Search Engine optimization SEO solved MCQs
1. If a website’s search engine
saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it
mean?
A. 20% of the web pages 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
Answer: A. 20% of the web pages of the
website have been indexed by the search engine
2. 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 _______ click through rate.
A. less than 30%
B. 30 percent
C. more than 30%
Answer: B. 30 percent
3. Which of the following
factors have an impact on the Google Page Rank?
A. The total number of inbound links
to a page of a web site
B. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web
site
C. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site
D. The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a
page of a web site
Answer: A. The total number of inbound
links to a page of a web site
4. What does the 301 server
response code signify?
A. Not Modified
B. Moved Permanently
C. syntax error in the request
D. Payment is required
E. The request must be authorized before it can take place
Answer: B. Moved Permanently
5. If you enter ‘Help
site:www.iqsanswers.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?
A. It will open up the Google help
pages applicable to www.iqsanswers.com
B. It will find pages about help within www.iqsanswers.com
C. It will only find page titles about help within www.iqsanswers.com
D. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.iqsanswers.com
Answer: B. It will find pages about
help within www.iqsanswers.com
6. 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
Answer: C. It is the visible text that
is hyper linked to another page
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
Answer: D. Google Trends
8. 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
Answer: B. Flux
9. Are RSS/Atom feeds returned
in Google’s search results?
A. Yes
B. No
Answer: B. No
10. 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.
C. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as
duplicate
D. Placeholders for pages that do not have content are never viewed as
duplicate content by Google
Answer: A. If you have two versions of
a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing
of the better version
11. 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
Answer: C. It refers to the fact that
the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the
search engines
12. What is the term for
Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
A. Red hat techniques
B. Silver hat techniques
C. Grey hat techniques
D. Shady hat techniques
Answer: C. Grey hat techniques
13. Which of the following
statements is correct with regard to natural links?
A. They are two-way links (reciprocal
links)
B. They are from authority websites
C. They are voluntary in nature
D. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites
Answer: C. They are voluntary in
nature
14. Which of the following can
be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?
A. Targeting synonyms of the main
keyword
B. Targeting the highest searched keywords only
C. Copying competitor keywords
D. Optimizing five or more keywords per page
Answer: D. Optimizing five or more
keywords per page
15. 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
Answer: D. The page has temporarily
moved
16. 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
Answer: B. They are also called link
farms
17. 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 (real-time synonym detection)
D. Stemming
E. Branching
Answer: C. RSD (real-time synonym
detection)
18. 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 thealtavista 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
Answer: 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.
19. Which of the following
statements 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
Answer: A. It is a form of XML
20. Which of the following
statements are correct with regard to using javascript within the web pages?
A. It uses up the valuable space
within the webpage, which should be used for placing meaningful text for the
search engines
B. Search engines cannot read Javascript
C. It is a good idea to shift the Javascript into a separate file
D. Most of the search engines are unable to read links within Javascript code
Answer: C. It is a good idea to shift
the Javascript into a separate file
21. Which of the following
options are correct regarding the Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) of a
particular keyword?
A. It is directly proportional to the
popularity of the keyword
B. It is inversely proportional to the competiton for the keyword
C. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the
first page of the Google search results
Answer: C. It is directly proportional
to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search
results
22. 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
Answer: D. Pagejacking
23. Which of the following
search engines offers a popular list of the top 50 most searched keywords?
A. Google
B. Yahoo
C. AOL
D. Lycos
Answer: D. Lycos
24. Which of the following
search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?
A. Lycos
B. DMOZ
C. Google
D. Yahoo
E. Windows Live
Answer: D. Yahoo
25. Which of the following can
be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?
A. 0.01-0.1%
B. 0.1-1%
C. 3-4%
D. 7-10%
E. More than 10%
Answer: D. 7-10%
26. 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
Answer: B. Not to index the page and
not to follow the links in the page
27. 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 (MULTIPLIED 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
Answer: 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
28. Which of the following are
examples of agents?
A. Internet Explorer
B. Search engine spiders
C. Opera
D. SQL Server database attached to a website
Answer: A. Internet Explorer, C. Opera
29. If you search for the term
“IQ test” in the Word Tracker keyword suggestion tool, will it return the
number of independent searches for the term “IQ”?
A. Yes
B. No
Answer: A. Yes
30. 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
Answer: B. Offering a different set of
web pages to the search engines
31. 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
Answer: A. Alexa provides free data on
relative website visitor traffic
32. Google gives priority to
themed in-bound links.
A. True
B. False
Answer: A. True
33. Which of the following
methods can help you get around the Google Sandbox?
