New Webmaster Interview Preparation Guide

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A person responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a website or websites. It is the webmaster's responsibility to troubleshoot and find the underlying problem. Once the problem is found, the webmaster fixes the problem and ensures that every aspect is once again working properly.

Basically, a major part of a webmaster's time is spent in programming and project development. This involves various tasks such as the following: coding the site; adding new content and features; enhancing navigation through tweaking Javascript, CSS and HTML; creating animation, video, sound, logos and and artwork; installing Java, Javascript coding and Flash; installing Perl scripts; and backing up the site. They also provide security against hackers and spammers. Our company has highly qualified programmers who can efficiently perform all of these things for your website.

This is a vital role of any webmaster. To keep the website running seamlessly, webmasters will constantly test your site for functionality, ease of use and load time. They ensure that content on the site is easily understandable for the target audience. If there are any complaints from users, they assess the situation and perform corresponding solutions.

Webmasters can also be specialists in web design. They can design an appealing visual appearance for your website that suits your potential customers. They focus on building a website that is not just visually attractive but also fully functional. As designers, webmasters have a high level of creative and project oversight responsibility for the web development process. Upon completion of site creation, webmasters continue to maintain and develop the site and provide project management services during the entire process. Compared with pure web designers who solely focus on the beauty of a website, webmasters are much more competent since they actually see the site from a technical, aesthetic, functional, security, and most importantly, sales viewpoint.

Google Webmaster Tools shows traffic for each keyword separately; it gives more information about website performance according to Google search query. This tool does not cover search results from other search engines, such as Bing, Yahoo, or Baidu.

☛ Submit and check a sitemap
☛ Check and set the crawl rate, and view statistics about how Googlebot accesses a particular site
☛ Generate and check a robots.txt file. It also helps to discover pages that are blocked in robots.txt by chance.
☛ List internal and external pages that link to the site
☛ Get a list of broken links for the site
☛ See what keyword searches on Google led to the site being listed in the SERPs, and the click through rates of such listings
☛ View statistics about how Google indexes the site, and if it found any errors while doing it
☛ Set a preferred domain (e.g. prefer example.com over www.example.com or vice versa), which determines how the site URL is displayed in SERPs
☛ Highlight to Google Search elements of structured data which are used to enrich search hit entries (released in December 2012 as Google Highlighter)[1]
☛ Receive notifications from Google for manual penalties.

Describe your knowledge of malware and hacker threats and any tools you can use to protect the website.

Describe any projects which required team work or collaboration with at least one other individual beside yourself; work with operations director and close coordination with the management of your organization.

Search Engine Optimization is part of any website optimization and promotion expertise; describe specific situations and the SEO strategies you have used, such as link building, content SEO and site structure.

You can describe any relevant communication experience: acting as main point of contact with affiliates; personal, phone, and email contact; internal and external coaching (on topics like content optimization, etc.), management reports and presentations, customer support, routine advisory tasks, etc.

Tells about any design jobs you did or supervised, such as redesigning existing sites for a new or better look, according to client specifications or industry expectations. Mention specific areas of design: functionality, animation, graphics, logos, style CSS, PHP modification, etc.

You may even talk about general work such as SEO, content updates and quality control, improving design, user-friendliness, performing browser compatibility, debugging, security, etc.

Be specific. Mention websites you were responsible for, and web projects and their duration. Describe yourself participating in website development from a particular stage or doing maintenance work on an existing site.

When your website is too busy due to a large traffic, the best way of redirection is using custom error documents. So, when a user gets 503 error code, the server will redirect visitors to the custom error document page you have defined.
There are different ways for different servers to customize error document pages.
1) For Apache server, add the following code in .htaccess file.
2) For IIS 7 server, add the following code in web.config
3) For Tomcat 7 server, add the following code in WEB-INF/web.xml file.

Adding a link to a target page is used traditionally within pages that use a refresh header to redirect users. This is not optimal and not the same as a traditional 301 redirect which is transparent to the user. If you provided HTML as part of the 301 redirect, it will not likely be seen. As well, for may redirects, this opportunity does not exist such as in the case of using an .htaccess Rewrite-Rule.

If you've fixed all of the errors that caused the penalty, and Google is still not indexing your pages, you likely need to file a reconsideration request.

The problem is that Apache doesn't know what to do with those values, hence the internal server error. You need to change the lines to the following:
1) php_value suhosin.post.max_vars 8000
2) php_value suhosin.request.max_vars 8000
The php_value causes the setting to be passed along to PHP. If you were setting boolean values (true/false), you would use php_flag instead. This will only work if you are running PHP as an Apache module. Otherwise you have to edit the php.ini file, which may not be an option.

You can do that with a custom report. Just create a flat table report with dimensions and metrics.

Defeating this is easy and has nothing to do with doing this on the server side. All they have to do is compare a page that you serve to the Googlebot user agent and one to a bot or human that is not. The pages will be different and you will be caught and penalized for cloaking. It's that simple.

It's true that prices change over time. When I first started my websites, my first domain name cost me $50 per annual. With the competition that exists in the domain name industry today, the prices have dropped tremendously. But they may still go up in the future. Or perhaps go down even further. I've absolutely no idea.

The fee you pay the domain name registrar is an annual fee. In other words, you "own" the domain only as long as you keep paying the yearly fee for it. In this sense, the "ownership" of the name is not like the ownership of a physical object (eg, a car) that you buy, where once you pay for it you own it permanently. Instead, it's more like a rental fee where, as long as you pay the "rent", you can continue to point that domain name to your website.
The good news is that nowadays, because of heavy competition, domain name fees are very low. At the time I write this, prices at most registrars hover around $10 to $15 per annual.

JavaScript, PHP and Perl are three of the most commonly-used programming languages on the Internet. They are used by websites to carry out more complicated operations.

Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, allow you to specify things like the font you want on your page, the size of your text, whether the page is to have 2 columns, whether your text is to be in bold or italics, and so on. In other words, it is the part that lets you control the appearance of your web page.
You may be used to the Microsoft Word "doc" format, where everything from the text you type to the appearance of the document is specified in a single file, transparent to you. On the web, the raw information is specified in HTML and most of the appearance is determined by the CSS.

When you write a normal document using a word processor like Microsoft Word/Office, your text is saved in a file with a special format. It is not simply saved as the string of words you typed since the document needs to preserve things like the font you chose, the size of the text, which words are in bold, which italics, and so on. The special format includes not only your words, but all these extra information so that the next time Word opens your document, it can display the document with the exact appearance you created earlier.
In the same way, web pages are simply strings of words put in a special format that web browsers are able to display. While the format of Word documents is simply called "Word format" (or "doc format"), loosely speaking, one might say that web pages are formatted using "HTML".