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Maybe for these jobs you eliminate the admin work.  Then strike a deal with the client.... he pays $250 up front and then another $250 after you have doubled his traffic.  Sweet deal for the client and he should be happy to pay $250 after your work makes a kickass impact.

OK.  Thanks for your time.

I was just about to add a reply to my previous post to say the same thing. You are always so articulate, EGOL, it's truly impressive.

No problem Bruce. I would definitely recommend that you look through some recent blog posts, and find some folks with high mozpoints. Hope this helps Bruce

Your google rep should be able to tell you more then any of us about why you got banned

From Google WMT: "Sitelinks are completely automated, and we show them only if we think they'll be useful to the user. If your site's structure doesn't allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don't think that the sitelinks are relevant to the user's query, we won't show them." The only three things I can think of are: ensure your site is as crawlable as possible by reviewing and addressing any crawl errors consider the layout of your site for the site links. Do you have your site structured in such a way that it has good landing places for a site link? Hierarchical structures with category pages can work well for this use. relevancy to the search is also a factor

We all have "get links" drilled into our head repeatedly, and for good reason. Links are a key factor in determining a site's authority and worthiness in the eyes of the public. Relevancy can definitely outweigh links, as you see in this case. There is nothing wrong with Google's ranking in this case. Below is an analysis for the #1 ranked datafast.net: Search Term: phoenix computer repair Page Title: Phoenix Computer Repair | Computer Repair in Phoenix Arizona (AZ) 1. Page Title begins with an exact phrase match for the searched term. 2. Page Title is short, so the words used have a lot of weight 3. Page Title offers a full second match of the phrase, though not an exact match Your page title (the #4 rank) is optimized for the search term but not quite as well based on word order and word count. On Page factors: 4. The top ranked site misses an opportunity by not using the ALT tag for it's images. Just an fyi. 5. The first words in the content area of the #1 ranked site is the phrase from the page's title: Phoenix Computer Repair Services. The words appear in large bold-type, though not a H1 header. 6. Exact phrase match appears twice more on the page, once in the content and once in the footer. The content appearance is in bold. 7. The phrase "computer repair in Phoenix" is also used, in bold. The page clearly offers very little content. But there are several things that work in it's favor. There is no header text, no ads, the side bar only contains the navigation, and the footer only contains basic site links. The content area text has a lot of weight in that regard. The content, while very light on word count, is straight forward and to the point. Their focus is a perfect match for the keyword phrase involve. This page is not spam. I would not advise reporting the page as spam. The Google account used to report this page can be devalued in the eyes of the spam team for doing such. It would seem you are reporting the page to eliminate competition, and not due to any actual spam. The #1 ranked page was designed for the exact phrase you are using. The domain and page authority aren't great, but a 3x ranking isn't bad either. The #4 site's page uses the key phrase....ZERO times. There is a (non-exact) match in the footer with "Computer Repair Phoenix". The #4 site is heavily stuffed. The footer is a list of 15 cities and 200 zip codes. Bottom line, Google got it right. The #1 site is a local, established business with some authority and a page perfectly optimized for the phrase involved. The #4 site needs work to be more competitive on this phrase.

Thanks, I just did.

You might try running a full linkscape report in the tools section. It may not return anything more than OSE, but then again- it might.

If the server was not publicly reachable (i.e. just on their intranet), then there would be no issues. If the server was accessible to the public, then as long as the site was blocked with a robots.txt file search engines would not index it. There would be no reason for anyone to link to the site, so it should be invisible to search engines. At least Google/Bing will respect those settings, and they are all that really matter. I would be most comfortable with the above but if you want to be extra cautious you can set up a canonical for each page back to the main site. You would need a script to either add or modify the canonical tag on every page.