SEO Interview Question 40 - Search command

Another funny and interesting quesion

if you enter 'Help site:www.expertrating.com' in the Google search box, what will Google search for?

a. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.expertrating.com
b. It will find pages about help within www.expertrating.com
c. it will find only page titles about help within www.expertrating.com
d. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.expertrating.com

SEO Interview Question 38

Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the 'relevancy' perspective?

a. The website offering products and services to the visitors country
b. A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c. Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d. Image alt tags on the home page matching the search term

SEO Interview Question 37

Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?

a. Windows live
b. Yahoo directory
c. Google
d. Wikipedia
e. DMOZ

SEO Interview Question 36

What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search?

a. There are more long tail searches than shorter keyword queries

b. Search engines often pass on long tail searches to lesser known and new websites

c. Search engines do not pass on long tail search traffic to websites that rank high or shorter keyword searches

d. There are fewer websites that have targeted such keywords

SEO Interview Question 35 - Robots.txt

What will the following robots.txt file do?

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*?
User-agent:Scooter
Disallow:

a. It will allow google to crawl any 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 to 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


Finally i found another straightforward question. Happy..

SEO Interview Question 34 - Google PageRank

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

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 the web site
d. The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site


Look at the "d" option. I love the way the confusing, and it is not the place to confuse the test writers. They will get irritated like me..

BTW.. I would like suggest you the information about PageRank: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

SEO Interview Question 33 - Natural Links

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



Pretty straightforward question.

SEO Interview Question 31

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

a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. AOL
d. Lycos


Again ... confusing..

Top 50 most searched keywords every day? or top 50 most searched keywords every year?

Lycos use to give it for every week. But now a days it not seems to be giving the list.
Check: http://50.lycos.com it is redirecting to lycos.com

This test f**ked my brain

SEO Interview Question 30

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

a. 1 week
b. 3 weeks
c. 1 month
d. More than three months


Answer: If i start my website just a day before google is going to update its pagerank database then the answer is 1 Day. I will get pagerank 0 in one day.


Foolish question.

The better way to ask the question is..

How frequently Google updates PR?

Answer: 3 months approximately

SEO Interview Question 29

What is the function of "indexer" part of the Google search engine?

a. It helps retrieve web pages from the world wide web

b. it helps gather information from other search engines

c. it helps sort the documents that google has retrived

d. it helps generate meaningful results based upon the user's search terms


They can ask this question more fairly


like..

What a search engine crawler  or bot do?

or

What is indexing?

what do you say?

SEO Interview Question 28

What of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct

a. Making a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engines looks at the keyword

b. Websites with deep linking are looked at favorably by search engines

c. Search engine robots follow the the first link they find to any particular page and they do not follow additional links to the same page

d. It is not a good idea to have the same anchor text for all inbound links as it could look automated to search engines.


Time eating question.. right.. Its unfortunate. Poor English too. But the last point - d catches my eye. D is not true. Many think it is true. It would be good to not get the gray hat seo techniques into the seo test by Lime exchange people. Because they are arguable and eats time..

SEO Interview Question 27

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


We all know the answer is b. But the the lime exchange people might have written it in understandable way. We know answers to may questions, but it takes great deal of time to understand in the given limited time to finish the test. I reported it to them :D

SEO Interview Question 26

Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?

a. Number of websites that link to it
b. The number of the pages of the website indexed by Google
c. The number of pages in website
d. The quality of websites that link to it

SEO Interview Question 25

Which search engine technology prevents a website from appearing in numerous top positions in the search engine result pages?

a. Clustering
b. Normalzing
c. Sifting
d. Combing

SEO Interview Question 24

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

SEO Interview Question 23

Search engines do not index some common words (such as "or", "and", "when", and "in") within the webpage. What are these common words called?

a. Barrier words
b. Non-indexable words
c. Slow words
d. Stop words

SEO Interview Question 22 - Lime Exchange

State whether the following statement true or false. A Sitemap can contain a list of URL's or a list of Sitemaps

a. True

b. False



I think it is true. But i am not sure. Please correct me.

SEO Interview Question 21 - Lime Exchange

What is the name of the search engine technology due to which a query of 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

This question took bit more time to understand.
Does any one had idea? Please post your answers below in comments

SEO Interview Question 19 - A Hallway Page is used to?

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 navigatge to different doorway pages
d. enable search engine bots to index the doorway pages


Source: Lime Exchange