1.
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
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
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
2. 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%
b. 30 percent
c. more than 30%
a. less than 30%
b. 30 percent
c. more than 30%
4. What does the 301 server response code signify?
a. Not Modified
b. Moved Permanently
c. syntax error in the request
d. Payment is required
e. The request must be authorized before it can take place
a. Not Modified
b. Moved Permanently
c. syntax error in the request
d. Payment is required
e. The request must be authorized before it can take place
Question 37: 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
b. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site
c. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site
a. The total number of inbound links to a page of a web site
b. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site
c. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site
20. Which of the following statements are correct with
regard to using javascript within the web pages?
a. It uses up the valuable space within the webpage, which should be used for placing meaningful text for the search engines
b. Search engines cannot read Javascript
c. It is a good idea to shift the Javascript into a separate file
d. Most of the search engines are unable to read links within Javascript code
a. It uses up the valuable space within the webpage, which should be used for placing meaningful text for the search engines
b. Search engines cannot read Javascript
c. It is a good idea to shift the Javascript into a separate file
d. Most of the search engines are unable to read links within Javascript code
21. 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
c. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results
a. It is directly proportional to the popularity of the keyword
b. It is inversely proportional to the competiton for the keyword
c. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results
36. Question: What is the most likely time period required
for getting a Google page rank?
Answer: 2-3 Months .
Answer: 2-3 Months .
More
than 3 month
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
the answer is: A, B,c, d
Question2:
What does the term Keyword refer to?
a. It refers to the fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best return on investment
b. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density
c. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines
d. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines
the answer is
Question3:
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
Question4:
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”?
a. Yes
b. No
Question5:
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 shows URLs with broken links
Question6:
What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
a. Waves
b. Flux
c. Shuffling
d. Swaying
Question7:
Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage’s Title Tag.
a. 56
b. 60
c. 66
d. 80
Question8:
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
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
d. By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page
the answer is:
Question9:
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
c. If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information
d. Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages
the answer is:
Question10:
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.
b. modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.
c. start a PPC campaign to get your site included in the sponsored results.
d. it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.
Question11:
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
b. Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c. Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d. None of the above
the answer isQuestion12:
Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
a. Yes
b. No
Question13:
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
b. False
Question14:
All major search engines are case sensitive.
a. True
b. False
Question15:
_________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
a. Crawler-based Search Engines
b. Human-Powered Directories
c. Hybrid Search Engines
d. Meta Search Engines
the answer is:
Question16:
Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?
a. The website offering products and services to the visitors country
b. A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d. Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term
the answer is: b.
Question17:
Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?
a. Windows Live
b. Yahoo Directory
c. Google
d. Wikipedia
e. DMOZ
the answer is Question18:
While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing to authority websites?
a. True
b. False
Question19:
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 (MULTIPLIED 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
the answer is
Question21:
What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
a. Trafficjacking
b. Visitorjacking
c. Viewjacking
d. Pagejacking
Question22:
Google gives priority to themed inbound links.
a. True
b. False
Question23:
What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?
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
d. It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user’s search term
the answer is:
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
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
Question25:
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
b. Dilating
c. RSD (real time synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching
the answer is:
Question26:
Which of the following statements 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
the answer is:
Question27:
Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
a. Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
c. Hiding the keywords within the webpage
d. Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors
the answer is:
Question28:
What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?
a. 1 week
b. 3 weeks
c. 1 month
d. More than 3 months
Question29:
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
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. WordTracker
Question30:
Which of the following factors does Google take into account while assessing whether or not a website is an authority website?
a. The frequency with which the content of the website is updated
b. The number of web pages containing relevant information on the main theme of the website
(more important) c. The number of in-bound natural links related to the website’s theme (or keywords)
d. None of the above
the answer is: Question31:
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 bot to access every page
b. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also disallow the altavista scooter bot 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 above
Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?
*a. If you have
two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only
allow the indexing of the better version
b. Linking to a page inconsistently
does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent
linking could be http://www.expertrating.com/page/ and
http://www.expertrating.com/page and http://www.expertrating.com/page/index.htmc. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google
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
c. They are voluntary in nature
d. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
Question34:
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 header
*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
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
Question35:
Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine result pages?
a. Clustering
b. Normalizing
c. Sifting
d. Combing
Question36:
Implementing a 301 Permanent Redirects on the old pages to redirect to the new pages is a good idea from the SEO perspective.
a. True
b. False
the answer is:
Question37:
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
Question38:
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
b. No
Question39:
What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
a. Red hat techniques
b. Silver hat techniques
c. Grey hat techniques
d. Shady hat techniques
the answer is: c. Grey hat techniques
Question40:
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. Optimizing five or more keywords per page
If you enter help site: www.expertrating.com in the Google
search box, what will Google search for?
Ans: a. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.expertrating.com
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
Ans: a. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.expertrating.com
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
hat is the name of the search
engine technology due to which a query for the word actor will also show search
result for related words such as actress, acting or act?
Ans: RSD ( real time synonym detection )
Ans: RSD ( real time synonym detection )
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
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
15. 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
16. 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
18. Which of the following is an ethical SEO Techniques?
ans: Non of the above.
19. What is Anchor text
ans:it is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page
20. Google looks down upon paid links for enhancing page rank. If a website sells a links, what actions does Google recommend to avoid being penalized
ans: Paid links should be disclosed through index-nofollow attribute in the hyperlink?
22. 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
23. which of the following website design guidelines have been recommended by Google
ans:Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link
24. Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?
ans:If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version
26. 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.
27. how are the site maps important for the search engine optimization process
ans:ste maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website..
28. which of the following actions could get you banned by Google
ans:non of the above.
29. 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
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Which of the following factors does Google take into account while accessing whether or not a website is an authority website?
Ans: c
State whether true or false.
The yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial sites.
Ans: a
Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
Ans: a
Which of the following statements about the Google sitemaps are correct?
Ans: a
What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
Ans: c
Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?
Ans: d
Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique, what does it involve?
Ans: b
Which of the following website design guidelines have been recommended by Google?
Ans: c
What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
Ans: c
Google gives priority to themed inbound links.
Ans: a
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the description Meta tag?
Ans: d
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?
Ans: c
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage?
Ans: b
Which of the following free tools/websites could help you identify which city in the world has the largest search for the keyword ‘sigma’?
Ans: d
If a website’s search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?
Ans: a
What does the 302 server response code signify?
Ans: d
Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?
Ans: a
Implementing a 301 permanent redirects on the old pages to redirect to the new pages is a good idea from the SEO?
Ans: a
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
Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to Yahoo. What is performed by the link: operator?
Ans: c
All major search engines are case sensitive.
Ans: b
Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine results?
Ans: a
A Hallway Page is used to:
Ans: d
Google looks down upon paid links for enhancing page rank. If a website sells links, what actions does Google recommend being penalized?
Ans: c
Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?
Ans: b
Google displays up to _______ characters of a webpage’s Title Tag.
Ans: d
What is anchor text?
Ans: c
______ is usually the best web page to get linked to while receiving a themed in-bound link from another website.
Ans: d
What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?
Ans: d
Which of the following statement about RSS is correct?
Ans: a
Which black hat SEO technique is characterized by a method to deceive search engine, by detecting the search engine “feeding” it with a different HTML code than the HTML actually served to users?
Ans: d
Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search result for yahoo?
Ans: b
What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search?
Ans: a
What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
Ans: b
Which of the following activities could be looked down upon by Google as per their quality guidelines?
Ans: b, c
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
What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?
