Siva: February 2013

Friday, February 15, 2013

SEO Questions and Answers - 2

Here are some SEO Questions and answers which would be very helpful when you preparing for SEO interviews.

What is “Google Caffeine”?

Google Caffeine is a new web indexing algorithm rolled out on June 9, 2010. It offers 50% fresher results for their web searches. It increased the speed of crawling and helps to find fresher information, it shows the results almost in real-time.

List some well known Google Algorithm names?

Some of Google's popular algorithms are.

The Caffeine
Google Panda
Google Penguin
Pagination
Page layout
Exact-Match Domain (EMD)

List some link-bait content?

Info graphics, Tutorials, Videos, How-to guides, Lists, Pod casts, and other valuable information are link-bait content.

Define Rich Snippets and what are the types of rich snippets?

Rich snippets are rich formatted summary of useful information about your page content.This can be implemented with the help of mark up languages such as Micro data, Micro formats and RDF. Types are,

Reviews
Products
Businesses and organizations
People
Recipes
Events
Music

Which social media tool websites you use?

Some popular social media tools,

addmefast.com
socialmention.com
socialseek.com
findpeopleonplus.com
networkedblog.com
hootsuite.com
listorious.com

Google - Countries and Languages

Google in English Speaking Countries

1. India
2. Bahrain
3. Cameroun
4. Canada
5. Fiji
6. Guernsey
7. Hong Kong
8. Ireland
9. Jersey
10. Kenya
11. Lesotho
12. Malaysia
13. Malta
14. Namibia
15. New Zealand
16. Nigeria
17. Pakistan
18. Saint Helena
19. Singapore
20. South Africa
21. Sri Lanka
22. UK
23. Zambia
24. Zimbabwe

Google in Prime Languages

http://www.google.fr   - French
http://www.google.it - Italian
http://www.google.nl   - Dutch
http://www.google.ru - Russian
http://www.google.com.tr - Turkish
http://www.google.es - Spanish
http://www.google.de - German
http://www.google.pt - Portuguese
http://www.google.pl - polish
http://www.google.com.sv   - Spanish

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Basic HTML Questions

1. With no CSS, what will be the correct html tag for heading?

1) <h1>
2) <title>
3) <header>
4) <h6>
5) <head>

2. What is the correct to insert an email address?

1) <a href="mailto:support@exa.com.au" class="link">support@exa.com.au</a>
2) <div align="center"><a href="mailto:support@exa.com.au">support@exa.com.au</div>
3) <a mailto="support@exa.com.au">support@exa.com.au</a>
4) <a href="support@exa.com.au" class="link">support@exa.com.au</a>
5) <mailto="support@exa.com.au">support@exa.com.au</mailto>

3. Which of the following tags are incorrect?

1) <input type="checkbox" value="2" name="field_4">
2) <input type="radio" selected value="3" name="field_3">
3) <select name="field_5" selected value="5">
4) <input type="select" name="field_1">
5) <input type="text" name="field_2" id="field_2">

4. Which of the following are not valid HTML tags?

1) <bgcolor>
2) <br/>
3) <option value="5">5</option>
4) <heading>
5) <th>

5. Which of the following is correct?

1) <input type="checkbox" name="field_5" value="5" checked>
2) <option value="4" selected>4</option>
3) <input name="field_1" type="textarea"></input>
4) <textarea name="field_2" rows="2" cols="50"><textarea/>
5) <input type="hide" name="field_2" value="2">

6. Which of the following are valid tags for background color?

1) <td background="#FFCC00">
2) <td backcolor="#00FF00">
3) <td "#00FF00">
4) <tr color="#FF0000">
5) none of above

7. Which of the following are valid tags?

1) <td cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
2) <tr rowspan="3" colspan="5">
3) <table colspan="2" rowspan="5">
4) <table cellpadding="2" width="100%">
5) none of the above

8. Which of the following statements are incorrect?

1) The title tag are located within the body tag
2) > represent the character >
3) all statements are correct
4) &quote; is a valid HTML code
5) FFCC00, the first two digits represent the color green

9. What is the ideal file format to a simple text button?

1) .bmp
2) .jpg
3) .tiff
4) .gif
5) .ai

10. What does JPEG stand for?

1) Joint Photographic Expert Group
2) Joint Photographic Expert Graphic
3) Joint Photo Expert Group

11. What does GIF stand for?

1) Graphic Interpolate Format
2) Graphic Interchange Format
3) Graphic Interface File
4) Graphic Interchange File
5) Graphic Interlace File

12. <title class="titleclass">Exa Quiz</title>
Which of the following statements is correct?

1) The HTML statement above is not a valid HTML tag
2) The HTML statement above is a valid html tag
3) The title tag must be placed within the html tag
4) The title tag can be placed anywhere within the body tag
5) It is valid to have two title tag

13. Which of the following statement is correct?

1) <bold> is similar to <strong>
2) It is possible to have an animated file in JPG
3) <tr> tag does not have attribute
4) It is possible to use percentage to position a layer
5) none of the statement above is correct

14. Which of the following statement will open the link in new window?

1) <a href="exa_quiz.html" target="_self">Exa Quiz 4</a>
2) <a href="#" window.new("exa_quiz.html");>Exa quiz 1</a>
3) <a href="exa_quiz.html" target="_newwindow">Exa Quiz 3</a>
4) <a href="#" onClick="window.new(exa_quiz.html)">Exa quiz 2</a>
5) <a href="exa_quiz.html" target="_blank">Exa quiz 5</a>

Source: exa.co.in

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Skills - SEOs need in 2013

I have read a post in seroundtable.com which suggest what skills the SEO people should need in 2013. It advises some essential skills are listed below,

Knowledge of creating a search engine friendly websites with out having any duplicate and canonical issues.
Mark-up languages such as Micro data(Google recommends), Micro format, RTF and more for rich snippets.
Knowledge of analytics, social media, more about content marketing, and even more about link bait.
Apart from the above, we should have the knowledge to deal with Google Panda, Google Penguin, Pagination, EMD, Page Layout, and more Google algorithms

Source: http://www.seroundtable.com/seo-skills-16288.html