SEO interview Questions and Answers

Here I m going to share some of general SEO queries which I came across during my interview process.So I thought it would be helpful for you also.Here it goes:

1.Give me a description of your general SEO experience.

Because of my interest in Blogging and learning new SEO techniques,it was a great experience for me to work in SEO.the most important aspect of SEO is writing good,unique and interesting content which helps to get visitors on my site.I have done all off page seo activities like commenting on high PR blogs and authority blogs,participating in good forums,sharing my site's link there and also submit my website's link to various sites like stumble,Digg,mixx.Also I have submitted it to like Dmoz,Yahoo directory, Bing Directory, JoeAnt.

2. What is the difference between On page SEO and Off page SEO?

On page SEO is the process of optimizing our own WebPages to get ranked well by defining proper keywords and description of the site. Where as in off page SEO we put our website’s link on the other websites. We submit our site’s link to various directories and search engines.

3. What is difference between SEO and SEM ?

SEO is free and cheaper solution for getting good ranking of a website which gives organic search results whereas SEM is paid advertising like PPC(Pay per Click) by Google Adwords tool and traditional Ads on SERPs.

4. What SEO tools do you regularly use?

Google Adwords tool fro keyword research, Google analytics for keyword analysis, Page rank checker, backlink watcher, Google Webmasters tool, XML sitemap generator, HTML validation tools.

5. What do you think of using XML sitemaps?

XML sitemaps are very important for searching to let know the latest updates on the website. It helps the search engines navigate easily through WebPages when crawling the website.

6. What META tags matter in today's world.

Meta tags are important in ranking of a website. All search engines use different algorithms to optimize the meta tags. By use of Meta tags its easy for search engines to know the relevance of keywords for the site is optimized.

7. Do you know about Robots.txt ? Why it is used ?

Robots.txt is the file where you can put the portion of your site or web page which you want not to crawled or found by search engines.

8. Give name of some black hat SEO techniques.

* Keyword stuffing

* Doorway/Landing pages

* Cloaking

* Hidden text

9.Do you know sites which has PR 10 ?

* Google.com

* usa.gov

* india.gov.in

* w3.org

* whitehouse.gov

* us.cnn.com

* facebook.com

SEO is never ending learning technique but this is just some general queries of SEO which you may face during interview process. Hope this helps. Wish you all the best..