Ans: d
How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
Ans: c
oDesk Search Engine Optimization Test Questions and Answers
Question: Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?
a. Windows Live
b. Yahoo Directory
c. Google
d. Wikipedia
e. DMOZ
Ans:B
Question: Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?
a. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version
b. Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.expertrating.com/page/ and http://www.expertrating.com/page and http://www.expertrating.com/page/index.htm
c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google
Ana:c
Question: Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct:
a.Repeated submission of the Sitemap to Google could be penalized
b.It is possible to create and submit specialized Sitemaps to Google for Video and Mobile content
c.The Sitemap acceptable to Google follows an XML format
Ans: A
Question: Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google's search results?
a.Yes
b.No
Ans: B
Question: Which of the following factors does Google take into account while assessing whether or not a website is an authority website?
a.The frequency with which the content 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
Ans: A,B,C
Question: What is Anchor Text?
a.It is the main body of text on a particular web page
b.It is the text within the left or top panel of a web page
c.It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page
d.It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page
Ans: C
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"?
a.Yes
b.No
Ans:B
Question: What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
a.Trafficjacking
b.Visitorjacking
c.Viewjacking
d.Pagejacking
Ans: D
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
b.No
Ans: A
Question: What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
a.Waves
b.Flux
c.Shuffling
d.Swaying
Ans: B
Question: While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing to authority websites?
a.True
b.False
Ans: B
Question: Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine spider?
a.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp?examnum=243&examtype=244
b.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp?examnum=243
c.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp
d.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.html
e.All of the above
Ans: E
Question: Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage's Title Tag.
a.56
b.60
c.66
d.80
Question: 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: 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
c.If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information
d.Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages
Ans: D
Question: State whether true or false.
The Yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial sites.
a.True
b.False
Ans: A
Question: 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: Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
a.Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b.Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
c.Hiding the keywords within the webpage
d.Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors
Ans: B
Question: 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
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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?
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: Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
a.Hiding text on the webpage
b.Stuffing keywords on the webpage
c.Linking to sites banned by Google
d.None of the above
Ans: A
Question: 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
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
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
Ans: B
Question: 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
b.Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c.Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d.None of the above
Ans: D
Question: All major search engines are case sensitive.
a.True
b.False
Ans: B
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?
a.By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then went on to visit additional pages
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
d.By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page
Ans: B
Question: 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: 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: 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: 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:_________ 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
d.The page which you would like to improve in the search engine rankings
Ans: D
Question: 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: 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.
b.modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.
c.start a PPC campaign to get your site included in the sponsored results.
d.it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.
Ans: D
Question: Which of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct:
a.Making a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engine looks at the keyword
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
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
Ans: A, B, D
Question: 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
d.Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages
Ans: D
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"?
a.Yahoo Search Term Suggestion Tool
b.Alexa
c.Google Traffic Estimator
d.Google Trends
e.WordTracker
Ans: D
Question: How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
a.Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement
b.Ggives credit to the websites having site maps. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title "Site Map" on the home page of a website.
c.Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
d.None of the above
Ans: C
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
b.False
Ans: A
Question: What is the function of "indexer" part of the Google search engine?
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
d.It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user's search term
Ans: D
Question: Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the 'Relevancy' perspective?
a.The website offering products and services to the visitors country
b.A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c.Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d.Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term
Ans: D
Question: 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 shows URLs with broken links
ANS: C
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
b.The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site
c.The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site
d.The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site
ANS: A
Question: What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
a.Red hat techniques
b.Silver hat techniques
c.Grey hat techniques
d.Shady hat techniques
ANS: C
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.
a.Because they will not lead to fresh traffic
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
ANS: B
Question: 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
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
ANS: B
Question:_________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
a.Crawler-based Search Engines
b.Human-Powered Directories
c.Hybrid Search Engines
d.Meta Search Engines
ANS: D
Question: 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
c.They are voluntary in nature
d.They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
ANS: C
Question: 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"
b.Google will find all the web pages containing the words "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: D
Question: 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
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
ANS: B
Question: Which of the following statements 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: B
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?
a.Spreading
b.Dilating
c.RSD (real time synonym detection)
d.Stemming
e.Branching
ANS: D
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
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
ANS: A
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
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
ANS:A
Q-1 _________use both crawlers
and directories to generate relevant results.
a. Crawler- based Search Engines
b. Human Powered Directories
c. Hybrid Search Engines
d. Meta Search Engines
b. Human Powered Directories
c. Hybrid Search Engines
d. Meta Search Engines
Q-2 Google gives priority to
themed in-bound links.
a. True
b. False
b. False
Q-3 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
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
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
Q-4 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
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
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
Q-5 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
b. Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c. Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d. None of the above
b. Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c. Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d. None of the above
Q-6 Which of the following search
engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?
a. Windows Live
b. Yahoo Directory
c. Google
d. Wikipedia
e. DMOZ
b. Yahoo Directory
c. Google
d. Wikipedia
e. DMOZ
Q-7 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
d. Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages
b. Organize the Doorway Pages
c. Help people navigate to different Doorway Pages
d. Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages
Q-8 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
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
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
Q-9 Search engines do not index some
common ( such as “or”. “and”. “when”. And “in” ) within the webpage. What are
these common words called?
a. Barrier words
b. Non- indexable works
c. Slow words
d. Stop words
b. Non- indexable works
c. Slow words
d. Stop words
Q-10 What is Anchor Text?
a. It is the main
body of text on a particular web page
b. It is the text within the left or top panel of a web page
c. It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page
d. It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page
b. It is the text within the left or top panel of a web page
c. It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page
d. It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page
Q-11
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
b. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound
link to a page of a web site
c. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page
of a web site
d. The number of outbound links on the page that contains
the inbound link to a page of a web site
Q-12 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
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
Q-13 If you enter ‘Help site:www.expertrating.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
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
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
Q-14 Which of the following statements
about search engine optimization techniques are correct:
a. Making
a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engine looks at the
keywordb. Website 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 paged. 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
c. Search engine robots follow the first link they find to any particular page and they do not follow additional links to the same paged. 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
Q-15 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
b. Dilating
c. RSD (real time synonym detection)d. Stemming
e. Branching
b. Dilating
c. RSD (real time synonym detection)d. Stemming
e. Branching
Q-16 What is the term for Optimization
strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
a. Red hat techniques
b. Silver hat techniques
c. Grey hat techniques
d. Shady hat techniques
Q-17 Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct
a. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version
b. Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.expertrating.com/page/and http://www.expertrating.com/page and http://www.expertrating.com/page/index.htm
c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google
Q-18 Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct:
a. Repeated submission of the Sitemap to Google could be penalized
b. It is possible to create and submit specialized Sitemaps to Google for Video and Mobile content
c. The Sitemap acceptable to Google follows an XML format
Q-19 Which of the following website design guidelines have 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 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
Q-20 How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
a. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website; hence ensuring quicker placement
b. Google gives credit to the websites having site maps. The Google Bot looks for the keyword or title "Site Map" on the home page of a website.
c. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
d. None of the above
Q-21 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
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
d. By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page
Q-22 While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing to authority websites?
a. True
b. False
Q-23 Which of the following statement about RSS is correct?
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
a. Red hat techniques
b. Silver hat techniques
c. Grey hat techniques
d. Shady hat techniques
Q-17 Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct
a. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version
b. Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.expertrating.com/page/and http://www.expertrating.com/page and http://www.expertrating.com/page/index.htm
c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google
Q-18 Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct:
a. Repeated submission of the Sitemap to Google could be penalized
b. It is possible to create and submit specialized Sitemaps to Google for Video and Mobile content
c. The Sitemap acceptable to Google follows an XML format
Q-19 Which of the following website design guidelines have 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 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
Q-20 How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
a. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website; hence ensuring quicker placement
b. Google gives credit to the websites having site maps. The Google Bot looks for the keyword or title "Site Map" on the home page of a website.
c. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
d. None of the above
Q-21 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
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
d. By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page
Q-22 While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing to authority websites?
a. True
b. False
Q-23 Which of the following statement about RSS is correct?
