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500 Interview Questions For Internet Marketing and SEO Interview questions 2014

500 Interview Questions For Internet Marketing and SEO Interview questions 2014

1. The online communications technique of search engine optimization involves:

a. gaining a good ranking in sponsored listings of the search engines.
b. gaining representation on third party sites.
c. gaining a position in web directories like Yahoo!
d. gaining a good ranking in the organic or natural listings of search engines.

2) Great Tool to monitor SEO position in Google ?

a. IBP is a popular search engine optimization software with a ranking guarantee. If you are interested in SEO and website promotion, visit this page.
b. Try rankerizer: www.rankerizer.com , It's free and fast.
c. If you are looking for a subscription based one check for SEOMOZ bit expensive.If you are looking for an one time payment go for Trank Tracker from Link assistant.Those are the famous tools in SEO industry.
d. All a,b, and c

5) A factor which will improve results from affiliate marketing is:

a. including the copy of a search term within a sites web page.
b. partnering with popular sites with pages relevant to your offering.
c. developing effective ad copy which encourages clickthrough.
d. ensuring that partners can gain good earnings per click.

6) What is SMO ?

a. Social Media Organization
b. Social Media Optimization
c. Social Media On Page
d. Social Media Programming

7) What is tumbler ?

a. Blog
b. Article
c. Press Release
d. Bookmark

8. Which is the part of Google ?


a. Wikipedia
b. Blogger
c. Wordpress

d. Weebly

9) Out of following which has Signature option ?

a. Press Release
b. Article
c. Blog
d. Forums

10) While posting in Twitter how many characters are allowed ?

a. 130
b. 160
c. 150
d. 140

11) Which is also called as Micro Blogging website ?

a. Blogger
b. Typepad
c. Twitter
d. Prlog

12) Out of following which is not a SMO technique ?

a. Facbook Optimization
b. You Tube Submission
c. URL Optimization
d. Orkut Optimization

13) What is Dmoz ?

a. Directory Submission
b. Blog Submission
c. Press Release
d. Article Submission

14) What is RSS ?

a. Read Simple Summary
b. Really Simple Syndication
c. Really Simple Submission
d. Read Simple Search

15) What is Alexa?

a. A Free Search Engine
b. Used to Check PR
c. Used to Check Website Ranking Position
d. A SEO Tool to Check Indexing of Website

16) Which components of your digital marketing campaigns are delivering the best results? E.g. Search, Email, Display Advertising, Social Media?

a. Search (PPC and SEO). These are most effective when in used in conjunction with great landing pages.
b. Email
c. Mediums are secondary, success depends on the contextual relevance of the message.

17) Why do campaign budgets get cut? Poor performance or lack of tracking?


a. Both: poor performance due to lack of clear objectives. and lack of tracking because no analysis properly done during campaign
b. Most of the time the problem is poorly defined goals and metrics
c. Budget cuts can also come due to lack of well defined baselines.
d. Lack of commitment to the campaign. Unreasonable expectations of sales impact.
e. On social media budgets: Shyness with social media due to it being unproven, thus high risk. Execs are holding back.
f. Measuring metrics a science, but knowing how to explain them can sometimes be an art. e.g. convincing your boss to keep budget.

18) What is your biggest pet peeve when it comes to marketing reports?

a. First Dashboard reports need to be customized (management level) and meet biz needs…focus on actionable metrics!
b. A lot of people over-do it with reports. Too much data and too complex = danger of focusing on wrong metrics.
c. Both a & b

19) How do you assess the value of a digital marketing campaign? Where do you start?


a. Have specific goals and objectives
b. Start with the dollar value of new sales and work backwards
c. Measure the number of sales-ready leads and wins
d. A good marketing dashboard is fundamental
e. All

20) What metrics (Key Performance Indicators) do you track? Which matter most?

a. “Actionable” metrics, data which will allow us to make better decisions and take action
b. PDF downloads, newsletter subscriptions, sales leads, e-commerce transactions
c. Clicks, conversion, leads
d. Customer retention
e. Qualified leads, Reach, Buzz, Sentiment
f. Engagement: comments/replies
g. Predictive actions: signups, downloads, resource access
h. All

21) 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

22) Which of the following options is 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 competition for the keyword
c. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results

23) Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?

a. It is a form of XML
b. It stands for Real-time streamlined syndication
c. It is a good way of displaying static information
d. It is a Microsoft technology

24) 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

25) 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

26) Keyword Density Myth or Fact? 


a. There is no set % for keyword density 
b. Keyword Density should be 2-5% 
c. Keyword Density should be 5-10% 
d. Keyword Density should be 10% or higher

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

28) How can you optimize a website having 2 lakh pages?

a. Generation of dynamic title & description
b. Dynamic XML Sitemap generation
c. Good Internal link structure (Normal)
d. Optimize every page manually

29) 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

30) A Hallway 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

31) 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 (realtime synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching

32) 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 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 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

33) 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

34) Which of the following is central to any definition of marketing?


a. Making a profit
b. Demand management
c. Transactions
d. Customer relationships
e. Making a sale

35) At home, at school, at work, and at the local supermarket, Europeans see _____ almost everywhere they go.


a. Customer relationship management
b. Demand management
c. Social marketing campaigns
d. Marketing
e. Brand experiences

36) According to the simple five-step model of the marketing process, a company needs to _____ before designing a customer-driven marketing strategy.



a. Determine how to deliver superior value
b. Build profitable relationships with customers
c. Understand the marketplace and customer needs and wants
d. Construct key components of a marketing program
e. Use customer relationship management to create full partnerships with key customers

37) When backed by buying power, wants become ________.


a. physical needs
b. demands
c. exchanges
d. self-esteem needs
e. social needs

38) When marketers set low expectations for a market offering, they run the risk of ________.



a. incorrectly identifying a target market
b. decreasing customer satisfaction
c. disappointing loyal customers
d. failing to attract enough customers
e. failing to understand their customers' needs

39) In addition to attracting new customers and creating transactions, the goal of marketing is to ________ customers and grow their business


a. recognize
b. encourage
c. educate
d. retain
e. entertain

40) Consumer research, product development, communication, distribution, pricing, and service are all core ________ activities.


a management
b production
c marketing
d customer relationship management
e exchange

41) In the case of excess demand, ________ may be required to reduce the number of customers or to shift demand temporarily or permanently



a surplusing
b value marketing
c demarketing
d negotiating
e marketing

42) Selecting which segments of a population of customers to serve is called ________.


a positioning
b target marketing
c managing the marketing effort
d customization
e market segmentation

43) ________ is the set of benefits a company promises to deliver its consumers to satisfy their needs.



a A value proposition
b An attribute
c A money-back guarantee
d Good customer service
e Low pricing

44) Which of the following marketing management concepts is most likely to lead to marketing myopia?



a customer-driving marketing
b production
c customer-driven marketing
d societal marketing
e selling

45) The product concept says that a company should ________.



a. make promoting products the top priority
b. focus on the target market and make products that meet those customers' demands
c. market only those products with high customer appeal
d. improve marketing of its best products
e. devote its energy to making continuous product improvements

46) The ________ concept holds that achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfaction better than competitors do.



a. product
b. equity
c. marketing
d. selling
e. production

47) Which of the following reflects the marketing concept philosophy?



a. "When it's profits versus customers' needs, profits will always win out."
b. "We don't have a marketing department, we have a customer department."
c. "You won't find a better deal anywhere."
d. "We're in the business of making and selling superior products."
e. "We build them so you can buy them."

48) When customers don't know what they want or don't even know what's possible, the most effective strategy is ________ marketing.


a. customer-driven
b. societal
c. customer-driving
d. product
e. production

49) The ________ concept holds that firms must strive to deliver value to customers in a way that maintains or improves both the consumer's and society's well being.


a. marketing
b. product
c. selling
d. societal marketing
e. equity

50) The set of marketing tools a firm uses to implement its marketing strategy is called the ________.



a. promotion mix
b. product mix
c. marketing mix
d. TQM
e. marketing effort

51) Building, keeping, and growing profitable value-laden relationships with all customers of a company is called ________.


a. customer lifetime value
b. societal marketing
c. customer relationship management
d. customer perceived value
e. database marketing

52) To capture the full essence of customer relationship management, which of the following should a marketing manager take into consideration?



a. capturing a customer's lifetime value
b. creating a sense of community surrounding a brand
c. building overall customer equity
d. owning customers for life
e. all of the above

53) Customers buy from stores and firms that offer the highest ________.



a. value for the dollar
b. company image
c. concern for society's interests
d. customer perceived value
e. level of customer satisfaction

54) Which of the following is the term for customers who make repeat purchases and tell others about their positive experiences with a product or service?



a. satisfied customers
b. butterflies
c. social customers
d. customer evangelists
e. full partners

55) Frequent flyer programs offered by airlines are an example of a ________.



a. frequency marketing program
b. structural benefit provided for top customers
c. basic customer relationship
d. consumer relationship management technique
e. club marketing program

56) Which of the following has not contributed to the deeper, more interactive nature of today's customer relationships?



a. traditional advertising
b. online social networks
c. video sharing
d. Web sites
e. e-mail

57) Greater consumer control means that companies must rely more on marketing by ________ than by ________.



a. interruption; involvement
b. socialization; information
c. interaction; intrusion
d. producing; selling
e. inspiration; competition

58) Through ________, many companies today are strengthening their connections to all partners, from providers of raw materials to components to final products that are carried to final buyers.



