Interview Questions SEO

SEO


1. Why do I need SEO services?
SEO services help your site rank better in the search engines organically. Better rankings in relevant terms will drive more traffic to your site, creating the ability for better exposure and revenue streams.

2. How do backlinks affect my rankings?
Backlinks help improve your rankings. Search engines see backlinks as positive 'votes' for your site. Search engines highly associate your site's backlinks with your site's ability to satiate a browser's search wishes.

3. How many backlinks do I need?
There is no fixed, 'golden' number of backlinks. Ideally you want to acquire backlinks from reputable sites in an ongoing, natural fashion through the creation of relationships, PR, and unique content. 

4. What is the best way to determine my online marketing budget?
Determine your potential return on investment. Online marketing tactics help bring more traffic and business to your site, raising your revenue. There is always a need for online marketing; however, be sure your provider is presenting you with quantifiable results.

5. What are the best ways to optimize my site?
Search engine optimization involves a high number of tactics, which all help to optimize your site. A combination of online marketing and search engine optimization is a good way to achieve great optimization. Unlike short-term advertising, search engine optimization presents tenacious results.

6. What are Page Titles & Meta Description tags?
Page Titles & Meta Description tags of a URL are the on page elements that appear in search results for that URL:
Page Titles are one of the best ways to define what a particular URL contains for the search engines and needs to be optimized properly for a URL to rank for a specific term.
The Meta Description also helps browsers understand what your site's pages are about. This is also an opportunity to put some text in front of the potential visitor on the SERP to entice them to click. While optimization is important here, useful information and calls to action also need to be considered depending on the URL.

7. How does Google view my site?
Google crawls each site often and sporadically using 'spider bots.' The bots read your pages and help Google catalog your site and its associated pages.

8. What is Google Webmaster Tools?
Google Webmaster Tools is a no-charge web service by Google for webmasters. It allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize their websites. It has tools that let the webmasters submit and check sitemaps, generate and check robots.txt files, list internal and external pages linking to the site, view statistics related to how Google crawls the site, disavow links, and more. Google WMT's is a must-have for any site looking to optimize. 

9. What's an XML sitemap?
An XML sitemap is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps search engine bots find, crawl, and index pages on the site.

10. What is a robots.txt file?
A robots.txt file on a website will function as a request that specified robots ignore specified files or directories in their search. This might be, for example, out of a preference for privacy from search engine results, or the belief that the content of the selected directories might be misleading or irrelevant to the categorization of the site as a whole, or out of a desire that an application only operate on certain data.