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
Q-24 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 toc. It shows all the pages that point to that URL
d. It show URLs with broken links
a. It shows all the outbound links from the URL
b. It shows how many pages of the site yahoo is pointing toc. It shows all the pages that point to that URL
d. It show URLs with broken links
Q-25 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
Q-26 Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
a. Hiding text on the webpage
b. stuffing keywords on the webpage
c. Linking to sites banned by Google
d. None of the above
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
Q-26 Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
a. Hiding text on the webpage
b. stuffing keywords on the webpage
c. Linking to sites banned by Google
d. None of the above
Q-27 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.b. Modify the page contents make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.
c. Start a PPC campaign to get your site include in the sponsored results.
d. It is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website a new domain name.
a. Abandon and close your website permanently.b. Modify the page contents make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.
c. Start a PPC campaign to get your site include in the sponsored results.
d. It is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website a new domain name.
Q-28 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 removed
e. What you requested is just too big to process
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 removed
e. What you requested is just too big to process
Q-29 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
b. False
b. False
Q-30 Which of the following conditions
will Google treat favorably from the 'Relevancy' perspective?
a. The website offering products and services to the visitors’ country
b. A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d. Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term
a. The website offering products and services to the visitors’ country
b. A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d. Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term
Q-31 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
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. WordTracker
a. Yahoo Search Term Suggestion Tool
b. Alexa
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. WordTracker
Q-32 Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in
Google's search results?
a. Yes
b. No
a. Yes
b. No
Q-33 Implementing a 301 Permanent
Redirects on the old pages to redirect to the new pages is a good idea from the
SEO perspective.
a. True
b. False
a. True
b. False
Q-34 Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
a. Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
c. Hiding the keywords within the webpage
d. Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors
Q-35 All major search engines are case sensitive.
a. True
b. False
b. False
Q-36 What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
a. It refers to the
fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best
return on investment
b. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword densityc. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search enginesd. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines
b. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword densityc. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search enginesd. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines
Q-37 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
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
Q-38 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 website
c. They are voluntary in nature
d. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
b. They are from authority website
c. They are voluntary in nature
d. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
Q-39 What is the function of "indexer" part of the Google search engine?
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
d. It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user's search term
b. It helps to gather information from other search engines
c. It helps to sort the documents that Google has retrieved
d. It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user's search term
Q-40 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
b.Visitors Jacking
c.View Jacking
d. Page Jacking
4.
What does the 301 server response code signify?
a. Not Modified
b. Moved Permanently
c. syntax error in the request
d. Payment is required
e. The request must be authorized before it can take place
5. If you enter ‘Help site:www.go4expert.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?
a. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.go4expert.com
b. It will find pages about help within www.go4expert.com
c. It will only find page titles about help within www.go4expert.com
d. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.go4expert.com
6. What is Anchor Text?
a. It is the main body of text on a particular web page
b. It is the text within the left or top panel of a web page
c. It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page
d. It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page
7. 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
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. WordTracker
8. What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
a. Waves
b. Flux
c. Shuffling
d. Swaying
9. Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
a. Yes
b. No
10. Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?
a. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version
b. Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.go4expert.com/page/ and http://www.go4expert.com/page and http://www.go4expert.com/page/index.htm.
c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google
11. What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
a. It refers to the fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best return on investment
b. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density
c. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines
d. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines
12. What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
a. Red hat techniques
b. Silver hat techniques
c. Grey hat techniques
d. Shady hat techniques
13. 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
c. They are voluntary in nature
d. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
14. 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. Optimizing five or more keywords per page
15. 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
16. Which of the following statements 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
17. 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
b. Dilating
c. RSD (realtime synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching
18. 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 thealtavista scooter bot to access every page
b. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also disallow the altavista scooter bot 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 above
19. Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?
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
20. Which of the following statements are correct with regard to using javascript within the web pages?
a. It uses up the valuable space within the webpage, which should be used for placing meaningful text for the search engines
b. Search engines cannot read Javascript
c. It is a good idea to shift the Javascript into a separate file
d. Most of the search engines are unable to read links within Javascript code
21. 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
c. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results
22. What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
a. Trafficjacking
b. Visitorjacking
c. Viewjacking
d. Pagejacking
23. Which of the following search engines offers a popular list of the top 50 most searched keywords?
a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. AOL
d. Lycos
24. Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?
a. Lycos
b. DMOZ
c. Google
d. Yahoo
e. Windows Live
25. Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?
a. 0.01-0.1%
b. 0.1-1%
c. 3-4%
d. 7-10%
e. More than 10%
26. 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
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
27. 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 (MULTIPLIED 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
28. Which of the following are examples of agents?
a. Internet Explorer
b. Search engine spiders
c. Opera
d. SQL Server database attached to a website
29. 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”?
a. Yes
b. No
30. Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
a. Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
c. Hiding the keywords within the webpage
d. Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors
31. 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
This is the last question of your test.
32. Google gives priority to themed in-bound links.
a. True
b. False
33. Which of the following methods can help you get around the Google Sandbox?
a. Buying an old Website and getting it ranked
b. Buying a Google Adwords PPC campaign
c. Placing the website on a sub domain of a ranked website and then 301 re-directing the site after it has been indexed
d. Getting a DMOZ listing
34. s Page is used to:
a. Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway Page
b. Organizes the Doorway Pages
c. Helps people navigate to different Doorway Pages
d. Enables search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages
35. Which of the following options describes the correct meaning of MouseTrapping?
a. The technique of monitoring the movement of the mouse on the webpage
b. The technique of monitoring the area on which an advertisement was clicked
c. The web browser trick, which attempts to redirect visitors away from major websites through a spyware program
d. The web browser trick, which attempts to keep a visitor captive at on a website
36. What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?
a. 1 week
b. 3 weeks
c. 2 months
d. More than 3 months
37. All major search engines are case sensitive.
a. True
b. False
38. Which of the following website design guidelines have 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 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
39. How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
a. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement
b. Google gives credit to the websites having site maps. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title “Site Map” on the home page of a website.
c. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
d. None of the above
40. 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
a. Not Modified
b. Moved Permanently
c. syntax error in the request
d. Payment is required
e. The request must be authorized before it can take place
5. If you enter ‘Help site:www.go4expert.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?
a. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.go4expert.com
b. It will find pages about help within www.go4expert.com
c. It will only find page titles about help within www.go4expert.com
d. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.go4expert.com
6. What is Anchor Text?
a. It is the main body of text on a particular web page
b. It is the text within the left or top panel of a web page
c. It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page
d. It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page
7. 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
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. WordTracker
8. What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
a. Waves
b. Flux
c. Shuffling
d. Swaying
9. Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
a. Yes
b. No
10. Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?
a. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version
b. Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.go4expert.com/page/ and http://www.go4expert.com/page and http://www.go4expert.com/page/index.htm.
c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google
11. What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
a. It refers to the fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best return on investment
b. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density
c. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines
d. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines
12. What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
a. Red hat techniques
b. Silver hat techniques
c. Grey hat techniques
d. Shady hat techniques
13. 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
c. They are voluntary in nature
d. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
14. 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. Optimizing five or more keywords per page
15. 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
16. Which of the following statements 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
17. 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
b. Dilating
c. RSD (realtime synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching
18. 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 thealtavista scooter bot to access every page
b. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also disallow the altavista scooter bot 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 above
19. Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?
