oDesk Search Engine Optimization Test Answers

oDesk Search Engine Optimization Test Answers

Random questions with answer, hope this will help you in taking SEO  test in oDesk.

 

 

Question

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

a. Targeting synonyms of the main keyword (ans) A & D

b. Targeting the highest searched keywords only

c. Copying competitor keywords

d. Optimizing 5 or more keywords per page

 

 

  2.Which black hat SEO techniques is characterized by a method to deceive 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

 

 

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

  a.Because they will not lead to fresh traffic

 
b.Because you could be penalize by search engine for using duplicate contents (ans)

c.Because you will not get the benefits of proper keyword targeting

d.because people could turn up claiming copyright infringement

 

 

 4.What will happen if you type the word 'Certification-Networking' in the Google search box?

 

a.Google will find the web pages about "certification" and also containing the word "networking"

b.Google will find ALL the web pages containing the word word "Certification" and "Networking"

 
c.Google will find ALL the web pages in which the words "Certification" and "Networking" appear together. (ans)

d.Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not contain the word Networking

 

 

 5.Which of the following factors does Google take into account while accessing whether or not a website is an authority website?

a. The frequency with which the contents 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 

 

 

6.What is keyword density?

 a.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

b.The number of times the keyword is used x (multiply by) the total word count on page.

c.The number of times the keyword is used in the page description

d.The number of times the keyword is used in the page title

e.The number of times the keyword is used / (divided by) the total word count on the page. (ans)

 

 

7.Which of the following statement 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

 

 

8.What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorizedparties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?   

a.Traffic jacking 

b.Visitors Jacking

c.View Jacking

d.Page Jacking

 

 

 

9.What is the most likely time period required for getting a google page ranking?  

a. 1 week

b. 3 weeks

c. 1 month

d. More than 3 months  

 

 

10.Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to yahoo. What is performed by the link:Operator?

a. it shows all the outbound links from the URL

b. It shows how many pages of the site yahoo is pointing to

c. It shows all the pages that point to that URL

d. It show URL's with broken links

11.What is the function of "indexer" part of the Google search engine?

a.It helps to retrieve web pages from the world wide web

b.It helps to gather information from other search engines

c.It helps to sort the documents that Google has retrieved

d.It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user's search term





12.Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage's Title Tag. How many title tag Google displays up to web page’s 

a.56

b.60

c.66

d.80

13.which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top  positions in the search engine result pages
 
 Ans:clustering





14.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  

 

 

15.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

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

 

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

a.True 
b.False

 

17.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?

a.Spreading

b.Dilating

c.RSD (real time synonym detection)

d.Stemming

e.Branching

18.Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google's search results?

a.Yes

b.No 

19.All major search engines are case sensitive.

a. True

b. False 

 

20.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

 

21.Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the description meta tag? 

a.It should be about 50 characters in length

b.The description should not contain the keywords

c.If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information

d.Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages  

 

 

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

a.Making a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engine looks at the keyword
 

b.Websites with deep linking are looked at favorably by search engines

c.search engine robots follow the first link they find to any particular page and they do not follow additional links to the same page

d.It is not a good idea to have the same anchor text for all inbound links as it could look automated to the

 

23.Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google Page Rank?

 a.The total number of inbound links to a page of a web site 

b.The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site

c.The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site

d.The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site

24.Which of the following is an ethical SEO Technique ?

Ans:Non of the above.

25.What is Anchor Text?

a. It is the main body of text on a particular web page
b. It is the text within the left or top panel of a web page
c. It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page
d. It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page

26.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?

a. The text of the paid links should state the words “paid text link” for Google to identify it as a paid link
b. Only Paid text links to non profit websites should be accepted
c. Paid links should be disclosed through the “rel=nofollow” attribute in the hyperlink
d. Paid links should be disclosed through the “index=nofollow” attribute in the hyperlink

27.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"?

a. Yes
b. No

28.If you enter ‘Help site: www.Example.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?

a. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.example.com
b. It will find pages about help within www.example.com
c. It will only find page titles about help within www.example.com
d. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.example.com

29.Which of the following website design guidelines have been recommended by Google?

a. Having a clear hierarchy and text links
b. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link
c. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you should break the site map into separate pages
d. Keeping the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100)
e. Use less than 30 images or graphics per page

30.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.go4expert.com/page/ and http://www.go4expert.com/page and http://www.go4expert.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

31.Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?

a. It is a form of XML
b. It stands for Real time streamlined syndication
c. It is a good way of displaying static information
d. It is a Microsoft technology

32.what is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpages towards a long  tail keyword search

Ans: There are fewer websites that have targeted such keywords.

33.How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?

 a. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement
 
b. Google gives credit to the websites having site maps. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title “Site Map” on the home page of a website.
 
c. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
 
d. None of the above

34.Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?

a.Hiding text on the webpage b.Stuffing keywords on the webpage

c.Linking to sites banned by Google

d.None of the above 

35.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?

a.Yes

b.No

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

a.Red hat techniques

b.Silver hat techniques

c.Grey hat techniques

d.Shady hat techniques   

37.What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?

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

d. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines

38.Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to yahoo. What is performed by the link:Operator?

a. it shows all the outbound links from the url

b. It shows how many pages of the site yahoo is pointing to

c. It shows all the pages that point to that url

d. It show url’s with broken links

39.Do search engines such as Google detect natural linking patterns by checking the  Class C IP address of the page where the link to the websites originates ?

a.yes

b.No

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

a.Red hat techniques

b.Silver hat techniques

c.Grey hat techniques 

d.Shady hat techniques   

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