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Maile Ohye describes how to create a holistic SEO strategy inclusive of all your company's online channels (website, blog, social media channels).

Does a site leveraging responsive design "lose" any SEO benefit compared to a more traditional m. site?

Rich snippets are automatically added to SERPs for video results from YouTube.

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Help for hacked sites: google.com/webmasters/hacked In this fourth step in Help for hacked sites, we discuss verifying ownership of your site in Google Webmaster Tools to read the

Help for hacked sites: google.com/webmasters/hacked In this eighth step in Help for hacked sites, we discuss requesting a review through Google (and being approved!) so your site's pages

Help for hacked sites: google.com/webmasters/hacked In this fifth step in Help for hacked sites, we discuss spam techniques by hackers, how to investigate your site for spam, making a

In this first step in Help for hacked sites, we discuss how and why sites are hacked, and review your options for recovery. Help for hacked sites: google.com/webmasters/hacked

Help for hacked sites: google.com/webmasters/hacked In this fifth step in Help for hacked sites, we discuss safely investigating malware and making a list of all affected files on your

Does a website get a better overall ranking if it has a large amount of indexed pages? Leah, New York Have a question?

Hi Matt, In terms of SEO, what is the difference between strong tag and bold tag for emphasis on certain words of text. From the user perspective, both tags have the same effect (words in bold).

How can I guest blog without it looking like I pay for links? Ben Holland, Phoenix, AZ Have a question? Ask it in our Webmaster Help Forum: groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!

Since Google is been actively updating its search results, it is hard for people to trust Google anymore. Should one start focusing on getting leads from social media other than search engine results?

Using Geo-detection technique is against Google, I am offering the useful information (price, USP's) to the users based on the Geo-location, will Google consider this as a Spam i.e.

Our website is not improving in Google PageRank despite having regular updates and foolproof content authorized by proven editors. What could be the reason for this?

Google covers best practices for expanding your site to new languages or country-based language variations.

Does it make sense to use rel="nofollow" for internal links? Like, for example, to link to your login page? Does it really make a difference? Christian Oliveira, Madrid Have a question?

Does the crawler really care about valid HTML? Validating google.com gives me 23 errors, 4 warning(s) hemanth.hm, Bangalore Have a question?

What can e-commerce sites do that sell products which have an ingredients list exactly like other e-commerce sites selling the same product to avoid Google as seeing it as duplicate content?

As we are now closer than ever to switching to IPv6, could you please share some info on how Google will evaluate websites.

Recently Google has integrated the Panda update in to its normal indexing process. Now, how will webmaster come to know whether her site is hit by Panda?

I'm building links, not for SEO but to try and generate direct traffic, if these links are no-follow am I safe from getting any Google penalties? Asked another way, can no-follow links hurt my site?

What does Google do against sites that have a script that automatically picks up the search query and makes a page about it?

When will there be official Google support for webmaster questions?

Is load speed a more important factor for mobile? Is it really something that can change your rankings, all the things being equal? Christian Oliveira, Madrid Have a question?

What should we do with embeddable codes in things like widgets and infographics? Should we include the rel="nofollow" by default?

Matt Cutts explains what it means if your site has a manual action labeled as "Pure spam" and what you can do to fix it.

Matt Cutts and Nelson explain what it means if your site has a manual action labeled as "Hidden text and/or keyword stuffing" and what you can do to fix it.

Matt Cutts explains what it means if your site has a manual action for "User-generated spam" and what you can do to fix it.

Matt Cutts explains what it means if your site has a manual action labeled as "Unnatural links to your site—impacts links" and what you can do to fix it.