Elance SEO Test 2014

Elance SEO test Questions and Answers

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

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

2. What is keyword density?

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

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

d: Page Jacking

4. What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page ranking?

d. More than 3 months

5. What is Anchor text?

b. it is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page

6. what is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpages towards a long  tail keyword search

a. there are fewer websites that have targeted such keywords.

7. 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.

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

a. Google will find all the web pages in which the words certification and networking  appear together

9. 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?

b. RSD ( real time synonym detection )

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

b. Flux

11. What does the 302 server response code signify?

d. The page has temporarily moved

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

c. Grey hat techniques

13. Which black hat SEO techniques 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?

d. Cloaking

14. Which of the following statement about FFA pages are true?

b. They are also called Link Farms

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

a. Targeting synonyms of the main keyword

16. 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.

17. Which of the following statements about the search engine optimization techniques are correct?

b. websites with deep linking are looked at the favorably by search engines

18. Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google page rank?

c. the subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site

19. Which of the following is an ethical SEO Techniques?

a. Non of the above.

20. Which of the following website design guidelines have been recommended by Google

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

21. Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?

c. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you  only allow the indexing of the better version

22. Which of the following statements about the RSS are correct?

a. it is a form of XML

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

a. Hiding text on the webpage

24. Which is the function of indexer part of the Google search Engine?

d. It helps to retrieve web pages from the world wide wed

25. Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine result pages

d. clustering

26. Which of the following statements about Google technical and quality guidelines is true.

c. 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.

27. Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?

a. Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic

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

b, c

29. Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?

b. Yahoo Directory

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

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

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

a, b, c, d

32. 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”?

c. Google Traffic Estimator

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

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

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

c. They are voluntary in nature

35. 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

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

b. False

37. 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

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

b. False

39. Google display up to _______ characters of a WebPages Title Tag.

c. 66

 40. 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” Yes or no?

 b. no