1. What is SEO? Define
in your own words.
2. What is phrasing
based indexing and retrieval and what
role does it play in SEO?
3. What are ‘Hilltop’
Florida’ and ‘Big Daddy
in google?
4. Can you describe
Organic search?
5. Did you know about
web2; give me few examples of it.
6. Tell me the name
of few popular sites and how do you
think they become popular?
7. Why google ranks
Wikipedia for most of the topics?
8. What you know
about Signals, Classifiers and Topicality?
9. What industry
sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly
read?
10. Have you attended
any search related conferences?
11. Tell me, what
is page segmentation in SEO?
12. Who are the two
key people - who started Google?
13. How and what
does msn, yahoo and google search
looks for in a website?
14. What are all
the different ways to do marketing
for a website?
15. What SEO areas
are you weak and strong in, and give
examples of both?
16. What areas do
you think are currently the most important
in organically ranking a site?
17. What is google
spamdexing?
18. Explain algorithm
briefly?
19. Do you have any
experience in copywriting and can
you provide some writing samples?
20. What kind of strategies
do you normally implement for backlinks?
21. What do you think
about link buying, link bait, and
other specific backlink strategies?
22. What are your
thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0
technologies with regards to SEO?
23. Explain your
general SEO experience.
24. Do you currently
do SEO on your own sites and give
me some examples.
25. Do you operate
any blogs?
26. Do you currently
do any freelance work and do you plan
on continuing it?
27. Are you familiar
with any blackhat SEO techniques,
search arbitrage, and affiliate marketing?
28. Are you familiar
with enterprise web analytics and
what packages are your familiar with?
29. Did you know
A/B testing and multivariate testing?
30. Have you have
experience in email marketing, banner
advertising, other types of media
buys and other forms of online advertising?
31. How much are
they technically strong? (.NET, Java,
etc.)
32. Where do you
think the SEO industry is headed?
33. Have you experienced
in managing PPC campaigns? To what
extent and on what platforms?
34. Do you have experience
in bid management tools, API tools,
and click fraud issues?
35. Do you have any
experience in extensive competitive
analysis and what techniques do you
use?
36. Are you familiar with
these technologies? (We primarily
use HTML, CSS, ASP, .net, PHP, SQL,
and JavaScript)
37. Why are you moving
from your current position and/or
leaving any current projects?
38. Can you explain
who Matt Cuts is?
39. Tell me, what
is the difference between Page Rank
and Toolbar Page Rank?
40. What is Latent
Semantic Analysis in SEO?
41. What SEO tools
do you regularly use?
42. What is the Ultimate
Answer to Life, the Universe, and
Everything?
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