1 Earnings Transaction and Transfer in Odesk

 

When do I withdraw my earnings?

If you are working an Hourly Contract, your earnings become available based on the oDesk Weekly Payment Schedule.



If you are working a Fixed-Price Contract, your earnings become available after the client's payment method has been processed and the six-day Security Period has expired. If there are no issues with your client's payment method, you can access your earnings in seven days.

Withdrawals are not automatic. You need to go to your Wallet tab and click on Withdraw to manually transfer your earnings to your Withdrawal Method on file.

To set up a Withdrawal Method, click on the Wallet tab and then select Add a withdrawal method. There will be a list tailored to the address/location entered on the User Settings page.

For example, U.S. residents will see ACH/Direct Deposit and a request to submit a W-9 form. Users from other countries will see a request to submit the W8BEN and other withdrawal options, such as Local Funds Transfer.

Your earnings will remain in your oDesk account until you make a withdrawal manually from the Withdrawal Earnings page. Funds can stay in your oDesk account indefinately until you are ready to withdraw them.

Note
If you feel that you should have a balance and do not see one, or you have any problems withdrawing, please contact Support Services. 

How do I withdraw earnings?

You need an active withdrawal method and an available balance on your oDesk account to make a withdrawal.

Your earnings are not withdrawn automatically; you have complete control over when and how much to withdraw. Withdraw earnings the day they become available, or make larger withdrawals less frequently to reduce your fees.

You can even split your earnings between multiple withdrawal methods.

Use these steps to make a withdrawal:

1. Go to the Wallet tab and click on Withdraw button. The finance system may ask you to answer your security question. This is an added security measure. 
2. Select a Withdrawal Method from the list. 
3. Choose to either Withdraw the Available balance, and proceed to the next step, or choose Other amount, and enter the amount of the withdrawal. 
4. The form calculates the Withdrawal Fee, if any. Fees vary by withdrawal method and amount.
5. Confirm the withdrawal and adjust, if necessary. 
6. Press the Withdraw button. 

You cannot reverse this action.

If you experience any problems withdrawing funds, please contact Support Services.

How do I transfer my earnings?

oDesk does not automatically transfer your earnings to your PayPal, Skrill, or Payoneer account. You must make withdrawals manually by going to your Wallet tab and clicking on Withdraw. oDesk's withdrawal fees will be shown on the form. Additional transfer and currency conversion fees may be applied by the vendor.

I cannot withdraw my earnings. What is wrong?

Here are the main reasons users find themselves unable to make a withdrawal:

No available balance.
You cannot withdraw if you have a zero balance.

Pending credit.
Your client has initiated payment, but your funds are listed as "pending," under the first column (the Due On column) of the Transaction History page. The word, "pending," normally appears for up to 24 hours, or until the oDesk finance system has successfully processed your client's payment. Once the payment goes through, the word, "pending," is replaced with a Due On date. That is the date that you can access your earnings to withdraw them to your payment method on file.

No active withdrawal method.
For security reasons, you must wait four days to withdraw after you add a new withdrawal method.

No W-9 on file.
This is an IRS regulation that applies to contractors in the U.S. only. Please contact Support Services if you receive this message, but do not live in the U.S.

Suspended financial account.
Please contact Support Services for assistance. 

14 SEO Test Question and Answers of Odesk

1.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

2.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


3.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


4.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 of the above

5. 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


6.Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the description meta tag? 
a.It should be about 50 characters in length
b.The description should not contain the keywords
c.If the meta description is not included, the search engines will use the meta keywords for information
d.Google uses the meta description to generate the search engine results pages


7.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


8. What is the function of "indexer" part of the Google search engine?
a.It helps to retrieve web pages from the world wide web
b.It helps to gather information from other search engines
c.It helps to sort the documents that Google has retrieved
d.It helps to generate meaningful results based upon the user's search term


9.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


10.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  

11.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 engine
d.It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines


 12.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


13.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


14.Which of the following conditions will Google treat favorably from the 'Relevancy' perspective?
  
