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According to this course, which of the following is the first true “search engine”?

 

• ALIWEB
• ARCHIE
• ARPANET
• WWW Wanderer
• SMART

 

 

The person widely referred to as the creator of the World Wide Web is:

 

• Alan Emtage
• Vannevar Bush
• Gerard Salton
• Ted Nelson
• Tim Berners-Lee

 

 

True or False: Search engines have evolved to the point where the relevance and density of keywords are no longer a ranking factor for websites.

 

• True

 

• False

 

 

What is the primary method by which robots (crawlers, spiders) discover new web pages?

 

• Google and other search engines manually add new sites to an index on a regular basis
• User queries activate robots and cause them to begin searching the web
• Robots follow the path created by websites linking to each other
• Webmasters submit their sites to be indexed

 

 

Suppose you have 1-3 years SEO-related experience, you’ve built your own website and know the basics of HTML, and you have one year of experience working in a company; for which position would you be best qualified?

 

• In-house Junior SEO Analyst
• In-house Senior SEO Analyst
• Agency Junior SEO Analyst

 

 

What is something SEO professional Dave Lloyd suggests you do to help learn how to improve a website’s ranking in a search engine?

 

• Place a unique sentence somewhere on your website and then search for it
• Link your site to your Facebook profile
• Randomly try out various key words on your site to see what helps its rank
• Ask friends to visit the site to boost its ranking