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If an interview is on process for SEO person who is 1+ year experienced. What are all the possible interview questions for him/her?

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Question added by Rini Mohandas , SEO specialist , Boopin
Date Posted: 2017/01/19
Rameez Bin Abdul Majeed
by Rameez Bin Abdul Majeed , Digital Marketing Manager , Muscat Higher Education Centre

Here are some of the basic SEO related questions that could be asked for SEO beginner!!

  • What tools do you use for doing SEO?
  • What is Google Sandbox?
  • What is the difference between On Page SEO and Off Page SEO?
  • What are the limitations of title and description tags?
  • How will you increase the Pagerank of a page?
  • What do you mean by anchor text?
  • How will you treat Web standards while optimizing a website?
  • What is 301 redirect?
  • What do you understand by Cloaking?
  • What methods would you apply for decreasing the loading time of a website?
  • What are the Social Media channels you have used for marketing?
  • What would you suggest to the client who has a website made on Flash?  How would you do Seo for that site?
  • What do you understand by Frames in HTML?
  • Which is the most important area to include your keywords?
  • What are webmaster tools?
  • What is the main purpose of search engine spiders?
  • When do you apply for re inclusion in a search engine’s index?
  • What aspects of a hyperlink are important for SEO?
  • What is robots.txt?
  • What is Keyword Difficulty?
  • Which is better Robots.txt or Meta Robots Tag?
  • What is a landing page?
  • Why are metatags un important?
  • Do you know who Danny Sullivan is?
  • Who is Matt Cutts?
  • Do you use separate SEO strategies for Google,Yahoo and Bing?
  • Which technique is unethical and can be a reason for banning?
  • Explain some SEO practices?
  • What is Keyword proximity?
  • Explain onsite search box, and how it helps to attract traffic?
  • What are the advantages of submitting sites to search directories?
  • What are the criteria for the uniqueness of a page (unique as opposed to duplicate content)?
  • What is LSI?
  • Will you use an ordinary html sitemap with Google?
  • What is Page Rank?
  • Difference between exit rate and bounce rate?
  • Can search engines see password protected pages?
  • For seo which is better text links or graphical links?
  • What is Cross Linking?
  • What is Google EMD updates?

if you mean Search Engine Optimization position, the questions will probably be based on the following:

1- ability to perform search and hits analysis

2- what will you contribute to the team (it is mostly a team job and rarely a one person thing)

3- A SEO experiment that you did, process and results. 

4- What are your tools. 

Basically, look for job descriptions and or job posts and see the required experience other than education, you will most likely find their exact needs. 

Stanley Mathew Mbiydzenyuy
by Stanley Mathew Mbiydzenyuy , SEO and digital marketing Director , SEO Elites Ltd

To add to what others have said, it will depend on the person interviewing and the primary key skills they are looking for in an employee to be. These may include but not limited to;

  1. What is the difference between Panda and Penguin?
  2. What is a canonical tag and what is it used for?
  3. What is a robots.txt file and why is it important?
  4. What influences rankings in Google's organic search?
  5. What are the last three Google's algorithm changes and what are the names and purposes?
  6. What processes are involved in developing an SEO strategy?
  7. Give some examples of best practices of Link building, at least 7
  8. What tools do you use during SEO and why them?

Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi
by Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi , Shared Services Supervisor , Saudi Musheera Co. Ltd.

agree with mr. abdulrahman\\

 

Marvin Lomanog
by Marvin Lomanog , Head Of HR And Administration , Dr. Klippe Philippines Corporation

Thank you for the invitation.  One possible question could be:

 

"What do you understand about our vacant position and how do you plan to engage yourself effectively."

Manasa Kaslekar
by Manasa Kaslekar , Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist , Smyth and Bradshaw

SEO Consultants can answer this better than HRs

Asim Ali Khan
by Asim Ali Khan , Human Resources Director , Arab Media Group

Mostly interview will focus on his academic and early career achievements.......................

Duncan Robertson
by Duncan Robertson , Strategy Consultant , Duncan Robertson Consultancy

1) Given that natural search results have declined significantly in importance in recent years, while paid search results have increased, how long do you think it will be before the SEO industry more or less dies out?

2) Imagine you own your own business.  Money is tight.  What ratio of funding would you put into Pay Per Click compared with SEO?

3) Given your previous two answers, why did you choose SEO as a career?

 

(For the benefit of non-SEO experts reading this, try a Google search on your phone.  How many natural results are on the screen?  Clue: it's probably zero.   )

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