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SEO Interview Questions

sarathks — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:17:51 +0000

You could be the best SEO in the world but unless you can convince the interviewer of this then you will never get that dream job. Whilst listing competitive keywords and their rankings on your CV is a good place to start, most employers will expect you to be able to confidently and competently discuss your knowledge, techniques and opinions at interview.

Tests will be written or verbal and are there to help them establish that you are the best person for the job.

Below is a copy of a post from http://forums.seo.ph/showthread.php?t=201. I don’t expect any Company to throw this many questions at you but you never know which ones they will ask – why not browse through them and see how many you can answer?

Before you ask, no – we don’t have the answers – however for those adept at using search engines, the answers should never be far away

1. What SEO results can you show?
2. What do you believe are important things to take into consideration when optimising a site?
3. Who do you respect in the industry?
4. What web analytics programs are you familiar with?
5. List On-Page SEO factors
6. List 5 link building techniques.
7. What is page segmentation? (Ever heard of VIPS?)
8. What’s the difference between PageRank and ToolBar PageRank?
9. What is Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI – Indexing)?
10. What is Phrase Based Indexing and Retrieval and what roles does it play?
11. What is sandbox?
12. How long does it take to get out of sandbox?
13. How can you track your rankings?
14. What services does the wordtracker offer, and how do they relate to seo?
15. What are the common factors between Google/yahoo/msn?
16. How can you keep your PPC bids from cannibalizing your search efforts on other (non pay per click) search engines?
17. What percentage of your pay per click budget should go to each search engine?
18. Does either Google Adwords or Overture work better for your particular product or service? Or, perhaps neither one is appropriate from a return on investment (ROI) perspective.
19. Give me a description of your general SEO experience.
20. Do you currently do SEO on your own sites and give me some examples.
21. Do you operate any blogs?
22. Do you currently do any freelance work and do you plan on continuing it?
23. Where do you think the SEO industry is headed?
24. What industry sites, blogs, and forums do you regularly read?
25. Have you attended any search related conferences?
26. What SEO tools do you regularly use?
27. What SEO areas are you weak and strong in, and give examples of both.
28. What areas do you think are currently the most important in organically ranking a site?
29. What kind of strategies do you normally implement for backlinks? What do you think about link buying, link bait, and other specific backlink strategies?
30. What are your thoughts on the direction of Web 2.0 technologies with regards to SEO, blogs, rss, podcasting

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Original article @ seovacancies.co.uk

11 Ways to Find Brands & Companies on Twitter

sarathks — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:59:27 +0000

A big question for marketers that want to connect with businesses on Twitter is that they often don’t know where to look. Part of the rub is that Twitter is predominantly a service used by individuals, not companies. While you can use search.twitter.com advanced features to find individuals using specific criteria, it can be more productive for finding companies or commercial users of Twitter via a managed list.

Here are a few resources for finding Twitter accounts for brands, companies, executives, analysts and journalists via directories and lists.

Twibs.com – Alphabetical Directory and search engine of 5,368 businesses on Twitter with a voting option to see which profiles are featured on the home page. Each business Twitter account has a profile showing latest Tweets and others’ Tweets about that user.

Courtesy toprankblog.com

How Do You Earn Search Engines’ Trust?

sarathks — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:50:35 +0000

Aaron Wall: Most signals of quality for search are driven to some degree by trust. People are more likely to read your site, subscribe to your site, and link to your site if they trust you. In an interview Bob Massa once said, “search engines follow people.” If enough people care about what you are doing, then search engines will usually trust it, too.

Kim Krause Berg: When someone claims to be a teacher or advisor, I want to know how long they’ve been in the business, and what makes them credible. Search engines do the same thing in their way. How long has a domain been up and stable? What kinds of sites link to your site? These can be testimonials on your behalf. It’s hard to earn back search engine trust if you’ve messed up but if you maintain trust, search engines can be very loyal.

Eric Lander: Trust will come through tried and true techniques. Quality, valuable content is still one of the most important factors. Beyond that, though, you are going to need authoritative and relevant inbound links in order to strengthen your trust in any particular vertical.

Dr. Michael Dorausch: We do really well on content creation and image related traffic. We constantly strive to see that our content is unique, made as granular as seen fit, and images are properly described, tagged, and suitable to the post. After a decade of creating content, I’ve learned that both forms of visitors — search engine bots and humans — appreciate and reward those efforts.

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Sri Lankan cricket team attacked in Lahore

sarathks — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:06:46 +0000

Srilankan team attacked in lahore

LAHORE, Pakistan: Masked gunmen launched a brazen attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding seven cricketers, police said.

Gunmen attacked the team’s convoy near the Gaddafi stadium with rockets, hand grenades and automatic weapons, triggering a25-minute gunbattle with security forces, said Lahore police chief Habib-ur Rehman.

