SemRush Certification Answers

How often does the option to combine a robots.txt disallow with a robots.txt noindex statement make folders or URLs appear in SERPs?

• Less than ones without noindex

• Never

• Occasionally

What is the proper instrument to simulate Googlebot activity in Chrome?

• Reverse DNS lookup

• User Agent Overrider

• User Agent Switcher

Choose two statements that are false about the SEMrush Audit Tool.

• It can be downloaded to your local computer

• It can’t audit desktop and mobile versions of a website separately

• It provides you with a list of issues with ways of fixing

• It allows you to include or exclude certain parts of a website from audit

Choose a factor that affects the crawling process negatively.

• Duplicate pages/content

• A well-defined hierarchy of the pages

• Content freshness

Choose three statements referring to XML sitemaps that are true:

• XML sitemaps must only contain URLs that give a HTTP 200 response

• It is recommended to use gzip compression and UTF-8 encoding

• There can be only one XML sitemap per website

• XML sitemaps should usually be used when a website is very extensive

• It is recommended to have URLs that return non-200 status codes within XML sitemaps

What are two the most commonly known best practices to increase crawling effectiveness?

• Multiple links to a single URL

• Using linkhubs

• Meta robots nofollow

• Interlink relevant contents with each other

• Internal, link-level rel-nofollow