{"id":39,"date":"2022-06-03T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T11:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.awtim.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2022-06-03T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T11:12:28","slug":"seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO Interview Questions and Answers for Freshers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_is_SEO\" >What is SEO?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_are_the_Types_of_SEO\" >What are the Types of SEO?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_is_Off_Page_Optimization\" >What is Off Page Optimization?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_is_On_Page_Optimization\" >What is On Page Optimization?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_are_the_SEO_Techniques_available\" >What are the SEO Techniques available?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_are_organic_results\" >What are organic results?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_is_a_keyword\" >What is a keyword?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_is_Keyword_Density\" >What is Keyword Density?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_is_Anchor_Text\" >What is Anchor Text?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_is_a_Meta_Tag\" >What is a Meta Tag?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_are_the_limitations_of_title_and_description_tags\" >What are the limitations of title and description tags?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_is_an_out_bound_Link\" >What is an out bound Link?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link 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href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_do_you_mean_by_Page_Rank_or_PR\" >What do you mean by Page Rank or PR?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-18\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_tools_do_you_use_for_doing_SEO\" >What tools do you use for doing SEO?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-19\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_is_Google_Sandbox\" >What is Google Sandbox?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-20\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_is_Googlebot\" >What is Googlebot?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-21\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_are_the_signs_of_overall_good_performance_of_website_which_search_engine_loves\" >What are the signs of overall good performance of website which search engine loves?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-22\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_are_the_difference_between_SEO_and_SEM\" >What are the difference between SEO and SEM ?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-23\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#Which_are_popular_websites_you_will_use_for_social_media_optimization\" >Which are popular websites you will use for social media optimization?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-24\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_are_the_seo_activities_list_you_will_do_if_i_give_you_new_website_for_optimization\" >What are the seo activities list you will do if i give you new website for optimization?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-25\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_are_some_external_but_important_factors_which_affects_ranking\" >What are some external but important factors which affects ranking?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-26\" href=\"https:\/\/awtim.com\/blog\/seo-interview-questions-and-answers-for-freshers\/#What_content_strategy_you_will_apply_to_add_more_quality_in_your_website\" >What content strategy you will apply to add more quality in your website?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_SEO\"><\/span>What is SEO?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>  Answer &ndash; It is the method of changing the rank of a web page or a website in the search results of a search engine<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_the_Types_of_SEO\"><\/span>  What are the Types of SEO?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; There are mainly two types of SEO are present: On Page Optimization and Off Page Optimization.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Off_Page_Optimization\"><\/span> What is Off Page Optimization?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; Off Page Optimization is a type of SEO which is not regulated by your page coding. 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.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_On_Page_Optimization\"><\/span>What is On Page Optimization?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; On-page optimization gives outcome to a web page or website ranking on Search Engine Results Page. This will regulate your webpage by page coding or by you.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_the_SEO_Techniques_available\"><\/span>  What are the SEO Techniques available?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>  Answer &ndash; Two SEO Techniques are: White Hat SEO and Black Hat SEO which is also called as Negative SEO.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_organic_results\"><\/span>What are organic results?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; Organic results are the page views which come directly via SERP and not from any Off Page Optimization.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_a_keyword\"><\/span>What is a keyword?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; Keyword is a particular term used for searching through Search Engines like Google in order to get outcomes related to your searched question.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Keyword_Density\"><\/span>What is Keyword Density?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Anchor_Text\"><\/span>What is Anchor Text?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_a_Meta_Tag\"><\/span>What is a Meta Tag?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_the_limitations_of_title_and_description_tags\"><\/span>What are the limitations of title and description tags?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; Title tag can be normally between 50-68 characters and Meta description tag can be around 140 &ndash; 150 characters.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_an_out_bound_Link\"><\/span>What is an out bound Link?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; An outgoing link or outbound-link is a link from your own webpage or website to another webpage or website.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_a_Back_link\"><\/span>What is a Back link?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; Back links are the incoming links to your webpage or website and getting these back links from good PR and relevant site is always better for your site.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_301_redirect\"><\/span>What is 301 redirect?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; It is a kind of process to redirect the user from an old page URL to a new page URL.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_robotstxt\"><\/span>What is robots.txt?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_webmaster_tools\"><\/span>What are webmaster tools?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_do_you_mean_by_Page_Rank_or_PR\"><\/span>What do you mean by Page Rank or PR?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; For every web page, Google will give a rank, which is called as Page rank. Normally page rank ranges from 0 &ndash; 10. Google Web Search Engine algorithm is responsible for calculating the page rank of every web page.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_tools_do_you_use_for_doing_SEO\"><\/span>What tools do you use for doing SEO?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Google_Sandbox\"><\/span>What is Google Sandbox?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Googlebot\"><\/span>What is Googlebot?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; 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.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_the_signs_of_overall_good_performance_of_website_which_search_engine_loves\"><\/span>What are the signs of overall good performance of website which search engine loves?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answers &ndash; Returning visitors, good conversion rate and click through rate and socially share or not.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_the_difference_between_SEO_and_SEM\"><\/span>What are the difference between SEO and SEM ?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash;<br \/>\n  A &ndash; SEO &ndash; Improving rank of web pages naturally for a keyword.<br \/>\n  B &ndash; SEM &ndash; When we buy paid traffic or paid listing in any search engine.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Which_are_popular_websites_you_will_use_for_social_media_optimization\"><\/span>Which are popular websites you will use for social media optimization?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, You tube etc.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_the_seo_activities_list_you_will_do_if_i_give_you_new_website_for_optimization\"><\/span>What are the seo activities list you will do if i give you new website for optimization?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; I will perform all the must have activities like:<br \/>\n  A &ndash; Keyword research to find search term with low competition and high traffic keywords.<br \/>\n  B &ndash; On page optimization of our found on our web pages to make them search friendly.<br \/>\n  C &ndash; I will create quality back links or link building for off page optimization.<br \/>\nD   &ndash; I will do social media optimization to improve social signals and getting social media traffic<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_are_some_external_but_important_factors_which_affects_ranking\"><\/span>What are some external but important factors which affects ranking?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answer &ndash; These factors are bounce rate, page views per visit, time spent on the site and returning visitors.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_content_strategy_you_will_apply_to_add_more_quality_in_your_website\"><\/span>What content strategy you will apply to add more quality in your website?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Answers &ndash; Content must have quality information, good structured and properly inter linked from related pages and use of eye catching images for grabbing attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is SEO? 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