This is new series of question and answers which helps to figure out how to answers typical HR questions.
Sometime the person is technical sound but rejected from Manager or HR persons due to inconsistence answers of typical management questions.

General Guidelines To Answering Interview Questions

Everyone is nervous on interviews. If you simply allow yourself to feel nervous, you’ll do much better. Remember also that it’s difficult for the interviewer as well.

In general, be upbeat and positive. Never be negative.

Never talk for more than 2 minutes straight.

Don’t try to memorize answers word for word. Use the answers shown here as a guide only, and don’t be afraid to include your own thoughts and words. To help you remember key concepts, jot down and review a few key words for each answer. Rehearse your answers frequently, and they will come to you naturally in interviews.

As you will read in the accompanying report, the single most important strategy in interviewing, as in all phases of your job search, is what we call: “The Greatest Executive Job Finding Secret.” And that is…

Find out what people want, than show them how you can help them get it.

Find out what an employer wants most in his or her ideal candidate, and then show how you meet those qualifications.

In other words, you must match your abilities, with the needs of the employer. You must sell what the buyer is buying. To do that, before you know what to emphasize in your answers, you must find out what the buyer is buying… what he is looking for. And the best way to do that is to ask a few questions yourself.

You will see how to bring this off skillfully as you read the first two questions of this report. But regardless of how you accomplish it, you must remember this strategy above all: before blurting out your qualifications, you must get some idea of what the employer wants most. Once you know what he wants, you can then present your qualifications as

The perfect “key” that fits the “lock” of that position.

- Turn weaknesses into strengths (You’ll see how to do this in a few moments.)

- Think before you answer. A pause to collect your thoughts is a hallmark of a thoughtful person.

As a daily exercise, practice being more optimistic. For example, try putting a positive spin on events and situations you would normally regard as negative. This is not meant to turn you into a Pollyanna, but to sharpen your selling skills. The best salespeople, as well as the best liked interview candidates, come off as being naturally optimistic, “can do” people. You will dramatically raise your level of attractiveness by daily practicing to be more optimistic.

Be honest…never lie.

Keep an interview diary. Right after each interview note what you did right, what could have gone a little better, and what steps you should take next with this contact. Then take those steps. Don’t be like the 95% of humanity who say they will follow up on something, but never do.

How to remove webpage of website from search engines using meta tags?

This approach is suitable when user does not have root access of server and user is not able to create “robots.txt” file.

To prevent all robots from indexing a page on your site, place the following meta tag into the <head> section of your page:

<meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>

To allow other robots to index the page on your site, preventing only Google’s robots from indexing the page:

<meta name=”googlebot” content=”noindex”>

When google see the noindex meta tag on a page, Google will completely drop the page from search results, even if other pages link to it. Other search engines, however, may interpret this directive differently. As a result, a link to the page can still appear in their search results.

If the content is currently in google index, Google will remove it after the next time crawl the site. To expedite removal, use the URL removal request tool in Google Webmaster Tools.

What is a Robot Meta Tag?

You can use a special HTML <META> tag to tell robots not to index the content of a page, and/or not scan it for links to follow.

For example:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test Page</title>
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”>
</head>

There are two important considerations when using the robots <META> tag:

- robots can ignore your <META> tag. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.

- the NOFOLLOW directive only applies to links on this page. It’s entirely likely that a robot might find the same links on some other page without a NOFOLLOW (perhaps on some other site), and so still arrives at your undesired page.

How to write a Robots Meta Tag?

Where to put it:
Like any <META> tag it should be placed in the HEAD section of an HTML page, as in the example above. You should put it in every page on your site, because a robot can encounter a deep link to any page on your site.

What to put into:
robots meta tag have two attributes “NAME” and “CONTENT” attribute.
The “NAME” attribute must be “ROBOTS”.
Valid values for the “CONTENT” attribute are: “INDEX”, “NOINDEX”, “FOLLOW”, “NOFOLLOW”. Multiple comma-separated values are allowed, but obviously only some combinations make sense. If there is no robots <META> tag, the default is “INDEX, FOLLOW”, so there’s no need to spell that out. That leaves:

<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, FOLLOW”>
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”INDEX, NOFOLLOW”>
<META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”>

How to remove cached copies of web pages using robots meta tag?

