I don’t think it’s a “IA + SS” issue at all.   I just wanted to report my experience.  Building another site later today, I’ll share my results.

Nothing indexed here as well.  Google stopped looking at 500 pages.

I spent way too much time setting this all up and it’s been an hour since I pinged the Video Sitemap with Index Assault.  So far, absolutely 0 visits from bots.  Wonder what I am missing.

While spun content and even straight copied content can rank just fine, it will often fail a manual review.  What are the chances of a manual review?  Who knows.

What I do is create quality content for my PBN that is only for my clients.  These clients are paying good money and there is 0 reason to not give them good content.  I pay from 5 to…[Read more]

I too try to stay above TF/CF 15.  Then I check the backlink profile for drugs, porn, and other spam.  If that is all good, I check out archive.org and make sure someone didn’t try to build a PBN on it and failed.

Honestly, don’t over think it.  We built a new network of 40 sites last month and it cost me about $3000.  Some of the domains I bou…[Read more]

Mark said

There must be a leverage point so that they know that they are receiving value. Because everyone knows that those that work for free are desperate. 
 

I do pro bono work all the time.  I am far from desperate. However, in this instance you have access to a great tool that lets you overlay their site on a site you can control 10…[Read more]

SERPshaker allows you to create your own shortcodes that are replaced with a list of words.  You can create a shortcode called {city} and then assign a list of cities.  Then you can make one called {cityst} and create a list of cities with states.  The order of the lists is very important as the first post will have all shorcodes replaced with th…[Read more]

Nick, you might try upselling them to phone tracking in order to prove the value in a very real and demonstrable way.