oDesk and Elance search engine optimization Test Answers 2017

oDesk and Elance search engine optimization Test Answers 2017

Question:- Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to yahoo. What is perfermed by the link:Operator?
Answer:- c. It shows all the pages that point to that url

Question:- 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?
Answer:- d.Cloaking

Question:- Why is it bad idea from SEO perspective to host free articles and write ups that are very common on the internet?
Answer:- b.Because you could be penalize by search engine for using duplicate contents

Question:- What will happen if you type the word ‘Certification-Networking’ in the google search box?
Answer:- c.Google will find ALL the web pages in which the words “Certification” and “Networking” appear together.

Question:- Which of the following factors does google take into account while accessing whether or not a website is an authority website?
Answer:- c.The number of in-bound natural links related to the website’s theme (or keywords)

Question:- Which of the following website design guideline has been recommended by google?
Answer:- a. Having a clear hierachy and text links

Question:- What is the main reason for the effectiveness of Optimizing a web page towards a long tails keyword search? Recheck
Answer:- b.Search engine often pass on long tail searches to lesser or new website

Question:- Which of the following statement is correct with regard’s to the images within a web page?
Answer:- b.Important keywords related to the image should be plcaed in the ALT text

Question:- If a website’s search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?
Answer:- a. 20% of the webpages of the website have been indexed by the search engine

Question:- people do a web search. In response, they see links to a variety of web pages. Three of the 10 people choose one particular link. That link then has a __________ clickthrough rate.
Answer:- b. 30 percent

Question:- What does the 301 server response code signify?
Answer:- b. Moved Permanently

Question:- Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?
Answer:- c. 3-4%

Question:- If you enter ‘Help site:www.go4expert.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?
Answer:- b. It will find pages about help within www.go4expert.com

Question:- 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”?
Answer:- d. Google Trends

Question:- Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
Answer:- a. Yes
b. No

Question:- 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:- c. RSD (realtime synonym detection)

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

Question:- Which of the following statements are correct with regard to using javascript within the web pages?
Answer:- b. Search engines cannot read JavaScript
c. It is a good idea to shift the JavaScript  into a separate file

Question:- Which of the following options are correct regarding the Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) of a particular keyword?
Answer:- c. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results

Question:- Which of the following search engines offers a popular list of the top 50 most searched keywords?
Answer:- a. Google

Question:- Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?
Answer:- c. Google

Question:- Which of the following are examples of agents?
Answer:- a. Internet Explorer
b. Search engine spiders
c. Opera

Question:- 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”?
Answer:- a. Yes

Question:- Google gives priority to themed in-bound links.
Answer:- a. True

Question:- Which of the following methods can help you get around the Google Sandbox?
Answer:- a. Buying an old Website and getting it ranked

Question:- s Page is used to:
Answer:- d. Enables search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages

Question:- Which of the following options describes the correct meaning of MouseTrapping?
Answer:- d. The web browser trick, which attempts to keep a visitor captive at on a website

Question:- What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?
Answer:- d. More than 3 months

Question:- Which of the following website design guidelines have been recommended by Google?
Answer:- b. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link

Question:- Which of the following statement about FFA pages are true?
Answer:- b.They are also called Link Farms
d.They contain numerous inbound links

Question:- What is the most likely time period required for getting a google page ranking?
Answer:- d. More than 3 months

Question:- Which of the following can be termed as a good keyword selection and placement strategies?
Answer:- a. Targeting synonyms of the main keyword, A & D

Question:- Which of the following fact about Alexa are correct ?
Answer:- a.Alexa provides free data on relative website visitors traffic

Question:- What is the name of the search engine technology due to which a query for the word “actor” will aslo show search result for related word such as actress, acting or act?
Answer:- d.Stemming

Question:- Do search engine such as google detect unnatural linking patterns by checking the class C IP address of the page where the link to the website originates
Answer:- a Yes

Question:- Which of the following conditions will google treat favorably from the “Relevancy” perspective.
Answer:- b.A website that provides Free content for related keywords

Question:- Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?
Answer:- b. Yahoo Directory

Question:- Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?
Answer:- c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate

Question:- What is Keyword Density?
Answer:- d.The number of times the keyword is used in the page title

