25 Top SEO Job Interview Questions
Posted on July 6, 2009 by Future Searches
I’ve had many SEO job interviews and I want to share the most common SEO interview questions to keep some light to those who are getting ready for interviews in this field. My first advice is always be ready for the first question as it is the main step in the beginning of most interviews whether it is in SEO field or not. So here they are:
1. What do you know about our company and can you define who we are?
2. How would you define SEO and SEM?
3. What is your previous SEO history like? Can you give examples of rankings you’ve achieved.
4. What is your biggest mistake and biggest success in SEO?
5. What are the most important initial SEO steps on a website?
6. Which methods would you use for link building?
7. What is your strenght in terms of SEO?
8. How would you monitor rankings?
9. Which verticals have you worked on before?
10. Which side of SEO would you like to be involved? Either link building, coding or whatever?
11. What if your client is not open to ideas to make changes on their website, what would you come up with?
12. Which blogs and websites do you follow daily to keep up-to-date and why?
13. Do you know who Matt Cutts is?
14. Which Google products do you use?
15. Which SEO tools do you prefer?
16. How is your copywriting skills? Can you give some examples?
17. Do you use any type of web analytics?
18. What is a pagerank?
19. What is “nofollow”?
20. How do you see the future of SEO?
21. How do you define your HTML hand-coding skills?
22. Why is a sitemap important and how would you make search engines find it quickly?
23. Do you know anything about robots.txt?
24. What is your opinion about paid links?
25. How would you track the number of outlinks of a website?
I will update this list as I long as I have new interviews coming through so bookmark me for your future needs.
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Comments (8)
I don’t think employers would ask all of these questions, but it is a very nice list. Thanks for the post
Very nice questions.It is very good if you provide the answers also.
lol – Mobile Application!
I think it’s possible that some of these questions would probably be asked in an interview but maybe not all of them. If I was interviewing for an SEO I’d probably ask some of these questions in the first round of interviews then for the second round I’d ask the rest.
These questions are all asked to me during several different interviews. None of the companies would ask all of them at the same time but it is best to get ready before an interview for these type of questions. Of course, many regular interview questions like “What are your strenghts, weaknesses? How would you define role within a team etc.”would be asked as well.
. Which verticals have you worked on before?
This was the only question i didn’t know – can you elaborate on what you mean by this question? Other then this question, it sounds like I would do well in an interview discussing these questions.
I mean which type of clients did you work with? Like tourism, finance, retail, real estate etc. This is a very common question!
Very nice information given.Thanks for sharing
thanks for sharing these question these questions boosted my confidence coz in know all of them and tomorrow is my interview so wish me best of luck at ankitrauthan@gmail.com