R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | SEO/Onilne Marketing SEO Multiple Choice Questions

If a website’s search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?

1. 20% of the webpages of the website have been indexed by the search engine
2. Only 20% of the pages of the website will be indexed by the search engine
3. 20% of the website’s pages will never be indexed
4. The website ranks in the first 20% of all websites indexed by the search engine for its most important search terms

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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.

1. less than 30%
2. 30 percent
3. more than 30%
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following factors have an impact on Google PageRank?

1. The total number of inbound links to a page of a web site
2. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site
3. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of web sited
4. The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What does the 301 server response code signify?

1. Not Modified
2. Moved Permanently
3. syntax error in the request
4. Payment is required

✅ Correct Answer: 2

If you enter ‘Help site:www.examplewebsite.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?

1. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.examplewebsite.com
2. It will find pages about help within www.examplewebsite.com
3. It will only find page titles about help within www.examplewebsite.com
4. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.examplewebsite.com

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is Anchor Text?

1. It is the text within the left or top panel of a web page
2. It is the main body of text on a particular web page
3. It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page
4. It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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”?

1. Yahoo Search Term Suggestion Tool
2. Alexa
3. Google Traffic Estimator
4. Google Trends

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?

1. Waves
2. Flux
3. Shuffling
4. Swaying

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?

1. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version
2. Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s.
3. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
4. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?

1. It refers to the fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best return on investment
2. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density
3. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines
4. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?

1. Red hat techniques
2. Silver hat techniques
3. Grey hat techniques
4. Shady hat techniques

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?

1. They are two way links (reciprocal links)
2. They are from authority websites
3. They are voluntary in nature
4. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?

1. Targeting synonyms of the main keyword
2. Targeting the highest searched keywords only
3. Copying competitor keywords
4. Optimizing five or more keywords per page

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What does the 302 server response code signify?

1. The page has been permanently removed
2. The method you are using to access the file is not allowed
3. The page has temporarily moved
4. What you requested is just too big to process

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?

1. They are greatly beneficial to SEO
2. They are also called link farms
3. They are paid listings
4. They contain numerous inbound links

✅ Correct Answer: 2

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?

1. Spreading
2. Dilating
3. RSD (realtime synonym detection)
4. Branching

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What will the following robots.txt file do? User-agent:Googlebot Disallow:/*? User-agent:Scooter Disallow:

1. It will allow Google to crawl any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also allow thealtavista scooter bot to access every page
2. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also disallow the altavista scooter bot from accessing any page
3. None of the above
4. 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

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?

1. It is a form of XML
2. It stands for Realtime streamlined syndication c. d.
3. It is a good way of displaying static information
4. It is a microsoft technology

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following statements are correct with regard to using javascript within the web pages?

1. It uses up the valuable space within the webpage, which should be used for placing the meaningful text for the search engines
2. Search engines cannot read Javascript
3. It is a good idea to shift the Javascript into a separate file
4. Most of the search engines are unable to read links within Javascript code

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following options are correct regarding the Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) of a particular keyword?

1. It is directly proportional to the popularity of the keyword
2. It is inversely proportional to the competiton for the keyword c.
3. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results
4. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?

1. Trafficjacking
2. Visitorjacking
3. Viewjacking
4. Pagejacking

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following search engines offers a popular list of the top 50 most searched keywords? .

1. Google
2. Yahoo
3. AOL
4. Lycos

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?

1. Lycos
2. Google
3. Yahoo
4. Windows Live

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?

1. 0.01-0.1%
2. 0.1-1%
3. 3-4%
4. 7-10%

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The following robots meta tag directs the search engine bots: <META NAME= ”robots” CONTENT=”noindex,nofollow”>

1. Not to index the homepage and not to follow the links in the page
2. Not to index the page and not to follow the links in the page
3. To index the page and not to follow the links in the page
4. Not to index the page but to follow the links in the page

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is Keyword Density?

1. 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
2. The number of times the keyword is used X (MULTIPLIED BY) the total word count on page
3. The number of times the keyword is used in the page description
4. The number of times the keyword is used in the page title

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?

1. Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
2. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
3. Hiding the keywords within the webpage
4. Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?

1. Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic b. Alexa and Quantcast provide information on visitor household incomes c. d.
2. Alexa is biased towards US based traffic
3. Alexa is biased towards US based traffic
4. Quantcast only tracks people who have installed the Quantcast toolbar This is the last question of your test.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?

1. Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic
2. Alexa and Quantcast provide information on visitor household
3. Alexa is biased towards US based traffic
4. Quantcast only tracks people who have installed the Quantcast toolbar This is the last question of your test.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?

1. Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic
2. Alexa and Quantcast provide information on visitor household
3. Alexa is biased towards US based traffic
4. Quantcast only tracks people who have installed the Quantcast toolbar This is the last question of your test.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

s Page is used to: a. Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway Page

1. Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway Page
2. Organizes the Doorway Pages
3. Helps people navigate to different Doorway Pages
4. Enables search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following options describes the correct meaning of MouseTrapping? a. The technique of monitoring the movement of the mouse on the webpage b.

1. The technique of monitoring the movement of the mouse on the webpage
2. The technique of monitoring the area on which an advertisement was clicked
3. he web browser trick, which attempts to redirect visitors away from major websites through a spyware program
4. The web browser trick, which attempts to keep a visitor captive at on a website

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?

1. 1 week
2. . 3 weeks
3. 2 months
4. More than 3 months

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following website design guidelines have been recommended by Google?

1. Having a clear hierarchy and text links
2. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link
3. Keeping the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100)
4. Use less than 30 images or graphics per page

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How are site maps important for the search engine optimization process?

1. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to quickly go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement
2. 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.
3. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
4. None of These

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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?

1. The text of the paid links should state the words “paid text link” for Google to identify it as a paid link
2. Only Paid text links to non profit websites should be accepted
3. Paid links should be disclosed through the “rel=nofollow” attribute in the hyperlink
4. Paid links should be disclosed through the “index=nofollow” attribute in the hyperlink

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to yahoo. What is performed by the link: Operator?

1. it shows all the outbound links from the url
2. It shows how many pages of the site yahoo is pointing to
3. It shows all the pages that point to that url
4. It show url’s with broken links

✅ Correct Answer: 3

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?

1. Coaling------------------
2. Foisting
3. Slighting
4. Cloaking

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why is ita bad idea from an SEO perspective to host free articles and write ups that are very common on the internet?

1. Because they will not lead to fresh traffic
2. Because you could be penalize by the search engine for using duplicate contents
3. Because you will not get the benefits of proper keyword targeting
4. Because people could turn up claiming copyright infringement

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What will happen if you type the word ‘Certification-Networking’ in the Google search box?

1. Google will find the web pages about “certification” and also containing the word “networking”
2. Google will find ALL the web pages containing the word word “Certification” and “Networking”
3. Google will find ALL the web pages in which the words “Certification” and “Networking” appear together.
4. Google will find the web pages about Certification that do not contain the word Networking

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following factors does Google take into account while accessing whether or not a website is an authority website?

1. The frequency with which the contents of the website is updated
2. the number of web pages containing relevant information on the main theme of the website
3. The number of in-bound natural links related to the website’s theme (or keywords)
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following statement about FFA pages are true?

1. They are greatly beneficial to SEO
2. They are also called Link Farms
3. They are Paid Listings
4. They contain numerous inbound links

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the most likely time period required for getting a google page ranking?

1. 1 week
2. 3 week
3. 1 month
4. More than 3 months

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What does the term “Sandbox” mean in SEO?

1. The box with paid ads that appear when you perform a search.
2. This is where sites are kept till they get mature enough to be included in the top rankings for a particular keyword
3. A special category of sites that are listed in kid-safe searches
4. The first 10 search results for a particular keyword.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What aspects of a hyperlink are not important for SEO?

1. The visibility of the link text.
2. The anchor text, especially the keywords in it.
3. The place from which the link originates.
4. The place to which the link leads.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is NOT a “best practice” for creating high quality title tags?

1. Make sure the title is unique for every page
2. Include an exhaustive list of keywords
3. Limit the tag to 65 characters, including spaces
4. Write compelling copy that encourages users to “click” your listing

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the advantage of putting all of your important keywords in the Meta Keywords tag?

1. There is no specific advantage for search engines
2. It increases relevance to Yahoo! and MSN/Live, although Google & Ask to ignore it
3. They will be bolded in searches for that term
4. You have to have a term in Meta Keywords in order to bid for AdWords to that page

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which HTTP server response code indicates a file that no longer exists? (File Not Found)

1. 401
2. 301
3. 500
4. 404

✅ Correct Answer: 4