Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Google AdWords Fundamentals Exam – 1

1)  An advertiser is focused primarily on direct response, as opposed to branding. The advertiser should delete keywords from a search campaign if the keywords:
  A)  generate many clicks and conversions
  B)  generate many impressions and very few conversions
  C)  contain more than two words in the phrase
  D)  contain words that are duplicated in a display campaign

2)  What is a benefit of online advertising with Google AdWords?
  A)  Advertisers can identify the Internet Protocol (IP) address of users who are searching for products
  B)  Ads can include up to 50 characters for the first three lines of ad text
  C)  Ads are displayed to users who are searching for a particular product of service
  D)  Advertisers can pay to place their websites in the natural search results

3)  It is beneficial to create multiple ad groups in order to:
  A)  opt specific ad groups into various Google networks
  B)  break up keywords and ads into related themes
  C)  set different budgets for each ad group
  D)  pause specific keywords if they are not performing well

4)  Which AdWords settings are specified at the account level?
  A)  A daily budget and a set of keywords and placements
  B)  Network distribution preferences and a set of keywords
  C)  A unique email address, a password, and billing information
  D)  Location targeting, cost-per-click (CPC) bids, and match types

5)  An online retail company is based in the United States but ships to customers all over the world. If this company wants to serve Spanish language ads to Spanish speaking users, which targeting option should be refined?
  A)  Language targeting
  B)  Regional targeting
  C)  Ad scheduling
  D)  Demographic targeting

6)  Which method would be recommended for an advertiser who is trying to increase the Quality Score of a low-performing keyword?
  A)  Repeat the keyword as many times as possible in the ad text.
  B)  Delete the keyword and add the keyword to the campaign again
  C)  Modify the ad associated with that keyword to direct to a highly-relevant landing page
  D)  Increase the daily budget for the campaign in which the keyword is located

7)  An advertiser who decides to edit the location targeting of an ad can do this at the:
  A)  ad group level
  B)  keyword level
  C)  campaign level
  D)  account level

8)  If your campaign is opted into show ads on the Google Display Network, and your Display Network ads have a lower CTR than your existing search ads – how will this impact the quality score of your search campaign?
  A)  None of these options is correct
  B)  Your ad performance on the Display Network does not affect your rank for search ads, so a lower CTR on the Display Network does not affect the Quality score of your ads for search
  C)  Your daily budget will be adjusted to account for a drop in CTR and in increase in the CPCs needed to maintain the existing Ad Rank of your search campaigns
  D)  Your quality score will be adjusted to reflect the average CTR of both your search and display network campaign performance.

9)  An advertiser wants to achieve the top position in paid search results. Which recommendations would improve the likelihood of top ad position?
  A)  Improve Quality Score and increase cost-per-click (CPC)
  B)  Decrease cost-per-click (CPC) and increase daily budget
  C)  Decrease cost-per-click (CPC) and decrease daily budget
  D)  Improve Quality Score and decrease cost-per-click (CPC)

10)  To determine which ad language to target to a user, the AdWords system refers to that users:
  A)  Chrome Browser setting
  B)  operating system language
  C)  home countrys language
  D)  Google interface language setting

11)  Which budget delivery option is most appropriate for an advertiser who wants AdWords to distribute ads evenly throughout the day?
  A)  Accelerated
  B)  Optimized
  C)  Scheduled
  D)  Standard

12)  An advertiser wants to allocate additional budget to advertising a new product line. In order to accomplish this goal, the advertiser should create:
  A)  an ad group specific to the product line with a higher daily budget
  B)  additional text ads that specifically feature the product line
  C)  a campaign with a separate daily budget specific to the product line
  D)  an ad group specific to the product line with targeted ad text

13)  Suppose you have created an ad group to advertise gourmet chocolate, and it includes keywords like “dark chocolate” and “gourmet chocolate bars.” If you opted this particular campaign into the Google Display Network, what type of targeting would automatically be used to determine whether your ads might show?
  A)  Remarketing would be used to automatically target users who had previously visited sites that related to your keywords.
  B)  Topic targeting would be used to target all pages about chocolate, regardless of whether your exact keywords appear on the page.
  C)  Managed placements would be used to target specific sites you had selected as being important to oyur client.
  D)  Automatic placements would be used to contextually target sites that share the same themes as the keywords within your campaign.

14)  Which line of ad text would be disapproved based on Googles advertising policies?
  A)  Want fast results?
  B)  Free shipping
  C)  Best deals- click here
  D)  Fast, easy, effective

15)  How do managed placements on the Display Network work?
  A)  Advertisers can guarantee placement on prominent and popular sites.
  B)  Advertisers manually select the desired sites on which their ads may appear
  C)  Keywords are used to place ads next to content that matches the ad.
  D)  Appropriate sites are automatically chosen for the advertiser by the Google AdWords system.

