Google SEO Quiz

It's quiz time!

1) Which is more important to ranking, the Title Element or Header Tags?
2) From where would you rather have a link, a completely non-relevant PR 5 site or a fully relevant PR 1 site?
3) What issue did the Bourbon Update of 2005 address?
(Extra credit: why was it called that?)
4) (More history) What was the original name given by Page and Brin to their search engine?
5) True or False: A long tail key phrase is generally made up of 3 words or more.
6) How did Yahoo get its name?
7) True or false: A website with no indexable text, no keywords in the title, and no interior pages will never rank well for a competitive key phrase
8) What is the best way to get all of the pages of your site indexed?
9) True or false: Adding RELEVANT content to your site will improve your Pagerank.
10) True or False: The more links a website has, the better it will rank.

Winner will receive free chicken wings and beer at the restaurant of my choosing


Edit: I am not always right, but this will always be the thread I started lol, grading is based on my experience, appeals accepted

I should be doing some real work, but I will have a go lol

1) Which is more important to ranking, the Title Element or Header Tags?

Title

2) From where would you rather have a link, a completely non-relevant PR 5 site or a fully relevant PR 1 site?

Depends on a number of factors, such as is the PR1 site going to grow, is thr PR5 just PR or has it got real authority + of course will it mean human traffic

3) What issue did the Bourbon Update of 2005 address?
(Extra credit: why was it called that?)

no idea

4) (More history) What was the original name given by Page and Brin to their search engine?

no idea

5) True or False: A long tail key phrase is generally made up of 3 words or more.

False

6) How did Yahoo get its name?
no idea

7) True or false: A website with no indexable text, no keywords in the title, and no interior pages will never rank well for a competitive key phrase

You can get it to rank for a keyword with links and anchor text

8) What is the best way to get all of the pages of your site indexed?

backlinks

9) True or false: Adding RELEVANT content to your site will improve your Pagerank.

Pagerank is mathematical

10) True or False: The more links a website has, the better it will rank.

Dependent on relevance

ps. I'm vegetarian

Hell, I'll be the (edit) second:

1) Which is more important to ranking, the Title Element or Header Tags?
Title
2) From where would you rather have a link, a completely non-relevant PR 5 site or a fully relevant PR 1 site?
Fully relevant PR1
3) What issue did the Bourbon Update of 2005 address?
(Extra credit: why was it called that?)
Won't lie, before my time and I would have to Google it.
4) (More history) What was the original name given by Page and Brin to their search engine?
In beta format is was Google!
5) True or False: A long tail key phrase is generally made up of 3 words or more.
True
6) How did Yahoo get its name?
Acronym: Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
7) True or false: A website with no indexable text, no keywords in the title, and no interior pages will never rank well for a competitive key phrase
True, and the reason I say this (as my instinct says False) is the correct they made to their algo post the "miserable failure" query. To my knowledge, Google modified the algo so the onpage content should match related link content for this to rank. I have proved this to be true in my most recent client, more details available upon request.
8) What is the best way to get all of the pages of your site indexed?
Great internal linking, menu structure and of course a human and robot sitemap.
9) True or false: Adding RELEVANT content to your site will improve your Pagerank.
False.
10) True or False: The more links a website has, the better it will rank.
False

1) Which is more important to ranking, the Title Element or Header Tags?
Title
2) From where would you rather have a link, a completely non-relevant PR 5 site or a fully relevant PR 1 site?
Relevance > PR in most cases.
3) What issue did the Bourbon Update of 2005 address?
(Extra credit: why was it called that?)
Well, it addressed duplicate content AND link relevance.
4) (More history) What was the original name given by Page and Brin to their search engine?
Backrub?
5) True or False: A long tail key phrase is generally made up of 3 words or more.
True
6) How did Yahoo get its name?
The girlfriend of one of the founders called him a "yahoo" and they liked it.
7) True or false: A website with no indexable text, no keywords in the title, and no interior pages will never rank well for a competitive key phrase
False. Backlinks can still make a site rank well.
8) What is the best way to get all of the pages of your site indexed?
Sitemap
9) True or false: Adding RELEVANT content to your site will improve your Pagerank.
True
10) True or False: The more links a website has, the better it will rank.
Generally true, although there are many caveats to it

