oDesk SEO Test Answers 2015

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1. Which of the following image file types can be indexed by Google?
Answers:
• TIFF
• RAW
• WEBP
• PNG

2. Which of the following correctly describes what are considered to be "Doorway pages"?
Answers:
• Pages with a permanent redirect(301) to an external page with relevant content.
• Pages especially designed to link partner sites.
• Sets of poor-quality pages where each page is optimized for a specific keyword or phrase.
• None of these.
3. Which of the following best describes the practice of "Google Bowling" from a negative SEO context?
Answers:
• Increasing the organic search ranking of a particular website or page by pointing hundreds or thousands of links at it, using very specific anchor text.
• Knocking a competitor out of the search results by pointing hundreds or thousands of low trust, low quality links at their website.
• Making a search engine believe that another website exists at a given URL.
• Using words which were traditionally associated with low quality content that caused search engines to want to demote the rankings of a page.
4. Which of the following HTTP headers tells search engines when content has been changed since the site was last crawled?
Answers:
• If-Modified-Since
• Last-Modified
• ETag
• Server
5. Which of the following best describes a blog "TrackBack"?
Answers:
• An automated notification that a website mentioned another website; it is a built-in feature on most popular blogging software programs.
• A link from one website to another. It is also called an inbound link.
• A method used to break a page down into multiple points on the web graph by breaking its pages down into smaller blocks.
• It is a method for tracking visitors on a website.
6. Which of the following HTML attributes can be used to provide descriptive text for site assets that a search engine crawler doesn't typically recognize?
Answers:
• DESC
• ALT
• TEXT
• ROBOT
7. Which is the correct usage of the Keyword Planner Tool in order to get a Phrase Match search volume for "New York hotels"?
Answers:
• New York Hotels
• "New York Hotels"
• [New York Hotels]
• ?New York Hotels
8. Which of the following examples are considered by Google as "auto-generated" content? Select all that apply.
Answers:
• Text translated by an automated tool without human review or curation before publishing
• Text generated from scraping Atom/RSS feeds or search results
• Text generated by the website's content management system
• Text generated using automated synonymizing or obfuscation techniques
9. Which of the following are recommended actions to take when a website is penalized by an "Unnatural links to your site" Manual Action from Google? Select all that apply.
Answers:
• Removing old content from the site.
• Preventing links that violate Google's guidelines from passing PageRank.
• Using the Google Webmaster Tools to disavow any offending links that the site management isn't responsible for.
• Requesting reconsideration of the site from Google.
10. What would be the impact of meta keywords on Google's ranking algorithm?
Answers:
• Meta keywords are not used by Google.
• Multiple meta keywords may bring better results in SERP.
• Google encourages the use of a single meta keyword for each page.
• Multiple meta keywords get penalized by Google.
11. ]Which of the following is not a valid goal type from the perspective of Google Analytics?
Answers:
• Destination
• Duration
• Pages/Screens per visit
• Conversions
12. Which of the following practices are allowable under Google Webmaster Guidelines?
Answers:
• Using automated programs or services to create links to a site.
• Links with optimized anchor text in articles or press releases distributed on other sites.
• Forum commenting with optimized links in the post or signature.
• Advertising links that use the nofollow attribute.
13. Please choose which of the following tool belongs to the Bing Search Engine?
Answers:
• Keyword Planner
• SEO Analyzer
• Object Browser
• Open Graph Debugger
14. Which of the following rich snippet formats are supported by Google? Select all that apply.
Answers:
• Microdata
• Microformats
• Data Highlighter
• RDFa
15. Which of the following is not a valid method for verifying site ownership on Google?
Answers:
• HTML file verification
• Meta tag verification
• Google Analytics code verification
• None of these.
16. Which of the following statements is true about Sitemaps?
Answers:
• If a site is accessible on both the www and non-www versions of its domain, a separate Sitemap for each version must be submitted.
• A Sitemap file must contain no more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 50MB when uncompressed.
• A Sitemap file should be specified under the following XML namespace: xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.9".
• Google only accepts Sitemap files in XML format.
17. Which of the following practices may improve the Domain Authority rank of an automobile trading website?

A: Submitting the website to all directories that are available.
B: Getting backlinks from auto-niche blogs.
C: Getting backlinks from fashion-niche blogs.
D: Using Robots to post on forums.
E: Manually posting at least 50 comments/day.
Answers:
• A, D and E
• B
• B, D and E
• All of above.
18. Which of the following is an example of "Cloaking", which is considered a "black hat" SEO technique?
Answers:
• Sending a visitor to a different URL than the one they initially requested.
• Locating text behind an image.
• Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.
• Using CSS to position text off-screen.
19. Which of the following statements is true about the effect of page load times to a page's ranking in Google's search results?
Answers:
• Page load times affect a page's ranking, and is given the same importance as a page's relevance to the search query.
• Page load times affect a page's ranking, but is given lesser importance compared to a page's relevance to the search query.
• Page load times do not affect a page's ranking.
• Google gives up on crawling a page if its load time is greater than 5 seconds.
20. Which of the following is true about Google's treatment of keyword density in a given page?
Answers:
• Keyword density is no longer being considered by Google's search algorithms.
• Targeted keywords should be used as frequently as possible in a page to maximize PageRank.
• Artificially increasing keyword density offers diminishing returns and may be penalized for "keyword stuffing" if taken too far.
• None of these.