a. deviated marketing
b. direct marketing
c. partnership relationship marketing
d. customized marketing
e. supply chain management

59) When an airline goes after a "share of travel" from its customers, it is attempting to increase ________.



a. customer ownership
b. customer loyalty
c. share of customer
d. customer lifetime value
e. total customer spending

60) The ultimate aim of customer relationship management is to produce ________.



a. a reliable database
b. customer equity
c. profits
d. market share
e. sales volume

61) Which of the following is currently the fastest-growing form of marketing?



a. mass media marketing
b. online marketing
c. social marketing
d. word-of-mouth marketing
e. consumer-generated marketing

62) As part of the rapid globalization of today's economy, companies are selling more locally produced goods in international markets and ________.



a. downplaying concerns for social responsibility
b. reducing competition within their industry
c. purchasing more supplies abroad
d. competing solely in traditional marketplaces
e. taking a local view of their industry

63) Gianfranco Brown now has the buying power to purchase the computer system he has wanted for the last six months. Gianfranco's want now has become a ________.



a. transaction
b. necessity
c. demand
d. need
e. satisfier

64) To avoid traffic gridlock in large metro areas, a community might use ________ to discourage travelers from driving during peak commuting hours.



a. market segmentation
b. demarketing
c. marketing
d. the production concept
e. target marketing

65) Railroads were once operated based on the thinking that users wanted trains rather than transportation, overlooking the challenge of other modes of transportation. This reflects the ________.



a. societal marketing concept
b. marketing concept
c. selling concept
d. production concept
e. product concept

66) You have just taken a new position in an organization and you're learning about the job functions of your new colleagues. You observe that your marketing manager is heavily involved in the process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships. Your marketing manager frequently speaks about the need to deliver superior customer value and satisfaction. Your manager is concerned with which one of the following?



a. database management
b. donor marketing
c. the societal marketing concept
d. Web site hits
e. customer relationship management

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


a. 20% of the webpages 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

68) 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 __________ clickthrough rate.



a. less than 30%
b. 30 percent
c. more than 30%

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

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


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

71) 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

72) 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

73) Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?


a. Yes
b. No

74) 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. Examples of inconsistent linking could behttp://www.xyz.com/page/ and http://www.xyz.com/page andhttp://www.xyz.com/page/index.htm.
c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google

75) 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

76) 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

77) 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

78) 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

79) 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

80) 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

81) 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 (realtime synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching

82) 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 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 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

83) 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

84) 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

85) 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

86) 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

87 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

88) 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

89) 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%

90) 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

91) 

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

92) 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

93) 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

94) 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

95) Google gives priority to themed in-bound links.


a. True
b. False

96) 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

97) How are site maps 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. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title “Site Map” on the home page of a website.
c. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
d. None of the above

98) 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

99) All major search engines are case sensitive.


a. True
b. False

100) 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

101) 

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. 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 at on a website

102) Writing good content is ..


a. not as important as creating doorway pages 
b. the single most important thing in search engine optimization
c. the key to poor search engine rankings
d. who cares? I've got invisible text.

103) Site submission ....


a. should be done as often as possible. Twice a day, at least. More, if possible. 
b. submit your site to at least a thousand search engines...wherever they might be.
c. the more you submit your site, the better your search ranking.
d. should be considered carefully, because most sites are indexed naturally by search engine spiders

104) As far as search ranking results go, SEO is ....


a. pretty unimportant. I mean, my site is so cool that I don't really need to do any work. 
b. vital. It's what search ranking is all about.
c. a waste of time. And it's so complicated!
d. I don't want to be pushy with my site...I'll just let what happens, happen.

105) How do I get started with SEO? 


a. You don't. Leave it to experts.
b. Start slow, read a lot, and don't be intimidated or discouraged.
c. Cram as much information as possible into your brain in 24 hours; rinse, repeat.
d. SEO is just not important.

106) Which of the following is the least important area in which to include your keyword(s)?


a. Meta Description
b. Body Text
c. Meta Keywords
d. Title

107) Which of the following would be the best choice of URL structure (for both search engines and humans)?


a. www.wildlifeonline.com/563
b. text.wildlifeonline.com/category/crocodile
c. www.wildlifeonline.com/category/277/article/563
d. www.wildlifeonline.com/animals/crocodile
e. www.wildlifeonline.com/O0665?id=563&cat=277

108) Which of the following is a legitimate technique to improve rankings & traffic from search engines?

a. Adding keyword-dense meta tags to each of your site's pages
b. Registering keyword-rich domains and replicating your site on each one
c. Re-writing title tags on your pages to reflect high search volume, relevant keywords
d. Submitting your domain to the top 2000 search engines on the web
e. Hosting your site on a "search engine optimized" web hosting platform

109) Danny Sullivan is best known (in the field of web search) as:


a. The founder of the upstart search engine, Mahalo
b. Google's internal search marketing evangelist
c. A journalist and pundit who covers the field of web search
d. A nitpicky bastard that no one really likes
e. The recently-promoted CEO of Ask.com

110) Which of the following is the WORST criterion for estimating the value of a link to your page/site?


a. The popularity of the domain on which the page is hosted according to Alexa
b. The PageRank of the page in the Google toolbar
c. The ranking of the linking page for its targeted keywords
d. The number and quality of other external links on the page
e. The inclusion of the page in the indices of the major search engines

111) How can Meta Description tags help with the practice of search engine optimization?


a. Trick question - meta description are NOT important
b. They're an important ranking factor in the search algorithms
c. They serve as the copy that will entice searchers to click on your listing
d. They help to tell the engines which keywords are most important on your page

112) Which of the following content types is most easily crawled by the major web search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live & Ask.com)?


a. Executable Files (EXE)
b. Java Applets
c. Flash Plugin Files (SWF)
d. XHTML
e. Windows Media Player Files

113) Which of the following sources is considered to be the best for acquiring competitive link data?


a. Alexa
b. Google
c. Yahoo!
d. Ask.com
e. MSN/Live

114) Which of the following site architecture issues MOST impedes the ability of search engine spiders to crawl a site?


a. Missing robots.txt file
b. Pages that require form submission to reach database content
c. Buying links from large text link networks
d. Dynamic pages with 2 or more variables in the URL string
e. Web pages that employ iFrames

115) What is the generally accepted difference between SEO and SEM?


a. SEO refers to organic/natural listings while SEM covers PPC, or paid search
b. SEM implies association with a traditional marketing company, while SEO is usually independent or unaffiliated with traditional marketing.
c. No difference, they're synonymous
d. SEO focuses on organic/natural search rankings, SEM encompasses all aspects of search marketing
d. SEO tends to be a West coast term, SEM is more East coast

116) Which of these is NOT generally considered to be a highly important factor for ranking for a particular search term?


a. Temporal relevance - the number and quality of links pointing to a page over a given time span
b. HTML Validation (according to W3C standards) of a page
c. Quality and quantity of external links to the page
d. Keyword usage in the title tag of the page
e. Link popularity of a page within the domain (internal link popularity)

117) When creating a "flat architecture" for a site, you attempt to minimize what?


a. The number of links a search engine must follow to reach content pages
b. The number of tabs/windows that open during normal navigation
c. The amount of vertical scrolling necessary for navigation
d. The KB size of search-targeted pages
e. Number of colors used in the design

118) Which of the following is NOT a "best practice" for creating high quality title tags?


a. Include an exhaustive list of keywords
b. Limit the tag to ~65 characters, including spaces
c. Write compelling copy that encourages users to "click" your listing
d. Make sure the title is unique for every page

119) PageRank is so named because it was created by Larry Page, not because it ranks pages.


TRUE
FALSE

120) A page on your site that serves as a "sitemap," linking to other pages on your domain in an organized, list format, is important because...


a. It reduces the crawl rate of spiders to your pages
b. It's required for submission to many important search engines
c. It is the preferred navigational method of most web users outside the US
d. It may help search engine crawlers to easily access many pages on your site

121) Which of the following search engines patented the concept of "TrustRank" as a methodology for ranking web sites & pages?


a. Teoma (prior to Acquisition by Ask)
b. Google
c. Yahoo!
d. MSN/Live
e. Exalead

122) What other factors affect rankings besides backlinks?


a. On page optimization factors
b. Whether you have unique content
c. Whether your domain includes your primary keywords.
d. Having a lot outgoing or reciprocal links pointing to “bad” sites
e. Using content that the search engines can’t read, like audios, flash, videos, graphics (without alt tags), etc.
f. a to e
g. Only a, b and c
h. Only d and e

123) Which SE encourages keyword stuffing?


a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. Bing
d. None of the above

124) What metrics do you use to measure success?


a. Conversion
b. Good Traffic
c. Good Page Rank
d. Top Keyword Ranking

125) 500 error code


a. Internal Server Error
b. Forbidden
c. Not Found

126) What is meant by SERP?


a. Search Engine Results Page
b. Search Engine Ranking Page
c. Search Engine Results Position
d. Search Engine Ranking Position

127) When do you get a 404 error?


a. If There's a temporary redirect on that page
b. IF there's a permanent redirect on that page
c. If the server does not respond to the query
d. When the Page Requested Does Not Exist

128) SEM is a branch of SEO.


a. True 
b. False
c. Both are related.