16)  According to ad policies, what types of words, phrases, or characters can not be included in an AdWords text ad?
  A)  All of these answers are correct
  B)  Ads can not contain words that are not directly related to the keyword that the ad is targeting
  C)  Ads cannot use exclamation points (!) or question marks (?).
  D)  Ads cannot use call-to-action phrases such as “click here” or “See this site”

17)  Your text ad includes the phrase “Your friend has a crush on you, See more!”. Why could your ad be disapproved according to AdWords policies?
  A)  Ads can not simulate email inbox notifications or fake “friends/crush” requests.
  B)  Ads can not contain that amount of characters
  C)  Ads can not contain the phrase “See more!”
  D)  Ads can not contain exclamation points (!).

18)  Which formula does Google use to rank keyword-targeted ads on Google Search
  A)  (Maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid + Daily Budget) / Quality Score
  B)  Maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid x Quality Score
  C)  (Maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid x Quality Score) / Daily Budget
  D)  Maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid only

19)  When resetting a password in AdWords, what should a user keep in mind?
  A)  The new password is now required to access all other Google products with the affected Google Account log-in.
  B)  The new password will work for AdWords and the old password will work for other Google products.
  C)  The user will need to enable 2-factor authentication in order to access their account from any location
  D)  The password will need to be reset separately on other Google products that share the Google Account log-in

20)  A keyword with very low clickthrough rate (CTR) will usually receive:
  A)  more impressions on the Google Display Network
  B)  impressions only on the Google Search Network
  C)  a low average cost-per-click (CPC) on Google search.
  D)  a low Quality Score on the Google Search Network

21)  Adding placements to an ad group
  A)  negatively affects the Quality Score for search
  B)  does not affect the Quality Score for search
  C)  improves the Quality Score on Google
  D)  improves the Quality Score for search

22)  In the case of a placement targeted ad on the Google Display Network, the Quality Score portion of calculating Ad Rank is based on:
  A)  the quality of your image
  B)  the quality of your landing page
  C)  the maximum CPC of the keyword that triggered an ad.
  D)  your daily budget

23)  By adding managed placements to a Display Network campaign – you can show your ad:
  A)  on webpages where the Smart Pricing feature determines there the ad is likely delivery ROI.
  B)  on specific webpages, online video games, RSS feeds, and mobile sites and apps that you select
  C)  on webpages where a contextual targeting algorithm identified that is a match between your keywords and a publishers content
  D)  on Google owned and operated properties such as Gmail and Google News – that have relevant content for your keywords.

24)  A My Client Center (MCC) account manager wants to grant Standard Access to a linked client. Before making this change, the account manager should consider that Standard Access users can:
  A)  change the access levels of other users.
  B)  delete the account
  C)  invite others to access the account.
  D)  see average cost-per-click (CPC) costs.

25)  What happens when an advertiser sets a daily budget lower than the recommended amount, using the “Standard” delivery method?
  A)  Ads will show when a user searches on the advertisers keywords, but the ads rank will be reduced.
  B)  Ads will show each time a user searches on the advertisers keywords, but only during specified time periods
  C)  Ads will not show every time a user searches on the advertisers keywords
  D)  Ads will never show when a user searches on the advertisers keywords

26)  The maximum cost-per-click (CPC) bid is the:
  A)  amount an advertiser is required to pay to achieve top ad position
  B)  actual amount an advertiser pays for each click on an ad
  C)  most an advertiser is willing to pay for each click on an ad
  D)  amount an advertiser must pay to outbid competitors

27)  If an advertiser improves the Quality Score of a keyword, this keyword may:
  A)  receive fewer impressions on the Search Network
  B)  automatically reset its match type to Broad
  C)  earn the ad a higher average position
  D)  be more likely to appear in bold when displayed in an ad

28)  You can use Display Planner to:
  A)  see which images and text ads within your campaign are performing best on the specific websites you are targeting
  B)  run a report to determine which keywords are most likely to convert based on the past 30-days of your campaign
  C)  see potential webpages where your ad can appear based on your keywords
  D)  managed CPC bids for contextual campaigns within your account

29)  When sitelinks are set at both the campaign and ad group level, which will be displayed?
  A)  Sitelinks at the ad group level
  B)  Sitelinks with the highest ad rank
  C)  Sitelinks related to the query searched
  D)  Sitelinks from both the campaign and ad group

