You have a website and you want it to grow?  You better make sure Google knows about you, because nearly 70 percent of all searches today go through Google.

There are hundreds of resources that will help you optimize your site for Google searches (actually, just go to Google and search for search engine optimization, and you’ll see them), but few places that tell you what not to do on your site.

So, here, courtesy of Google themselves, are the things to avoid when working your site to get it Google-ready:

1. Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
2. Don’t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
3. Don’t send automated queries to Google.
4. Don’t load pages with irrelevant words.
5. Don’t create pages that install viruses, trojans, or other badware.
6. Don’t create multiple pages, sub-domains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
7. Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.

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