A working SEO interview is not a vocabulary test. It is somebody checking whether you can reason about crawling, indexing and ranking under pressure. This is 329 questions pulled from real screens, one at a time, with the reasoning attached to every answer.
Answer with your keyboard. You get the verdict and the why immediately, and a breakdown at the end showing which topics you are thin on. Nothing is stored against you unless you choose to leave an address.
Question bank · 329 questions
One question at a time. Answer with your keyboard, get the reasoning immediately, see where you are thin at the end.
No sign-up. Nothing is stored against you until you choose to leave an address at the end.
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What is in the bank
- Content & on-page — 83 questions
- Technical SEO — 81 questions
- Structured data — 41 questions
- Links & authority — 41 questions
- Algorithms & ranking systems — 41 questions
- Page experience & mobile — 23 questions
- Analytics & reporting — 11 questions
- Local SEO — 8 questions
How to use this before an interview
Run twenty questions on Everything first. The topic breakdown at the end is the useful part — it tells you where to read, rather than telling you a number. Then run forty on your weakest topic and read every explanation, including the ones you got right by elimination.
If you are hiring rather than interviewing, the same set works as a screen. Ask the candidate to talk through the reasoning rather than pick an option; the explanations give you the answer key.
Found a wrong answer?
Some of these questions have been in circulation for years and search behaviour moves. If an answer looks wrong to you, tell me which one and I will fix it or explain why it stands.