Q 2.: What was the recent update which Google had and what changes would
you suggest for it?
Ans:Google recently had the Penguin update which was a measure to
control web spam. Penguin update had penalized websites which had a spammy
backlinking profile and returned more semantic results. Semantic results were
based on the relationship between words present on the search query. Penguin
trusted sites that had original and good content, fresh content, good social
media presence and quality organic links.
Q 3.:What all verticals have you handled in your SEO career so far?
Ans:Verticals means on what themes of websites have you worked so far-
this may include education, real estate, IT, travel, Shopping, jobs etc.
Q 4.:What do you understand by the Panda update?
Ans: The Panda update was done to improve the quality of search results
in Google. Panda update also known as the farmer update was done to eliminate
content farms which provided less user friendly experience. It used
machine language scalability as one of the important metrics for judging
relevancy of a web page. All the focus was transformed on the user and now
quality content , proper design, proper speed, proper use of images and videos,
content to ad ratio all mattered more after the Panda update. You need to
optimize your site for better clickthrough rate and a less bounce rate.
Q 5.:What is Google Sandbox in SEO?
Ans: Google Sandbox is an imaginary area where new and less
authoritative sites are kept for a specified time period until they establish
themselves of being displayed on the search results. It happens by building too
many links within a short period of time.
Q 6.:What is the difference between on page seo and off page seo?
Ans:On page seo means optimizing your website and making changes on
title, meta tags, site structure, site content, solving canonicalization
problem, managing robots.txt etc.
Off page optimization means optimizing your web presence which involves
backlink building and social media promotion.
Q 7.:How will you solve canonicalization issue or what is .htacess file?
Ans: .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 or http://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.
Q 8.: What is keyword stemming in SEO?
Ans:Keyword stemming is the process of finding out the root word from
the search query. A query having the word “ playful” would be broken down to
the word “play” with the help of stemming algorithm. The search results
returned would be having the word ” play” in it.
Q 9.: What is LSI?
Ans: LSI stands for Latent Semantic Indexing. It is a data retrieval
technique which finds connection between words and the use of synonyms while
fetching data from the index.
Q 10.: What do you know about the Florida update?
Ans:Florida update happened on November 16th 2003. This update applied
stemming, maintained local rank, penalized over optimized sites by applying
filter etc. In short, it modified the search results before presenting it to
the user by applying filters.
Q 11.: What are the limitations of title and description tags?
Ans:Title tag can be between 66-70 characters and meta description tag
can be between 160-170 characters.
Q 12.: Does Google uses keyword tags?
Ans:No, Google does not make use of keyword tags.
Q 13.: What is 301 redirect?Ans:It is a method of redirecting user
from the old page url to the new page url. 301 redirect is a permanent redirect
and is helpful in passing the link juice from the old url to the new url.
Q 14.: What was your exact job profile in your previous company?
Ans:Provide a suitable explanation about your job profile which would
include your job responsibilities and the amount of work you have handled so
far.
Q 15.: What do you understand by Cloaking?
Ans:Cloaking involves using deceptive techniques which presents the user
with a different version of the webpage than that presented to the search
engines.
Q 16.: What tools do you use for doing seo?
Ans:I use Google webmaster tools, Google Analytics, Open site explorer,
Alexa, Website grader etc.
Q 17.: What are your good qualities?
Ans:You will have to answer here about your good qualities like- I am
hardworking, sincere, punctual, love to accept challenges etc.
Q 18.:What is the difference between Seo and Sem?
Ans: Seo stands for Search Engine Optimization while Sem stands
for Search Engine Marketing. Seo provides organic traffic to a website with the
help of search engines while Sem involves the use of Google adwords and other
paid channels of advertising.
Q 19.:What is PPC?
Ans: PPC stands for Pay Per Click. It is a form of advertising
methodology in which the advertiser pays for every click on their ads. Google
uses this form of advertising in its channel of advertising called Adwords.
Q 20.:Which is better Robots.txt or Meta Robots Tag?
Ans: Meta Robots tag is much better as it helps in forcing the search
engine crawlers not to index and display the hidden pages in your server.
Q 21.: Do you use separate Seo strategies for Google,Yahoo and Bing?
Ans: Yes I use separate strategies for Google,Yahoo and other search
engines.More backlinks are required for Google .It pays more attention to
backlinks and site authority while Yahoo and Bing pays more attention to title
and Meta tags. Hence, a site takes time to rank on Google as compared to Yahoo
and Bing.
Q 22.:How will you increase the Pagerank of a page?
Ans: By building more backlinks from authority sites and high page rank
webpages.
Q 23.: How will you check the number of backlinks of your competitors
site?
