#Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 257

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 257

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Adam: Alright, we are live Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. This is Episode 257. Today is the ninth of October 2019. And this is the last Hump Day hangouts before POFU Live 2019 in Denver. If you haven't gotten your ticket yet, you'd like to show up whether you're going to whether you live there you whether you want to drive in or you can make some last-minute flight plans, head to pofulive.com, grab your ticket. Now, before we get into it, just want to say if you're joining us for the first time, thanks for watching, we're going to get into questions and answers. If you've got any questions you're watching us go ahead and pop them on the page at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. Remember to always head over there. If you're watching on YouTube. We don't want to read comments here. You've got to go to the page where we embed the video so that you can ask questions we can get to those. So with that said, let's say hello guys real quick. We're missing to the Semantic Mastery guys who I believe is started traveling over to POFU Live in Denver. Bradley, Marco and I are here today. So I'll start at the top and say hello to Bradley. How are you doing?

Bradley: Good. How are you?

Adam: Not bad. Not bad. I'm enjoying some cooler weather here. It's finally starting to act like a fall. It's about 65-70 today.

Bradley: Well, you can enjoy cooler weather tomorrow when you get to Denver because it's supposed to be snowing and freezing cold so

Adam: Yeah, I might have to post some pictures of her on maybe on the Facebook group or something like he heard on hates the cold weather and I think it's supposed to be a high of 28 degrees tomorrow.

Bradley: Yeah, and snow to which is crazy, but it's only tomorrow. Because then the rest of the time that we're there it's supposed to be between 65 and 70 during the day and then around 30 at night, but it was kind of interesting packing for that, you know?

Adam: Yeah, all over the place. Well, speaking of weather, Marco How are you doing, man?

Marco: I couldn't be better. Like I couldn't handle 28 I'm sorry. It's not happening. I mean, it's too late like a cold for me. I mentioned it before is 60-65 that range you know. We break out the old sheet and we cover ourselves it gets chilly man 28 gone from 65 to 20 I don't think so.

Adam: That's a big change and once it gets below 20 that's where I start I can handle it depends on the window but yeah in the 20s still nice ones it's sunny and then anyways tomorrow is going to be fun we'll see how it goes with Hernan if he's all bundled up and blankets and freezing to death or if he survives so. Anyways With that said, like I said earlier if you're watching for the first time you're in the right place, we're going to get to q&a and answer your questions and appreciate you being here. Come here every week every Wednesday for pm eastern you can always ask your questions ahead of time as well if you know got a client call you've got some work you got things you got to do we understand that but you know benefit here is being live you can ask questions, clarify your questions, but like I said, if you have to you can ask your questions ahead of time at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions and then check out the replay on our YouTube channel, which you should subscribe to if you're watching that right now.

And secondly, if you haven't yet check out the Battle Plan right? That's where you can get our step by step processes for getting results with everything from new websites, aged domains, YouTube channels, so much more. I'm not going to go through the entire laundry list of all the benefits there but head over to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. And if you want to join, you know, our mastermind is about a mastermind but you know, it's both the mastermind, our mastermind. Basically what it is is an experienced community so you can get faster access to real-world info, testing and build that network of peers who are doing the same things we're growing these digital marketing businesses or who have businesses and understand how they need to grow the digital marketing side of it. You can find out more about that and join at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And for everyone, we really recommend going over to mgyb.co. I mean we tell this to you watching these videos, we tell it to our mastermind members, we tell it to everyone

Else, you know if you can start building your team now. And part of that can be using MGYB to provide the services for you things like syndication networks are we as drive stack, press releases, link building embeds, all that sort of stuff. And there are a lot more great packages coming out where we're going to help people get better, well, the literal package for Hey, you know, if your website is here, then you need these types of additions. You need these syndication networks. We're going to make that a lot more streamlined so that you can do it for yourself, your projects as well as your clients. So keep your eyes and ears open for that. So with that said guys,

Marco: I have a couple of things. Yeah, right. Number one, people, they always ask us how to put everything together, they'll go in and don't order something. And the last, how do I put it together guys, it's in the Battle Plan. I was just talking to my mini mastermind group. You guys know that I meet every Tuesday. In the evening with a mini mastermind group. I have seven people in there. I wish I could take more people because people keep reaching out to me and saying, hey, I want in on the group. But seven is more than enough. But the thing is that the people in my mini mastermind they follow the Battle Plan. I have a guy, that's her over. But he started out at 12k a year in digital marketing and client work and SEO, whatever it is that he did. And this year, you know, he's at around a quarter million for the year. And so it's as simple as just buckling down doing the fucking work and following the instructions to the letter. You don't veer from what we tell you to do until you're ready to test and you shouldn't be testing until you have a good revenue stream coming in that allows you to set aside time to do that kind of thing, right?

We got another one that Jeff right who went to POFU and he's killing it. I mean, he's ranking attorney type big attorney terms of ranking for it, for example, and IT services in New York City. Now imagine how competitive that is, but they're like the companies have happier than a paycheck, because they're number one for the term. And how did they do it? They follow the Battle Plan. They follow the instructions, they follow what we tell them, guys, how do you put it all together? Get the Battle Plan. Now, yes, the Battle Plan takes you to MGYB and the products and services. Why do we do that? Because it's the simplest way we don't want you doing all that work. Imagine the hours that you have to spend doing all that work keyword research three days. For the keyword research, really, do you really want to do that? Do you really want to spend all that time your client better be paying a whole lot of money to spend three days doing all of that keyword research, I mean, everything it takes time to do

Bradley: Marco, isn't it more fun to buy shiny new software applications and spend all your time learning how to use it? Just to find out it doesn't work very well.

Marco: That's some work, right? Follow the next best, the next best. So it's already there. We set the path out people who follow it are killing it. And that's my point. And yes, we do send you to what works for us because it's what we use guys. We use it, we apply it we get a result. And so we give it to you in a step by step method so that you can follow it through. So if you're not doing it, you haven't bought it go by the Battle Plan. It looks like a really simple PDF with links. But you do it step by step. I'm telling you, I just got validation yesterday from a couple of people that are in that range. I mean, you guys know Jordan.

You guys know, Jeff, you guys know, Ed, they're telling it how following the Battle Plan. That's one and two about the mastermind. I wanted to mention that it works is a two-way street. We do try to give people everything that works in the mastermind, right? And we do make everyone available that you're free to exchange ideas and concepts and theories and tests and whatever. But every once in awhile, we'll get in a thread, as we did with with with something that I talked about when doing silos. And it was a whole long thread and we went really deep into it. And then there's another one about iframes now.

And then that one sent me into the rabbit hole, where I'm still testing and I'm getting really good results from some ideas that I got. Not like not directly but indirectly, as they posted. Okay, so can I do this Can I do that and I immediately started thinking, well, what if, and that's when you read, your juices really start flowing? And what if I did this and I quoted it this way, and I hit it this way, and then it would cause no issues. And so what I'm thinking is anyone who attends POFU Live will have first crack at whatever I come up with, from my testing, because they deserve it. I mean, they took the time that they're going to be there. And so we always say membership has its privileges. But this is a step up. This is a step where you're trying to change the game and JN and Jeff Moore, Jeff sorry, they went to POFU Live, and they changed the whole mindset, they changed their business strategy, and they're killing it. So So anyone going deserves it. And so that's what I'm going to do and then at some future point, it'll be shared with the mastermind, of course, I don't know if it'll be I'll ever share it outside the mastermind.

But since the nugget was kind of the idea sprouted from a thread in the mastermind I think the mastermind deserves whatever comes from it. And I'm already testing and I'm already coding and that so this is the type of thing that goes on and in the mastermind, mastermind membership has its privileges. Attending POFU Live has its privileges. Most of the people that are in my mini mastermind, are people who went to POFU Live. So I just want to say about that definitely our mastermind members, but they also attended POFU Live and I think that they deserve special attention. That's just my piece for today. Take it for what it's worth, but I think it's just totally worth joining the mastermind and attending POFU Live should be a must in your calendar.

Adam: Sounds good to me, like Marco said, Be there. That's a pretty awesome thing that Marco is going to do there. So I don't want to dive back into a Marco but I know that people work with you and your group have had a lot of success. And I'm sure that's a no small part due to your involvement. So that's pretty awesome. So if you want to grab your ticket, you can still make it we got a couple of days here before we kick things off on Friday for the VIP day and then Saturday and Sunday for the main event. You can grab your ticket at pofulive.com. Alright, guys, Bradley, anything else before we jump into it?

Bradley: No, I'm just excited too nervous at the same time because I gotta fly tomorrow. But looking forward to coming to Denver and hanging out with you guys and putting on a pretty cool presentation. I think that is pretty powerful. I think this is going to be just a really good event. So I'm excited about it.

Adam: Cool. All right. Let's do it.

Bradley: All right, let me grab the screen. Stand by. Alright, you guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct.

Adam: Correct. Got your whole screen.

Bradley: All right. Not a lot of questions yet. So guys start posting. Otherwise, we'll wrap it up a little bit early, which is fine because I've got still not 100% packed for I gotta leave really early tomorrow morning for my flight. So anyway, I don't mind wrapping it up early if that's what we need to do.

Is It Okay To Send A Full-Text Article With 20+ Affiliate Links Via RSS In A Single Tier Network?

But we'll start with sutra he says when using a single tier, he's talking about a single-tier syndication network, is it okay to send the full-text article via RSS? Even if the article has 20 plus affiliate links? I usually post 123 of these types of articles each day. Um, I would say no, and the reason why I say no is it not because it's an SEO thing, but it's likely that your blog accounts which would be like WordPress, Tumblr, blogger, not so much blogger but Tumblr and WordPress, will likely or may very well terminate the account for too many outbound links.

Especially like affiliate links and that kind of stuff that they don't, they don't typically like that. So I wouldn't recommend that I would do a post summary. So set your RSS feed to just display the summary. That way, it's really just pushing the juice back to your post URL that's published on your blog, which is really all that matters, guys. I mean, if you're doing a bunch of outbound linking in your blog posts anyways, whether it doesn't, you don't really need to worry about posting the full text because, you know, whether they're nofollow or do follow, it doesn't even matter. What I'm saying is what you're looking for is the link back from the post on the syndication network properties back to the original post on your site. Right. And then obviously, if you're doing internal SEO like on-page SEO correctly, then you're going to have some sort of contextual link within the text of your blog post that goes up to our money, a money page, right so an actual page or something a category.

Whatever it is that you're trying to rank on your site. So it really the benefit is pushing the juice from the syndication network properties back to the post URL that's published on your blog. So I would recommend doing a summary post, you know, summary, just set the RSS feed settings to just display a summary instead of the full text. Now, that said, sometimes those can look spammy too. And sometimes you can find settings in your theme that will allow you to update the length of those RSS, like how much of the summary is shown. And so you might be able to set that and sometimes you have to actually edit the theme files in order for to, you know, to to adjust that some things will give you the option to do that, like it's, you know, an option that you can set but other times you have to actually go in and edit the theme files. So that's what I would recommend any comments?

Marco: Yeah, I would say no, and it's for SEO and it's because the whole idea behind this concept and what we do and why we send out iframes and everything that we do is to build PageRank. And the problem is, everything starts at PR one, correct? Everything on the web, it starts out at PR one. So if you have something that's revenue, or even if it's aged, it could only be a PR one. And the reason why is because you're splitting the PageRank that you're passing so low, that you can't build it up properly. So you split it, you splitting it 20 times, and what you're passing from a PR one isn't PR one, it's less than PR one. As I've said before, we've done the math we know within certain parameters, just how much PR is passed from a PR one and we know we know it's a range. So when you splitting it, that fine you're defeating the purpose of building up that PR building up that trust and authority and everything else. Not only that, having it be so spammy, it could just turn into a PR zero because of the fact that it's so spammy. And so you're not really passing anything. You're not really doing anything is not mean you could grab some traffic. From that point, you could do so much more if you're more selective with the way that you syndicate your affiliate links so that it doesn't look so spammy so that it doesn't look like it's a whole bunch of garbage. And the only intent for that is to push your affiliate links, make it more user-friendly, making it more for the person that's going to be reading it for the person to interact with that posts and with that content, and maybe share it maybe like it. Maybe visit the website, or those are all signals that you want. And I guarantee you that a spammy blog post with a whole bunch of affiliate links isn't going to accomplish what you want.

Is It Good To Use And Embed The Original City Logo And Link The City Website Or Wikipedia City Page For A Local Service Website?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you. Mike says hello to a local service website. Do you think it's a good idea to use and embed the original city logo and also link to the city website or Wikipedia city page? I can see the power in it, but I don't think it's a good idea. Thanks. Well, Mike, that's what was pretty much standard operating procedure back in like 2012. And for a long time, you know, that was just traditional way they call it conventional wisdom when it came to I didn't, does conventional wisdom is oftentimes not very smart. It's just what people think is right. And conventional wisdom for the longest time was that you would link to always a.gov or a Wikipedia page, or, you know, excuse me, a Wikipedia page or a.gov site or a that, especially if you're doing local to that, you know, corresponding Wikipedia page or the local government website or something like that. And that was supposed to add relevancy, which isn't true. That's that hasn't been true for many, many years. Because Google doesn't care about you linking to a Wikipedia page about a particular city unless it's relevant to the content on that page. And even though you might be optimized, you know, for like a plumber and in particular city, just linking to that Wikipedia page arbitrarily with the keyword or without the keyword, whatever, just linking to that page really doesn't do much, right. It's not the algorithm is much smarter than that. Now, if you are citing something about that city, like some facts about the city or something that makes it relevant, and you want to cite the source where you gleaned that content from So for example, if you are curating content from a Wikipedia page or a.gov site about that particular city, then you want to cite the source now that adds that that's a proper way to link to it. And Google can clearly see the relationship between why and why you're linking to that. But you know, again, years ago, we used to mean just about everybody used to do it. What I always recommend is link outbound linking to relevant content that's relevant to the concept within the body of the content that you're linking to, like, in other words, that your UYY just linked to the city page or to the Wikipedia page. If the page is about plumbing services in a particular city.

