tflight - 8:38 pm on Aug 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the appearance, Vanessa. I for one certainly appreciate it. Personally I would accept just about *any* way of communicating with Google right now.

I've come across what I think is a bug in sitemaps after having looked at other sitemap accounts but there doesn't appear to be any way to communicate it back to Google. I tried the "Google Sitemaps Google Groups" board, but never received any feedback.

Additionally Lots of us appear to have been hit hard by the June 27 and July 27 data refreshes and homepages appear to have disappeared from "site:www.example.com" queries. I've tried to get feedback from Google regarding this but haven't received any response other than a link to the Google FAQs.

I'd certainly welcome an interface through sitemaps where we could provide communication to Google and at least have some sort of acknowledgment that it is getting to the right people and maybe even a response. :)

Until something more comprehensive is built, is there any advice you can give us right now that will help us communicate with Google?