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What should you consider when designing your site?

Here are a few tips from the guidelines that Google follows:

• Useful: focus on people, their lives, their work, their dreams

• Fast: every millisecond counts

• Simple: simplicity is powerful

• Engaging: engage beginners and attract experts

• Innovative: dare to be innovative

• Universal: design for the world

• Profitable: plan for today's and tomorrow's business

• Beautiful: delight the eye without distracting the mind

• Trustworthy: be worthy of people's trust

• Personable: add a human touch

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