It doesn't really make sense just to link to the city website unless there's a reason for it. And so, again, I've always gone back to I mean, four years since probably 2014 timeframe, I stopped doing that stopped doing what was conventional wisdom, and started linking to more relevant pages. So for example, linking to an article on bob Vila calm or do it yourself network or something like that, right, some sort of, like if it's a plumbing website, right? linking to something that's more relevant to the content of the page. And then if you want to have some sort of local relevancy in there, why not embed the map or a mind map or driving directions map from the store or the location of the business to that city or something like that, that That, to me makes a lot more sense. It's more relevant. And so that's the type of thing that I've always done as far as embedding a city logo from another website. I don't recommend doing that. Because if you don't have permission to use that, remember that that logo is likely trademarked or even if it's not trademarked, it's probably a copyright issue. Because I can tell you one thing you don't want to do when you curate content and by the way, we have a training for a full training program called Content Kingpin which will teach you all about curating and why it's very it's so powerful because it creates co-citation, it allows you to generate content much quicker, it's much more efficient, you don't have to learn. You don't have to be a content or subject matter expert. In order to be able to generate content, you just have to know how to locate it, and put it together in a logical fashion and then cite the sources properly. So I would recommend you look at that because one of the things that we learned the hard way, is you never want to curate images. Ever. Okay? Unless you there, wiki, what do they call Wiki Commons there? I don't recommend ever curating images because you will, you can end up getting copyright infringement and be sued for that. And a lot of times like, it's happened to me, it's happened to me for almost three years in a row was two years in a row where I got hit with copyright.

Basically extortion letters where they would say you've got to pay so much or we're taking you to court for copyright infringement and you'd have to pay or else they would take your ass to court, and it sucks so I learned a long time ago. Never curate images so I would really highly recommend not embedding a city logo. And don't just arbitrarily link to a city Wikipedia page or a city government website, unless there's a specific reason for it, that you clearly identify in the content that you're let you know why you're linking to it. If that makes sense. You're much better off linking to something that's more relevant. You want to comment on that, Marco?

Marco: I agree. Because there's activity relevance, relevance, trust, and authority. Right? You're much better off linking to something that has you know, that that's updated regularly, and events page what's going on, in you know, in the city, landmark, places to see if there are if this park, just anything, it's just going a little bit further in as far as the geolocation is, yes, you're part of the city. So it stands to reason that you would think I want to link to the Wikipedia city page for this, but you can go further and make get even more relevant. And in fact, if you can get that city schedule, into a calendar of events, the way that we do in RYS Academy Reloaded, and load those ups, and that's constantly changing, and that's constantly pushing, all of that relevance, everything that's happening in that city, and mixed in with those calendar events are your events, what's happening with your business, whatever it is, whether you want to coupon special, whether you want to send them to the GMB, the map, just whatever it is, you mix in all of that with all of the other relevance and it works a whole lot better than just simply making to the city page for x reason, which there's really no reason.

Bradley: Yeah. I mean, again, that's been such old tactics that you know, if it really worked well, Google would have killed it a long time ago because it's been used forever. As I said, it's just that it was like common knowledge. Conventional wisdom is just what people did and for the longest time I would you know, I would argue why would Why do you do that? Well, because you know, it's adding relevancy I will have you tested it. Because if you test it, you'll find that it doesn't really do shit, you're much better off linking the relevant content and I like curated content for that reason because it clearly gives a reason to link out to something and it can create co-citation, which is, is pretty powerful too. So

What's The Difference Between Maps SEO And Website SEO?

Jonathan says are the map embeds the only thing MGYB sells for maps Seo? No, not by far. My furnace guy wants to rank in maps but doesn't care about his website. What is the main difference in maps SEO versus website SEO? Well, there's a lot of similarities, a lot of overlap. But with maps SEO there, you know, you can focus entirely on the Google properties, right, the Google ecosystem. So the map URL itself, I'm going to demonstrate how to get the best map URL to build links to you can do map embeds. You can do citation building. You know if he's got legit if you say it's your furnace guy, so I'm assuming is you know, HVAC guy, and he's got a real business, then it's probably registered to a real address. Even if it's a service area business, you can build citations for that. That's something I always recommend doing if you have a valid address. So there are I mean, there are a number of things that you can do, but very specifically MGYB sells, I mean, pretty much every one of our services can be applied to ranking in maps or maps SEO as you called it, right.

So for example, let me just give you a couple of examples here. This is something that you can go check out GMB.reviewsmaker.com, right. So let's just go to I'm just going to type in HVAC contractor, Culpepper, for example. Okay, so I'm going to click on KNM Heating and Air heating and air conditioning. And in fact, actually, let me just copy that name. And this is what I'm going to do. So this is how you can get the best URL to build links to if you're going to be doing link building to the map, right. So there are embeds, there's also link building, there are press releases, there's you can which you can embed a map in the press release. Plus, you can also create a contextual link or just a naked URL in the actual press release. To back to the map itself, I'm going to give you a few examples here of how you can get better results. So let's go back to Google for it first. Here's a couple of ways that you can do this. Number one, you can go into your GMB dashboard or your client's GMB dashboard. And on the Info tab, where you'll always see this one little section where it says view on maps or view on search and view on maps. You can right-click on the view on maps and copy the link address and paste it into a notepad file and then reformat it I'm going to show you the correct format. So that's one way to find it. The best URL for building links to a map, Google map right. The second way is to go type in or go search for your client's business name on Google. So in this case, I'm going to search for KNM Heating and Air Inc because that's just the example that I pulled, then I'm going to click through to the maps listing.

And you'll see up here in the US the address bar of Chrome, I've got this long, ugly URL, right? Well, if you go to GMB dot review, make reviews maker calm, okay, and you click to decode place ID, and just paste that long maps URL in there and click the code place Id take a second, then it's going to come down and it's going to give you this maps URL right here. Okay, I'm going to copy that link address. And I'm going to paste that into a notepad file. Now, if you take a look at this URL, I'll show you and I've demonstrated this before, but I want to answer this question thoroughly for him. If we go to like, where it goes com or something like that, some sort of redirect tracer. I could paste that URL that it gives you, right? So from here, and if we take a look at this, you'll see that this has got a 302 redirect built into it. In fact, there are two of them. So that is not a good URL to use for link building. Like if you want to build links to this URL, you're not passing any PageRank or link equity essentially, through these two, three or two redirects, that stops it dead, right. So in other words, you can link to it, you somebody could click on that link, and it's going to navigate, or jump to the final target URL or the destination, which is this. But as far as passing link equity, if you're to build links to this, it's not going to pass any. So it's not a good URL to build links to which by the way, this URL right here, that the share URL, take a look at how many redirects are in this one. If we go back to where goes.

It might even there it goes. Look at that. Look, how many redirects are in there. Three 302 redirects and no matter refresh, so that's not a good URL, either this share URL, don't build links that are dumb. It does, it does no good, right? So what you want to do is you want to take that URL, which by the way, you can just take the URL from here and go to a redirect tracer, and then paste it in and then copy the final URL, or just memorize this, which is what I did. It's very simple. copy that URL, and then just change it, just rearrange it to where you change the maps right there. So maps.google.com, you would change it to www.google.com. Then forward-slash question mark. See ID equals is what the original one is. So all you want to do is move maps from before and the subdomain from maps to the right after the forward-slash, then it's question marks the ID equals and we'll take that, Copy that, paste it in. So it's just a quick change or modification of the URL. And now watch this. If we take this, we go back to a redirect tracer.

Quick, Tracy well there's no reason XC that now if we go load that URL into the address bar and click Go, you'll see once the page loads, it converts to that long URL, but it's not technically a redirect. Right. So that's the best URL to build links to is this one right here. So that's something else that you can do. Right. So like I mentioned before, you can embed a map into press releases. You can also build links directly to this map URL, right. So that's one thing you can do. RYS Drive stacks are incredibly powerful. If you provide the NAP. The name, address and phone number of the business, as well as the maps URL will build a drive stack that is hyper optimized for that specific location, right and will push a ton of power directly to the Google properties especially like you said, if he's not interested in ranking a website, you can select to push all of the juice from the drive stack back to the maps the Google properties which would be the maps GMB website, will you'll get it, you should order the, excuse me, the Google Site along with that the Google site will be part of that. So you can build all of the power back to the actual maps listing.

However, there are a couple other things I want to mention. Let's see, just just because there are a few other points here that you can add additional power to, right. So for a note, another one is the reviews. This company, in particular, has 21 reviews, I don't know how many your client has. But if we click on that review link, right, it's going to pull up here Well, that is a different URL. So up here is another URL, I would suggest using your own three one redirects creator. There are a number of of them out there that you can use that are free, some of them that are paid like a subscription base, and others that you can create three one redirects from a plugin through your through a website, which is what I, you know, I prefer to do that through my own domain or something through or through a branded domain or a domain that I'm using specifically for redirects, that kind of thing. But if you take a guy here, open up Firefox just to show you that URL right there, I would create a 301 redirect out of that URL. And what's it do? It automatically loads to these reviews. So you can push link equity into this. Well, let's not stop there. What about each one of these individual reviews? For example, if I was to click Share on that one from Alan Jackson, which sounds like looks like a lot of the users' spam, I don't know. Jackson's a country singer and Ronnie White is a Ron White isn't a comedian. But if we're to take that URL right there and paste that in, you'll see that that is a separate URL, like that's a redirect, as I just talked about, if you click the Share URL, it's going to give you a redirect. So watch what happens when we trace that one. This is for the individual review. It's still a 302 redirect. So that's not what you want to build links to not this. What you want to build links to is this, which again, if you want to make it a pretty URL, all you got to do is use a 301 redirect creator.

As I said, there are some free ones out there, there are some ones that you can pay for a subscription basis, like a rebrand, delete rebrand.ly, for example of one, or there's another one. Or like, what I like to do is use my own domain or clients domain, and use the pretty links pro plugin to create 301 redirects. Okay? Either way, that's the URL you want to build to. And that's the same URLs, what's up here? Right, but you can build it through a 301 redirect. And look, that's an individual review within that maps listing. And if this one's got 21 reviews, that's 21 additional link targets, right? Plus this one is a link target, which is the overall reviews URL plus the maps URL itself, right, which in this version of it that I just talked about being the best version. There's more to think about photos, right? For example, this guy's only got looks like it's at four, but I'm only Well, maybe that was, let's go back into photos here. For photos, it says for photos, each one of these areas a separate URL. So my point is if you're just going to be doing map stuff for a client, what I like to do is extract all the URLs from the maps listing, set up redirects so that they're pretty and they're short, much easier to manage. And then start using those and link building campaigns, which you can also use those to be included in a drive stack as target URLs where we will build the drive stack to be targeting each one of those separate URLs. And what happens is you push juice into this listing from all different angles and every single point that you can push link equity into it. It's very, very powerful. You want to

Marco: Yeah, he's asking about maps SEO, and I'm just going to say local GMB Pro. It's what set the standard for GMB optimization every other course came after copied what we did. So if you want the Trailblazer the standard bear the one that laid it down on how it's properly done. There you go and get local GMB pro and you can learn what Bradley just talked about more in-depth, along with many other things that you could do to push the GMB the map into the three-pack, which is what your client is looking for. They don't care about the website fine. So you work entirely within the GMB ecosystem, which is what local GMB Pro is all about. So guys, if you really want to do this, right, if you want that heart into the three-pack, you go into local GMP Pro.

Bradley: That's right. And that's an in there, we talked about various other things. I'm not going to talk about specific methods here, but just so you know that again, this this this client, or this client is not my client, but this contractor, HVAC contractor is also doing GMB posts, he probably has an SEO that is working on his stuff. And take a look at that guys. Again, these are all additional link targets, right? We copy that URL and go back to the redirect tracer, which I already closed.

And once again, this is a GMB post URL, right? It's going to redirect, don't ever use the share URLs for SEO purposes. You can use it for navigation purposes. But look, how many redirects are there. So what you want to do is end up taking this URL, and using that as that could be potentially another link target. Right? So that makes sense. So if we're going to just open up that URL and see it didn't bring it up, it's probably the one prior to that this one, which is okay, because that's a meta refresh, so that, that's fine. Let's open it up there.

There, see I brought it up, it brought that post up to the very top. So the same thing goes you can take an older post and do the same thing you could share it, grab, copy the share URL. Put it in now local GMB Pro, we talk about a hell of a lot of really cool things that you can do a GMB post, I'm not going to talk about here. But I'm just saying you can actually use these posts as additional places to build links to the right. So again, this one right here, I would take this URL, copy that, that's what I would build links to and watch what happens if I load that into the browser. It's going to pull up that post at the top See, the one that I just shared. So it makes sense. So all of those are linked targets. That's why I said there's just a ton of different things that you can do to push additional power into their not just through and beds and beds are very powerful. Don't get me wrong, but there's a number of other things that you can do. So that was a good question.

Does Google Sandbox New Domains For At Least 3 Weeks Or Longer?

Gordon's up he says, Hey, guys, I don't want to sound like a broken record. But I just want to say again, your Hump Day help is very much appreciated. Well, you're welcome, Gordon. And we do appreciate that as well. If I remember correctly, you said in the past that you prefer to use a new domain instead of an aged domain to rank a local lead gen site. So you can control the name of the domain for SEO purposes and for branding purposes. That is correct. I have said that. But I was wondering if in fact Google does sandbox new domains for at least three weeks or probably longer other than losing the branding and partial keyword and domain benefit. Why is it not better to use a niche related aged domain with a clean niche related backlink profile? And if you use an aged domain would you need to to rebuild the old site pages and the old links pointing to using way back point old links point to using Wayback Machine the old things point to excuse me the way that I read that was wrong and if you use an aged domain, would you need to rebuild the old site pages that the old links point to using Wayback machine in order not to lose the link juice? Okay, so the first question is because I'm able to typically especially when I'm trying to rank for local stuff, the right which is what the maps I don't

Is that getting a new brand new domains? Fine, because I'm not looking for the initial, the, you know, an existing link profile because it really doesn't matter. Like I mean, if if the sites built really well and everything else, then it can have an effect on the maps, there's no question. But as we were just talking about in the previous question, we can typically get results without even having a self-hosted website, if that makes sense, right? Because we can focus on specifically just the GMB properties and get results. That said, I always prefer to have a branded type of domain, one that I can build a brand around for, if especially for lead gen stuff that I could use in other locations, right, which is why I talked about if I'm going to have a website, I like to use subdomains with the city name is the subdomain so that I can build upon a particular brand.

