oDesk Search Engine Optimization Test 2013/2014

oDesk Search Engine Optimization Test 2013/2014

Question 1
Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?

1. The number of websites that link to it
2. The number of pages of the website indexed by Google
3. The number of pages in the website
4. The quality of websites that link to it

Answer is:    The number of pages in the website        

Question 2
What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?

1. It refers to the fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best return on investment
2. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density
3. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines
4. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines

Answer is:    It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density

Question 3
Search engines do not index some common words (such as "or", "and", "when", and "in") within the webpage. What are these common words called?

1. Barrier words
2. Non-indexable words
3. Slow words
4. Stop words

Answer is:    Stop words        

Question 4
If you search for the term "iq test" in the Word Tracker keyword suggestion tool, will it return the number of independent searches for the term "iq"?

1. Yes
2. No

Answer is:    Yes        

Question 5
Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to Yahoo. What is performed by the link: operator?

1. It shows all the outbound links from the URL
2. It shows how many pages of the site Yahoo is pointing to
3. It shows all the pages that point to that URL
4. It shows URLs with broken links

Answer is:   It shows all the pages that point to that URL        

Question 6
What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?

1. Waves
2. Flux
3. Shuffling
4. Swaying

Answer is:    Flux        

Question 7
Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage's Title Tag.

1. 56
2. 60
3. 66
4. 80

Answer is:    66        

Question 8
While optimizing your website it is important to generate the right type of traffic, how does the Bounce Rate information help in this regard?

1. By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then went on to visit additional pages
2. By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then left without viewing any other page
3. By letting you know the percentage of users who decided to go back to the source from where they found your website
4. By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page

Answer is:    By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page        

Question 9
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the description meta tag?

1. It should be about 50 characters in length
2. The description should not contain the keywords
3. If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information
4. Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages

Answer is:   Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages

Question 10
If your site is not appearing in Google search results because of some unethical SEO practices in the recent past, _________________.

1. abandon and close your website permanently.
2. modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.
3. start a PPC campaign to get your site included in the sponsored results.
4. it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.

Answer is:    modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.        

Question 11
Which of the following is an ethical SEO Technique?

1. Creating a subdomain with the hottest keyword and creating duplicate copies of existing pages on it
2. Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
3. Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
4. None of the above

Answer is:     Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not        

Question 12
Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google's search results?

1. Yes
2. No

Answer is:    No        

Question 13
State whether the following statement is true or false.
A Sitemap provides a list of internal links to user accessible pages on a website.

1. True
2. False

Answer is:    True        

Question 14
All major search engines are case sensitive.

1. True
2. False

Answer is:    True        

Question 15
_________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.

1. Crawler-based Search Engines
2. Human-Powered Directories
3. Hybrid Search Engines
4. Meta Search Engines

Answer is:    Hybrid Search Engines        

Question 16
Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the 'Relevancy' perspective?

1. The website offering products and services to the visitors country
2. A website that provides free content for the related keywords
3. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
4. Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term

Answer is:    A website that provides free content for the related keywords        

Question 17
Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?

1. Windows Live
2. Yahoo Directory
3. Google
4. Wikipedia
5. DMOZ

Answer is:    Google

Question 18
While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing to authority websites?

1. True
2. False

Answer is:    False        

Question 19
What is Keyword Density?

1. The number of times the keyword is used / (DIVIDED BY) the total word count on page - (MINUS)the total words in HTML on the page
2. The number of times the keyword is used in the page description
3. The number of times the keyword is used in the page title
4. The number of times the keyword is used / (DIVIDED BY) the total word count on the page

Answer is:    The number of times the keyword is used in the page title        

Question 21
What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?

1. Trafficjacking
2. Visitorjacking
3. Viewjacking
4. Pagejacking

Answer is:    Visitorjacking        

Question 22
Google gives priority to themed inbound links.

1. True
2. False

Answer is:    True        

Question 23
What is the function of "indexer" part of the Google search engine?

1. It helps to retrieve web pages from the world wide web
2. It helps to gather information from other search engines
3. It helps to sort the documents that Google has retrieved
4. It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user's search term

Answer is:   It helps to sort the documents that Google has retrieved        

Question 24
Why is it a bad idea from the seo perspective to host free articles and write ups that are very common on the internet.

1. Because they will not lead to fresh traffic
2. Because you could get penalized by search engines for using duplicate content
3. Because you will not get the benefits of proper keyword targeting
4. Because people could turn up claiming copy right infringement

Answer is:    Because you could get penalized by search engines for using duplicate content        

Question25:
What is the name of the search engine technology due to which a query for the word 'actor' will also show search results for related words such as actress, acting or act?

