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 += Web Analytics, SEO & Marketing Interview Questions =
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 +== Web Analytics / Google Analytics ==
 +
 + * Explain the difference between a page view, visit, visitor & unique visitor. In GA, how long does a visitor have to be idle before they're counted as a second visit?
 + * Explain what a conversion rate is. Explain how a conversion path (a.k.a. conversion funnel) works.
 + * What do the five ''utm_*'' variables do (and what are they?)
 + * What's the difference between exit rate and bounce rate?
 + * How is time on site calculated? What about for a bounce? Is TOS 0:00 or something else?
 + * What are some problems using Google Analytics to track mobile traffic?
 +
 +== Advertising/Adwords + Marketing ==
 +
 + * Explain what CPM means? If I buy 100K visits at $10 CPM, how much did I pay?
 + * How about CPC? If I buy 100K visits at $1 CPC, how much did I pay?
 + * With CPC ads, how can a lower click through rate lead to a higher ROI?
 + * Is it good, bad or indifferent to pay for ads on terms that you already rank on for natural search?
 + * What is the Adwords Quality Score? What factors go into it? How can you improve it?
 + * Google is always adding new Adwords Extensions. What are some recent ones, and what do they do?
 + * How would you go about detecting fraud in Adwords?
 +
 +== SEO ==
 +
 + * Explain how you'd do keyword research? Which tools would you use?
 + * What meta tags are important and what meta tags aren't?
 + * What's a ''robots.txt'' file? 
 + * What is one other way to prevent spiders from crawling your site besides using ''robots.txt''?
 + * What tool(s) do you use to track your rankings?
 + * What does Google Webmaster Tools do?
 + * What are the most important on-page elements for SEO?
 + * Explain what a 'good' SEO site structure is?
 + * What's ''rel=canonical''? What about ''rel=nofollow''? Why would a site like wikipedia or craigslist want to use that?
 +
 +== Excel / Data Analysis ==
 +
 + * What sort of tools do you use to analyze data?
 + * In Excel, what is a pivot table? (Possibly have the interviewee create one for you.
 + * What are some of the different types of graphs? (Possibly have the interviewee show you how to make changes on graphs)
 +
 +== Writing/Copy ==
 + * Have the interviewee provide you with a writing sample.