Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Test

During months of OJT (On-the-Job-Training) as prerequisite. We were sent at a call center company where we were given a shifting task by the HR Manager. Night Shift trainee were been technical support to agents of the company and we were assigned at Day Shift doing the task of an SEO Specialist. SEO is broad task, we were train and taught about Profile Link Building submitting sites and making back links. That was a great experience. Working on odesk and applying for the said position its a great edge if you pass a test. Hope this will help.

Questions:

If you enter help site: www.expertrating.com in the Google search box, what will Google search for?
 Ans: d

What 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: d 

 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 foryahoo?
 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