Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Odesk Internet Marketing Test answer


Q1. What is A/B testing?
a.       Testing two products to see which one sells more.
b.      Using two version of an ad, measuring results to see which one is more effective.
c.       Testing 2 products to see which one sells more.
d.      Using 2 version of an ad to see which one has less bounce rate.

Q2. Why is it important to set daily maximum budgets for pay per click ad campaigns?
a.       It helps with ad placements.
b.      It is required.
c.       It helps drive affiliate sale.
d.      Costs of clicked links can add up quickly if not limited.
Q3. What is meant by “White hat”?
a.       When marketers show up for work wearing white hats.
b.      Dishonest techniques for gaining higher rankings.
c.       Ethical and honest methods of increasing page rankings.
d.      Software used to increase rankings.     
Q4. How should a company allocate its marketing budget among the various methods of internet marketing?
       a.       Depends on the company and what is most effective for its business
       b.      Spread evenly among the methods chosen
       c.       Haphazardly
       d.      Spent most on email marketing

 Q5. What is the purpose of sending a monthly newsletter?
       a.       It creates work for employees at the company
       b.      It builds branding, creates awareness and a connection with potential
clients
       c.       It gives people a chance to opt out of ever talking to your company
       d.      Required by law.

Q6. Why are purchased email lists typically ineffective?
       a.       They are too expensive
       b.      They distribute an email to far more people than the company has its contacts
       c.       They make up fake emails to sell
       d.      They are not targeted at customers specific to your company and have high bounce rate.   

Q7. What is an auto-responder?
       a.       A person who replies to all emails for the company
       b.      An automatic email message sent to someone who takes an action such as submitting a form on a company.
       c.       A method of direction communication with clients.
       d.      An email relay system. 

Q8. What is meant by “White hat”?
a.       When marketers show up for work wearing white hats.
b.      Dishonest techniques for gaining higher rankings.
c.       Ethical and honest methods of increasing page rankings.
d.      Software used to increase rankings

Q9. How is the “open rate” important?
a.       It tells the company how many people clicked on the links in the email.
b.      It lets the company know how many people brought a product.
c.       It is the number of people who received the email.
d.      It is the number of people who actually opened the email sends to them, giving the company insight how effective email marketing campaign was.

Q10.What is meant by "viral marketing"?

a. Creating ads that users pay to watch
b. Creating ad campaigns which are expensive and well produced
c. Creating ad campaigns with a very narrow focus
d. Creating ad campaigns which are inexpensive, gain massive popularity and become widely distributed

Q11.What is affiliate marketing? 
a. Same as guerilla marketing
b. Selling ad space on your site
c. When a 3rd party helps market your business, and in turn you pay them a commission based on sales as a result of their efforts
d. Pay per click marketing

Q12.Why would a company hire internet marketing specialists if marketing is relatively easy to do online?
a. It reduces taxable profits
b. To get a second opinion
c. Creates goodwill
d. Hired experts can drive the best results of campaigns and help guide the company in its marketing

Q12.What is meant by "web 2.0"?
a. The resurgence of internet companies with more interactive focus, such as blogging and social networking
b. Any website which has survived the dot.com bust
c. Sites made using new technology
d. Internet companies who focus on retail sales

Q13.What is the purpose of a traditional press release?
a. It acts as a direct marketing sales tool
b. It can be mailed out to potential clients
c. It announces company information to a widely dispersed group of people
d. It target markets to internet users


Q14.What is meant by "viral marketing"?
a. Creating ads that users pay to watch
b. Creating ad campaigns which are expensive and well produced
c. Creating ad campaigns with a very narrow focus
d. Creating ad campaigns which are inexpensive, gain massive popularity and become widely distributed

Q15.Why would a company hire internet marketing specialists if marketing is relatively easy to do online?

a. It reduces taxable profits
b. To get a second opinion
c. Creates goodwill
d. 
Hired experts can drive the best results of campaigns and help guide the company in its marketing


Q16.What is a secondary reason to actively maintain a company blog, besides giving potential customers something to read?
a. It keeps the marketing staff busy in down times
b. It impresses clients
c. A well maintained blog will help increase page rank with search engines
d. It makes the company seem larger than it is 

Q17.How is the pricing model of a click determined?
a. Standardized rate for the ad
b. Google sets the price worldwide
c. Ads always cost more in later months
d. The more popular a search term, the more a customer will have to pay to use that term in his/her target keywords list


Q18.How can a company profit from a podcast directly?
a. Pay another company to host it
b. Charge for premium content
c. Set up an affiliate link
d. All podcasts are free, they can not be directly profitable

Q19.What is one advantage to using a purchased email list?
a. The firm selling them often makes up fake email addresss
b. Large quantity of email addresses and markets otherwise not reached
c. The bounce rate is very low
d. It is targeted at your potential customers


