Semrush Site Audit Course Exam Answers (2023)

Exam Name: Semrush Site Audit Course

Exam URL: https://www.semrush.com/academy/courses/semrush-site-audit-course/

Before you start, review the information below:

• You will be asked 22 questions.
• You are allowed 27 minutes for the exam.
• To pass the exam, you need to score at least 70%.
• The exam and certification are 100% free.
• You have a total of 3 attempts to pass, then in 30 days, you’ll get 3 more.

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Which Site Audit report contains the list of unresolved errors?

• Issues
• Statistics
• Crawled Pages

Where do you go to see technical improvement change logs?

• It’s in the main dashboard
• You need to go to Google analytics
• The Progress tab

Why is it necessary to make scheduled recrawls of your website on a regular basis?

• To make sure you spend your monthly quota
• To get timely information on website health status changes and to define the reasons for traffic decline, if needed.

Which of the following is NOT a correct canonical tag implementation?

• Use canonical= in robots.txt
• Use rel=”canonical” link tag
• Use rel=”canonical” HTTP header

With SEMrush Site Audit, it is possible to crawl a site behind a password protected login.

• True
• False

When working out a technical strategy how should you categorise issues?

• A list – all issues are just as important
• By volume – there are 1000s of issues on one aspect and only 10s on others – tackle the big one first
• By Importance and Urgency

Which is the best way to get rid of a 404 error if a web page moved to another URL?

• Specify the proper link on the page and use a redirection
• Use a redirection
• Change the URL

Should you use nofollow when internally linking and looking to pass page rank?

• Yes
• No

How do you quickly check if all the issues related to redirect loops and 404 errors are fixed?

• Launch a re-crawl and check out the appropriate issues
• Check every link manually

What pages should be present in the sitemaps?

• Ones that are canonical to other pages
• Ones that are to be indexed by Google bots
• 404 pages

What should you fix first while working on technical SEO?

• Critical and urgent issues only
• Critical issues
• All the issues

Where should your sitemap be referenced?

• In the page footer
• In the robots.txt file
• On any URL

Why would you want to slow down your crawl when setting up a site audit?

• The slower the crawler, the more information it retrieves
• To stop the crawler being blocked and keep your developers happy
• To save money on SEMrush credits

What is a canonical tag?

• A tag that tells Google the main keyword you want to rank for
• A hard rule that Google must follow, no matter what
• A directive that tells Google the preferred version of the page

What is the purpose of an optimized meta description?

• To rank for a specific keyword
• To create an enticing CTA to enhance CTR
• A space to put information that only Googlebot will see

Site Audit flags your web pages as duplicate content due to their URL parameters, which appear when one applies a filter. What should you do in this case?

• Hide this issue
• Check if these parameters are present in the Google Search Console

What is the rough rule of thumb for the ratio of internal links to your core pages?

• 80% of links point to 20% of pages
• 100% of links point to my main commercial converting pages
• All pages get equal links

If a page is “Orphaned” what does it mean?

• The page exists but it is not linked to from anywhere on the site
• It’s a brand new page that hasn’t been crawled yet
• It’s on the site but not in the sitemap

Which check is NOT related to a security issue?

• A page responds with a 5хх code
• Mixed content
• Using a <input type=“password”> field
• Subdomains don’t support secure encryption algorithms

What is the purpose of an optimized title tag?

• To help Google understand the topic of your document
• It doesn’t have any direct SEO impact
• A space to stuff keywords you want to rank for

What issues are the most critical to fix first?

• Alt attributes
• Broken Links and 404s
• Missing meta descriptions

Which of these is the most important aspect of links to your site?

• Progress, then choose “Crawled Pages”
• Crawled pages + filter “New pages = yes”
• Issues