30 SEO Interview Questions
- What makes a website search engine-friendly?
- How do you define success when it comes to SEO?
- How do you stay updated on industry news and algorithm changes?
- What programming languages do you have experience with?
- Regarding your previous SEO job, what did an average day look like?
- How do you adapt to the needs of different clients?
- How often do you communicate with clients?
- How did you learn SEO?
- How do you approach keyword research?
- What is the relationship between SEO, SEM and social media marketing?
- What SEO tools do you regularly use?
- How do you stay organized when working on an SEO project?
- Who are Gary Illyes and John Mueller?
- What is your favorite website and why?
- What is your opinion on proper link building?
- How have you dealt with link penalties?
- What’s the ideal speed for a site to load a web page?
- What method do you use to redirect a page?
- What are your thoughts on accelerated mobile pages (AMP)?
- What is your process for helping a local business become more visible in search results?
- Are you aware of the latest changes to Google and the latest updates to Panda and Penguin?
- How has Hummingbird changed the landscape of search?
- What is Google’s preferred method of configuring a mobile site?
- What do you know about content building and content marketing?
- What has been your experience getting content featured in answer boxes?
- How have you utilized structured data to earn featured snippets?
- What are the three possible configurations for a mobile site? Which do you prefer and why?
- What’s your greatest digital marketing success story?
- How do you stay up-to-date on the near-constant search algorithm changes?
- What metrics do you use to measure SEO success?
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