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110 SEO Expert Questions And Answers

61⟩ What is frames in HTML?

Frames in HTML are obvious as they used to discriminate the page content into distinct fragments. Search engines treat these frames as absolutely different pages as well as frames also put a negative impact over SEO. Therefore, we should avoid the practice of using Frames and implement a basic HTML instead.

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62⟩ How to know that SEO campaign whether it's working or not?

First of all I would attempt to make a search on all search engines employing relevant keywords and key-phrases, I am optimizing for. The analysis of results will say whether the methods of optimization have gained results or lost. I would analyze the report regularly as search engine makes updating and index. I would attempt to another aspect of website statistics which says about origin of traffic.

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63⟩ What is competitive analysis?

Competitive analysis, as its name suggested it is the establishment of a comparison of data between the website I am optimizing and that website who rank highly in search results. It will be a great source of ideas.

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64⟩ What would be your next step if after implementing distinct SEO methods for a site, if you haven't got any improvements?

I would make troubleshooting for the issues. Firstly, I would designate whether it is a new project. Again I will analyze relevant keywords and phrase for the site I am optimizing for as well as took an insight study of competitive analysis. If the website and pages have been indexed and appears in the first 10 pages of search engine result pages but not in the top three, I would go for some transformation to on page text, page titles and page descriptions. But in the case if website has not been indexed still or dropped from the index, might be it comprises some big issues and total re-submission and re-work might be required.

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67⟩ SEO Expert technical interview questions

☛ Give me a description of your general SEO experience?

☛ Can you write HTML code by hand?

☛ Could you briefly explain the PageRank algorithm?

☛ How you created any SEO tools either from scratch or pieced together from others?

☛ What do you think of PageRank?

☛ What do you think of using XML sitemaps?

☛ What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to SEO?

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68⟩ SEO Expert tactics interview questions

☛ What SEO tools do you regularly use?

☛ Under what circumstances would you look to exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs meta robots tag?

☛ What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?

☛ Do you have experience in copy-writing and can you provide some writing samples?

☛ Have you ever had something you've written reach the front-page of Digg? Sphinn? Or be Stumbled?

☛ Explain to me what META tags matter in today's world?

☛ Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?

☛ 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?

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69⟩ SEO Expert analysis interview questions

☛ Are you familiar with web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?

☛ From an analytics perspective, what is different between a user from organic search results vs. a type-in user?

☛ How do you distinguish the results of your search optimization work from a seasonal change in traffic patterns?

☛ How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is working?

☛ What does competitive analysis mean to you and what techniques do you use?

☛ If you've done 6 months of SEO for a site and yet there haven't been any improvements, how would you go about diagnosing the problem?

☛ How many target keywords should a site have?

☛ How do you help a customer decide how to distribute their budget between organic SEO and pay-per-click SEM?

☛ 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?

☛ Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many topics?

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70⟩ SEO Expert open-ended interview questions

☛ Tell me your biggest failure in an SEO project?

☛ What areas of SEO do you most enjoy?

☛ In what areas of SEO are you strongest?

☛ In what areas of SEO are you weakest?

☛ How do you handle a client who does not implement your SEO recommendations?

☛ Can you get "xyz" company listed for the keyword "Google" in the first page?

☛ What do you think is different about working for an SEO agency vs. doing SEO in-house?

☛ Why are you moving from your current position and/or leaving any current projects?

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71⟩ SEO Expert technical interview questions part 1

☛ Give me a description of your general SEO experience?

☛ Can you write HTML code by hand?

☛ Could you briefly explain the PageRank algorithm?

☛ How you created any SEO tools either from scratch or pieced together from others?

☛ What do you think of PageRank?

☛ What do you think of using XML sitemaps?

☛ What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to SEO?

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72⟩ SEO Expert technical interview questions part 2

☛ What SEO tools do you regularly use?

☛ Under what circumstances would you look to exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs meta robots tag?

☛ What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?

☛ Do you have experience in copy writing and can you provide some writing samples?

☛ Have you ever had something you've written reach the front-page of Digg? Sphinn? Or be Stumbled?

☛ Explain to me what META tags matter in today's world?

☛ Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?

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73⟩ SEO Expert technical interview questions part 3

☛ 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?

☛ Rate from 1 to 10, tell me the most important "on page" elements?

☛ Review the code of past clients/company websites where SEO was performed?

☛ What do you think about link buying?

☛ What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?

☛ What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?

☛ What is the difference between SEO and SEM?

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74⟩ SEO Expert technical interview questions part 4

☛ What kind of strategies do you normally implement for back links?

☛ What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?

☛ What things wouldn't you to do increase rankings because the risk of penalty is too high?

☛ What's the difference between PageRank and Toolbar PageRank?

☛ Why might you want to use nofollow on an internal link?

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75⟩ SEO Expert analysis interview questions part 1

☛ Are you familiar with web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?

☛ From an analytics perspective, what is different between a user from organic search results vs. a type-in user?

☛ How do you distinguish the results of your search optimization work from a seasonal change in traffic patterns?

☛ How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is working?

☛ What does competitive analysis mean to you and what techniques do you use?

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76⟩ SEO Expert analysis interview questions part 2

☛ If you've done 6 months of SEO for a site and yet there haven't been any improvements, how would you go about diagnosing the problem?

☛ How many target keywords should a site have?

☛ How do *you* help a customer decide how to their budget between organic SEO and pay-per-click SEM?

☛ 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?

☛ Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many topics?

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77⟩ SEO Expert industry involvement interview questions part 1

☛ If salary and location were not an issue, who would you work for?

☛ In Google Lore - what are 'Hilltop', 'Florida' and 'Big Daddy'?

☛ Have you attended any search related conferences?

☛ Google search on this candidates name, (if you cannot find them, that's a red flag)?

☛ 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?

☛ Of the well-known SEOs, who are you not likely to pay attention to?

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78⟩ SEO Expert industry involvement interview questions part 2

☛ What are some challenges facing the SEO industry?

☛ What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read?

☛ Who are the two key people - who started Google?

☛ Who is Matt Cutts?

☛ If you were bidding on a contract, what competitor would you most worry about?

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79⟩ SEO Expert common Open-Ended interview questions

☛ Tell me your biggest failure in an SEO project?

☛ What areas of SEO do you most enjoy?

☛ In what areas of SEO are you strongest?

☛ In what areas of SEO are you weakest?

☛ How do you handle a client who does not implement your SEO recommendations?

☛ Can you get "XYZ"? company listed for the keyword "Google"? in the first page?

☛ What do you think is different about working for an SEO agency vs. doing SEO in-house?

☛ Why are you moving from your current position and/or leaving any current projects?

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