129) On a Google point of view, which is the best space separator in a URL?


a. | 
b. -
c. %
d. _

130) A Page Rank scales from 1 to 5.


a. True 
b. False

131) When crawling your site, which HTML tags do SE bots first interpret?


a. Body 
b. H1
c. Robot
d. Meta

132) A site map is absolutely necessary without which SE bots won’t index your pages.


a. True
b. False

133) Which of the following file is created to give instructions to SE bots?


a. Index.html
b. Spiders.txt
c. sitemap.xml
d. Robots.txt
e. Searchbot.xml

134) Source code (meta tags, title tags, etc.):


a. It is not that much important
b. can be excluded while on page optimization
c. Search engine spiders don't look at these.
d. should be optimized just like the rest of your site

135) What is PageRank?


a. The search relevancy of a page compared to the other pages in the search engine's index.
b. The way Yahoo! measures how popular a given page is based on the number and quality of sites that link to it.
c. The way Google measures how popular a given page is based on the number and quality of sites that link to it.
d. The Alexa technology for ranking pages.

136) Is the following metatag appropriate for a site that sells books?

<meta name="Keywords" content="books,publish,reading,author,genres,cover,novel" />

a. Yes, this metatag is OK even though it could have had more keywords
b. No, it is rather short, I have more keywords to optimize for.
c. I would rather swap “publish” and “novel” because “novel” is more important than “publish”.
d. Yes, the following metatag contains all the keywords I need.
e. Why bother with metatags at all?

137) What will the search string “link:www.xyz.com” show?


a. The list of backlinks from other sites on the Web to xyz.com those are available in the index of the particular search engine.
b. The list of backlinks from other sites on the Web to xyz.com.
c. The home page of xyz.com.
d. The anchor text of the backlinks that link to the xyz.com site.

138) Will you use an ordinary html sitemap with Google?


a. Any sitemap is OK to use it with Google.
b. No, I will not because it is duplicate content.
c. Yes, I’d use HTML format that Google uses for sitemaps
d. I'd rather use the XML format that Google uses for sitemaps

139) Which of the following is the best way to maximize the frequency with which your site/page is crawled by the search engines?


a. Add a short "crawl delay" parameter to your robots.txt file
b. Increase your "crawl frequency" in Google's Webmaster Central
c. Frequently add new content
d. Search for your website more frequently in the major engines
e. Submit your site through the search engines' submission forms

140) How can Meta Description tags help with the practice of search engine optimization?


a. They help to tell the engines which keywords are most important on your page
b. Trick question - Meta description are NOT important
c. They serve as the copy that will entice searchers to click on your listing
d. They're an important ranking factor in the search algorithms

141) Which of the following is the least important area in which to include your keyword(s)?


a. Meta Description
b. Title
c. Meta Keywords
d. Body Text
e. Internal Anchor Text

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


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

143) What does the term Keyword Prominence refer?


a. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines
b. It refers to the fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best return on investment
c. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density
d. It refers to the closeness between two or more keywords

144) How are site maps important for the Search engine optimization process?


A. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement
B. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
B. 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.
D. None of the above

145) 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 but to follow the links in the page
C. Not to index the page and not to follow the links in the page
D. To index the page and not to follow the links in the page

146) Which of the following are examples of agents?


a. Search engine spiders
b. Internet Explorer
c. Opera
d. SQL Server database attached to a website

147) A keyword should be with… (mark the true one)


a. High Search Volume, Less Competition
b. Less Search Volume, High Competition
c. High Search Volume
d. Less Competition
e. none

148) 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 (realtime synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching

149) 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

150) 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

151) 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

152) 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

153) Which of the following activities could be looked down upon by Google as per their quality guidelines?
a.Using automated website submission software
b.Loading pages with irrelevant links
c.Intentionally adding keywords to the TITLE tags and ALT attributes
d.Registering misspellings of well-known websites

154) Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?
a. The number of websites that link to it
b. The number of pages of the website indexed by Google
c. The number of pages in the website
d. The quality of websites that link to it
e. all

155) 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

156) All major search engines are case sensitive.
a.True
b.False

157) 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 for shorter keyword searches
d.There are fewer websites that have targeted such keywords

158) Which of the following is an ethical SEO Technique?
a.Creating a subdomain with the hottest keyword and creating duplicate copies of existing pages on it
b.Filling your pages with keywords, whether relevant to the page content or not
c.Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d.None of the above

159) 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

160) 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

161) What will happen if you type the words '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 words "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

162) A Hallway 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

163) 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

164) If a websites search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?
A. 20% of the WebPages 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

165) A sitemap is absolutely necessary without which search engine bots won't index your pages.
a. True
b. False

166) Your server is going to be moved and unavailable for a day. What should you do?

a) Call Google and let them know not to crawl
b) Use the robots.txt to disallow crawling on that day
c) Return “Network Unavailable (503)” with a helpful message to all requests
d) Install Wifi and make sure the server stays online during the move. Any downtime is deadly.

167) Your website is not in the index 5 days after you’ve put it online; what should you do?
a) Do the Google dance
b) Continue working on the site
c) Buy a different domain name and copy the site
d) Reset your page counter to a high number

168) Your homepage has 287 errors in the W3C validator. What is the maximum number of URLs that Google could index from your site?
a) None
b) All except 287
c) 287
d) All pages

169) You bought multiple domain names and want them to all show the same website. What should you do with them?
a) Use frames
b) Use a 301 redirect
c) Duplicate the content
d) Use a CNAME DNS alias

170) 192 PDF files from your /private-files/ folder have gotten indexed and you need to remove them from Google’s search results. What’s the fastest way to do this?
a) Just delete the files and wait
b) Disallow all PDF files in your robots.txt file
c) Use the public removal tool
d) Disallow the folder in robots.txt and request removal of the whole folder in Webmaster Tools

171) You need to prevent Google from indexing any content in the new folder /private-files/. What’s the best way to do this?
a) Make sure not to link to those files
b) Use server-side authentication (username/password) for this folder
c) Use Webmaster Tools to reduce the crawl rate to zero
d) Disallow this folder in your robots.txt

172) Your site changed all URLs from .php to .asp, what do you need to do?
a) Use the URL removal tool
b) Add a robots.txt disallow for “/*.php”
c) 301 redirect the old URLs to the new ones
d) Add a robots.txt disallow for “/*.php” and 301 redirect the old URLs to the new ones

173) You have a country-coded domain name called example.es. To associate your site with Spain, you need to:
a) Include the following tag in your HTML:
b) Geographic target tool to set it to Spain
c) None of this is necessary. Google should already associate a domain ending in .es with Spain.
d) Include a language meta tag:

174) You have some pages completely in Spanish and others completely in English. How would you tell Google about this?
a) Specify the language in the opening HTML tag:
b) Include a language meta tag, eg:
c) No need to do anything. Google should figure it out.
d) It is required that the content be placed in language-based folders (e.g., http://example.com/es/ andhttp://example.com/en/)

175) Which of the following is NOT against Google’s Webmaster Guidelines?
a) Running tests on a site that result in some users seeing one version of a page and other users seeing another version
b) Showing search engines one file and then showing all users another file
c) Showing search engines and users the same file, but using JavaScript or CSS to hide some of the main text content in ways that the user could never trigger to be visible
d) Using a Javascript redirect to send users to a page on your site with better content

176) All of the following can be link schemes that can negatively impact your site’s ranking in search results EXCEPT:
a) Links to other sites that you think your users will find interesting or useful
b) Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web
c) Excessive reciprocal links or link exchanging (“Link to me and I’ll link to you.”)
d) Buying or selling links that pass PageRank

177) What does it mean when a robots.txt file contains “User-agent: *” and “Disallow:”?
a) Allow all search engines to crawl your site
b) Don’t allow any search engines to crawl your site
c) Don’t allow search engines to crawl anything but the root of your site
d) Prevents trailing slash in URL from appearing in search results

178) What does it mean when a robots.txt file contains “User-agent: *” and “Disallow: /”?
a) Allow all search engines to crawl your site
b) Don’t allow any search engines to crawl your site
c) Don’t allow any search engines to crawl your homepage
d) This directive is not legal in the robots.txt file

179) You may see a message in your Webmaster Tools Message Center for the following instances:
a) Violations of our Webmaster Guidelines
b) Changes you make in the Crawl Rate setting
c) When we find “infinite crawl spaces” on your site
d) When you have reported paid links
e) All of the above

180) It’s generally a best practice to convey important content on your site with:
a) Images that use descriptive alt text
b) Text
c) Flash


181) Duplicate content within your site is unlikely to be problematic if:
a) The original source doesn’t notice
b) You use the rel=”canonical” link element or the new Webmaster Tools feature called Parameter Handling to ignore specified URL parameters
c) You change small pieces of text or anchor text on each duplicated page
d) You are the author of the content

182) You would like your site to be found for some keywords related to your content which are only found in images on the page. How do you do this?
a) Place the keywords in an image on the website
b) Use the “keywords” meta tag
c) Use the “description” meta tag
d) Use the “alt” attribute or include the keywords in your text
e) Place them in tiny text in the footer

183) Your Webmaster Tools account lists a lot of “robots.txt unreachable” errors. What should you do?
a) Create a robots.txt file
b) Delete your robots.txt file
c) Contact your hoster or server administrator
d) Link to your robots.txt file from the homepage

184) Your Webmaster Tools account lists keywords like “viagra” and “ringtones” even though your site is about kittens. What could this mean?
a) Your cat is secretly using your Google Checkout account
b) A hacker could have added those words to your site’s content, or someone could have spammed your blog with comments that include those words
c) A competitor is trying to harm your site by linking to it with these keywords
d) This is probably coming from a different site on the same shared server and can be ignored

