Latest SEO Questions 2013
- What’s your SEO experience?
- What do you think about the latest algorithm update from Google?
- Do you use any SEO tools?
- Mention some SEO myths you know and what the actual facts are
- Which industry blogs and sites do you follow?
- Do you do black hat SEO?
- Can you tell me the difference between on page and off page SEO?
- What are your thoughts on buying links, article marketing, article spinning, and directory submissions?
- What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?
- Rate from to, tell me the most important “on page” elements
11.
Do you currently do SEO on your own sites? Do
you operate any blogs? Do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan
on continuing it?
12.
What are some challenges facing the SEO
industry?
13.
What areas of SEO do you most enjoy?
14.
In what areas of SEO are you strongest?
15.
In what areas of SEO are you weakest?
16.
Who is Matt Cutts?
17.
What's the difference between PageRank and
Toolbar PageRank?
18.
Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many
topics?
19.
What is keyword proximity?
20.
What are the types of CSS and which is better
for SEO?
21.
Can we use more than one H on a single webpage?
22.
Some basic and quick steps to increase the
webpage speed?
23.
What is your opinion for direction of Web
technologies regarding SEO?
24.
What is sitemaps? And how HTML sitemaps
different from XML sitemaps explain?
25.
Do you have HTML coding cognition which is very
important for on page Seo?
26.
What are your key strategies for creating good
backlinks?
27.
If you get a new website how would you optimize
the website explain your various steps?
28.
What keyword research tools do you use and why?
29.
Latest Social Media Optimization (SMO Interview
Questions)
30.
What is SMO?
31.
What is tumbler?
32.
Which is the part of Google?
33.
What is Alexa?
34.
What experience have you gained of using web
tools either in a professional or personal capacity?
35.
What are your favorite social media sites?
36.
What’s the difference between Social media and
social networking?
37.
What are the differences between writing for
traditional web channels and writing for social media?
38.
Why do you think company XYZ should use social
media?
39.
How can you measure success in social media?
40.
Social media-Hope or Hype?
41.
How do social media impact SEO?
42.
How do you build an audience socially?
43.
What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
44.
Share your SMO work plan for a New Projects?
45.
How much you comfortable with writing for SMO?
46.
What are some of the challenges explaining
social media to non-technical executives? How do you overcome objections about
social media?
47.
What are your strengths in social media?
48.
What are your weaknesses in social media?
49.
Which social bookmarking sites do you use?
50.
What social media tools do you use?
51.
How do you manage an online reputation? If one
of our executives had a bad online reputation (bad press, etchant wanted to fix
it, what would you recommend?
52.
What areas of social media would you recommend
outsourcing?
53.
What are the risks with becoming involved in
social media?
54.
What do you do offline to increase your online
knowledge?
Social Media Industry Questions
- 1 What is Web?
- 2. What does Web look like?
- 3. What’s the “next big thing?”
- 4. What is the difference between social media and social networking?
- 5. What do you think of social media consultants?
- 6. What’s the most exciting part of social media?
- 7. What social media blogs do you read? What research do you follow?
- 8. Who’s your favorite social media expert?
Social Media Technical
Questions
- 1. Explain the difference between Facebook Like and Sharing on Facebook.
- 2. If you’re planning a vacation and will be out of touch and not able to get online for a week, what tools would you use to ensure social media updates are being posted?
- 3. Write three headlines for news stories that you think will have tremendous success on social media
- 4. What makes the headline successful? Write a headline for a successful article about our company.
- 5. How often should we update Twitter?
- 6. How do you handle criticism of a company online?
- 7. What would you do if someone started a parody account poking fun at our company?
- 8. What is your policy for moderating comments?
- 9. Would you pay a blogger to write favorably about our company?
- 10. How would you show unique content only to fans on our Facebook page?
11.
Who in our organization should be blogging on
behalf of the company?
12.
How would you perform competitive analysis in
the social space?
13.
What do think about software applications that auto
follow or try to get get large masses of friends on social network sites?
14.
What do the statistics look like for a healthy
Facebook fan page?
15.
Explain what a retweet is.
16.
What is RSS? Why is it important?
17.
Have you ever gotten a piece of content onto the
front page of Digg?
18.
How frequently do you update Facebook and
Twitter?
Social Media Analytics
& Marketing Questions
- 1. How do you measure success on social media?
- 2. What metrics do you use to measure the effectiveness of social media?
- 3. How would you tell that a social media campaign has failed?
- 4. What key performance indicators would you recommend to report on social media efforts?
- 5. Write down a table of contents for a social media strategy.
- 6. What elements should go into a social media marketing plan?
- 7. Why would we want to pay for social media advertising?
- 8. What are the best types of things to advertise on a social networking site?
- 9. What analytics software packages have you used?
- 10. Describe the most successful social media campaign you have ever seen what made it so successful? Could you duplicate that level of success?
11.
Describe a social media campaign you ran from
start to finish.
12.
Provide an example of a social media campaign
you are current running Show me what channels it is in Describe the next steps
for your campaign.
13.
What are the elements that make a video go
viral?
14.
How will the candidate use social media for the
company? Has the candidate reviewed the company’s current social media presence
and formed an opinion?
15.
For our business, would Twitter or Facebook be
more effective?
16.
Why would we want to continue using MySpace?
17.
Why should we use social media?
18.
What would be the first thing you would do if
hired for this position? What would your goal be for the first month?
19.
Would you use Facebook Like or Facebook
Recommend on our site?
20.
What social sites should our company have a
presence on?
21.
How would you integrate social media into our
site? What buttons or widgets would you recommend?
22.
What percentage of our referral traffic would
you think our site should get from social media sites?
23.
Give our company a grade on our current social
media efforts.
24.
How would a social check in site benefit our
business?
25.
What tabs should we have on our company Facebook
page? Which one should be default?
26.
How do you define social media reach? What is
the current social media reach our of our company?
27.
What are things you would recommend to us to do
immediately in the social space?
28.
What are some of the challenges explaining
social media to non-technical executives? How do you overcome objections about
social media?
29.
If you were working at a firm which blocked
employee access to Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites, do you think this
is a good policy? If not, how would you
30.
Convince the executive team to open up access
for employees?
31.
What is the difference between moderating
something and facilitating something?
32.
What are your strengths in social media?
33.
What are your weaknesses in social media?
34.
Which social bookmarking sites do you use?
35.
What social media tools do you use?
36.
What is your biggest mistake you’ve made in
social media? How did you fix it?
