oDesk Search Engine Optimization skill Test UPDATED Answers
Question: 1
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Which
of the following search engines or directories provides the
directory
search results for Yahoo? |
Ans: B
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Question: 2
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Which of the following statements regarding website content
are correct?
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Ans: A
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Question: 3
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What is Keyword Density?
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Ans: D
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Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are
correct:
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Ans: A
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Question: 5
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Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
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Ans: B
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Question: 6
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What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
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Ans: C
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Question: 7
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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
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Question: 8
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What is Anchor Text?
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Ans: C
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Question: 9
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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
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Question: 10
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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
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Question: 11
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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
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Question: 12
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What term is commonly used to
describe the shuffling of positions in search
engine results in
between major updates? |
Ans: B
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Question: 13
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While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound
links pointing
to authority websites? |
Ans: B
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Question: 14
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Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine
spider?
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Ans: E
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Question: 16
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What does the 302 server response code signify?
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Ans: D
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Question: 17
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Which of the following statements is correct with regard to
the description meta tag?
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Ans: D
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Question: 18
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State whether true or false.The Yahoo Directory listing is a
free service for commercial sites.
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Ans: A
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Question: 19
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Which of the following statements is correct with regard to
the images within a webpage?
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Ans: B
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Question: 20
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Cloaking is a
controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
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Ans: B
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Question: 21
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Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?
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ANS: A
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Question: 22
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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?
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Ans: C
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Question: 23
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Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
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Ans: A
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Question: 24
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Which of the following statements about Google’s technical and
quality guidelines is true?
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Ans: B
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Question: 25
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Which of the following is an
ethical SEO Technique?
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Ans: D
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Question: 26
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All major search engines are case sensitive.
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Ans: B
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Question: 27
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While optimizing your website it is important to generate the
right type of traffic, how does the Bounce Rate information help in this
regard?
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Ans: B
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Question: 28
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Which of the following factors contribute towards link
popularity of a website?
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Ans: A,B,C,D
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Question: 29
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Search engines do not index some common words (such as “or”,
“and”, “when”, and “in”) within the webpage. What are these common words
called?
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Ans: D
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Question: 30
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Which of the following activities could be looked down upon by
Google as per their quality guidelines?
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Ans: B,C
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Question: 31
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Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?
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Ans: A
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Question: 32
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_________ is usually the best web page to get linked to while
receiving a themed in-bound link from another website.
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Ans: D
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Question: 33
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Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection
and placement strategies?
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ANS: A, D
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Question: 34
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If your site is not appearing in Google search
results because of some unethical SEO practices
in the recent past, _________________.
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Ans: D
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Question: 35
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Which of the
following statements about search engine optimization techniques are
correct:
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Ans: A, B, D
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Question: 36
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A Hallway Page is used to:
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Ans: D
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Question: 37
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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”?
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Ans: D
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Question: 38
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How are site maps
important for the search engine optimization process?
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Ans: C
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Question: 39
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State whether the following statement is true or false.A
Sitemap provides a list of internal links to user accessible pages on a
website.
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Ans: A
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Question: 40
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What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search
engine?
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Ans: D
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Question: 41
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Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably
from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?
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Ans: D
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Question: 42
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Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to
Yahoo. What is performed by the link: operator?
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ANS: C
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Question: 43
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Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google Page Rank?
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ANS: A
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Question: 44
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What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an
unknown area of reputability/validity?
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ANS: C
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Question: 45
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Why is it a bad idea from the seo perspective to host free
articles and write ups that are very common on the internet.
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ANS: B
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Question: 46
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The following robots meta tag directs the search engine
bots:<META NAME=”robots” CONTENT=”noindex,nofollow”>
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ANS: B
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Question: 47
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_________________ use both crawlers and directories to
generate relevant results.
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ANS: D
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Question: 48
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Which of the following statements is correct with regard to
natural links?
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ANS: C
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Question: 49
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What will happen if you type the words ‘Certification
-Networking’ in the Google search box?
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ANS: D
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Question: 50
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If you enter ‘Help site:www.microsoft.com’ in the Google
search box, what will Google search for?
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ANS: B
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Question: 51
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Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?
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ANS: B
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Question: 52
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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?
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ANS: D
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Question: 53
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If a website’s search engine saturation with respect to a
particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?
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NS: A
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Question: 54
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What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a
webpage towards a long tail keyword search?
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ANS: A
Thank you..
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