SEO Interview Questions & Answers

SEO Interview  Questions  & Answers

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

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 __________ click through rate.

A. less than 30%
B. 30 percent
C. more than 30%

Which of the following factors have an impact on the Google Page Rank?

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

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

If you enter 'Help site: www.go4expert.com’ in the Google search box, what will Google search for?

a. It will open up the Google help pages applicable to www.go4expert.com
b. It will find pages about help within www.go4expert.com
c. It will only find page titles about help within www.go4expert.com
d. It will direct you to the request page for re-indexing of www.go4expert.com

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 hyperactive 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

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

Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google's search results?

a. Yes
b. No

What does the term Keyword Prominence refer?

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

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

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

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

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

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 (real-time synonym detection)
d. Stemming
e. Branching

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

Which of the following statements about RSS are correct?

a. It is a form of XML
b. It stands for Real-time streamlined syndication
c. It is a good way of displaying static information
d. It is a Microsoft technology

Which of the following options is correct regarding the Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) of a particular keyword?

a. It is directly proportional to the popularity of the keyword
b. It is inversely proportional to the competition for the keyword
c. It is directly proportional to the chances of the keyword ranking on the first page of the Google search results

What is the illegal act of copying of a page by unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?

a. Traffic jacking
b. Visitor jacking
c. View jacking
d. Page jacking

Which of the following search engines offers a popular list of the top 50 most searched keywords?

a. Google
b. Yahoo
c. AOL
d. Lycos

Which of the following search engines or directories provides the main search results for AOL?

a. Lycos
b. DMOZ
c. Google
d. Yahoo
e. Windows Live

Which of the following can be termed as appropriate Keyword Density?

A. 0.01-0.1%
B. 3-4%
C. 7-10%
D. none of the above

The following robots Meta tag directs the search engine bots:

<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">

a. Not to index the homepage and not to follow the links in the page
b. Not to index the page and not to follow the links in the page
c. To index the page and not to follow the links in the page
d. Not to index the page but to follow the links in the page

What is Keyword Density?

a. The number of times the keyword is used / (DIVIDED BY) the total word count on page - (MINUS) the total words in HTML on the page
b. Combination of the number of times a keyword or a keyword phrase, in proportion with other words, appears on a Web page
c. The number of times the keyword is used in the page description
d. The number of times the keyword is used in the page title
e. The number of times the keyword is used / (DIVIDED BY) the total word count on the page

Which of the following are examples of agents?

A. Internet Explorer
B. Search engine spiders
C. Opera
D. SQL Server database attached to a website

If you search for the term "iq test" in the Word Tracker keyword suggestion tool, will it return the number of independent searches for the term "iq"?

a. Yes
b. No

Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique. What does it involve?

a. Increasing the keyword density on the web pages
b. Offering a different set of web pages to the search engines
c. Hiding the keywords within the webpage
d. Creating multiple pages and hiding them from the website visitors

Which of the following facts about Alexa are correct?

a. Alexa provides free data on relative website visitor traffic
b. Alexa and Quantcast provide information on visitor household incomes
c. Alexa is biased towards US based traffic
d. Quantcast only tracks people who have installed the Quantcast toolbar

Google gives priority to themed in-bound links.

a. True
b. False

Which of the following methods can help you get around the Google Sandbox?

a. Buying an old Website and getting it ranked
b. Buying a Google Ad words PPC campaign
c. Placing the website on a sub domain of a ranked website and then 301 re-directing the site after it has been indexed
d. Getting a DMOZ listing

A Hallway Page is used to:

A. Attract visitors from the search engines straight onto the Hallway Page
B Organizes the Doorway Pages
C Helps people navigate to different Doorway Pages
D. Enables search engine bots to index the Doorway Pages

Which of the following options describes the correct meaning of Mouse Trapping?

a. The technique of monitoring the movement of the mouse on the webpage
b. The technique of monitoring the area on which an advertisement was clicked
c. The web browser trick, which attempts to redirect visitors away from major websites through a spy ware program
d. The web browser trick, which attempts to keep a visitor captive at on a website

What is the most likely time period required for getting a Google page rank?

