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Digital Marketing Test to assess and recruit top digital marketing talent

The Digital Marketing Test is a pre-employment assessment that helps hire digital marketing employees. The test helps find suitable candidates, talented professionals, and experts in analytics, SEO, SEM, social media, inbound, affiliate, and email marketing.

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About the Mercer | Mettl Digital Marketing Assessment

The Digital Marketing Test assesses crucial digital marketing skills and shortlists applicants who meet the criteria. The test questions are aptly structured to evaluate the candidate's ability to solve complex digital marketing problems. The test offers a simple yet remarkably efficient method to determine the essential skills.

Digital marketing competencies for candidates

This Digital Marketing Online Test helps screen candidates with skills in the following areas: 

  • SEO: The ability to enhance website content and structure to enhance organic search visibility and drive traffic. 
  • SEM: Familiarity with paid advertising strategies, including Pay-Per-Click (PPC), to quickly elevate search engine presence. 
  • Google analytics: The skills in tracking and analyzing website metrics to derive insights into user behavior and assess campaign effectiveness. 
  • Social media channels: The knowledge of leveraging paid channels, email marketing and display advertising for effective audience engagement and brand promotion. 
  • Content strategies: The ability to create audience-focused content that aligns with SEO best practices, enhancing search rankings and user interest. 
  • Google ads: The experience in crafting targeted advertisements on Google that yield quick access to potential customers while providing measurable outcomes. 

This test gauges critical domain-specific skills, such as understanding advertising, applying SEO principles and inbound marketing, and analytics, as well as knowledge of influencers' marketing, affiliate marketing, etc.

Applications of the Digital Marketing Test

  • Pre-employment screening: Identifying top candidates early in the hiring process. 
  • Internal promotions: Evaluating current employees for roles in digital marketing. 
  • Training and development: Evaluating the training programs' effectiveness and pinpointing areas for enhancement. 
  • Educational settings: Evaluating students' proficiency in digital marketing subjects. 

Benefits of the Digital Marketing Test

  • Helps quickly locate qualified candidates. 
  • Offers an impartial assessment of marketing abilities. 
  • Increases the chances of hiring successful digital marketers. 
  • Saves resources and time compared to conventional methods. 
  • Identifies development opportunities for current employees. 

How can a Digital Marketing Online Test help recruiters hire?

This test can help recruiters assess candidates with zero to two years of work experience across IT, banking and finance, insurance, FMCG, retail, hospitality, and healthcare. This test enables employers to identify potential talent by gauging the work readiness of candidates. The candidates must undergo a domain assessment to measure their applied skills and abilities in digital marketing gained through work experience over academic knowledge. Moreover, in-depth insights from this test can give recruiters a detailed analysis of the candidate's abilities, helping them make a well-informed hiring decision.

Sample Digital Marketing Test questions and answers

  1. What is the maximum limit for the characters in Google Ads?  

The headlines and sub-headlines should be at most thirty characters, and the descriptions should be within ninety characters. 

  1. What are the various fields in digital marketing?  

Some popular types are Facebook marketing, Google AdWords, mobile marketing, email marketing, SEO, SEM, etc.  

  1. Define SEO.  

Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to optimizing a website for a higher rank in search engines like Google, Bing, etc. 

  1. Name some of the Google AdWords ad extensions.  

Some of them are call extension, callout extension, promote extension, structured snippet extension, sitelink extension, affiliate location extension and app extension. 

  1. What is the difference between SEO and SEM?  

SEO concentrates on improving a website to attract traffic from organic search results, while SEM seeks to increase visibility and traffic through organic and paid search methods. 

  1. What are the 5 A's of digital marketing?  

Attention, attraction, action, acquisition, and advocacy are the 5 A's of digital marketing. They offer a thorough framework for companies to enhance their digital marketing strategies. By applying these five essential components, businesses can boost conversions, connect with their target audience, and foster growth in the digital era. 

  1. What are some examples of content marketing formats? 

Content marketing encompasses various formats, such as blogging, video, podcasting, infographics, email, visual content, ebooks, whitepapers, SlideShare presentations, quizzes, checklists, courses, webinars, slide decks, free apps, and social media posts.