185) Your SEO has created ranking reports for your site. The results don’t match what you’re seeing. Why?
a) Ranking can vary depending on the user’s location
b) Ranking can vary from user to user
c) Ranking can vary from one day to another
d) All of the above

186) Your site was hacked. What should you do to remedy the situation?
a) Remove the hacked content
b) Update your software
c) Check your log files
d) Contact/notify your hoster/server administrator
e) All of the above

187) What’s a good way to submit an XML Sitemap file to Google?
a) Just call it “/sitemap.xml”. It’ll be found automatically
b) Link to it from your homepage
c) Use Google Webmaster Tools
d) Send an ICMP “ping” to “www.google.com

188) One of your pages is only listed with a title (but no snippet) in the search results. What could the problem be?

a) The URL is disallowed via robots.txt
b) The URL has not been crawled yet
c) The page has a “nosnippet” robots meta tag on it
d) The page may not have any textual content
e) Any of the above
f) None of the above

189) Your web shop has 100 products and a site: query shows 50,000 URLs indexed. What might this mean?
a) There could be a canonicalization problem
b) Your Page Not Found error page may not return a 404
c) Your site could be hacked
d) You might be exposing session IDs to crawlers
e) Any of the above

190) Google guarantees indexing for the following types of sites:a) AdWords advertisers
b) AdSense publishers
c) Sites verified in Webmaster Tools
d) Any site containing LOLcat images
e) None of the above

191) You have limited bandwidth and would like Google to crawl your site less frequently. What should you do?
a) Disallow crawling of your site (or portions of your site) via robots.txt during peak usage times
b) Set the priority for all URLs on your site to “0.0″ in your XML Sitemap during peak usage times
c) Set a custom crawl rate in Webmaster Tools

192) Your server has limited bandwidth resources and you would like Google only to crawl at night. What should you do?
a) Send an email to info@google.com
b) Add “Allow: 11pm-7am” to your robots.txt file
c) Have your server respond with HTTP result code 503 to all users when it’s bogged down
d) Dynamically change your robots.txt to disallow crawling during the day

193) One day you read that a free security update–WyszKablamCMS v.2.7.8–has been released. What should you do?
a) Ignore it
b) Change your server password
c) Read about the update, install it, and address any lingering vulnerabilities or compatibility issues

194) One thing Google has found to be true: “Focus on the ______ and all else will follow.”
a) SERPs
b) conversions
c) links
d) user

195) Your site is flagged as having malware, but you can’t find the malware. What do you do?
a) Submit a reconsideration request
b) Post in the Google Webmaster Help Forum to ask for help
c) Tweet a complaint to @google
d) Abandon your domain name and start over again

196) Where do you put your robots.txt?
a) Search for it in Google
b) In Webmaster Tools
c) The root directory of your domain or subdomain(s)
d) In the folder you want to disallow

197) “Unreachable robots.txt” in Webmaster Tools crawl errors means:
a) You don’t have a robots.txt file
b) We couldn’t reach the robots.txt file on your server
c) Your robots.txt file disallows access to your robots.txt file
d) Your robots.txt file requires a password

198) The number of indexed pages shown in a site: query for your site seems to vary. This could be due to:
a) Data centers – Different Google computers showing different info
b) Being logged in/out – Google’s “Personal Search” filter may be influencing results
c) Duplicate content filters are affecting the results
d) Any of the above

199) Your site has 200 pages, but Google only found 5 pages from your site. What could be the cause of this?

a) Google hates your site
b) Google is involved in a mass conspiracy against businesses in your sector/industry
c) Even when a site is crawlable and indexable, it can take Google time to fully explore it

200) You are thinking about putting some links on your site for advertising revenue, which of the below is the correct choice?

a) Just add the links
b) Add the links then try to “hide” them off the page, with small text, making the colour match the background
c) Use the rel=”nofollow” HTML microformat in the tag of the links

201) How do you help bots crawl your site more efficiently with If-Modified-Since?

a) Configure your webserver to ignore any repeated requests from the same source IP
b) Respond when appropriate with 304 “Not modified”
c) Add the “If-Modified-Since” meta tag to HTML pages

202) 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

203) What does the term Keyword Prominence refer? 

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

204) Have new web technologies like XHTML, CSS, Flash, and XML changed the SEO game or the ways search engines work? 

Answers: 

Yes, CSS has made it possible to transform table-based layouts into CSS-based layouts. Typically this reduces page size by 25 to 50%. The ratio of content to markup improves dramatically.

205) Question : 
What is the ROI [return on investment] for SEO activities? Can you give any examples? Another related question might be "How do you build a business case for doing SEO?" 


Answers: 

This is akin to asking what is the ROI for usability. Speed is a key component of usability. Small improvements in speed can take critical pages below typical attention thresholds, and dramatically lower bail-out rates and abandoned shopping carts. I talk about this in the book, but compression alone can save 30-50% in size and bandwidth costs. Webmasters who have employed compression and optimization typically save 30 to 50% off their bandwidth costs, and retain more customers, and have improved conversion rates.

206) What is SEO?

SEO stands for search engine optimization and is a part of internet marketing. SEO is a method by which the visibility of a website or a web page is increased on search engine. It is done to increase the visits on the site as more frequently and high the website appears on a search engine, more will be the visitors visiting it. SEO is the study of how the search engines operate and how it can be used to increase visibility of a website or a web page. SEO involves the following practices
Editing the content and the associated HTML coding.
Optimizing the keywords strength in the content.
Assigning relevant and keyword specific title tags and other meta tags.
Increasing the number of back links and inbound links.


207) What is email marketing? What are the types of email marketing?

Email marketing is directly marketing by using electronic mail as the communication
medium for commercial marketing or advertising to a group of people at a time. This internet
marketing strategy generally works by using emails to send ads, request business or solicit sales or donations and any form of email communication that is meant to built customer interest,
loyalty and increasing the current customer base. It basically aims at encouraging ‘repeat
business’.


208)
What aspects of the internet does internet marketing encompass?


Internet marketing doesn’t only mean marketing on the internet. It has a broad scope as it also includes marketing done via e-mail and wireless media. Digital customer data and electronic customer relationship management systems(ECRM) are often grouped together under internet marketing. It encompasses also the creative and technical aspects of the internet like design, development, advertising and sales. It also refers to the placement of media along the various different stages of the customer engagement cycle through search engine marketing(SEM), search engine optimization(SEO), banner ads, email marketing, mobile advertising and Web 2.0 strategies.


209) List and briefly explain the types of email marketing strategies

The following are the various types of email marketing techniques:

Email newsletters: They are direct emails sent out to a list of subscribers or customers on a
regular basis. They may be sent out daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or even annually. They
primarily aim at building and strengthening the customer relationship with the company.
Traditional emails: They are triggered transactional messages sent out based on a customer’s
action with a company. They include dropped basket messages, purchase or order confirmation
emails and email receipts. They primarily aim at conveying and confirming the actions that
triggered it. These days many email newsletter software vendors provide transactional email
support which gives companies the ability to include promotional messages or advertisements
within the body of the transactional emails. Some software vendors even offer specialized email
marketing services such as providing targeted and personalized transactional email messages
and running specific marketing campaigns such as customer referral programs which thereby
enhances the vendor’s or website owner’s online marketing strategy.

Direct mails: This email marketing strategy includes sending an email solely for the purpose of
communicating a promotional message, such as announcement of a special offer or catalogs of
products. Companies generally maintain a list of customers or potential customers or even hire
a list of email addresses from service companies to send direct mails to.


210) What are the advantages of internet marketing?

The advantages of internet marketing are as follows:
1. Large audience.
2. Inexpensive.
3. Availability of various options making it convenient for the customer to research through products and services available and then make a purchase.
4. Statistics can be measured more easily due to availability of various tools.
5. Various advertising methods available such as:
o Pay per click
o Pay per impression
o Pay per play
o Pay per action
6. Trends of e marketing and their results can be studied easily.


211) What are the limitations of internet marketing?

The limitations of internet marketing are as follows:
1. As the products and services offered are not tangible they can not be touched, tasted or smelled before purchasing.
2. The quality and authentication of the product and services offered online cannot be confirmed and thus uncertainty always persists.
3. Product seen online at times differs from what is finally delivered.
4. As the products are delivered by carriers there is a huge dependency on courier companies which might delay the delivery or lead to product damage while transaction.
5. To purchase a product online personal details need to be entered such as card details and personal information which are vulnerable to leaks.


212) What is pay per click? Which internet marketing model does it follow?

‘Pay per click’ , also known as ‘cost per click’ is a form of internet advertising which is used for directing traffic to websites. In this advertisers pay the site owners or publishers for the ads being viewed or click. Pay per click introduces a simple strategy of marketing in which an advertiser pays the website for publishing his advertisement and getting people to view it by clicking it, the more the views are for the advertisement, better is the revenue generated by the website from advertisement. Generally ‘pay per click’ is used by advertisers on keyword phrases relevant to their target markets. Content sites generally charge a fixed amount per click rather than using a bidding system. ‘Pay per click’ advertisements are commonly displayed on websites and search engine results.‘Pay per click’ is an approach that differs from the ‘pay per impression’ methods used in television and newspaper advertising.


213) What are the advantages and disadvantages of email marketing?

Advantages of email marketing are:
1. Large audience.
2. Internet users check emails on regular basis.
3. Return of investment generated can be huge if email marketing is planned the right way.
4. Email is the most basic and popular service of internet and thus most people are familiar with it.

Disadvantages of email marketing are:
1. Filtering causes large number of emails to be rendered undelivered.
2. Spamming in emails may lead to legal action against internet marketers.
3. Needs to be planned very carefully as very minute factors may lead to an email being rendered undelivered or filtered out.


