Elance Google Webmaster Central Test Answers 2015
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What does Google Video Sitemaps allow you to do?
Listen to music.
Publish audio files.
Download videos.
Publish video content and its metadata.
What does the Fetch as Google page do?
It displays Google's cached version of a page you
specify on your website
It displays the number of links google fetches when
it visits your homepage
It displays how google displays your website in
search results
It requests google to crawl a specific page on your
website
What is a site map?
It is a list of the pages on your website
It is's where your site's server is phisically
located
It shows how much of your site google has crawled
It shows you how all your pages are linked together
As you add more pages to your website, what
should also show a direct correlation?
The total amount of page hits.
The success of your landing page.
The total URLs ever crawled.
The popularity of your website.
What symbol indicates a potential problem with
your site's health?
*
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-
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What is your Google Index Status?
The status indicates a percentage of how much of
your website google has indexed
The index status shows how your website ranks in
google search
The index status provides stats about how many of
your URLs google was able to crawl and/or index.
The status indicates whether google is able to or
unable to crawl your websites
What does it mean when a site is not verified?
Your website is down
You have not proven that you are the owner of this
site to Google
Google has never been able to crawl your website
Google has not approved your website for submission
yet
How can you add users to access Google
Webmaster for a single domain?
You cannot add users to a single domain
Manage Site | Add or Remove Users | Add New User
Open Site | Access | Add new User
Click Gear Icon | Site Access | Add New User
What does Index Status tell you about your
website?
It tells you the status of an index.
It tells you the status of a link.
It tells you the number of URLs indexed.
It tells you the status of your website.
What does the Remove URL page do?
Requests that google removes a page on your site
from its search results
Requests that google remove internal links to your
website
Removes sub domains from your website
Requests that google remove outside links to your
website
Where is the robots.txt file stored on your
website?
The root directory.
The settings folder.
The robots folder.
The dev folder.
What are two common errors that occur with a
web crawler?
Google is full of viruses and trojans.
Site and URL errors.
Crawler corruption and errors.
Crawling the wrong links and reading the wrong
text.
What is the most secure password to use for
your email?
A combination of all of these
A password that contains symbols
A password that contains numbers
A password that has both upper case and lower case
letters
What indexing result is expected from a
properly configured website?
An increase in crawled pages.
A decrease in page crawls.
An increase in page hits.
A decrease in page hits.
What are sitelinks?
They are the main links used on your site
They are the links you specify in your site map
They are links showed below google search results
and are meant to help users navigate your site
They are links to your website from other sites
What type of error is the most prolific
crawling error?
1000 errors.
Crawl errors.
Index errors.
404 errors.
Which of the following is not possible in
Google Webmaster?
Seeing how many active users are on your site in
real time
Seeing which search queries result in the most
clicks to your site
Seeing which page of your site is most visited from
search queries
Finding out how many other sites have links to your
site
What tag would cause a URL to be dismissed by
the web crawler when accounting for the total indexed?
The meta noindex tag.
The index tag.
The data tag.
The meta tag.
What are internal links?
The number of links you reference on your site that
are outside your website
Links that do not display publically on yoru site
The internal links are links on your site that have
incoming links from other internal pages on your site
The total number of hyperlinks on your site
How does Google determine CTR?
CTR = Page Views / Impressions
CTR = Average Position / Clicks
CTR = Clicks / Impressions
CTR = Impressions / Average Position
What useful information does the Crawl Error
page provide?
When a user attempts to search your website and is
unsuccessful
Details of instances when people were unable to
visit your site
Details about URLs in your site that Google could
not successfully crawl or returned a HTTP error code
The number of errors google recommends fixing on
your site and how
Why are internal links important
The number of internal links pointing to a page is
a signal to search engines about the relative importance of that page.
Knowing all of your internal links can help
increase your website performance
They are not important
You can see how many other sites link to your
website
What kind of search does Google use?
Algorithmic search
Static search
Advanced search
Dynamic search
Restricted users can do the following:
View Site Settings, View Site Links, Fetch as
Google, View SiteMaps
View Site Settings, View Traffic, Change Restricted
User Permissions, and Add Site Maps
View Site Settings, View Traffic, Change User
Permissions, View Site Maps
View Site Settings, View Traffic, Change Full and
Restricted User Permissions, and Add Site Maps
Links to Your Site determines
The number of times you link to other sites
The number of links google found to your site on
other websites
The top sites that drive traffic to your site
The number of times a link to your site appears on
the internet from all search engines
If you want your website to be crawled, what
must be allowed for this to happen?
User crawlers.
Agent crawlers.
Crawler agents.
User-agents.