Does that mean that you cannot that you can't start with an aged domain that has been dropped by somebody else or whatever, and build a brand around that I suppose you could? But the problem that I would see with that is that there may be some other existing content on the web that can ambiguate, right? That's a key term that can ambiguate the brand that you're trying to build or the data that you're trying to build through your new location, your new setup. Right? Now, if you're talking about strictly organic SEO, yes, there's some benefit for building through an aged domain that has a clean link profile. But having a clean link profile is kind of difficult to do or else why was I mean, a lot, I mean, you will find some domains like that, but they're few and far between. A lot of times the aged domains that have been dropped are just they either have a shitty link profile or a non-existent link profile. In other words, they might have one or two links that are actually, you know, decent links, if any at all. And so my point is, I would rather just go with something new that's branded so that I have more control over the content that's going to be published and everything else and not have to worry about any sort of invigoration not have to worry about any potential links out there.

On the web that is toxic to it, or they're going to cause any problems as I start building out the new project if that makes sense. So, I mean, there, you certainly can do that. If you want. I don't recommend it. I don't, you know, the only time I would use aged domains really is if I was building what I would call feeder sites are like PBNs, right? Because that kind of help to shortcut the process a little bit since you're not starting from scratch. But when it came to a brand for lead gen site, or for a client, I would always recommend using a brand new one. Now if you are going to build an old domain, yes, it is better to rebuild those pages. You can do that using the Wayback Machine. It'll you know you can download HTML files and upload those. There's a couple of plugins and services out there where you can subscribe to or pay for credits I believe that will actually create a file of the Wayback Machine stuff that makes it much easier I know there's some plugins I can't even think was named now there's there.

I know there are some plugins out there that will do that on a WordPress site to where you just basically, you can enter a file or upload the zip file that you get from the Wayback Machine. And it will automatically build out the old pages with the old content, you might have to do some formatting and stuff to them. But you can do that. And I would recommend doing that, or at least building some sort of page that has similar content on it doesn't have to be the exact duplicates or replication of the old pages. But if it had a good link profile, and it ever in anybody ever goes and looks at, you know, the webmasters of the sites that were linking to that, and they noticed that there was a big change in the page or just doesn't exist anymore, they may take that link down. So the reason why you would rebuild those previous pages or you know, the pages that aren't there anymore, is because you'd want the links that were built to that page to stay there. That's really the only reason where else you could just do a redirect.

My point is, if you just did a redirect from the old URL to the homepage or to a new URL, and a webmaster says, was analyzing or looking at the site and saying, you know, from one of their pages on their site, there was a link to your, to the, to the domain that they had linked to previously. And they look at and say, well, that's not what I had linked to, I'm going to remove that, then you lose that link. And so you start to ultimately lose the power of having an aged domain with an inbound link profile anyways. And that happens unless you rebuild the pages, or have them redirected to something that's very similar so that it's still a value to the site that was originally linking to it. That all said, usually, when you're dealing with, like, especially local business type sites, it's just not worth all that trouble. You're better off and you're able to get just as quickly as just results just as quickly, excuse me, using methods that we talked about with a brand new domain. So Marco, do want to comment on that before we move on?

Marco: Yeah, absolutely. So imagine it if McDonald's had come out with McDonald's of Illinois, if Coca Cola wherever it began, it had come out with the Madison, if you have that, that that one, if you have that one that will boom, nationally or globally, you're going to have to go and redo all of the work that you've done. Yeah, of course, it's going to be worth it. But I'm the type and I know Bradley is too, that hates doing work, the same work over again. So why going and you have to do the work over again, when you can start off with a brand that doesn't necessarily have to pigeonhole itself with geolocation or geographically because you can do that with a category or a pages category. It has the same effect. You don't need it. And the Google sandbox is very real, but the way that we teach activity, relevance, trust, and authority. It trumps everything, including

The Google sandbox including proximity, including a whole bunch of other things, follow about Battle Plan to the letter, you get the services from MGYB.co the way that you're told to do it and in, in the, in the one in the sequence that we tell you to do it, then you're going to have the same if not better results than if you went and did all that work with, with an expired domain. And there's no guarantee that that expired domain would hold its metrics. When it's brought back, you're still gonna have to do the work, you still gonna have to put in the content, you got to have to redo the content, you're going to have to do a whole lot of work, when you could just go to MGYB.co and have us do it for you.

Bradley: I agree. So I said, I mean, it's just so much, so much trouble that can go into building those ads. I just, I don't think it's worth it. I really don't we can get results just as quickly with new domains. So unless you have found one that's really super powerful I just wouldn't even bother

Bradley: fit says good agent makes you part of it for you and it

Marco: will chime in. And the reason why he got some of my time is because he donated quite a bit of money to my charity and I decided to reciprocate by giving him some of my time so we had a really great call he's in Australia by the way, so it's really early in the morning for him to be on here. So thanks, Will.

How Do You Fix Duplicate Branded Syndication Networks That Were Purchased Via Fiverr?

Bradley: awesome thanks, Fitz says good day gents. Thanks for this form, ask real questions and get actionable answers I have a client who went to Fiverr and body syndication network and then worked with another marketer and bought a different network, many duplicates all branded. What should I do to fix that? Well, do you have access to those accounts is my point as if you if he bought these syndication networks and such from two different vendors, essentially. He probably has a login sheet right? Similar to you know,

We invented it or, you know. So I'm sure that the copy cat also provides a spreadsheet with all the accounts, the URLs, and the login data, what I would do is go in and I would, if I would log into the one that is the most closely branded to his brand name, you can't have duplicate, right, you can't have duplicate subdomains on WordPress or blogger or Tumblr or any of the other sites for that matter. So there has to be some sort of variation in the profile or the usernames, right. So I would take the one that is the most closely aligned with the actual brand and use that I would go in and update it. And then obviously go through and some SM style it Semantic Mastery style the syndication network. That's number one, number two for the other one that's out there. That's also similarly branded. I don't necessarily would say terminate those accounts, but I would make sure that you're not syndicating to them anymore. In fact, if you have duplicate posts, and it's not

I'm not talking about duplicate content guys, because that's, that doesn't happen on syndication networks. But if you have the same post posted on multiple semi branded networks, then I recommend removing that content specifically because you don't, you don't want to create a footprint with this with a blog syndication network or a syndication network where you're syndicating website content, you can do it it's fine with with YouTube, but with a blog now, where you know, with money site content, I don't recommend that. So but that doesn't mean you have to like go in and actually terminate those accounts, but I would manually go in and delete the existing content, and maybe just put up some kind of shitty content that might link to the other web to do to Dotto profiles. You know, just like one post on each one of the syndication network properties from the network that you're not going to use right remove the IFTTT triggers, remove any content that's been posted to both syndication networks, and then might just put some kind of short little article that's relevant on each one of those other properties and maybe point to the profile URL on the the one that you're going to keep right the network properties that you're going to keep, that's something I would do. And I would just leave it alone after that, and just continually update for the new or the syndication network that you decided to keep. If they're both done very poorly, and you don't want to go through which I don't recommend, you know, I don't blame me, if you don't want to go through and actually update everything manually, then I would get access to all the accounts that you can go in and do what I just said to both sets of networks and by a well done Semantic Mastery stout network from MGYB. Right, and then maybe use those two other existing networks as a YouTube network or, you know, it could be possibly used for maybe a separate Twitter network or something like that.

Or you could do what I just said and just use them as kind of like a one-time link builder to your new network properties. If that makes sense. But I wouldn't link directly back to the money site with those, you know, does that make sense? That's what I would do. Because again, I totally understand it. By the way, if this guy bought his own syndication network at Fiverr, then he worked with another marketer. He's probably one of those guys is going to micromanage you fits just so you're aware of that if you have a business owner or client that has tried to do their own SEO work, and they've also hired somebody else to do something that they already attempted on their own. It's probably going to they're probably going to micromanage you as well. Just keep that in mind. Okay, I'm going to keep moving. That's all right.

Is There A Risk Of Google Putting Home Address On The Web?

JACK says maps question please important client does professional services over the phone from home office don't want home address under Google's control, used paid use paid for Regis office locations in past but Google close them down? In your opinion, is there any risk of Google putting home address out there on the web as they don't want their crazy client showing up at home. Are there any red flags to look out for in this plan? Thank you know not for if you're going to do a Google My Business profile, no, you don't have to worry about, you know, you need an address when you register in order for them to send the verification card. But it doesn't publish the listing until you enter the verification code. So when you enter the verification code that you get in the postcard, then you immediately especially if it's a service area business, which has to be professional services over the phone from home office. So yeah, I mean, you know, I would set that as a service area business, which means you go in and clear the physical address. Once you verify it, you go in into the Info tab and click on the location setting and then there's a little link in their text link that says clear address and you click that and it'll clear it and then save it so that it updates and you want to put your service areas in and then save it, Natalie, remove the address from being shown on maps. That's absolutely

You Google is not going to publish that anywhere. The problem is if you want to build citations to help the maps listing rank, then a lot of the citation directories are going to require a physical address, like an actual street address. Some don't, though, more more and more actually allowing service area businesses to add their data without a street address. But there's still a ton of them out there to do required, so just keep that in mind. Okay.

But I wouldn't worry about it not Google. Google's not going to leak that at least I've never seen that. If you if you put it on, like Yelp or something like that word requires a street adjusting. Yeah, a lot of time. I mean, it'll show but just don't build citations on directories that require the street address if that's the case. Scott says, Bradley, if you can fly to Haley, I'd have I'll drive you to Denver. No, thanks. I've already got my ticket going flying directly to Denver, but thank you, Scott. I appreciate that.

How Do You Retain The Ranking Position Of A GMB Page Into 3-Pack Using Semantic Mastery Products?

Okay, I still need Hi, we only got about seven minutes left guys. He says I still need help for clients GMB ranking, it's already it already has RYS Drive stack and G site built by SM a few years ago, I'm ordering a syndication network and we'll add link building, then embed maps and link build would appreciate your suggestion to get just this back into the three-pack. That's kind of a bit of a loaded question because I don't know. Like, honestly, you should have had a syndication network, even really before the G site. And drive stack, that doesn't mean that, you know, you can't add that now you certainly can. But what I would recommend also doing is manually going back into your drive stack once your syndication network has been built and, you know, start including those links in the drive stack, link building to all of them. What are some press releases that always help? You can do a map embeds now with press releases and a lot of other things. So I would recommend that you know, make sure that your link, go go buy local GMB Pro, which is what we just talked about earlier, because you can actually do really good results, just doing stuff within the Google ecosystem includes posting and you know, a lot of the stuff that we talked about on local GMB Pro.

So that's a question that you could get a hell of a lot more help with if you joined the mastermind. Or if you posted that, like more detail as to exactly what it is that you've got done. And where so that we can help fill in the gaps. Just get, you know, if you don't have the Battle Plan, follow the Battle Plan. If you've got an RYS drive stack and a G site that was built a few years ago, but you never had a syndication network, it's obvious that you didn't, you either didn't have the Battle Plan or you didn't follow the plan that we laid out. So I recommend picking that up. If you don't already have the Battle Plan. And just following that step by step, any of the pieces that are currently missing, add those pieces, right, and then just kind of follow each one of those processes. And that's going to help you to get the results that you need. I'm not saying that that's going to do it. You know, that's the start. That's always the foundation. If you need additional help with that though, that's where you would you know, like I said, join the mastermind and get local GMB Pro. Once you have the foundation complete, does that make sense? Any comment on that guys?

Marco: Yeah, definitely the Battle Plan, Local GMB Pro is what's going to create the activity that he's going to need, right? Because its activity relevance, trust and authority, and local GMB Pro is totally an activity base.

Does Having A Single Link From A Press Release To A Deep Page Is Better Than Having Multiple Press Release Links?

Okay, well says going back to a previous question about PageRank. Does that mean that if you have a single link from a press release to a deep page is better than having multiple links from the press release just to get better-focused SEO just your landing page? Yes, that is true. Well, you know you're, you get more juice through one link, one outbound link in a press release to whatever you know, you're trying to push juice to then if you have three outbound links, right. If you have three outback bound links, you're splitting the link equity three ways that make sense. So if you want to push all of the link equity for through one link to like you said a deep page, or like a blog post that might have an internal link to the page on your site that you're trying to rank or something like that. Yeah, that's again, that's link sculpting. So,

Is It Okay To Use Spun Content For YouTube Descriptions?

Austin Don says, I've been doing we buy house city, we buy houses, city videos, is it alright to use spun content for YouTube descriptions? To write individual descriptions is very time-consuming. Thanks. Yeah, you know, Uhm Austin Don, if you're in the Austin, Texas market, you probably have other people competing. So having good descriptions is helpful for YouTube SEO. But I don't spend a lot of time on YouTube descriptions anymore. years ago, it was more important in my opinion. Now it's more about having you know, the primary SEO factors of a YouTube video optimized like the title the tags, having the keyword, like as probably the first thing in the video description. I like having NAP data-name, address, phone number, primary URL, such as website, Google Maps URL, the URL, that version that I just shared this one right here, linking to your top tier one asset branded or entity assets, as we talked about. So linking to a Facebook page if you're doing Facebook stuff, you know any business directories if you're using press releases, the organization page, anything like that, I like to put all of that in the video description now, but I usually don't really flesh out a whole lot of content, written text content for the video description. It's more about a call to action, right and enlisting the NAP data and relevant links that are entered to kind of reinforce the entity. And then it's about traditional SEO signals, embeds and or backlinks and engagement signals.

I'm telling you that's the secret sauce is the engagement signals which you can by using YouTube ads incredibly inexpensive, and for I'm telling you even I've got campaigns running right now for the local video production company that I've been doing SEO for like five or six years that I have 40 cents per day is my budget. So I'm spending less than $15 a month it comes out to be like $12 a month that I'm spending to constantly feed that video on a daily basis with relevant views from a very specific geographic area because I set my location targeting from an audience that is relevant to the video itself. And it helps to keep those videos ranked. And we're talking some of these videos have been ranked for years and I haven't done a damn bit of SEO work since the moment I uploaded it to my channel. And it's syndicated across my networks. All I've done is kept the ad campaigns going because it's constantly the engagement signals that are coming in that are helping it to rank. So that's what I would recommend is that you know don't spend a shit ton of time optimizing the text. Just optimize the key the titles, the tags, put a relevant call to action, link out to your primary tier one entity assets, NAP included.

