SEO interview questions and answers

1. Define search engines?

Search engines are some programs. If a keyword and search term is entered by the user then these programs are used to find particular information on the internet. Example: yahoo, Bing, Google, DuckDuckgo, etc.

2. Define SEO?

The abbreviation of SEO is search engine optimization or optimizer. It is collection of various techniques to optimize site so that it is given a good rank in Search engine result pages.

3. Define Meta tags?

Meta tags are nothing but some keywords that tell search engines about site and search engine bots view it. While searching keywords, title and Meta tags which are based on search engines in the site displays results.

4. Give the importance of Title tag in website?

In SEO, Title plays a crucial role, page’s title exactly describes about contents in that particular page.

5. Define site map?

The content of web page is read by search engine bots after converting to XML, bots read the content easily by placing site map in the site. 6. What is the use of Robot.txt? A message to search engine bots is Robot.txt to index page or not. You must place “noindex” if you do not want search engines to index specific page.   7. Define canonical form? The tag which accepts URL is known as canonical, it is message to search engine bots to index URL but not page URL. 8. How to get traffic for your website? Initially, start article submission with quality and then participate in forum and finally, implement all SEO techniques. Upload an image to your profile and give a brand look to the users by sharing with appropriate information on site to increase traffic to the site. You must also concentrate on local search engines such as mantra, super pages, etc. 9. Does domain extension have an impact on SEO? It depends because if you concentrate people from USA then you must take a domain with .in extension effects SEO. 10. Define PPC? It is an online advertisement method where you pay for the clicks of the user.