37.
Have you ever held a live event in the social
space? How would you market a live online event? How would you structure the
event?
38.
How do you manage an online reputation? If one
of our executives had a bad online reputation (bad press, etchant wanted to fix
it, what would you recommend?
39.
If we had a business crisis, what social media
channels would you use to communicate through? How would you manage the
messaging?
40.
What areas of social media would you recommend
outsourcing?
41.
What are the risks with becoming involved in
social media?
42.
Which is the best social check-in site?
43.
Are you the mayor of any place?
44.
What do you do offline to increase your online
knowledge? (Hat tip: Brian Boyd)
45.
Social Media Industry Questions
46.
In this section of the interview, you will learn
how involved the candidate is in the industry Is he/she looking for a job or a
career?
47.
What does Web look like?
48.
What’s the “next big thing?”
49.
What is the difference between social media and
social networking?
50.
What do you think of social media consultants?
51.
What’s the scariest part of social media?
52.
What’s the most exciting part of social media?
53.
What social media blogs do you read? What
research do you follow?
54.
Who’s your favorite social media expert?
55.
Social Media Technical Questions
56.
How much of the underlying social media
technology does the candidate understand? These questions determine the level
of technical knowledge of the candidate.
57.
Explain the difference between Facebook Like and
Sharing on Facebook.
58.
If you’re planning a vacation and will be out of
touch and not able to get online for a week, what tools would you use to ensure
social media updates are being posted?
59.
Write three headlines for news stories that you
think will have tremendous success on social media?
60.
What makes the headline successful? Write a
headline for a successful article about our company?
61.
How often should we update Twitter?
62.
How do you handle criticism of a company online?
63.
What would you do if someone started a parody
account poking fun at our company?
64.
What is your policy for moderating comments?
65.
Would you pay a blogger to write favorably about
our company?
66.
How would you show unique content only to fans
on our Facebook page?
67.
Who in our organization should be blogging on
behalf of the company?
68.
What is a “sneezer”?
69.
How would you perform competitive analysis in
the social space?
70.
What do think about software applications that auto
follow or try to get large masses of friends on social network sites?
71.
What do the statistics look like for a healthy
Facebook fan page?
72.
Explain what a retweet is.
73.
What is RSS? Why is it important?
74.
Have you ever gotten a piece of content onto the
front page of Digg?
75.
How frequently do you update Facebook and
Twitter?
76.
Social Media Analytics & Marketing Questions
77.
A good portion of social media is marketing related
Does the candidate understand these marketing elements and the tactics
necessary to apply them to social media?
78.
How do you measure success on social media?
79.
What metrics do you use to measure the
effectiveness of social media?
80.
How would you tell that a social media campaign
has failed?
81.
What key performance indicators would you
recommend to report on social media efforts?
82.
Write down a table of contents for a social
media strategy.
83.
What elements should go into a social media
marketing plan?
84.
Why would we want to pay for social media
advertising?
85.
What are the best types of things to advertise
on a social networking site?
86.
What analytics software packages have you used?
87.
Describe the most successful social media
campaign you have ever seen what made it so successful? Could you duplicate
that level of success?
88.
Describe a social media campaign you ran from
start to finish.
89.
Provide an example of a social media campaign
you are current running Show me what channels it is in Describe the next steps
for your campaign.
90.
What are the elements that make a video go viral?
91.
How will the candidate use social media for the
company? Has the candidate reviewed the company’s current social media presence
and formed an opinion?
92.
For our business, would Twitter or Facebook be
more effective?
93.
Why would we want to continue using MySpace?
94.
Why should we use social media?
95.
What would be the first thing you would do if
hired for this position? What would your goal be for the first month? The first
year?
96.
Would you use Facebook Like or Facebook
Recommend on our site?
97.
What social sites should our company have a
presence on?
98.
How would you integrate social media into our
site? What buttons or widgets would you recommend?
99.
What percentage of our referral traffic would
you think our site should get from social media sites?
100.
Give our company a grade on our current social
media efforts.
101.
How would a social check in site benefit our
business?
102.
What tabs should we have on our company Facebook
page? Which one should be default?
103.
How do you define social media reach? What is
the current social media reach our of our company?
104.
What are things you would recommend to us to do
immediately in the social space?
Common
interview questions
1.
Tell me something about you?
2.
Describe your greatest strengths?
3.
Tell me the reason why you quit your previous
job?
4.
Tell me your career goals in work?
5.
Why do you choose this job in our company?
6.
Tell me your biggest weakness?
7.
Are you interested in any other jobs?
8.
Tell me your knowledge of our company?
9.
What is your expected salary?
10.
Why do you think that you are the most suitable
candidate?
Social media strategies
1.
Which kind of social media should we use in your
point of view?
2.
What do you do to find target customers on
Facebook?
3.
Why should we use social media? Give me the
reason?
4.
Do we have to be pay attention to anything when
we use these tools?
5.
Describe the risks that we can face when using
them?
6.
Who takes responsibility of them?
7.
What would you do to control relevant resource?
8.
Do you think some of the work should be
outsourced?
Social media
experience
1.
Describe your experience of designing a video?
2.
Tell me the experience that you have collected
from using web tools in professional as well as in your personal business?
3.
Which challenges have you met when you used
social media in your last job and what did you do to win them?
4.
The IT world has a lot of free social media tools
which criterions have you based on to evaluate a tool whether it is suitable
for professional use?
5.
Sometimes, social media is unable to support for
brands give me an example in which your on-line performance hasn’t satisfied
you as you expected and what did you do to deal with it?
6.
Have you ever had to write a training, guidance
or strategy document about social media and what did you do to complete this
assignment?
General Social Media Questions
1.
Describe some difficulties that you faced when
you explained social media to executives who knew nothing about it? What do you
do to deal with such objections?
2.
Describe your strengths in social media area?
3.
Tell me your weakness in social media?
4.
Tell me the social bookmarking sites you often
use?
5.
Tell me the names of social media tools that you
use?
6.
What do you do to control the spread of social
media? What would you advise your executive if he had a trouble with social
network (bad press, etchant wanted to cover it?
7.
Which parts of social media would you suggest to
be outsourced?
8.
Describe some risks related to social media?
9.
How do you do to improve your online knowledge?
Social Media Field
Questions
1.
Define SEO?
2.
What are our opinions of Facebook fan page?
3.
Could you define Web?
4.
Describe Web.
5.
Do you know what “next big thing” is?
