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Interview Questions for SEO

1.   What are ‘NOODP’ and ‘NOYDIR’ Meta Tags and why they are used?
2.   What are 301, 403, 404, 500 errors for?
3.   What is NoFollow?
4.   What is PR based on?
5.   What is Link Juice?
6.   What is the name of Google, Yahoo and MSN spiders?
7.   Web crawler is also called ………………..
8.   From where you recognize that your page is crawled by search engine Google?
9.   How many sources of getting traffic?
10.   What is reciprocal link?
11.   What is DMOZ?
12.   Crawler visits a site or a page?
13.   PR is given to a site or a page?
14.   What is Bounce Rate?
15.   What is a Landing Page?
16.   List any 5 Search Engines.
17.   List any 10 Social Bookmarking sites with >= 4 PR.
18.   Can you identify geographical visits? If yes then from where?
19.    List any 5 Browsers.
20.   What is your site’s PR?
21.   List any 3 Social Networking sites.
22.   What is an Anchor text?
23.   What are Breadcrumbs?
24.   View all, Read more, etc. links should be Follow or NoFollow?
25.   A keyword should be with…  High Search Volume, Less Competition or
                                                         Less Search Volume, High Competition
26.   What is a Keyword?
27.   Explain what META tags matter in today's world.
28.   List any 5 stop words.
29.   List any 10 Article Submission sites with >= 4 PR.
30.   What does competitive analysis mean to you?
31.   How can we submit all our links to the Search Engine directly?
32.   Where does one place a robot.txt file to any website?
33.   If the company whose site you've been working for has decided to move all of its content to a new domain, what steps would you take?
34.   Can you identify geographical visits? If yes then from where? Mention specific section.
35.   What SEO tools do you regularly use? List any 5.
36.   What do you think about link buying?
37.   Who are the two key people - who started Google?
38.   List any 5 Social Networking sites.
39.   What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
40.   What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read?
41.   List any 5 Search Engines.
42.   Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?
43.   How many types of Site Map? A Site Map is for user or SE?
44.   From an analytics perspective, what is the difference between users from organic search results vs. a type-in/direct user?
45.   Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many topics?
46.   What is link popularity?
47.   When will Submissions appear on the engines?
48.   Diff between ecommerce sites and service sites.
49.   What does the 301-server response code signify?
50.   What is Google Panda algorithm based on?
51.   All major search engines are case sensitive.    Y or N
52.   How many words should my pages be?
53.   How would you find backlinks of any site from Google Search.
54.   How are site maps important for the Search engine optimization process?
55.   Which of the following would be the best choice of URL structure (for both search engines and humans)?
       a.   www.wildlifeonline.com/category/277/article/563
       b.   www.wildlifeonline.com/animals/crocodile
       c.   www.wildlifeonline.com/O0665?id=563&cat=277
       d.   text.wildlifeonline.com/category/crocodile
       e.   www.wildlifeonline.com/563
56.   What does the term Keyword Prominence refer?
57.   Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?
   a.    Lycos
   b.    DMOZ
   c.    Yahoo
   d.    Google
58.   How can Meta Description tags help with the practice of search engine optimization?
59.   Which is the best way to maximize the frequency with which your site/page is crawled by the search engines?
60.   What will the search string “link:www.webconfs.com” show?
61.   Is your site listed in Open Directory?
62.   Sometimes Google SERP shows the Title and Description from DMOZ or Yahoo Directory in which our site is listed. Why?
63.   What is PageRank?
64.   Which  file is created to give instructions to SE bots?
65.   Is it true that site map is absolutely necessary without which SE bots won’t index your pages.
66.   When crawling your site, which HTML tags do SE bots first interpret?
67.   On a Google point of view, which is the best space separator in a URL?
68.   Internal linking is a legitimate way of getting a backlinks?
69.   How long does it take to get indexed by Google?
70.   How is SEM related to SEO.
71.   When do you get a 404 error?
72.   What is meant by SERP?
73.   500 error code
74.   CSS – Full Form.
75.   CTR – Full Form, Describe it and Give an example.
76.   SE spiders recognize the images by what?
77.   What metrics do you use to measure success?
78.   Which SE encourages keyword stuffing?
79.   Do you guarantee 1st place ranking? Why?
80.   If any SEO service provider says that they have partnership with major SE, are they reliable to award a project?
81.   Can we have nofollow link as a backlink?
82.   Can we rank #1 for the keyword “iPhone”?
83.   How can you track the number of total backlinks you have?
84.   Where do you find your site’s crawling errors?
85.   If my site’s PR is 2, then I should link to only those sites whose PR is 2 or more? Why?
86.   Why SE like Google needs unique content and try to display only good sites in SERP?
87.   How do you know how many people searching for your keyword?
88.   How long will it take to rank in Google?
89.    What do you mean by eCommerce sites?
90.    Define Spammer.
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