A. Buying an old Website and getting
it ranked
B. Buying a Google Adwords PPC campaign
C. Placing the website on a sub domain of a ranked website and then 301
re-directing the site after it has been indexed
D. Getting a DMOZ listing
Answer: A. Buying an old Website and
getting it ranked
34. Sitemap Page is used to:
A. Attract visitors from the search
engines straight onto the Hallway Page
B. Organizes the Doorway Pages
C. Helps people navigate to different Doorway Pages
D. Enables search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages
Answer: D. Enables search engine bots
to index the Doorway Pages
35. Which of the following
options describes the correct meaning of Mouse Trapping?
A. The technique of monitoring the
movement of the mouse on the webpage
B. The technique of monitoring the area on which an advertisement was clicked
C. The web browser trick, which attempts to redirect visitors away from major
websites through a spyware program
D. The web browser trick, which attempts to keep a visitor captive on a website
Answer: D. The web browser trick,
which attempts to keep a visitor captive on a website
36. What is the most likely time
period required for getting a Google page rank?
A. 1 week
B. 3 weeks
C. 2 months
D. More than 3 months
Answer: D. More than 3 months
37. All major search engines are
case sensitive.
A. True
B. False
Answer: B. False
38. Which of the following
website design guidelines have been recommended by Google?
A. Having a clear hierarchy and text
links
B. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link
C. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you should break the site
map into separate pages
D. Keeping the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100)
E. Use less than 30 images or graphics per page
Answer: B. Every page should be
reachable from at least one static text link
39. How are sitemaps important
for the search engine optimization process?
A. Site maps help the search engine
editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicker
placement
B. Google gives credit to the websites having site maps. GoogleBot looks for
the keyword or title “Site Map” on the home page of a website.
C. Sitemaps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
D. None of the above
Answer: C. Site maps help the search
engine spider pick up more pages from the website
40. 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
Answer: C. Paid links should be
disclosed through the “rel=nofollow” attribute in the hyperlink
41. 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 point to that URL
D. It shows URLs with broken links
Answer: C. It shows all
the pages that point to that URL
42. Which blackhat Seo
techniques is characterized by a method to decieve 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
Answer: D. Cloaking
43. Why is it a bad idea from
an 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 be penalized by the search engine for using
duplicate contents
C. Because you will not get the benefits of proper keyword
targeting
D. Because people could turn up claiming copyright infringement
Answer: B. Because you
could be penalized by the search engine for using duplicate contents
44. What will happen if you
type the word ‘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 word word “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
Answer: C. Google will find ALL the
web pages in which the words “Certification” and “Networking” appear together.
45. Which of the following
factors does Google take into account while accessing whether or not a website
is an authority website?
A. The frequency with
which the contents 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
Answer: C. The number of
in-bound natural links related to the website’s theme (or keywords)
46. 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.
Answer: E. The number of
times the keyword is used / (divided by) the total word count on the page.
47. Which of the following
statement 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
Answer: B. They are also
called Link Farms
48. What is the illegal act of
copying a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to
another site called?
A. Traffic jacking
B. Visitors Jacking
C. View Jacking
D. Page Jacking
Answer: D. Page Jacking
49. What does the term “Sandbox” mean
in SEO?
A. The box with paid ads that appear
when you perform a search.
B. This is where sites are kept till they get mature enough to be included in
the top rankings for a particular keyword
C. A special category of sites that are listed in kid-safe searches
D. The first 10 search results for a particular keyword.
Answer: B. This is where sites are
kept till they get mature enough to be included in the top rankings for a
particular keyword
50. High-quality links to a site’s
homepage will help to increase the ranking ability of deeper pages on the same
domain
A. True
B. False
Answer: A. True
51. What aspects of a hyperlink are
not important for SEO?
A. The visibility of the link text.
B. The anchor text, especially the keywords in it.
C.he place from which the link originates.
D. The place to which the link leads.
Answer: A. The visibility of the link
text.
52. Which of the following is NOT a
“best practice” for creating high-quality title tags?
A. Make sure the title is unique for
every page
B. Include an exhaustive list of keywords
C. Limit the tag to 65 characters, including spaces
D. Write compelling copy that encourages users to “click” your listing
Answer: C. Limit the tag to 65
characters, including spaces
53. What is the advantage of putting
all of your important keywords in the Meta Keywords tag?
A. There is no specific advantage for
search engines
B. It increases relevance to Yahoo! and MSN/Live, although Google & Ask
ignore it
C. They will be bolded in searches for that term
D. You have to have a term in Meta Keywords in order to bid for AdWords to that
page
Answer: A. There is no specific
advantage for search engines
54. Which HTTP server response code
indicates a file that no longer exists? (File Not Found)
A. 401
B. 301
C. 500
D. 404
Answer: D. 404
