Have you ever had an experience where Google has penalized or "Black Listed" your web site? Well if you have aggressively marketed your site on the web or done any optimization for your web pages... You have at least heard of it!

Google publishes it's rules for webmasters to keep your sites included in Googles index of sites. But even following it to the letter if your not careful you may find your self at odds with Google.

For the best Guide to Search Engines click to SearchEngineNews.com by Planet Ocean. You can get lot's of skepticism, guesses and theories when searching the web for all the things that can get your site penalized or banned from Google. When searching SEO websites for information on "Best Practices" in optimizing a web site try to get a consensus of what the experts are saying and keep in mind that with so many opinions no one is 100% right.

Here is a quick top ten list of Do's & Dont's in SEO:

1. Keep your HTML clean so that it's easy to index
2. Don't use any type trickery to stuff keywords or links into your pages
3. Don't make garbage (spam) pages, doorway pages and the like
4. Don't Hide links, use hidden text or make redirects on your pages
5. Get Good Linking partners
6. Give links to good neighbors
7. Create lot's of good relivent content for your site
8. Use keywords in the anchor text of your links
9. Solicit inbound links for important pages