I'm freaking out. I went and logged in to Google Analytics this morning and it reported this: "No pages from your site are currently included in Google's index due to violations of the webmaster guidelines. Please review our webmaster guidelines and modify your site so that it meets those guidelines." Ohmygod! What guidelines? How can I figure out what caused me to get the boot and how do I get my site re-included?...

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A dilemma! A competitor of mine is getting great results in the search engines, and I finally figured out how. He's loading tons of keywords into a CSS layer and then positioning the layer so that it's invisible. Here's the CSS he's using:   { position:absolute; left:-100px; top:10px; width:99px; height:400px; } Can I, should I report him to Google, or is that a bad idea?...

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