Comments on: Rand's New SEO Quiz…

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:58:02 +0000

Nice going, Leonid! I only scored 86% so maybe I need some lessons from you.

By: Leonid

Leonid — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:01:43 +0000

Thank you Dan for pointing this one out.

I've scored 98% ("Dark Lord" of SEO ) and generally enjoyed the Quiz.

I can recall reading some information directly related to some questions from the Quiz in the SEO Fast Start. That helped

I've added my "Dark Lord" of SEO badge and some more comments to my blog.

By: Liam Delahunty

Liam Delahunty — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:59:55 +0000

Thanks for bringing that to my attention Dan. Somehow manged to score 95% "Dark Lord"!

I was wrong with #30, 68,69, 70. I think I was flagging towards the end.

As for social stuff, I would say that qualifies easily under SEM, as you say from the links it earns.

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:08:16 +0000

Right, Shaun. I've given Rand some feedback on the writing. Putting together a 75-question quiz is a lot of work.

The social media question is interesting, because social marketing can actually be extremely effective in creating awareness and traffic, which leads to links… but that's more of a blogger question than an SEO question.

Whether the SEO specialist needs to own the entire marketing effort (offline, social, etc.) is more of an organizational question.

I think there are probably enough good questions just on SEO to make an SEO quiz that long.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:01:03 +0000

I'm not sure if it's the point, but a lot of these questions are hard to understand and full of double negatives…

Also how is this:
#73 Which of the following social media websites is the least popular (as measured by active users & visitors)?

a SEO question?

By: Jonathan Hochman

Jonathan Hochman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:18:57 +0000

I got 87%, so now I feel better.

By: Radzster

Radzster — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:05:27 +0000

Hmm… Only 72%. A bit disappointed, I must admit.
But some "cultural" differences were not taken into account… Like Q12: What is the generally accepted difference between SEO and SEM? Dude, my answer was definitely correct in Australia
And I do have my doubts about certain other things… But well, SEO Professional sure fits my current position.

Great fun though.
Thanks guys!

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:00:53 +0000

So what are you going to do with all that "SEO Expert" link rep, Rand?

By: randfish

randfish — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:48:35 +0000

Nice one, Dan – we should have coded that more carefully I guess

We'll work on addressing and clearing up those questions, too.