1. Can you write HTML code by hand?
2. Could you briefly explain the PageRank algorithm?
3. Have you created any SEO tools either from scratch or pieced together from others?
4. What do you think of PageRank?
5. What do you think of using XML sitemaps?
6. What SEO tools do you regularly use?
7. Under what circumstances would you look to exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs meta robots tag?
8. What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?
9. Do you have experience in copywriting and can you provide some writing samples?
10. Have you ever had something you've written reach the front-page of Digg? Sphinn? Or be Stumbled?
11. Explain to me what META tags matter in today's world.
12. Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?
13. If the company whose site you've been workind for has decided to move all of its content to a new domain, what steps would you take?
14. Rate from 1 to 10, tell me the most important "on page" elements
15. What do you think about link buying?
16. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?
17. What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?
18. What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
19. What kind of strategies do you normally implement for backlinks?
20. What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?
21. What things wouldn't you to do increase rankings because the risk of penalty is too high?
22. Why might you want to use nofollow on an internal link?
23. Are you familiar with web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?
24. From an analytics perspective, what is different between a user from organic search results vs. a type-in user?
25. How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is working?
26. What does competitive analysis mean to you and what techniques do you use?
27. If you've done 6 months of SEO for a site and yet there haven't been any improvements, how would you go about diagnosing the problem?
28. How many target keywords should a site have?
29. You hear a rumor that Google is weighting the HTML LAYER tag very heavily in ranking the relevance of its results - how does this affect your work?
30. Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many topics?
31. If salary and location were not an issue, who would you work for?
2. Could you briefly explain the PageRank algorithm?
3. Have you created any SEO tools either from scratch or pieced together from others?
4. What do you think of PageRank?
5. What do you think of using XML sitemaps?
6. What SEO tools do you regularly use?
7. Under what circumstances would you look to exclude pages from search engines using robots.txt vs meta robots tag?
8. What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?
9. Do you have experience in copywriting and can you provide some writing samples?
10. Have you ever had something you've written reach the front-page of Digg? Sphinn? Or be Stumbled?
11. Explain to me what META tags matter in today's world.
12. Explain various steps that you would take to optimize a website?
13. If the company whose site you've been workind for has decided to move all of its content to a new domain, what steps would you take?
14. Rate from 1 to 10, tell me the most important "on page" elements
15. What do you think about link buying?
16. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI Indexing)?
17. What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?
18. What is the difference between SEO and SEM?
19. What kind of strategies do you normally implement for backlinks?
20. What role does social media play in an SEO strategy?
21. What things wouldn't you to do increase rankings because the risk of penalty is too high?
22. Why might you want to use nofollow on an internal link?
23. Are you familiar with web analytics and what packages are your familiar with?
24. From an analytics perspective, what is different between a user from organic search results vs. a type-in user?
25. How do you evaluate whether an SEO campaign is working?
26. What does competitive analysis mean to you and what techniques do you use?
27. If you've done 6 months of SEO for a site and yet there haven't been any improvements, how would you go about diagnosing the problem?
28. How many target keywords should a site have?
29. You hear a rumor that Google is weighting the HTML LAYER tag very heavily in ranking the relevance of its results - how does this affect your work?
30. Why does Google rank Wikipedia for so many topics?
31. If salary and location were not an issue, who would you work for?
