1. What Are the Most Important Google Ranking Factors?

2. What is an organic result?

3. What is a paid result?

4. What are backlinks?

5. How Would You Analyze Your Competitors’ Backlinks?

6. Can You Explain the Difference Between On-Page SEO and Off-Page SEO?

7. How Do You Perform Keyword Research?

8. What Are Rich Snippets?

9. What Are Meta Tags?

10. What are meta titles and meta descriptions?

11. Why Is the Meta Description Important?

12. What is Robot's Meta Tag?

13. How Do You Check a Website’s Organic Traffic?

14. What Is a Canonical Tag?

15. Can You Explain What Redirects Are?

16. What Is the Difference between a 301 and a 302 Redirect?

17. What Is a URL Slug?

18. What Is Crawling?

19. What is indexing?

20. How Do You Check Whether a Website Is Indexed by Google?

21. Why Is Local SEO Important?

22. What Is Anchor Text?

23. What Is a Robots.txt File?

24. What Is a Sitemap?

25. What is the importance of XML sitemaps in SEO?

26. What’s the Difference Between a Follow vs. a Nofollow link?

27. How Can You Check the Ranking Difficulty for a Keyword?

28. What Are Short-Tail and Long-Tail Keywords?

29. What Is a 404 Error?

30. What Is Page Speed and Why Does It Matter for SEO?

31. How Do You Measure the Authority of a Website?

32. How Do You Optimize a Title Tag?

33. What Are Some Link Building Strategies?

34. How Would You Submit a Sitemap to Google?

35. What Are SERP Features?

36. What Is Image Alt Text?

37. What Was the Panda Update and Why Did It Matter?

38. What Are Some Popular SEO Myths?

39. How Do You Check Whether the Structured Data on Your Webpage Is Valid and

Has No Errors?

40. Does Google Always Use the Canonical Tag You Specify for Indexing and

Ranking? Please Elaborate.

41. How Do You Fix Duplicate Content Issues on a Website?

42. How Do You Identify a Keyword’s Search Intent?

43. When Was the Latest Google Algorithm Update?

44. What Are Search Engine Bots?

45. Do You Follow Any SEO Blogs & Websites?

46. How Do You Prevent a URL from Getting Indexed by Google?

47. What Are Your Responsibilities in Your Current Role?

48. Why Are You Looking to Make a Change?

49. How Do You Work with Developers to Implement SEO Suggestions?

50. What SEO Tools Can You Use Well?

51. Do You Think Keyword Density Is a Ranking Factor?

52. How Do You Conduct a Technical SEO Audit?

53. What Are Topic Clusters? How Do You Create One?

54. What Does “Share of Voice” Mean in SEO?

55. What Is Your Approach to Developing an SEO Strategy?

56. What Are Your Salary Expectations?

57. What is SEO?

58. Why is SEO important to businesses?

59. What is Google Sandbox?

60. What is Google Autocomplete?

61. What is a TLD?

62. What is ccTLD?

63. What are keyword frequency, Keyword Density, Keyword Difficulty, and

Keyword Proximity?

64. What is the definition of bounce rate in SEO?

65. What is robots.txt?

66. What are anchor texts? What role does anchor text have in SEO?

67. Explain LSI

68. What makes a website search engine friendly?

69. How do you measure SEO success?

70. How did you learn SEO?

71. Which SEO tools do you regularly use?

72. How do you approach keyword research?

73. What is link building and why does it matter?

74. What is page speed and why does it matter?

75. What method do you use to redirect a page?

76. Which meta tags matter?

77. What is the difference between a do-follow and no-follow and how are they

used?
78. Which SEO factors are not in your control?

79. What is on-page vs off-page SEO?

80. What is the relationship between SEO and SEM?

81. What qualities are required in order to be effective in an SEO role, in your

opinion?

82. What kind of analytics do you perform, and what do you look for?

83. Which SEO analytics don’t get enough attention, in your opinion?

84. What is keyword stemming, and why does it matter?

85. What is the most important thing to look for when doing keyword research?

86. What is a canonical issue?

87. How have you dealt with link penalties?

88. Which Webmaster tool do you use and why?

89. What is Google’s preferred method of configuring a mobile site?

90. What is a link audit and why should you do one?

91. What are accelerated mobile pages (AMP)?

92. How do you stay up-to-date on the near-constant search algorithm changes?

93. How will you measure success as an SEO analyst or specialist at our

organization?