30)  Which formula represents how Ad Rank is determined on Google search?
  A)  Popularity of the website being advertised
  B)  Historic average position of each ad
  C)  Maximum cost-per-click (CPC) multiplied by Quality Score
  D)  How much an advertiser is willing to spend each day

31)  An advertiser looking to drive conversions is using manual cost-per-click (CPC) bidding. Which factor should be most important for this advertiser when keyword bids are decided?
  A)  The profit derived from a paid click
  B)  The bids of the next closest competitor
  C)  The cost of the bid
  D)  The Quality Score of the keyword

32)  What should an advertiser use to organize ad groups?
  A)  Common themes
  B)  Number of words per keyword
  C)  Maximum cost-per-click (CPC)
  D)  Location targeting

33)  Advertisers on Google search accrue cost in AdWords when:
  A)  users click on their ads
  B)  their ads appear on the Google search page
  C)  the user completes a purchase
  D)  they register a conversion using Conversion Tracking

34)  A primary benefit of location targeting is that advertisers can:
  A)  choose to target a specific Google domain
  B)  target any combination of countries, territories, and regions
  C)  target specific users who have already visited their site
  D)  choose to only target websites based in a specific region or territory

35)  You are managing a campaign where budget is unlimited as long as ROI is positive, but something still limits how much you are able to effectively invest. What is it? Choose the most closely related answer
  A)  Whether your payment method is credit or debit
  B)  The number of tracking codes installed on your website
  C)  The number of websites on the internet
  D)  The volume of traffic available for the keywords you are targeting

36)  What is the impact of poor landing page quality on an ad group?
  A)  The keywords in the ad group will be paused
  B)  The ads in the ad group will be disapproved due to low Quality Score
  C)  The keywords in the ad group will have a lower Quality Score.
  D)  The entire campaign will be paused

37)  With the Smart Pricing feature in Display, if our data shows that a click from a Google Display Network page is less likely to turn into an actionable business result – such as an online sale, registration, phone call, or newsletter sign-up – we may:
  A)  Automatically adjust your daily budget to serve less ads on Google Display Network pages.
  B)  Use data from the Display Network auction to revise the cost of your Search ads
  C)  Automatically reduce your cost-per-click bids on the Google Display Network
  D)  Send notification that your bids should be adjusted

38)  Quality Score and Ad Rank are calculated:
  A)  Every time your ad is eligible to serve on a Display Network page
  B)  Every time someone does a search that triggers your ad
  C)  A few times a day, based on your ad scheduling settings
  D)  Every time you change your CPCs within your account

39)  On the Display Network, all keywords are considered broad match only. This means that you do not need to:
  A)  Include location targeting to narrow the reach of your ads
  B)  Include plurals, misspellings, and other variants of your keywords
  C)  Include negative keywords to refine your placement
  D)  manage your keyword performance at the ad group level

40)  Higher Quality Scores typically lead to:
  A)  higher costs and lower ad positions
  B)  lower costs and better ad positions
  C)  less overall impressions
  D)  faster delivery of daily budget

Sunday, 22 January 2017

Seo Interview Questions

1- The maximum length of titles displayed in Google's search result is typically:
A: 155 characters
B: 512 pixels
C: 60-80 Characters
D: 44 Characters
E: Varies by browser resolution

2-In the following HTML snippet: <a href="http://moz.com" title="SEO"><img src="img/software.jpg" alt="Marketing" title="Tools" width="100" weight="100"></a> What is considered the anchor text of the link?
A: http://moz.com
B: SEO
C: Marketing
D: Tools
E: software

3-When is using rel="nofollow" NOT appropriate?
A: Paid links
B: Crawl prioritization
C: Press releases with optimized anchor text
D: Widely distributed footer links
E: None; all of these are appropriate

4-What is the maximum number of URLs typically allowed in an XML sitemap file?
A: 500
B: 5,000
C: 50,000
D: 500,000
E: 5,000,000

5-In the following URL: http://store.example.com/category/keyword?id=123#top "store" represents the ____ and "com" is the ________
A: Subdomain, Top-Level Domain
B: Root Domain, Subdomain
C: Subfolder, Top-Level Domain
D: Page, Root Domain
E: Top-Level Domain, Protocol

6-What is the optimal HTTP status code to permanently remove a URL from Google's index?
A: 301
B: 302
C: 404
D: 410
E: 500
7-Which HTTP status code is best to serve when your site is down for maintence?
A: 200
B: 302
C: 404
D: 503
E: 90210

8-True or false: A 301 redirect passes roughly the same link equity as using the rel="canonical" tag.
A: TRUE
B: FALSE

9-How can meta description tags help with the practice of search engine optimization?
A: They're an important ranking factor in the search algorithms.
B: They help to tell the search engines which keywords are most important on your page.
C: They serve as the copy that will entice searchers to click on your listing.
D: Trick question; meta descriptions are NOT important.