1. Spreading
2. Dilating
3. RSD (real time synonym detection)
4. Stemming
5. Branching

Answer is:     Stemming

Question 26
Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?

a.      They are greatly beneficial to SEO

b.     They are also called link farms

c.      They are paid listings

d.     They contain numerous inbound links

Answer is:    They contain numerous inbound links        

Question 27
Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?

a.      Increasing the keyword density on the web pages

b.     Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines

c.      Hiding the keywords within the webpage

d.     Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors

Answer is:   Hiding the keywords within the webpage        

Question 28
What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?

a.      1 week

b.     3 weeks

c.      1 month

d.     More than 3 months

Answer is:   More than 3 months        

Question 29
Which of the following free tools/websites could help you identify which city in the world has the largest search for the keyword - "six sigma"?

a.      Yahoo Search Term Suggestion Tool

b.     Alexa

c.      Google Traffic Estimator

d.     Google Trends

e.      WordTracker

Answer is:   Google Traffic Estimator        

Question 30
Which of the following factors does Google take into account while assessing whether or not a website is an authority website?

a.      The frequency with which the content of the website is updated

b.     The number of web pages containing relevant information on the main theme of the website

c.      The number of in-bound natural links related to the website's theme (or keywords)

d.     None of the above

Answer is:   The number of in-bound natural links related to the website's theme (or keywords)        

Question 31
What will the following robots.txt file do?
User-agent:Googlebot
Disallow:/*?
User-agent:Scooter
Disallow:

a.      It will allow Google to crawl any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also allow the altavista scooter bot to access every page

b.     It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also disallow the altavista scooter bot from accessing any page

c.      It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will allow the altavista scooter bot to access every page

d.     None of the above

Answer is:   It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also disallow the altavista scooter bot from accessing any page        

Question 32
Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?

a.      If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version

b.     Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.expertrating.com/page/ and http://www.expertrating.com/page and http://www.expertrating.com/page/index.htm

c.      Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate

d.     Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google

Answer is:    Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.expertrating.com/page/ and http://www.expertrating.com/page and http://www.expertrating.com/page/index.htm        

Question 33
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?

a.      They are two way links (reciprocal links)

b.     They are from authority websites

c.      They are voluntary in nature

d.     They are from .edu or .gov extension websites

Answer is:   They are voluntary in nature        

Question 34
Which of the following statements about Google's technical and quality guidelines is true?

a.      It is advantageous if your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header

b.     If using dynamic pages, it helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few

c.      Avoid using robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages, even if they don't add much value for users coming from search engines

d.     Submitting new pages of your website at http://www.google.com/addurl.html as soon as they are online, helps to speed up indexing

Answer is:    Submitting new pages of your website at http://www.google.com/addurl.html as soon as they are online, helps to speed up indexing        

Question 35
Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine result pages?

a.      Clustering

b.     Normalizing

c.      Sifting

d.     Combing

Answer is:    Combing        

Question 36
Implementing a 301 Permanent Redirects on the old pages to redirect to the new pages is a good idea from the SEO perspective.

1. True
2. False

Answer is:        True

Question 37
Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?

1. Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic
2. Alexa and Quantcast provide information on visitor household incomes
3. Alexa is biased towards US based traffic
4. Quantcast only tracks people who have installed the Quantcast toolbar

Answer is:    Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic        

Question 38
Do search engines such as Google detect unnatural linking patterns by checking the Class C IP address of the page where the link to the website originates?

1. Yes
2. No

  Answer is:    Yes        

Question 39
What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?

1. Red hat techniques
2. Silver hat techniques
3. Grey hat techniques
4. Shady hat techniques

Answer is:    Grey hat techniques        

Question 40
Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?

1. Targeting synonyms of the main keyword
2. Targeting the highest searched keywords only
3. Copying competitor keywords
4. Optimizing five or more keywords per page

Answer is:    Optimizing five or more keywords per page

Question 41
If a website's search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?

a.      20% of the webpages of the website have been indexed by the search engine

b.     Only 20% of the pages of the website will be indexed by the search engine

c.      20% of the websites pages will never be indexed

d.     The website ranks in the first 20% of all websites indexed by the search engine for its most important search terms

Answer is:    The website ranks in the first 20% of all websites indexed by the search engine for its most important search terms    


Question 42

Which of the following statements about google techinical and quality guidlines is  true.


