Dear friends, i am bit confused regarding the basic structure of my website can you help me through giving guidelines that what should a good website should be like to be considered in the googles list excluding seo optimizations which are the other practices which can help you improve your pr and free listing. what are the things that one should avoid so as not to get banned.
You have to think like your visitor, like somebody who is not an advanced internet surfer, what would you like your page to look like - probably the banner image on the top, menu in the left, content in the middle of the page, it has to look simple so you can find everything you are looking for. I think that is a good start. And have in mind that Google tries to think like average internet surfer.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html Read it, read it again and then read it some more before you start. If you follow these guidelines then you are already halfway there.