214) How can a product be sold more effectively online?

Following are steps that can be taken to make sales more effective online :

1. Define the objective of creating the product.
2. Make clear what problem and needs does your product caters.
3. Explain the problem and the pain points faced by people.
4. Present the solution and how the product will fulfill it.
5. Layout features and benefits.
6. Provide guarantee wherever you can to make the customer feel secure.


215) What should be kept in mind when drafting an email for marketing?

Following things should be kept in mind when drafting an email for marketing purposes :

1. Use an effective subject.
2. Make sure the email does not go into spam. To ensure this make sure the email does not have too many links and restricted words which lead to mail ending up as spam.
3. Keep the email body crisp and up to the mark.
4. Make your point and do not drift away from it.
5. Avoid any form of grammatical mistakes.
6. Reiterate atleast once.


216) How can Page URL be made more apt for optimization?
Page URL can be made more apt by following these simple guidelines

1. Describe Your Content
Page URL should be so descriptive that by looking at the URL, user should get an idea of what the page is all about. Try to use words that are relevant to your store content.
2. Keep it Short
Always remember the shorter the URL the easier to copy and paste and remember which is more useful. Avoid using excessive keywords. Although search engines allow 1000 characters but only 70 characters will display in search engine results.
3. Minimize numbers and symbols
Use words or phrases in the URL instead of using numbers, symbols and punctuation.
4. Hyphens separate best
When creating URL’s with multiple words in the format of a phrase, hyphens are best to separate the terms.
5. Always use lower case alphabets
Since URL’s can accept both uppercase and lowercase alphabets, do not allow any uppercase letters in your structure as lowercase searching dominates all the search engines.
6. Never use nested sub directories
Using nested sub directories like “…/dir1/dir2/dir3/page.html” makes the URL lengthy and complex.


217) How to prevent email getting into SPAM?

Following steps should be taken to prevent mail from ending in SPAM :
Check if your domain name has been blacklisted.
If you are using html, then html should be well coded.
Avoid using spam filtering words, punctuation or capital letters message in your content/subject.
Spam filters look to see how many messages you are sending at a time.
Encourage your receiver to add you as friend or contact.
Keep the length of your subject under 45 characters.
Don’t use lots of colored fonts.
Only use one exclamation point at a time!
Avoid using the phrases "to unsubscribe" and "to be removed" in your message body.
If you want to deliver an important message to multiple groups better use
the ‘BCC’ function.
Most, if not all, email providers’ spam filters penalize your domain or IP with a higher spam score (meaning there’s a higher possibility of your emails going to junk folder) if they see that you are sending emails to bad email accounts. A bad email account is an address that doesn’t exist, has been disabled or has a full inbox


218) What are checklists before sending email?

Before pressing ‘SEND’ button ASK four questions and if u get all your answers then only press ‘SEND’ button.
1. What is purpose of your email?
2. What action needs to result from your email?
3. What supporting documentation needs to be attached to your communication?
4. Have you successfully summarized your email message in the subject line?
5. Check SPAM score(Mailcheck) and modify your content as per score you received
6. Press send


219) What do you mean by ?online marketing? or ?internet marketing?? 

online marketing also known as the internet marketing, and it saves time to the customer and it gives good products to select and purchase online through internet.
in these online marketing is the very good and easy process to buy the products and it saves the time of the people.
it gives the warranty for the product if damaged and broken.

also known as web marketing, online marketing, webvertising, or e-marketing, is referred to as the marketing (generally promotion) of products or services over the Internet.
It is the concept of advertising and publicising the
product through online. online marketing can be done
through internet, telephone, media etc. It is purely
promoting of product to the customers who can view or
listen to that particular product online and decide to
purchase it or not.

Internet marketing, also referred to as online marketing


220) When preparing a website, designers should ensure that the site makes effective use of the text, pictures and video. This design feature is known as _________. 

1. Content
2. Connection
3. Context
4. Communication


221) How to achieve good CTR in PPC?

Here are few things that need to be kept in mind for CTR
■Target your ads to right audience
■Select correct keyword matching
■See that you target your ads by location and language
■Create different Ad Groups for different search phrases/keywords
■Calculate how much you can afford for the day
■test your ads on daily basis, change if you don`t get any response from users
■Give google users a good reason to click your ad


222) How can you write a better Ad text for a campaign? What do you understand by quality score? What's it's importance?

Answer:
An ad text should attract attention. It should be relevant to page keyword and catchy. Quality score is the score attained by keyword/s used for your campaign. The higher the quality score, the lower you pay search engine when someone clicks on it and better if performs.


223) What is good : - 10 sales out of 100 hits for a campaign or 10 sales out of 300 hits for a campaign ? Assume that in both cases you are spending £85 .Think and answer !

Answer:
Well if we take consideration of ROI, I think it's better when we can get 10 sales out of 100.

But as you mentioned above that in both cases you spent just £85 to achieve it. I will say that it's better to have 10 sales out of 300. At least client is making same profit + 200 extra hits + new potential customers . This might increase sales sooner or later.


224) There are tons of metrics in AdWords – what are your top three key performance metrics in AdWords and why?
Answer:
My top three performance metrics are:
Quality Score – The most important thing in AdWords is to be relevant (give the user the right answer to his query) and the metric that indicates relevancy is Quality Score. I pay close attention to Quality Score and focus on getting higher scores (by increasing CTR, optimizing keywords, ads and landing pages). It's also very important because with high Quality Scores I pay less per click. I always try to get higher Quality Scores than 6.
Conversion Rate – When a user clicks on an ad he must take some action on the site. You always want to make sure your click dollars are not being wasted. To increase conversion rates I try to include a call to action in my ads and set up proper landing pages.
Click Through Rate (CTR) – CTR is very important because it shows my ads are relevant, clickable and my Quality Score is higher (which means I'm paying less for the clicks). To increase CTR I always try to include keywords in the ad text and study the "See search term" report to include some negative keywords. I highly recommend DKI (Dynamic Keyword Insertion) which bring great results for me and increases my CTR and Quality Scores.


225) Can you describe your AdWords management strategy? How do you set your campaign objectives, and how do you know what’s realistic or not? What about your AdWords management workflow? When you’re doing your account optimization work, how do you decide what to do next? How do you prioritize your work? 

Answer:

I can divide my AdWords campaign management into three phases. In the first phase I do a lot of research. I communicate a lot with my clients in order to determine what exactly they want to achieve. I must have a full understanding of their products or services and their business. I research their market, competitors and, most importantly, target audience. In that phase we also determine campaign expectations and goals.

In the second phase, I create campaigns based on my client's goals. I approach my campaign organization solely on the basis of the goals of my client. If the campaign goal is to increase revenue and high return on investment, you must organize your campaign differently than if the goal is more traffic on the site (for example).

Another important question is if the client wants to advertise on Google Search Network or Google Display Network – since those two networks function in different ways, the organization of those campaigns is also different. When I’m organizing campaigns for Google Search, the first thing I do is thorough investigation and categorization of keywords. I create tightly themed ad groups. How many ad groups do I have? As many as necessary, as long as I stay relevant.

Here are some more techniques I use in this phase:
I create ad groups of related keywords with exact mach only keywords, and ad groups with broad and modified broad keywords.
When I’m creating ads I use DKI as much as possible, because I realized that people want to see keywords they type in search box in the ad – that makes ads more clickable.
I bid based on my client budget and goals (if the goal is traffic on the site I use CPC, if it is conversion I use CPA, if it is branding I use CPM bidding).
I focus on increasing Quality Score so I pay less for the click.
Location extension is a must.
I also implement sitelinks.
I do location targeting and ad scheduling based on client needs.

In campaigns for the Display Network:
I always do some research with Ad Planner and find out where is my target audience.
I use the contextual target tool which is great for organizing contextual targeting campaigns in GDN.
I create tightly themed ad groups with 3-5 keywords.
I usually create a "discovery campaign" where I detect the best performing placements, then exclude them from the "discovery campaign" and put them in new display campaign with only the best performing placements.

The third and final phase is testing and optimizing. I always try to improve my campaign results. I regularly redefine my keywords. When I detect the best performing keywords, I usually remove them from that ad group and put them in a new ad group with ads created just for that new ad group. I often research the "See search terms" report where I detect new and negative keywords. I always test my ads and I try to have at least two ads in one ad group, where I replace the worse ad with a new ad. I’m especially focused on improving Quality Score, conversions, ad positions and bids. Testing and optimizing is one of the most important things in my campaigns. When you create your campaigns the job is just getting started with a lot of testing and optimizing. I carefully analyze campaign results, detect what part of the campaign needs further improvement and that’s how I know what to do next in my account.


226) What is the difference between search engine marketing and Internet marketing?

Search Engine Marketing is specific to marketing your brand/service/products through search engines. It can be in the form of organic search results where landing pages are aimed for higher ranking, or in paid search results, where ads are aimed to display at maximum exposure for targeted keywords at minimal cost possible.

Internet marketing covers a broader range of channels. It includes search engine marketing, email marketing / EDM, social media, and so on.


227) How do you differentiate paid search programs of Google, MSN and Yahoo?

One way to differentiate these three are through presentation of strengths and weaknesses of each.

