Best SEO Interview Question 2016

1-  If a page includes more than one rel="canonical" Google will... - Ignore them all.

2-  If the robots <META> tag is missing, the default is:- INDEX, FOLLOW 

3-  Which of the following links is likely to pass the most value from a single page? - A link contained in the main body text

4-   If you want a page to pass value through its links, but stay out of the search engines' indices, which of the following tags should you place in the header? - NOINDEX, FOLLOW

5-  Which HTTP status code is best to serve when your site is down for maintence? - 503

6-  To give credit for duplicate content that appears on another site, use... - A cross-domain canonical tag

7-  Which Google update was closely associated with speed, faster indexing and fresher web results . -  Caffeine

8-  The de-facto version of a page located on the primary URL you want associated with the content is known as:  Canonical Version

9-  What is the maximum number of URLs typically allowed in an XML sitemap file? -  50,000

10- What are valid reasons why your webpage's title may not appear in Google's search results exactly as it does in the page title element in your HTML? - Your title does not contain your brand name or other key terms in the users' search query (or doesn't include them at the start of the title element), so Google is using text from elsewhere on the page.

11-  Which of the following types of sitemaps is NOT supported by Google? - Product type

12-   If these URLs have the same content, example.com/avocado and example.com/avocado/ are technically considered duplicate content and should be fixed. - True

13-   Which type of link has NOT been mentioned by Google as being risky for SEO? - Text link advertisements with rel="nofollow"

14-  True or false: rel="canonical" can be used to point to content on a different domain. - True

15-  The X-Robots-Tag should be located:- In the HTTP headers

16-   Which of the following statements about anchor text is true? - When an embedded image is linking, the alt attribute of the image may be treated as anchor text.