oDesk SEO Test Answers

oDesk SEO Test Questions And Answers 

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

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

3.Question: What is Keyword Density?
e.The number of times the keyword is used / (DIVIDED BY) the total word count on the page
(Correct answers:-of repeats of the keyword / total number of words on the page * 100 = Keyword Density)***Answer***

4.Question: Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct:
C.The Sitemap acceptable to Google follows an XML format***Answer***

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

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

7.Question: 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***Answer***
b.The number of web pages containing relevant information on the main theme of the website***Answer***
c.The number of in-bound natural links related to the website’s theme (or keywords)***Answer***

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

9.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”?
b.No***Answer***

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

11.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?
a.Yes***Answer***

12.Question: What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
b.Flux<***Answer***

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

14.Question: Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine spider?a.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp?examnum=243&examtype=244
b.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp?examnum=243
c.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp
d.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.html
e.All of the above
Ans: E
15.Question: Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage’s Title Tag.
e.You may count how much display by search a keyword

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

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

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

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

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

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

21.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?
c.Paid links should be disclosed through the “rel=nofollow” attribute in the hyperlink***Answer***

22.Question: 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***Answer***
Ans: D

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

24.Question: Which of the following is an ethical SEO Technique?
a.Creating a subdomain with the hottest keyword and creating duplicate copies of existing pages on it
b.Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c.Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d.None of the above
Ans: D

25.Question: All major search engines are case sensitive.
B.False***Answer***

26.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?
b.By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then left without viewing any other page ***Answer***

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

28.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?
d.Stop words***Answer***

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

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

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

31.Question: Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?a.Targeting synonyms of the main keyword***Answer***
d.ofive or more keywords per page***Answer***

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

33.Question: 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***Answer***
b.Websites with deep linking are looked at favorably by search engines***Answer***
d.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***

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

35.Question: Which of the following free tools/websites could help you identify which city in the world has the largest search forthe keyword – “six sigma”?
d.Google Trends***Answer***

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

37.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.
a.True***Answer***

38.Question: What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?
a.It helps to retrieve web pages from the world wide web***Answer***
d.It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user’s search term***Answer***

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

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

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

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

43.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.
b.Because you could get penalized by search engines for using duplicate content***Answer***

44.Question: The following robots meta tag directs the search engine bots:
b.Not to index the page and not to follow the links in the page***Answer***

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

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

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

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

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

50.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?
d.Stemming***Answer***

51.Question: 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***Answer***

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

53.Question : Do search engines such as Google detect unnatural linking patterns by checking the Class C IP address of the pagewhere the link to the website originates?
a.Yes ***Answer***

54.Question : If you search for the term “iq test” in the Word Tracker keyword suggestion tool, will it return the number ofindependent searches for the term “iq”?
b. No ***Answer***

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

56.Question : 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***Answer***

57.Question 10 people do a web search. In response, they see links to a variety of web pages. Three of the 10 people choose oneparticular link. That link then has a __________ clickthrough rate.
c. more than 30%***Answer***

58.Question What does the 301 server response code signify?
b. Moved Permanently***Answer***

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

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

61.Question Which of the following statements are correct with regard to using javascript within the web pages?
c. It is a good idea to shift the Javascript into a separate file***Answer***

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

63.Question Which of the following search engines offers a popular list of the top 50 most searched keywords?
d. Lycos***Answer***

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

65.Question Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?
a. 0.01-0.1%
b. 0.1-1%
c. 3-4%
d. 7-10%
e. NONE of avove***Answer***

66.Question Which of the following are examples of agents?
b. Search engine spiders***Answer***

67.Question Which of the following methods can help you get around the Google Sandbox?
c. Placing the website on a sub domain of a ranked website and then 301 re-directing the site after it has been indexed***Answer***

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

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

70.Question Which of the following website design guidelines have been recommended by Google?
a. Having a clear hierarchy and text links***Answer***
b. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link***Answer***
c. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you should break the site map into separate pages***Answer***
e. Use less than 30 images or graphics per page***Answer***

71.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?
c. Paid links should be disclosed through the “rel=nofollow” attribute in the hyperlink***Answer***

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

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

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