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
20. Which of the following statements are correct with regard to using javascript within the web pages?
a. It uses up the valuable space within the webpage, which should be used for placing meaningful text for the search engines
b. Search engines cannot read Javascript
c. It is a good idea to shift the Javascript into a separate file
d. Most of the search engines are unable to read links within Javascript code
21. 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
c. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results
22. What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
a. Trafficjacking
b. Visitorjacking
c. Viewjacking
d. Pagejacking
23. Which of the following search engines offers a popular list of the top 50 most searched keywords?
a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. AOL
d. Lycos
24. Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?
a. Lycos
b. DMOZ
c. Google
d. Yahoo
e. Windows Live
25. Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?
a. 0.01-0.1%
b. 0.1-1%
c. 3-4%
d. 7-10%
e. More than 10%
26. 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
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
27. 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 (MULTIPLIED 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
28. Which of the following are examples of agents?
a. Internet Explorer
b. Search engine spiders
c. Opera
d. SQL Server database attached to a website
29. 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”?
a. Yes
b. No
30. Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
a. Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
c. Hiding the keywords within the webpage
d. Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors
31. 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
This is the last question of your test.
32. Google gives priority to themed in-bound links.
a. True
b. False
33. Which of the following methods can help you get around the Google Sandbox?
a. Buying an old Website and getting it ranked
b. Buying a Google Adwords PPC campaign
c. Placing the website on a sub domain of a ranked website and then 301 re-directing the site after it has been indexed
d. Getting a DMOZ listing
34. s Page is used to:
a. Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway Page
b. Organizes the Doorway Pages
c. Helps people navigate to different Doorway Pages
d. Enables search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages
35. Which of the following options describes the correct meaning of MouseTrapping?
a. The technique of monitoring the movement of the mouse on the webpage
b. The technique of monitoring the area on which an advertisement was clicked
c. The web browser trick, which attempts to redirect visitors away from major websites through a spyware program
d. The web browser trick, which attempts to keep a visitor captive at on a website
36. What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?
a. 1 week
b. 3 weeks
c. 2 months
d. More than 3 months
37. All major search engines are case sensitive.
a. True
b. False
38. Which of the following website design guidelines have 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 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
39. How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
a. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement
b. Google gives credit to the websites having site maps. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title “Site Map” on the home page of a website.
c. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
d. None of the above
40. 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
a. Windows Live
b. Yahoo Directory
c. Google
d. Wikipedia
e. DMOZ
02. Question: Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?
a. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version
b. Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.expertrating.com/page/ and http://www.expertrating.com/page and http://www.expertrating.com/page/index.htm
c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google
03. Question: 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 (MULTIPLIED 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
04. Question: Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct:
a.Repeated submission of the Sitemap to Google could be penalized
b.It is possible to create and submit specialized Sitemaps to Google for Video and Mobile content
c.The Sitemap acceptable to Google follows an XML format
05. Question: Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
a.Yes
b.No
06. Question: What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
a.It refers to the fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best return on investment
b.It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density
c.It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines
d.It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines
07. Question: Which of the following factors does Google take into account while assessing whether or not a website is an authority website?
a.The frequency with which the content 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
08. Question: What is Anchor Text?
a.It is the main body of text on a particular web page
b.It is the text within the left or top panel of a web page
c.It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page
d.It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page
09. 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”?
a.Yes
b.No
10. Question: What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
a.Trafficjacking
b.Visitorjacking
c.Viewjacking
d.Pagejacking
11. 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
b.No
12. Question: What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
a.Waves
b.Flux
c.Shuffling
d.Swaying
13. Question: While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing to authority websites?
a.True
b.False
14. Question: Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine spider?
a.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp?examnum=243&examtype=244
b.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp?examnum=243
c.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp
d.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.html
e.All of the above
15. Question: Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage’s Title Tag.
a.56
b.60
c.66
d.80
* B & C
16. Question: 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
17. Question: 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
c.If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information
d.Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages
18. Question: State whether true or false.
The Yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial si
tes.
a.True
b.False
19. Question: 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
20. Question: Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
a.Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b.Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
c.Hiding the keywords within the webpage
d.Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors
21. Question: 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
22. 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?
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
23. Question: Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
a.Hiding text on the webpage
b.Stuffing keywords on the webpage
c.Linking to sites banned by Google
d.None of the above
24. Question: 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
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
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
25. Question: 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
b.Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c.Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d.None of the above
26. Question: All major search engines are case sensitive.
a.True
b.False
27. 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?
a.By letting you know the percentage of users who entered the website and then went on to visit additional pages
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
d.By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page
28. Question: 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
29. 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?
a.Barrier words
b.Non-indexable words
c.Slow words
d.Stop words
30. Question: 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
31. Question: 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
32. Question:_________ 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
d.The page which you would like to improve in the search engine rankings
33. Question: 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
34. Question: 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.
b.modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.
c.start a PPC campaign to get your site included in the sponsored results.
d.it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.
35. Question: Which of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct:
a.Making a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engine looks at the keyword
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
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
36. Question: 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
d.Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages
37. 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”?
a.Yahoo Search Term Suggestion Tool
b.Alexa
c.Google Traffic Estimator
d.Google Trends
e.WordTracker
38. Question: How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
a.Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement
b.Ggives credit to the websites having site maps. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title “Site Map” on the home page of a website.
c.Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
d.None of the above
39. 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
b.False
40. Question: What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?
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
d.It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user’s search term
41. Question: Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?
a.The website offering products and services to the visitors country
b.A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c.Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d.Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term
42. Question: 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 shows URLs with broken links
43. 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
b.The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site
c.The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site
d.The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site
44. Question: What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
a.Red hat techniques
b.Silver hat techniques
c.Grey hat techniques
d.Shady hat techniques
45. 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.
a.Because they will not lead to fresh traffic
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
46. Question: 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
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
47. Question:_________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
a.Crawler-based Search Engines
b.Human-Powered Directories
c.Hybrid Search Engines
d.Meta Search Engines
48. Question: 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
c.They are voluntary in nature
d.They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
48. Question: 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”
b.Google will find all the web pages containing the words “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
49. Question: 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
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
50. Question: Which of the following statements 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
51. 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?
a.Spreading
b.Dilating
c.RSD (real time synonym detection)
d.Stemming
e.Branching
52. 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
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
53. 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
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
54. 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 show url’s with broken links
55. Which blackhat Seo techniques 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
56. 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
57. 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
58. 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
60. 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
61. 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
62. 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)
63. 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
64. 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
65. 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
66. 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
67. 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
68. 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
69. 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
70. 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
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
71. 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%
b. 30 percent
c. more than 30%
72. What does the 301 server response code signify?
a. Not Modified
b. Moved Permanently
c. syntax error in the request
d. Payment is required
e. The request must be authorized before it can take place
73. If you enter ‘Help site:www.go4expert.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?
a. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.go4expert.com
b. It will find pages about help within www.go4expert.com
c. It will only find page titles about help within www.go4expert.com
d. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.go4expert.com
74. 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
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. WordTracker
75. Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
a. Yes
b. No
76. 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
b. Dilating
c. RSD (realtime synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching
77. 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 thealtavista scooter bot to access every page
b. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also disallow the altavista scooter bot 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 above
78. Which of the following statements are correct with regard to using javascript within the web pages?
a. It uses up the valuable space within the webpage, which should be used for placing meaningful text for the search engines
b. Search engines cannot read JavaScript
c. It is a good idea to shift the JavaScript into a separate file
d. Most of the search engines are unable to read links within Javascript code
79. 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
c. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results
80. Which of the following search engines offers a popular list of the top 50 most searched keywords?
a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. AOL
d. Lycos
81. Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?
a. Lycos
b. DMOZ
c. Google
d. Yahoo
e. Windows Live
82. Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?
a. 0.01-0.1%
b. 0.1-1%
c. 3-4%
d. 7-10%
e. More than 10%
83. Which of the following are examples of agents?
a. Internet Explorer
b. Search engine spiders
c. Opera
d. SQL Server database attached to a website
84. 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”?