6.
Describe the difference between social
networking and social media?
7.
What is the role of social media advisers?
8.
Tell me which part of social media is the most
interesting?
9.
Give me the names of the social media blogs you
often read? What do you search on them?
10.
Who do you admire most in social media field?
Social Media Technical
Questions
1.
What should you do to attract visitors to see a
clip?
2.
Describe how you set up a channel on Youtube?
3.
What is the difference between Sharing on
Facebook and Facebook Like?
4.
Which tools will you use to update social media
if you are on a holiday and unable to keep in touch with social media for a
week time?
5.
Create resounding success on social media by
writing three headlines for news which brings success to the headline? Write an
attractive headline for article of our company.
6.
How often do we need to have Twitter updated?
7.
What do you do to deal with criticism of an
online company?
8.
How do you react in case someone creates a ridiculous
account to laugh at our company?
9.
What do you do to manage comments?
10.
Will you accept to pay someone to praise our
company online?
11.
What do you do to have the exclusive content
shown on our Facebook page and only to fans?
12.
Do you know anyone in our company should be
blogging on behalf of the organization?
13.
Describe the way you implement the competitive
analysis in the social media?
14.
Tell me your opinion about software applications
that follow automatically or try to collect a big number of friends on social
network sites?
15.
Describe statistics for a fresh Facebook fan
page?
16.
Could you define the re-tweet?
17.
Tell me your knowledge of RSS? Describe the
importance of it?
18.
Have you ever had any contents appeared onto the
front page of Digg?
19.
Do you often have your Facebook and Twitter
updated?
20.
Tell me the ways you use to manage your Facebook
group?
21.
What do you do to manage a Facebook fan page
well?
Social media analytic
1.
Tell me the acceptable reason to pay for
advertisement on social media?
2.
Which types of advertisement are the best on a
social networking site?
3.
Tell me the analytic software packages that you
have used?
4.
Which social media campaign is the most
successful that you have ever known Why was it was successful? Could you do the
same?
5.
Tell me an example of social media campaign that
you did from the beginning to the end?
6.
Are you running a social media campaign at this
moment? Which channel is it on? What steps will you do next for your campaign?
7.
Describe the factors that a successful video
needs to have?
8.
Which norm do you base on to evaluate success on
social media?
9.
How do you measure the efficiency of social
media?
10.
Why do you know a social media campaign
unsuccessful?
11.
Describe the important performance indicators
that you suggest to make report on social media?
12.
Could you write the contents of strategy for
social media?
13.
What necessaries are important in a social media
marketing campaign?
Social media performance
evaluation/ROI
1.
What is success in your point of view?
2.
Could you define ROI (Return on Investment)?
3.
Which results could we achieve?
4.
How long do we have to wait to get direct
results/indirect results?
5.
What do you do to ensure that the experience can
satisfy participants?
6.
What do you do to know whether it is valuable to
the business?
7.
What is success in social media?
8.
What would you do to explain externally, or internal
critics? Do you think that social media might influence other digital media –
the main website is an example? Give me your opinion about it?
9.
What do you do to control online reputation or
manage personal issues on social media?
Employer interview
questions
1.
Which is more efficient with our company,
Twitter or Facebook?
2.
Recommend us the social website we should be on?
3.
What do you do to link our site to social media?
Which widgets or buttons should we use?
4.
How many accesses do you think we could receive
from social media sites?
5.
Grade our company on our present social media
efforts
6.
Tell me the benefit we can get when a social
checks in our site?
7.
Recommend us the tabs we should have on our
company Facebook page? Tell me the one should be default?
8.
What is your definition of social media reach?
Describe the current social media reach which is out of our company?
9.
Tell me things we should do right now in social
media?
10.
Give me the reason why we shouldn’t stop using
MySpace?
11.
Tell me the reason why we should use social
media?
12.
I want to know the first thing you will do if
you are offered this position Tell me your target in the first month and the
first year?
13.
Which one would you choose, Facebook Recommend
or Facebook Like?
14.
Which social media sites do you most like? Why?
15.
What has been your biggest achievement in SMM?
16.
Do you feel that you are well connected in
Social media spheres? Does your social
media account carry influence?
17.
Do you prefer to use the same pseudonym across
your social media profiles? What are the pros and cons of doing this?
18.
When did you get into social media (and
marketing)?
19.
What is your oldest social media profile?
20.
Would you ever sell or buy social media profiles?
21.
What has been the most effective social media
marketing campaign you have been involved in?
How was it effective? Metrics, exposure, links?
22.
How do you effectively use social media to
support SEO campaigns, or vice versa?
23.
What is the Difference between Google Panda and
Penguin Update?
24.
What is topic modeling?
25.
What is Pagination in SEO?
26.
What are rich snippets?
27.
What are URL parameters?
28.
What is A/B testing and Multivariate Testing?
29.
How to decrease the bounce rate of a webpage?
30.
Why we use noodp in Meta robot tag?
31.
What is Meta refresh tag, should we use it?
32.
What is breadcrumb?
33.
Is there a way we can tell Google that a
particular webpage contains the Adult content?
34.
How Google treat links in PDF files?
35.
Give me a description of your general SEO
experience?
36.
Can you write HTML code by hand?
37.
Could you briefly explain the PageRank
algorithm?
38.
How you created any SEO tools either from
scratch or pieced together from others?
39.
What do you think of PageRank?
40.
What do you think of using XML sitemaps?
41.
What are your thoughts on the direction of Web
technologies with regards to SEO?
42.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
43.
Under what circumstances would you look to
exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs Meta robots tag?
44.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a site?
45.
Do you have experience in copywriting and can
you provide some writing samples?
46.
Have you ever had something you've written reach
the front-page of Digg? Or be stumbled?
47.
Explain to me what META tags matter in today's
world.
48.
Explain various steps that you would take to
optimize a website?
49.
If the company whose site you've been working
for has decided to move all of its content to a new domain, what steps would
you take?
50.
Rate from to, tell me the most important
"on page" elements?
51.
Review the code of past clients/company websites
where SEO was performed.
52.
What do you think about link buying?
53.
What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?
54.
What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and
what roles does it play?
55.
What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
56.
What kind of strategies do you normally
implement for back links?
Analysis
1.
What things wouldn't you to do increase rankings
because the risk of penalty is too high?
2.
What's the difference between PageRank and Toolbar
PageRank?
3.
Why might you want to use no follow on an
internal link?
4.
