TOP 50+ SEO Interview Questions And Answers

Nithish Talla...
Jul 27, 2017 · 4 min read

Here we are trying to help you with some interview SEO questions and their answers which will help you with the interview.

1. What is Search Engine Optimization?
It is the method of changing the rank of a web page (or) website in the search result page of a search engine.

2. Tell me about Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? SEO stands for search engine optimization. SEO used to rank your website in search engine means when some on goes on google search something that is related to your niche then your website should on first engine result page(SARP) There are mainly two parts of SEO 1. ON page SEO 2. OFF page SEO Mostly On page is done only once and off page SEO is done a regular basis. There are many techniques used for both methods. There are two types of techniques. 1) White hat SEO

2) Black hat SEO.

3.What is On Page Optimization?
On-page optimization gives outcome to a web page or website ranking on Search Engine Results Page.This will manipulate website page through page coding or with the aid of you.

4. What is Off Page Optimization?
Off page, streamlining is a sort of SEO which is not controlled by your page coding. using off page optimization to increase page authority (or) page rank, getting high-quality links from relevant sites.

5. What is White Hat SEO?
White Hat SEO is one of the SEO techniques that a Search engine always likes. Usage of SEO techniques, tricks, and tactics by following search engine rules and regulations, algorithm and policies are known as White Hat SEO.

6. What is Black Hat SEO?
Black Hat SEO is a common term for doing SEO Spamming Techniques. Usage of SEO by not following policies and regulations of a search engine is called as black hat SEO. Some of the black hat SEO techniques are non-quality, irrelevance, keyword stuffing.

7. What tools do you use for doing SEO?
Most common tools used in SEO are Google Analytics, Google webmaster tools, Alexa, Open site explorer and Website grader. Nowadays you can also find some paid SEO tools like spyder mate, SEO MOZ and bulk checker in the market.

8. What are the limitations of title and description tags?
Title tag can be normally between 50–68 characters and Meta description tag can be around 140–150 characters.

9. How will you increase the Pagerank of a page?
To increase the page rank of your web page you must build more backlinks from high page rank websites and authority sites.

10. What methods would you apply for decreasing the loading time of a website?
We can use the external style sheets, minimum images, decrease the file size of the images that we use, without compromising on the quality and use the CSS sprites to regulate the HTTP requests.

11. What is 301 redirect?
It is a method by which the user is redirected to new page URL to old page URL. It is a permanent redirect and it is also useful in directing link juice to new URL from old URL.

12. What is 404 error?
It is a server error code which is returned by the server what a particular web page or the file is missing from the web host server.

13. Which are the most important area to include your keywords?
Page Title and Body text are the most important areas where we can include keywords for the SEO purpose.

14. Can you differentiate between ‘nofollow’ and ‘dofollow’ link?
Nofollow links are not passed by search engines bot and therefore cannot be cached or indexed. Dofollow link is a form of hyperlink and it goes through all web indexes and it places an impact over web page rank.

15. What is the latest update in SEO? The latest updates in SEO are: Panda

Penguin.

16. What are the key aspects of Panda update?
Panda is to improve the search in Google. The latest version has focused on quality content, proper design, proper speed, proper use of images and much more.

17. what are the key aspects of penguin update?
Penguin is the code name of google algorithm. The latest version has focused on internal links of a website. Its main target is to decrease the ranking of the website that are violating the google webmaster guidelines. These guidelines are violated by using black hat techniques like cloaking and keyword stuffing.

18. Who is Matt Cutts?
He is the head of webspam team at Google.

19. What is an inbound link?
an inbound link is a link. Coming from another website to your own website.

20. what is an outbound link?
An outbound link is a link. Your own website to another website.

21. What do you mean by Page Rank or PR?
For every web site, google will give a rank, which is called as page rank. Normally page rank ranges from 0–10. Google Web Search Engine algorithm is responsible for calculating the page rank of every web page.

22. What is a Backlink?
Backlinks are the incoming links to your web page or website and getting these backlinks from good PR and a relevant site is always better for your site. It will show a number of backlinks build for a particular website.

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Originally published at nsdigitalmatrix.wordpress.com on July 27, 2017.

Nithish Talla...

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[Engineer by Education | SEO Executive by Profession | Digital Marketing by Passion]

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