Remember those little quizzes you used to see in magazines with
headlines like: How Compatible Are You and Your Partner? or Are You Dating Mr Wrong?. Well, we thought it might be fun
to create a 5 min quiz for you to test the compatibility of
your site with search engines.

Your total score will give you an idea of whether your site is
destined for a high ranking honeymoon in the engines or
headed towards separation from the indexes. Pens ready? Here we
go:


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Q1. The Home Page of your web site consists mainly of:
a) Graphics
b) Text
c) A mixture of text and graphics
d) Flash files

Q2. Within the HTML code, does your site use:
a) A Title Tag only
b) A Title Tag plus a META description tag
c) A Title Tag, plus META description and keyword tags
d) You don’t know

Q3. The content of your site includes:
a) Text based on internal sales copy
b) Text containing keywords and phrases you think are
relevant
c) Text containing keywords and phrases based on search
engine research
d) Little or not text

Q4. The images used throughout your site:
a) Use keyword-filled ALT IMG tags
b) Don’t use ALT IMG tags at all
c) Use ALT IMG tags that don’t contain keywords
d) You don’t know

Q5. Your Web Site was submitted to how many engines?:
a) The top 10 search engines & directories
b) The top 10, plus regional engines in your target markets
c) None – don’t search engines find sites automatically?
d) You don’t know

Q6. The links to internal pages within your web site are:
a) Graphic buttons
b) Text links
c) Graphical text links
d) Keyword-filled text links

Q7. Your web page URL’s are mainly:
a) Static URL’s (consisting of .htm or .html extensions)
b) Symbol-free dynamic URL’s (e.g. .cfm, .jsp, .asp
extensions)
c) Symbol-filled dynamic URL’s (e.g. containing symbols
such as “?”)
d) You don’t know

Q8. You track the following to your site:
a) Number of visitors only
b) What search engines they came from
c) What search terms they used to find you
d) All of the above

Q9. You track your ranking in the search engines by:
a) Conducting manual searches occasionally
b) Receiving detailed ranking reports occasionally (less
than once a month)
c) Receiving detailed ranking reports regularly (once a
month or more often)
d) You don’t track your rankings

Q10. What is your site’s link popularity like? :
a) There are less than 10 external sites linking to yours
b) There are 10-50 external sites linking to yours
c) There are over 50 external sites linking to yours
d) You don’t track your link popularity

Q11.When your search engine rankings slide, you:
a) Don’t notice
b) Re-submit your site to all engines
c) Re-submit your site only to the engines where rankings
have dropped
d) Wait for the engines to re-index your site automatically

Q12. Of all your web site traffic, search engines provide:
a) Less than 10%
b) Between 10 and 20%
c) More than 20%
d) You don’t know

Points for each question range from 0 to 3. Results are :
Q1 a)1, b)3, c)2, d)0;
Q2 a)1, b)2, c)3, d)0;
Q3 a)1, b)2, c)3, d)0;
Q4 a)3, b)1, c)2, d)0;
Q5 a)2, b)3, c)1, d)0;
Q6 a)0, b)2, c)1, d)3;
Q7 a)3, b)2, c)1, d)0;
Q8 a)0, b)1, c)2, d)3;
Q9 a)1, b)2, c)3, d)0;
Q10 a)1, b)2, c)3, d)0;
Q11 a)0, b)2, c)3, d)1;
Q12 a)1, b)2, c)3, d)0;

Add up the total points and scroll below to see how compatible
your site is.

Score of 12 or less – Oh dear. There is virtually no chance of
finding your site at the top of the search results, because you
haven’t made your site technically compatible with search
engines at ALL. To give your relationship with search engines a
chance, you need to make some changes, FAST! If you don’t know
why your site is incompatible, or need step-by-step help to
reverse the damage, request a Search Engine Compatibility
Report: http://www.high-search-engine-
ranking.com/small_business_specials.htm

Score of 13-20 – Lack of attention to your search engine
relationship has cost you traffic and your rankings are poor or
non-existent. You have one or two of the elements in place to
make your site search engine compatible, but you really need
ALL of them to improve your rankings and increase the number of
visitors to your site. With 81% of Internet consumers relying
on search engines to find web sites, it is vitally important
that you keep the search engines interested in your site by
ensuring it is compatible with their algorithms and indexed by
their robots. If you need help to make your site more search
engine compatible, request a Search Engine Compatibility
Report:
http://www.high-search-engine-
ranking.com/small_business_specials.htm

Score of 21-29 – You are aware of the importance of search
engines and have tried to make your site at least partly
compatible. You have probably achieved a few listings for your
site on the major engines, but could be doing a lot better with
a little extra effort. Spend a few days tweaking your site
content to make it as attractive to engines as possible.
Conduct a little keyword research to ensure you are targeting
the right keywords and phrases. Consider hiring a SEO
specialist to boost your rankings and get more customers to
your site. The engines won’t pay attention to you if more
compatible sites come along so do it NOW before the honeymoon
is over.

Score of 30-36 – Congratulations! You have taken many or all of
the steps required to achieve a high ranking on the search
engines and are reaping the rewards in resulting site traffic.
Your efforts to make your site search engine compatible are
sure to keep them infatuated with your site for a long time.
Keep it up!

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Article by Kalena Jordan, CEO of Web Rank.
Kalena was one of the first search engine optimization experts
in Australasia and is well known and respected in her field.
For more of her articles on search engine ranking and online
marketing, please visit www.high-search-engine-ranking.com