Are you familiar with web analytics and what
packages are your familiar with?
5.
From an analytics perspective, what is different
between users from organic search results vs type-in user?
6.
How do you distinguish the results of your
search optimization work from a seasonal change in traffic patterns?
7.
How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is
working?
8.
What does competitive analysis mean to you and
what techniques do you use?
9.
If you've done months of SEO for a site and yet
there haven't been any improvements, how would you go about diagnosing the
problem?
10.
How many target keywords should a site have?
11.
How do *you* help a customer decide how to their
budget between organic SEO and pay-per-click SEM?
12.
You hear a rumor that Google is weighting the
HTML LAYER tag very heavily in ranking the relevance of its results - how does
this affect your work?
13.
Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many
topics?
Industry Involvement
1.
If salary and location were not an issue, who
would you work for?
2.
In Google Lore - what are 'Hilltop', 'Florida'
and 'Big Daddy'?
3.
Have you attended any search related
conferences?
4.
Google search on this candidate’s name, (if you
cannot find them that are a red flag).
5.
Do you currently do SEO on your own sites? Do
you operate any blogs? Do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan
on continuing it?
6.
Of the well-known SEOs, who are you not likely
to pay attention to?
7.
What are some challenges facing the SEO industry?
8.
What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you
regularly read?
9.
Who are the two key people - who started Google?
10.
Who is Matt Cutts?
11.
If you were bidding on a contract, what
competitor would you most worry about?
12.
Tell me your biggest failure in an SEO project
13.
What areas of SEO do you most enjoy?
14.
In what areas of SEO are you strongest?
15.
In what areas of SEO are you weakest?
16.
How do you handle a client who does not
implement your SEO recommendations?
17.
Can you get "xyz"? Company listed for
the keyword "Google"? in the first page?
18.
What do you think is different about working for
an SEO agency vsdoing SEO in-house?
19.
Why are you moving from your current position
and/or leaving any current projects?
20.
SEO Job Interview Questions
21.
What is a Search Engine?
22.
What are Meta Tags?
23.
Why is a Robots.txt File Used?
24.
What are some of the Tools Used for Researching
Keywords?
25.
Title Tag is SEO Importance?
26.
What is Cloaking SEO?
27.
Domain Extensions – Do They Matter in SEO
Ranking?
28.
What is your favorite aspect of SEO?
29.
What is the most difficult aspect of SEO for
you?
30.
What is your favorite SEO website/blog, and Why?
31.
What has been your Biggest Mistake in Optimizing
a Website for Search Engines?
32.
Is there a Google SEO Guide or Any Recommended
Google SEO Tools?
33.
What Analytics Packages have you used?
34.
Do you have a Sample SEO Campaign Plan?
35.
How to Increase Google Page Rank?
36.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
37.
What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
38.
Why does Google Rank Wikipedia for so many
topics?
39.
Are you SEO Certified Professional?
40.
How to Get SEO Projects?
41.
What Is a Sitemap?
42.
What do you think of using XML sitemaps?
43.
Is Using Software to Submit Content Good for
SEO?
44.
Who is Matt Cutts?
45.
Can you write HTML Code?
46.
Give me a description of your general SEO
experience?
47.
How to create an SEO Friendly Website Design
Structure?
48.
How many Target Keywords should a Site have?
49.
Why Is My Site Not Ranking in the Search
Engines?
50.
What is the most important “Ranking Factor” that
you as SEO experts come across?
51.
How to Achieve Google PageRank?
52.
Are their SEO principles for Ranking in Google
Shopping Results?
53.
.CO vs .Com SEO?
54.
Robots.txt: Is Blocking Google bot from crawling
JavaScript and CSS good now?
55.
What is Black Hat SEO Techniques?
56.
What is Forum Submission and does it help in
Promoting your Website?
57.
What are the Difference between the Google Broad
Match and Google Exact Match Formats when selecting Keywords for SEO?
58.
What is PPC Marketing?
59.
What are Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary
Keywords: How do they differ?
60.
Did you work on PPC?
61.
Is sitemap useful for SEO?
62.
Do you know HTML Coding?
63.
Explain your SEO Experience?
64.
Can you write HTML code by hand?
65.
Explain importance of Meta tags in seo?
66.
Why are you leaving your current seo job?
67.
Have you attended any seo conferences?
68.
What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
69.
Give me a description of your general SEO
experience.
70.
What role do social media play in an SEO
strategy?
71.
Explain what META tags matter in today's SEO
world?
72.
What kind of SEO strategies do you normally
implement for back links?
73.
What do you think is different about working for
an SEO agency vs doing SEO in-house?
74.
To what extent do you think seo is effective?
75.
As a seo consultant do you consider yourself as
creative?
76.
Have you ever prepared proposal for seo clients?
If yes can you give me one proposal now?
77.
What are the problems you face in seo industry?
78.
How do you evaluate whether a seo campaign is
working?
79.
In what area of seo are you strong? And what
area of seo you are weak?
80.
What seo blogs and Forums do you read?
81.
Do you have experience in social media
optimization?
82.
How far do you think social media optimization
help a website to achieve top position in search engines?
83.
As a seo consultant what do you prefer Google /
yahoo/ Bing?
84.
Do you have Knowledge of Static as well as
Dynamic Website Optimization?
85.
Do you have experience in copy Writing and can
you provide some writing Sample?
86.
What is the role of social bookmarking sites in
Seo?
87.
What do you mean by social networking Traffic?
How do they help for website seo?
88.
Have you done any Video Submissions and Video
Promotions.?
89.
Explain what page rank is and explain page rank algorithm?
90.
Explain me the steps you follow for optimizing a
website?
91.
For what clients you have done seo? Are you
successful in doing seo for them?
92.
What is link building? Link buying?
93.
What kind of activities do you normally
implement for generating back links for a website?
94.
Why do we use no follow on an internal link?
95.
What do you mean by competitive analysis and
what techniques do you use?
96.
How many target keywords should a website have?
Or how many target keywords do you suggest for a website?
97.
How do you help your client to decide budget
allocation for seo and pay-per-click?
98.
Do you have your own blogs? Do you do any seo
freelance works?
99.
How do you handle your client if he does not
want to implement your seo recommendations?
100.
Could you briefly explain the Page Rank
algorithm? And what do you think of Page
Rank?
101.
What do you think of using XML sitemaps?
102.
Do you have experience in copywriting and can
you provide some writing samples?
103.
Explain various steps that you would take to
optimize a website?
104.