Ans: With the help of the link operator on Google and by using various
external tools like Alexa, Backlink Watch , Open Site Explorer, Backlink finder
etc.
Q 24.:Which is more important- Building backlinks to a website or
building great content?
Ans: Both are important. Building great content is necessary as it is
your first step towards ranking ;and building backlinks helps to build
authority to your website and is an important metric for ranking well. Hence
both should go parallel and both are equally important.
Q 25.: Who is Matt Cutts?
Ans: Matt Cutts is the head of Google's web spam team.
Q 26.:If a website has a search engine saturation of 40% , what does
that mean?
Ans: It means 40% of web pages from that particular website are indexed
by the search engine.
Q 27.: What do you mean by anchor text?
Ans: Clickable text written on an hyperlink is known as anchor text. It
is of great value to the search en ines and is used for evaluating the
relevance of web pages with respect to search queries.
Q 28.:How will you treat Web standards while optimizing a website?
Ans: Google loves web standards hence I will apply the web standards
provided by W3C while optimizing a web site.
Q 29.:What methods would you apply for decreasing the loading time of a
website?
Ans: 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.
Q 30.: Which tools do you use for choosing keywords?
Ans: I use Google Keyword tool, Wordtracker tool, Wordstream, Seo book
keyword tool etc.
*Remember certain tools are paid but you may use the trial version
for some days.
Q 31.: What blogs and sites do you regularly visit to update yourself?
Ans:I follow Matt Cutts blog. Seomoz blog, Seochat forums,
Searchengineland.com,Seo book, Seosandwitch etc.
Q 32.:What are doorway pages?
Ans:These are pages that are specially created to rank high on search
engines using deceptive techniques.Doorway pages do not provide useful content
but instead redirect users to the main page.
Q 33.: What are the Social Media channels you have used for marketing?
Ans: 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.
Q 34.: What would you suggest to the client who has a website made on
Flash? How would you do Seo for that site?
Ans: Search engines find it harder to parse the contents presented using
Flash. I would suggest the client to use an alternative to flash like HTML 5.
Q 35.: What do you understand by Frames in HTML?
Ans: A frame is a HTML technique which divides the content of a page
onto several parts. Search engines see Frames as completely different pages and
as such Frames have a negative impact on Seo. We should avoid the usage of
Frames and use basic HTML instead.
Q 36.: Which is the popular search engine in Russia?Ans: Yandex is
popular in Russia.Q 37.:If the meta robots tag has a value of "no index,
no follow" what does it mean?
Ans: It means the search engine crawlers would not index the contents
and woulzd not follow the links present on the page.
Q 38.:Who is Rand Fishkin?
Ans:Rand Fishkin is the CEO and Co founder of Seomoz, the most popular
seo software in the world. He started the informative "White Board
Friday" series for explaining the concepts related to Seo and search
engines.
Q 39.: How will you restrict the search engine crawlers from indexing a
folder named "Secret" that is present in the root?
Ans:The following code when added on the robots.txt text file would
restrict the crawlers from accessing the folder
User-agent:*
Disallow: /Secret/
Q 40.:What do you understand by Google Dance?
Ans:Google Dance happens when major updates happen on the database
maintained by Google. Constant shuffling leads to unstable rankings of the Web
Pages.This continues for some days and is known as Google dance. It was
witnessed in the past before the real time searching happened. Now, Google
updates its index almost everyday and changes are witnessed narrowly.
Q 41.:Which are the top 3 social media websites that you will suggest to
your client for SMO work?
Ans:I would suggest Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.
Q 42.: How does Google Plus helps in Seo?
Ans:Google Plus helps the promoted web pages to get plus ones which are
considered as genuine votes by Google. More plus ones helps to enhance our
search engine rankings. Moreover,it helps to get high rankings in personalized
search results where our friends can see the web pages shared and promoted by
us.Read more here:- Using Google Plus for Seo
Q 43.: What is a Pizza Box in terms of Google?
Ans:Google server comes in a standard case which is commonly known as
"Pizza Box".
Q 44.: How important is to have a keyword in a domain name?
Ans:After the recent EMD update, the weightage on the presence of
keyword on a domain has reduced. It is therefore important to go for a domain
name that can focus on building a brand rather than using only keywords which
could make a domain look spammy. Although having keywords in the domain helps
but it would work only if the combination comes out as brandable. Some popular
examples of website which succeded without having keywords in it are
flipkart.com, myntra.com, ebay.com, digg.com, reddit.com and ofcoz google.com
etc. But, there are some themes where the presence of keywords becomes
necessary like the presence of the keyword "recipes" in
allrecipes.com or the presence of the word "food" in the domain
foodnetwork.com . Hence, its important to take decisions based on the theme you
need to target.
