Google Gripe.

Here at Queensland Armchair Guide we have a travel site that endeavours to give all of our visitors the most valuable information available to check out the areas in Queensland that they intend to visit before they actually arrive.
Whether it be activities, attractions or restaurants, we provide outgoing links to several venues to enable customers to check out and decide, prior to visiting,some of the options available to them.
Unfortunately Google in their infinite wisdom do not like a large number of outbound links on pages and penalise sites that provide them. Sites that provide useful info penalised? Contrary to Google Guidelines!!
We will not allow Google or any other company to dictate how we run our business as we are continuing to operate as we always have done. Giving customers the information they want despite Google's incessant urge to change the goalposts to confuse and disrupt honest SEO activities.
A company that doesn't come clean on it's guidelines, and suggests you use Forums made up of individuals who know little of the internal tactics of Google to solve problems of Google's making,is neither ethical or trustworthy.
Google should be answerable to the public for its ambiguous, unintelligable Guidelines, not Forums full of guesswork artists. Come clean Google.
While I'm on a roll, :-

The methods Google use to establish heirarchy on Page Search are antiquated and need revising to give everyone the best information available. How a web page can still be on the first page of search when it has not been updated for 2 years and its info is totally irrelevant beggars belief. There are hundreds of these, maybe thousands of websites that Google wittingly or otherwise promote to be of benefit to the community when they obviously are not. Google Bots are fooling their masters.
Take a hard look at yourselves Google. You are missing in action.