Title


Relevance > PR


Bourbon, May 2005
(named after Bourbon Street in New Orleans, site of the 2005 Webmaster world conference) This was (as far as I know) Google’s first attempt to filter out content scrapers. Quickly building a web site with text stolen other people’s sites (which I always considered theft) was now seen as web spam. Google has done a good job of filtering out sites that steal content but it is still a problem today. The Bourbon Update also started looking at web site families (lots of sites all linking to each other aka link wheels. This update also addressed unnatural link building when otherwise static sites suddenly gained hundreds of links.

Credit, Me

Backrub

False, the term long-tail refers to the many less searched key phrases that bring many times more traffic to the site than the major key phrases. "shoes" can be a long-tail.


Yet another hierarchal officious oracle


False.


The more PR you have the more time googlebot will spend on your site indexing pages. Links


False


False, a large quantity of spammy links will be outranked quickly by a few good ones.


Disagree? Flame on

I remembered you saying something similar a while ago, that's why I put false ;).

As this is true, a proper internal linking structure can sculpt your PR to interior pages, thus increasing indexability. So, yeah, Links is a good summary, but with details, there are different ways links can help, externals links vs. internal links. Just my debate on this. And...



I disagree with this as well. It's been per my experience and research that Google Bombs are falling, according to the Wiki entry, only 10% of Google bombs now work. Furthermore, based upon my recent project:

I built links for a keyword that was not on the page, and the owner would not allow any content changes to the site. I spent 3 months building links with the site being out Google, NA, meaning not within top 10 pages.

The website was "USA Products" based, the keyword "south jersey widget". Low-mid competition, but NO where in rankings. After several days of thought, I decided to modify the description tag to SIMPLY ADD "south jersey widget". Not making any changes the owner would be obvious to, and he actually OK'ed this...

I kid you not, the next crawl of the site, the site was on position 2, page 1 from NA.

Now, sure, this could be just timing, but it's my new theory that Google puts some association between link anchor texts and it's accurance on the page, to prevent Google bombs. Now, I'm sure there are exceptions with massive links, but I still disagree with the answer to this question. Just my 2 cents, not to step on toes.

I think a quiz is a good thread starter. I challenge one of the other members here to create a new one for next week. Try and keep the questions so the answer is as black and white as possible... good stuff, thanks for participating!

I want the restof the group in here debating to. I love stuff like this. Great idea for a post.

Jsteele, what do you think about making like a biweekly quiz thread we can lock on the top to get some intelligent debates and ideas going? I love this idea.

KP, you're such a....

1) Which is more important to ranking, the Title Element or Header Tags?
Title
2) From where would you rather have a link, a completely non-relevant PR 5 site or a fully relevant PR 1 site?
PR 5 if it's the PAGE LINK.
I ran a test and non relevant super high PR sitewide links brought alot of keywords up lots of places, just this week
3) What issue did the Bourbon Update of 2005 address?
(Extra credit: why was it called that?)
?
4) (More history) What was the original name given by Page and Brin to their search engine?
?
5) True or False: A long tail key phrase is generally made up of 3 words or more.
True
6) How did Yahoo get its name?
Someone sneezed and it turned out differently, YAA- HOOOOO
7) True or false: A website with no indexable text, no keywords in the title, and no interior pages will never rank well for a competitive key phrase
False
8) What is the best way to get all of the pages of your site indexed?
Proper SEO and Backlinks
9) True or false: Adding RELEVANT content to your site will improve your Pagerank.
True
10) True or False: The more links a website has, the better it will rank.
False

I love stuff like this.

the term long-tail refers to the many less searched key phrases that bring many times more traffic to the site than the major key phrases.