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A loud amphibian
Screaming Frog
100
What is the prominent URL to indicate the end-state URL
rel="canonical"
100
Can cause SEO issues, but great for cleaning toilets
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript)
100
What is the "I'm a little teapot" error code?
418
100
Name three of Google's Representatives
John Mueller, Gary Illyes, Danny Sullivan, (past: Matt Cutts)
200
Name three crawler tools that support SEOs (not search engine bots)
Screaming Frog, Botify, OnCrawl, DeepCrawl
200

What is the best way to keep a URL from appearing in search results?

Use the META robots NOINDEX tag

200
What is the Apache server configuration file called?
.htaccess
200
Yahoo's! crawler
Slurp
200
Who is the author of Search Engine Round Table?
Barry Schwartz
300
Name four page speed tools

Google's Page Speed Insights, WebPageTest.org, GTMetrix, Pingdom, DevTool's (Network panel, LightHouse, coverage report), checkgzipcompression.com, (specific reports in Google analytics)

300
What is the best server code to return on a splash page during site maintenance?
503
300
What does HSTS stand for?

HTTP Strict Transport Security

300
Define "wake word"

Activates your voice-based digital assistants (Example: Alexa , Echo, Amazon, Ok Google)

300
Who created oap.ninja?
Dean Cruddace
400
Name three tools to get SEO linking information
Moz's (Open Site Explorer), aHrefs, MajesticSEO, (Screaming Frog's Inlinks and Outlinks Bulk reports)
400
What are the max limits of sitemaps? (URLs, bytes)

Sitemap: 50,000 URLs, 50MB uncompressed (52,428,800 bytes)

Index Sitemap: not list more than 50,000 Sitemaps

400

Where should the X-Robots-Tag be located 

In the HTTP header

400
Name the three required tags for an XML sitemap
<urlset>, <url>, and <loc>
400
Who is the founder of Sparktoro?
Rand Fishkin
500
What reports in Screaming Frog allow one to see redirect and loops?
Redirect Chains
500
Name three Google-owned blogs that relate to search engine marketing

Google Webmaster Central Blog

The Keyword

Google Research Blog

Google Analytics Solutions

500
What ISO formats (#s) should be used for hreflang's language and region?

Language (in ISO 639-1 format)

Region (in ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 format) [optional]

500
What is the JavaScript file that enables Progressive Web Apps (PWA) to implement the stale-while-revalidate model?
Service Workers
500
Who created Screaming Frog?
Dan Sharp