Hi Luzie
I cant agree with you. We have done many changes, updates, new articles, new destinations you name it yes pages which are (excuse my language) s..t are still there they are purposly created website to target certain keywords and in many times they only have a search box on index page which is search any affiliate can get. A lot of the time the domains are owner by the same company only to target different key words and they are buying more links... I could give you loads of examples especially in travel industry...
Ok lets say i have not done enought they i would see a drop of 5 pages for augment sake but our page especially index has suddenly disappeared.

All i would like from google to tell webmasters if something like this happens why it has happened. It is like sacking someone from work... you cannot suck them without good and explained reason? Don’t you agree?

Question.. do you think that the large site like expedia or hotels offer better offers to the customer that my website does?
As you know the xml feeds allows you to construct your own website from the feeds provided and the price of your website is exactly the same as on theirs... as a matter of fact our website offers or advice that large companies when it comes to family hotels as we actually research them manually and see which once have what facilities for kids and families?

When we ask our writers to write about certain destination we do not tell them to repeat this key word 4 time and this 3 times and this must be at the end and at the beginning of the text etc.... we ask them to write what the feel and whats thier experience but website who do repeat the words do get the ranking. Itis me who is doing it wrong or Googlebot?

Thats why i have suggested that google should not solely rely on googlebot to determine which content is good or not? At the end of the day they are making billions each month so not like they dont have enough resources to do that.
It is only a question of time when Google buys Facebook just to make sure they are still the mighty god in the internet world.
As said previously what other global company has 80% dominancy on a market?

Alex
Ps: if you would tell your hotel client to scrap the all thing you will be soon out of job....