Answer is:     Avoid using robot.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto- generated pages, even if they dont add much value for users coming from the search  engines.

Question 43

Implementing a 301 permanent Redirects on the old pages to redirect to the new pages is a good idea from the SEO perspective.

1. True
2. False

Answer is:      True

Question 44

What is the name of the search engine technology due to which a query for the word  ‘actor’ will also show search results for related words such as actress, acting or  act?

Answer is:      RSD ( real time synonym detection )

Question 45
Are Rss/Atom feeds returned in Google search results?

Answer is:      No

Question 46

Which of the following statements about the search engine optimization techniques are  correct.


Answer is:     Websites with deep linking are looked at the favorably by search engines

Question 47
Which of the following is an ethical SEO Techique?

Answer is:      Non of the above.

Question 48

What is Anchor text

Answer is:     It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page

Question 49
Google looks down upon paid links for enhancing page rank. If a website sells a  links, what actions does Google recommend to avoid being penalized

Answer is:    Paid links should be disclosed through index-nofollow attribute in the hyperlink

Question 50

If you search for the term “iq test” in the word tracker keyword suggestion tool, will  it return the number of independent searches for the term “iq”

1. Yes
2. No

Answer is:     No

Question 51

If you enter “help site: http://www.expertrating.com‘ in the google search box, what will  google search for

Answer is:      It will find pages about help with-in http://www.expertrating.com

Question 52
Which of the following website design guidelines have been recommended by Google


Answer is:      Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link

Question 52

Which of the following statements about the RSS are correct.

Answer is:     It is a form of XML

Question 53
What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpages towards a long  tail keyword search 

Answer is:    There are fewer websites that have targeted such keywords.

Question 54

How are the site maps important for the search engine optimization process

Answer is:    Ste maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website.

Question 55
Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google

Answer is:   Non of the above.

Question 56
Do search engines such as google detect innatural linking patterns by checking the Class C ip address of the page where the link to the websites originates?

1. Yes
2. No

Answer is:  Yes

Question 57
Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to yahoo. What is perfermed by the link Operator?

1. It shows all the outbound links from the url
2. It shows how many pages of the site yahoo is pointing to
3. It shows all the pages that point to that url
4. It show url’s with broken links

Answer is:  It shows all the pages that point to that url

Question 58
Which blackhat Seo techniques is characterized by a method to decieve search engine, by detecting the search engine bot and “feeding” it with a different HTML code than the HTML actually served to users?

a.      Coaling

b.     Foisting

c.      Slighting

d.     Cloaking 

Answer is:    Cloaking


Question 59
Why is it bad idea from SEO perspective to host free articles and write ups that are very common on the internet?

1. Because they will not lead to fresh traffic
2. Because you could be penalize by search engine for using duplicate contents
3. Because you will not get the benefits of proper keyword targeting
4. because people could turn up claiming copyright infirigement

Answer is:  Because you could be penalize by search engine for using duplicate contents

Question 60
What will happen if you type the word ‘Certification-Networking’ in the google search box?

1. Google will find the web pages about “certification” and also containing the word “networking”
2. Google will find ALL the web pages containing the word word “Certification” and “Networking”
3. Google will find ALL the web pages in which the words “Certification” and “Networking” appear together.
4. Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not contain the word Networking

Answer is:   Google will find ALL the web pages in which the words “Certification” and “Networking” appear together.

Question 61
Which of the following factors does google take into account while accessing whether or not a website is an authority website?

1. The frequency with which the contents of the website is updated
2. The number of web pages containing relevant information on the main theme of the website
3. The number of in-bound natural links related to the website’s theme (or keywords)
4. None of the above

Answer is:   The number of in-bound natural links related to the website’s theme (or keywords)

Question 62
Which of the following statement about FFA pages are true?

1. They are greatly beneficial to SEO
2. They are also called Link Farms
3. They are Paid Listings
4. They contain numerous inbound links

Answer is:   They are also called Link Farms

Question 63
Which of the following can be termed as a good keyword selection and placement strategies?

1. Targeting synonyms of the main keyword 
2. Targeting the highest searched keywords only
3. Copying competitor keywords
4. Optimizing 5 or more keywords per page (check)

Answer is:   Targeting synonyms of the main keyword 

Question 64 

What does the 302 server response code signify? 

