Recently I was thinking about how much the blogging and Internet marketing scene has changed over the past years. Most of the services and tools I used eight years ago are gone. Some websites that were huge are now struggling to stay alive. So on and so forth.
That’s why I decided to create the quiz below. Take it and see how many oldschool points you get!
1. Have you submitted sites to Dmoz?
1 point if you have
2. Did any of your sites got listed?
1 point if it did
3. Did you get listed on Yahoo! Business Directory?
1 point if you did
4. Did you use the Alexa browser extension to improve your rankings?
1 point if you did
5. Did you check the Technorati Top 100 regularly?
1 point if you did
6. Did you hang out on DigitalPoint?
1 point if you did
7. Can you name 3 blog networks that were active back in the day?
1 point if you can
8. Did you have an user account on Digg?
1 point if you did
9. What about on Del.icio.us?
1 point if you did
10. Did you ever get a story to the front page of either site?
1 point if you have
11. Do you know who Steve Pavlina is?
1 point if you do
12. Did you display your Feedburner count with a widget?
1 point if you did
13. Did you use Yahoo! Publisher Network to monetize your site?
1 point if you did
14. Did you use a browser toolbar to check the PageRank of your sites?
1 point if you did
15. Did you know when PageRank updates were getting rolled out by Google?
1 point if you did
16. Did you use Google AdSense for Feeds?
1 point if you did
17. Did you made money with the AdSense referral program?
1 point if you did
18. Do you know the name of the CMS developed by SixApart?
1 point if you do
19. Did you have a user account on SlashDot?
1 point if you did
20. Did you participate in a banner exchange network?
1 point if you did
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