Faruques SEO Questions and Answers
1. What is SEO?
This is almost always the first SEO interview question you will face.
According to Moz, SEO is:
” the practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results.”
SEO helps to increase the visibility of the business. 93% of online experiences begin with search engines.
People trust organic results more than paid results. Having your website listed for right keywords brings potential traffic to your website.
2. What does SEO stand for?
SEO Stands for Search Engine Optimization.
3. Why SEO is so important to businesses?
There is a popular joke in the online industry is that, if you want to hide a dead body, you should hide it in the second page of Google. Because, a fraction of people actually go to the second page of SERP and if your industry is not on the first page of Google, your competitors will take all your customers.
SEO for business
CTR decreases gradually with each position. If you want your business to be successful in the online world, it is very important to have a well-optimized website. One big advantage of SEO against PPC is, even if you stop your SEO activities today, your results won’t stop tomorrow, unlike PPC.
SEO is very important for businesses if they want to make more sales without high marketing costs.
4. What is a Search Engine?
According to Google, a Search engine is “ a program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web”.
Search engines answer the queries entered by users and give them the list of relevant results based on various factors.
5. Name a few search engines other than Google.One of the most common SEO interview question. Popular search engines other than Google are Bing, Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo & Yandex. There are actually so many types of Search engines. For example, YouTube is a search engine which only results in video results. If you consider based on traffic, YouTube is the second popular search engine in the world.
6. Who are the founders of Google?
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders of Google while they were pursuing PhD at Stanford University, California.
7. In which year Google was founded?
Google was founded in 1998.
8. What does Google stand for?
The letters GOOGLE doesn’t stand for anything. It’s not an abbreviation. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin started the company they named it Backrub.
After they realised they need a new name, they wanted to name as Googol. When they wanted to register they misspelt it Google and rest is history.
9. What are the most important Google Ranking Factors?
There is no definite, concrete answer for this. Everything we know is based on our experiments and industry best practices.
