How to Pass with 100% your oDesk Search Engine Optimization Test (SEO) Test - Updated 2012

How to Pass Search Engine Optimization Test

If you are a Blogger, a Web-Designer, an Odesk or Elance Worker, you need to be very well-versed with Search Engine Optimization strategies. One way to do that is to polish your act by sitting for Odesk Search Engine Optimization test.

When you are not working on Odesk jobs or applying for jobs, you can use that free time to take Odest tests. There are 344 free tests available for you to try.  while I agreee that some of the tests are highly technical and need you to be an insider in that particular skill, there are also many other tests that just require you to do a little extra study online on your own in order to pass, and Odesk Search Optimization Test is one of them.

To beautify your profile in order to attract more clients , you need to sit for as many Odesk tests as you can possibly manage. You should aim to score high and avoid average scores because this also features in your profile.

You can retake the test as many times as you want, but retaking the test again takes 30 days waiting period. So to avoid wasting time, you should better take the test when you are really prepared for it. You can use google to search for the topics covered in the syllabus. You can also use Wikipedia site for technical topics. YouTube videos are also very resourceful.

This the most recently updated SEO oDesk test solutions as on 15th June 2010. Remember that before you sit for any SEO oDesk test, you should be flexible because the SEO oDesk tests are dynamic i.e., they are usually changed every now and then, so you should be prepared for any eventuality.

The sample questions will help you a lot to prepare for the oDesk Search Engine Optimization test and to understand what Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is. It will enlighten you on how to use those skills to come up with a profitable website as a Web Designer and lastly you will pass your SEO oDesk test with flying colors. Good luck!

This is the SEO oDesk Test Syllabus.

• Working with Meta Tags.
• SEO Techniques.
• Google Search Technology.
• Keyword Selection and Optimization Strategies.
• Link Popularity and Linking Strategies.
• The Search Engines Industry.
• Search Engines and Directories.

15th June 2012 SEO oDesk Test.  Enjoy yourself!

NB: They are 40 questions and the answers are in red. Please send in your comments about the Odesk Search Engine Optimization Test.

Qeuestion 1:
Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?

a.       Windows Live.

b.      Yahoo Directory.

c.       Wikipedia.

                   d.      DMOZ.

Question 2:
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.

Question 3:
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 entegreen the website and then went on to visit additional pages.

b.      By letting you know the percentage of users who entegreen 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 4:
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 5:
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 6:
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 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.

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Question 8
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 9:
Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?

a.       The number of websites that link to it.

b.      The numberof 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 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.

Question 11:
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.

Question 12:
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.

Question 13:
Google gives priority to themed in-bound links.

a.     True.

b.     False.

Question 14:
Sitemap provides a list of internal links to user accessible pages on a website.

a.       True.

b.      False.

Question 15:
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.

Question 16:
 What is one advantage to using a purchased email list?

a.       The firm selling them often makes up fake email addresses.

b.      Large quantity of email addresses and markets otherwise not reached.

c.       The bounce rate is very low.

d.      It is targeted at your potential customers.

Question 17:
What is a site index?

a.       A page which has a linkable outline of all of the pages on a website.

b.      A site with only 1 page.

c.       A site with a special deals for purchases.

d.      A special ranking with search engines.

Question 18:
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 19:
Which blackhat SEO techniques is characterized by a method to deceive search engine, by detecting the search engine bot and “feeding” it with a different HTML code than the HTML actually served to users?

a.      Coaling.

b.      Foisting..

c.       Slighting.

d.      Cloaking (ans).

Question 20:
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 21:
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.

Question 22:
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?

a.       They are from authority website.

b.      They are voluntary in nature.

c.       They are from .du or .gov extension websites.

Question 23:
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 24:
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. (ans).


Question 25:
The Yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial sites.

a.       True.

b.      False.

Question 26:
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage?

a.       Images cannot be spidegreen 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 27:
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 nonprofit 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 28:
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 29:
________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.

a.       Crawler-based Search Engines.

b.      Human-Powegreen Directories.

c.       Hybrid Search Engines.

d.      Meta Search Engines.

Question 30:
While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing to authority websites?

a.       True.

b.      False.

Question 31:
All major search engines are case sensitive.

a.       True.

b.      False.

Question 32:
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.

Question 33:
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 34:
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 sponsogreen results.

d.      it is better to discontinue the website and shift your webpages to a fresh website with a new domain name.

Question 35:
What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity.

a.       Green hat techniques.

b.      Silver hat techniques.

c.       Grey hat techniques.

d.      Shady hat techniques.

Question 36:
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.      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 user coming from search engines.

c.       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 37:
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 38:
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%.

Question 39:
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 40:
Which of the following statement 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.