a. Yes
b. No
85. Google gives priority to themed in-bound links.
a. True
b. False
86. Which of the following methods can help you get around the Google Sandbox?
a. Buying an old Website and getting it ranked
b. Buying a Google Adwords PPC campaign
c. Placing the website on a sub domain of a ranked website and then 301 re-directing the site after it has been indexed
d. Getting a DMOZ listing
87. s Page is used to:
a. Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway Page
b. Organizes the Doorway Pages
c. Helps people navigate to different Doorway Pages
d. Enables search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages
88. Which of the following options describes the correct meaning of MouseTrapping?
a. The technique of monitoring the movement of the mouse on the webpage
b. The technique of monitoring the area on which an advertisement was clicked
c. The web browser trick, which attempts to redirect visitors away from major websites through a spyware program
d. The web browser trick, which attempts to keep a visitor captive at on a website
89. What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?
a. 1 week
b. 3 weeks
c. 2 months
d. More than 3 months
90. Which of the following
website design guidelines have 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 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
a. Having a clear hierarchy and text links
b. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link
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
1. 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 show url's with broken links
2. Which blackhat Seo techniques 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
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 show url's with broken links
12. Which blackhat Seo techniques 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
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
2. Which blackhat Seo techniques 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
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 show url's with broken links
12. Which blackhat Seo techniques 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
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Question1:
Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
Rhonda says, "I get to work early every day."
a. Rhonda says she gets to work early every day.
b. Rhonda said she gets to work early every day.
c. Rhonda has said that she got to work early every day.
d. Rhonda says she had gotten to work early every day.
___
Question2:
Choose the series of adjectives and adverbs that best completes the following sentence.
While __________ of our relatives live on the __________ hill in the county, __________ of our friends live in the __________ __________ areas of the valley.
a. more, windy, many, most, protection
b. most, windier, more, most, protective
c. many, windiest, most, more, protected
d. many, winding, more, most, protected
___
Question3:
Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following sentence.
Although the issue was very serious, the committee disposed ______ it in a few minutes and moved _______ to other business.
a. onto, off
b. of, away
c. on, out
d. of, on
___
Question4:
Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
"I will be moving soon," said Alma.
a. Alma said she would be moving soon.
b. Alma said she will move soon.
c. Alma says she'll be moving soon.
d. Alma says she would move soon.
___
Question5:
Read the original sentence below and then choose the rewritten sentence that illustrates proper sentence structure.
ORIGINAL SENTENCE:
It is easy to carry solid objects, but the same cannot be said of liquids.
REWRITTEN SENTENCES:
a. Unlike liquids, solid objects are easy to carry.
b. Unlike liquids, we can easily carry solid objects.
c. Unlike liquids; solid objects can easily be carried.
d. Unlike liquids, solid objects easy to be carried.
___
Question6:
Which of the following sentences does NOT illustrate correct verb and verb tense usage?
a. Frank and Marjorie have opened a new chocolate shop on the corner.
b. By the time I get there, all the best candy will have been eaten already.
c. They was going to sell pastries as well, but then decided against it.
d. Have you ever wondered how many jelly beans there are in the world?
_____
Question7:
Choose the series of verbs and phrases that best completes the following passage.
This dish _________ too spicy. Why __________ so much pepper?
a. is, did the chef have to use
b. was, the chef is using
c. is, did the chef use
d. was, the chef used
____
Question8:
Rearrange the following words to create the most logical and grammatically correct sentence.
your company name ? of What the is
a. What is the company of your name?
b. your company What is the name of?
c. What is the name of your company?
d. The name of your company What is?
____
Question9:
Choose the series of verbs that best completes the following sentence.
If Harry __________ to the party too early, don't let him in; he __________ outside like everyone else.
a. gets, will have to wait
b. got, waits
c. gets, is waiting
d. has gotten, must be waiting
___
Question10:
Choose the series of adjectives and adverbs that best completes the following sentence.
The archaeologists were ________ to discover such a __________ and __________ _________ artifact at that mostly uncovered site.
a. amazing, rarely, incredible, beautifully
b. amazed, rare, incredibly, beautiful
c. beautiful, rarity, amazingly, incredible
d. amazingly, beautiful, rarely, incredible
___
Question11:
Choose the series of adjectives and adverbs that best completes the following sentence.
The archaeologists were ________ to discover such a __________ and __________ _________ artifact at that mostly uncovered site.
a. amazing, rarely, incredible, beautifully
b. amazed, rare, incredibly, beautiful
c. beautiful, rarity, amazingly, incredible
d. amazingly, beautiful, rarely, incredible
___
Question12:
Choose the phrase that best completes the sentence below without creating a run-on sentence.
Mr. Peach has sent his four children to Ivy League colleges __________ he has sacrificed his health working day and night in that dusty factory.
a. however
b. ; however,
c. , however
d. however,
____
Question13:
Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
Jerry said, "I saw my cousin at the fair."
a. Jerry had said he'd seen his cousin at the fair.
b. Jerry said he had seen his cousin at the fair.
c. Jerry said he'd saw his cousin at the fair.
d. Jerry says he saw his cousin at the fair.
_____
Question14:
Which of the following sentences illustrates correct usage of articles and conjunctions?
a. The cake that I ate was better that the one you had.
b. An house is not the home, or so they saying goes.
c. For my birthday, I would like a book, an hourglass, and the keys to a new boat.
d. Has a package I've been waiting for been delivered yet, nor must I wait longer?
___
Question15:
Rearrange the following words to create the most logical and grammatically correct sentence.
work . is always to brother willing not My
a. My brother is not willing to work always.
b. My brother is not always willing to work.
c. is not willing to work always My brother.
d. My work is not willing to always brother.
____
Question16:
Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
I think Fran could be ______ great public speaker, _______ she is still too shy to try it.
a. the, although
b. a, but
c. an, however
d. a, and
____
Question17:
Rearrange the following words to create the most logical and grammatically correct sentence.
days . for last has good weather few The been the not
a. weather for The last few good has not been the days.
b. The good days has not been for the last few weather.
c. The few days has not been good for the last weather.
d. The weather has not been good for the last few days.
____
Question18:
Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
_______ she was feeling ill, Teresa wanted to eat only _____ apple _____ some soup.
a. Yet, the, or
b. After, an, and
c. Because, an, or
d. If, a, and
____
Question19:
Choose the series of pronouns that best completes the following sentence.
That house used to be ______ , but ______ have given it to ______.
a. my, I, her
b. mine, me, her
c. mine, I, her
d. myself, she, her
__________
Question20:
Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
Neither we ________ Sal, our neighbor, could understand ________ it had been our dog Rover or Sal's cat's kittens _________ had destroyed all the flower beds in the middle of _______ night.
a. nor, whether, that, the
b. or, if, who, the
c. and, whether, than, a
d. nor, if, that, a
____
Question21:
Choose the series of pronouns that best completes the following sentence.
After realizing that our hosts hadn't actually invited ______ to ______ party, ______ excused ______ from the table and slipped out the back door.
a. us, their, we, ourselves
b. ourselves, theirs, we, us
c. them, our, they, themselves
d. us, our, we, himself
___
Question22:
Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
"I'm not feeling well," Agatha said.
a. Agatha has said that she doesn't feel well.
b. According to Agatha, she isn't feeling well.
c. Agatha said she wasn't feeling well.
d. Agatha says she isn't feeling well.
___
Question23:
Complete the following sentence by choosing the phrase with the best word order from the options given.
Those who are not wise ____________ .
a. do not need be necessarily stupid
b. need not necessarily be stupid
c. need not to be necessarily stupid
d. does not need to be necessarily stupid
____
Question24:
Choose the series of pronouns that best completes the following sentence.