What part of your websites encoding is
displayed in the first line of search results?
The subject tag.
The title tag.
The HTML tag.
The dev tag.
What specifies how search engines should crawl
your website?
keywords.txt
robots.txt
google.txt
search.txt
What tag is used to enlarge important text?
SEO tags.
Heading tags.
Title tags.
Text tags.
What is CTR?
Crash Time Rate
Click Through Rate
Change Time Rate
Click Time Rate
Why would you want to dissavow links to your
website?
It prevents competitor's from searching your site
It recommended to do if you change website domains
Less links can result in a higher level of
performance for your website
You can remove spammy or low quality links from a
website that may negatively affect your PageRank
In the case of the Search Queries tool, what
are impressions?
How a user rated your site
The number of times your URL appeared in a search
result
The number of times a page on your site is viewed
Individual Google Ranks for all the pages on yoru
site
What three properties are used to create a
+snippet?
Image, name, and description.
Name, date and phone number.
Image, file size, name.
Name, date and age.
Why would you create and submit a site map to
Google?
All of these
To provide metadata about specific types of content
on your site
To tell google how often you update your site's
pages
To help make sure Google knows about all the pages
on your site
What can be submitted to Google to provide
extra information about your images and videos?
A meta file.
A sitemeta file.
A metamap.
A sitemap.
Which of the following can trigger a Site
Health alert
Google detects malware on your site
Your site has too many crawl errors
Your site was reported
Your site is no longer active
What tool allows you to view a page like
Google crawlers do?
Crawl As Google
Fetch As Crawler
Crawl As Fetcher
Fetch As Google
What is not a valid CTR Rate?
0%
100%
150%
25%
What can you edit through Webmaster Tools
Preferences page?
Message Language
The email notifications are sent to
All of these
The type of notifications your receive
What is the Content Keywords page?
This page lists how many of your meta tag keywords
match pages on your website
This page suggests which keywords would be best to
increase the search rank of your site
This page lists the most significant or widely used
keywords google found when crawling your site.
This page displays which words are most displayed
on each page of your website
What configurable text appears when your
content is shared on Google+?
A +box.
A +snippet.
A text bubble.
A +dialogue.
After completing your mobile website, how
would you inform Google that it is now in operation?
Use Google Webmaster Tools to submit a mobile site
map.
Do nothing.
Email Google tech support.
Just wait until Google takes care of it.
When a page is removed, how do you delete it
from search results?
It doesn't need to be deleted because it is
automatically dropped from search results.
Remove its meta tags.
Remove the title tag.
You use Google Toolkit.
After adding your website to Webmaster Tools, what
is one way for it to be verified?
Verify it with a third-party verification company.
Submit it to Google.
Include meta tags in the sites encoding.
Include verification code at the bottom.
How will google react to a site that does not
have a robots.txt file?
It will only crawl the homepage and links from the
homepage
It will only crawl the homepage
It will search the entire website
It will not crawl the website
If you were to optimize image-related
information, how would it be done?
Include text in the image.
Give the image an interesting name.
Make the image more interesting.
Use the alt attribute to substitute text for the
image if it cannot be displayed.
Which of the following ways is NOT a valid way
to verify ownership of a domain?
Click the confirmation link Google sends to the
admin email listed on WHOIS/ICANN
Use an existing Google Analytics Account that has
the same domain
Upload an HTML File
Add a CNAME or TXT Record
What kind of results never result in charges
to the advertising agency?
Failed results
Successful results
Organic results
Incomplete results
What tool would you use to calculate the level
of non-English web traffic?
The user dashboard.
The analytics toolkit.
The analytics dashboard.
The traffic dashboard.
Full users can do the following to a domain
except:
Add Blocked URLs
Submit Sitemaps
View Crawl Stats
Add / Remove User Access
What kind of file can be used to give
Googlebot added information about images?
A descriptor file.
The image file itself.
Image meta files.
Image sitemap files.
Why would you use the Change of Address page
in Google Webmaster?
If you are a store owner, you can update the
address google displays on google maps for your site
You want to tell google you have moved your site to
a new domain
This is not an option in Google Webmaster
You want to change the physical address associated
with the webmaster account
What can be added to your website to allow it
to be shared with others?
The Share button.
The Like button.
The +1 button.
The +Share button.
When would it be ideal to omit the robots.txt
file from your website?
When you want your website hidden from Google.
When you want your entire website indexed.
When you don't want your robots.txt file indexed.
When you want part of your website indexed.
If a keyword, such as "Viagra", is
on the top of Content Keywords page and this keyword has nothing to do with
your site this could be what?
