SEO Job Interview Questions

These are some SEO job interview questions; I hope that you find these seo job interview questions very helpful. These job interview questions will also give u idea that how interview is conducted for seo person. So please read below seo interview questions.


1. What is an SEO, SEM and how important are they for an organization? Explain briefly.

2. How much SEO experience does u have? Describe me.

3. How does a search engine work and what is the future?

4. What SEO results can you show?

5. Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?

6. Where do you think the SEO industry is headed?

7. Do you think that HTML code understanding is also necessary for seo process?

8. Do you have any know how about html code?

9. Brief me PageRank algorithm?

10. What do you think of PageRank?

11. Are you familiar with any blackhat SEO techniques, search arbitrage, and affiliate marketing?

12. What do you think of using XML sitemaps?

13. Why we use xml and html sitemaps for same website?

14. What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to SEO?

15. What tools do you use regularly for your seo campaign?

16. What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?

17. Explain to me which Meta tags matter in today's world.

18. Rate from 1 to 5, tell me the most important "on page" elements.

19. What do you think about link buying?

20. What does u mean by robots?

21. Are you familiar with enterprise web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?

22. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?

23. What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what role does it play?

24. What is the difference between SEO and SEM?

25. What kind of strategies do you normally implement for backlinks?

26. Is html validation is necessary for your PR?

27. What role do social media play in an SEO strategy?

28. What are Doorway pages?

29. What's the difference between PageRank and ToolBar PageRank?

30. How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is working?

31. How many keywords should target a site have?

32. How much keywords placement weight age do you suggest?

33. Have you attended any search related conferences?

34. What is difference between On Page Optimizatin and Off Page Optimization

35. Do you currently do SEO on your own sites?

36. Do you operate any blogs?

37. Do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?

38. What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you read regularly?

39. Who are the two key people - who started Google?

40. Who is Matt Cutts?

41. Are you familiar with A/B testing and multivariate testing?

42. Do you have experience in email marketing, banner advertising, other types of media buys and other forms of online advertising?

43. Are you experienced in managing PPC campaigns? To what extent and on what platforms?

44. In what areas of SEOs are you strongest?

45. In what areas of SEOs are you weakest?

46. Can you get "abc" company listed for the keyword "Google" in the first page?

47. Do you have experience in bid management tools, API tools, and click fraud issues?

48. What is page segmentation?

49. What is a shingling algorithm and how is it used?

50. What is Google spamdexing?

51. Can we use keywords in hidden text?

52. Can you explain what is spamming?

53. Is dynamic content is fruitful for improving PR in Google?

54. Why search engines don’t like JavaScript?

55. What is Web2, give few examples.

56. What do you believe are important things to take into consideration when optimizing a site?

57. What web analytics programs are you familiar with?

58. List 5 link building techniques.

59. How can you track your rankings?

60. What services does the wordtracker offer, and how do they relate to seo?

61. What are the common factors between google/yahoo/msn?

62. What are some of the most common website flaws in terms of SEO?

63. Is it better to submit a site to a search engine or let the search engine find it? Why?

64. How can we optimize a site built in flash?

65. Is Search engine optimization depends upon just meta tags.

66. Is it true that Meta tags must be related to the content of the website?

67. What are web directories?

68. In page abc.html we are performing well with respect to one keyword now we want to switch the web page to .php and also we don’t want to decrease our PR then what should we do?

69. Why sitemaps are important?

70. Why Google don’t depend our html sitemap?

71. Can social bookmarks proof to be fruitful for your search engine campaign?

72. Why broken links are harmful for seo campaign?

73.Why we should place our keywords in heading tags?

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