Google AdWords
Advantage: Most robust and corners majority of all paid search traffic
Disadvantage: Due to its big number of advertisers, cost per click is generally more expensive

Yahoo! Search Marketing
Advantage: Lower pay per click cost compared to Google AdWords
Disadvantage: Way behind Google AdWords in terms of reporting features

MSN adCenter
Advantage: Studies show that users of adCenter are more likely result to conversions
Disadvantage: Weakest PPC interface compared to Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search Marketing


228) How do you describe building your keyword list?

Building a list of keywords used for any organic or paid search campaign should be systematic:

Identify your audience
Who are the target audience of this campaign? What would they probably be using to look for my products and services? Knowing your audience is the first sign of a successful paid search campaign.

Review your existing offerings
Based on what search terms people are using, do I have these terms? What are the possible landing pages? Does my website have content voids?

Look at your competitors
Look at competitors and analyze how they position themselves. Are they using the same terms as I do? Broader or more specific?

Check web analytics results
History will be recorded on web analytics tools: keywords used, their effectiveness in driving sales or leads and other useful information. Such data should give us idea on which keywords yielded better ROI.

Expand keywords using various tools
Based on keywords gathered so far, expansion is made possible through various tools available: Google AdWords keyword tool, WordTracker, KeywordDiscovery, and so on. From this big list, we can sort, prioritize and group these keywords according to importance, timing or other segmentation methods.


229) What’s your methodology in creating ad copies?

This question wants to find out how you would come up with ad copies. Are they compelling and paint an accurate picture of the intended message? You may answer it based on the following guidelines:
• Find out why your ad copy should be more effective than others
• Your ad’s ability to answer basic questions
• Testing the ad copy; we’ll never know how effective it is until we put it to the test


230) Google’s Quality Score and what role does it play in ranking?

While I do not expect Google’s textbook answer,, I am hoping the candidate understands the basic concept behind QS (clickthrough rate + other factors) and that QS is part of the Ad Rank formula where:



Ad Rank = CPC bid X Quality Score.



Their ability to explain Quality Score and Ad Rank to me in plain English is something I pay very close attention to.


Quality Score for Google and the search network is a dynamic metric assigned to each of your keywords. It’s calculated using a variety of factors and measures how relevant your keyword is to your ad group and to a user’s search query. The higher a keyword’s Quality Score, the lower its cost-per-clicks (CPCs) and the better its ad position.


231) How will you solve canonicalization issue or what is .htacess file?

.htacess file is used to solve the canonicalization issue of a website. It may happen that the home page of the site may take several urls like http://www.example.com/ orhttp://www.example.com/index.html or http://example.com/ . The search engines might treat these url as different and may divide the link juice gained by having various backlinks made with any of these 3 urls. The link juice gets divided between these three urls equally. .htacess file is created to have a single url of the home page so that the link juice is passed onto single url.


232) What methods would you apply for decreasing the loading time of a website?

I would use external style sheets, less images (unless necessary), optimize the images and decrease the file sizes of the image without reducing the quality of the image, use CSS sprites to reduce HTTP requests etc.


233) What are the Social Media channels you have used for marketing?

Answer:

I have used blogs like blogger,wordpress,typepad etc, social bookmarking sites like Digg,Jumptags,Delicious etc., social networking sites like Facebook,Linkedin etc., Video Sharing sites like Youtube,Vimeo etc.


234) What are top SEO ranking factors? 

Answer:

Quality of content on the webpage, quality and quantity of backlinks to the webpage, anchor text used in the backlinks, domain authority, social sharing metrics and some other traffic metrics like page CTR, bounce rate and average time on the webpage


235) What is the Difference Between Google Panda and Penguin Update? 

Answer:

Panda Update - This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful.

Penguin Update - This Update was designed to remove/down the websites from index which were doing much more that white hat optimization like creating too many low quality backlinks, use of aggressive exact match anchor text, overuse of exact match domains, blog spam and low quality article marketing, keyword stuffing etc...


236) What is topic modeling?
Answer – Topic Modeling is a technique used by search engines to clearly analyse and identify the large volume of text on a webpage. Read more about topic modeling here:http://www.tdktech.com/topic-modeling


237) What is Pagination in SEO?

Answer –

Pagination is the practice of dividing a piece of content into different pages while at the same time allowing Google to better understand the important pages to be indexed. Read the Google's advice on using the pagination.


238) What are rich snippets? 
Answer –

Rich Snippets are the combination of structured data displayed in Google search results for better relevancy to the user and more data at a glance. Rich snippets are shown after google identifies any microformats (http://microformats.org/) structured tags embedded in your webpage coding, on sept 20th, 2012, Google also launched the new Rich Snippets testing tool and named it the structured data testing tool http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets


239) What are URL parameters? 
Answer –
URL parameters are the values/attributes passed in the URL of a webpage to fetch any data from the database or to alter the order/structure of data displayed on the webpage, This is an important thing to consider while doing SEO for websites which uses URL parameters, especially e-commerce sites because these many times creates the duplicacy of content, you can handle this duplicacy using the rel canonical attribute and the Google webmaster tools, read more about configuring URL parameters in Webmaster Tools.


240) How to decrease the bounce rate of a webpage? 
Answer – Using strong Call to Action within the text of the webpage (Known as contextual CTA), alongside with the content, improving design of the page, adding links to the related content, increase the speed of webpage loading, designing easy and user friendly navigation and overall creating a responsive design.


241) Why we use noodp in meta robot tag?
Answer – To block the open directory project description from displaying in the search results, applies only to websites which are listed in ODP, i.e. dmoz.org.


242) What are breadcrumb? 
Answer– Breadcrumb is a website navigation system that clearly states the structure of website to both the users and the search engines, in case, making search engines clearly identify the structure of website, the microformats tags for breadcrumbs should be embedded in the HTML.


243) Is there a way we can tell Google that a particular webpage contains the Adult content?
Answer – Yes, we can do it by adding one of these two meta tags to that webpage
<meta name="rating" content="adult" /> OR
<meta name="rating" content="RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA" />


Social Media ROI: How To Define a Strategic Plan?
Brilliant Social Media Marketing Tips From 2012?
Great Social Media Optimization Tips For Your Website?
Developing a Social Media Marketing Strategy for Your Business?
Creating a Social Media Marketing Plan?

Read More:http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2202307/Social-Media-ROI-How-To-Define-a-Strategic-Plan


244) Why your Business needs a Mobile Website? How to create mobile friendly website? how to optimize website on mobile? 
Reason For Mobile Website
1. There are Over 1Billion Smartphones in use Worldwide
2.95% of Users find businesses on their smartphone.
3.It is straight Forward
4.Easy to Read
5.More Traffic More Customers
6.More Revenue for your Business!

Did you know?
• By 2014 Mobile Internet Users will Surpass Computer internet Users?
•By 2016 75% of people will own a smartphone • 95% of Mobile Searches are local?
•79% of Business do not have a mobile Optimized site

What you are missing.
•88% of mobile users will take time to call or visit a business.
•74% of users will purchase based on a mobile Search
•79% Use their smartphones to help with purchasing or finding a product or service.
•81% of Smartphones Prefer Mobile Websites

And there is more…How can a mobile site help your business?
•Most regular websites are difficult to read, frustrating to navigate, and load too slowly on a smartphone
•Mobile Users are more likely to purchase a product than regular internet users.
•These customers could be visiting your business… or your Competitor’s if they are the one with a mobile friendly website
•If you don’t have a mobile Optimized site, you are missing A LOT of customers

Its time for your Business to get a mobile Website

Read more: http://webonmobi.info/why-your-business-needs-a-mobile-site-today/


245) Questions : Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?
Answer :
A. 1. Interview website owner or webmaster to get a good grasp of the site’s purpose and goals.

2. Perform a keyword analysis to find best performing keywords that should be used for that site and for individual pages of the site.

3. Analyze site content to determine usage of relevant keywords and phrases.
This includes visible text as well at titles, META tags, and “alt” attributes.

4. Examine site navigation.

5. Determine the existence of robots.txt and sitemap and examine those for effectiveness.

6. Make recommendations for changes needed for the site and each individual page.


246) Question : What is the difference between Indexing and Crawling?
Answer :
1) When the Search Engines come to your website and read the data or find the data, this process is called crawling.

2) Whenever Search Engines come to your website, whichever page they crawl, they take a copy of that page with them and save it on their server. This process is done by the search engine is called Indexing


247) Question : On the Home Page, I have 10 images, from which I want the Google Spider to crawl only 5 and remaining 5 should be hidden from the Spider? What will I do?
Answer :
I will make a separate folder in the root file and put all those five 5 images which I don’t want the spider to crawl and then add the folder in the Robots.txt


248) Q: I have some pages in the supplemental results that are old now. What should I do?
A: I wouldn’t spend much effort on them. If the pages have moved, I would make sure that there’s a 301 redirect to the new location of pages. If the pages are truly gone, I’d make sure that you serve a 404 on those pages. After that, I wouldn’t put any more effort in. When Google eventually recrawls those pages, it will pick up the changes, but because it can take longer for us to crawl supplemental results, you might not see that update for a while.


249)Question : If the company whose site you’ve been working for has decided to move all of its content to a new domain, what steps would you take?

Answer :
I would update the old site with permanent redirects to to new page for every page. Then I would attempt to remove old content from the major search engines to avoid duplicate content issues.



250) Q: Let’s talk about the inurl: operator. Why does everyone think that if inurl:mydomain.com shows results that aren’t from mydomain.com, it must be hijacked?