1. It signifies conflict, too many people wanted the same file at the same time
2. The page has been permanently removed
3. The method you are using to access the file is not allowed
4. The page has temporarily moved
5. What you requested is just too big to process

Answer is:   The page has temporarily moved

Question 65  
State whether true or false. The Yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial sites.

1. True
2. False

Answer is:    True

Question 66 
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage? 

1. Images cannot be spidered by the search engines
2. Important keywords related to the image should be placed in the ALT text
3. Images should always be kept close to the top of a webpage
4. Image maps should be used while including the images

Answer is:     Important keywords related to the image should be placed in the ALT text

Question 67
Google looks down upon paid links for enhancing page rank. If a website sells links, what action/s does Google recommend to avoid being penalized? 

1. The text of the paid links should state the words "paid text link" for Google to identify it as a paid link
2. Only Paid text links to non profit websites should be accepted
3. Paid links should be disclosed through the "rel=nofollow" attribute  in the hyperlink
4. Paid links should be disclosed through the "index=nofollow" attribute  in the hyperlink

Answer is:   Paid links should be disclosed through the "rel=nofollow" attribute  in the hyperlink

Question 68 
Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google? 

1. Hiding text on the webpage
2. Stuffing keywords on the webpage
3. Linking to sites banned by Google
4. None of the above

Answer is:  Hiding text on the webpage

Question 69 
Which of the following activities could be looked down upon by Google as per their quality guidelines? 

1. Using automated website submission software
2. Loading pages with irrelevant links
3. Intentionally adding keywords to the TITLE tags and ALT attributes
4. Registering misspellings of well-known websites

Answer is:    Intentionally adding keywords to the TITLE tags and ALT attributes

Question 70
Which of the following statements about RSS are correct? 

1. It is a form of XML
2. Tstands for Realtime streamlined syndication
3. It is a good way of displaying static information
4. It is a Microsoft technology

Answer is:    It is a form of XML

Question 71
__ is usually the best web page to get linked to while receiving a themed in-bound link from another website. 

1. The sitemap
2. The contact page
3. The home page
4. The page which you would like to improve in the search engine rankings

Answer is:   The page which you would like to improve in the search engine rankings

Question 72 
Which of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct:

1. Making a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engine looks at the keyword
2. Websites with deep linking are looked at favorably by search engines
3. Search engine robots follow the first link they find to any particular page and they do not follow additional links to the same page
4. It is not a good idea to have the same anchor text for all inbound links as it could look automated to the search engines

Answer is:    Websites with deep linking are looked at favorably by search engines

Question 73 
A Hallway Page is used to:

1. Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway Page
2. Organize the Doorway Pages
3. Help people navigate to different Doorway Pages
4. Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages

Answer is:     Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages

Question 74 
How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?

1. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicke rplacement
2. Ggives credit to the websites having site maps. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title "Site Map" on the home page of a website.
3. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
4. None of the above

Answer is:    Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website

Question 75 
Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google PageRank?

1. The total number of inbound links to a page of a web site
2. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site
3. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site
4. The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site

Answer is:    The total number of inbound links to a page of a web site

Question 76 
The following robots meta tag directs the search engine bots: <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow"> 

1. Not to index the homepage and not to follow the links in the page
2. Not to index the page and not to follow the links in the page
3. To index the page and not to follow the links in the page
4. Not to index the page but to follow the links in the page

Answer is:   Not to index the page and not to follow the links in the page

Question 77
_________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results?

1. Crawler-based Search Engines
2. Human-Powered Directories
3. Hybrid Search Engines
4. Meta Search Engines

Answer is:   Meta Search Engines

Question 78
What will happen if you type the words 'Certification -Networking' in the Google search box?

1. Google will find the web pages about Certification and also containing the word "Networking"
2. Google will find all the web pages containing the words "Certification" and "Networking"
3. Google will find all the web pages in which the words "Certification" and "Networking" appear together
4. Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not contain the word Networking

Answer is:    Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not contain the word Networking

Question 79
If you enter 'Help site:www.microsoft.com' in the Google search box, what will Google search for?

1. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.expertrating.com
2. It will find pages about help within www.expertrating.com
3. It will only find page titles about help within www.expertrating.com
4. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.expertrating.com

Answer is:    It will find pages about help within www.expertrating.com

Question 80
What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search?

1. There are more long tail searches than shorter keyword queries
2. Search engines often pass on long tail searches to lesser known and new websites
3. Search engines do not pass on long tail search traffic to websites that rank high for shorter keyword searches
4. There are fewer websites that have targeted such keywords

Answer is:  There are more long tail searches than shorter keyword queries