Odesk SEO Test Questions & Answers 2014

Odesk SEO Test Questions & Answers 2014

1. 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

Ans: C. It shows all the pages that point to that url

2. Which blackhat Seo techniques are 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

Ans: 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
c. Because you will not get the benefits of proper keyword targeting
d. because people could turn up claiming copyright infringement

Ans: b. because you could be penalize by search engine for using duplicate contents

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  “Certification” and “Networking”
c. Google will find ALL the web pages in which the words “Certification” and “Networking” appear together.
d. Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not contain the word Networking

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

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 are 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

Ans: c. the number of in-bound natural links related to the website’s theme (or keywords)

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

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

Ans: d. they contain numerous inbound links

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

a. Traffic jacking
b. Visitors jacking
c. View Jacking
d. Page Jacking

Ans: 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

Ans: d. More than 3 months

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

a. Targeting synonyms of the main keyword, A & D
b. Targeting the highest searched keywords only
c. Copying competitor keywords
d. Optimizing 5 or more keywords per page (check)

Ans: a. targeting synonyms of the main keyword, A & D

11. Google displays up to ———————— characters of a web pages title tag

a.56
b.60

c.66
d.80

Ans: C. 66

12. Which of the following fact about Alexa are correct?

a. Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor’s traffic
b.  Alexa and Quancast provide information on visitors household income
c. Alexa is based towards US based traffic
d. Quantcast only track people who have installed the quantcast toolbar

Ans: a. Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor’s traffic

13. What is the name of the search engine technology due to which a query for the word “actor” will also show search result for related word such as actress, acting or act?

a. Spreading
b. Dilating
c.RSD (real time synonyms detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching

Ans: d. Stemming

14. 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

a. Yes
b. No

Ans: a. yes

15. Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the “Relevancy” perspective?

a. The website offering product and services to the visitor’s country
b. A website that provides free content for related keywords
c. Hidden keywords on the homepage matching search term
d .Image alt tag on the homepage matching search term

Ans: b. a website that provides free content for related keywords

16. Which of the following website design guideline has 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 sitemap is larger than 100 or so links, you should break the sitemap into separate pages
d. Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100)
e. Use less than 30 images or graphics per page

Ans: a. Having a clear hierarchy and text links

17. What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a web page towards a long tails keyword search? Recheck

a. There are more long tail searches than shorter keyword queries
b. Search engine often pass on long tail searches to lesser or new website
c. Search engine do not pass on long tail search traffic to website that rank high for shorter keyword searches (check)
d. There are fewer website that have targeted such keyword’s

Ans: B & D

18 Which of the following statement is correct with regards to the images within a web page?

a. Images cannot be spidered by the search engine (check)
b. Important keywords related to the image should be placed in the ALT text
c. Images should always be kept close to the top of a web page
d. Image maps should be used while including the images

Ans: b. important keywords related to the image should be placed in the ALT text

19. What does the 302 server Response Code signify?

a. It signifies conflict, too many people wanting the same file at the same time
b. The page has been permanently removed
c. The method you are using to access the file is not allowed
d. The page has temporarily moved
e. What you requested is just too big to process

Ans: d. the page has temporarily moved

20. State whether the following statement is true or false. A sitemap provide a list of natural links to user accessible pages on a website

a. True
b. False

Ans: b. False

21.  State whether true or false. 

The Yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial site?

a. True

b. False

Ans: a. True

22.  Which of the following can be termed as a good keyword selection and placement strategies?
Ans: A & D

a. Targeting synonyms of the main keyword
d. Optimizing 5 or more keywords per page

23. Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google search results?
ans: No

24.  All major search engines are case sensitive
ans: False

25. Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve
ans: Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines

26. Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the description meta tag?
ans: Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages.

27. Which of the following statements about the search engine optimization techniques are correct?
ans: websites with deep linking are looked at the favorably by search engines

28. Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google page rank
ans: the subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a website.

29. Which of the following is an ethical SEO Techniques?
ans: Non of the above.

30. What is Anchor text
ans: it is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page