Don't ________ think Larry should call ________ wife if ________ is going to be late for dinner?
a. you, his, he
b. we, your, his
c. he, his, he
d. you, his, himself
___
Question25:
Which of the following sentences illustrates the proper use of parallel construction?
a. Arthur failed when he tried to open the lock with a key, but succeeded when he tried to open it with a hammer.
b. We painted the conference room yellow, hung a poster on the wall, and are rearranging the chairs.
c. No one in the room knew that the doors had been locked and that policemen will be running up the stairs.
d. Andrea is incapable of walking and to talk at the same time.
____
Question26:
Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?
a. 'Come here, she said, and let me get a good look at you.'
b. Come here she said, and let me get a good look at you.
c. "Come here," she said. "and let me get a good look at you."
d. "Come here," she said, "and let me get a good look at you."
____
Question27:
Choose the option that correctly changes the original sentence from active voice to passive voice.
ORIGINAL SENTENCE:
That tall man is carrying a lot of lumber.
REWRITTEN SENTENCES:
a. The tall man carries a lot of lumber.
b. Is being carried by that tall man, the lumber.
c. The lumber is carried by the tall man.
d. A lot of lumber is being carried by that tall man.
____
Question28:
Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following sentence.
Jack, leaning casually ________ the tree, watched as Sally walked slowly ________ him.
a. against, towards
b. toward, against
c. upon, past
d. off, beside
e. against, toward
____
Question29:
Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
"Sharon must go to the bank today," said Albert.
a. Albert says Sharon will have to go to the bank today.
b. Albert said Sharon has to go to the bank today.
c. Albert says Sharon must go to the bank today.
d. Albert said Sharon had to go to the bank today.
_____
Question30:
Which of the following sentences does NOT illustrate correct pronoun usage?
a. The wet dog shook itself off, wagged its tail, and proceeded on its way.
b. Don't take the silver goblet out of its protective case or you'll ruin it.
c. You should wear that jacket to their wedding because it's the nicest one you have.
d. It's not too late to answer their ad for a waitress, is it?
e. All are correct
____
Question31:
Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following passage.
Although Marvin said he had hidden the keys _______ the flower pot, we were unable to find them _______ the dark. In the end, we waited for him at the coffee shop ___________ the corner.
a. under, in, around
b. in, with, at
c. around, at, on
d. beside, from, around
_____
Question32:
Choose the series of verbs that best completes the following passage.
I find it very hard to remember _________ letters that are entrusted to me. In fact, I remember _________ to do so dozens of times!
a. to mail, forgetting
b. mailing, to forget
c. to mail, to forget
d. mailing, forgetting
____
Question33:
Which of the following sentences illustrates proper sentence structure?
a. Walking down the street, my eyes were drawn to a diamond in a store window.
b. A small red car pulled up behind the woman with tinted windows.
c. The man in the black cape mounted his powerful stallion and it galloped away.
d. The cats chased the birds around the yard with the yellow beaks.
____
Question34:
Which of the following sentences illustrates the proper use of parallel construction?
a. Terry hoped to find a new job that would let him earn extra cash in the summer and to work fewer hours.
b. Although Tommy was failing his biology class at college, he was passing his chemistry class.
c. Trina loved to sail, skate, swim, and surfing.
d. Tatiana declared that the people in her office are smarter than the people who work in Tad's office.
____
Question35:
Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following sentence.
The deer ran quickly _______ the trees, its hooves pounding _______ the forest floor.
a. amid, from
b. over, at
c. through, on
d. throughout, on
____
Question36:
Choose the series of pronouns that best completes the following sentence.
_______ is the name of the opera, and _______ role did you say Maria would play?
a. This, which
b. Who, that
c. What, which
d. Which, what
____
Question37:
Complete the following sentence by choosing the phrase with the best word order from the options given.
The excited children, who had run toward the loud _____________ .
a. music and then told the others about the ice cream truck outside
b. music, are telling to the others about the ice cream truck outside
c. ice cream truck to tell the others about the music outside
d. music, told the others about the ice cream truck outside
____
Question38:
Choose the series of adjectives and adverbs that best completes the following sentence.
Knowing that February was the _________ month of the year, Cheryl planned her vacation ___________.
a. short, in accordance
b. shortest, accordingly
c. shorter, according
d. shortness, accordion
_____
Question39:
Which of the following sentences is NOT punctuated correctly?
a. We expect only three things from our dog: loyalty, affection, and tail wagging.
b. I need you to pick up several boxes of paperclips, pens, and pencils; three pounds each of potatoes, carrots, and peas; and my dry cleaning.
c. Marcy, my parrot, squawked for an hour, before finally calming down.
d. All of the above are punctuated correctly.
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Question1:
Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
Rhonda says, "I get to work early every day."
a. Rhonda says she gets to work early every day.
b. Rhonda said she gets to work early every day.
c. Rhonda has said that she got to work early every day.
d. Rhonda says she had gotten to work early every day.
___
Question2:
Choose the series of adjectives and adverbs that best completes the following sentence.
While __________ of our relatives live on the __________ hill in the county, __________ of our friends live in the __________ __________ areas of the valley.
a. more, windy, many, most, protection
b. most, windier, more, most, protective
c. many, windiest, most, more, protected
d. many, winding, more, most, protected
___
Question3:
Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following sentence.
Although the issue was very serious, the committee disposed ______ it in a few minutes and moved _______ to other business.
a. onto, off
b. of, away
c. on, out
d. of, on
___
Question4:
Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
"I will be moving soon," said Alma.
a. Alma said she would be moving soon.
b. Alma said she will move soon.
c. Alma says she'll be moving soon.
d. Alma says she would move soon.
___
Question5:
Read the original sentence below and then choose the rewritten sentence that illustrates proper sentence structure.
ORIGINAL SENTENCE:
It is easy to carry solid objects, but the same cannot be said of liquids.
REWRITTEN SENTENCES:
a. Unlike liquids, solid objects are easy to carry.
b. Unlike liquids, we can easily carry solid objects.
c. Unlike liquids; solid objects can easily be carried.
d. Unlike liquids, solid objects easy to be carried.
___
Question6:
Which of the following sentences does NOT illustrate correct verb and verb tense usage?
a. Frank and Marjorie have opened a new chocolate shop on the corner.
b. By the time I get there, all the best candy will have been eaten already.
c. They was going to sell pastries as well, but then decided against it.
d. Have you ever wondered how many jelly beans there are in the world?
_____
Question7:
Choose the series of verbs and phrases that best completes the following passage.
This dish _________ too spicy. Why __________ so much pepper?
a. is, did the chef have to use
b. was, the chef is using
c. is, did the chef use
d. was, the chef used
____
Question8:
Rearrange the following words to create the most logical and grammatically correct sentence.
your company name ? of What the is
a. What is the company of your name?
b. your company What is the name of?
c. What is the name of your company?
d. The name of your company What is?
____
Question9:
Choose the series of verbs that best completes the following sentence.
If Harry __________ to the party too early, don't let him in; he __________ outside like everyone else.
a. gets, will have to wait
b. got, waits
c. gets, is waiting
d. has gotten, must be waiting
___
Question10:
Choose the series of adjectives and adverbs that best completes the following sentence.
The archaeologists were ________ to discover such a __________ and __________ _________ artifact at that mostly uncovered site.
a. amazing, rarely, incredible, beautifully
b. amazed, rare, incredibly, beautiful
c. beautiful, rarity, amazingly, incredible
d. amazingly, beautiful, rarely, incredible
___
Question11:
Choose the series of adjectives and adverbs that best completes the following sentence.
The archaeologists were ________ to discover such a __________ and __________ _________ artifact at that mostly uncovered site.
a. amazing, rarely, incredible, beautifully
b. amazed, rare, incredibly, beautiful
c. beautiful, rarity, amazingly, incredible
d. amazingly, beautiful, rarely, incredible
___
Question12:
Choose the phrase that best completes the sentence below without creating a run-on sentence.