And then make sure that you do your traditional SEO stuff use playlist, the YouTube Silo Academy method embeds and or backlinks. But at the same time make sure that you set up a YouTube ad campaign for each one of those videos. Even if you just did you know, as I said, I've got campaigns running at 40 cents a day. That comes out to be like $12 a month and it works like wonders. Okay.

We gotta go guys. It's at five o'clock. Any comments before I wrap it up, guys? Sorry about any questions we didn't get to. Know. I would say get in where you fit in. That's it. definitely time to pack up head out for POFU Live. Live, baby. See you guys. I'll see you, Adam, tomorrow. Sounds good. Have a good one everyone. See you

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 258

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Announcement

Bradley: So that means we’re live now actually. We’re going live here. Okay, so Hey guys, this is Bradley Benner with Semantic Mastery. So let’s see what we’re trying to get a live Hump Day hangouts going here.

Hernan: So get your camera.

Bradley: Activate the camera. Yeah. Sweet. And then looking at you. So bear with us. We’re trying to see the pin, I think.

Adam: Okay, yeah. So we’re going to try this, everybody. Welcome to the episode at 258 Semantic Mastery is in Denver. Hey, I just wanted to say hello. Now that we’ve actually got this up and going and we’re going to do our usual thing real quick. If you’re joining us for the first time, I might be a little confused because clearly we are we’re still trying to figure out how to work computers. We didn’t get Marco and you can join on hard work on the technical side, back in. But while he’s doing that, I’m gonna go down and say hello to everybody real quick starting on my right here with Chris. How are you doing?

Chris: I’m doing good.

Adam: And normally I would ask you what the weather’s like. Stupid so it nice. Yeah, it’s about 70-75 pretty nice. I’m Adam. And next to me, of course, is Bradley Benner.

Bradley: Hi. And last but not least went on over there who’s being goofy

Hernan: Hey everybody

Adam: Oh, man looks like Marco is coming on so as soon as he unmutes himself Marco if you want to say hi and you’re in here say hello to everybody

Marco: I don’t want to say hello in any thinking body man. I’m just playing What’s up everybody? Good to be here. It’s good to be here. Hump Day Hangout. I’m going to join you guys. Oh, yeah. My ready.

Bradley: Alright, cool. So do we have any announcements or like are we going to do normal announcements are we gonna go through it?

Adam: You know, we just for those of you who know or don’t know, obviously we just got done with POFU Live event here in Denver. Get to meet up with returning people as well as some new people which is amazing. Sharing stuff in small groups there’s a lot of fun just had a blast and then of course carrying that on meeting up outside whether it’s for lunch whether we did some evening events that were a lot of fun and you know we wanted to give people cuz we were hearing from people you know I missed it this year, you know, I couldn’t make it things got mixed up, that’s fine. But we want to give you a special offer to get in now and I’ll put that on the page. If you want to grab a VIP ticket, you can grab that now it’s going to be up for a limited period of time and you can save a bundle on that and come join us next year so if you you know you’re one of those people are saying hey, I will be there next year I want to be then this is the time to do that.

Nice you guys got the figured out over here. Yeah, I don’t think so. So no worries and other than that, I want to say for the people watching today maybe for the first time you are in the right place for watching us you can check out the replays of course on YouTube on Semantic Mastery channel just hit subscribe stay up to date with those. If you ever have any digital marketing questions just come semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, ask us. Of course if you’re live you can get a little bit more out of it by clarifying or giving us some feedback. But you know, we understand you can always make it live so you can just ask your questions, check out the replay. And then the next step for you would be the Battle Plan if you want repeatable processes for your SEO and digital marketing, and check it out at battleplan.semanticmastery.com and for everyone else, who wants to take things up a few notches, you know, you want to be around the people who are doing what you’re doing, which is trying to either grow your agency grow your business, then you need to be in the mastermind. And you can find out more about that at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. Right on cool. And last but not least, because we got several questions about it this week, but if you need done for you services, which should be everyone whether you’re doing it for yourself, or you’re doing it for client projects, go to MGYB.co. All right stuff syndication networks are West drive, stacks, press releases, links, embeds, and a lot more coming. So head over there and get that stuff done. And as far as announcements on my end, that’s about it. Marco Are you guys we got anything else we need to touch base on

Good no good. Yeah, we got a lot of questions so let’s go into that standby cuz I gotta try to find it.

Okay, so it looks like the first one is from Mike he says thanks for the great information I want to try to get back to you by mentioned that you have a good intro video but it has very high volume compared the video volume level hope it’s okay to say it. Thanks. That’s a good thing. Can you make a note of that too? Yeah, view that is you’re gonna try to edit our processes if that’s the case. So thank you for that, Mike. We do appreciate that.

URL Structure For Siloed Website

Next is a question. He says. What about strip the category base from category slug so it looks like a page site.com. Katie’s asking obviously about the URL structure for a siloed website. Because I’m Yeah, yes, he’s asking if he can use the restricted category slash post name out of the permalink structure for silo and absolutely you can just using post name premier link structure, it’s fine. It’s called a virtual silo works just as well as a regular siloed would Sorry, just bug does it in the face.

What Are Your Thoughts On Having A Syndicated Branded Network Using High Quality Spun Articles?

The next is vitality says hello Hope everyone is doing great. What are your thoughts on syndication network versus syndication network on the branding network using high quality spun articles readable that can this bring more SEO benefit? I mean, I know you don’t need to I would on your primary tier one branded network, you’re just going to be republishing content from your blog anyways, if that’s what you mean publishing spun articles to your blog, I would recommend now and recommend that instead, you would use curated content, it’s better content and creates co citation. And you don’t have to be a subject matter expert. You can just find other good content out there that you can grab snippets from and share we’ve got a product called content kingpin, which shows you exactly how to do that. That’s what I recommend is just going to read better it’s going to be more valuable. Produce more benefit than spun crappy articles would be if yes, what you mean. Marco, do you want to comment on that?

Marco: That’s exactly what I told him in the Facebook group, I just wanted him to come here. So that we could get go a little bit more in depth. And just to make sure that we hammered that home right that you’re doing, you’re way better off with curated content, citing sources and all of that versus just a crappy spun article that nobody knows what the hell is saying. One of the things that’s important here is that as your tier one brand, and you want it to look good, and if someone happens to come along to your tier one brand and you want that person possibly converting or getting into your funnel so that they end up on the website, and they end up in your sales funnel. And so what do you want that person to see in your tier one branded? Which is your brand amplified? Do you want them to see a crappy spun article that makes absolutely no sense or do you want to curate something that convert that person into a website visitor and perhaps a client or a customer. That’s the question that you need to ask.

What Are The Best Techniques To Let Google Recognize Entities?

Right on. So the next one is from Steve. He says, Hey SM team, what are the best techniques for getting Google to recognize entities? For those doing GMB or Google My Business? Google readily creates knowledge panels or me, or excuse me, MREIDs. But what about those working with the web properties? People products, etc? What can we do beyond schema and Id pages and the G stack? Getting a Wikipedia entry clearly works, but it’s very difficult for most gyms, taxis probably wouldn’t married a Wikipedia page, but it does, but gets in MREID through GMB. So, how do we level up the field for non GMB entities? Well, that sounds like a perfect question for Marco, I quickly would say that, you know, creating all of the syndication network and drive stack and all of that SEO shield including the ID page, all of it together is going to help having the structured data using sameas attributes is going to help. But there are other things that you can do, for example, have a paid account of some sort that helps to validate the entity as well. Meaning like pay Google for something AdWords campaigns, or, you know, Google Ads campaigns or for extra drive storage, all of the above, a G Suite account, something like that. But Marco, what else can you add to that?

Marco: Now, you just went over exactly what he supposed to do. If you can’t go in and get a verified GMB, which has a completed was not the complete entity in Google, because you can add social media and all these other things. Then what you need to do is you go in and you verify it another way and the best way that I know is getting that credit card on file, whether it’s a company credit card, a personal credit card, where you’re directly related to the company. What that’s going to do is it turns you into into Google’s customer, right other than a mage, and elite, and someone who is just abusing services, rather than payment, it gets that credit card on file. And what happens is, you know, yeah, you can have fake credit cards or whatever. But but that belongs to someone, it’s a thing. Then, on the web, it’s it’s in their database. It belongs to a person, but it belongs to a company. So you just went a long way towards validating the fact that you’re real. You’re not just another mooch, another leech, then you do everything else that we recommend. Absolutely. The schema, the @ID amplify it through the drive stack plus Gsite, press releases, I mean, companies do that on a regular basis, they announced their news, and then link building to all of those to just help to solidify everything. That’s what’s going to get you when you can’t get a GMB and Google understands that then there’s other way, getting into all of the different data aggregates.

Bradley: crunchbase would also be a good one.

Marco: crunchbase is perfect, but I was going to also say wiki data because Google is drawing directly from wiki data, you say that Wikipedia isn’t feasible, or sometimes it would merit. But your company wouldn’t merit a Wikipedia entry, a Wikipedia page, about the company and about everything that it does. So you pay someone to get you on Wikipedia, you pay someone to get your Wiki data. I just as interesting as I just posted to my partners this morning, about getting into Wikipedia, wiki data, for Semantic Mastery, because I know a guy that does it and his prices are really, really good. So that’s absolutely you get everywhere. That RankBrain goes to aggregate data about your entity about your thing, and make sure that it’s consistent throughout citations. I can’t remember if you mentioned citations, but that’s a perfect way. citations are a really good way. It doesn’t have to be just for local. It can just be your company. Right?

Can You Share Some Basic Guidelines For Link Building?

Right on next one is Mike. Mike says hello everyone. Can you please share some basic guidelines about backlinks specifically about the text when doing backlinks? When to use exact match keywords for anchor text link or my brand anchor text when writing a small post or short reply on forums, what information you suggest to include in the text and what links? Okay, there’s a lot of questions squeezed into this one, Mike.

So on a kind of a broad level. Personally, I don’t really sweat backlink ratios as far as anchor text ratio is like I used two years ago because I mainly just do everything through naked URLs and like any other any real backlinks that are going to be built are going to be built by my team and MGYB by Dadea. And he knows what to do. You just provide them with your seat set of keywords and he creates all the ratios to where I don’t really bother with it because I don’t really build my links outside of what we have him do.

But really, I use mainly when I’m doing like press releases, for example, because I do publish a lot of press releases, it’s almost 90%, just naked URLs, do brand anchors, and very rarely actually use any keyword anchor text, because it’s not really now off page, I mean, on page, that’s a different story. So, you know, you want to have, if you have content silos on page, you want to make sure that you’re linking through the content, you know, to daisy chain things together using variations of keywords that belong in that specific silo, but not always the same page because or, excuse me, the same keyword anchor. But as far as, you know, link building or blogging even in by the way, when you do that, if you’re syndicating content to a network, it’s going to make sure that you’re not always hammering and getting External links from even your syndication network, your branded network, always pointing back with the same anchor text. That’s why you want to do that.

But once again, you also have all those keywords that we add the same type of keywords that we would add to a drive stack build would be the ones that we would add to the link building campaign. And it’s a way to just continue to push relevancy in at different tiers. There’s different sets of rules as to what you can do as far as anchor text ratios, right. So again, I just hand that over to Dadea and he handles all of it. You want to add to that? Anybody?

Adam: Not to that, but to the next part, so

Marco: Okay, yeah, yeah, that first part generic naked, and brand anchors, right? Yeah. Because what we want to do is what we want to create link diversity. Once you have that, then it’s a lot more powerful when you hit it with that with that with whatever anchor text it is that the broad right and then you can go really eating hone in on the exact match, because your your link diversity is going to withstand some exact match anchors. If you don’t do that, though, if you don’t get those generic naked brand anchors and whatever you can in there, then what’s going to happen is you’re going to get it totally unnatural over optimization problems. And if you if you raise enough red flags that way, it could cause a manual which is when you get into all kinds of problems.

Bradley: Yeah, you’re gonna do it,

Adam: the tech you were writing a small post or a short reply in the forums, what information do you suggest including the text and what links? For me, I mean, I start out by saying that, you know, it’s, it’s too vague, but if you’re just doing this, I look at this as you probably want to look at it more from Hey, what information makes sense and if you’re doing this for an actual strategy, that you’re putting information out there, that increases the likelihood that your post is going to get traffic which I understand sounds kind of goofy, but for a forum that it’s it’s well received, right? And basically, I’m saying quality you know, don’t just say I’ve got to include x y&z you know, if you’re going in here and doing this for a long term strategy, I would say make sure you’re putting out quality information.

Bradley: Not only that, but if you really want to know how to test what type of a text and link to use as your best link for a forum signature tested in AdWords like search, you know what I’m saying? Because if you can get your headline, and you know your brief description and and the link and the offer to convert on through AdWords, and that’s what you put in your forum signature, and you’ll probably have a lot more likelihood of it doing well. I mean, it’s, it’s because you could test it quicker as my point other than trying to have some signature line that really isn’t very compelling, it doesn’t convert very well. And you have to wait for weeks or months to get any results to determine that, right? Because you’ve done a lot of posts, you can really kind of hone that in very quickly using AdWords or Google ads, and then add those to your forum signatures, if that makes sense.

Okay, anything else? Is it better to link to most of the times the homepage or a specific service product page? hope it’s not too complex of a question was a lot of questions you squeeze in there. I think it depends on what your call to action is within the content that you’re using for the link building. Right. I think it makes sense to link to the homepage at times, but also to more specific.

You also, you know, more specific product and or service pages. However, you also got to keep in mind, like, what is the purpose of the content that you’re doing and the overall strategy for that campaign? Because if you’re trying to push, you know, specific, a specific keyword like for particular siloed, for example, you can hit any one of the pieces of content within that silo, which you would call a deep link, because it’s not going to matter if you have the dawn page structured correct, which is what we talked about a lot in the mastermind, then anywhere that you’re going to hit that particular silo with, you know, inbound link, equity, it’s going to benefit the entire siloed. Right, so you wouldn’t want to comment on that anybody good or no? I would just say, Well, no, sorry. No, as a general strategy, he should be probably looking at distributing backlinks through his inner period.

Adam: But yeah, beyond that, like Bradley said, it just depends on again, what you’re, what you’re referencing, or what exactly you’re doing, but you definitely want to distribution

Bradley: Yeah, yeah, I mean, in other words, you don’t want to just always hammer one or the other. Does that make sense? You want you do want to split it up and spread it out. Crazy be we can have it.

