Most Popular SEO Interview Questions & Answers

Q: What is a Title Tag?

A: Title is very important in SEO factor for you website. The "Title" of a web site is probably the single most important element for natural search engine positioning. Title tag is placed within the "head" of the html, is generally 50-60 characters of a title tag, or as many characters as will fit into a 512-pixel display and nature.

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 Q: What is a keyword?

A: The Sesame Search team provides search engine optimization for Sesame members with our Performance Search Engine Optimization Service. When talking to our members, the term “keyword” comes up a lot when discussing search strategies. But what is a “keyword”? Is it a word you enter in your website? Is it a word you send to the search engines? How do you use these words to help your dental or orthodontic practice show up in searches? Unfortunately, the term can actually mean completely different things depending on its context. This can lead to a bit of confusion when talking about your online search strategy, etc.

Q: What is a Description?

A: Meta description, while not important to search engine rankings, are extremely important in gaining user click-through from SERPs. These short paragraphs are a webmaster’s opportunity to advertise content to searchers and to let them know exactly whether the given page contains the information they're looking for.
The meta description should employ the keywords intelligently, but also create a compelling description that a searcher will want to click. Direct relevance to the page and uniqueness between each page’s meta description is key. The description should optimally be between 150-160 characters.


Q: What are the Types of SEO ?

A: Mainly two types of SEO are present: On Page Optimization & Off Page Optimization.

Q: What are the SEO Techniques available?

A: Two types of SEO Techniques are: White Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO.

Q:. What is On Page Optimization?

A: On-page optimization gives outcome to a web page or website ranking on Search Engine Results Page. This will regulate your webpage by website page coding or by you.

Q: What is Off Page Optimization?

A: Off Page Optimization is a totally depends to the quality backlink Link building, Image Sharing, Blog posting, Document Sharing, Info graphics submission, Video Sharing, Increasing Page Authority or Page Rank, Getting high quality links from relevant sites and Article submission are the few examples of Off-page optimization.

Q: What do you mean by Page Rank or PR?

A: For every web page, Google will give a rank, which is called as Page rank. Normally page rank ranges from 0 – 10. Google Web Search Engine algorithm is responsible for calculating the page rank of every web page.

 Q: What is a Back link?

A: Back links are the incoming links to your website and getting these back links from high domain authority good PR and relevant site is always better for your site.

Q: What is an out bound Link?

A: An outgoing link or outbound-link is a link from your webpage or website to another website. This is called outbound link.

Q: What is Anchor Text?

A: Anchor text is also known as link text or link label or link title, which is a clickable hyperlink. This is used to increase your webpage ranking by receiving the incoming links after clicking the contained keyword.

Q: What are organic results?

A: Organic results are the page views which come directly via SERP( Search engine results page) and not from any Off Page Optimization.

Q: What is Googlebot?

A: Googlebot is a kind of software used by the Google as a search bot to index a webpage. This software collects the information from every webpage by doing the crawling, caching and then indexing of a webpage.

Q: What is a Meta Tag?

A: You can observe many Meta tags being used in HTML coding, but the important ones are the four Meta tags. They are: Meta Title, Meta Keywords, Meta Description and Robot tags.

Q: What tools do you use for doing SEO?

A: Most common tools used in SEO are: Google Analytics, Google webmaster tools, Alexa, Open site explorer and Website grader. Nowadays you can also find some paid SEO tools like spydermate, seo Moz and bulkdachecker in market.

Q: What is Google Sandbox?

A: This is the place where the fresh and less authoritative sites were kept for a certain time period, till their establishment in the search results. This may happens due to the building of so many links within a short time span.

Q: What are the limitations of title and description tags?

A: Title tag can be normally between 50-68 characters and Meta description tag can be around 140 – 150 characters.

Q: How will you increase the Pagerank of a page?

A: To increase the page rank of your webpage, you must build more backlinks from high page rank websites and authority sites.

Q: How will you treat Web standards while optimizing a website?

A: I usually apply the web standards from the W3C while optimizing the webpage, which help that site to get more points from Google to improvise page rank.

Q: What is 301 redirect?

A: It is a kind of process to redirect the user from an old page URL to a new page URL.

Q: What is Cloaking?

A: Clocking is the procedure of using some deceptive techniques which allows the user with a different version of the website than that presented to the search engines.

Q: What methods would you apply for decreasing the loading time of a website?

A: We can use the external style sheets, minimum images, decrease the file size of the images that we use, without compromising on the quality and use the CSS sprites to regulate the HTTP requests.

Q: What are webmaster tools?

A: It is a free service provided by the Google to get the information about the indexing data, backlinks, search queries, crawl problems, malware complaints and XML site map.

Q. What is robots.txt?

A: It is a kind of text file utilized to provide the instructions to the crawlers about the caching and indexing of a website, directory, domain or a file of a webpage.

Q. What is Keyword Density?

A: It is a very important factor to increase your webpage ranking. Keyword density is the percentage density of a particular phrase or keyword available on a website compared to the total number of words on the particular page.

Q. What is Cross Linking?

A: It is considered as one of the best strategy that can come in handy to yield high search engine rankings, by leveraging several domains owned by you.

Q: What is link popularity?

A: Link popularity refers to the number of web pages on the Internet which are recognized by a search engine to have a hyperlink reference to your site, or in other words are "pointing" to your web site as a reference.