walkman - 4:20 pm on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

GoogleGuy,
how about offering an "amnesty" so people are encouraged to send you e-mails? Many, many sites have been effected and it seems like a glitch somewhere. Maybe if you get enough e-mails you guys will be able to see a pattern and figure out what happened. You went through this with the 302 redirects and for days no one sent you any e-mails because they were afraid of being banned when G engineers checked it. Regarding the 302 problems, you said that the info it will be used ONLY to figure out why it happened, for nothing else. For example, if what one did (let's say an obvious spammy title), didn't directly cause the ranking problem you ignore it.

Even the government forgave Sammy "The Bull" Gravano to catch John Gotti ;). They will get caught through normal channels eventually. It maybe worth to overlook a few sites in order to solve this. Better results is what you want and when someone searches for "domain.com" they obviously want to go there. If they don't find it, Google loses credibility in their eyes. Your word carries a lot of credibility and people would be more inclined to send their URLs and help solve the problem. It exists.

I know I will be attacked for saying the obvious by certain people here who are just better than all of us. If you feel that your site are perfect, slam me and post your site on the profile. Let's all have a look at those 13 pt H1, italics, backlinks with perfect anchor, titles and those extra keywords you might have. :)