Google automatically takes a “snapshot” of each page it crawls and archives it. This “cached” version allows a webpage to be retrieved for your end users if the original page is ever unavailable. The cached page appears to users exactly as it looked when Google last crawled it, and google display a message at the top of the page to indicate that it’s a cached version. Users can access the cached version by choosing the “Cached” link on the search results page.

Before you begin, you must do one of the following:

To update the cached version of a page:
change the content of the page. The next time Google crawls the page, It will update the cached version.

To removed cached versions of a page from Google’s index and prevent Google from caching the page in the future:
you must add a noarchive meta tag to that page. The next time we crawl that site, we’ll see the tag and remove the page.

To prevent all search engines from showing a “Cached” link for your site, place this tag in the <HEAD> section of your page:

<meta name=”robots” content=”noarchive”>

To prevent only Google from displaying one, use the following tag:

 <meta name=”googlebot” content=”noarchive”>

Once this is complete, you can use the URL removal tool in Webmaster Tools to request expedited removal of the cached content for a minimum of six months.

How to remove snippets that appear below web pages  in Google search results and describe the content of your page?

A snippet is a text excerpt that appears below a page’s title in our search results and describes the content of the page.

To prevent Google from displaying snippets for your page, place this tag in the <HEAD> section of your page:

<meta name=”googlebot” content=”nosnippet”>

Note: Removing snippets also removes cached pages.

How to remove outdated pages from google index by returning proper server response?

Google updates its entire index regularly. When google crawl the web, it automatically find new pages, remove outdated links, and reflect updates to existing pages, keeping the Google index fresh and as up-to-date as possible.

If outdated pages from your site appear in the search results, ensure that the pages return a status of either 404 (not found) or 410 (gone) in the header. These status codes tell Googlebot that the requested URL isn’t valid.

How to remove images from Google Image Search using a robots.txt file?

To remove an image from Google’s image index, add a robots.txt file to the root of the server that blocks the image.

For example, if you want Google to exclude the logo.jpg image that appears on your site at www.yoursite.com/images/logo.jpg, add the following to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /images/logo.jpg

To remove all the images on your site from google index, place the following robots.txt file in your server root:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

Additionally, Google has introduced increased flexibility to the robots.txt file standard through the use asterisks. Disallow patterns may include “*” to match any sequence of characters, and patterns may end in “$” to indicate the end of a name. To remove all files of a specific file type (for example, to include .jpg but not .gif images), you’d use the following robots.txt entry:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /*.gif$

Some time publisher creates new website and want to remove old website from search engines, Publisher can do this by the help of “robots.txt” file.

“robots.txt” file is the text file in website server root, “robots.txt” file is used to request search engines for remove your site and prevent robots from crawling it in the future.

To prevent all robots from crawling your site,

Create file name “robots.txt” in your server root and paste following content in the “robots.txt” file:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

To remove your site from Google only and prevent just Googlebot from crawling your site in the future, paste following content in the file:

User-agent: Googlebot

Disallow: /

Each port must have its own robots.txt file. In particular, if you serve content via both http and https, you’ll need a separate robots.txt file for each of these protocols. For example, to allow Googlebot to index all http pages but no https pages, you’d use the robots.txt files below.

For your http protocol (http://yourserver.com/robots.txt):

User-agent: *

Allow: /

For the https protocol (https://yourserver.com/robots.txt):

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

Note: A robot can discovers your site by other means - for example, by following a link to your URL from another site - your content may still appear in our index and our search results. To entirely prevent a page from being added to the Google index even if other sites link to it, use a noindex meta tag.

Some More Examples:

Examp1:

The following example “/robots.txt” file specifies that no robots should visit any URL starting with “/India/delhi/” or “/test/”, or /prince.html:

# robots.txt for http://www.princejain.com/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /India/delhi/ # This is an infinite virtual URL space
Disallow: /test/ # these will soon disappear
Disallow: /prince.html

Examp2:
This example “/robots.txt” file specifies that no robots should visit any URL starting with “/India/delhi /”, except the robot called “Googlebot”:

# robots.txt for http://www.princejain.com/
User-agent: *
Disallow: /India/delhi / # This is an infinite virtual URL space
# Googlebot knows where to go.
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:

Examp3:
This example indicates that no robots should visit this site further:

# go away
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

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