SEO Interview Questions & Answers
SEO Interview Questions & Answers
Here are some SEO interview questions and answers prepared and published which is useful for experienced seo professionals as well as SEO newbies. Even if you are undergoing SEO training, these questions & answers can help you to improve your SEO knowledge and skills. We have prepared these question and answer page to help our students in SoftLoom IT Training. The page is also useful for fresh SEO learners. Junior SEOs who wish to upgrade their SEO knowledge and insight about search engine optimization can benefit from this.
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What is the main advantage of using Meta Description tag in SEO
It helps to rank high in search engines
Meta Description tags helps search engines list a website
- Meta Description tags are not important in SEO
It helps the searcher to get a brief idea about the page before he click
Ans: d) It helps the searcher to get a brief idea about the page before he click.
Note: Meta Description tag serves as a copy that will tempt searchers to click on your listing
If you have URL like www.example.com/admin what is the best direction to add in robots.txt to restrict search engine bots from crawling the page
Allow
Disallow: /admin
Allow: /admin
Disallow
Answer: b) Disallow: /admin
Which is most advisable SEO friendly URL (URL structure) to start a blog in a website
www.blog.example.com
create blog.com and attache to website
www.example.com/blog
Answer: c) www.example.com/blog
Which is the nick name of Google Panda Algorithm Updation
Farmer
Pigeon
Caffeine
Vince
Ans: a) Farmer
Which hyperlink placed in a webpage passes highest link value in SEO?
A link placed in Menu
A hyperlink added in a main body content portion
A link placed with footer
A hyperlink placed with right side menu button
Answer: b) A hyperlink added in a main body content portion
Note: Keep in mind that a hyper-linked keyword that comes within the content portion passes the highest recommendation value than a link placed as the main menu, side menus, or a footer link. It is also an important fact to know that a link achieved from a content-rich page is published in its own topic content will give high recommendation vale the pointing page.
What is mean by Inbound Link in SEO?
A pointing link to a page with in the website
A pointing hyperlink added from a keyword
A hyperlink pointing to our website from another website or web page
A link pointing to another website
Ans: c) A hyperlink pointing to our website or website page from another website ( preferably anchored from an appropriate or relevant keyword). Normally most SEO freshers commit mistakes with the question of what is mean by the inbound link. Do understand the difference of inbound link and internal link. (very important SEO question on links)
What is mean by Google Page Rank?
A Ranking position achieved by a website in search result
A position denoting in SERP
A grade mark awarded by Google based on the quality of back links achieved by a website page
A ranking provided by Google as per the number of visits achieved by a website
Ans: C) A grade mark awarded by Google based on the quality of back links achieved by a website page.
Note: There are many SERP checker tools available. There are free SERP checker tools like Rank Checker & What’s my SERP. Continuous usage of these tools are not recommended.
What is mean by on page SEO optimization
A number of modifications made within website and website pages
Practice of analyzing website
Practice of building back links
Researching on website’s quality levels & improving
Ans: a) Modifications made within websites like changes and alterations made in head & body sessions of website page and overall modifications made within the website can be called on-page SEO optimization.
Which company owns Alexa
Google
Yahoo
Amazon
Ask
Ans: c) Amazon
Reference: Alexa is website traffic analysis tool provided by Amazon.com. Alexa traffic ranking is estimated on the data signals send by alexa tool bars installed in browsers.
Google Algorithm Penguin is connected with which kind of spamming activity?
Low quality content publishing
Low quality link building
Connected with low google page rank
Connected with local visibility
Ans: b) Low quality link building
Reference: Penguin algorithm update is an update conducted by Google against low-quality link building for effecting manipulation of search engine listing.
