oDesk SEO Test Questions And Answers

What part of this project most appeals to you?
We love our work and we are always happy to work on something that we have our area of interest and expertise in. This project is a great platform for us to put in our experience in this field and generate quality results. Every bit of the work associated with the project appeals to us and will be our prime focus.

What part of this project most appeals to you?

I like and enjoy forum profile link creation and post as well.

What part of this project most appeals to you?

SEO has always been perceived as a science of effective usage of Meta tags, positioning of keywords organically in body text, and careful analysis of keyword density using popular SEO software tools and techniques. But organic search engine optimization and search engine rankings are driven by natural instincts of TOP SEO Analysts who not only has the right SEO strategy and information on search engine algorithms, but also has a natural sense of organic SEO.

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What past project or job have you had that is most like this one and why?
We aim to achieve the best results through White Hat On Page and Off Page SEO techniques.
Some of the examples of our work are:

1) http://www.celebritymobileteethwhitening.com/
Keyword: Celebrity Mobile Teeth Whitening
Searches: 1,900,000
Rank: 1

2 http://relocationservicescanada.com/
Keyword: relocation services canada
Searches: 12,500,000
Rank: 1

3)  www.creditrepairca.com
Keyword:California Credit Repair
Searches:49,900,000
Rank:3


4) http://www.rothco.com/general/index.cfm
Keyword: Military Outerwear
Searches: 7,830,000
Rank: 4

5) www.lowcountrydigs.com
Keyword: home additions charlestonsc
Searches: 69,700
Rank:5
What past project or job have you had that is most like this one and why?
SEO with On page optimization and off page optimization because I feel comfortable to do this kind of project.
What past project or job have you had that is most like this one and why?
I'm very interested in your job post involving these skills.
What past project or job have you had that is most like this one and why?
My past and recent projects areLink building and thisskill here mentioned is very familiar to me.
What past project or job have you had that is most like this one and why?
Please feel free to check my link samples in the application.
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What questions do you have about the project?
The project is clearly explained as on an initial stage. As of now, things are clear to us and we do not have any questions at this stage. Further details can be shared with us anytime to provide a better understanding of the project. We will surely be asking you whenever we have any questions once the project is awarded.
What questions do you have about the project?
Work information?
What questions do you have about the project?
I have no question at all but in next conversation.  I will take further instructions.

What questions do you have about the project?

We want to discuss about project first, how much they long to work with us.

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Which of the required job skills do you feel you are strongest at?

We are a team of SEO experts, Creative web designers, experienced Web developers and passionate content writers. Each of our team members is highly experienced and always willing to grasp new things which are beneficial for the overall improvement of the work. Hence, we are confident in everything we do. Also, our work speaks for us. You can check our Odesk profile for the list of ongoing jobs and the excellent feedback from our previous clients.

Which of the required job skills do you feel you are strongest at?
Seo on page and off page under Google panda & penguin update.
Which of the required job skills do you feel you are strongest at?
I have give you APPROVE HIGH PR Forum Posting with profile links
Which of the required job skills do you feel you are strongest at?
Although I am SEO specialist and I am expert both off page and on page seo and have a vast knowledge about latest updates but from my work experience I can easily say that I am a professional link builder. You can check my work history.

Which of the required job skills do you feel you are strongest at?

Yes Sure, We having more than 4+ years experience in forum link building.

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Have you taken any oDesk tests and done well on them that you think are relevant to this job?

We are trying to give our best knowledge at oDesk.com

Have you taken any oDesk tests and done well on them that you think are relevant to this job?
Yes I have taken Search engine optimization (SEO) Test
Have you taken any oDesk tests and done well on them that you think are relevant to this job?
We are a team of experts and we have taken several tests on odesk. Also, we are comfortable taking any test that you would like us to take on odesk. Kindly feel free to ask us to take any test. We are confident of coming out with flying colours in the area of our expertise.

oDesk SEO Test Questions And Answers

Question:1 What will the following robots.txt file do?

•    User-agent: Googlebot

•    Disallow:/*?

•    User-agent: scooter

•    Disallow:

a. It will allow Google to crawl any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also allow the altavista scooter hot to access every page

Ans: b. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages It will also disallow the altavista scooter hot from accessing any page

c. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will allow the altavista scooter bot to access every page

d. None of the ahove

Question:2 What does the 302 server response code signify?

a.It signifies conflict, too many people wanted 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

Question:3 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

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

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

Question:4 State whether true or false.

The Yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial sites.

a.True

b.False

Ans: A

Question: 5 Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?

Ans: c. Google

Question: 6 Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage?

a.Images cannot be spidered by the search engines

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 webpage

d.Image maps should be used while including the images

Ans: B

Question: 7 Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?

a.Increasing the keyword density on the web pages

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

Ans: c.Hiding the keywords within the webpage

d.Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors

Question: 8 Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?

a.Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic

b.Alexa and Quantcast provide information on visitor household incomes

c.Alexa is biased towards US based traffic

d.Quantcast only tracks people who have installed the Quantcast toolbar

ANS: A

Question: 9 Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?

Ans: c. 3-4%

Question: 10 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

Ans: C

Question: 11 Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?

Ans: a. Hiding text on the webpage

b.Stuffing keywords on the webpage

c.Linking to sites banned by Google

Ans: d.None of the above

Question: 12 Which of the following statements about Google technical and quality guidelines is  true.

Ans: Avoid using robot.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 the search  engines.

Question: 13 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 heade

Ans: 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

Ans: 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

Question: 14 Which of the following are examples of agents?

a. Internet Explorer

b. Search engine spiders

c. Opera

Question: 15 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

Ans: b. Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not

Ans: c. Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users

Ans: d. None of the above

Question: 16 All major search engines are case sensitive.

a.True

b.False

Ans: B

Question: 17 While optimizing your website it is important to generate the right type of traffic, how does the Bounce Rate information help in this regard?

a.By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then went on to visit additional pages

Ans: b. By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then left without viewing any other page

c.By letting you know the percentage of users who decided to go back to the source from where they found your website

Ans: d. By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page

Question: 18 Implementing a 301 Permanent Redirects on the old pages to redirect to the new pages is a good idea from the SEO perspective.

Ans: a.     True

b.     False

Question: 19 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

Ans: A,B,C,D

Question: 20 Search engines do not index some common words (such as “or”, “and”, “when”, and “in”) within the webpage. What are these common words called?

a.Barrier words

b.Non-indexable words

c.Slow words

d.Stop words

Ans: D

Question: 21 What does the 301 server response code signify?

Ans: b. Moved Permanently

Question: 22 Which of the following activities could be looked down upon by Google as per their quality guidelines?

a.Using automated website submission software

b.Loading pages with irrelevant links

c.Intentionally adding keywords to the TITLE tags and ALT attributes

d.Registering misspellings of well-known websites

Ans: B,C

Question: 23 Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?

a.It is a form of XML

b.tstands for Realtime streamlined syndication

c.It is a good way of displaying static information

d.It is a Microsoft technology

Ans: A

Question: 24 _________ is usually the best web page to get linked to while receiving a themed in-bound link from another website.

a.The sitemap

b.The contact page

c.The home page

Ans: d.The page which you would like to improve in the search engine rankings

Question: 25 Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?

a.Targeting synonyms of the main keyword

b.Targeting the highest searched keywords only

c.Copying competitor keywords

d.ofive or more keywords per page

ANS: A, D

Question 31: Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage?

a.    Images cannot be spidered by the search engines

Ans: 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 webpage

d.    Image maps should be used while including the images

Question 32: Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?

a.    Increasing the keyword density on the web pages

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

Ans: c.    Hiding the keywords within the webpage

d.    Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors

Question 33: Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?

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

b.    Alexa and Quantcast provide information on visitor household incomes

c.    Alexa is biased towards US based traffic

d.    Quantcast only tracks people who have installed the Quantcast toolbar

Question 34: 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 nonprofit websites should be accepted

Ans: c.    Paid links should be disclosed through the “rel=nofollow” attribute  in the hyperlink

Ans: d.    Paid links should be disclosed through the “index=nofollow” attribute  in the hyperlink

Question 35: 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)

Ans: d. There are fewer website that have targeted such keyword's

Question 36: Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?