Q20.How important is content on a site when optimizing it?
a. Not important at all, does not factor in
b. Mildly important to keep customers happy
c. It is the only thing which creates a higher ranking in search engines
d. Very important, new content especially


Q21.Why would a company possibly want to spend more on PPC early on?
a. It costs less early on
b. To drive traffic to their site and increase awareness
c. To let the competition know they are serious
d. To sell more products


Q21.Why is reciprocal linking becoming an important way to reach potential clients?
a. Visitors to other sites of a similar nature to yours are likely to click on links to bring them to your site

b. It creates an income stream
c. It is the easiest way to create traffic
d. It builds goodwill
Q22. What is a trackback? 
 a. Same as a trademark
b. A method of notification that somebody links to document/html
c. When someone goes to your site because of your podcast
d. A count of how many downloads your podcast has
Q23.How is click-through rate measured in an email campaign? 

a. The number of emails which did not bounce back
b. The number of people who click on a link in the email bringing the potential customer to your site
c. The number of people who purchased a product or service from the email
d. The number of people who replied to the email
Q24.Who regulates affiliate marketing? 
a. No one currently
b. SEC
c. IRS
d. Internet Affiliate Board 

Question: 01
Who was one of the original widely known affiliate marketers?

 
   a.     Ebay
    b.     AT&T
    c.     WorldCom
    
d.     Amazon 

Question: 02

How much would a company pay for the given example: Ad displays 20 times, 2 users click the ad, cost per click is 5 cents.

    a.     90 cents
   
 b.     10 cents
    c.     20 cents
    d.     1 cent


Question: 03

What is an important step early on when forming a web marketing strategy?

    a.     Designing catchy ads
    b.     Allocating a large budget to the project
   
 c.     Identifying your customer base
    
d.     Hiring a consulting firm


Question: 04
What should a company do once it achieves its search engine ranking goals?

    a.     Stop promoting the site
  
  b.     Constantly monitor and improve their site in order to maintain their ranking
    c.     Revise the site once in awhile
    d.     Sell advertising on their site


Question: 06
Why has web marketing become a popular form of marketing?

    a.     It is much cheaper than other forms and often more effective
    b.     Television advertising is being offered less
    c.     It is easier than traditional marketing
    d.     It has been heavily advertised


Question: 07
How should a company allocate its marketing budget among the various methods of internet marketing?

   
 a.     Depends on the company and what is most effective for its business
    b.     Spread evenly among the methods chosen
    c.     Haphazardly
    d.     Spend most on email marketing


Question: 08
How can chat rooms bolster site traffic?

    a.     The competition can come to the chat and try to steal customers
    b.     It gives the company a way to distance themselves from customers
    c.     By having people talk positively about your company and by answering questions people may have in a non threatening, anonymous method
    d.     It gives a way for customers to log complaints


Question: 09
What is the formula for calculating cost per customer acquisition?

    a.     Marketing spent on television divided by the number of new customers
    b.     Sales divided by customers
    c.     Total marketing budget divided by all customers ever
  
  d.     Total marketing budget for a specific period divided by the number of new customers for that same period


Question: 10
How are keywords utilized by search engines?

    a.     They are all that the search engine uses to rank pages
 
   b.     The keywords are a brief description of what topics your site relates to
    c.     They help the search engine decide how good your sites content is
    d.     The keywords guarantee positioning


Question: 11
Why is it important to set daily maximum budgets for pay per clicks ad campaigns?
    a.     It helps with ad placement
    b.     It is required
    c.     It helps drive affiliate sales
    d.     Costs of clicked links can add up quickly if not limited


Question: 12
What is "cost per customer acquisition"?

    a.     The amount a company pays a customer to try their product
   
 b.     The average cost of marketing spent per new customer
    c.     The cost of marketing staff
    d.     The cost to beat competitors


Question: 13
Why is it important to fine tune the timing of the ad and keywords used?

    a.     It costs less in later hours
    b.     To be sure to spend more money on marketing
    c.     Required by law
   
 d.     To carefully target the customer base desired, not wasting impressions and clicks


Question: 14
What is a site index?

  
  a.     A page which has a linkable outline of all of the pages on a website
    b.     A site with only 1 page
    c.     A site with special deals for purchasers
    d.     A special ranking with search engines


Question: 15
What is one unfavorable trait sometimes seen in affiliate marketing?

    a.     The cost is low
    b.     It brings additional traffic to a site
   
 c.     Affiliates will use unethical techniques to drive customers in hopes of earning a commission
    d.     It is only paid for based on successful selling


Question: 16
What is brand strategy?