Have you ever had something you've written reach
the front-page of Digg? Or Stumbled?
105.
Why might you want to use no follow on an
internal link?
106.
What do you think about link buying?
107.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a Web Site?
108.
Who are the two key people - who started Google?
109.
What is the difference between PageRank and
Toolbar PageRank?
110.
What is Page Rank?
111.
What kinds of back links are considered the most
powerful?
112.
What’s Google supplemental index.
113.
What’s the difference between the indexed and
non-indexed pages?
114.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
115.
What is keywords analysis and how do you analyze
your targeted keywords.
116.
What’s the difference between page rank and
Google toolbar PR.?
117.
What’s do you know about the links buying and
how Google treat links buying.
118.
What is Google sandbox?
119.
What are ranking factors in Google, Yahoo and
MSN?
120.
Have you any experience in the copywriting and
technical writing.
121.
What do you know about page segmentation?
122.
What’s the difference between the on-page and
off-page optimization
123.
Tell me list top on-page and off-page
optimization factors.
124.
What do you know about the SEM.?
125.
What are general factors that can penalize a
website from Google?
126.
How does search engine work.
127.
How’s the future of search engine optimization.
128.
What’s spam indexing?
129.
What’s web?
130.
What do you know about the podcasting, blogs and
RSS?
131.
What do you know about the XML sitemap and how
do you generate it.
132.
Who are the two persons who started Google?
133.
Have you any experience in the PPC and how do
you manage the PPC campaigns.
134.
What is SEO?
135.
What is Google PR as shown on Google toolbar?
136.
What is keywords analysis and how do you analyze
your targeted keywords.
137.
What kinds of back links are considered the most
powerful?
138.
What is Google sandbox?
139.
What are ranking factors in Google, Yahoo and
MSN?
140.
What’s Google supplemental index.
141.
What’s do you know about the links buying and
how Google treat links buying.
142.
What’s the difference between the indexed and non-indexed
pages?
143.
What do you know about page segmentation?
144.
What is key word density?
145.
What’s the difference between the on-page and
off-page optimization.
146.
What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?
147.
Is Frame based website recommended for SEO?
148.
What are general factors that can penalize a
website from Google?
149.
Where do you think the SEO industry is headed?
150.
What’s spam indexing?
151.
What are your thoughts on the direction of Web
technologies with regards to SEO?
152.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
153.
Have you any experience in the PPC and how do
you manage the PPC campaigns.
154.
What SEO areas are you weak and strong in, and
give examples of both?
155.
In Google, how do you find the backward links
for a webpage?
156.
What kind of strategies do you normally
implement for backlinks? What do you think about link buying, link bait, and
other specific backlink strategies?
157.
What do you know about the podcasting, blogs and
RSS?
158.
What do you know about the XML sitemap and how
do you generate it.
159.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a site?
160.
What is the difference between direct and
indirect link?
161.
What is the recommended length (in characters of
the Title and the Description tags?
162.
What do you mean by SERPs?
163.
What do you mean by keyword proximity?
164.
Keyword proximity measures the closeness between
two keywords In general; the closer the keywords are the better.
165.
What do you mean by keyword stemming?
166.
What do you mean by cloaking?
167.
What are the different ways of link building?
168.
How do you optimize dynamic web pages?
169.
What is Mod Rewrite module?
170.
How you can target seo as country wise?
171.
What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and
what roles does it play?
172.
What is Alexa ranking?
173.
What is an SEO, SEM and how important are they
for an organization? Explain
174.
Could you briefly explain PageRank algorithm?
175.
What is Google spam indexing?
176.
Explain several steps that you would take to
optimize a website?
177.
How important the site needs to be wc compliant?
178.
How and what does msn, yahoo and Google search
looks for in a website?
179.
Define all the different ways to do marketing
for a website? ( PPC, Ads, Backlinks, etc.
180.
What is an Organic search?
181.
Name few popular sites and how do you think they
become popular?
182.
Why Google ranks Wikipedia for most of the
topics?
183.
Do you know about Signals, Classifiers and
Topicality?
184.
How does a search engine work and what is the
future?
185.
Can you get “abc” company listed for the keyword
“Google” in the first page?
186.
What is a Search Engine?
187.
Why are Search Engines important?
188.
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
189.
Why do I need to consider SEO for my website?
190.
How do Search engines rank sites?
191.
Does SEO just mean ‘submitting your site to
Search Engines’?
192.
What is the difference between a Search Engine
and a Directory?
193.
Do I have to change my website?
194.
What happens if I don’t optimize my website?
195.
What is HTML?
196.
What is a Meta tag?
197.
What is a Title?
198.
What is a keyword?
199.
What is a Description?
200.
What is “body content relevance”?
201.
What does the Submission Process Actually Do?
202.
When will my Submissions appear on the engines?
203.
What is the difference between submission and
placement and when will my first page paid placement list on the search
engines?
204.
What is a search engine and how does it work?
205.
What is an algorithm?
206.
What is PPC (Pay per Click)?
207.
What is a Spider?
208.
What is Link Popularity?
209.
What is Search Engine Positioning (SEP)?
210.
What is Traffic?
211.
What is Inktomi?
212.
What is Spam?
213.
Summarize the steps of search engine
optimization
214.
Do you know about dynamic optimization?
215.
Have you done any type of paid submission?
216.
What is the cost of paid yahoo directory
submission?
217.
What is the cost of business.com paid directory
submission?
218.
How much is your ppc experience?
219.
Currently how many accounts you are managing?
220.
How you can increase the CTR for any ppc
listing?
221.
How you can increase the Conversions on ppc
Campaign?
222.
What is the maximum character limit of Google
campaign title?
223.
What is the maximum character limit of display URL
in Google ads?
224.
What is the maximum character limit of display URL
in yahoo?
225.
Do you know visitor-tracking system?
226.
Do you know Urchin software?
227.
What is the use of yahoo site explorer?
228.
What is the use of Google sitemap?
229.
How can you give search engines rank?
230.
Can you independently write or re-write content
for any website.
231.
What is the use of .html access file?
232.
What is the use of redirect?
233.
Tell major factor on which Google assign page
rank to any page.
234.
Give me a description of your general SEO
experience.
235.
Do you currently do SEO on your own sites and
give me some examples do you operate any blogs? Do you currently do any
freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?
236.
Where do you think the SEO industry is headed?
237.
What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you
regularly read?
238.
Have you attended any search related
conferences?
239.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
240.