Q 45.:What do you understand by "Engagement Metrics" with
relation to social media?
Ans:Engagement metrics comprises of information which is used to measure
the importance of user (customer) engagement with respect to a particular
social data.Some example includes likes, retweets, plusones, clicks,
favorites,repins,comments etc.
Q 46.: What are your favorite ways of attracting natural backlinks to
your site?
Ans:Having user friendly content on the site is the best way to attract
natural backlinks but one of my favorite ways of attracting natural backlinks
is by offering free widgets and free infographics to my audience.
Q 47.: Have you heard about ASO?
Ans:ASO stands for App Store Optimization which is a process of
improving the visibility of mobile apps on app stores like iTunes and Google
Play.
Q 48.:How can you search with the exact keywords you type on Google
without using quotes?
Ans:We can use the Verbatim tool in order to search with the exact
keywords entered on Google.
Q 49.:What do you understand by Google Authorship and how can you use it
for Seo benefits?
Ans:Google Authorship allows you to link your Google Plus Profile to the
content you create. This is a way to enhance the overall user experience and
stop spamming. Results containing content from original and reputed authors are
valued highly by Google and chances of spamming are also reduced. Hence,
implementing Google Authorship is really useful for Seo as it helps a webpage
to rank higher based on the author rank.Read more:- How to Make Full Use of
Google Authorship Profile
Q 50.: How can you make a website mobile friendly?
I will create a mobile friendly version of the website for Googlebot-Mobile,
use meta.txt for specifying special instructions to mobile search engine
crawlers, use mobile.xml sitemap and will have mobile optimized content on the
site.Read more:- Mobile Seo
Q 51.: What is the difference between clicks and visits in Google
Analytics?
Clicks indicates the number of times any user clicks on an ad while
visits indicates the number of unique sessions each visits create.Read more:-
Difference between clicks and visitsQ 52.: How can you track Facebook likes
using Google Analytics?
We can do this with the help of social interaction web tracking. I will
add a custom script using FB.Event.subscribe function to start tracking
clicks.SEO Interview Tips :
1- Remain honest throughout the interview and explain those topics
which you know well. If you are asked about any topic which you don't know then
say politely to the interviewer that you do not know the answer to the
question.
2- Dress neatly and speak politely.
3- Make sure to learn about the company backgrounds before you go for
the interview. Interviewers are impressed if they find the interviewee knowing
about the company background, its policies and its services.
4- Be comfortable and patiently listen to the questions put up by the
interviewer. You should not be in a hurry to answer questions.
SEO Tools:
Duplicate Content Checker Tools,
Copyscape,Article Checker,Plagium,Duplicate Content Checker,Virante Duplicate Content Checker,Dupli Checker,Plagiarism Checker,Copygator,Similar Page Checker,
Backlink Checker Tools:
Backlinkwatch,Iwebtools backlink checker,Dirgio BacklinkAnalysis,Bulk Backlink Checker,Open Site Explorer,Link Diagnosis,Link Checker from Blue Backlinks,
Keyword Tools:
Google Adwords Keyword Tool,Keyword Finder,Wordpot,Ontology related keyword finder,Wordstream,Seo Book Keyword Suggestion Tool,Ispionage,
Broken Link Checkers:,
Broken Link Check,
W3C Link Checker,
Submit Express Broken Link Checker,
Bad Links Report,
Check Broken Links,
Xenu Link Sleuth (Free Download)
Webmaster Tools:
Google webmaster tools,Bing Webmaster Tools,
Analytics and Tracking Tools:
Google Analytics,
Yahoo Analytics,
Fire Stats,
Jaw Stats,
W3 Counter,
Woopra,
Logfile Analyzer,
Piwik,
Traffic and Rank Checker Tools:
Alexa,
Quantcast,
Google Page Rank checker,
Iwebtool Page rank checker,
Check Site traffic,
Stat Brain
Seo Analysis Tools:
Meta Tag Analyzer,
WG Tools,
DIY SEO,
Spyder Mate
SiteTrail,
Seoptimer,
Website Grader,
Woo Rank,
Seo Workers,
Lipperhay,
Seo Rush
Validators:
HTML Validator,
CSS validator
Site Speed Checker:
Slowcop,
Speed Test,
Pingdom,
Gomez
Browser Extensions:
Seo Toolbar,
Seomoz Toolbar,
Seoquake,
Sem Toolbar,
Seojunkies Toolbar,
Affilorama,
Downloadable Seo Software,
Traffic Travis,
Serpattacks,
Webceo,
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