How To Crack The SEO Interview

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Here are some of the best interview questions for SEO and if you are looking to answer them read SEO FACT INFORMATION and you would not have difficulty in answering most of them if not all.

1.    If a website’s search engine saturation with respect to a particular search engine is 20%, what does it mean?

a.20% of the webpages of the website have been indexed by the search engine.
b. Only 20% of the pages of the website will be indexed by the search engine
c. 20% of the websites pages will never be indexed
d. The website ranks in the first 20% of all websites indexed by the search engine for its most important search terms

1. (a)

2.    10 people do a web search. In response, they see links to a variety of web pages. Three of the 10 people choose one particular link. That link then has a __________ clickthrough rate.

a. less than 30%
b. 30 percent
c. more than 30%

2. b

3.    Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google PageRank?

a. The total number of inbound links to a page of a web site
b. The subject matter of the site providing the inbound link to a page of a web site
c. The text used to describe the inbound link to a page of a web site
d. The number of outbound links on the page that contains the inbound link to a page of a web site

3. a ( Quality back links gives higher page rank)

4.    What does the 301 server response code signify?

a. Not Modified
b. moved permanently
c. syntax error in the request
d. Payment is required
e. The request must be authorized before it can take place

4.b

5.    If you enter ‘Help site:www.studebtsjob.blogspot.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?

a. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.studebtsjob.blogspot.com
b. It will find pages about help within www.studebtsjob.blogspot.com
c. It will only find page titles about help within www.studebtsjob.blogspot.com
d. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of studebtsjob.blogspot.com

5. b

6.    What is Anchor Text?

a. It is the main body of text on a particular web page
b. It is the text within the left or top panel of a web page
c. It is the visible text that is hyper linked to another page
d. It is the most prominent text on the page that the search engines use to assign a title to the page

6. c

7.    Which of the following free tools/websites could help you identify which city in the world has the largest search for the keyword – “six sigma”?

a. Yahoo Search Term Suggestion Tool
b. Alexa
c. Google Traffic Estimator
d. Google Trends
e. Word Tracker

7. d

8.    What term is commonly used to describe the shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?

a. Waves
b. Flux
c. Shuffling
d. Swaying

8. (b)

9.    Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search results?

a. Yes
b. No

9. b

10. Which of the following statements regarding website content are correct?

a. If you have two versions of a document on your website, Google recommends that you only allow the indexing of the better version
b. Linking to a page inconsistently does not affect the way Google views the page/s. Examples of inconsistent linking could be http://www.go4expert.com/page/ and http://www.go4expert.com/page and http://www.go4expert.com/page/index.htm.
c. Syndicating your content could lead to Google viewing the material as duplicate
d. Placeholders for pages which do not have content are never viewed as duplicate content by Google

10. a

11. What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?

a. It refers to the fact that the importance of choosing high traffic keywords leads to the best return on investment
b. It refers to the importance attached to getting the right keyword density
c. It refers to the fact that the keywords placed in important parts of a webpage are given priority by the search engines
d. It refers to the fact that the keywords in bold font are given priority by the search engines

11. (c)

12. What is the term for Optimization strategies that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?

a. Red hat techniques
b. Silver hat techniques
c. Grey hat techniques
d. Shady hat techniques

12. C

13. Which of the following statements is correct with regard to natural links?

a. They are two way links (reciprocal links)
b. They are from authority websites
c. They are voluntary in nature
d. They are from .edu or .gov extension websites

13. c

14. Which of the following can be termed as good keyword selection and placement strategies?

a. Targeting synonyms of the main keyword
b. Targeting the highest searched keywords only
c. Copying competitor keywords
d. Optimizing five or more keywords per page

14. a and d

15. What does the 302 server response code signify?

a. It signifies conflict, too many people wanted the same file at the same time
b. The page has been permanently removed
c. The method you are using to access the file is not allowed
d. The page has temporarily moved
e. What you requested is just too big to process

15. d

16. Which of the following statements about FFA pages are true?

a. They are greatly beneficial to SEO
b. They are also called link farms
c. They are paid listings
d. They contain numerous inbound links

16. b

17. What is the name of the search engine technology due to which a query for the word ‘actor’ will also show search results for related words such as actress, acting or act?

a. Spreading
b. Dilating
c. RSD (realtime synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching

17. c ( Not sure)

18. What will the following robots.txt file do?
User-agent:Googlebot
Disallow:/*?
User-agent:Scooter
Disallow:

a. It will allow Google to crawl any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also allow the altavista scooter bot to access every page
b. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will also disallow the altavista scooter bot from accessing any page
c. It will disallow Google from crawling any of the dynamically generated pages. It will allow the altavista scooter bot to access every page
d. None of the above

18. b

19. Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?

a. It is a form of XML
b. It stands for Realtime streamlined syndication
c. It is a good way of displaying static information
d. It is a microsoft technology

19. a

20. Which of the following statements are correct with regard to using javascript within the web pages?

a. It uses up the valuable space within the webpage, which should be used for placing meaningful text for the search engines
b. Search engines cannot read Javascript
c. It is a good idea to shift the Javascript into a separate file
d. Most of the search engines are unable to read links within Javascript code

20. c & b