Most people who search on google for your site use
this keyword
Most people who visit your site also visit sites
related to this keyword
A sign that your website has been hacked
A suggestion from google to add this keyword to
your site for a better search rank
The Crawl Stats Page shows you
the number of pages crawled
pages crawled per day and the number of kilobytes
downloaded per day
the number of pages crawled and when
pages crawled per day, kilobytes downloaded per
day, and time spent downloading a page
Which spoken languages require HTML code to be
altered to accommodate them?
Latin.
None of these.
English.
French.
Does webmaster tools provide any security
related tools?
Yes
No, unless its linked with Google Analytics
No
Yes, but only Content Keywords
Why would you add HTML markup to your site's
pages?
To help google understand the content of
unstructured data on your site
If you add HTML markup to your site's page it helps
google crawl through your site much faster
To help google understand the content of Structured
Data on your site
To help google ignore unstructured data
If Googlebot is able to crawl your website yet
is experiencing errors, what is happening?
There are errors in the crawler.
Googlebot is not communicating with the server.
Googlebot is not configured properly.
There are errors in the URL.
What do Crawl Stats show you?
How many times your website was crawled by a search
engine
The number of links to your site
Googlebot activity in the last 90 days
How long users spent on your site
What tool do you use to remove an entire page?
None. Google automatically removes them.
The Google public URL removal tool.
Google pageremover+.
You remove it from your webspace and Google removes
it from its search engine.
What does the Search Queries tool show you?
The top keywords on your site
The number of times your website was searched by a
search engine
What users searched for on your site
Queries on google that have returned URLs from your
site
If content is password-protected from
crawling, what happens to it?
Google ignores the password and indexes it anyway.
It is dropped from the index immediately.
It is dropped out of the index and will disappear
after 90 days.
Google crawlers crack the password.
Can Google accommodate right-to-left languages
such as Arabic?
No.
Yes, but with some bidirectional content.
It can, but it must be specially encoded.
Only partially.
What is an example of why you would use the
Remove URL Page?
You need to urgently remove a page on your site
from google's search results because it contains confidential information
You recently changed your index, and you want to
remove several invalid links
A spammy URL not associated to your site links to
you which hurts your search rank
You no longer use a sub domain that used to be
heavily associated with your website
When removing cached data from your website,
are files such as .doc and .PDFs removed as well?
Only HTML and .doc files.
None are removed.
No. Only HTML pages.
Only HTML and .pdf files.
Why are Links to Your Site important?
The Links to Your Site can help you understand your
website's performance
They are not important
It can possibly increase or decrease your google
search rank or PageRank
They give you an indicator of how popular your site
is with other websites in the same industry
If you are experiencing substandard search
results, what tool can be used to troubleshoot the issue?
The fetch as website tool.
The fetch as Google tool.
The fetch as Googlebot tool.
The GoogleTool.
How do you find out how much of your website
is being accessed by Google?
Compare the volume of page crawls to the total
pages blocked by robots.txt.
Check the configuration file.
Check your indexing status file.
Ask an administrator at Google.
What trait would your indexing status reveal if
your website has been hacked?
Decreased volume of duplicate pages.
Large volumes of duplicate pages.
An increase in submitted content.
A decrease in page hits.
Can a Google Video Sitemap be replaced with a
mRSS feed?
Yes.
No.
Google does not use a sitemap.
They must work together.
An increase in redirect traffic has been
detected. Where should you look to solve the issue?
The website itself.
The root folder.
The log files.
The site status folder.
To look for problems in your website, what
operator can be used?
web: search
website: check
site: web
site: search
Which of the following is NOT correct?
You can view how many websites have links to your
site
You can add invidivual sections or pages of your site
as a new site (example: www.yoursite.com/blog)
You do not need to verify subdomains to your site
You can have multiple sites from multiple domains
associated to your account
Why would you want to indicate the expiration
date of a schema.org markup?
To tell Google when your websites certificate is
expired.
To tell your users when your website is expired.
To tell Google when to stop crawling your website.
To make it less problematic for the search engine.
If you wanted your website to be discovered
faster by Googlebot, what is a good method?
Spread the files throughout multiple directories to
spread their influence.
Name the files unique names.
Consolidate its files in specialized directories.
Give the directories unique names.
If Googlebot is not accessing your website,
what kind of error is occurring?
A site error.
A bot error.
A crawling error.
A meta error.
Full users can do the following:
Add / remove site owners
Link domains to a Google Analytics Account
Add or Remove Users
None of these
What permissions can the owner give to other
users on Google Webmaster?
Restricted, Full, and Site Owner
Restricted and Full
Read Only, Full Access, and Site Owner
Restricted, Full, and Admin
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