SEOMoz quiz causes flurry of arguments amongst experts

Author: Bill Marshall

Date Published: 17 September 2007, 12:00

An interesting quiz appeared on the SEOMoz site this week, consisting of 75 multiple choice questions apparently designed to test your knowledge of a range of search related topics. It caused some discussion amongst the Oyster Web staff as a number of the questions seemed poorly phrased while a number of the answers were either impossible to know unless you work for Google or downright wrong in our opinion.

It seems we're not alone - ex-Google guru Vanessa Fox has blogged on why it's wrong and pointing out that they mis-quoted her, and Danny Sullivan has also criticised a number of the questions.

Now I've no doubt that it should really be seen as a bit of fun - the results allowed you to be an SEO Dark Lord or an SEO Deity for instance - and that it was also a great bit of link bait that everyone else wished they'd thought of. However it does feel a little worrying given the amount of misinformation there already is on our industry. Doubtless we'll all be arguing about it for weeks, which was maybe the intention all along!