a.The website offering products and services to the visitors country  
b.A website that provides free content for the related keywords
c.Hidden keywords on the home page matching the search term
d.Image Alt tags on the home page matching the search term

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15.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

16.Which of the following statements about search engine optimization techniques are correct:
  
a.Making a keyword bold does not influence the way that the search engine looks at the keyword
b.Websites with deep linking are looked at favorably by search engines
c.Search engine robots follow the first link they find to any particular page and they do not follow additional links to the same page
d.It is not a good idea to have the same anchor text for all inbound links as it could look automated to the search engines


17.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


18.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


19.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


20.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


 21.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


 22.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 no
c.Creating a page which serves a different content to the search engine bots and different to human users
d.None of the above


 23.Which of the following actions could get you banned by Google?
    
a.Hiding text on the webpage 
b.Stuffing keywords on the webpage
c.Linking to sites banned by Google
d.None of the above


24.Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?
  
a.Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic 
b.Alexa and Quantcast provide information on visitor household income
c.Alexa is biased towards US based traffic
d.Quantcast only tracks people who have installed the Quantcast toolbar


 25.Which of the following statements is correct with regard to the images within a webpage?
 
a.Images cannot be spidered by the search engines
b.Important keywords related to the image should be placed in the ALT text 
c.Images should always be kept close to the top of a webpage  
d.Image maps should be used while including the images


26.Which of the following factors does Google take into account while assessing whether or not a website is an authority website?
  
a.The frequency with which the content of the website is updated
b.The number of web pages containing relevant information on the main theme of the website
c.The number of in-bound natural links related to the website's theme (or keywords)
d.None of the above
d. A,B, C


27. Which of the following statements about the Google Sitemap are correct: 

a.Repeated submission of the Sitemap to Google could be penalized 
b.It is possible to create and submit specialized Sitemaps to Google for Video and Mobile content  
c.The Sitemap acceptable to Google follows an XML format


28.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 be http://www.expertrating.com/page/ and http://www.expertrating.com/page and http://www.expertrating.com/page/index.ht
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


29.Which of the following search engines or directories provides the directory search results for Yahoo?
  
a.Windows Live  
b.Yahoo Directory 
c.Google
d.Wikipedia
e.DMOZ


 30.Which of the following URLs can the Google search engine spider?  

 a.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp?examnum=243&examtype=244
 b.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp?examnum=243
 c.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.asp
 d.http://www.expertrating.com/exams/seo.html
 e.All of the above


31.Which of the following statements about Google's technical and quality guidelines is true?
  
a.It is advantageous if your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header
b.If using dynamic pages, it helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them few 
c.Avoid using robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages, even if they don't add much value for users coming from search engines
d.Submitting new pages of your website at http://www.google.com/addurl.html as soon as they are online, helps to speed up indexing


32.What is Anchor Text?
  
a.It is the main body of text on a particular web page
b.It is the text within the left or top panel of a web page
c.It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page 
d.It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page

0 Internet Marketin Test on Odesk

 

1.  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.

2. 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.                                       

3. 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.

4. 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.

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5. 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

6. 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 

7. 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.

8. 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.          

0 CSS Odesk Test Question and Answers

Start Test

 

1.       Your website displays some articles on java programming. The articles contain blocks of java code as well. If you want to leave ‘1 cm’ space above and below the code blocks, you would use:

Answers:-  Code{margin-top:1cm; margin-bottom:1cm}

2.       Which of the following are correct values of the overflow property?
Answers: All Above

3.       Which of the following does not apply to external styles?

Answers:- Highest priority

4.       Which of the following border styles is not correct?
Answers:-  Border-style: ridge

5.       Which of the following is not a valid text-decoration option?

    Answers: Text-decoration :in-line

6.       Which of the following is not a valid property of an aural style sheet?

Answers:- Load

7.       Which element property is required to define internal styles?

Answers:- Style

8.       You want to increase the space between the lines in all you paragraphs. What will you use?
Answers:-  P{line-height:1cm}

9.       You are fetching customer names from a database. The names in the database are mostly in lowercase. What is the name of the text property which will facilitate capitalization of these names?