SKILL LIBRARY

This Digital Marketing Assessment is a part of following skills libraries

Digital marketing is crucial for an organization's overall marketing strategy. Therefore, this test is designed to assess skills in Social Media Marketing, Advertising and Analytics, SEO and Inbound Marketing, Influencers and Affiliate Marketing, etc.

Digital Marketing Test competency framework

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Digital Marketing Test competencies under scanner

Digital marketing aptitude skills

Competencies:

Advertising and analytics

The test evaluates a candidate's ability to plan and execute online advertisement campaigns and utilize analytical tools to gain insights into the campaign's performance.

SEO and inbound marketing

It assesses a candidate's ability to use SEO strategies to drive inbound marketing plans for turning the traffic into leads by sharing relevant content and improving the website's ranking.

Social media marketing

The test helps assess an applicant's ability to set up social media profiles and pages for an organization.

Email marketing

This test assesses a candidate's ability to create targeted and personalized commercial emails to reach current and possible customers.

Influencers and affiliate marketing

The test measures a candidate's ability to create marketing strategies with the assistance of individuals and influencers to promote the company's brand.

Customize this Digital Marketing Skills Test

Flexible customization options to suit your needs

Set difficulty level of test

Choose easy, medium or hard questions from our skill libraries to assess candidates of different experience levels.

Combine multiple skills into one test

Add multiple skills in a single test to create an effective assessment. Assess multiple skills together.

Add your own questions to the test

Add, edit or bulk upload your own coding questions, MCQ, whiteboarding questions & more.

Request a tailor-made test

Get a tailored assessment created with the help of our subject matter experts to ensure effective screening.

The Mercer | Mettl Digital Marketing Skills Assessment advantage

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  • State of the art examination platform
  • Inbuilt Cutting Edge AI-Driven Proctoring
  • Simulators designed by developers
  • Tests Tailored to Your business needs
  • Support for 20+ Languages in 80+ Countries Globally

Digital Marketing Test can be setup in four steps

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Step 3: Test View

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Step 4: Insightful Report

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The digital marketing assessment lets you evaluate a candidate’s understanding of marketing fundamentals and their ability to plan keywords for developing better SEO, knowledge of Google AdWords skills, and online traffic management. A digital marketer’s ability to effectively work towards developing business, branding, advertising, generating, and converting leads is measured through our series of questions, thus providing an overall review of their knowledge and expertise.

A digital marketing strategy comprises well-laid plans that help you achieve business goals via handpicked digital marketing channels such as earned, paid, and owned media.

Listed below are some noteworthy trends that are here to stay:  

  • AI   
  • Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality  
  • Voice Search  
  • User-generated Content  
  • Influencer marketing  
  • In-App Ads  

Listed below are some in-demand skills for digital marketers:  

  • Analytics  
  • Content Marketing  
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)  
  • Search Engine Marketing (SEM)  
  • Video Marketing  
  • Understanding of design thinking and planning  
  • Programmatic advertising  

The Mercer | Mettl digital marketing assessment is tailored for recruitment. However, we can do benchmarking for custom sample sets as well. Please write to us about your request; we will gladly assist you.  

We have previously customized digital marketing test reports based on the client’s requirements. So please write to us with your request, and we will be glad to provide you with a solution.

It is not mandatory, but it certainly helps if a digital marketer knows the basics of coding. Alternatively, developers within an organization can perform such tasks for digital marketing managers.

Listed below are the parameters that govern the success of digital marketing:  

  •  Total site traffic  
  •  New vs. returning visitors  
  •  Traffic sources  
  •  Average time spent per visit  
  •  Mobile traffic  

Yes, one can test these skills together for a comprehensive skills assessment. Please check Mercer | Mettl assessment solutions for more information.

Yes, Mercer | Mettl offers advanced proctoring solutions with features such as advanced visual proctoring, IP address restrictions, and Mercer | Mettl Secure Browser, among others, that reduce instances of cheating.

The Digital Marketing Test can be used for numerous roles, such as content manager, data analyst, SEO project manager, advertising media buyer, data science specialist, etc.

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