Rand’s back to work with his popular link baiting techniques. I like to consider myself an “idea guy”, but man I think this dude takes the cake on great ideas. He held the Web 2.0 Awards where he acquired tons of links because people put images on their site that linked back to him. Great idea!
Now he has a new link bait tool over at SEOmoz called the “SEO Expert Quiz” where you answer 75 questions revolving around the SEO world. Then you get to paste an image showing your score. I honestly think it would be hilarious if someone posted anything below a 70%. Especially if it’s a SEO site.
The quiz I thought was pretty simple. I guess if you’ve been in the business for a while you’re just familiar, but there were some tricky questions in there. There are also some that I considered more speculative rather than concrete answers, but knowing who Rand is, hearing him speak and reading his posts from time to time, I knew his answer if I was unsure. I guessed on a few, but guess it was my lucky day.
It will take a while.. I mean it’s SEVENTY FIVE QUESTIONS, but I think it’s good to see where you are with your knowledge and it even gives you the answers at the end and explains why they’re what they are.
What did I score? Probably better than any score I ever made in college. So here is my badge with the whole post and link back to you Rand.
Looks like the other badges would go like this, although not sure on the percentage breakdowns:
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I could only take about 12 questions before I had to bail out… Mostly due to boredom, but also because some questions are not as clearcut as many may think. For example, I know what they meant by the “submission to 2,000 search engines”, but we are in fact submitting one client’s site to a list of over 2,000 search engines and directories. One week into the process, and the site has moved from the second page in Yahoo to the first page. While I cannot confirm that is the reason, it’s the only work being done to promote the site in some months.
Good link bait? For sure, but anything beyond that, I’m not sure… I will say your perfect score is impressive!!!
Yeah, that was my point. A lot of answers could go a number of ways.
And my perfect score isn’t really impressive, more lucky. Most of the questions were pretty easy…but I guessed at how Rand would answer a lot of them and not really what I thought were right.
Hey, he got a link out of me.
I’m probably not so good at SEO but I know enough to realize that the time spent answering 75 questions would be better spent blogging.
I managed to plough through the whole lot of questions, though in fairness multiple choice is about the easiest form of test to take.
I daren`t post what my score was, but suffice to say I need to work a lot harder to build up my knowledge of SEO, though I must admit to being pleasantly surprised with some of my knowledge which I didn`t realize I had until the test.
I was 91% accurate but I certainly wagered my fair share of guesses…
Wow, can you imagine having to give written responses to each question!! ugh. 75 multiple choice questions was a beating in itself.
75 questions…blimey. Being questioned on SEO does make you consider all of the areas…and makes sure your not neglecting any.
It sure is such a long head splitting quiz. I will not post anymore what my score is but one thing is for sure, I learned couple of new worthwhile tricks. Thanks for the link.
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