Blog / Digital Marketing / SEO Interview Questions and Answers (+Test Task Sample) Secured an SEO job interview? Great! Now it’s time to land your dream job by showing off your SEO experience and expressing your desire to work for this company. We’ve compiled a list of over 70 questions that you’re likely to get … Read more
Google is testing showing answers in the Discussions and Forums section within the search results. Google will show the question and then add a shaded box with one of the selected answers under the question. This was spotted by Ethan Lazuk who posted a screenshot on X: Here is what I see, without the answers: … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered whether having two sites could negatively affect search rankings. His answer is surprisingly applicable to different ways of interpreting the question. Can Having Two Sites Affect Rankings? A person submitted a question to Google where they wanted to know if having two sites could negatively affect their rankings. The question as … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes answered if switching web hosting platforms could result in a negative outcome for rankings and SEO. It’s a reasonable question because migrating a site to a new web host involves multiple technical factors that can go wrong and have an immediately negative effect. What Does Changing A Website Host Entail? Changing web … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about whether showing different content based on IP address of the site visitor affected SEO. His answer offered insights into Google’s crawling and indexing. Showing Banners For Specific Countries The person asking the question managed a website that wanted to show a banner on the side of … Read more
Someone on Reddit posted a question about their “crawl budget” issue and asked if a large number of 301 redirects to 410 error responses were causing Googlebot to exhaust their crawl budget. Google’s John Mueller offered a reason to explain why the Redditor may be experiencing a lackluster crawl pattern and clarified a point about … Read more
Google announced it is testing generative AI technology to answer local specific questions within Google Maps. “Starting in the U.S., this early access experiment launches this week to select Local Guides, who are some of the most active and passionate members of the Maps community,” Google wrote. Google’s language ****** can now analyze Google “Maps … Read more
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about what happens to the signals associated with syndicated content when Google chooses the partner as the canonical instead of the original content publisher. John’s answer contained helpful information about the murky area of ranking and syndicated content. The question was asked by Lily Ray (@lilyraynyc) on X (formerly … Read more
Google published a video about what to do get Google to automatically re-index an entire website. The answer to the question presumed that the context was a major change to an entire website, necessitating a complete crawl to expedite updating Google’s index. The person asking the question wanted to know if there’s a way to … Read more
A recent prediction from Gartner states, “By 2028, brands’ organic search traffic will decrease by 50% or more as consumers embrace generative AI-powered search.” This rapid adoption of generative AI (GenAI) in search engines will significantly disrupt CMOs’ ability to harness organic search to drive sales.
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