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Originally Posted by arius
My point here is, the Internet is made of end users (our dear visitors) and online businesses, webmaster and individuals providing service/content/some utility those end users. Google has been the key to bring those two together and they are being paid very handsomely for that. But when you become the US Postal Service of the Internet (broad analogy, sorry could not find anything else), there comes responsibility with it. You have to provide all stake holders (and yes, we webmasters, site owners are stake holders) means to explain why they are being penalized in the process.
After all as much as we benefit from Google bringing free traffic to our sites, Google benefit having us provide good result pages, service to the end user searching for things. If we did not exist, they did not exist. So a simple way of addressing the penalty/ban process (not the ones where you submit an email and never get an answer or have some to talk to, but real customer service type help I am talking about). We might be doing something wrong, how can we know what. Maybe we just got the site, maybe Google just implemented something, maybe this maybe that. It is not like there are guidelines.
This is what I am simply trying to say. Being in this unique position, Google has responsibility, that's what I am saying. Like how Mama Bell did, First Monopoly Oil companies did etc...
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I can sympathise with your situation, but I have to disagree with you. Google is not the internet, and they do not have an obligation to anyone to rank or not rank their website. Their only obligation is to the searchers that use google, the companies that advertise with them, and their shareholders.
Their system is algorithmically driven, and it is extremely rare for a website to be hand penalized. It's not like someone at google saw your site, and killed it. There are a multitude of filters that are designed to keep google's search results as relevant as possible. Sometimes legitimate websites get caught in these, but these sites usually get out of them with time. Simple things like duplicate content can kill a website's ranking by itself.
My advice is to invest time into determining why you may not be ranking in google and adjust your plans accordingly. Try sending google an informal letter. I've seen them confirm penalties before. Sign up for google webmaster tools, and see if they find something wrong with your site.
If you run a legitimate business, using legitimate tactics to market, it is simple a matter of mathematics to get your site ranking. There is no amount of pressure that you can put on google that will make them do anything for you. Historically, the more pressure and press you aim against them, the less likely you are to get what you want from them. They have quite literally, endless pockets, and endless resources. It would be a waste of time and money to do as you suggested.