SEO Interview Questions and Answers Part-1

SEO Interview Questions and Answers 

1) What is the main advantage of using Meta Description tag in SEO

a) It helps to rank high in search engines

b) Meta Description tags helps search engines list a website

c) Meta Description tags are not important in SEO

d) It helps the searcher to get a brief idea about the page before he click

Ans: d) It helps the searcher to get a brief idea about the page before he click.

Note: Meta Description tag serves as a copy that will tempt searchers to click on your listing

2) If you have URL like www.example.com/admin what is the best direction to add in robots.txt to restrict search engine bots from crawling the page.

a) Allow:

b) Disallow: /admin

c) Allow: /admin

d) Disallow

Answer: b) Disallow: /admin

3) Which is most advisable SEO friendly URL (URL structure) to start a blog in a website

a) www.blog.example.com

b) create  blog.com and attache to website

c) www.example.com/blog

Answer: c) www.example.com/blog

4) Which is the nick name of Google Panda Algorithm Updation

a) Farmer

b) Pigeon

c) Caffeine

d) Vince

Ans: a) Farmer

5) Which hyperlink placed in a webpage passes most link value in SEO

a) A link placed in Menu

b) A hyperlink added in a main body content portion

c) A link placed with footer

d) A hyperlink placed with right side menu button

Answer : b) A hyperlink added in a main body content portion

6) What is mean by Inbound Link in SEO

a) A pointing link to a page with in the website

b) A pointing hyperlink added from a keyword

c) A hyperlink pointing to our website from another website or web page

d) A link pointing to another website

Ans: d) A hyper link pointing to our website or website page from another website ( preferably anchored from an appropriate or relevant keyword)

7) What is mean by Google Page Rank

a) A Ranking position achieved by a website in search result

b) A position denoting in SERP

c) A grade mark awarded by Google based on the quality of back links achieved by a website page

d) A ranking provided by Google as per the number of visits achieved by a website

Ans: C) A grade level allotted to website pages by Google as per the number of quality back links achieved by a website page.

 8) What is mean by on page SEO optimization

a) A number of modifications made within website and website pages

b) Practice of analyzing website

c) Practice of building backlinks

d) Researching on website’s quality levels & improving

Ans: a) Modifications made with in website like changes and alterations made in head & body sessions of website page and over all modifications made with in the website can be called as on page SEO optimization.

9) The company which provides Traffic Ranking & analysis tools names “Alexa”

a) Google

b) Yahoo

c) Amazon

d) Ask

Ans: c) Amazon

Reference: Alexa is website traffic analysis tool provided by Amazon.com. Alexa traffic ranking is estimated on the data signals send by alexa tool bars installed in browsers.

10) Google Algorithm Penguin is connected which kind of spamming activity

a) Low quality content publishing

b) Low quality link building

c) Connected with low google page rank

d) Connected with local visibility

Ans: b) Low quality link building

Reference : Penguin algorithm update is an update conducted by Google against low quality link building for effecting manipulation of search engine listing.

11) Which one below is the best seo practice while conducting title optimization

a) Use less than 512 px width for your title with 50 to 70 characters

b) Use important keywords near to the beginning

c) The titles used in each pages should be unique

d) All the Above are best seo practices in title optimization

Ans: d) All the above are best seo practices in title optimization

12) If robots meta tag is not included in a website page the effect is

a) The website page will not indexed by search engine bots

b) The website page will not be followed by search engine bots

c) The website page will be indexed and followed by search engine bots

d) The website page will be not followed and indexed in search results

Ans: c) The website page will be indexed and followed by search engine bots

Reference : For every web pages the default value for robots meta tag will be “index, follow” so website pages will be crawled, cached and indexed by the website.

13) Which HTPP status code shows ok or success message about a website page
a) 200
b) 500
c) 404
d) 503

Ans: a) 200

Reference: HTPP status code 200 says ok or success message about a website page

14) Which Google algorithm update was created to manipulative link building techniques to rank in Google search engine ranking

a) Panda
b) Penguin
c) Pigeon
d) Humming bird

Ans: b) Penguin

Google’s Penguin Algorithm update was aimed to avoid manipulative search engine listing generated by low quality and spam link building techniques.

15) Which on below is the best practice when your produce a meta description for a website page as part of search engine optimization

a) Complete the meta description with in 155 characters
b) Use unique descriptions in your meta description tags
c) Produce the best description to achieve better click through rate (CTR)
d) All the above are best practices

Ans: d)

16) Which HTTP status code given below represents a permanent redirect status for a webpage
a) 200
b) 301
c) 404
d) 500

Ans: b) HTTP Status code 301 says a permanent redirect  for a website page

17) Name of Google’s algorithm update rolled out on 21st April connected with mobile optimized websites

a) Pegion

b) EDM Update

c) Mobilegeddon

d) Humming Bird

Ans: c) Mobilegeddon

Mobilegeddon is the latest search engine algorithm update made by Google which provides better search engine ranking for website which are optimized for mobile devices. As a initial step, the Mobilegeddon Google algorithm update will reduce ranking for websites with less readability text with out tapping or by zooming. Google’ web master central has officially confirmed the rolling out of Mobilegeddon algorithm update on 21st April 2015.

18) Main role or responsibility of Canonical tag in SEO optimization

1) Canonical tag provide clear indication to URL actually preferred

2) Canonical tag helps to avoid bad impact of content duplication problems

3) Canonical tag passes the same value as in 301 redirection (permanent 301 redirection)

4) All the Above roles

Ans: All the above

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