SEO INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

There are some Question and Answer For Seo (Interview)



HR -ROUND

1-      Why should we hire you for this job?
If you are asked this question, and surely you will in many of your job interview, first thing you need to do is not to get confused. Confidently explain your expertise related to the job, state your qualification, your skills and capabilities and tell about your ambitions. Remember never try to be over smart and over confident.

2-      Why are you leaving your current job?
Never give any negative comment about your current employer. Even if they have any bad aspects, you should tell them in a positive way. You can say that “I need to have a more learning opportunity” or “my previous company has shut its operations” or “I see more growing chances in your organization”.

3-     What are your major strengths?
State your strengths truly and honestly. Don’t say that you are hardworking, enthusiastic and compromising because mostly candidates would say this. You can say that “my greatest strength is that I always try to think out of the box” or “I never leave my work undone” or “I try to do routine tasks in new ways”.

4-      What are your major weaknesses?
Don’t tell those weaknesses which may affect your professional attitude.  Tell some of your minor weaknesses and remember you should state your weaknesses in a positive aspect. Such that your weakness looks like your strength. Like “I never bother about time while working in office, that’s why my family keeps waiting for me” or “I never compromise on quality no matter how many times I have to try and repeat a single task”.

5-      Where do you see our organization after five years?
This question can only be answered if you have done your homework related to organization you have applied for. Before going for the interview, you must research about the organization and its goals. Visit their website and search its working.  Tell them about their upcoming projects and their long term plans. Your answer should be brief and relevant. Don’t explain too much of details

TECHNICAL QUESTIONS

  • Why is the Title so important in SEO?
  • What is the purpose of keyword in SEO?
  • What is the function of body content relevance?
  • How does the submission process work? - SEO
  • When do the Submission appear on the engines? - SEO
  • What are the functions and parts involved in search engine?
  • What is the use of a program in SEO related information?
  • What are the basic actions that can be performed on search engines? - SEO
  • What are the ways in which spiders can find the web site? - SEO
  • How does search engine perform? - SEO
  • What is the procedure for the search engine to spider the user’s website? - SEO
  • What is the procedure to display the information of search engine? - SEO
  • What is the use of using keyword prominence? - SEO
  • What is the function of Organic search engine optimization?
  • What are the effects on websites using the organic search optimizations?
  • What are the tools used in organic search engine optimization?
  • What are the different types of Ethical SEO?
  • What is the purpose of cloaking? - SEO
  • What is the function of Cross linking? - SEO
  • What are the guidelines need to be followed to write the SEO?


  1. What is the Difference Between Google Panda and Penguin Update? –
    Panda Update - This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful.
    Penguin Update - This Update was designed to remove/down the websites from index which were doing much more that white hat optimization like creating too many low quality backlinks, use of aggressive exact match anchor text, overuse of exact match domains, blog spam and low quality article marketing, keyword stuffing etc...
  2. What is topic modeling? – Topic Modeling is a technique used by search engines to clearly analyse and identify the large volume of text on a webpage. Read more about topic modeling here: http://www.tdktech.com/topic-modeling
  3. What is Pagination in SEO? – Pagination is the practice of dividing a piece of content into different pages while at the same time allowing Google to better understand the important pages to be indexed. Read the Google's advice on using the pagination.
  4. What are rich snippets? – Rich Snippets are the combination of structured data displayed in Google search results for better relevancy to the user and more data at a glance. Rich snippets are shown after google identifies any microformats (http://microformats.org/) structured tags embedded in your webpage coding, on 
  5. sept 20th, 2012, Google also launched the new Rich Snippets testing tool and named it the structured data testing tool
  6. What are URL parameters? – URL parameters are the values/attributes passed in the URL of a webpage to fetch any data from the database or to alter the order/structure of data displayed on the webpage, This is an important thing to consider while doing SEO for websites which uses URL parameters, especially e-commerce sites because these many times creates the duplicacy of content, you can handle this duplicacy using the rel canonical attribute and the Google webmaster tools, read more about configuring URL parameters in Webmaster Tools.
  7. What is A/B testing and Multivariate Testing? – A/B testing is the testing of a webpage by creating its two different versions and redirecting some of the users to variation version from the original URL to know which version is more effective, multivariate testing is done using the software programs to dynamically insert/alter the components on a webpage and record the user interaction/behavior with all the combinations and identify the most effective combination. Google recommends using 302 temporary redirect while running the A/B testing in your website.
  8. How to decrease the bounce rate of a webpage? – Using strong Call to Action within the text of the webpage (Known as contextual CTA), alongside with the content, improving design of the page, adding links to the related content, increase the speed of webpage loading, designing easy and user friendly navigation and overall creating a responsive design.
  9. Why we use noodp in meta robot tag? – To block the open directory 
  10. project description from displaying in the search results, applies only to websites which are listed in ODP, i.e. dmoz.org.
  11. What is meta refresh tag, should we use it? – Meta refresh tag on a webpage send the user to another url after a specified period of time, typically in seconds. It is not recommended, rather use server side 301 redirect.
  12. What are breadcrumb? – Breadcrumb is a website navigation system that clearly states the structure of website to both the users and the search engines, in case, making search engines clearly identify the structure of website, the microformats tags for breadcrumbs should be embedded in the HTML.
  13. Is there a way we can tell Google that a particular webpage contains the Adult content? – Yes, we can do it by adding one of these two meta tags to that webpage 
    1. OR
  14. How Google treat links in PDF files? – Same as in the HTML pages, these passes the page rank, indexing signals and other data, it is not possible to nofollow the links in PDF files.

Leave a Reply