10-The de-facto version of a page located on the primary URL you want associated with the content is known as:
A: Canonical Version
B: Empirical Version
C: Heretical Version
D: Preferential Version
E: Home Page

11-Which HTTP server response code indicates a file that no longer exists? (File Not Found)
A: 500
B: 301
C: 401
D: 404
E: 300

12-Which HTTP server response code indicates a page that has been permanently relocated and all links to the old page will pass their influence to the new page location?
A: 302
B: 301
C: 311
D: 500
E: 300

13-If you want a page to pass value through its links, but stay out of the search engines' indices, which of the following tags should you place in the header?
A: NOINDEX, FOLLOW
B: NOODP
C: INDEX, NOFOLLOW
D: NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW
E: INDEX, FOLLOW

14-Which of the following methods is best used to handle duplicate-content URLs that include parameters or tracking code?
A: The rel="canonical" tag
B: Use numbers for your parameters, because Google won't crawl numbered URLs
C: Use the robots.txt file to block spiders from crawling the URLs with extra parameters
D: Answers A and B
E: None of the above

15-If you have a page at www.example.com/page1, which of the following robots.txt directives prevents search spiders from crawling the URL?
A: Disallow: /
B: Disallow:
C: Disallow: /page1
D: Both A & C

16-You decide to add a blog to your ecommerce site. What is the preferred url structure?
A: www.example.com/blog
B: www.blog.example.com/
C: Create new site at www.blog.com and link it to www.example.com

17-High-quality links to a site's homepage may help to increase the ranking ability of deeper pages on the same domain.
A: TRUE
B: FALSE

18-Pages generated by search results (Search within Search) are a good way to add content to your site.
A: TRUE
B: FALSE

19-Google's Panda update was also known as the ______ update.
A: Quality
B: May Day
C: Farmer
D: Vince
E: Caffeine

20-In general, internal links pass about the same value as external links.
A: TRUE
B: FALSE

21-Which of the following links is likely to pass the most value from a single page?
A: A universal footer link
B: A navigational link contained in the header
C: A left-hand navigation link
D: A right sidebar navigation link
E: A link contained in the main body text

22-What link format is used to fight blog comment spam?
A: rel="canonical"
B: rel="follow"
C: rel="author"
D: rel="nofollow"
E: rel="attribute"

23-To give credit for duplicate content that appears on another site, use...
A: A cross-domain canonical tag
B: A prominent link within the content at the top of the page
C: File a DMCA copyright notice
D: Give the author thanks in the body of the text
E: Send them ice cream

24-If a page includes more than one rel="canonical", Google will...
A: Ignore them all
B: Count the first one
C: Count the last one
D: Guess which one makes more sense, and use that one

25-Best practices for rel="canonical" link elements include:
A: Relative URLs
B: Absolute URLs
C: Nofollow the link element

 26-What is an example of a "soft" 404 error?
A: A page that returns a 404 HTTP response code, but quickly changes to a 200 a short time later.
B: A page that returns a 200 HTTP response code, and displays a blank page.
C: A page that displays a 404 HTTP response code, and displays a 404 error page.
D: A page that returns a 404 code with pillows.

27-True or false: rel="canonical" can be used to point to content on a different domain.
A: TRUE
B: FALSE

28-The X-Robots-Tag should be located:
A: In your robots.txt file
B: In the <head>
C: In the HTTP headers
D: Anywhere inside the <body> element
E: In Robert Downey Jr.'s basement

29-Of the following, the best way to keep a URL from appearing in search results is:
A: Block robots from crawling the page in the robots.txt file
B: Nofollow all links to the page
C: Use the META robots NOODP tag
D: Use the META robots NOINDEX tag

30-If the robots <META> tag is missing, the default is:
A: "NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"
B: "INDEX, FOLLOW"
C: "NOINDEX, FOLLOW"
D: "INDEX, NOFOLLOW"
E: "NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW, NOARCHIVE"

31-The default file type for your sitemap is:
A: .pdf
B: .php
C: .png
D: .doc
E: .xml

32-The minimum REQUIRED tags in an XML sitemap include:
A: <urlset>
B: <url>
C: <loc>
D: None of these
E: All of these

33-When including Open Graph (OG) tags on a webpage, which of the following is NOT a required property?
A: og:title
B: og:description
C: og:image
D: og:url
E: og:type