    
a.     Creating the image you want your company perceived as and marketing in a way that portrays that image to customers
    b.     Strategy for reaching customers worldwide
    c.     Creating a package that catches peoples eyes
    d.     Creating an image that contradicts competitor's assertations


Question: 17
What is a "landing page"?

   
 a.     The page a potential customer sees when they click on your paid ad
    b.     The main company website
    c.     A page where the customer can buy the product
    d.     Where the pay per click ads are created


Question: 18
Which of the following is valuable in increasing a page rank?

    a.     Paying for placement
    b.     Static content
    c.     Quantity of links from other highly ranked pages to your site
    d.     No contact information


Question: 19
What type of income statement items are marketing expenses?

    a.     Variable Cost
    b.     Fixed Cost
    c.     Revenue
    d.     Cost of Good Sold


Question: 20
What is search engine optimization?

    a.     Paying for placement on a search engine results page
   
 b.     Building a site which has the qualities that search engines look for, which will ultimately get the site a high rank in the listings
    c.     Optimization of a site so it gets more affiliate revenue
    d.     Selling memberships to the site


Question: 21

What are meta tags?

    a.     The content of the site
  
  b.     Embedded information about your website such as keywords
    c.     Links to other sites
    d.     Images on the site


Question: 22
Why have social networking sites become a popular method of internet marketing?

    
a.     They are free and easy to use
    b.     They guarantee more traffic to your site
 
   c.     Ease of use, large number of users, easy to target specific demographics
    d.     They are a passing trend


Question: 23
Which of the following are podcasts least likely to target?

    a.     Sales
    b.     Branding
    c.     Customer loyalty
    d.     Content delivery


Question: 24
What is "bounce rate" in terms of email marketing?
   
a.     The percentage of emails sent to a list which are returned as undeliverable
    b.     The percentage of repeat clients
    c.     The percentage of people who receive an email and buy the product
    d.     The percentage of people who click the links in an email


Question: 25
How can posting on other message boards help drive traffic to a company site?

    a.     You can steal away clients from other companies directly
    b.     You can tell lies about competitors
    c.     You can trump up claims of what your company does
    d.     By becoming an expert on a subject and giving people information which demonstrates your company's knowledge and expertise


Question: 26
What are the four P's of marketing?

    a.     Placement, Production, Procurement, Procedures
    b.     
Product, Price, Placement, Promotion
    c.     Position, Price, Production, Premature
    d.     Product, Promotion, Procedures, Procurement


Question: 27
What is "cost per action"?

    a.     Same as pay per click
   
 b.     A payment agreement where a specific action creates a payable event for the affiliate, such as a click, a purchase, a number of page views
    c.     A payment agreement where costs change depending on volume
    d.     The product cost


Question: 28
How are Pay Per Click ad campaigns billed?

    a.     Everytime an ad is displayed it costs the company money
    b.     Set monthly fee regardless of impressions or clicks
    c.     Discounted based on length of commitment
    
d.     The customer pays each time their ad is clicked on, usually billed monthly


Question: 29
How do firms typically budget once positive results are seen from their internet marketing campaign?

    a.     Decrease the overall budget
    b.     Spend more on the methods which are not producing results
    
c.     Increase the budget and focus on those activities which are working
    d.     Stop marketing


Question: 30
What is the primary goal of web marketing?

    a.     To give the target market an ad like they would see on TV
    b.     To sell customers on the spot
    c.     To earn affiliate income
    d.     To drive potential customers to the company website


Question: 32
What is the best way to make internet marketing effective?

    a.     Focus on one specific technique such as direct email
    b.     Use a myriad of methods online
    c.     Spend a lot of money on it
    d.     Use email marketing first


Question: 33
How can a podcast be used to drive customers to a website?

    a.     By only hosting the podcast on the website
   
 b.     By giving information on the podcast which gives the listener the desire to learn more, and directing them to the website for that information
    c.     By making the podcast a premium one which costs money
    d.     By telling the listeners that they need your product


Question: 34
Why are purchased email lists typically ineffective?

    a.     They are too expensive
  
  b.     They distribute an email to far more people than the company has in its contacts
    c.     They make up fake emails to sell
    d.     They are not targeted at customers specific to your company and have high bounce rates


Question: 35
What is meant by "guerilla marketing"?

    
a.     Using resources such as time, energy and imagination rather than money to market
    b.     Using advertising spots which utilize gorillas to capture the audience
    c.     Having a large scale marketing budget
    d.     Using television ads instead of web ads


Question: 36
What is a "call to action"?

    a.     Hoping the customer buys your product
    b.     Recruiting new employees
    c.     Creating a new ad campaign
    
d.     Using verbs to encourage people to take an action


Question: 37
Why is affiliate marketing a favorable form of marketing?

