seo interview questions:.
- Please let me know some about your SEO experience.
- Are you capable to write HTML code by hand?
- Could you let me know some about Page Rank algorithm and secrets?
- How you created any seo optimization tools either from scratch or pieced together from others?
- What do you know about Page Rank?
- Why we use XML sitemaps?
- What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to SEO?
- What SEO tools do you regularly use?
- Under what circumstances would you look to exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs meta robots tag?
- What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?
- Do you have experience in copywriting and can you provide some writing samples?
- Have you ever had something you've written reach the front-page of Digg? Sphinn? Or be Stumbled?
- Explain to me what META tags matter in today's world.
- Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?
- 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?
- Rate from 1 to 10, tell me the most important "on page" elements
- Review the code of past clients/company websites where SEO was performed.
- What do you think about link buying?
- What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?
- What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?
- What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
- What kind of strategies do you normally implement for back links?
- What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?
- What things wouldn't you to do increase rankings because the risk of penalty is too high?
- What's the difference between PageRank and Toolbar PageRank?
- Why might you want to use nofollow on an internal link?
- Are you familiar with web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?
- From an analytics perspective, what is different between a user from organic search results vs. a type-in user?
- How do you distinguish the results of your search optimization work from a seasonal change in traffic patterns?
- How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is working?
- What does competitive analysis mean to you and what techniques do you use?
- If you've done 6 months of SEO for a site and yet there haven't been any improvements, how would you go about diagnosing the problem?
- How many target keywords should a site have?
- How do *you* help a customer decide how to their budget between organic SEO and pay-per-click SEM?
- You hear a rumor that Google is weighting the HTML LAYER tag very heavily in ranking the relevance of its results – how does this affect your work?
- Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many topics?
- If salary and location were not an issue, who would you work for?
- In Google Lore – what are 'Hilltop', 'Florida' and 'Big Daddy'?
- Have you attended any search related conferences?
- Google search on this candidates name, (if you cannot find them, that's a red flag).
- Do you currently do SEO on your own sites? Do you operate any blogs? Do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?
- Of the well-known SEOs, who are you not likely to pay attention to?
- What are some challenges facing the SEO industry?
- What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read?
- Who are the two key people – who started Google?
- Who is Matt Cutts?
- If you were bidding on a contract, what competitor would you most worry about?
- Tell me your biggest failure in an SEO project
- What areas of SEO do you most enjoy?
- In what areas of SEO are you strongest?
- In what areas of SEO are you weakest?
- How do you handle a client who does not implement your SEO recommendations?
- Can you get "xyz"? company listed for the keyword "Google"? in the first page?
- What do you think is different about working for an SEO agency vs. doing SEO in-house?
- Why are you moving from your current position and/or leaving any current projects?
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