Information regarding Google and page ranking

[danomac]

I've started a thread as this seems to come up often.

There are a few sites that list things that you can get penalized for using google. The one available to webmasters on google is here:

http://www.google.ca/intl/en/webmasters/4.html

(this page indicates google prefers 301 redirects over anything else)

A FAQ with some useful information is here:

http://www.google.ca/intl/en/webmasters/faq.html

And this is a webmaster guide that is not google, but has useful tips for webmasters, regarding some of the things you can get penalized for:

http://ruralwebdesign.co.uk/rural_web_design/google_tricks.htm

This is getting a little off topic though, I'll start a new thread with this information as well.