Questionable Techniques
We have been forced to use "questionable techniques" for the benefit of site visitors and have not suffered any penalties yet.
One client had nothing but a big graphic on their home page - so we were forced to use <noframes> tags to describe the content. (They are supposed to be re-designing the site, so this was a "stop gap" measure). We warned the client that this could cause penalties - but it's been a year and their rankings still hold.
Several of our clients wanted to remove pages. Rather than use a redirect, we just replaced those files with copies of the home page. Eventually those pages are expected to disappear from the index since there are no links to them at the site, but we wanted to ensure that anyone that had bookmarked the page would get a viable page.
Then, in an effort to get rid of one domain, we set every page of that domain to redirect to a corresponding page at the new domain - it's a visible redirect that says there is newer content found here and you will be redirected. Darn, that old domain continues to dominate in rankings even though there is more and better content at the new site.
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