Marco: Well, what matters here is how the website is set up, right? Right setting up the whole the homepage to convert, or are you setting up a category right pages as categories or categories as pages where you’re looking to push your silo through your supporting poles, and then that top market level category is going to be what you’re trying to rank because that’s where you want people to convert, actually, you want people to convert all along the way. But just to be sure on the question, if your link building to an inner page, right, then you make sure that you have it set up so that you’re pushing that top market level category up, because that’s what’s going to bring all of the other keywords with it. It doesn’t make sense to only link build to the homepage, if what you’re trying to rank results somewhere on an inner page in the category or in a post, or maybe it’s a lander, within the website, it all has to do with how everything is set up, how your website is set up. Should be how you direct your link building.

Bradley: Awesome. Thanks, man.

Adam: Sorry, real quick. I’ve got to bring this up now. So Wayne has a question for you. It’s the most recent one. But says Bradley, Your voice sounds very different today. Is this part of the new makeover for Hump Day hangouts to make it more sexy? Okay, thanks, Wayne. I’m not really sure how to answer that one. Yeah, let’s take a compliment. Yeah, just couldn’t we have to read that? Alright,

How Long Before You Can See The Results Of Battle Plan 3.0?

so next one is I have been following the Battle Plan 3.0 for a GMB asset. It’s been about two weeks since I followed steps one and two of the plan. How long before I find out the results? I don’t know if I’m facing stiff competition or middle of the road competition. How long do I have to wait before I hit it again? I did. I didn’t want to read set the G algorithm Thanks. Okay, um, put all the pieces together. You know, that’s what we talked about, if you use the Battle Plan, it’s not a, if you just do 25% of the work, you won’t get 25% of the results, if that makes sense, because you put all the pieces together and it has a more like a, an exponential effect, if you will. So it will work a lot better if you put all of the components together to create that entity loop or that SEO shield, whatever you want to call it. So if one and two if you put one in two pieces together or completed steps one and two, and you know, you know, complete the next steps to and I wouldn’t stop until all that entire asset creation. You know that SEO shield is really put together. So we’re going to be talking a lot more about that in the coming weeks for some of the stuff that we’ve got coming up. But Marco, do you want to add to that? I think he’s muted.

Marco: Sorry. I do want to talk about this a little bit? Because something about this really stands out to me. And I don’t want to pick on him, because I see that he’s just beginning. It’s following the Battle Plan. He’s in step two. But dude, how can you not know your competition? If you’re just starting out? Like sometimes when you get to the point where you know how much power you can push, when you know exactly what you’re doing, then the competition doesn’t matter. It’s just a matter of what you’re going to do to take the competition down. You’re at the start so you have to do thorough competition analysis to know exactly how much power it is that you’re going to need to push. Because a lot of this, you might do too much, and it might not be necessary, or you may be doing too little and more might be necessary. So I mean, you have to know what are people paying for AdWords in this niche? Google ads, how much are they paying? are they paying for Facebook ads, YouTube ads, other ads? How many competing pages does it have? Is it in the 2000s? Is it in the millions but singles is it in the 10s of millions is that in the hundreds of millions? Once you have all of that together, you’ll know exactly how tough and how stiff the competition is and then you’ll know exactly what to do. But the plan is still the same right syndication network, drive stack plus Gsite, press releases link building, and then embed runs and link building. And then you you do all of that before you start analyzing the data and seeing where your project has landed in rank. Because you’ll see that different keywords rank differently, different niches rank differently. So you have to know whether you need to isolate one of your market level keywords one of your top keywords that may be stuck second, third page, you may have to isolate that and hit that individually. Once you’ve done everything.

So without completing everything part one of the plan, as Bradley said, finish everything first. Once you do that link building one which it which is which is the final piece, you let it sit 21 days, four weeks, and then you come back and analyze the data and see what it is that you have to do. But guys starting out, when you’re starting in this, it’s a must for you to be able to analyze the competition and understand what it is that you’re up against. Because whether it’s you investing your money, or whether you’re investing your clients’ money you have what you’re going to spend your money on, and how much of it.

Adam: Yeah, and I’m not going to be able to get the quote right, Marco, maybe you can help me but this reminds me of what you said, might have been during your talk of POFU Live, but basically like Sun Tzu and the art of war and saying you want to come to the battle knowing you’re already going to win and you can’t do that. If you don’t know what your competition is.

Marco: You have to know that you’re going to win the war before you fight the first battle. I’m paraphrasing because I can’t remember the exact quote of him but but it’s along those lines. How can you know whether you going into you know, you can’t go blind into battle I might a bow and arrow and I’m going up against how it’s all right. I’m going up against a nuclear missile that well I’m not going to do very very well. So once once you lay it all out, and you’re absolutely right, it is war. And you understand your enemy your competition is your enemy always. And you know exactly what it is that you have to do to take down your enemy Well, you you win the war and you haven’t done and think about it all you’ve done is study the enemy. It was I love Sun Tzu and thank you. That’s awesome.

Is It Possible To Target National Keywords By Using Verified GMBs?

Alright, so the next one says Is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMBs? So are gonna hand that one over to you because I know you talked about different strategies for that kind of stuff. He’s got an example a follow up question next. So again, is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMB? For example, a long tail keyword like how to lose weight?

Marco: This isn’t totally an independent, it depends question. Yeah, what is it that you’re that you’re trying to do because one thing is local. And what you’re targeting is the proximity factor and then overriding the proximity factor so that you can get into outlying areas and target those. You can totally do that. You can totally extend the centroid and somebody was just somebody who guys who was in our local GMB Pro just came out with extending the centroid in in his own training his own original train, and I’m not going there. I’m just saying what the fuck man? But yes, you can extend the century and there are different ways that we can for extending the century, so you can totally do it, you’re going to need a whole lot of GMBs.

Because in a place like like New York City, Chicago, LA, you’re going to need to push a lot of power inside inside just I’m going to get one GMB do a whole bunch of pose, and then that’s going to get me where I need to go. It Again, it depends on the competition. Now, if it’s a national keyword, like cosmetic manufacturer, and there’s no location, like you don’t need to use location, there’s nothing location based. Why would you target it with a GMB? Other than to create like a national headquarters for the brand, but that would be branding. That wouldn’t be so so this is this question is kind of confusing. Yes. I don’t know about you guys. Because because they were talking about two different things here. And maybe what what you what you’re trying but what you’re thinking is you want to become the knowledge panel for the keywords. Well, that’s brand plus keyword association. And I think Fabian is in RYS Academy Reloaded and we teach that all day long we we should we show how to do that? I mean, we’ve been doing it for a while will be going in five years and mates and says Bradley ranked is Virginia SEO, SEO Virginia? So yes, it can be done. It depends on what you’re trying to do.

All right, but I’ll take you to the next question lockout Marco, you guys. It’s like back and forth. Is it? Yeah, so I totally said what I meant if or is maybe hosting original content on the money site, but on the branding network, instead of syndicating content, hosting high quality spun versions of posts from money site. Best regards? No, I mean, there’s no reason to. That’s what I’m saying. Like if it’s your branding, network, your branded network, then there’s no reason that you would need do post spunversions of your money site post because I’ve just republished the money site posts again, I don’t recommend using spun content as any on page or any first tier link building stuff, because it’s just not a good idea to do that now it’s even if it’s high quality spun stuff, which I guess you can still get away with that if it’s done very, very well. Okay, cool.

Will An Existing (Non-Semantic Mastery) GSite And Drive Stack Interfere With The Ones Being Built By MGYB?

Next one, Katie says Hey guys, I was talking to a dentist about his SEO he told me his son was doing it but he was getting nowhere I spoke to the son and he told me he bought some gigs on Fiverr for Google sites and drive files I told the dentist you get what you pay for. And then I may be able to help do it properly. Can I go to MGYB and by G site and drive stack for this one or is it too late? Well, the current g sites are drive stack his son setup interfere with the one MGYB would build. I don’t think the sun will let me delete all of the work he has done. Thanks.

Well, I’ll let Marco also answer on this one but I would absolutely get a new drive stack and G site that is built correctly. Which will likely the other one because the other one was not put together properly. So it’s not really pushing any relevancy or entity validation, if that makes sense. So once it’s done right, that would be the one that would come be associated with your entity because it will be done correctly. But Marco, what would you say was is it critical that the other one would be removed or deleted?

Marco: No it won’t matter and as a matter of fact what what you could do is add those satellites to push into the new drive stack was decide that we’re going to create for for you which is done right, then you can link building to all of those which is only going to help I mean, it’s not gonna hurt. Absolutely not. But you what you do need is that is that friend that drive stack empty site created my way, not somebody else’s way. Because they always skip corners. They never do the work that they’re supposed to think about. And I’ve said this before, it takes between six and eight hours for a train building. Jessen, by the way that the original RYS to do one and do it properly. Someone was going to charge you, maybe, I don’t know, 50 bucks. And they’re going to spend six hours, maybe eight hours building and drive stack? No, no, it’s not gonna happen. The money just isn’t there, right for five bucks. 10 bucks, 15 bucks. We charge what we charge for a reason. You and you’re absolutely right that and when I saw this, I couldn’t believe it you do get what you pay for. And if you go to Fiverr sometimes you’ve got some really good gigs in there that do a specific thing. But when you’re talking about pushing power, the Rank Your Shit Academy Reloaded me. There’s only one way to do it. You go with the original.

I agree. Yeah, this one I would probably be careful if I was in this position, because now I’m thinking okay, there’s someone else in there. So this to me goes back to managing client expectations and saying, Well, now there’s a son who’s got, you know, backend access to everything. So you might want to be managing to him. The son’s involved and he’s screwing around with stuff on that I don’t know about then, you know, I can’t be held responsible for some of this stuff. Yeah. working against our goals, so I’d be careful with it.

Okay, moving on the next one. See, I’m trying to find a guy stand by me. I think Jordan had a good one. He said mastermind plus sub mastermind group equals the cat’s meow. I totally agree with that. It’s not a question but I like it.

Do You Work With Third Party Syndication Networks And Stacks That Are Not Setup Correctly?

Okay, so the next question I see is I have questions about your done for you service syndication and stacks. I’ve had other vendors create those before but don’t think they were set up correctly. I see a theme here any any any problem with having you do them again? No, actually, that’s the best thing to do is just come on, come get it done correctly. And then you can analyze the ones that we’ve built for you versus the ones that you got from other vendors and, you know, figure out what was done wrong and apply it to the old ones. Yeah, yeah.

That idea. So yeah, that’s what I would do, because that’s what a lot of people, I mean, see that I go by RYS Academy. And that way you can go through the training and then you can understand what was done and then go fix the ones but again, your time is best spent on just purchasing them and letting somebody else do all that manual work, right.

Do You Create One Google Stack For Each Service Offering URL?

So the next one is Nathan says, when you build these stacks for people I know you ask them for the main keyword However, what if they offer multiple services? Do you create one g stack for each URL? For example, the company that offered HVAC and plumbing services do you create a stack for each URL or service offering a company slash and he went through several examples now, I mean, you can but another way to do it is to have a brand stack created, which is what we do. We recommend for whatever your primary keyword is or keywords, top level keywords, and then from there, once you get it back, and at some point, we’re going to provide this as an additional service, but once you get the branded drive stack back, you can go in and clone the folders that are contained in the the primary drive stack folder, and then re optimize that it does require some manual work, but for each one of your silos or product services or categories on your site, so that way, you’re mirroring your internal files from the drive stack inside of a branded and overall branded Drive folder. So again, you’re just building that relevancy, you’re going to mirror the same type of site structure that you have on your website into your drive stack. It does require some manual work. But the most important thing is to have that branded drive stack with the top-level keywords associated with that brand. So that makes sense. And Marco, do you want to come in on that?

Marco: No, that’s what I would have said. No, we’re not going to create both. If you submit HVAC, and if you submit plumbing, and you, you asked us to do keyword research, we’re going to give you everything that’s related to that. If nothing you have to do your own keyword research and submit the keywords that you want related to your brand which as Bradley said, we asked for about 50 and go for top keywords. Don’t go for the long tails, the long tails you’re going to get as you build it out as you build your supporting post and as you build your inner pages and you mirror your G site is up your money site on on the G site. But Bradley just so you guys know and I just got the news yesterday we’re testing the drive stack and G site as we speak. It’s coming right it’s gonna make it a lot easier. And right now like if he wants to make it easier on himself and clone, the drive stacks, then what he can do is he can make a donation to my charity and then right to Christie for the webinars right through charity webinars for last year and the scripts, and I’ll put the link to the donation. That’s awesome. Thank you.

And I’m not seeing any other questions you guys see any more? No will give people a minute here and I know that there’s a little bit of a delay here. There’s not much delay through zoom though.

So um, I did see a question in YouTube here. I said we’re in Colorado, we’re still in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, we’re a very short period. So what is the URL if people want to get the early bird discount for next year POFU Live go to pofulive.com/2022. I’m pulling up to make sure I’m not lying, pofulive.com/2020 and make sure you use the coupon code 2020 or 2020 action taker. Yeah. That’s going to be the lowest price ever. Oh, yeah. It definitely was a good event. I thought it was really good. Well, actually, let’s touch on that.

Real quick we got a few minutes we can wait for some questions here I want to share with people so we had Catherine Jones. So if you haven’t seen her you can probably get search for CF design school Semantic Mastery, check out a webinar we had with her, she dropped some good knowledge for everybody. Especially a lot of the people, they’re growing their agencies growing their consulting and you know, she taught them and us about funnel design but not just you know, hey, me do this to make your funnel look pretty. But you know, it’s about converting, not being pretty. And then how you can do this and how in a short period of time, you can create these things that you know, you can really crush it in terms of selling to clients or adding it onto your agency. So that was pretty cool. I don’t guys have anything else to say about Katherine’s presentation I was gonna get and then Adam Benjamin was another one of our guest speakers. That was great guys got a ton of sales experience. This was really cool talking to him getting some insights about basically kind of brand positioning, which tied in really well with what her non talked about about just one second.