Which one below is the best seo practice while conducting title optimization
Use less than 512 px width for your title with 50 to 70 characters
Use important keywords near to the beginning
The titles used in each pages should be unique
All the Above are best seo practices in title optimization
Ans: d) All the above are best seo practices in title optimization
If robots meta tag is not included in a website page the effect is
The website page will not indexed by search engine bots
The website page will not be followed by search engine bots
The website page will be indexed and followed by search engine bots
The website page will be not followed and indexed in search results
Ans: c) The website page will be indexed and followed by search engine bots
Reference: For every web page the default value for robots meta tag will be index, follow so website pages will be crawled, cached, and indexed by the website.
Which HTTP status code shows ok or success message about a website page
200
500
404
503
Ans: a) 200
Reference: HTTP status code 200 says ok or success message about a website page
Which Google algorithm update was created to punish websites using manipulative link building techniques to rank in Google search engine ?
Panda
Penguin
Pigeon
Humming bird
Ans: b) Penguin
Google’s Penguin Algorithm update was aimed to avoid manipulative search engine listing generated by low quality and spam link building techniques
Which on below is the best practice when your produce a meta description for a website page as part of search engine optimization
Complete the meta description with in 155 characters
Use unique descriptions in your meta description tags
Produce the best description to achieve better click through rate (CTR)
All the above are best practices
Ans: d)
Which HTTP status code given below represents a permanent redirect status for a webpage
200
301
404
500
Ans: b) HTTP Status code 301 says a permanent redirect for a website page
Name of Google's algorithm update rolled out on 21st April connected with mobile optimized websites
Pigeon
EMD Update
Mobilegeddon
Humming Bird
Ans: c) Mobilegeddon
Mobilegeddon is the latest search engine algorithm update made by Google which provides better search engine ranking for websites which are optimized for mobile devices. As an initial step, the Mobilegeddon Google algorithm update will reduce ranking for websites with less readability text (tapping or zooming). Google webmaster central has officially confirmed the rolling out of the Mobilegeddon algorithm update on 21st April 2015.
Main role or responsibility of Canonical tag in SEO optimization
Canonical tag provide clear indication to URL actually preferred
Canonical tag helps to avoid bad impact of content duplication problems
Canonical tag passes the same value as in 301 redirection (permanent 301 redirection)
All the Above roles
Ans: d) All the above
In SEO, URL provided with canonical tag gives equal effect of which redirection to search engines
301 permanent redirection
302 temporary redirection
307 Redirect
Meta Refresh Redirection
Ans: a) 301 permanent redirection
How many Disavow files (disavow documents) are allowed for a website at a time
1
2
3
4
Ans: a) only 1 file document (disavow file) can be used at time. The document need to be created as TXT file following its document creation directions.
What is mean by disavow tool
Tool for panda recovery
Tool for Penguin recovery
Tool for recovery from EMD Update
Tool for Link submission
Ans: b) Tool for Penguin recovery. Disavow tool is used to recover from link penalties caused by low-quality link building.
What is mean by SEO Bookmarking ?
On page optimization technique
off page optimization techniqe
Link Building techniqe
off page link building technique
Ans : d) Off page link building technique.
Note: SEO Bookmarking is an off page link building technique where high quality book marking websites are used to book mark the page or article, blog posts. Before conducting SEO Bookmarking, the domain authority, page authority, Google page rank values and organic traffic rates of websites should be keenly checked. Important guidelines related SEO Bookmarking – Use fresh and unique content description for book marking. Don’t try to use the content description used in the original pages or posts.
Explain search engine submission ?.
Answer: A website must be submitted to the search engine to inform it of the changes that took place on the site, be it a new content or a new webpage. Submitting the website to the search engine also prompts them to index the website faster. (Right now, the activity of search engine submission has no relevance at all.)
What is Google Answer Box ?
Answer : Google’s answer box is a one of a kind internet searcher result page that outcomes is fueled by the information taken from a website that gives a sufficient answer. Google answer box otherwise called a highlighted scrap, it is for the most part shown at the highest point of Google’s outcomes page over the natural outcomes, however underneath advertisements