oDesk Search Engine Optimization skill Test UPDETED Answers
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 PageRank? |
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:<META NAME=”robots” CONTENT=”noindex,nofollow”> |
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? |
ANS: A |
Question: 54 |
What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search? |
ANS: A |