Part of an audience presentation was about personal branding. And then how you can help yourself basically by growing yourself as an authority and it’s not some, you know, 25 step crazy, you know, diagram you got to follow to do this it was it was pretty simple, but combining that with what I think Adam said would be really powerful, so cool

What Was The Biggest Takeaway That You Can Share From POFU 2019?

Wayne says what was the biggest takeaway that you can share from POFU Live 2019? Uh, did you should go to pofulive.com/2020 and Wayne because what we want to see you there, and to you know, I’m not dodging the question, I’ll let these guys answer it. But like we’ve told people and like all of the testimonial say when we just ask people, hey, what do you want to share about Cooper life? You know, hey, content was great. It took something away immediately that paid for it. But on top of that, it’s you know, interacting with people, and that’s what you get out of a small group. So whether it’s us whether it’s a guest speakers, or whether it’s each other and saying, Oh, you know what, I have not been doing this one little thing or, you know, you open my eyes to a whole new area. I could either be doing for myself doing for clients stuff like that. But that’s consistently what we’ve heard. Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, I think so too. If I can add real quick, I think that as digital marketing, or digital agency owners, most of the people that come to POFU Live there, they spend most of their time alone, right? They might have a couple of VAs, they might have small team, but most of them are remote, right? So come in here and being in a room for three days with people that have kind of the same ideas that you have. And some of them might be, you know, even ahead than you and some of them you might help to get to the point where you are right now, I think that that’s one of the best things that can possibly happen to an entrepreneur or digital agency owner. So yeah, yeah.

Bradley: And on a purely SEO basis, I want to say that it was awesome to hear how just putting the SEO shield together, the way that we teach works across the board, and you know, here in that for some several hours remembers that POFU Live to talk about how it’s like the cheat code. so it’s awesome because it’s validation beyond. I mean, we all knew it worked anyways. But it’s really good to hear when members actually take our advice and put it together the way that we teach. And then they get the same kind of results. And so that to me, was a very great takeaway to know that we’ve got something that’s been working for us for years that continues to work beyond updates to or through or despite of updates, you know what I mean? So it��s just very encouraging to see that. Yeah.

Adam: So Wayne, that popped into answer your question for myself, I think, you know, the biggest takeaway looking for something like either tactical or real world was Rob got up. Rob gave a great, great presentation and then he hopped on the whiteboard. And right and that’s where the magic happens. And so went through stuff, but he’s going to be sharing that with people in Bradley already mentioned SEO shield, and exactly what people can do. And basically taking the Battle Plan, combining it with what’s been done already and what will come in MGYB, and saying you now here’s what you got to do. So again, not to use it, but it’s on its way out. And I will share it with everybody as soon as we have something. Marco: I’d like to answer Wayne’s question because my biggest takeaway, not only this year, but also last year, is that the people who come to us, the action takers, they generally have already have everything as SEO wise that they need to get results. Because we’ve been proving it since since we started that when you implement what we give you, you get results. Now, what I often see and in my mini mastermind and in doing this for so long, is that people simply get stuck. I mean, it’s a joke, right? Don’t get stuck in the middle, but are you getting the middle of the big fat fuck you.

But it’s true guys. Do you want to finger prodding you in the middle? When you’re not doing anything? Is that what you’re really looking for? Or are you constantly going to go taking action and doing the things that you need to do to get to where you want to be. Because it’s not being where you have to be. That sucks. It sucks having to be somewhere and having to do something. But when you want to do it, and you like to do it, even if it’s something that you know you have to do, to continue on that path to POFU, it’s fulfilling. And you don’t get all of these different things joining and pulling you away. Because you’re hyper focus, you know that you can get results. We give them to you, we give you everything. You can come and reach out to us personally and we’ll answer your questions. We’ll do everything we can to help you make money, but we still have people stuck in the middle even mastermind members, we have people stuck in the middle, because they won’t do the shit that they’re supposed to do to be successful.

And so one of the things that you need to do to be successful is get with like minded people, and the only way you’re going to do that is by attending these events. And I don’t I don’t mean the bullshit events where you’re going to have hundreds of people. And you know you, you do that for networking. More than anything you do that to see how you’re going to make money and when and where do it do that. But when you really want to get with like minded people who are hyper focus on making money, that’s what you need to be in one of these events, the real ones, the ones where you get the gritty living by the ones where you get down to business, down with brass tacks and you get what you’re supposed to get so that you can continue making money.

Adam: definitely, hey, real quick got some questions on YouTube. I want to answer before we hop to the next question, which I love and click SEO. But first of all, Brian Kato says what’s up guys? Hey, good to meet you, man.

Do You Do Stacks For Dating Sites?

And then also another Brian was asking do you guys do stacks for dating sites. We don’t believe we have any restrictions. I mean, I don’t have I don’t think that crosses any lines for us building stacks, right?

Yeah, yeah. Because a lot of those can have things like male enhancement, and it depends on the affiliate that you’re running. We’re not going to do any of that, but I’m not gonna have my people don’t do any Yeah, we just don’t do it. So we don’t get them. Brian and you’re watching this just email support@mgyb.co. To tell them what your actual like what your keywords are, and they’ll write Marco they’ll be able to tell them from that whether or not they can build it, right. So no doubt No, no pharma, gambling. I don’t know. It’s epic. Guys. It has to be in English. Don’t ask us to do Hungarian because that’s the one and the money that we have to target to do a one of is not feasible.

Can You Build An Agency Just By Outsourcing To Whitelabels?

Yeah. I so click SEO as the next one, he says or she says can you build an agency just outsourcing to white labels? Yeah, you certainly can. I like good. Jordan Fowler followed up. He’s one of our mastermind members and very successful but agency owner. And so and I agree very much with what he said, and that is that you can but you have to understand what it is that you’re talking about for when you do get questions, or at least be honest and say that you’ll get the answer if you don’t have it, you know, whatever the case may be, you want to make sure that you’re not talking at a on with ignorance to a potential customer or client with, you know, without being able to answer the questions, and it’s something that you can learn as you go, depending on what all your service offerings are, you know, we were going to be talking a lot about that in the coming weeks or coming months for for, you know, different things that you can do to build an agency without you have to do all of the work. And so I think it’s important to understand the concepts, the foundation of it, then then from there, you can you know, you can learn how to best manage questions and such for each one of the services depending on what kind of also confidence level you have in your done for you service providers. Does that make sense? Yeah. So anybody want to comment on now I think we’re understanding just the basic Six at least I mean, at a minimum, but you know, I, this may not be a great analogy. I’m doing this on the fly, but I was like, can you own? Maybe a few automotive repair shops and not be a mechanic? Sure. Is it going to benefit you greatly to understand the business you’re in? Yeah, you know, better. So I’ll leave it at that. But I know Markco has got some more to say, well, we make it simple, right? We not only provide the services that you need them for you to, to get everything that you need to do for the client. But if you join the mastermind, then you get access to us so that if you run into tough questions, you can just come back, excuse me, come ask us. How do I answer this question? client asked me this. I need an answer what I say and we’ll give you an answer. And we’ve simplified every we boil it down to make it so simple. That I I think that people think that our simplicity means that it doesn’t work. And it’s just the other way around as people make it so complex, that they need to confuse you because it confuse, they can keep making money from. We want it we want to boil all that shit away all that garbage. All we want is that pure rock we want. We want that good.

Guys, that’s what because when we have that when we when we simplify it, that’s what really works. And that’s why this is this is so good in the way that we’ve set it all up for you to come and take advantage of it. It just rocks and all you have to do is join the mastermind. I mean, it’s so simple. I don’t know why more people don’t don’t do it. Maybe I don’t I don’t know doubters doubting Thomases, whatever it is, get past it, because you need to make so much money.

Cool. Thank you. Alright, so we’re almost Well, we still got about 10 minutes. Well, I think we’re gonna have to end it a couple minutes early, right? Yeah, cuz I know we’re streaming through yours. Oh, no.

What Else Can You Do To Improve The Rank Of A Website Aside From Having GMB Drive Stack, 3 Press Releases, And Aged Site?

Fitz says I have a site that is showing 27 Google console page three on main keyword manual search number one main keyword on GMB, drive stack, three press releases, aged site, what can I do to improve? I don’t know, because that was kind of a word salad at the end there. I’m not really sure what you were saying. But as far as if you’ve got a page three, excuse me keywords on page three in Search Console, it means that they’re closed with some proper maybe on page or maybe some supporting articles that through the same silo that would link to those that page specifically syndicated across your network, for example, that’s going to help to kind of reinforce the theme for that particular post. Again, this is all provided that you have proper on page if your structures poor on page, then it’s going to be difficult to push, but it will respond to so much better to these cut type of tactics if you have good good structure, good internal linking. So doing that syndicating to their you know, maybe adding some additional Drive files within a particular, you know, siloed Drive folder that would do the same thing link back to those posts, the supporting posts that were linking to, to kind of boost that the posts on that are showing up with the keywords, the pages that are showing up on page three, that kind of stuff. Those are all things that you can do. also getting traffic to them, either through organic means or through buying way to traffic to those new posts that have been created is going to help to kind of activate all of that stuff. So, I mean, obviously, you know, just all the stuff we talked about mirror that same sort of paid page or post on a G site. Once again, you can even iframe it in there. That’s all the stuff we get into in RYS Academy. Marco, do you have any comments on that?

Marco: Yeah, GMB post silos.

Bradley: Okay. Yeah, you gotta GMB. It says your, your, your question their Fitz. So yeah, you can silo those together as well. Use press releases press release silo stalking. We talked about that recently, too. It’s on our YouTube channel. So once again, you just got a mirror all that stuff through all the different assets that you have available. Okay, then link link below to all that. And once that’s done, you take it, you take you take all that and you run an embed gig and you link build to all that and then see where it see where it sits after that.

Hernan: nice.

Adam: You know, I just thought back to something where Wayne was asking us and you know, I realized I don’t think we mentioned that. Everyone here, you know, that asked about link building and embeds, you’ve got to talk to dead. Yeah. And for the people who know who that is, or has heard the him mentioned, he was at POFU Live two years in a row from India, flew over and pay for his ticket came over and joined us and today this time he’s dropping some bombs did a case study was helping people out? That was really cool. It was just really good to see. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. People appreciate it. So Wayne, that was another one that was cool because I know you know who he is. And for other people who who may think you know, he’s just somebody exists out in the internet like real deal came to down and joined us the second year in a row was all sounds awesome. That’s great. Well, listen, I don’t see any other questions. So I think it’s time we can wrap it up a few minutes early guys. So we want to say hi again from Dubai from Denver, Semantic Mastery from Denver except for Marco but we piped him in as usual. So we’ll see you guys next week. See you guys

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 258

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Announcement

Bradley: So that means we’re live now actually. We’re going live here. Okay, so Hey guys, this is Bradley Benner with Semantic Mastery. So let’s see what we’re trying to get a live Hump Day hangouts going here.

Hernan: So get your camera.

Bradley: Activate the camera. Yeah. Sweet. And then looking at you. So bear with us. We’re trying to see the pin, I think.

Adam: Okay, yeah. So we’re going to try this, everybody. Welcome to the episode at 258 Semantic Mastery is in Denver. Hey, I just wanted to say hello. Now that we’ve actually got this up and going and we’re going to do our usual thing real quick. If you’re joining us for the first time, I might be a little confused because clearly we are we’re still trying to figure out how to work computers. We didn’t get Marco and you can join on hard work on the technical side, back in. But while he’s doing that, I’m gonna go down and say hello to everybody real quick starting on my right here with Chris. How are you doing?

Chris: I’m doing good.

Adam: And normally I would ask you what the weather’s like. Stupid so it nice. Yeah, it’s about 70-75 pretty nice. I’m Adam. And next to me, of course, is Bradley Benner.

Bradley: Hi. And last but not least went on over there who’s being goofy

Hernan: Hey everybody

Adam: Oh, man looks like Marco is coming on so as soon as he unmutes himself Marco if you want to say hi and you’re in here say hello to everybody

Marco: I don’t want to say hello in any thinking body man. I’m just playing What’s up everybody? Good to be here. It’s good to be here. Hump Day Hangout. I’m going to join you guys. Oh, yeah. My ready.

Bradley: Alright, cool. So do we have any announcements or like are we going to do normal announcements are we gonna go through it?

Adam: You know, we just for those of you who know or don’t know, obviously we just got done with POFU Live event here in Denver. Get to meet up with returning people as well as some new people which is amazing. Sharing stuff in small groups there’s a lot of fun just had a blast and then of course carrying that on meeting up outside whether it’s for lunch whether we did some evening events that were a lot of fun and you know we wanted to give people cuz we were hearing from people you know I missed it this year, you know, I couldn’t make it things got mixed up, that’s fine. But we want to give you a special offer to get in now and I’ll put that on the page. If you want to grab a VIP ticket, you can grab that now it’s going to be up for a limited period of time and you can save a bundle on that and come join us next year so if you you know you’re one of those people are saying hey, I will be there next year I want to be then this is the time to do that.

Nice you guys got the figured out over here. Yeah, I don’t think so. So no worries and other than that, I want to say for the people watching today maybe for the first time you are in the right place for watching us you can check out the replays of course on YouTube on Semantic Mastery channel just hit subscribe stay up to date with those. If you ever have any digital marketing questions just come semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, ask us. Of course if you’re live you can get a little bit more out of it by clarifying or giving us some feedback. But you know, we understand you can always make it live so you can just ask your questions, check out the replay. And then the next step for you would be the Battle Plan if you want repeatable processes for your SEO and digital marketing, and check it out at battleplan.semanticmastery.com and for everyone else, who wants to take things up a few notches, you know, you want to be around the people who are doing what you’re doing, which is trying to either grow your agency grow your business, then you need to be in the mastermind. And you can find out more about that at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. Right on cool. And last but not least, because we got several questions about it this week, but if you need done for you services, which should be everyone whether you’re doing it for yourself, or you’re doing it for client projects, go to MGYB.co. All right stuff syndication networks are West drive, stacks, press releases, links, embeds, and a lot more coming. So head over there and get that stuff done. And as far as announcements on my end, that’s about it. Marco Are you guys we got anything else we need to touch base on

Good no good. Yeah, we got a lot of questions so let’s go into that standby cuz I gotta try to find it.

Okay, so it looks like the first one is from Mike he says thanks for the great information I want to try to get back to you by mentioned that you have a good intro video but it has very high volume compared the video volume level hope it’s okay to say it. Thanks. That’s a good thing. Can you make a note of that too? Yeah, view that is you’re gonna try to edit our processes if that’s the case. So thank you for that, Mike. We do appreciate that.

