mattg3 - 11:22 pm on Feb 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

especially things like JavaScript links that mean Google won't get anywhere around your site, or a malformed robots.txt

On the other hand technical ignorance could also be an indicator that you don't have the ability to con Google. How many mom and pop sites, or whatever that's called in american, are beyond design, technical ability and so on.