What SEO areas are you weak and strong in, and
give examples of both.
241.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a site?
242.
Do you have experience in copywriting and can
you provide some writing samples?
243.
What kind of strategies do you normally
implement for backlinks? What do you think about link buying, link bait, and
other specific backlink strategies?
244.
What are your thoughts on the direction of Web? Which
Technologies with regards to SEO?
245.
Are you familiar with any black hat SEO
techniques, search arbitrage, and affiliate marketing?
246.
Are you familiar with enterprise web analytics
and what packages are your familiar with?
247.
Are you familiar with A/B testing and
multivariate testing?
248.
Do you have experience in email marketing,
banner advertising, other types of media buys and other forms of online
advertising?
249.
Are you experienced in managing PPC campaigns? What
extent and on what platforms?
250.
Do you have experience in bid management tools,
API tools, and click fraud issues?
251.
Do you have experience in extensive competitive
analysis and what techniques do you use?
252.
What technologies are you familiar with? (We
primarily use HTML, CSS, ASP, .net, PHP, SQL, and JavaScript)
253.
Why are you moving from your current position
and/or leaving any current projects?
254.
Do you know who Matt Cutts is?
255.
What is page segmentation? (Ever heard of VIPS?)
256.
What’s the difference between PageRank and Toolbar
PageRank?
257.
What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI –
Indexing)?
258.
What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and
what roles does it play?
259.
In Google Lore – what are ‘Hilltop’ Florida’ and
‘Big Daddy’?
260.
Give me a description of your general SEO
experience.
261.
Do you currently do SEO on your own sites and
give me some examples do you operate any blogs? Do you currently do any
freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?
262.
Where do you think the SEO industry is headed?
263.
What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you
regularly read?
264.
Have you attended any search related
conferences?
265.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
266.
What SEO areas are you weak and strong in, and
give examples of both.
267.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a site?
268.
Do you have experience in copywriting and can
you provide some writing samples?
269.
What kind of strategies do you normally
implement for backlinks? What do you think about link buying, link bait, and
other specific backlink strategies?
270.
What are your thoughts on the direction of Web? Technologies with regards to SEO?
271.
Are you familiar with any black hat SEO
techniques, search arbitrage, and affiliate marketing?
272.
Are you familiar with enterprise web analytics
and what packages are your familiar with?
273.
Are you familiar with A/B testing and
multivariate testing?
274.
Do you have experience in email marketing,
banner advertising, other types of media buys and other forms of online
advertising?
275.
Are you experienced in managing PPC campaigns? To what extent and on what platforms?
276.
Do you have experience in bid management tools,
API tools, and click fraud issues?
277.
Do you have experience in extensive competitive
analysis and what techniques do you use?
278.
What technologies are you familiar with? (We
primarily use HTML, CSS, ASP, .net, PHP, SQL, and JavaScript)
279.
Why are you moving from your current position and/or
leaving any current projects?
280.
Do you know who Matt Cutts is?
281.
What is the Ultimate Answer to Life, the
Universe, and Everything?
282.
Thanks to Rand at SEOmoz.org for this post on
SEO hiringIt helped quite a bit in assembling these list any additional questions
anyone can think of?
283.
What is page segmentation? (Ever heard of VIPS?)
284.
What’s the difference between PageRank and Toolbar
PageRank?
285.
What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI –
Indexing)?
286.
What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and
what roles does it play?
287.
In Google Lore – what are ‘Hilltop’ Florida’ and
‘Big Daddy’?
288.
Give me a description of your general SEO
experience.
289.
Do you currently do SEO on your own sites and
give me some examples do you operate any blogs? Do you currently do any?
290.
Freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?
291.
Where do you think the SEO industry is headed?
292.
What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you
regularly read?
293.
Have you attended any search related
conferences?
294.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
295.
What SEO areas are you weak and strong in, and
give examples of both.
296.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a site?
297.
Do you have experience in copywriting and can
you provide some writing samples?
298.
What kind of strategies do you normally implement
for backlinks? What do you think about link buying, link bait, and other
specific backlink strategies?
299.
What are your thoughts on the direction of Web? Technologies
with regards to SEO?
300.
Are you familiar with any blackhat SEO
techniques, search arbitrage, and affiliate marketing?
301.
Are you familiar with enterprise web analytics
and what packages are your familiar with?
302.
Are you familiar with A/B testing and
multivariate testing?
303.
Do you have experience in email marketing,
banner advertising, other types of media buys and other forms of online advertising?
304.
Are you experienced in managing PPC campaigns?
To what extent and on what platforms?
305.
Do you have experience in bid management tools,
API tools, and click fraud issues?
306.
Do you have experience in extensive competitive
analysis and what techniques do you use?
307.
What technologies are you familiar with? (We
primarily use HTML, CSS, ASP, .net, PHP, SQL, and JavaScript)
308.
Why are you moving from your current position
and/or leaving any current projects?
309.
Do you know who Matt Cutts is?
310.
What is the Ultimate Answer to Life, the
Universe, and Everything?
311.
Thanks to Rand at SEOmoz.org for this post on
SEO hiring it helped quite a bit in assembling this list any additional
312.
Questions anyone can think of?
313.
I got several excellent questions from a couple
forum postings these get into the more complicated end of SEO.
314.
What is page segmentation? (Ever heard of VIPS?)
315.
What’s the difference between PageRank and Toolbar
PageRank?
316.
What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI – Indexing)?
317.
What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and
what roles does it play?
318.
In Google Lore – what are ‘Hilltop’ Florida’ and
‘Big Daddy’?
319.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a site?
320.
Obviously a subjective answer, but domain trust,
inbound links/anchor text, and properly formatted title tags are a good start.
321.
What kind of strategies do you normally
implement for backlinks? What do you think about link buying, link bait, and other
specific backlink strategies?
322.
There are too many correct answers for this one,
so let’s go with the wrong answer: “Reciprocal link requests”
323.
What is the Ultimate Answer to Life, the
Universe, and Everything?
324.
Of course if your candidate doesn’t know this
please shoot him with the Point-of-view gun.
325.
What is page segmentation? (Ever heard of VIPS?)
SEO Interview Questions
1.
SEO is best Promotion and Marketing I can think
of and so instead of putting this into Search Engine I thought this would be
better place to have this.
2.
Here are some of the best interview questions
for SEO and if you are looking to answer them read SEO FAQ’s and you would not
have difficulty in answering most of them if not all.
3.
