Again SEO is something where we cannot fix the parameters permanently and follow them for a long time to give a stability to our ranking (SERP), because most of the ranking factors depends on algorithm update and we cannot avoid them.As our all strategy towards the website in terms of SEO should be based on these updates and guidelines.
So its totally volatile in nature but still we can have a list of questions to ask before hiring any expert.
Normally whenever we are about to hire or finalize any SEO expert we should ask these questions, to evaluate the candidate proficiency, here is the list .
- What do you understand by SEO ?
- Why do the SEO is so important for a website ?
- what are your favourite SEO tools
- What are some of your most successful SEO projects
- How do you optimize a web page?
- What is a robots.txt file?
- What is the X-Robots tag?
- What is an .htaccess file and how do you use it?
- What is a rel canonical?
- What is noindex, nofollow?
- When do you use robotx.txt, a rel canonical and a noindex nofollow?
- Is case important for meta tags?
- What is the nositelinksearchbox meta tag?
- What is the notranslate tag?
- What are 404 errors?
- What is 200 ok status means
- what is redirects and when do you use these, 301 & 302 redirect?
- Have you used Screaming Frog tool?
- How often you ranking in a month and how do you check ?
- You are Google Analytics Certified ?
- What will you do if u saw a client got a spike in 404 errors in the Google search console?
- How would you test to see how Google can see content on a page?
- What would you do to get a page indexed quickly?
- What are directory structures and subdomains and how are they important for SEO?
- What is https, how do you switch to https and why is it important for SEO?
- What are all the manual penalties for a website by Google?
- How would you handle 1,000 new links pointing at your website with commercial anchor text?
- What are all the algorithmic updates released by Google?
- How do you recover from a penalty like unnatural link penalty ?
- What is a disavow file and how do you create it ?
- How do you send out a link takedown request?
- What are the five types of website models?
- What are the most common page speed issues?
- What are mobile usability errors and how do you fix them?
- What is Keyword cannibalization?
- When do you use the rel="canonical" tag?
- What do rel prev/next tags do?
- What are all the types of sitemaps?
- How do you find broken external links pointing at your website?
- What would you do to optimize a website purely in Ajax or JavaScript?
- What is a server header checker?
- What are good links for SEO?
- What is the difference between absolute and relative URLs?
- What is a hreflang tag?
- What is Unicode/UTF-8 & why does that matter to Google?
- What is the refresh meta tag and why is it not recommended?
- How can you use user agent and IP location detection to improve UX?
- How do you optimize for Google video search?
- What is a Google product feed?
- What are the attributes of a product feed?
- How do you optimize for Google news?
- What is Google news publisher center?
- Can Google news crawl PDF files?
- Does Google require a Google news sitemap?
- What are the Google news standout tags and keywords tags? How are they different ?
- Do you know the tools like SEM Rush, SpyFu, Majestic and Moz . And how they are different from each other ?
Hope this list will be helpful for interviews ..Answers for all the listed question will be published in separate post.
1 comments:
Other options for SEO. Among the many paid directories botw directory is the best
and recognized by google
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