Ans: a.    Hiding text on the webpage(Answer)

b.    Stuffing keywords on the webpage

c.    Linking to sites banned by Google

Ans: d.    None of the above

Question 37: 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

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

d. None of the above

Question 38: All major search engines are case sensitive.

a.    True

Ans: b.    False

Question 39: While optimizing your website it is important to generate the right type of traffic, how does the Bounce Rate information help in this regard?

a.    By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then went on to visit additional pages

Ans: b.    By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then left without viewing any other page(Answer)

c.    By letting you know the percentage of users who decided to go back to the source from where they found your website

Ans: d.    By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page

Question 40: Google displays up to ------------------------ characters of a web pages title tag

a.56

Ans: b.60   B & C

c.66

d.80

Question 41: 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)

Ans: A,B,C,D

Question 42: Search engines do not index some common words (such as “or”, “and”, “when”, and “in”) within the webpage. What are these common words called?

a.    Barrier words

b.    Non-indexable words

c.    Slow words

Ans: d.    Stop words

Question 43: Which of the following activities could be looked down upon by Google as per their quality guidelines?

a.    Using automated website submission software

Ans: b.    Loading pages with irrelevant links(Answer)

Ans: c.    Intentionally adding keywords to the TITLE tags and ALT attributes(Answer)

d.    Registering misspellings of well-known websites

Question 44: Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?

Ans: a.    It is a form of XML

b.    It stands for Realtime streamlined syndication

c.    It is a good way of displaying static information

d.    It is a Microsoft technology

Question 45: _________ is usually the best web page to get linked to while receiving a themed in-bound link from another website.

a.    The sitemap

b.    The contact page

c.    The home page

Ans: d.    The page which you would like to improve in the search engine rankings

Question 46: Which of the following options describes the correct meaning of MouseTrapping?

Ans: d. The web browser trick, which attempts to keep a visitor captive at on a website

Question 47: Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?

Ans: a.    Targeting synonyms of the main keyword

b.    Targeting the highest searched keywords only

c.    Copying competitor keywords

Ans: d.    Optimizing five or more keywords per page

Question 48: If your site is not appearing in Google search results because of some unethical SEO practices in the recent past,

a.    abandon and close your website permanently.

Ans: b.    modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site. (Answer)

c.    start a PPC campaign to get your site included in the sponsored results.

Ans: d.    it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.

Question 49: Which of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct:

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

Ans: 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

Ans: 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

Question 50: A Hallway Page is used to:

a.    Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway Page

b.    Organize the Doorway Pages

c.    Help people navigate to different Doorway Pages

Ans: d.    Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages(Answer)

Question 51: 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”?

a.    Yahoo Search Term Suggestion Tool

b.    Alexa

Ans: c.    Google Traffic Estimator

Ans: d.    Google Trends

e.    WordTracker

Question 52: State whether the following statement is true or false.

 A Sitemap provides a list of internal links to user accessible pages on a website.

Ans: a.    True

b.    False

Question 53: What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?

Ans: 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

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

Question 54: 10 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.

a. less than 30%

Ans: b. 30 percent

Ans: c. more than 30%

Question 55: What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?

a.Red hat techniques

Ans: b.Silver hat techniques

Ans: c. Grey hat techniques

d.Shady hat techniques

Question 56: Why is it a bad idea from the 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

Ans: b.Because you could get penalized by search engines for using duplicate content

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

d.Because people could turn up claiming copy right infringement

Question 57: The following robots meta tag directs the search engine bots:

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">

a.Not to index the homepage and not to follow the links in the page

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

c.To index the page and not to follow the links in the page

d.Not to index the page but to follow the links in the page

Question 58: 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

b. It is inversely proportional to the competiton for the keyword

Ans: c. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results

Question 59: _________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.

a.Crawler-based Search Engines

b.Human-Powered Directories

c.Hybrid Search Engines

Ans: d.Meta Search Engines

Question 60: Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?

a.They are two way links (reciprocal links)

b.They are from authority websites

Ans: c.They are voluntary in nature

d.They are from .edu or .gov extension websites

Question 61: What will happen if you type the words 'Certification -Networking' in the Google search box?

a.Google will find the web pages about Certification and also containing the word "Networking"

Ans: b.Google will find all the web pages containing the words "Certification" and "Networking"

Ans: 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

Question 62: Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?