URL Structure For Siloed Website

Next is a question. He says. What about strip the category base from category slug so it looks like a page site.com. Katie’s asking obviously about the URL structure for a siloed website. Because I’m Yeah, yes, he’s asking if he can use the restricted category slash post name out of the permalink structure for silo and absolutely you can just using post name premier link structure, it’s fine. It’s called a virtual silo works just as well as a regular siloed would Sorry, just bug does it in the face.

What Are Your Thoughts On Having A Syndicated Branded Network Using High Quality Spun Articles?

The next is vitality says hello Hope everyone is doing great. What are your thoughts on syndication network versus syndication network on the branding network using high quality spun articles readable that can this bring more SEO benefit? I mean, I know you don’t need to I would on your primary tier one branded network, you’re just going to be republishing content from your blog anyways, if that’s what you mean publishing spun articles to your blog, I would recommend now and recommend that instead, you would use curated content, it’s better content and creates co citation. And you don’t have to be a subject matter expert. You can just find other good content out there that you can grab snippets from and share we’ve got a product called content kingpin, which shows you exactly how to do that. That’s what I recommend is just going to read better it’s going to be more valuable. Produce more benefit than spun crappy articles would be if yes, what you mean. Marco, do you want to comment on that?

Marco: That’s exactly what I told him in the Facebook group, I just wanted him to come here. So that we could get go a little bit more in depth. And just to make sure that we hammered that home right that you’re doing, you’re way better off with curated content, citing sources and all of that versus just a crappy spun article that nobody knows what the hell is saying. One of the things that’s important here is that as your tier one brand, and you want it to look good, and if someone happens to come along to your tier one brand and you want that person possibly converting or getting into your funnel so that they end up on the website, and they end up in your sales funnel. And so what do you want that person to see in your tier one branded? Which is your brand amplified? Do you want them to see a crappy spun article that makes absolutely no sense or do you want to curate something that convert that person into a website visitor and perhaps a client or a customer. That’s the question that you need to ask.

What Are The Best Techniques To Let Google Recognize Entities?

Right on. So the next one is from Steve. He says, Hey SM team, what are the best techniques for getting Google to recognize entities? For those doing GMB or Google My Business? Google readily creates knowledge panels or me, or excuse me, MREIDs. But what about those working with the web properties? People products, etc? What can we do beyond schema and Id pages and the G stack? Getting a Wikipedia entry clearly works, but it’s very difficult for most gyms, taxis probably wouldn’t married a Wikipedia page, but it does, but gets in MREID through GMB. So, how do we level up the field for non GMB entities? Well, that sounds like a perfect question for Marco, I quickly would say that, you know, creating all of the syndication network and drive stack and all of that SEO shield including the ID page, all of it together is going to help having the structured data using sameas attributes is going to help. But there are other things that you can do, for example, have a paid account of some sort that helps to validate the entity as well. Meaning like pay Google for something AdWords campaigns, or, you know, Google Ads campaigns or for extra drive storage, all of the above, a G Suite account, something like that. But Marco, what else can you add to that?

Marco: Now, you just went over exactly what he supposed to do. If you can’t go in and get a verified GMB, which has a completed was not the complete entity in Google, because you can add social media and all these other things. Then what you need to do is you go in and you verify it another way and the best way that I know is getting that credit card on file, whether it’s a company credit card, a personal credit card, where you’re directly related to the company. What that’s going to do is it turns you into into Google’s customer, right other than a mage, and elite, and someone who is just abusing services, rather than payment, it gets that credit card on file. And what happens is, you know, yeah, you can have fake credit cards or whatever. But but that belongs to someone, it’s a thing. Then, on the web, it’s it’s in their database. It belongs to a person, but it belongs to a company. So you just went a long way towards validating the fact that you’re real. You’re not just another mooch, another leech, then you do everything else that we recommend. Absolutely. The schema, the @ID amplify it through the drive stack plus Gsite, press releases, I mean, companies do that on a regular basis, they announced their news, and then link building to all of those to just help to solidify everything. That’s what’s going to get you when you can’t get a GMB and Google understands that then there’s other way, getting into all of the different data aggregates.

Bradley: crunchbase would also be a good one.

Marco: crunchbase is perfect, but I was going to also say wiki data because Google is drawing directly from wiki data, you say that Wikipedia isn’t feasible, or sometimes it would merit. But your company wouldn’t merit a Wikipedia entry, a Wikipedia page, about the company and about everything that it does. So you pay someone to get you on Wikipedia, you pay someone to get your Wiki data. I just as interesting as I just posted to my partners this morning, about getting into Wikipedia, wiki data, for Semantic Mastery, because I know a guy that does it and his prices are really, really good. So that’s absolutely you get everywhere. That RankBrain goes to aggregate data about your entity about your thing, and make sure that it’s consistent throughout citations. I can’t remember if you mentioned citations, but that’s a perfect way. citations are a really good way. It doesn’t have to be just for local. It can just be your company. Right?

Can You Share Some Basic Guidelines For Link Building?

Right on next one is Mike. Mike says hello everyone. Can you please share some basic guidelines about backlinks specifically about the text when doing backlinks? When to use exact match keywords for anchor text link or my brand anchor text when writing a small post or short reply on forums, what information you suggest to include in the text and what links? Okay, there’s a lot of questions squeezed into this one, Mike.

So on a kind of a broad level. Personally, I don’t really sweat backlink ratios as far as anchor text ratio is like I used two years ago because I mainly just do everything through naked URLs and like any other any real backlinks that are going to be built are going to be built by my team and MGYB by Dadea. And he knows what to do. You just provide them with your seat set of keywords and he creates all the ratios to where I don’t really bother with it because I don’t really build my links outside of what we have him do.

But really, I use mainly when I’m doing like press releases, for example, because I do publish a lot of press releases, it’s almost 90%, just naked URLs, do brand anchors, and very rarely actually use any keyword anchor text, because it’s not really now off page, I mean, on page, that’s a different story. So, you know, you want to have, if you have content silos on page, you want to make sure that you’re linking through the content, you know, to daisy chain things together using variations of keywords that belong in that specific silo, but not always the same page because or, excuse me, the same keyword anchor. But as far as, you know, link building or blogging even in by the way, when you do that, if you’re syndicating content to a network, it’s going to make sure that you’re not always hammering and getting External links from even your syndication network, your branded network, always pointing back with the same anchor text. That’s why you want to do that.

But once again, you also have all those keywords that we add the same type of keywords that we would add to a drive stack build would be the ones that we would add to the link building campaign. And it’s a way to just continue to push relevancy in at different tiers. There’s different sets of rules as to what you can do as far as anchor text ratios, right. So again, I just hand that over to Dadea and he handles all of it. You want to add to that? Anybody?

Adam: Not to that, but to the next part, so

Marco: Okay, yeah, yeah, that first part generic naked, and brand anchors, right? Yeah. Because what we want to do is what we want to create link diversity. Once you have that, then it’s a lot more powerful when you hit it with that with that with whatever anchor text it is that the broad right and then you can go really eating hone in on the exact match, because your your link diversity is going to withstand some exact match anchors. If you don’t do that, though, if you don’t get those generic naked brand anchors and whatever you can in there, then what’s going to happen is you’re going to get it totally unnatural over optimization problems. And if you if you raise enough red flags that way, it could cause a manual which is when you get into all kinds of problems.

Bradley: Yeah, you’re gonna do it,

Adam: the tech you were writing a small post or a short reply in the forums, what information do you suggest including the text and what links? For me, I mean, I start out by saying that, you know, it’s, it’s too vague, but if you’re just doing this, I look at this as you probably want to look at it more from Hey, what information makes sense and if you’re doing this for an actual strategy, that you’re putting information out there, that increases the likelihood that your post is going to get traffic which I understand sounds kind of goofy, but for a forum that it’s it’s well received, right? And basically, I’m saying quality you know, don’t just say I’ve got to include x y&z you know, if you’re going in here and doing this for a long term strategy, I would say make sure you’re putting out quality information.

Bradley: Not only that, but if you really want to know how to test what type of a text and link to use as your best link for a forum signature tested in AdWords like search, you know what I’m saying? Because if you can get your headline, and you know your brief description and and the link and the offer to convert on through AdWords, and that’s what you put in your forum signature, and you’ll probably have a lot more likelihood of it doing well. I mean, it’s, it’s because you could test it quicker as my point other than trying to have some signature line that really isn’t very compelling, it doesn’t convert very well. And you have to wait for weeks or months to get any results to determine that, right? Because you’ve done a lot of posts, you can really kind of hone that in very quickly using AdWords or Google ads, and then add those to your forum signatures, if that makes sense.

Okay, anything else? Is it better to link to most of the times the homepage or a specific service product page? hope it’s not too complex of a question was a lot of questions you squeeze in there. I think it depends on what your call to action is within the content that you’re using for the link building. Right. I think it makes sense to link to the homepage at times, but also to more specific.

You also, you know, more specific product and or service pages. However, you also got to keep in mind, like, what is the purpose of the content that you’re doing and the overall strategy for that campaign? Because if you’re trying to push, you know, specific, a specific keyword like for particular siloed, for example, you can hit any one of the pieces of content within that silo, which you would call a deep link, because it’s not going to matter if you have the dawn page structured correct, which is what we talked about a lot in the mastermind, then anywhere that you’re going to hit that particular silo with, you know, inbound link, equity, it’s going to benefit the entire siloed. Right, so you wouldn’t want to comment on that anybody good or no? I would just say, Well, no, sorry. No, as a general strategy, he should be probably looking at distributing backlinks through his inner period.

Adam: But yeah, beyond that, like Bradley said, it just depends on again, what you’re, what you’re referencing, or what exactly you’re doing, but you definitely want to distribution

Bradley: Yeah, yeah, I mean, in other words, you don’t want to just always hammer one or the other. Does that make sense? You want you do want to split it up and spread it out. Crazy be we can have it.

Marco: Well, what matters here is how the website is set up, right? Right setting up the whole the homepage to convert, or are you setting up a category right pages as categories or categories as pages where you’re looking to push your silo through your supporting poles, and then that top market level category is going to be what you’re trying to rank because that’s where you want people to convert, actually, you want people to convert all along the way. But just to be sure on the question, if your link building to an inner page, right, then you make sure that you have it set up so that you’re pushing that top market level category up, because that’s what’s going to bring all of the other keywords with it. It doesn’t make sense to only link build to the homepage, if what you’re trying to rank results somewhere on an inner page in the category or in a post, or maybe it’s a lander, within the website, it all has to do with how everything is set up, how your website is set up. Should be how you direct your link building.

Bradley: Awesome. Thanks, man.

Adam: Sorry, real quick. I’ve got to bring this up now. So Wayne has a question for you. It’s the most recent one. But says Bradley, Your voice sounds very different today. Is this part of the new makeover for Hump Day hangouts to make it more sexy? Okay, thanks, Wayne. I’m not really sure how to answer that one. Yeah, let’s take a compliment. Yeah, just couldn’t we have to read that? Alright,

How Long Before You Can See The Results Of Battle Plan 3.0?

so next one is I have been following the Battle Plan 3.0 for a GMB asset. It’s been about two weeks since I followed steps one and two of the plan. How long before I find out the results? I don’t know if I’m facing stiff competition or middle of the road competition. How long do I have to wait before I hit it again? I did. I didn’t want to read set the G algorithm Thanks. Okay, um, put all the pieces together. You know, that’s what we talked about, if you use the Battle Plan, it’s not a, if you just do 25% of the work, you won’t get 25% of the results, if that makes sense, because you put all the pieces together and it has a more like a, an exponential effect, if you will. So it will work a lot better if you put all of the components together to create that entity loop or that SEO shield, whatever you want to call it. So if one and two if you put one in two pieces together or completed steps one and two, and you know, you know, complete the next steps to and I wouldn’t stop until all that entire asset creation. You know that SEO shield is really put together. So we’re going to be talking a lot more about that in the coming weeks for some of the stuff that we’ve got coming up. But Marco, do you want to add to that? I think he’s muted.

Marco: Sorry. I do want to talk about this a little bit? Because something about this really stands out to me. And I don’t want to pick on him, because I see that he’s just beginning. It’s following the Battle Plan. He’s in step two. But dude, how can you not know your competition? If you’re just starting out? Like sometimes when you get to the point where you know how much power you can push, when you know exactly what you’re doing, then the competition doesn’t matter. It’s just a matter of what you’re going to do to take the competition down. You’re at the start so you have to do thorough competition analysis to know exactly how much power it is that you’re going to need to push. Because a lot of this, you might do too much, and it might not be necessary, or you may be doing too little and more might be necessary. So I mean, you have to know what are people paying for AdWords in this niche? Google ads, how much are they paying? are they paying for Facebook ads, YouTube ads, other ads? How many competing pages does it have? Is it in the 2000s? Is it in the millions but singles is it in the 10s of millions is that in the hundreds of millions? Once you have all of that together, you’ll know exactly how tough and how stiff the competition is and then you’ll know exactly what to do. But the plan is still the same right syndication network, drive stack plus Gsite, press releases link building, and then embed runs and link building. And then you you do all of that before you start analyzing the data and seeing where your project has landed in rank. Because you’ll see that different keywords rank differently, different niches rank differently. So you have to know whether you need to isolate one of your market level keywords one of your top keywords that may be stuck second, third page, you may have to isolate that and hit that individually. Once you’ve done everything.

So without completing everything part one of the plan, as Bradley said, finish everything first. Once you do that link building one which it which is which is the final piece, you let it sit 21 days, four weeks, and then you come back and analyze the data and see what it is that you have to do. But guys starting out, when you’re starting in this, it’s a must for you to be able to analyze the competition and understand what it is that you’re up against. Because whether it’s you investing your money, or whether you’re investing your clients’ money you have what you’re going to spend your money on, and how much of it.

Adam: Yeah, and I’m not going to be able to get the quote right, Marco, maybe you can help me but this reminds me of what you said, might have been during your talk of POFU Live, but basically like Sun Tzu and the art of war and saying you want to come to the battle knowing you’re already going to win and you can’t do that. If you don’t know what your competition is.