34-True or false: For best results, incorporate authorship markup on every page of your website, including the homepage and category pages.
A: TRUE
B: FALSE

35-All other factors being equal, which would be the most desirable link profile?
A: One link from each of 100 different domains
B: 1,000 links all from one domain
C: 10,000 internal links

36-Which group of ranking factors do SEOs generally consider to have the largest influence on rankings?
A: Engagement Metrics
B: Social shares
C: Link-based metrics
D: Site speed
E: Exact match domains

37-Generally, Google updates its Panda algorithm:
A: Daily
B: Weekly
C: Monthly
D: Yearly
E: Never

38-Google's recommended format to implement structured data is:
A: Microdata / Schema.org
B: Microformats / vcards
C: RDFa / XHTML

39-Implementing structured data may help:
A: Lead to rich snippets in search results
B: Enchance CTR from search engine results
C: Search engines understand your content
D: Your content to appear in specialized search results like "in-depth Articles"
E: All of these

40-Implementing authorship on your content:
A: Guarantees a rankings boost through Author Rank
B: Disassociates your content from spam
C: Prevents duplicate content
D: May lead to enhanced CTR through authorship photos in search results
E: Helps get you that book deal

41-Google's recommended actions for paginated content include:
A: Specify a "view all" page
B: rel="prev" and rel="next"
C: Do nothing
D: A and B only
E: A, B, or C

42-Which of the following URL structures is NOT recommended to signal language targeting?
A: ccTLDs (example.de)
B: Subdomains with gTLDS (de.example.com)
C: URL parameters (example.com?loc=de)
D: Subdirectories with gTLDs (example.com/de)

43-Which element of a link does Google NOT consider?
A: The relationship/ownership/influence of the linking domain and linked-to domain
B: The rel="nofollow" attribute
C: The domain on which the linking page is hosted
D: The HTML <id> attribute

44-Which of these concepts has Google filed a (now public) patent about?
A: The likelihood that content shared by a user of social networks will spread
B: The impact of lunar cycles on content creation and search queries
C: Labeling Facebook, Twitter, and other social network shares in search results
D: Modifying the flow of PageRank through links based on the HTML code-to-content ratio

45-Google+ influences Google's search results in which of the following ways:
A: For logged-in searchers, webpages that have been shared or +1'd by people you follow may appear higher in the results
B: For logged-in searchers, webpages that have been shared or +1'd by people who follow you will appear higher in the results
C: Those with Google+ accounts can connect them to their published works to nudge Google search to show authorship next to their pages in the results
D: Options A & B are both true
E: Options A & C are both true

46-What does the phrase "social shares and higher search rankings in Google are well-correlated" mean?"
A: It means there's a chance (as expressed by the correlation coefficient number) that this input is used in Google's ranking algorithm.
B: It means that the more social shares a webpage has, the higher it appears in Google's search results for a given query.
C: It means that, on average, pages with more social shares appear higher in Google rankings than those with fewer shares. The correlation coefficient expresses the degree with which this occurs.
D: It means that social shares may or may not be used by Google's algorithm to rank webpages.

47-Which type(s) of Google's vertical search results require the submission of an XML sitemap in order to appear?
A: Image results
B: News results
C: Video results
D: Maps results
E: Both options B & C

48-What are valid reasons why your webpage's title may not appear in Google's search results exactly as it does in the page title element in your HTML?
A: Google has overwritten your title element with a title taken from the Yahoo! Directory.
B: Your title does not contain your brand name or other key terms in the users' search query (or doesn't include them at the start of the title element), so Google is using text from elsewhere on the page.
C: Google is pulling a title for your webpage from one you entered into an AdWords ad for that URL (that produces a higher clickthrough rate).
D: Your page contains the meta "title-h1" tag specifying that Google should use the text within the H1 in place of the title element for the search results listing
E: Both options B & D

49-Which of the following are true about the growth of mobile vs. desktop search in Google?
A: Mobile search queries overtook desktop in 2013 and are expected to continue growing faster.
B: Desktop search queries are now shrinking, and mobile is growing, but will not overtake desktop in the next 2-3 years.
C: Both desktop and mobile are growing, but mobile is growing faster and is expected to overtake desktop in the next 1-2 years.
D: Desktop is not growing (but not shrinking much). Mobile is expected to overake desktop in number of queries by 2016.

50-Which type of link has NOT been mentioned by Google as being risky for SEO?
A: Embedded links from infographics
B: Guest blog posts
C: Text link advertisements with rel="nofollow"
D: Article submission and directory sites

E: Private link networks