Ans: c. 3-4%

Question 63: If you enter 'Help site:www.microsoft.com' in the Google search box, what will Google search for?

a.It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.expertrating.com

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

c.It will only find page titles about help within www.expertrating.com

d.It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.expertrating.com

Question 64: Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?

a.They are greatly beneficial to SEO

Ans: b.They are also called link farms

c.They are paid listings

d.They contain numerous inbound links

Question 65: 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

Ans: b.Dilating

Ans: c.RSD (real time synonym detection)

Ans: d.Stemming

e.Branching

Question 66: Which of the following are examples of agents?

a. Internet Explorer

Ans: b. Search engine spiders

c. Opera

Question 67: If a website's search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?

Ans: 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

Question 68: What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search?

Ans: a.There are more long tail searches than shorter keyword queries

b.Search engines often pass on long tail searches to lesser known and new websites

c.Search engines do not pass on long tail search traffic to websites that rank high for shorter keyword searches

d.There are fewer websites that have targeted such keywords

Question 69: Google gives priority to themed in-bound links.

a. True

Question 70: 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

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

d.It shows URLs with broken links

Question 71: Which blackhatSeotechniques 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?

a.Coaling

b.Foisting

Ans: c.Slighting

Ans: d.Cloaking

Question 72: 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"

Ans: 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

Question 73: Which of the following methods can help you get around the Google Sandbox?

Ans: a. Buying an old Website and getting it ranked

Question 74: Which of the following statement about FFA pages are true?

a.They are greatly beneficial to SEO

Ans: b.They are also called Link Farms

c. They are Paid Listings

d. They contain numerous inbound links

Question 75: Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google search results?

Ans: No

Question 76: 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 web site

Ans: d. The page which you would like to improve in the search engine rankings

Question 77: What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?

a. 1 week

b. 3 weeks

c. 2 months

Ans: d. More than 3 months

Question 78: Implementing a 301 permanent Redirects on the old pages to redirect to the new pages  is a good idea from the SEO perspective.

True or False?

Ans: a.     True

b.     False

Question 79: Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the 'Relevancy' perspective?

a.The website offering products and services to the visitors country

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

c.Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term

Ans: d.Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term

Question 79: If you enter “help site:http://www.vjseomarketing.com‘ in the google search box, what will  Google search for

Ans: it will find pages about help with-in http://www.vjseomarketing.com

Question 80: Which of the following website design guidelines have been recommended by Google?

Ans: a. Having a clear hierarchy and text links

Ans: b. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link

Ans: 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

Question 81: Which of the following search engines offers a popular list of the top 50 most searched keywords?

d. Lycos

Question 82: which of the following statements about the RSS are correct.

Ans: it is a form of XML

Question 83: 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.

Question 84: Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?

c. Google

Question 85: Do search engines such as google detect innatural linking patterns by checking the  Class C ip address of the page where the link to the websites originates? Yes or no?

Ans: yes

   

Question 86: Google display up to _______ characters of a WebPages Title Tag.

Ans: 66

Question 87: Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine result pages

Ans: clustering

Ans: d.     Combing     

Question 88: Which of the following statements about Google technical and quality guidelines is  true.

Ans: Avoid using robot.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 the search  engines.

Question 89: What will the following robots.txt file do?

User-agent: Googlebot

Disallow:/*?

User-agent: scooter

Disallow:

a. It will allow Google to crawl any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also allow the altavista scooter hot to access every page

Ans: b. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages It will also disallow the altavista scooter hot from accessing any page

Ans: c. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will allow the altavista scooter bot to access every page

d. None of the ahove

Question 90: 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”?

Ans: b

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 showurl's with broken links

2. Which blackhatSeotechniques 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
c.Because you will not get the benefits of proper keyword targeting
d.because people could turn up claiming copyright infirigement

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.
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.

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 unauthorized parties 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. 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)

11. Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to yahoo. What is perfermed 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 showurl's with broken links

12. Which blackhatSeotechniques 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?

a.Coaling
b.Foisting
c.Slighting
d*Cloaking

13. 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 infirigement

14. 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.
d.Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not contain the word Networking

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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 (check)

21. Google displays up to ------------------------ characters of a web pages title tag

a.56
b.60 * B & C
c.66
d.80

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

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


23. 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?

