An exercise covering the vocabulary of SEO and digital search. The expressions here are used by digital marketers, SEO specialists, and content professionals across the English-speaking digital industry.
📚 Key vocabulary keyword density — the percentage of times a target keyword appears in a piece of content relative to total word count backlink — a link from one website to another, used as a signal of authority and credibility by search engines crawlability — the ease with which search engine bots can access and index the pages of a website domain authority — a score predicting how likely a website is to rank in search engine results pages long-tail keyword — a specific, multi-word search phrase with lower volume but higher conversion potential meta description — a brief summary of a page's content that appears in search results below the title canonical tag — an HTML element telling search engines which version of a page is the authoritative one page speed — the time it takes for a web page to load completely, a factor in both user experience and search rankings structured data — code added to a page to help search engines understand the content and display rich results anchor text — the visible, clickable text in a hyperlink that gives context about the linked page
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Choose the correct response to complete each sentence.
1. You should never make the mistake ______________________ the title of the page blank.
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2. The title should be __________________________ from 10 to 15 words in length.
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3. You have to think of more keywords __________________________ with ( = that have to do with) your site.
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4. This isn't a very __________________________ keyword. = Not many people search for this keyword.
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5. If something is __________________________, it persuades or forces you to do something. SEO professionals say that your web site's title should be __________________________. It should make people want to visit it.
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6. A significant/dramatic loss of traffic = A __________________________ loss of traffic
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7. We lost a lot of money. It was a __________________________ ( = serious) blow to our bottom line.
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8. There is a __________________________ between a well optimized site and an over-optimized site. = There is little that makes a well-optimized site different from an over-optimized site.
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9. Some sites can be described as "over-optimized", meaning that they have been optimized too much. What is the opposite of this expression?
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10. We know how to __________________________ ( = obtain) effective optimization without over-optimizing your site.
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