“They appeared to be well-trained terrorists,” said Rehman, who gave no details about the fate of the estimated 12 gunmen.

Witnesses said the upmarket district Lahore’s Liberty Square, home to many designer boutiques, was turned into a battlefield as gunmen hidden behind trees opened fire.

“There was a blast first, then we heard firing. A rocket launcher was also fired at the bus which narrowly missed,” a Sri Lankan player said on condition of anonymity.

Australian freelance cameraman Tony Bennett said people inside the stadium heard explosions followed by bursts of machine gun fire.

Slumdog Millionaire Sweeps Oscars

sarathks — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:51:37 +0000

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ sweeps eight Oscars at the 81 st Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, `Sound Mixing, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Direction and Motion Picture. Indian music maestro A R Rahman brings home two awards with his Jai Ho… composition. Read More News From Timesofindia

A R Rahman has created history by becoming the first Indian music director to win an Oscar for his composition in Slumdog Millionaire.

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Terror Strikes Mumbai

sarathks — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:32:14 +0000

In one of the most violent terror attacks on Indian soil, Mumbai came under an unprecedented night attack as terrorists used heavy machine guns, including AK-47s, and grenades to strike at the city’s most high-profile targets — the hyper-busy CST (formerly VT) rail terminus; the landmark Taj Hotel at the Gateway and the luxury Oberoi Trident at Nariman Point; the domestic airport at Santa Cruz; the Cama and GT hospitals near CST; the Metro Adlabs multiplex and Mazgaon Dockyard — killing at least 101 and sending hundreds of injured. For more news Read Mumbai Under siege

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India Shopping Online

sarathks — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:16:19 +0000

Online shopping is the fastest growing multi billion-dollar business in the world. Online shopping is remarkably easy whether you’re looking for the latest fashions or trying to keep up with the latest electrical gadgets and wizardry.

E-commerce figures are going through the roof, according to Assocham (Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India). Today (2006-07) the figures are touching Rs. 2200 crore, but are expected to increase by 150 percent by 2007-08 – to Rs 5,500 crores! And two metros – Delhi and Mumbai are driving the growth.

Online shopping is becoming more popular these days and Number of people who shops online has been increased. New online shopping portals are coming with new shopping features to reach their customers.

We will find various online shopping portals which help these consumers to buy their daily needs, Gifts, Accessories, Apparels etc online.

www.Indiaplaza.in

Indiaplaza has wide range of products like apparels, books, Electronics, Mobiles, Movie Cd’s and Dvd’s, Flowers, Gifts, Sweets, Handicrafts and other products like Recharge Vouchers, Toys, Wine etc.Indiaplaza has online air ticket Booking, Hotel and Car booking facility. Only few shopping portals have these booking facilities. So while shopping Customers can also book for air tickets, Hotels etc.

All Products will be delivered within 5 to 7 days on purchase. They have good offers on cameras and other products. Indiaplaza is a good place for shopping online.

www.Futurebazaar.com

Futurebazzar is a well known shopping website.They have wide range of products like apparels, Accessories, consumer durables, Home & Decor, Kitchen appliances, Books, Movies, Toys & Games other products like cameras, laptops, memory cards, ipods, Mp3 players etc.

Future bazaar guarantees 7 day delivery once payment is deared. If we have purchased anything at FutureBazaar which did not meet our expectations or does not fit our needs we can return the product. They will take it back as long as it is unused, in its original packaging and accompanied by its invoice. So those who like to shop mobiles, accessories etc future bazaar is a good choice. But always check the user reviews when you shop expensive goods.

www.Storrz.com

Storrz.com claims to be India’s first online grocery shopping portal launched in Bangalore where customers can buy vegetables online. They have wide range of daily needs like vegetables, Fruits etc From Branded Stores like MTR, Namdharis Fresh, Valuemart etc. Storrz have other products Like chocolates, cookies, gifts, Flowers, Home Fragrances Health care products ,Music & Books, Pet foods etc from Braded stores like Cookieman Cookies, Jus’Trufs Chocolates, Ferns n Petals Flowers, Iris, Pedigree pet foods, Dr Morepen etc . They have other featured products like Cameras, ipods , Camcorders, Memory cards etc. You can find good offers on digital cameras at Storrz.

Storrz assures one day delivery on purchase and they have introduced very convenient payment options for the customers like swiping their credit/debit card at the time of delivery and paying by Sodexho meal pass. Storrz.com is currently limited to Bangalore only when it comes to perishable goods but provides 24 hour delivery across the country for other products.
Those who want to buy daily needs like vegetables and Gifts like chocolate, cookies, Flowers, Home fragrances and Cameras Storrz is a good option.

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