How to Pass Elance Search Engine Optimizaion (SEO) Test 2012 - Free Questions And Answers

About Elance Search Engine Test

This test has 40 multiple choice questions in which you are expected to finish in 40 minutes. You will have to answer at least 60% of the questions correctly in order to pass.Once you click next, there is no going back for the previous question - forward ever backward never policy. When you finish your test, your scores are displayed on your profile, but you can decide to hide them  or even delete them if you wish.

Elance Search Engine 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

Elance Vs. Odesk Search Engine Optimization Test
Preparing for Elance test is almost the same as preparing for Odesk test because the questions in these test resemble except for the following questions. I do not like repeating myself and so I have not put those questions that are also in the Odesk. Please click How to Pass with 100% your oDesk Search Engine Optimization Test (SEO) Test to see the remaining questions 19-40. Beware that these tests are usually dynamic and you will find that they change every now and then. 

Elance Search Engine Optimization Test Free Questions and Answers

Question 1

______________ 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 2

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 3

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

Question 4

Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?

a.Yes

b.No

Question 5

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 points to that URL

d.It shows URLs with broken link

Question 6

Google displays up to _________ character of a webpage’s Title Tag

a.56

b.60

c.70

d.80

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question  9

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

Question 10

How are the 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 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

Question 11

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

Question 12

Do search engines such as Google detect unnatural linking patterns by checking the Class CIP address of the page where the link to the website originates?

a.Yes

b.No

Question 13

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 14

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 15

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 16

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 17

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 18

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