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

24.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

25. Which of the following conditions will google treat favorably from the "Relevancy" perspective.

a.The website offering product and services to the visitors 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

26. Which of the following website design guideline has been recommended by google?

a*Having a clear hierachy and text links
b.Every page should be reachable from atleast 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

27. 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 webvsite that have targeted such keyword's


28 Which of the following statement is correct with regard's to the images within a web page?

a.Images can not be spidered by the search engine (check)
b*Important keywords related to the image should be plcaed 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

29. 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

30. 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

31.  State whether true or false. 

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

Question: 1

Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory

search results for Yahoo?

Ans:  B

Question: 2

Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?

Ans: A

Question: 3

What is Keyword Density?

Ans: D

Question: 4

Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct:

Ans: A

Question: 5

Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?

Ans: B

Question: 6

What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?

Ans: C

Question: 7

Which of the following factors does Google take into account

while assessing whether or not a website is an authority website?

Ans: A,B,C

Question:  8

What is Anchor Text?

Ans: C

Question: 9

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”?

Ans: B

Question: 10

What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties

in order to filter off traffic to another site called?

Ans: D

Question:  11

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?

Ans: A

Question:  12

What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search

engine results in between major updates?

Ans: B

Question: 13

While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing

to authority websites?

Ans: B

Question:  14

Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine spider?

Ans: E

Question: 16

What does the 302 server response code signify?

Ans: D

Question: 17

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

Ans: D

Question: 18

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

Ans: A

Question: 19

Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage?

Ans: B

Question: 20

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

Ans: B

Question:  21

Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?

ANS: A

Question: 22

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?

Ans: C

Question:  23

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

Ans:  A

Question:  24

Which of the following statements about Google’s technical and quality guidelines is true?

Ans: B

Question: 25

Which of the following is an ethical SEO Technique?

Ans: D

Question:  26

All major search engines are case sensitive.

Ans: B

Question:  27

While optimizing your website it is important to generate the right type of traffic, how does the Bounce Rate information help in this regard?

Ans: B

Question:  28

Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?

Ans: A,B,C,D

 Question:  29

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

Ans: D

Question:  30

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

Ans: B,C

Question:  31

Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?

Ans: A

Question:  32

_________ is usually the best web page to get linked to while receiving a themed in-bound link from another website.

Ans: D

Question: 33

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

ANS: A, D

Question:  34

If your site is not appearing in Google search results because of some unethical SEO practices in the recent past, _________________.

Ans:  D

 Question:  35

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

Ans: A, B, D

Question:  36

A Hallway Page is used to:

Ans: D

 Question:  37

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”?

Ans: D

 Question:  38

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

Ans: C

Question:  39

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

Ans: A

Question:  40

What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?

Ans:  D

Question:  41

Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?

Ans: D

Question:  42

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

ANS:  C

Question:  43

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

ANS:  A

Question:  44

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

ANS: C

Question:  45

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

ANS: B

Question:  46

The following robots meta tag directs the search engine bots:

ANS:  B

Question:  47

_________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.

ANS:  D

 Question:  48

Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?

ANS: C

Question:  49

What will happen if you type the words ‘Certification -Networking’ in the Google search box?

ANS: D

Question:   50

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

ANS: B

Question: 51

Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?

ANS: B

Question:  52

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?

ANS: D

Question:  53

If a website’s search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?

NS: A

 Question: 54

What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search?

ANS:   A

OdeskSeo Test Questions AndAnswers 2013

oDesk Search Engine Optimization Test Questions and Answers

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

 b. Yahoo Directory

Question: Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?                                                             

c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate

Question: What is Keyword Density?

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:

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

Question: Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google's search results?

b.No

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

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

Ans: A,B,C

Question:  What is Anchor Text?

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"?

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?

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?

a.Yes

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

 b.Flux

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

b.False

Question: Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine spider?

e.All of the above

Question: Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage's Title Tag.

c.66

Question: What does the 302 server response code signify?

 d.The page has temporarily moved

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

Question: State whether true or false.

The Yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial sites.

a.True

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

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

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

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

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?

 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?

a.Hiding text on the webpage

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

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

d.None of the above

Question: All major search engines are case sensitive.

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?

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?

Ans: A,B,C,D

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

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

Ans: B,C

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

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.

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?

Ans: A,D

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.

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

Ans: A, B, D

Question: A Hallway Page is used to:

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"?

d.Google Trends

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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">

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.

d.Meta Search Engines

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

c.They are voluntary in nature

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

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

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

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?

d.Stemming

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

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

Question:10 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.

 b. 30 percent