A: Many months ago, if you saw someresult.com/search2.php?url=mydomain.com, that would sometimes have content from mydomain. That could happen when the someresult.com url was a 302 redirect to mydomain.com and we decided to show a result from someresult.com. Since then, we’ve changed our heuristics to make showing the source url for 302 redirects much more rare. We are moving to a framework for handling redirects in which we will almost always show the destination url. Yahoo handles 302 redirects by usually showing the destination url, and we are in the middle of transitioning to a similar set of heuristics. Note that Yahoo reserves the right to have exceptions on redirect handling, and Google does too. Based on our analysis, we will show the source url for a 302 redirect less than half a percent of the time (basically, when we have strong reason to think the source url is correct).


251) Q: So when you say www vs. non-www, you’re talking about a type of canonicalization. Are there other ways that urls get canonicalized? 

A: Yes, there can be a lot, but most people never notice (or need to notice) them. Search engines can do things like keeping or removing trailing slashes, trying to convert urls with upper case to lower case, or removing session IDs from bulletin board or other software (many bulletin board software packages will work fine if you omit the session ID).


252) Q: If I want to get rid of domain.com but keep www.domain.com, should I use the url removal tool to remove domain.com?
A: No, definitely don’t do this. If you remove one of the www vs. non-www hostnames, it can end up removing your whole domain for six months. Definitely don’t do this. If you did use the url removal tool to remove your entire domain when you actually only wanted to remove the www or non-www version of your domain, do a reinclusion request and mention that you removed your entire domain by accident using the url removal tool and that you’d like it reincluded.


253) Q: I noticed that you don’t do a 301 redirect on your site from the non-www to the www version, Matt. Why not? Are you stupid in the head?
A: Actually, it’s on purpose. I noticed that several months ago but decided not to change it on my end or ask anyone at Google to fix it. I may add a 301 eventually, but for now it’s a helpful test case.


canonicalization, www vs. non-www, redirects, duplicate urls, 302 “hijacking,” etc.

254) Q: What is a canonical url? Do you have to use such a weird word, anyway?

A: Sorry that it’s a strange word; that’s what we call it around Google. Canonicalization is the process of picking the best url when there are several choices, and it usually refers to home pages. For example, most people would consider these the same urls:

www.example.com
example.com/
www.example.com/index.html
example.com/home.asp
But technically all of these urls are different. A web server could return completely different content for all the urls above. When Google “canonicalizes” a url, we try to pick the url that seems like the best representative from that set.

255) Q: So how do I make sure that Google picks the url that I want?

A: One thing that helps is to pick the url that you want and use that url consistently across your entire site. For example, don’t make half of your links go to http://example.com/ and the other half go to http://www.example.com/ . Instead, pick the url you prefer and always use that format for your internal links.

256) Q: Is there anything else I can do?A: Yes. Suppose you want your default url to be http://www.example.com/ . You can make your webserver so that if someone requestshttp://example.com/, it does a 301 (permanent) redirect to http://www.example.com/ . That helps Google know which url you prefer to be canonical. Adding a 301 redirect can be an especially good idea if your site changes often (e.g. dynamic content, a blog, etc.).


257) Question: What is Canonical Issues?? Is it Important for SEO?

Answer:

If Google discovers your webpages via multiple URLs, it is going to declare them as duplicate. Hence, you need to tell Google about your preferred URL by adding rel=”canonical to your preferred version:
Example being
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish" />

This will give an answer to your canonical related ques
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139066



258) Question: How to Solve Canonical Issues for Websites for SEO ?

Answer:
There should be a way to solve this canonical issue..

301 redirection with .htaccess file is the solution.

Create a .htaccess file. Open Notepad. Name it as .htaccess.
Paste the below code into the notepad. You have to customize the code by replacing your own domain name. And in place of index.html you have to replace it with your home page file name. Another thing is, you have to decide whether you want www version or non www version of your cannonical url. Both are fine. But the common trend is www version. If you want non www version of your domain name just remove the www. portion from the code.

# For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden.

#Options +FollowSymLinks

Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domainname\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainname.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html

RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.domainname.com/$1[R=301,L]



301 Redirects & Canonical URL Issues Tutorial
How to use canonical and server side redirects for SEO?


http://www.seoimage.com/301-redirects-and-canonical-urls.html



260) Duplicate Content Filter Makes Dynamic Sites Victims and Some Fixes

You must be very careful if you develop dynamic sites and assure that there is never a way to reproduce the same page more than once or give multiple URL paths to get to the same page.

Fixes are:
1) Determine the pages
2) Determine if a robots.txt can be used
3) Use a NOFOLLOW tag when in doubt
4) Never use different URLs for the same page
5) Assure mod rewrites are working properly and there is no way to get there dynamically, if there is disallow access via robots.txt.
6) Robots.txt the metas.
7) If else statements if changing currencies that will add a robots “noindex” to the page. Go crazy and obsess over other possibilities.
9) POST OTHER SOLUTIONS IN THE COMMENTS.
10) Create new named URLs for the old pages after removing the duplicate pages. 301 redirect the old pages.

Read more: http://www.seoimage.com/stardate/duplicate-content-filter-fixes/



261) Question: Have any strategies to get lost Google+ local reviews come back to a local business that changed its location?

Answer:
There have been so many issues with reviews since Google+ Local was rolled out, I decided to make this Comigraphic. Really, if the reviews being lost aren’t spam, then it comes down to the way business information is stored in Google's system. Your business Name, Address, and Phone number make up your online identity to Google. When one of these things changes then what can happen is Google starts thinking that there are two identities and sometimes your data (reviews or citations) will be stored with the wrong identity. Here is Google's advice on moving:

If a business no longer exists at a location, you can mark it as closed or moved on Google Maps. Follow these steps to have the listing moderated:
1. Find the closed or moved business on Google Maps.
2. Use the Report a problem link from the Google Maps result.
3. Select Place is permanently closed option.
4. If the place has moved to a new location, give us the new location’s information in the comment box.
5. If your business has moved and you manage the business’s new location, you should add the new location as a separate listing in your Places dashboard.

Word is that if you move, you lose your reviews. There is a discussion on Linda's forum on this very subject where a couple of Googlers dropped in. In the example that is mentioned in the forum, the old business listing shows the old reviews and says it has moved locations and shows (and links) to the new address. The reviews have transferred so they exist on both listings as well. Hopefully this means that following Google's advice will help you keep your reviews, but sometimes the same path leads to different outcomes in the Googleverse. My best advice is never change your name, never move your address, never change your phone number.


262) Question: Do webfonts slow down page load?

Answer: Each webfont is around 50k in size, so overuse of webfonts can affect page load. As webfonts are often used to replace graphics, the end result can be that webfonts could easily decrease page size. My advice is to evaluate the file size during the development process and keep to your existing page size thresholds. Obviously it makes no difference if bandwidth is used downloading a graphic or a webfont.


263)What's more valuable to the modern marketer ? 

1. Banner impression
2. Social referral to a friend (share)
3. Billboard view
4. Print media reader
5. Radio listener
6. Other (Specify)


264)What are the benefits and disadvantages of social media marketing? You can also suggest your ideas ......
Answer:
1) You can connect directly with your customers and get their feedback/suggestions for improving your products or services.
2) You can make your customers feel valued as human beings, not just dollars and cents, and improve their experiences with your business.
3) You can use social media (such as Twitter and Facebook) to advertise upcoming events or special offers that you think your customers would enjoy.
4) Social media has a wide reach, so your customers may even spread your message for you if they like it.
5) You can send out your message at times when you think your customers are most likely to see it, and measure the effectiveness of your message with other tools.
6) Good Social Media information is essential to creating and sharing your Brand and with a weekly effort of 2-4 hours to schedule posts and tweets can be the best use of new business development time and money
7) The main benefit is that they offer remote, real time and low cost engagement between your brand/company/product and your audience.

Disadvantages:

1) If one of your customers (someone who isn't a chronic complainer, but a good customer who you want to keep) complains about you online, that complaint may be seen worldwide. Best thing to do: Acknowledge that customer immediately and act fast to fix the problem.
2) If you ever make an error (such as an accidental misspelling or mouthing off to a customer online -- I've seen both happen), it's seen worldwide and may even be picked up by news channels. Fix it fast.
3) The main disadvantage is that they gradually require deeper and deeper insight and interpretation capacity (aka we become social scientists) to be able to use them wisely and measure results.
4) a disadvantage is a customer's complain is seen worldwide. Companies need to respond to customers. I think the percentage is 70% of companies do not respond to customers on social media.


265)Why You Need To Treat Your Social Media Strategy Like Your Content Strategy? 

In a typical organization, the social media tweets away in one department while content writers toil away in another. The social team links to fresh content, sure… and that’s about the extent of their interactions. But, at the end of the day, what you post and share on social media is content, and it’s time we start treating our social postings with the same amount of gravity as we do our content.
Read more:
http://searchengineland.com/why-you-need-to-treat-your-social-media-strategy-like-your-content-strategy-145199


266)What counts as a high-quality site?

Our site quality algorithms are aimed at helping people find "high-quality" sites by reducing the rankings of low-quality content. The recent "Panda" change tackles the difficult task of algorithmically assessing website quality. Taking a step back, we wanted to explain some of the ideas and research that drive the development of our algorithms.
Below are some questions that one could use to assess the "quality" of a page or an article. These are the kinds of questions we ask ourselves as we write algorithms that attempt to assess site quality. Think of it as our take at encoding what we think our users want.
Of course, we aren't disclosing the actual ranking signals used in our algorithms because we don't want folks to game our search results; but if you want to step into Google's mindset, the questions below provide some guidance on how we've been looking at the issue:

267) Would you trust the information presented in this article?