Answers:- Text-decoration :in-line

10)  Which of the following is true for a class selector?

    Answers: It applies the style to all the elements defined with that style

       11) You are fetching customer names from a database. The names in the database are mostly in lowercase. What is the name of the text property which will facilitate

          capitalization of   these names?

         Answers:- Text-transform

12) Here is one of the styles defined in your webpage:
           .redborder
              {
             border-color:#ff0000;
             border-width:thin thick
              }

       What type of border will be displayed if one of the paragraphs defined in the webpage uses this style?
     Answers:- This will not display any border

13)              Which of the following values are correct for Font-style?

Answers:- Small , medium , large

14) Which style property can be used to display only some part of an image?

      Answers:-  Scroll

15) The default value for the overflow property is:  

 Answers: Hidden

16)You want to increase the space between the lines in all you paragraphs. What will you use?

Answers:- P{line-height:1cm}

    17) Which of the following is not a valid list property?

Answers:- .List-style-type

18) Which of the following font properties deals with aspect value?

Answers:-  Font-size-adjust

19) Which of the following is not a pseudo class? 

  Answers: Ins

20)  Read the following Code:
BODY {
Background: white url(“bar.gif”);
Background-repeat: repeat-y;
Background-position: center;
}
What will be the output of this code?

Answers:- Image bar.gif will be tiled vertically in the background in the center of the page.

21)              Which of the following is true for an ID selector?

Answers:- It applies the style to only the first element defined with that selector

22) Which of the following is correct with regard to comments in a style sheet?

Answers:- Comments end with */

1 PHP Test Question and Answers on Odesk

1) Which of the following is not a valid php connection status?
Answers:- Open

2) What is the result of the following expression?
5+2*4+6
Answers:- 19

3) The setrawcookie() method of setting cookie is different from php standard method of cookie setting as :
Answers:-It does not url- ENCODE the value on its own

4) The default value of register global in PHP is:

 a. Off

5) IF visibility is not defined for a method /member then it is treated as public static.
Answers:-False

6) which of the following are used for code reuse?

Answers:-  functions and  include files      

7) Which of the following statements is not true with regard to abstract classes in php5?
Answers:- Abstract class can contain abstract methods

8) What will be the result of following operation?
Print 4<<5;

Answers:-  128
9) Late PHP version support remote file accessing for the functions:

Answers:- All of the above
10) Which of the following type cast in not correct?

$fig=23;
$varbl=(real)$fig;
$varb2=(double)$fig;
$varb3=(decimal)$fig;
$varb4=(bool)$fig;
?>


Answers:- decimal

11) The classes are defined as follows
Abstract class BaseCls(
Protected abstract function getName();
}
Class childCls extends BaseCls{
}
Which of the following implementations of getName() in invalid in childCls?
Answers:- Public function getName(){}

12) Which of the following set of operations is not valid in PHP 5?

Answers:- !==,!==

13) Multiple select/load is possible with:
answers:- checkbox

14) Which of the following is a not a correct way of commenting in php?

Answers:- /#PHP Comment

15)Which of the following is not a valid PHP connection status?

Answers:-  open

16) How can you hide the fact that web pages are written in PHP?

Answers:- By using .htaccess diretive in Apeche

17) State whether true or false

Paamayim nekudotayim operator allows access only to the static members of a class?

Answers:- True

18) What is the output of the following code?

$a=500;
$b=200;
echo $a % 2 * $b;
?>

Answers:- 0

19) Which of the following attribute is needed for file upload via form?
Answers:- Enctype=”multipart/form-date”

20) You need to heck the size of a file in php function .
$size=X(filename);
which function will suitable replace “X”?

Answers:- Filesize

21) Which one is correct?
Answers:- $s=fwrite($fp,”a string here”);

22)Which of the following is not true for a persistent connection?
Answers:- These are preferable not used in the scripts involving transactions



23) Late php versions support remote file accessing for the functions:
Answers:- All of the above