Mr. Peach has sent his four children to Ivy League colleges __________ he has sacrificed his health working day and night in that dusty factory.
a. however
b. ; however,
c. , however
d. however,
____
Question13:
Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
Jerry said, "I saw my cousin at the fair."
a. Jerry had said he'd seen his cousin at the fair.
b. Jerry said he had seen his cousin at the fair.
c. Jerry said he'd saw his cousin at the fair.
d. Jerry says he saw his cousin at the fair.
_____
Question14:
Which of the following sentences illustrates correct usage of articles and conjunctions?
a. The cake that I ate was better that the one you had.
b. An house is not the home, or so they saying goes.
c. For my birthday, I would like a book, an hourglass, and the keys to a new boat.
d. Has a package I've been waiting for been delivered yet, nor must I wait longer?
___
Question15:
Rearrange the following words to create the most logical and grammatically correct sentence.
work . is always to brother willing not My
a. My brother is not willing to work always.
b. My brother is not always willing to work.
c. is not willing to work always My brother.
d. My work is not willing to always brother.
____
Question16:
Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
I think Fran could be ______ great public speaker, _______ she is still too shy to try it.
a. the, although
b. a, but
c. an, however
d. a, and
____
Question17:
Rearrange the following words to create the most logical and grammatically correct sentence.
days . for last has good weather few The been the not
a. weather for The last few good has not been the days.
b. The good days has not been for the last few weather.
c. The few days has not been good for the last weather.
d. The weather has not been good for the last few days.
____
Question18:
Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
_______ she was feeling ill, Teresa wanted to eat only _____ apple _____ some soup.
a. Yet, the, or
b. After, an, and
c. Because, an, or
d. If, a, and
____
Question19:
Choose the series of pronouns that best completes the following sentence.
That house used to be ______ , but ______ have given it to ______.
a. my, I, her
b. mine, me, her
c. mine, I, her
d. myself, she, her
__________
Question20:
Choose the series of articles and conjunctions that best completes the following sentence.
Neither we ________ Sal, our neighbor, could understand ________ it had been our dog Rover or Sal's cat's kittens _________ had destroyed all the flower beds in the middle of _______ night.
a. nor, whether, that, the
b. or, if, who, the
c. and, whether, than, a
d. nor, if, that, a
____
Question21:
Choose the series of pronouns that best completes the following sentence.
After realizing that our hosts hadn't actually invited ______ to ______ party, ______ excused ______ from the table and slipped out the back door.
a. us, their, we, ourselves
b. ourselves, theirs, we, us
c. them, our, they, themselves
d. us, our, we, himself
___
Question22:
Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
"I'm not feeling well," Agatha said.
a. Agatha has said that she doesn't feel well.
b. According to Agatha, she isn't feeling well.
c. Agatha said she wasn't feeling well.
d. Agatha says she isn't feeling well.
___
Question23:
Complete the following sentence by choosing the phrase with the best word order from the options given.
Those who are not wise ____________ .
a. do not need be necessarily stupid
b. need not necessarily be stupid
c. need not to be necessarily stupid
d. does not need to be necessarily stupid
____
Question24:
Choose the series of pronouns that best completes the following sentence.
Don't ________ think Larry should call ________ wife if ________ is going to be late for dinner?
a. you, his, he
b. we, your, his
c. he, his, he
d. you, his, himself
___
Question25:
Which of the following sentences illustrates the proper use of parallel construction?
a. Arthur failed when he tried to open the lock with a key, but succeeded when he tried to open it with a hammer.
b. We painted the conference room yellow, hung a poster on the wall, and are rearranging the chairs.
c. No one in the room knew that the doors had been locked and that policemen will be running up the stairs.
d. Andrea is incapable of walking and to talk at the same time.
____
Question26:
Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?
a. 'Come here, she said, and let me get a good look at you.'
b. Come here she said, and let me get a good look at you.
c. "Come here," she said. "and let me get a good look at you."
d. "Come here," she said, "and let me get a good look at you."
____
Question27:
Choose the option that correctly changes the original sentence from active voice to passive voice.
ORIGINAL SENTENCE:
That tall man is carrying a lot of lumber.
REWRITTEN SENTENCES:
a. The tall man carries a lot of lumber.
b. Is being carried by that tall man, the lumber.
c. The lumber is carried by the tall man.
d. A lot of lumber is being carried by that tall man.
____
Question28:
Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following sentence.
Jack, leaning casually ________ the tree, watched as Sally walked slowly ________ him.
a. against, towards
b. toward, against
c. upon, past
d. off, beside
e. against, toward
____
Question29:
Change the following sentence from a quotation to indirect speech.
"Sharon must go to the bank today," said Albert.
a. Albert says Sharon will have to go to the bank today.
b. Albert said Sharon has to go to the bank today.
c. Albert says Sharon must go to the bank today.
d. Albert said Sharon had to go to the bank today.
_____
Question30:
Which of the following sentences does NOT illustrate correct pronoun usage?
a. The wet dog shook itself off, wagged its tail, and proceeded on its way.
b. Don't take the silver goblet out of its protective case or you'll ruin it.
c. You should wear that jacket to their wedding because it's the nicest one you have.
d. It's not too late to answer their ad for a waitress, is it?
e. All are correct
____
Question31:
Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following passage.
Although Marvin said he had hidden the keys _______ the flower pot, we were unable to find them _______ the dark. In the end, we waited for him at the coffee shop ___________ the corner.
a. under, in, around
b. in, with, at
c. around, at, on
d. beside, from, around
_____
Question32:
Choose the series of verbs that best completes the following passage.
I find it very hard to remember _________ letters that are entrusted to me. In fact, I remember _________ to do so dozens of times!
a. to mail, forgetting
b. mailing, to forget
c. to mail, to forget
d. mailing, forgetting
____
Question33:
Which of the following sentences illustrates proper sentence structure?
a. Walking down the street, my eyes were drawn to a diamond in a store window.
b. A small red car pulled up behind the woman with tinted windows.
c. The man in the black cape mounted his powerful stallion and it galloped away.
d. The cats chased the birds around the yard with the yellow beaks.
____
Question34:
Which of the following sentences illustrates the proper use of parallel construction?
a. Terry hoped to find a new job that would let him earn extra cash in the summer and to work fewer hours.
b. Although Tommy was failing his biology class at college, he was passing his chemistry class.
c. Trina loved to sail, skate, swim, and surfing.
d. Tatiana declared that the people in her office are smarter than the people who work in Tad's office.
____
Question35:
Choose the series of prepositions that best completes the following sentence.
The deer ran quickly _______ the trees, its hooves pounding _______ the forest floor.
a. amid, from
b. over, at
c. through, on
d. throughout, on
____
Question36:
Choose the series of pronouns that best completes the following sentence.
_______ is the name of the opera, and _______ role did you say Maria would play?
a. This, which
b. Who, that
c. What, which
d. Which, what
____
Question37:
Complete the following sentence by choosing the phrase with the best word order from the options given.
The excited children, who had run toward the loud _____________ .
a. music and then told the others about the ice cream truck outside
b. music, are telling to the others about the ice cream truck outside
c. ice cream truck to tell the others about the music outside
d. music, told the others about the ice cream truck outside
____
Question38:
Choose the series of adjectives and adverbs that best completes the following sentence.
Knowing that February was the _________ month of the year, Cheryl planned her vacation ___________.
a. short, in accordance
b. shortest, accordingly
c. shorter, according
d. shortness, accordion
_____
Question39:
Which of the following sentences is NOT punctuated correctly?
a. We expect only three things from our dog: loyalty, affection, and tail wagging.
b. I need you to pick up several boxes of paperclips, pens, and pencils; three pounds each of potatoes, carrots, and peas; and my dry cleaning.
c. Marcy, my parrot, squawked for an hour, before finally calming down.
d. All of the above are punctuated correctly.
