tag to accurately describe the each image, and contain descriptive content environing each image.
b. Situate your most relevant keyword in an alt tags followed by the signal "graphic". c. Just manipulate them wherever it is necessary from an aesthetic perspective, without regard for alt tags since they aren"t really that important. d. Practice alt tags to "hide" your unabridged keyword list so you can increase your page"s keyword density. Full text: http://computerandtechnologies.com/computers-and-technology/news_2008-12-05-14-30-04-989.html

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