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Pro Blogger Test

Posted by timethief • 3/17/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogging, discussion, entertainment, quizzes, tests

Becoming a professional blogger is no easy task. You will need to have a basic knowledge on several fields; including web design, SEO, online marketing and more. Do you think you have what it takes? Test your skills with these 20 questions!

1. What is, according to Google, the best performing Adsense format among these?
120×600 Skyscraper
336×280 Large Rectangle
468×60 Banner
728×90 Leaderboard
250×250 Square

2. Which of the following is NOT a popular online Forum?
Digital Point
Sitepoint
Digital World
Name Pros
Web Hosting Talk

3. According to Feedburner:
Partial feeds present a much higher CTR (click-through rate) than full feeds
Both partial and full feeds present similar CTRs
Full feeds present a much higher CTR than partial feeds
Feedburner can not track CTR on feeds

4. Which of the following is NOT an advertising network?
Value Click
Federated Media
Tribal Fusion
Net Click
Casale Media

5. When inserting images, you should:
Use both the ALT and TITLE attributes
Use the ALT but not the TITLE attribute
Use the TITLE but not the ALT attribute
Not use either the ALT or the TITLE attributes

6. What is Google’s Golden Triangle?
The three pillars of Google’s strategy: AdSense, AdWords and Gmail
The triad that controls the management of the company: Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt
A heat map provided by Google illustrating where users look on a web page
A trophy in the form of a golden triangle that is awarded to premium Adsense publishers

7. According to Technorati, how many blogs linking to your blog would you need to break into the Top 100 list?
100,000
1,000
4,000
25,000
10,000

8. A market research by Yahoo! confirmed that the most used top level domain for hosting spam blogs is:
.biz
.org
.info
.us

9. A trackback is:
A Wordpress feature that is used to prevent blog spam
A three way link exchange that bloggers use to increase their Pagerank
A method for tracking comments on your blog
A network ping that lets an author know that someone is linking to his article

10. What is the most important SEO factor on the head section?
Title tag
Meta description tag
DOCTYPE
Meta robots tag

11. Which of the following is NOT a Web analytics service?
Sitemeter
Trackstats
Tracewatch
Mint
Statcounter

12. What is the most popular screen resolution?
1152×864
1280×1024
1024×768
1280×960
800×600

13. Google and Yahoo! together make up ____ of the search industry.
40%
60%
50%
80%
90%

14. What is the organization responsible for maintaining the Web standards?
WWC
WWF
W3C
Googleplex
WW2

15. What is a blog carnival?
A party for bloggers carried out in Rio de Janeiro every February
A blog event with a collection of links centered around a topic
A design contest where bloggers submit their themes and compete for prizes
A section of the sidebar that is used for sharing links with the readers

16. If you want to use Wordpress you should make sure that your host supports:
ASP and MySQL
.NET and Java
PHP and ASP
PHP and MySQL
MySQL and .NET

17. All of the following sites are good resources for finding online images, except:
Stock.xchng
Flickr
Yotophoto
Morguefile
Picster

18. Among these social bookmarking sites, which one has the lowest Alexa rank (and supposedly highest traffic)?:
Digg
Reddit
Netscape
Del.icio.us

19. What is the correct way of disallowing a folder using a robots.txt file?
rel=”disallow-folder”
Disallow: /folder/
Meta disallow: “folder”
robots=”folder”

20.What is the most popular browser currently?
Firefox 1.5 (Take note that this is an older quiz so the Firefox version numbers are backdated)
Internet Explorer 7.0
Opera
Internet Explorer 6.0
Firefox 2.0

You can take the test online get your results and discuss them in this forum thread.
Here's the link www.dailyblogtips.com/pro-blogger-test/

User Comments

3/17/09

dosox

50% average
2,5,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15 my correct ans

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1. 3/17/09
  
  timethief
  
  @dosox
  IMO that's a pretty good score. Thanks for diving in and taking the test.
2. 3/17/09
  
  dosox
  
  Welcome looks like i am at the top
3. 3/17/09
  
  timethief
  
  Well, no. I got 85%.
  And I'm peeved that I didn't get 100% ...lol
4. 3/18/09
  
  dosox
  
  Well I can still place myself in the 2nd
5. 3/18/09
  
  timethief
  
  True and IMHO that's a pretty good score for a person who is relatively new to blogging.
3/17/09

Anok

I didn't even have to take the test - I simply clicked on the link and got a big FAIL sign, to be followed by an EPIC FAIL after I take the test, I'm sure

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1. 3/17/09
  
  melindaville
  
  Wow, Anok--you know, that makes me feel so much better about my own lack of problogger knowledge. I guess because I consider you somewhat of a blogging Goddess!
2. 3/17/09
  
  timethief
  
  Oh well ...
3. 3/17/09
  
  Anok
  
  I realized I didn't know nuthin simply by the fact that my eyes glazed over at the questions
  
  I did take it, and got a measly 35%
4. 3/17/09
  
  timethief
  
  Yay! You took the test. That's cool. In this case we even get a record of what the correct answers are.
3/17/09

melindaville

Forget it, TT--I am simply guessing here. I tried answering a few questions and realized, I am happily an amateur.

