While perusing through my SEM news feed this afternoon I was struck by a link that asked “Are You A Newbie, A Novice, A Master or A Dark Lord of SEO?” “How curious and clever,” I thought to myself. I had to take the bait. When I clicked on the link I was directed to an SEO quiz. I took the quiz and was bummed to find that I scored newbie status—but hey, at least I’m not a novice, and that’s really not bad considering I had no clue what SEO was a year ago.
In any case, the quiz had excellent entertainment value with its share of silly multiple choice questions, like “Why are absolute URLs better than relative URLS for on-page internal linking? D) They’re filled with vodka.” But despite the sillyness, it was pretty informative. After completing the quiz you are taken to page that displays all of the previously answered questions plus which ones were answered incorrectly and why they are incorrect. It’s a great little tool for discerning which areas you are weakest in. You might want to give it a try when you have free time. You can find it at http://www.seomoz.org/seo-expert-quiz. Have fun! I know I did.