A. 1 week
B. 3 weeks
C. 2 months
D More than 3 months

All major search engines are case sensitive.

a. True
b. False

Which of the following website design guidelines have been recommended by Google?

a. Having a clear hierarchy and text links
b. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link
c. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you should break the site map into separate pages
d. Keeping the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100)
e. Use less than 30 images or graphics per page

How are sitemaps important for the Search engine optimization process?

a. Site maps help the search engine editorial staff to go through a website, hence ensuring quicker placement
b. Google gives credit to the websites having sitemaps. The GoogleBot looks for the keyword or title "Site Map" on the homepage of a website.
c. Site maps help the search engine spider pick up more pages from the website
d. None of the above

Google looks down upon paid links for enhancing pagerank. If a website sells links, what action/s does Google recommend to avoid being penalized?

a. The text of the paid links should state the words "paid text link" for Google to identify it as a paid link
b. Only Paid text links to non-profit websites should be accepted
c. Paid links should be disclosed through the "rel=nofollow" attribute in the hyperlink
d. Paid links should be disclosed through the "index=nofollow" attribute in the hyperlink

What is the function of the Robots.txt file?

a.It shows how the page will be seen by robots. 
b.It prevents robots from spidering the site. 
c.It tells robots to come to the site.
d.It provides instructions to robots which pages and directories not to index.

What is necessary to do for optimizing Flash sites? Check all that apply.

a.Put the most important items in a Flash presentation on the home page 
b.Add descriptive metadata to the Flash presentation. 
c.Provide alternative pages that describe the contents of the Flash presentation. 
d.Have a good keyword density in the Flash presentation.

Which of the following URLs need rewriting to make them more SEO friendly? Check all that apply.

a.http://www.mysite.com/news/news.php?id=4352256&sort=date b.http://www.mysite.com/news/2006/dec/2/tech/new-hardware.php 
c.http://archive.mysite.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=com78909&O=23

How do you know how much to pay for a text link from another site to yours?

a.There are unified text link prices and they depend on the quantity of links I buy. 
b.When I get an offer for purchasing text links, I start negotiating and I usually drop the price considerably. 
c.The price is often different because it depends on the current rating of the site that will backlink to me. 
d.$0.10 for a text link is a fair price.

The main purpose of search engine spiders is to:

a.Visit sites. 
b.Check if sites perform ethical SEO. 
c.Index sites.

Which of the following practices are unethical (Black Hat SEO)? Check all that apply.

a.Having the same page twice – once in html, once in pdf.
b.Using hidden text that users don't see but spiders can read. 
c.Creating a keyword-rich home page. 
d.Buying links from link farms. 
e.Cloaking i.e displaying a different page for Search Engines

What will the search string “link:www.webconfs.com” show?

a.The list of backlinks from other sites on the Web to webconfs.com. 
b.The list of backlinks from other sites on the Web to webconfs.com that are available in the index of the particular search engine. 
c.The home page of webconfs.com. 
d.The anchor text of the backlinks that link to the webconfs.com site.

What are “supplemental results”?

a.Paid listings that appear for a particular keyword. 
b.Listings that do not have all the keywords in them. 
c.Filtered results that are similar to the ones already shown. 
d.Additional search results that will be served on your request.

You are a SEO expert and a potential customer of yours asks you for advice about what is wrong with his site. What are the aspects of SEO that you need to check in order to ensure that the site is properly SEO optimized? Check all that apply.

a.Make sure that there are enough inbound links to it. 
b.Make sure that the anchor text of inbound links has the right keywords. 
c.Create more outbound links because there are only few of them. 
d.Remove some site content because it was written 2 years ago.

You have just finished optimizing the site of a client and you proudly tell him or her to see the results. But instead of congratulations, you hear the question: “But I don't see the results you told me about! I see different results!” What will you explain to him or her? Check all answers that are technically correct.

a.You see different results because you have been served by one of the many data centers of Google, and I have my results from a different data center. It is an internal Google matter and none of us can do anything to change it. 
b.Very often, results change at different times of day because the crawlers are constantly adding and removing pages from the index. 
c.Come on, you can't be serious! What do you mean by “different results”? 
d.This is because you are in Europe and I am in the States. Google tends to show local results before the rest, but since most of your clients are in the States, chances are that they will see what I see, not the Europe-specific results in your browser.

Ahmed Ata Almahallawi

Freelancer

IT Help Desk,

SEO experience,PHP,C#,ASPX,SQL

Al alami st

Gaza -jabalia, Gaza Strip

Palestine

Marital Status: Single 

DOB: 05/10/1984

by +Ahmed Almahallawi 

1/2/2014