CANNOT — "How strong is your SEO?" (no instrument; owner has no access to the metric)

Anti-pattern: "Rate your SEO 1-10" / "How strong is your SEO?" / "How optimized is your site?"

Why it fails: The owner has no instrument to measure SEO strength and only 26% claim even a "good" understanding of how Google ranks results (Fractl SEO knowledge-gap survey — only 26% of business owners claim "good" or "expert" SEO understanding). The judgment is pure self-rating.

Replacement (CAN-answer version): "When did you last add or change content on your website?" + "How many businesses appear above you in a Google search for your main service + city?" — observable proxies, not self-ratings.