How To Pass Elance Online Article and Blog Writer Test Free Questions and Answers

About Elance Online Article and Blog Writer Test

It takes 40 minutes to finish 40 multiple choice question. You may retake the test as many times as you want but there is a 14 days waiting period. The syllabus and some of the questions of this test are  the same as those of Odesk Online Article and Blog Writer test. Since I don't like repeating myself, I have only listed down those questions that are not there in Odesk test. To see the rest of the test questions and the syllabus, click Odesk Online Article and Blog Writer Test

Online Article and Blog Writer Test Free Questions and Answers

Question 1
What is a "biz blog"?
a. A blog owned and run by a company or corporation
b. A private blog for the blogger and his or her family
c. A blog in the biz of blogging only
d. A blog about finance, especially related to the London Stock Exchange
e. None of the above

Question 2
What are "FAQs"?
a. First Asked Queries
b. First Answered Questions
c. Fast attitude Queries
d. Frequently Asked Questions
e. All of the above

Question 3
Which is the correct order for finding your target audience and selling good or services to it?
a. Design a strategy for drawing them to your site with greater interest in your product, have a business plan, identify their interest in your product, identify your audience type and their level of expertise, make sales
b. Have a business plan, identify your audience type and their level of expertise, identify their interest in your product, design a strategy for drawing them to your site with greater interest in your product, make sales
c.  Have a business plan, identify your audience type and their level of expertise, design a strategy for drawing them to your site with greater interest in your product, make sales, identify their interest in your product.
d. Identify your audience type and their level of expertise, make sales, have a business plan identify their interest in your product, design a strategy for drawing them to your site with greater interest in your product.

Question 4
Which of the following are good ways of promoting your business or website and thereby selling your product online?
a. Writing reviews on other sites with a link back to your site
b. Getting involved in social bookmarking, especially group social bookmarking
c. Posting on forums around the Internet with reference to your product or brand
d. Getting involved in link exchange programmes
e. All of the above

Question 5
There's little need to copy text before tying to publish it to the web because you rarely lose the text at the time of publication.
a. True
b. False

Question 6
What is "autocasting"?
a. Automatically casting the characters in an online play
b. An autocue for a blogger to remind him or her to make a posting
c. A form of microblogging that will herald Web 3.0
d. An automated form of podcasting that allows bloggers (and blog readers) to create audio versions of text-only blogs using RSS feeds

Question 7
How should you change your writing style ( when writing about the university application process) if you're writing for student applicants rather than their parents?
a. Use italics for the parents, and bold print for the students
b. No changes are necessary: never change the complexity of your writing
c. You should write a style for the parents only, as they are most important
d. You should write a style for the students only, as they are more important
d. You must varying the information, your voice, advice, recommendations, so it can be read by both students and parents equally successfully

Question 8
 What is "Del.icio.us"?
a. A social bookmarking site where users collectively tag favorite links
b. A site where tags are compiled and e-mailed to a possible target audience
c. A social networking site similar to Facebook and MySpace
d. b and c

Question 9
What is 'placing of keywords in the important parts of a webpage so that search engines may give them priority' called?
a. Keyword prominence
b. Optimisation guesswork
c. Partial selection
d. Keyword density

Question 10
Why is it sometimes a good idea to create a blog independently with a host other than a free blog hosting service such as the Blogger?
a. You can add more intelligent interactivity such as widgets, site design, custom URLs etc
b. You can then have two blogs and disconnect your old one
c. You will be able to keep the old free service
d. You will automatically get more traffic

Question 11
What is a "newbie"?
a. A term - potentially negative - applied to someone new to a discussion or blog
b. A new technological addition to the Internet
c. An innovation that took blogs into Web 2.0
d. The latest fashion on the blogosphere
d. a and d

Question 12
Which of the following are good ways of sourcing information for online content such as blog postings?
a. Reading other blogs of a a similar nature
b. Researching for content in a library by reading non-fiction, and consulting encyclopedias, public records etc
c. Using search engines to narrow down keywords and content data
d. All of the above

Question 13
What will happen if your type the words "spot - basketball" in the Google search box?

a. Google will find all the web pages containing the words "sport" and "basketball"
b. Google will find the web pages about "sport" and also those containing the word "basketball"
c. Google will find the web pages about "sport" and do not contain the word "basketball"
d. Google will find all the web pages in which the words "sport" and "basketball" appear together
e. None of the above

Question 14
Which of the following is most likely to guarantee that the content on your blog is professional, subject-appropriate and grammatically correct?
a. Copying it into word, spell-checking, and copying it back
b. Asking a friend to read it
c. Reading it through before posting
d. Having several specialist readers check out the content for its relevance, sense, argument, and keywords

Question 15
What does "SEO" stand for?
 a. Sequeway Even offered
b. Service Engine Oriented
c. Second Executive Officer
d. Search Engine Optimisation

Question 16
Which of the following is the most effective idea for creating a target audience that returns again and again to your blog?
a. Make individual postings long as the more the information, the better it is
b. Re-read and be your own editor, always removing unnecessary words, and phrases; keep your posting relatively short and post regularly
c. Regularly change the colours of your blog to entertain your readership
d. Add a certain randomness to your external links so the audience never quite knows where the links may lead - it's more exciting