Question:- Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct:
Answer:- a.Repeated submission of the Sitemap to Google could be penalized

Question:- Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
Answer:- b.No

Question:- What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
Answer:- c.It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines

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

Question:- What is Anchor Text?
Answer:- c.It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page

Question:- 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”?
Answer:- b.No

Question:- What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
Answer:- d.Pagejacking

Question:- 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?
Answer:- a.Yes

Question:- What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major
Answer:- b.Flux

Question:- While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing to authority websites?
Answer:- b.False

Question:- Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine spider?
Answer:- e.All of the above

Question:- Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage’s Title Tag.
Answer:- c.66

Question:- What does the 302 server response code signify?
Answer:- d.The page has temporarily moved

Question:- Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the description meta tag?
Answer:- d.Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages

Question:- State whether true or false.
The Yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial sites.
Answer:- a.True

Question:- Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage?
Answer:- b.Important keywords related to the image should be placed in the ALT text

Question:- Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
Answer:- b.Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines

Question:- Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?
Answer:- a.Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic

Question:- 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?
Answer:- c.Paid links should be disclosed through the “rel=nofollow” attribute  in the hyperlink

Question:- Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
Answer:- a.Hiding text on the webpage

Question:- Which of the following statements about Google’s technical and quality guidelines is true?
Answer:- b. If using dynamic pages, it helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few

Question:- Which of the following is an ethical SEO Technique?
Answer:- d.None of the above

Question:- All major search engines are case sensitive.
Answer:- b.False

Question:- While optimizing your website it is important to generate the right type of traffic, how does the Bounce Rate information help in this regard?
Answer:- b.By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then left without viewing any other page

Question:- Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?
Answer:- a.The number of websites that link to it
b.The number of pages of the website indexed by Google
c.The number of pages in the website
d.The quality of websites that link to it

Question:- Search engines do not index some common words (such as “or”, “and”, “when”, and “in”) within the webpage. What are these common words called?
Answer:- d.Stop words

Question:- Which of the following activities could be looked down upon by Google as per their quality guidelines?
Answer:- b.Loading pages with irrelevant links
c.Intentionally adding keywords to the TITLE tags and ALT attributes

Question:- Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?
Answer:- a.It is a form of XML

Question:- _________ is usually the best web page to get linked to while receiving a themed in-bound link from another website.
Answer:- d.The page which you would like to improve in the search engine rankings

Question:- Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?
Answer:- d.ofive or more keywords per page

Question:- If your site is not appearing in Google search results because of some unethical SEO practices in the recent past, _________________.
Answer:- d.it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.

Question:- Which of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct:
b.Websites with deep linking are looked at favorably by search engines

Question:- A Hallway Page is used to:
Answer:- d.Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages

Question:- 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”?
Answer:- d.Google Trends

Question:- How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
Answer:- c.Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website

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

Question:- What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?
Answer:- d.It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user’s search term

Question:- Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?
Answer:- d.Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term

Question:- Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to Yahoo. What is performed by the link: operator?
Answer:- c.It shows all the pages that point to that URL

Question:- Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google PageRank?
Answer:- a.The total number of inbound links to a page of a web site

Question:- What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
Answer:- c.Grey hat techniques

Question:- Why is it a bad idea from the seo perspective to host free articles and write ups that are very common on the internet.
Answer:- b.Because you could get penalized by search engines for using duplicate content

Question:- The following robots meta tag directs the search engine bots:
<META NAME=”robots” CONTENT=”noindex,nofollow”>
Answer:- b.Not to index the page and not to follow the links in the page

Question:- _________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
Answer:- d.Meta Search Engines

Question:- Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?
Answer:- c.They are voluntary in nature

Question:- What will happen if you type the words ‘Certification -Networking’ in the Google search box?
Answer:- d.Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not contain the word Networking

Question:- If you enter ‘Help site:www.microsoft.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?
Answer:- b.It will find pages about help within www.expertrating.com

Question:- Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?
Answer:- b.They are also called link farms

Question:- 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:- d.Stemming

Question:- If a website’s search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?
Answer:- a.20% of the webpages of the website have been indexed by the search engine

Question:- What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search?
Answer:- a.There are more long tail searches than shorter keyword queries