Picture this: You’re a successful entrepreneur running a bustling online business. You’ve paid your dues, put in a lot of long hours, and your hard work is finally producing profitable returns.

You have a steady stream of nicely converting traffic, excellent cash flow, and the power to be your own boss. Life is good.

One day you turn on your computer and because, like most of us, you’re obsessive about checking your search engine rank you do a quick search and poof! …your site, which was ranking #1 on Google’s results just the day before, is now suddenly nowhere to be found. You check your logs and find that traffic is tanking at an alarming rate. Online sales have slowed to a trickle. Suddenly, life ain’t so good anymore.

Like most online entrepreneurs, your website is your livelihood – and getting kicked out of Google may be one of the most terrifying business setbacks imaginable. You need to know why it happened. You need to know the quickest way to get back in. Perhaps most importantly, you need to know how to keep it from happening again.

With that in mind, we present to you the complete guide to *not* getting banned from Google.