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Currently, the scope for the SEO profession in India is rising at a significant level. Based on the report submitted by the Times of India it is stated that SEO job openings<\/a> alone hold a mammoth of position in the job portal sites of India from the Digital Marketing<\/a> field. The major reason for the enormous growth of this profession is because all the businesses today have shifted their focus towards the online platform for the promotion of their businesses or services. And when we say promoting on the online platform SEO occupies a significant position.<\/p>\r\n

It is because people generally search about anything and everything only in search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing. A business needs to rank themselves on the top in a search engine to cover audiences of a wide range. This is the reason why most of the businesses hire SEO Analysts for promoting their business. Having completed your SEO Course or SEO Training<\/a> it is even more important that you should be aware of the latest SEO Interview Questions that are put forth to the freshers and experienced candidates to secure a job at ease.<\/p>\r\n

Below are the 101 SEO Interview Questions and Answers that are compiled by the Experts from the Digital Marketing field. .<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>What is WWW and explain WWW?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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World Wide Web or WWW is a huge collection of various documents, videos and web pages that are stored in millions of computers or servers across the world. These computers and servers are interlinked using the Inter Networking or Internet Technology.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Explain Domains on the Internet?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Doman is a string which is used in finding and identifying computers in the World Wide Web where the web site, document or videos are stored. Domain resolves to numeric identifiers called as IP addresses. Instead of remembering the computers with a numeric identity, Domain helps in identifying the computers with easy to remember strings within the Internet. Example of a Domain is: www.google.com<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>What is a URL?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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URL or Uniform Resources Locator is a logical address that points to a location in the server where the specific web page, document or video of the World Wide Web is stored.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>What is Top Level Domain or Domain extension?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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The last segment of the Domain is called the Top Level Domain and it is also called as Domain Extension. Top level domain extensions are .com, .net, .org etcetera. There are also country specific top level domains such as “.in” refers to India, “.us” refers to the United States.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>What do you know about a Search Engine?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Search Engines are Programs that search for relevant information which has a close similarity to the keywords or terms given by the user. This program is used to search information on the World Wide Web.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Give some examples for Search Engine?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Google Search is the most popular search engine. Besides you have search engines like Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com, AOL.com. Also many people have started using apps like Amazon, Flipkart and YouTube for their specific product searches. Hence they can also be considered as search engines but their search scope is limited to that application’s database. For example, when searching in YouTube for a video, YouTube searches for the specific video only within its scope and not in the entire World Wide Web.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Why do we need Search Engines?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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The World Wide Web is a collection and connections of millions of computers and servers scattered across the world where valuable information is stored in the form of web pages. Search engines not only unites these whole repositories of information by indexing it, but also helps in searching and finding the relevant information required for the users. If there are no Search engines, then the entire WWW information repository becomes useless.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>What is the meaning of “Google” and who founded Google?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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There is no exact explanation for the term “Google”, but a common interpretation is that the word “Googol” – meaning a very large number – is misspelled. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in the year 1998.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Expand the term SEO?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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SEO is the acronym for Search Engine Optimization.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Explain what is SEO?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Search Engine Optimization is a practice through which a website is optimized with the content, technical and structural changes to achieve the highest rank naturally in the Search Engine Page Results or SERP. As users trust organic results compared to paid advertisements, getting the highest rank organically increases the quantity of potential traffic to the website or webpage. SEO Training in Chennai<\/a><\/strong> at FITA provides an in-depth training of the SEO concepts and its application under the mentorship of real-time professionals.  These are commonly asked SEO Interview Questions and Answers for Fresher and Experienced<\/strong> candidates<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Why do we need SEO?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Google has become the friend, philosopher and Guide for everybody now. Most of the users now search in Google to find their requirements for anything they need and they trust the results of Google Search. It is claimed that just less than 5% of the search users even bother to see the second page of the search results.<\/p>\r\n

Having your business on the top results means, more trusted users visits your website resulting in more sales without any high marketing costs. <\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>What is SERP?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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The results that are displayed by the Search engine against a user’s search terms are called the Search Engine Results Page or SERP. The SERP is displayed with Organic Results and can be referred to as, “our business is listed in the No.1 position of the SERP”. <\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Explain what Organic Search Results?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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When Google decides that a web page can provide the most valuable content to searchers, then it selects those web pages and displays it in the SERP. This is called Organic Search Results as the rank and selection of the displayed web pages are not influenced by payments but rather by its quality, relevance and popularity. <\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Explain Keyword Density?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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It is the number of times that a keyword appears in webpage which is measured in terms of percentage to the whole content of a web page.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>What could be the right number of times a keyword can be used?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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There is no guidance or definition for this. Analyze the website of competitors who are ranking high in the SERP and the number of times they used the keyword can be taken as a point to start with and experiment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Is the Google Rank that we talk about is for Websites?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Not necessarily. This is a very tricky question. Actually Google ranks the individual Web pages and not the websites. But the Domain also plays its role in the rank determination.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Explain about Website Hosting?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Once the website is developed and completed, it must be accessible by the user. Web hosting is a process through which the website is stored in the server which is connected to the Internet. The Domain Name is then pointed to the server where the website is stored or hosted. This makes the website accessible by users. This whole process is called hosting. Please note that website hosting is a paid service.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Explain about Paid Search Results?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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As the SERP is more valuable because it is seen by the potential user, advertisers can pay and display their ads in the search results page or the SERP. Ads that are relevant to the search terms may get the attention of the user and they can prefer to select the ads by Clicking on the ads, besides the search results. <\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Explain what is a Keyword?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Keywords are words or group of words known as Phrases that are used by the users to search their requirements in the search engine. These are also called as Search Queries or Search Terms.<\/p>\r\n

While searching for a match, Google verifies the contents of your web page to determine whether the page is relevant to the keywords by analyzing whether the keywords are used regularly. Google also checks for the image and metadata for relevance to the keywords.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>Discuss the importance of Keywords?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Keywords create the connection between the user searches and the websites. Without keywords, there is no way to get connected to the potential online users. Using the right keywords sensibly at the right place and at the right number of times in a web page will help Google to understand how far your website will benefit the right users especially the users who are most likely to buy. These are commonly asked SEO Interview Questions and Answers for Fresher and Experienced<\/strong> candidates<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i> Meta Tags – What are they?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Meta tags are short but descriptive texts that describe the content of a web page. These texts do not appear as part of a web page in the browser but help other programs such as the search engines and crawlers to understand what the web page is all about.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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<\/i><\/i>List out the important Meta Tags that are considered important for SEO?<\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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There are four important Meta Tags, they are;<\/p>\r\n