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3/17/09

samureyed

45%.. thought id do better. However I have to disagree with the last answer that IE 6.0 is the most popular browser. It is definitely IE 7.0 IMO

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1. 3/17/09
  
  timethief
  
  Did you notice the note I included above about the date of the test in the OP? I'll bet you missed it. At the time IE6 was the most popular browser. This is despite the fact that it's a dog that drives all web designers crazy. Here are the current browser stats www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
2. 3/18/09
  
  samureyed
  
  I totally missed the note! thanks anyways I was a little confused and figured it must have been an older quiz.
  
  On a side note, I despise IE6 like everyone else! hooray!
  Check out this link to Hugs for Monsters (very creative blog) for IE6 hilarity, WARNING explicit language!!
  
  blog.hugsformonsters.com/post/87657240/overly-judgemental-ie6-splash-pages
3. 3/18/09
  
  timethief
  
  I figured you missed it.
3/17/09

MadMadMargo

After yesterday's dismal results, I just can't put myself through another test. Oh, the humiliation of it all.

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1. 3/17/09
  
  timethief
  
  Ahhh come on ... I have no one to play with.
  Sheesh ... where all those make money experts who think they have what it takes to be a pro? Come out, come out wherever you are.
3/17/09

fruitcake

Um, yeah. I'm not even going to attempt this one. Is that english?

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1. 3/18/09
  
  timethief
  
  Yes, it's English. I think it's a dialect called "geek speak".
3/17/09

FatX

Whoa! I have a lot to learn.

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1. 3/18/09
  
  timethief
  
  We all do ..
3/17/09

avideogameplayer

15%...

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1. 3/19/09
  
  timethief
  
  Oh well ... you can always try again later.
3/17/09

RecycleCindy

Not to completely embarrass myself, I will just say that I did not score well. I truly am not a knowledgeable pro blogger.

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1. 3/19/09
  
  timethief
  
  I don't think most bloggers would score well on this quiz so don't feel bad.
3/18/09

codesucker

Don't worry guys I didn't score well either

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1. 3/18/09
  
  dosox
  
  LOL codesucker.. thought you'll do well
  What code do ya sucks
2. 3/19/09
  
  timethief
  
  @codesucker
  lol ... I'm surprised you didn't do well. ;-)
3/18/09

dgnitzky

If you are capable and willing you can do better.

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1. 3/19/09
  
  timethief
  
  I agree that we can learn new things from each other every day.
3/18/09

Arcticulates

hmmmm. I got a 40% which totally shocked me! I guess I am learning quite a bit with all my bumbling around. Course I guessed at some... okay... most! Just goes to show me that I am a good guesser too! lol

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1. 3/18/09
  
  dosox
  
  Yea I'm a good guesser too.
2. 3/19/09
  
  timethief
  
  That was a great score for guesswork. Good on you!
3/18/09

Kastina

That's fun.

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1. 3/19/09
  
  timethief
  
  I'm glad you liked it.
3/18/09

edgecrosser

30% T T

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1. 3/19/09
  
  timethief
  
  Hey that's not bad for us don't want to be pros, right?
3/18/09

JoseSinclair

yikes: 35%! and I was an interface designer, sw and db engineer for 25 yrs.. guess I'm kinda new to blogging, never used Wordpress either, there went one question.. now the bigger ?, is knowing all this that important? I don't think using any side of adsense ad makes much difference..
Fun stuff, even tho I now feel like Homer when he sold computers!
"I just turned it on, now where's my money?"
... Jose, aka Jman

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1. 3/19/09
  
  timethief
  
  Woah! I would have thought that you'd do better than that but there's always a next time.
3/18/09

legbamel

I go 50%, but I cheated and read the thread first so I knew the correct answer to the last question. I would have picked IE7. There actually were three or four that I knew (rather than guessed). The Wordpress question was a cheap shot, though. The www-orld does not revolve aroud WP!

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3/19/09

Shiley

25%

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3/19/09

SheGo

45% - I had to guess every single answer

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3/19/09

PetLvr

45% although, I was also answering what i think SHOULD be the correct answer - even though I knew outright it could never be the correct answer. But, that would have brought me up to 50% or 55% ... I just didn't know a lot of those answers

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