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Questions to Ask a Candidate During A SEM Job Interview

Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 10:03 am
Posted By: Wiep 335 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seminsights.com)
Category: SEM Industry

If you are planning on hiring a search consultant, here is a mini-glossary along with a checklist of Q&A to help you separate the wheat from the chaff; or if you prefer, the can-do’s from the no-clue’s.

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from Aussiewebmaster 334 days ago #

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This is a handy article to keep for all people hiring in house or outsourced SEO help

from BlueCafe 334 days ago #

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Sphunn, but highly technical questions are only part of it. I'd rather hire someone that's honest, truthful, reliable, team player, communicates well, etc. Getting someone that's exremely technical but a real PITA to work with is worse than not hiring anyone.

from Halfdeck 334 days ago #

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My opinion:

Answer 2: TITLE tag is important but its not the most important factor by any stretch of the imagination, plus you can train a monkey to optimize TITLE tags. "Backlink campaign" answer is too vague.

If a company only had money to focus on one thing, work on grabbing eyeballs with something cool. Hire a quality blogger, an imaginative marketer that can come up with creative ideas, and someone who is really good on the phone.

"If they only apply to a backend shopping cart, then the candidate should recommend that you robots.txt out the cart."

Robots.txt doesn't do much except tell Googlebot not to crawl a URL. Disallowed URLs can still get indexed and they can still create a link juice black hole which may hurt a site depending on its size and internal link structure.