Tools & Platforms
Famous SEOs
Technical SEO
Algorithm Updates
Black Hats
100

This feature in SEMrush allows you to perform keyword research.

Keyword Magic

100

What backlink tool was founded by Dmitry Gerasimenko

Ahrefs

100

HTML meta element that specifies the language and optional geographic restrictions for a document

HREFLANG

100

Starting in early 2018, this set of algorithm updates is focused on benefiting under-rewarded pages.

August 2018 Broad Core Algorithm Update

100

This black hat technique involves hidden text or links

Cloaking

200

This BrightEdge feature allows you to review historical data for a domain.

Datacube

200

Who is the founder of Moz

Rand Fishkin

200

HTTP status code for "Moved Temporarily"

302

200

The part of the algorithm uses machine learning to help better understand search queries.

RankBrain

200

The practice of overusing the same keywords throughout one page

Keyword Stuffing

300

This tool allows you to overwrite the robots.txt file in a crawl without having to verify ownership of the website.

Screaming Frog

300

He is the founder of Search Engine Land, and now acts as Google's "public search liaison"

Danny Sullivan

300

The file that tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site.

Robots.txt

300

This update in 2011 is an effort by Google to combat content farming by assigning pages a quality classification.

Panda Update

300

eBay famous for this penalty of creating multiple thin pages that led to the same internal search results 

Doorway Pages

400

This feature on multiple platforms allows you to analyze all event traffic on a server.

Log File Analyzer

400

Former head of search quality at Google, who resigned from the company in 2016

Matt Cutts

400

Not really technical SEO but was too interesting not to include.

According to Moz, besides Google, what other site has a domain authority score of 100?

Apple

400

Known as Google's largest update, this algorithm adjustment was a total rewrite specifically aimed to make the algorithm more precise and fast.

Hummingbird Update

400

Exchanging goods or services for links or buying links are defined by Google as a common _ _

Link Schemes 

Paid Links

500

This feature in SEMrush allows you to get notified if your name or website is mentioned on the web.

Brand Monitoring

500

She presented at MozCon 2021 – Internationalization Errors: How to Go Global Without Losing All Of Your Traffic

Jackie Chu

500

What is the highest weighted value for lighthouse scoring?

Total Blocking Time 

500

Released in 2012, this algorithm update was focused on combatting webspam in the form of shady linkbuilding practices.

Penguin Update

500

Search engines shown one type of content while users are redirected to something significantly different is an example of a _

Sneaky Redirect