oDesk SEO Test Answer-2013

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

b. Yahoo Directory

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

3.Question: What is Keyword Density?

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

4.Question: Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct:

a. Repeated submission of the Sitemap to Google could be penalized

5.Question: Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?

b. No

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

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
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)

8.Question:  What is Anchor Text?

c. It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page

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

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

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

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

b. Flux

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

b. False
14.Question: Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine spider?

e. All of the above
15.Question: Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage’s Title Tag.

b.60
c.66

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

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

a. True

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

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

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

21.Question: Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?

a. Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic

22.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

23.Question: Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?

a. Hiding text on the webpage

24.Question: Which of the following s 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

25.Question: Which of the following is an ethical SEO Technique?

d. None of the above

26.Question: All major search engines are case sensitive.

b. False

27.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

28.Question: Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?

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

29.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

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

b. Loading pages with irrelevant links
c. Intentionally adding keywords to the TITLE tags and ALT attributes

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

a. It is a form of XML

32.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

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

a. Targeting synonyms of the main keyword

d. ofive or more keywords per page

34.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.

35.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
b. Websites with deep linking are looked at favorably by search engines
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

36.Question: A Hallway Page is used to:

d. Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages

37.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”?

d. Google Trends

38.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

39.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

40.Question: What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?

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

41.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

42.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

43.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

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

c. Grey hat techniques

45.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

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

b. Not to index the page and not to follow the links in the page

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

d. Meta Search Engines

48.Question: Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?

c. They are voluntary in nature

49.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

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

b. It will find pages about help within www.expertrating.com

51.Question: Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?

b. They are also called link farms

52.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

53.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

54.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