94. What are some common SEO mistakes you’ve seen in other organizations?

95. What is RankBrain and why does it matter?

96. How do you use content marketing for SEO?

97. How do you see SEO and PPC working together to improve results?

98. What is your approach to developing an SEO strategy?

99. How do you evaluate web analytics to measure SEO performance?

100. What’s your greatest digital marketing success story?

101. What is your experience with managing a marketing or SEO team?

102. Why do internal links matter?

103. What is Domain Authority?

104. How do you stay current with Google’s changes as well as industry

changes?

105. How does site speed impact SEO, and what are some ways to improve

it?

106. Explain the concept of "structured data" and its role in SEO.

107. What kinds of businesses should use local SEO?

108. Can you rank for a city nearby that does not have my physical store

location?

109. How does social media impact SEO, and what are some strategies to

optimize social media for SEO?

110. How can you ensure that social media content is optimized for search

engines?

111. How do you measure the effectiveness of social media SEO efforts?

112. Do you think social media profiles contribute to brand authority and

online reputation?

113. How do you handle negative comments or feedback on social media

from an SEO perspective?

114. What is NAP?

115. What are header tags?

116. What is Google Search Console or the Webmaster tool?

117. What does E-A-T mean?

118. What is Google Penalty?

119. What are some of the popular SEO blogs to follow?

120. What is a Disavow tool?

121. How can we increase the frequency of crawling by search engines?

122. What is Google Knowledge Graph?

123. What is Google Fetch?

124. What is competitive analysis?

125. How will you optimize a URL?

126. What are conversions and how will you track conversions on Google

Analytics?

127. What is Google Analytics?

128. What are some of the Google Analytics Reports?

129. How will you optimize a website with millions of pages?

130. How will you improve the landing page quality?

131. What is Panda Update?

132. What is Penguin Update?

133. What is the Hummingbird update?

134. Explain Google Pigeon.

135. What is Cross-linking? What is the function of Crosslinking?

136. Explain Spiders, Robots, and Crawlers

137. What is keyword stemming?

138. What do you mean by Cloaking?

139. What are some famous Black Hat SEO techniques?

140. What are the differences between SEO and SEM?

141. How will you cross-check whether your SEO campaign is working or

not?

142. What will be your next steps if your SEO methods or technique does not

work?

143. How will you neutralize a toxic link to your site?

144. What will you do if the search engines ban your website for black hat

practices?

145. Name different types of keywords.

146. What are the different categories of SEO techniques?

147. Name different techniques used in off-page SEO?

148. What is a SERP?

149. What methods would you apply for decreasing the loading time of a

website?

150. What is an SEO-friendly URL?

151. Name some of the best SEO-friendly plugins for WordPress.

152. What are the doorway pages?

153. What are Black Hat and White Hat SEO?

154. Why should black hat SEO practices be avoided?

155. What will you do if your website is banned by the search engines for

black hat practices?

156. How will you determine if a link is a bad link?

157. What is Google Business Profile?

158. Explain Google Trends.

159. Why should you use both SEO and PPC for driving more traffic?

160. Name the social media channels used for marketing?

161. Explain what is CTR?

162. Name some of the biggest SEO trends in 2022 which will also stay

relevant in 2023.

163. Explain Mobile-First Indexing?

164. Explain article spinning.

165. What is a PBN?

166. Explain Blog Commenting. What are its types?

167. Tell us some ways on how you can improve a site’s Core Web Vitals.

168. What is E-A-T? Name some of the reasons why it is important?

169. Why is video SEO different from text-based SEO? How would you

approach it?

170. Why is Dwell Time important for SEO?

171. What do you have to say about the Google Caffeine Update?

172. Why is on-page SEO still important in 2024?

173. Can AI-generated content rank better on Google?

174. What is Pagination?

175. How will ChatGPT impact SEO?

176. Why Are You Pursuing a Career In SEO?

177. What Makes You a Suitable Candidate for This Role?

178. What Sets You Apart from Other Candidates?

179. Tell Me About a Successful SEO Campaign You Worked on? How Did

You Contribute?

180. How Do You Think SEO Will Change in a 2024?

181. How Do You Explain Complex Problems to a Client?