    a.     It is inexpensive
    b.     Nothing is paid unless there is a sale resulting from the affiliate's efforts
 
   c.     It guarantees increased sales
    d.     It is complex so not many people utilize it


Question: 38
What is the purpose of having a special landing page for a PPC ad?

    a.     It costs less if done that way
    b.     It gives the potential to have mixed messages on the site
    
c.     Statistics can be gathered on the page, as well as special offers can be shown to the ad clicker
    d.     Customers expect it


Question: 39
How can supplemental materials be delivered to the podcast listener?

    a.     Embedded into the audio file

    b.     Files can be made available for download along with the link to the podcast
    c.     The listener has to go to a special site only during the podcast
    d.     The listener must pay for any additional materials


Question: 40
What is a "value proposition"?

    a.     The pricing of the product
    b.     The same as a business plan
    c.     A statement as to how the company will make more money
    
d.     A statement as to how the company adds value for customers


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oDesk Search Engine Optimization Test Answers


Question: 1
Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory 
search results for Yahoo?
Ans:  B

Question: 2
Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?
Ans: A

Question: 3
What is Keyword Density?
Ans: D

Question: 4

Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct:
Ans: A

Question: 5
Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?
Ans: B

Question: 6
What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
Ans: C

Question: 7
Which of the following factors does Google take into account 
while assessing whether or not a website is an authority website?
Ans: A,B,C

Question:  8
What is Anchor Text?
Ans: C

Question: 9
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”?
Ans: B

Question: 10
What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties 
in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
Ans: D

Question:  11
Do search engines such as Google detect unnatural linking patterns by checking 
the Class C IP address of the page where the link to the website originates?
Ans: A

Question:  12
Ans: B

Question: 13
While grading your website, Google gives credit to outbound links pointing 
to authority websites?
Ans: B

Question:  14
Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine spider?
Ans: E

Question: 16
What does the 302 server response code signify?
Ans: D

Question: 17
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the description meta tag?
Ans: D

Question: 18
State whether true or false.The Yahoo Directory listing is a free service for commercial sites.
Ans: A

Question: 19
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage?
Ans: B

Question: 20
Ans: B

Question:  21
Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?
ANS: A

Question: 22
Google looks down upon paid links for enhancing page rank. If a website sells links, what action/s does Google recommend to avoid being penalized?
Ans: C

Question:  23
Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
Ans:  A

Question:  24
Which of the following statements about Google’s technical and quality guidelines is true?
Ans: B

Question: 25
Ans: D

Question:  26
All major search engines are case sensitive.
Ans: B

Question:  27
While optimizing your website it is important to generate the right type of traffic, how does the Bounce Rate information help in this regard?
Ans: B

Question:  28
Which of the following factors contribute towards link popularity of a website?
Ans: A,B,C,D

 Question:  29
Search engines do not index some common words (such as “or”, “and”, “when”, and “in”) within the webpage. What are these common words called?
Ans: D

Question:  30
Which of the following activities could be looked down upon by Google as per their quality guidelines?
Ans: B,C

Question:  31
Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?
Ans: A

Question:  32
_________ is usually the best web page to get linked to while receiving a themed in-bound link from another website.
Ans: D

Question: 33
Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?
ANS: A, D

Question:  34
If your site is not appearing in Google search results because of some unethical SEO practices in the recent past, _________________.
Ans:  D

 Question:  35
Ans: A, B, D

Question:  36
A Hallway Page is used to:
Ans: D

 Question:  37
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”?
Ans: D

 Question:  38
Ans: C

Question:  39
State whether the following statement is true or false.A Sitemap provides a list of internal links to user accessible pages on a website.
Ans: A

Question:  40
What is the function of “indexer” part of the Google search engine?
Ans:  D

Question:  41
Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the ‘Relevancy’ perspective?
Ans: D

Question:  42
Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to Yahoo. What is performed by the link: operator?
ANS:  C

Question:  43
Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google PageRank?
ANS:  A

Question:  44
What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
ANS: C

Question:  45
Why is it a bad idea from the seo perspective to host free articles and write ups that are very common on the internet.
ANS: B

Question:  46
The following robots meta tag directs the search engine bots:<META NAME=”robots” CONTENT=”noindex,nofollow”>
ANS:  B

Question:  47
_________________ use both crawlers and directories to generate relevant results.
ANS:  D

 Question:  48
Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?
ANS: C

Question:  49
What will happen if you type the words ‘Certification -Networking’ in the Google search box?
ANS: D

Question:   50
If you enter ‘Help site:www.microsoft.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?
ANS: B

Question: 51
Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?
ANS: B

Question:  52
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?
ANS: D

Question:  53
If a website’s search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?
NS: A

 Question: 54
What is the main reason for the effectiveness of optimizing a webpage towards a long tail keyword search?
ANS:   A