Is this article written by an expert or enthusiast who knows the topic well, or is it more shallow in nature?
Does the site have duplicate, overlapping, or redundant articles on the same or similar topics with slightly different keyword variations?
Would you be comfortable giving your credit card information to this site?
Does this article have spelling, stylistic, or factual errors?
Are the topics driven by genuine interests of readers of the site, or does the site generate content by attempting to guess what might rank well in search engines?
Does the article provide original content or information, original reporting, original research, or original analysis?
Does the page provide substantial value when compared to other pages in search results?
How much quality control is done on content?
Does the article describe both sides of a story?
Is the site a recognized authority on its topic?
Is the content mass-produced by or outsourced to a large number of creators, or spread across a large network of sites, so that individual pages or sites don’t get as much attention or care?
Was the article edited well, or does it appear sloppy or hastily produced?
For a health related query, would you trust information from this site?
Would you recognize this site as an authoritative source when mentioned by name?
Does this article provide a complete or comprehensive description of the topic?
Does this article contain insightful analysis or interesting information that is beyond obvious?
Is this the sort of page you’d want to bookmark, share with a friend, or recommend?
Does this article have an excessive amount of ads that distract from or interfere with the main content?
Would you expect to see this article in a printed magazine, encyclopedia or book?
Are the articles short, unsubstantial, or otherwise lacking in helpful specifics?
Are the pages produced with great care and attention to detail vs. less attention to detail?
Would users complain when they see pages from this site?
Writing an algorithm to assess page or site quality is a much harder task, but we hope the questions above give some insight into how we try to write algorithms that distinguish higher-quality sites from lower-quality sites.

Read More: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html



268)Top SEO Skills Needs In 2013?
A new Threadwatch post is asking what skills does an SEO need in 2013 to make them a "sharp" SEO?

2013 is a lot different than five years ago when it comes to SEO. Think about what we have much more of now. We have social, deeper localization, Panda, Penguin, EMD, and tons of other Google updates. We have analytics certification, we have content marketing, conversion optimization, and so so much more. It is not just about creating as much content as possible and as many links as possible.

We have a post from 2007 where most the skills we listed were technical skills, like HTML, SEO tool knowledge, etc.
But in today's SEO world, I would assume that the technical skills are a prerequisite. Of course you need to build sites that are search engine friendly, without canonical issues, that don't have duplicate content issues, that have the proper markup throughout the sites including rich snippets. But now you need to know more about analytics, more about social media, more about content marketing, and even more about link bait.

And of course, we have to deal with Panda, Penguin and the other Google algorithms.

1. The dark arts of SEO may be dying off but SEO will never die. One most important skill in my opinion an SEO expert should have is to learn how to use the patterns and practices in favor of diverseness and natural appearance. A good SEO must think like the Coast Guard - Semper Paratus!

2. The ability to produce great content.
Don't think that producing great content is essential. It would be nice, yes, but you can be an awesome SEO pro without it.
3. if SEOs will study "analytics, more about social media, more about content marketing, and even more about link bait".

4. Most of the "webmasters", you're referring to, are out of business because they don't know basics. They could hire SEO when the internet was full of quick money opportunities. No more quick money. The webmaster shall know basics by him/herself, if she/he wants to be in this business. Sorry, but there is just no money for the SEO specialists in this business.


269)Question: What is the best way to maximize the frequency of crawling of your website by search engines? 

Answer – Frequently adding new, original and quality content on the website.

Note: If you have any suggestion then comment it.


270)What is the Panda update and which is its current version?

Answer – Panda is a search algorithm update by the Google to take on the content farms, low quality websites and the websites getting low quality backlinks, Google removed a lot of the webpage from the higher search index during this update and Google Announces 24th Panda Refresh; Not Related To January 17th | January 23, 2013…
Read here for latest panda updateshttp://www.seroundtable.com/tag/panda



271)How to Sell Online Advertising to Print Advertisers? 

Answer:
Dan Ambrose, Advertising Sales Consultant and speaker at the upcoming Mequoda Summit says:

“Advertising sales is all about salesmanship. Greater sales skills will make more and bigger sales. And a media company that understands and executes the sales and marketing of advertising with excellence will gain sales and market share over time, growing nearly without limits.”

In other words, it’s a toss up. So get to know your advertisers as best you can before offering them your best deal on an advertising package. Which hopefully, will include what we’ve listed below.

Three Steps on How to Sell Online Advertising to Print Clients

1. Offer them a package.
They are already buying ads in your print product, so the next logical step is to offer them ad space on your website for an increased rate as a “print + online package”. This shouldn’t be a hard sell, so long as you follow the next two steps.

2. Let them be more active. Advertisers get bored with “text links” and “banner ads” very quickly, so come up with new ways for them to increase leads by letting them become more active in your marketing. Let them sponsor contests, interview them for your subscription products, so on and so forth.

3. Offer them a sponsorship opportunity. If you’re looking to really build out your website, offer them the chance to sponsor sections of your website. Sites like RCRWireless.com let advertisers sponsor whole topics, while others like AutoTrader.com let them sponsor online tools. Still, some, like Computerworld.com offer their advertisers “Zones” where they can give away a free report in exchange for email leads that go directly to the advertiser. Read How to Sell Sponsorships on Your Website for more info.

Everyone has an opinion on online advertising… what’s your take? How have you convinced advertisers to spend more money? Let us (and our readers) know in the comments…



272)Top Video Marketing Tips For 2013

Video marketing is exploding these days. Way back in the year 2005, You Tube was created and promptly started to be noted for its user uploaded online videos of crazy instances and aspiring pop stars. Nowadays, the Google acquired video disseminating foundation is turning into an arena for firms of any size to distribute him or her self in an engaging and substantive fashion.

1. Set up Useful, Priceless Subject Matter for Video Marketing Campaigns
2. Make Your Channel Theme Exclusive to Your Video Marketing Message
3. Make Your Playlists Specific to Your Video Marketing Campaign
4. Improve Your Video Marketing Videos
5. Video Marketing is All About Making The Connection

Video Marketing is Highly Effective

Beyond doubt, YouTube is an extremely productive way to socialize and coach your existing and prospective buyers. No matter what the length or marketing budget of your business, YouTube is a marketing foundation which can be used systematically. Generating a distinct, easy to navigate channel with interesting and valuable subject material is and will remain the key element of generating a sound and thriving base of fans. Video marketing is all about formulating relationships and trust.

Read More: http://soscomplete.com/2013/02/11/top-video-marketing-tips-for-2013/



273)See Latest SEO tools List ........... 215 COOL SEO TOOLS. 

Set of New SEO Tools.
Set of Alexa Tools.
Set of Backlink Tools.
Set of Combo Search Engine Ranking Tools.
Set of Google Ranking Tools.
Set of Keyword Suggestion Tools.
Set of Page Rank Tools
Set of RSS Tools

Read More: http://www.submitedge.com/seo_tools.html


274)How Brands Are Preparing for 2013: 10 Future-Proof SEO Steps

2012 saw plenty of change in the SEO industry. The search algorithms have changed, the SERP results have changed, and how SEO professionals operate is changing.

While the search landscape has grown and matured, it presents several challenges as well as opportunities to take enterprise SEO to a new level in 2013.

Read more: http://bit.ly/XM9wlp



275)12 Valuable Tips for Video Marketing SEO.

If you aren't optimizing your videos to match what people are searching, your videos are likely to get lost and not reach their intended audience. Without reaching their intended audience, they serve no purpose.

YouTube is the second largest search engine behind Google. Every minute, more than 48 hours of new video content is uploaded. Videos are 50 times more likely to rank on the first page of Google results, according to Nate Elliot at Forrester.

Read More: http://bit.ly/13gJ2PC


276)For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait

Arvind Jain, a Google engineer, pointed out the loading speed of individual elements of a website on a test application used to check efficiency, at Google offices in Mountain View, Calif.

Read More: http://nyti.ms/10o5c2i



277) Make the Web Faster: Optimize for mobile

Due to the limited CPU capabilities of mobile devices, the high round-trip times of mobile networks, and the rapid growth of mobile usage, it is even more critical to understand and optimize for mobile performance than for the desktop. Page Speed Insights now allows you to easily analyze and optimize your site for mobile performance. Many of the mobile-targeted best practices below are also relevant when optimizing for desktop, so these suggestions may also be included in Page Speed reports for desktop browsers.

Defer parsing of JavaScript
Make landing page redirects cacheable

Read More: http://bit.ly/JgjaYb



278)Social Media Marketing: New Tools of the Trade

Social is a high-touch environment, and requires constant attention. Since attention isn’t scalable, we need technology to scale for us. Here are a few useful tools for your Social SEO campaigns:
•HootSuite:
One of the most popular social management platforms, HootSuit allows a team to monitor, analyze, and engage with audiences across multiple social networks simultaneously. The scheduled tweets lets campaign managers queue up messages to be sent automatically at scheduled times.
•IFTTT:
A unique, rule-based platform where you can automate activities based on social actions. For example, you can create a rule to email the team whenever someone mentions your brand in a tweet.
•Triberr:
A content curation and sharing platform. A team can search for and join relevant industry groups to access a constant stream of fresh content that can be automatically shared with social audiences. Likewise, teams can create and share their own content with their social networks.


279) Matt Cutts: Malware warning

Recently someone on twitter complained that Chrome was labeling their site as malware:
http://Dvorak.org/ site blocked by Chrome browser after I wrote negative commentary about Google.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/malware-warning/

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