If a website’s search engine saturation with
respect to a particular search engine is %, what does it mean?
4.
People do a web searching response, they see
links to a variety of web pages Three of the
people choose one particular link That link then has a __________ click
through rate.
5.
Which of the following factors have an impact on
the Google PageRank?
6.
What does the server response code signify?
7.
If you enter ‘Help site: www.goexpert.com’ in
the Google search box, what will Google search for?
8.
What is Anchor Text?
9.
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”?
10.
What term is commonly used to describe the
shuffling of positions in search engine results in between major updates?
11.
Are RSS/Atom feeds returned in Google’s search
results?
12.
Which of the following statements regarding
website content are correct?
13.
What does the term Keyword Prominence refer to?
14.
What is the term for Optimization strategies
that are in an unknown area of reputability/validity?
15.
Which of the following statements is correct
with regard to natural links?
16.
Which of the following can be termed as good
keyword selection and placement strategies?
17.
What does the server response code signify?
18.
Which of the following statements about FFA
pages are true?
19.
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?
20.
What will the following robots.txt file do?
21.
Which of the following statements about RSS are
correct?
22.
Which of the following statements are correct
with regard to using JavaScript within the web pages?
23.
Which of the following options are correct
regarding the Keyword Effectiveness Index (Kio a particular keyword?
24.
What is the illegal act of copying of a page by
unauthorized parties in order to filter off traffic to another site called?
25.
Which of the following search engines offers a
popular list of the top most searched keywords?
26.
Which of the following search engines or
directories provides the main search results for AOL?
27.
Which of the following can be termed as
appropriate Keyword Density?
28.
The following robots Meta tag directs the search
engine bots:
29.
META CONTENT=”no index, no follow
30.
What is Keyword Density?
31.
Which of the following are examples of agents?
32.
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”?
33.
Cloaking is a controversial SEO technique What
does it involve?
34.
Which of the following facts about Alexa are
correct?
35.
This is the last question of your test.
36.
Google gives priority to themed in-bound links.
37.
Which of the following methods can help you get
around the Google Sandbox?
38.
Which of the following options describes the
correct meaning of MouseTrapping?
39.
What is the most likely time period required for
getting a Google page rank?
40.
All major search engines are case sensitive.
41.
Which of the following website design guidelines
have been recommended by Google?
42.
How are site maps important for the search
engine optimization process?
43.
Google looks down upon paid links for enhancing
page rank If a website sells links, what action/s does Google recommend to
avoid being penalized?
44.
Technical / Tactics
45.
Every SEO prefers certain tactics over others,
but familiarity with many could indicate a deeper understanding of the industry
and while every SEO doesn’t need to have a web developer background, having
such skills can help set someone apart from the crowd.
46.
Give me a description of your general SEO
experience.
47.
Can you write HTML code by hand?
48.
Could you briefly explain the PageRank
algorithm?
49.
How you created any SEO tool either from scratch
or pieced together from others?
50.
What do you think of PageRank?
51.
What do you think of using XML sitemaps?
52.
What are your thoughts on the direction of Web
technologies with regards to SEO?
53.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
54.
Under what circumstances would you look to
exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs Meta robots tag?
55.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a site?
56.
Do you have experience in copywriting and can
you provide some writing samples?
57.
Have you ever had something you’ve written reach
the front-page of Digg? Or be stumbled?
58.
Explain to me what META tags matter in today’s
world.
59.
Explain various steps that you would take to
optimize a website?
60.
If the company whose site you’ve been working
for has decided to move all of its content to a new domain, what steps would
you take?
61.
Rate from to , tell me the most important “on
page” elements
62.
Review the code of past clients/company websites
where SEO was performed.
63.
What do you think about link buying?
64.
What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?
65.
What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and
what roles does it play?
66.
What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
67.
What kind of strategies do you normally
implement for backlinks?
68.
What role do social media play in an SEO
strategy?
69.
What things wouldn’t you to do increase rankings
because the risk of penalty is too high?
70.
What’s the difference between PageRank and Toolbar
PageRank?
71.
Why might you want to use no follow on an
internal link?
72.
Analysis
73.
A big part of SEO involves assessing the
effectiveness of a campaign both relative to past performance as well as to competition
sites.
74.
Are you familiar with web analytics and what
packages are your familiar with?
75.
From an analytics perspective, what is different
between a user from organic search results vsa type-in user?
76.
How do you distinguish the results of your
search optimization work from a seasonal change in traffic patterns?
77.
How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is
working?
78.
What does competitive analysis mean to you and
what techniques do you use?
79.
If you’ve done months of SEO for a site and yet
there haven’t been any improvements, how would you go about diagnosing the
problem?
80.
How many target keywords should a site have?
81.
How do *you* help a customer decide how to their
budget between organic SEO and pay-per-click SEM?
82.
You hear a rumor that Google is weighting the
HTML LAYER tag very heavily in ranking the relevance of its results – how does
this affect your work?
83.
Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many
topics?
84.
Industry Involvement
85.
Is SEO just a job to pay the bills? Nothing
wrong with that, but some senior positions can benefit from more enthusiasm and
interest that can be measured by work done outside of the office.
86.
If salary and location were not an issue, who
would you work for?
87.
In Google Lore – what are ‘Hilltop’, ‘Florida’
and ‘Big Daddy’?
88.
Have you attended any search related
conferences?
89.
Google search on this candidate’s name, (if you
cannot find them that are a red flag).
90.
Do you currently do SEO on your own sites? Do
you operate any blogs? Do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan
on continuing it?
91.
Of the well-known SEOs, who are you not likely
to pay attention to?
92.
What are some challenges facing the SEO
industry?
93.
What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you
regularly read?
94.
Who are the two key people – who started Google?
95.
Who is Matt Cutts?
96.
If you were bidding on a contract, what
competitor would you most worry about?
97.
Open-Ended
98.
These questions are more about how an answer is
given rather than the actual answer they often scare interviewees, but with no
wrong answer they’re actually a good opportunity to shine.
99.
Tell me your biggest failure in an SEO project
100.
What areas of SEO do you most enjoy?
101.
In what areas of SEO are you strongest?
102.
In what areas of SEO are you weakest?
103.
How do you handle a client who does not
implement your SEO recommendations?
104.
What do you think is different about working for
an SEO agency vs doing SEO in-house?
105.
Why are you moving from your current position
and/or leaving any current projects?
106.
Can you tell me your own definition for SEO?
107.
What’s your idea about page rank and how it’s
calculated?