Which of the following factors
contribute towards link popularity of a website?
a. The number of websites that link to it
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
What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
a. It refers to the fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best return on investment
b. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density
c. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines
d. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines
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
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”?
a. Yes
b. No
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 shows URLs with broken links
What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
a. Waves
b. Flux
c. Shuffling
d. Swaying
Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage’s Title Tag.
a. 56
b. 60
c. 66
d. 80
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
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
d. By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page
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
c. If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information
d. Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages
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.
b. modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.
c. start a PPC campaign to get your site included in the sponsored results.
d. it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.
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
b. Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c. Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d. None of the above
Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
a. Yes
b. No
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
b. False
All major search engines are case sensitive.
a. True
b. False
_________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
a. Crawler-based Search Engines
b. Human-Powered Directories
c. Hybrid Search Engines
d. Meta Search Engines
Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?
a. The website offering products and services to the visitors country
b. A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d. Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term
Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?
a. Windows Live
b. Yahoo Directory
c. Google
d. Wikipedia
e. DMOZ
While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing to authority websites?
a. True
b. False
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 (MULTIPLIED 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
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
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
What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
a. Trafficjacking
b. Visitorjacking
c. Viewjacking
d. Pagejacking
c. The number of pages in the website
d. The quality of websites that link to it
What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
a. It refers to the fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best return on investment
b. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density
c. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines
d. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines
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
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”?
a. Yes
b. No
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 shows URLs with broken links
What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
a. Waves
b. Flux
c. Shuffling
d. Swaying
Google displays up to _____ characters of a webpage’s Title Tag.
a. 56
b. 60
c. 66
d. 80
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
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
d. By letting you know the percentage of users who left your website within 10 seconds of viewing the first page
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
c. If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information
d. Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages
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.
b. modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.
c. start a PPC campaign to get your site included in the sponsored results.
d. it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.
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
b. Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c. Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d. None of the above
Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
a. Yes
b. No
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
b. False
All major search engines are case sensitive.
a. True
b. False
_________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
a. Crawler-based Search Engines
b. Human-Powered Directories
c. Hybrid Search Engines
d. Meta Search Engines
Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?
a. The website offering products and services to the visitors country
b. A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d. Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term
Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?
a. Windows Live
b. Yahoo Directory
c. Google
d. Wikipedia
e. DMOZ
While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing to authority websites?
a. True
b. False
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 (MULTIPLIED 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
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
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
What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
a. Trafficjacking
b. Visitorjacking
c. Viewjacking
d. Pagejacking
Google gives priority to themed inbound links.
a. True
b. False
What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?
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
d. It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user’s search term
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
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
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
b. Dilating
c. RSD (real time synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching
Which of the following statements 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
Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
a. Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
c. Hiding the keywords within the webpage
d. Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors
What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?
a. 1 week
b. 3 weeks
c. 1 month
d. More than 3 months
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
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. WordTracker
Which of the following factors does Google take into account while assessing whether or not a website is an authority website?
a. The frequency with which the content 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
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 bot to access every page
b. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also disallow the altavista scooter bot 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 above
Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?
a. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version
b. Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.expertrating.com/page/ and http://www.expertrating.com/page and http://www.expertrating.com/page/index.htm
c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google
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
c. They are voluntary in nature
d. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
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 header
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
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
Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine result pages?
a. Clustering
b. Normalizing
c. Sifting
d. Combing
Implementing a 301 Permanent Redirects on the old pages to redirect to the new pages is a good idea from the SEO perspective.
a. True
b. False
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
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
b. No
What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
a. Red hat techniques
b. Silver hat techniques
c. Grey hat techniques
d. Shady hat techniques
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. Optimizing five or more keywords per page
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 above
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
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
c. If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information
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
Question 5: Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?
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
Question 7: Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
a.Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
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
Question 9: Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?
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
Question: 11 Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
a. Hiding text on the webpage
b.Stuffing keywords on the webpage
c.Linking to sites banned by Google
d. None of the above
Question 12: Which of the following statements about Google technical and quality guidelines is true.
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
b. Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c. Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d. None of the above
Question 16: All major search engines are case sensitive.
a.True
b.False
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
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
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.
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
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
Question 21: What does the 301 server response code signify?
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
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
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
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
Question 26: 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.
b. modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.
c. start a PPC campaign to get your site included in the sponsored results.
d. it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.
Question 27: Which of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct:
a. Making a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engine looks at the keyword
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
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 28: 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
d. Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages
Question 29: 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
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. WordTracker
Question 30: Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine result pages
clustering
d. Combing
Question 31: How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
a. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement
b. Ggives credit to the websites having site maps. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title “Site Map” on the home page of a website.
c. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
d. None of the above
Question 32: 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
b. False
Question 33: What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?
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
d. It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user’s search term
Question 34: Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?
a. The website offering products and services to the visitors country
b. A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d. Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term
Question: 35 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
Question 36: 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 shows URLs with broken links
Question 37: 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
b. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site
c. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site
d. The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site
Question: 38 What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
a. Red hat techniques
b.Silver hat techniques
c. Grey hat techniques
d.Shady hat techniques
Question: 39 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
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: 40 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
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: 41 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
Question: 42 _______ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
a. Crawler-based Search Engines
b. Human-Powered Directories
c. Hybrid Search Engines
d. Meta Search Engines
Question: 43 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
c. They are voluntary in nature
d. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
Question: 44 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”
b. Google will find all the web pages containing the words “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
Question: 45 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
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: 46 Which of the following statements 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
Question: 47 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
b. Dilating
c. RSD (real time synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching
Question: 48 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
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: 49 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
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 50: 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 __________ click through rate.
b. 30 percent
c. more than 30%
• 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 above
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
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
c. If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information
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
Question 5: Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?
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
Question 7: Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?
a.Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
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
Question 9: Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?
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
Question: 11 Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
a. Hiding text on the webpage
b.Stuffing keywords on the webpage
c.Linking to sites banned by Google
d. None of the above
Question 12: Which of the following statements about Google technical and quality guidelines is true.
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
b. Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c. Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d. None of the above
Question 16: All major search engines are case sensitive.
a.True
b.False
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
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
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.
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
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
Question 21: What does the 301 server response code signify?
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
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
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
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
Question 26: 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.
b. modify the page contents, make them useful and relevant to the human users, and request Google to reconsider your site.
c. start a PPC campaign to get your site included in the sponsored results.
d. it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.
Question 27: Which of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct:
a. Making a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engine looks at the keyword
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
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 28: 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
d. Enable search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages
Question 29: 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
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. WordTracker
Question 30: Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine result pages
clustering
d. Combing
Question 31: How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?
a. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement
b. Ggives credit to the websites having site maps. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title “Site Map” on the home page of a website.
c. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
d. None of the above
Question 32: 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
b. False
Question 33: What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?
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
d. It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user’s search term
Question 34: Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?
a. The website offering products and services to the visitors country
b. A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d. Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term
Question: 35 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
Question 36: 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 shows URLs with broken links
Question 37: 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
b. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site
c. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site
d. The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site
Question: 38 What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
a. Red hat techniques
b.Silver hat techniques
c. Grey hat techniques
d.Shady hat techniques
Question: 39 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
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: 40 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
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: 41 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
Question: 42 _______ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
a. Crawler-based Search Engines
b. Human-Powered Directories
c. Hybrid Search Engines
d. Meta Search Engines
Question: 43 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
c. They are voluntary in nature
d. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
Question: 44 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”
b. Google will find all the web pages containing the words “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
Question: 45 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
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: 46 Which of the following statements 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
Question: 47 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
b. Dilating
c. RSD (real time synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching
Question: 48 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
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: 49 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
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 50: 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 __________ click through rate.
b. 30 percent
c. more than 30%
d.
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