novice - 2:37 pm on Jun 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

Should Google be forced to let webmasters know on how to cheat the system too? How about a guaranteed ranking? Will these make it it into your letter?

Of course not. Google should not disclose all the does and don't, but they should at least reveal the absolute don'ts which can cause severe penalty or banning.

When a clean site gets hit with a penalty that sends it down from the first couple of results to nowhere to be found, Google should give some indication of what may cause that.

I know that Google has a webmasters guidelines page, but many of the sites that were hit do follow those guidelines.

Perhaps Google should update it's guidelines page.