http://www.webpronews.com Submitted by David A. Utter on Wed, 08/08/2007
If you knew about the big four search engines, the concept of the 'long tail', and Alexa's fatal flaw, you got through the easy questions without a problem.
Rand provided a follow-up as promised to his original SEO quiz. He answered the original questions, like listing the three most important elements in the <head> section of a typical HTML document (and listing one that really isn't that important):
Title, Meta Description and Meta Robots are the big 3. Although Meta Robots isn't essential to have, it's certainly able to control spider and search activity. Meta keywords is another common answer, but it would rank as a distant 4th, as our experiments show that none of the major engines will rank a page for a keyword that is listed only in the meta keywords tag.
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