You are running a brand new website, and are now analyzing your competitor’s website to build your initial keyword list. Choose two optimal scenarios. Explore the Organic Research Positions tab to find relevant keywords your competitor is ranking for in …
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Which position change will potentially lead to a higher traffic boost? from 11 to 10 from 51 to 30 from 91 to 40
Where to find a list of your website’s new pages? Crawled pages + filter “New pages = yes” Issues Progress, then choose “Crawled Pages”
What issues are the most critical to fix first? Alt attributes Broken Links and 404s Missing meta descriptions
What is the purpose of an optimized title tag? To help Google understand the topic of your document A space to stuff keywords you want to rank for It doesn’t have any direct SEO impact
Which check is NOT related to a security issue? Mixed content Subdomains don’t support secure encryption algorithms Using a <input type=“password” /> field A page responds with a 5хх code
If a page is “Orphaned” what does it mean? It’s a brand new page that hasn’t been crawled yet It’s on the site but not in the sitemap The page exists but it is not linked to from anywhere on …
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What is the rough rule of thumb for the ratio of internal links to your core pages? 80% of links point to 20% of pages All pages get equal links 100% of links point to my main commercial converting pages
Site Audit flags your web pages as duplicate content due to their URL parameters, which appear when one applies a filter. What should you do in this case? Check if these parameters are present in the Google Search Console Hide …
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What is the purpose of an optimized meta description? To rank for a specific keyword To create an enticing CTA to enhance CTR A space to put information that only Googlebot will see
What is a canonical tag? A hard rule that Google must follow, no matter what A directive that tells Google the preferred version of the page A tag that tells Google the main keyword you want to rank for
Why would you want to slow down your crawl when setting up a site audit? To stop the crawler being blocked and keep your developers happy To save money on SEMrush credits The slower the crawler, the more information it …
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Where should your sitemap be referenced? In the page footer On any URL In the robots.txt file
What should you fix first while working on technical SEO? All the issues Critical issues Critical and urgent issues only
What pages should be present in the sitemaps? Ones that are to be indexed by Google bots Ones that are canonical to other pages 404 pages
How do you quickly check if all the issues related to redirect loops and 404 errors are fixed? Check every link manually Launch a re-crawl and check out the appropriate issues