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Design and Content Guidelines
Technical Guidelines
- How a search engine spider sees your site
- Session ID's and cookies
- If-Modified-Since HTTP header
- Robots.txt file
- Advertisements should not affect rankings
- Content management systems
When your Site is ready...
- Submit it to Google
- Submit a Google sitemap from webmaster tools
- Let other sites know you are online
Quality Guidelines
- Make pages for users
- Avoid tricks to improve rankings
- Don't participate in link schemes
- Don't use automated programs to submit pages or check ranking
- Avoid hidden text or hidden links
- Don't use cloaking or sneaky redirects
- Don't send automated queries to Google
- Don't load pages with irrelevant words
- Don't create duplicate content
- Don't create pages that install "badware"
- Avoid "doorway" pages with no original content