Some Basic SEO Interview Questions with Answers

Hi Everyone, Welcome to SEOWEEK. After a long time I am here to share some interesting SEO questions which are very beneficial and important for beginners. So lets start the SEO question-Answer series without wasting your time.....


1. A link is _____________ when two sites link to each other; a type of backlink that should be avoided.

Ans: Reciprocal

2. An advertising program by Google.
Ans: ADWORDS

3. The largest human-edited search directory.
Ans: DMOZ

4. The way Google estimates a site's popularity. Can be from 1 to 10.
Ans: PAGERANK

5. The actual text of a link; the words that are hyperlinked to another site/file/bookmark.
Ans: ANCHOR

6. The search engine owned by Microsoft.
Ans: MSN

7. The document which controls the visual appearance of a site.
Ans: CSS

8. One of the most famous search engine bots
Ans: GOOGLEBOT

9. Once this was the most important item for search engines.
Ans: METATAG

10. A page that has no inbound (and very often no outbound) links.
Ans: ORPHAN

11. A link that leads to nowhere
Ans: DEADLINK

12. A technology for making Web movies; used mostly for banners.
Ans: Flash

13. An inethical SEO practice that includes creation of a group of highly interlinked sites aimed at inflating link popularity.
Ans: LINKFARM

14. A group of keywords.
Ans: KEYPHRASE

15. The file, which tells search engines the pages and directories of a site that are to be excluded from indexing
Ans: ROBOTSTXT



16. The other name of unethical SEO practices.
Ans: BLACKHAT

17. Artificially inflating keyword density.
Ans:Keyword STUFFING

18. When several blogs and sites link to the same site, with the same anchor text, aiming to push this page to the top of Google for the keyword in the anchor text.
Ans:BOMBING

19. This is where Google places your site until it gets mature to be included in search engines.
Ans:SANDBOX


20. Actually it is several HTML pages but with the same URL. One of the nightmares of SEO.
Ans: FRAMES

21. The practice of linking together several domains usually owned by the same person/company in an attempt to artificially inflate a site's popularity.
Ans: CROSSLINKING

22. An abbreviation for pages with search results.
Ans: SERP

23. An unethical SEO practice attempting to mislead spiders about the actual content of a site.
Ans:CLOAKING

24. A site that is excluded from search engines is called _____.
Ans:BANNED

25. A black hat SEO practice that uses a single page, stuffed with keywords, to get higher rankings with the search engines. Also known as "gateway page" or "bridge page".
Ans: DOORWAY

26. A company that provides traffic estimates and a rank for most of the sites on the Internet.
Ans:Alexa

27. The generic name for a browser, a search engine spider or any program that requests a Web page.
Ans:USERAGENT

28. The text that appears when you put your mouse on top of an image or a picture.
Ans:ALT TAG

29. A page that contains a list of all the links on a site.
Ans:SITEMAP

30. The percentage of keywords on a page.
Ans:DENSITY


31. Once it was the leader in PPC Engines, now it is part of Yahoo!.
Ans: OVERTURE

32. The score Yahoo! gives to a site. Can be from 1 to 10.
Ans: WEBRANK

33. An electronic magazine that pubishes mainly articles.
Ans: EZINE

34. A link from your site to another.
Ans: OUTBOUND

35. The number of back-links a page has, regardless of the quality of the pages or sites linking to it.
Ans: LINKPOPULARITY

36. The number of times a file on a Web site is accessed is called ______.
Ans: HIT

37. One of the major search engines
Ans: YAHOO

38. A link that comes from another site to yours.
Ans: INBOUND BACKLINK

39. What is 301 Redirect
Ans: A 301 redirect is a page status code that tells search engines a page has permanently moved to another URL

40. What is Doorway page.
Ans: A doorway page, also called a gateway page, is another black hat technique that can get you banned from search engines. The technique employs the creation of numerous identical pages, each of which is optimized for a particular keyword.