What is an SEO audit, and how often do you prefer to implement them?
The interviewer asks this question to gauge your familiarity with SEO audits. They want to know you understand how to comprehensively measure your work's effectiveness and how important it is to do so consistently.
Focus on the core components of an SEO audit and what it measures. If you have done SEO audits in the past, share an example of some issues the audit revealed and how you addressed them. If you haven't done (or been part of) an SEO audit, assure the interviewer that you're familiar with them and willing to learn more.
"An SEO audit is an important tool for identifying problems or errors that prevent websites from ranking well, or at all, on search engines. A good, comprehensive SEO audit includes many steps and checkpoints, but the core of the audit is making sure the site is being correctly crawled, indexed, and rendered. It's best to complete an SEO audit quarterly, but every six months can be sufficient too. At my current company, our most recent SEO audit reported several missing tags and images that weren't optimized. These were easy issues to address, but we never would have known about them if we didn't consistently do audits."