108.
Internal Back Links
109.
External Back Links
110.
Domain Age
111.
I want to change the domain name of well ranked
website in SERPIs it possible to retain the same keyword positions?
112.
Can you name the SEO blogs that you regularly
read?
113.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
114.
How can you optimize a website having lakh
pages?
115.
Have you attended any search related
conferences?
116.
What’s special in XML Sitemap and where do you
submit that?
117.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a site for a particular keyword?
118.
Give me a description of your general SEO
experience.
119.
Can you write HTML code by hand?
120.
Could you briefly explain the PageRank
algorithm?
121.
Have you created any SEO tools either from
scratch or pieced together from others?
122.
What do you think of PageRank?
1.
What do you think of using XML sitemaps?
2.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
3.
Under what circumstances would you look to
exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs Meta robots tag?
4.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a site?
5.
Do you have experience in copywriting and can
you provide some writing samples?
6.
Have you ever had something you’ve written reach
the front-page of Digg? Or be stumbled?
7.
Explain to me what META tags matter in today’s
world.
8.
Explain various steps that you would take to
optimize a website?
9.
Perform a keyword analysis to find best
performing keywords that should be used for that site and for individual pages
of the site
10.
Analyze site content to determine usage of relevant
keywords and phrases this includes visible text as well at titles, META tags,
and “alt” attributes.
11.
Examine site navigation
12.
Determine the existence of robots.txt and
sitemap and examine those for effectiveness.
13.
Make recommendations for changes needed for the
site and each individual page.
14.
If the company whose site you’ve been working
for has decided to move all of its content to a new domain, what steps would
you take?
15.
Rate from to, tell me the most important “on
page” elements?
16.
What do you think about link buying?
17.
What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?
18.
What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and
what roles does it play?
19.
What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
20.
What kind of strategies do you normally
implement for backlinks?
21.
What role do social media play in an SEO
strategy?
22.
What things wouldn’t you to do increase rankings
because the risk of penalty is too high?
23.
AI would avoid any site with the appearance of a
link farm would also avoid any “spam” practice such as unsolicited email
campaigns, certain affiliate advertising sites, sites that re-direct visitors
to your site, and anything resembling the practices of Zango.
24.
Why might you want to use no follow on an
internal link?
25.
Are you familiar with web analytics and what
packages are your familiar with?
26.
From an analytics perspective, what is different
between users from organic search results vs a type-in user?
27.
How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is
working?
28.
What does competitive analysis mean to you and
what techniques do you use?
29.
If you’ve done months of SEO for a site and yet
there haven’t been any improvements, how would you go about diagnosing the
problem?
30.
How many target keywords should a site have?
31.
You hear a rumor that Google is weighting the
HTML LAYER tag very heavily in ranking the relevance of its results – how does
this affect your work?
32.
Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many
topics?
33.
If salary and location were not an issue, who
would you work for?
34.
Give me a description of your general SEO
experience.
35.
Do you currently do SEO on your own sites and
give me some examples do you operate any blogs? Do you currently do any
freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?
36.
Where do you think the SEO industry is headed?
37.
What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you
regularly read?
38.
Have you attended any search related
conferences?
39.
What SEO tools do you regularly use?
40.
What SEO areas are you weak and strong in, and
give examples of both.
41.
What areas do you think are currently the most
important in organically ranking a site?
42.
Do you have experience in copywriting and can
you provide some writing samples?
43.
What kind of strategies do you normally
implement for backlinks? What do you think about link buying, link bait, and
other specific backlink strategies?
44.
What are your thoughts on the direction of Web? Technologies
with regards to SEO?
45.
Are you familiar with any black hat SEO
techniques, search arbitrage, and affiliate marketing?
46.
Are you familiar with enterprise web analytics
and what packages are your familiar with?
47.
Are you familiar with A/B testing and
multivariate testing?
48.
Do you have experience in email marketing,
banner advertising, other types of media buys and other forms of online
advertising?
49.
Are you experienced in managing PPC campaigns? To what extent and on what platforms?
50.
Do you have experience in bid management tools,
API tools, and click fraud issues?
51.
Do you have experience in extensive competitive
analysis and what techniques do you use?
52.
What technologies are you familiar with? (We
primarily use HTML, CSS, ASP, .net, PHP, SQL, and JavaScript)
53.
Why are you moving from your current position
and/or leaving any current projects?
54.
Do you know who Matt Cutts is?
55.
What is the Ultimate Answer to Life, the
Universe, and Everything?
56.
Thanks to Rand at SEOmoz.org for this post on
SEO hiring it helped quite a bit in assembling this list any additional
questions anyone can think of?
57.
I got several excellent questions from a couple
forum postings these get into the more complicated end of SEO.
58.
What is page segmentation? (Ever heard of VIPS?)
59.
What’s the difference between PageRank and Toolbar
PageRank?
60.
What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI –
Indexing)?
61.
What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and
what roles does it play?
62.
In Google Lore – what are ‘Hilltop’ Florida’ and
‘Big Daddy’?
63.
Where does social media fit in marketing and
communications?
64.
What social tools and technologies are
available? What are their differences and how do they work for marketers?
65.
How do you manage multi-channel social media
participation? What tools are there for listening, publishing, promotion and
measurement?
66.
Search results can be optimized, how do you
optimize social media?
67.
How do you develop social networks and
distribution channels?
68.
What are social champions and how do we find,
engage and develop influential?
69.
How do you develop a social media strategy?
70.
What are the logistical and process
considerations for planning, implementing and managing social web participation
for companies?
71.
How do we foster and manage social customer
relationships?
72.
How can we develop social media teams in an
organization and create a model for social participation within our
organization?
73.
What is Social Media Marketing?
74.
Why Social Media Marketing?
75.
What is the difference between Social Media
Marketing and Search Engine Marketing?
76.
What is Social Media?
77.
What is Social Media Marketing (SMM)?
78.
Social Media Marketing on Twitter
79.
Why is Blog Marketing beneficial?
80.
Social Networking Websites - Facebook
81.
The New Business Networking – LinkedIn
82.
Why utilize Video Sharing Websites for SMM?
83.
Social Bookmarking Websites for Marketing?
84.
Collaborative Information Resources, Wikis and
Answer Sharing Sites?
85.
Marketing on Social News Websites?
86.
Social Media Marketing within Micro-Communities?
87.
Why Social Media Marketing on Forums?
88.
What can E-Power's Social Media Marketing team
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