Marco: You have to know that you’re going to win the war before you fight the first battle. I’m paraphrasing because I can’t remember the exact quote of him but but it’s along those lines. How can you know whether you going into you know, you can’t go blind into battle I might a bow and arrow and I’m going up against how it’s all right. I’m going up against a nuclear missile that well I’m not going to do very very well. So once once you lay it all out, and you’re absolutely right, it is war. And you understand your enemy your competition is your enemy always. And you know exactly what it is that you have to do to take down your enemy Well, you you win the war and you haven’t done and think about it all you’ve done is study the enemy. It was I love Sun Tzu and thank you. That’s awesome.

Is It Possible To Target National Keywords By Using Verified GMBs?

Alright, so the next one says Is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMBs? So are gonna hand that one over to you because I know you talked about different strategies for that kind of stuff. He’s got an example a follow up question next. So again, is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMB? For example, a long tail keyword like how to lose weight?

Marco: This isn’t totally an independent, it depends question. Yeah, what is it that you’re that you’re trying to do because one thing is local. And what you’re targeting is the proximity factor and then overriding the proximity factor so that you can get into outlying areas and target those. You can totally do that. You can totally extend the centroid and somebody was just somebody who guys who was in our local GMB Pro just came out with extending the centroid in in his own training his own original train, and I’m not going there. I’m just saying what the fuck man? But yes, you can extend the century and there are different ways that we can for extending the century, so you can totally do it, you’re going to need a whole lot of GMBs.

Because in a place like like New York City, Chicago, LA, you’re going to need to push a lot of power inside inside just I’m going to get one GMB do a whole bunch of pose, and then that’s going to get me where I need to go. It Again, it depends on the competition. Now, if it’s a national keyword, like cosmetic manufacturer, and there’s no location, like you don’t need to use location, there’s nothing location based. Why would you target it with a GMB? Other than to create like a national headquarters for the brand, but that would be branding. That wouldn’t be so so this is this question is kind of confusing. Yes. I don’t know about you guys. Because because they were talking about two different things here. And maybe what what you what you’re trying but what you’re thinking is you want to become the knowledge panel for the keywords. Well, that’s brand plus keyword association. And I think Fabian is in RYS Academy Reloaded and we teach that all day long we we should we show how to do that? I mean, we’ve been doing it for a while will be going in five years and mates and says Bradley ranked is Virginia SEO, SEO Virginia? So yes, it can be done. It depends on what you’re trying to do.

All right, but I’ll take you to the next question lockout Marco, you guys. It’s like back and forth. Is it? Yeah, so I totally said what I meant if or is maybe hosting original content on the money site, but on the branding network, instead of syndicating content, hosting high quality spun versions of posts from money site. Best regards? No, I mean, there’s no reason to. That’s what I’m saying. Like if it’s your branding, network, your branded network, then there’s no reason that you would need do post spunversions of your money site post because I’ve just republished the money site posts again, I don’t recommend using spun content as any on page or any first tier link building stuff, because it’s just not a good idea to do that now it’s even if it’s high quality spun stuff, which I guess you can still get away with that if it’s done very, very well. Okay, cool.

Will An Existing (Non-Semantic Mastery) GSite And Drive Stack Interfere With The Ones Being Built By MGYB?

Next one, Katie says Hey guys, I was talking to a dentist about his SEO he told me his son was doing it but he was getting nowhere I spoke to the son and he told me he bought some gigs on Fiverr for Google sites and drive files I told the dentist you get what you pay for. And then I may be able to help do it properly. Can I go to MGYB and by G site and drive stack for this one or is it too late? Well, the current g sites are drive stack his son setup interfere with the one MGYB would build. I don’t think the sun will let me delete all of the work he has done. Thanks.

Well, I’ll let Marco also answer on this one but I would absolutely get a new drive stack and G site that is built correctly. Which will likely the other one because the other one was not put together properly. So it’s not really pushing any relevancy or entity validation, if that makes sense. So once it’s done right, that would be the one that would come be associated with your entity because it will be done correctly. But Marco, what would you say was is it critical that the other one would be removed or deleted?

Marco: No it won’t matter and as a matter of fact what what you could do is add those satellites to push into the new drive stack was decide that we’re going to create for for you which is done right, then you can link building to all of those which is only going to help I mean, it’s not gonna hurt. Absolutely not. But you what you do need is that is that friend that drive stack empty site created my way, not somebody else’s way. Because they always skip corners. They never do the work that they’re supposed to think about. And I’ve said this before, it takes between six and eight hours for a train building. Jessen, by the way that the original RYS to do one and do it properly. Someone was going to charge you, maybe, I don’t know, 50 bucks. And they’re going to spend six hours, maybe eight hours building and drive stack? No, no, it’s not gonna happen. The money just isn’t there, right for five bucks. 10 bucks, 15 bucks. We charge what we charge for a reason. You and you’re absolutely right that and when I saw this, I couldn’t believe it you do get what you pay for. And if you go to Fiverr sometimes you’ve got some really good gigs in there that do a specific thing. But when you’re talking about pushing power, the Rank Your Shit Academy Reloaded me. There’s only one way to do it. You go with the original.

I agree. Yeah, this one I would probably be careful if I was in this position, because now I’m thinking okay, there’s someone else in there. So this to me goes back to managing client expectations and saying, Well, now there’s a son who’s got, you know, backend access to everything. So you might want to be managing to him. The son’s involved and he’s screwing around with stuff on that I don’t know about then, you know, I can’t be held responsible for some of this stuff. Yeah. working against our goals, so I’d be careful with it.

Okay, moving on the next one. See, I’m trying to find a guy stand by me. I think Jordan had a good one. He said mastermind plus sub mastermind group equals the cat’s meow. I totally agree with that. It’s not a question but I like it.

Do You Work With Third Party Syndication Networks And Stacks That Are Not Setup Correctly?

Okay, so the next question I see is I have questions about your done for you service syndication and stacks. I’ve had other vendors create those before but don’t think they were set up correctly. I see a theme here any any any problem with having you do them again? No, actually, that’s the best thing to do is just come on, come get it done correctly. And then you can analyze the ones that we’ve built for you versus the ones that you got from other vendors and, you know, figure out what was done wrong and apply it to the old ones. Yeah, yeah.

That idea. So yeah, that’s what I would do, because that’s what a lot of people, I mean, see that I go by RYS Academy. And that way you can go through the training and then you can understand what was done and then go fix the ones but again, your time is best spent on just purchasing them and letting somebody else do all that manual work, right.

Do You Create One Google Stack For Each Service Offering URL?

So the next one is Nathan says, when you build these stacks for people I know you ask them for the main keyword However, what if they offer multiple services? Do you create one g stack for each URL? For example, the company that offered HVAC and plumbing services do you create a stack for each URL or service offering a company slash and he went through several examples now, I mean, you can but another way to do it is to have a brand stack created, which is what we do. We recommend for whatever your primary keyword is or keywords, top level keywords, and then from there, once you get it back, and at some point, we’re going to provide this as an additional service, but once you get the branded drive stack back, you can go in and clone the folders that are contained in the the primary drive stack folder, and then re optimize that it does require some manual work, but for each one of your silos or product services or categories on your site, so that way, you’re mirroring your internal files from the drive stack inside of a branded and overall branded Drive folder. So again, you’re just building that relevancy, you’re going to mirror the same type of site structure that you have on your website into your drive stack. It does require some manual work. But the most important thing is to have that branded drive stack with the top-level keywords associated with that brand. So that makes sense. And Marco, do you want to come in on that?

Marco: No, that’s what I would have said. No, we’re not going to create both. If you submit HVAC, and if you submit plumbing, and you, you asked us to do keyword research, we’re going to give you everything that’s related to that. If nothing you have to do your own keyword research and submit the keywords that you want related to your brand which as Bradley said, we asked for about 50 and go for top keywords. Don’t go for the long tails, the long tails you’re going to get as you build it out as you build your supporting post and as you build your inner pages and you mirror your G site is up your money site on on the G site. But Bradley just so you guys know and I just got the news yesterday we’re testing the drive stack and G site as we speak. It’s coming right it’s gonna make it a lot easier. And right now like if he wants to make it easier on himself and clone, the drive stacks, then what he can do is he can make a donation to my charity and then right to Christie for the webinars right through charity webinars for last year and the scripts, and I’ll put the link to the donation. That’s awesome. Thank you.

And I’m not seeing any other questions you guys see any more? No will give people a minute here and I know that there’s a little bit of a delay here. There’s not much delay through zoom though.

So um, I did see a question in YouTube here. I said we’re in Colorado, we’re still in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, we’re a very short period. So what is the URL if people want to get the early bird discount for next year POFU Live go to pofulive.com/2022. I’m pulling up to make sure I’m not lying, pofulive.com/2020 and make sure you use the coupon code 2020 or 2020 action taker. Yeah. That’s going to be the lowest price ever. Oh, yeah. It definitely was a good event. I thought it was really good. Well, actually, let’s touch on that.

Real quick we got a few minutes we can wait for some questions here I want to share with people so we had Catherine Jones. So if you haven’t seen her you can probably get search for CF design school Semantic Mastery, check out a webinar we had with her, she dropped some good knowledge for everybody. Especially a lot of the people, they’re growing their agencies growing their consulting and you know, she taught them and us about funnel design but not just you know, hey, me do this to make your funnel look pretty. But you know, it’s about converting, not being pretty. And then how you can do this and how in a short period of time, you can create these things that you know, you can really crush it in terms of selling to clients or adding it onto your agency. So that was pretty cool. I don’t guys have anything else to say about Katherine’s presentation I was gonna get and then Adam Benjamin was another one of our guest speakers. That was great guys got a ton of sales experience. This was really cool talking to him getting some insights about basically kind of brand positioning, which tied in really well with what her non talked about about just one second.

Part of an audience presentation was about personal branding. And then how you can help yourself basically by growing yourself as an authority and it’s not some, you know, 25 step crazy, you know, diagram you got to follow to do this it was it was pretty simple, but combining that with what I think Adam said would be really powerful, so cool

What Was The Biggest Takeaway That You Can Share From POFU 2019?

Wayne says what was the biggest takeaway that you can share from POFU Live 2019? Uh, did you should go to pofulive.com/2020 and Wayne because what we want to see you there, and to you know, I’m not dodging the question, I’ll let these guys answer it. But like we’ve told people and like all of the testimonial say when we just ask people, hey, what do you want to share about Cooper life? You know, hey, content was great. It took something away immediately that paid for it. But on top of that, it’s you know, interacting with people, and that’s what you get out of a small group. So whether it’s us whether it’s a guest speakers, or whether it’s each other and saying, Oh, you know what, I have not been doing this one little thing or, you know, you open my eyes to a whole new area. I could either be doing for myself doing for clients stuff like that. But that’s consistently what we’ve heard. Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, I think so too. If I can add real quick, I think that as digital marketing, or digital agency owners, most of the people that come to POFU Live there, they spend most of their time alone, right? They might have a couple of VAs, they might have small team, but most of them are remote, right? So come in here and being in a room for three days with people that have kind of the same ideas that you have. And some of them might be, you know, even ahead than you and some of them you might help to get to the point where you are right now, I think that that’s one of the best things that can possibly happen to an entrepreneur or digital agency owner. So yeah, yeah.

Bradley: And on a purely SEO basis, I want to say that it was awesome to hear how just putting the SEO shield together, the way that we teach works across the board, and you know, here in that for some several hours remembers that POFU Live to talk about how it’s like the cheat code. so it’s awesome because it’s validation beyond. I mean, we all knew it worked anyways. But it’s really good to hear when members actually take our advice and put it together the way that we teach. And then they get the same kind of results. And so that to me, was a very great takeaway to know that we’ve got something that’s been working for us for years that continues to work beyond updates to or through or despite of updates, you know what I mean? So it’s just very encouraging to see that. Yeah.

Adam: So Wayne, that popped into answer your question for myself, I think, you know, the biggest takeaway looking for something like either tactical or real world was Rob got up. Rob gave a great, great presentation and then he hopped on the whiteboard. And right and that’s where the magic happens. And so went through stuff, but he’s going to be sharing that with people in Bradley already mentioned SEO shield, and exactly what people can do. And basically taking the Battle Plan, combining it with what’s been done already and what will come in MGYB, and saying you now here’s what you got to do. So again, not to use it, but it’s on its way out. And I will share it with everybody as soon as we have something. Marco: I’d like to answer Wayne’s question because my biggest takeaway, not only this year, but also last year, is that the people who come to us, the action takers, they generally have already have everything as SEO wise that they need to get results. Because we’ve been proving it since since we started that when you implement what we give you, you get results. Now, what I often see and in my mini mastermind and in doing this for so long, is that people simply get stuck. I mean, it’s a joke, right? Don’t get stuck in the middle, but are you getting the middle of the big fat fuck you.

But it’s true guys. Do you want to finger prodding you in the middle? When you’re not doing anything? Is that what you’re really looking for? Or are you constantly going to go taking action and doing the things that you need to do to get to where you want to be. Because it’s not being where you have to be. That sucks. It sucks having to be somewhere and having to do something. But when you want to do it, and you like to do it, even if it’s something that you know you have to do, to continue on that path to POFU, it’s fulfilling. And you don’t get all of these different things joining and pulling you away. Because you’re hyper focus, you know that you can get results. We give them to you, we give you everything. You can come and reach out to us personally and we’ll answer your questions. We’ll do everything we can to help you make money, but we still have people stuck in the middle even mastermind members, we have people stuck in the middle, because they won’t do the shit that they’re supposed to do to be successful.

And so one of the things that you need to do to be successful is get with like minded people, and the only way you’re going to do that is by attending these events. And I don’t I don’t mean the bullshit events where you’re going to have hundreds of people. And you know you, you do that for networking. More than anything you do that to see how you’re going to make money and when and where do it do that. But when you really want to get with like minded people who are hyper focus on making money, that’s what you need to be in one of these events, the real ones, the ones where you get the gritty living by the ones where you get down to business, down with brass tacks and you get what you’re supposed to get so that you can continue making money.

Adam: definitely, hey, real quick got some questions on YouTube. I want to answer before we hop to the next question, which I love and click SEO. But first of all, Brian Kato says what’s up guys? Hey, good to meet you, man.

Do You Do Stacks For Dating Sites?

And then also another Brian was asking do you guys do stacks for dating sites. We don’t believe we have any restrictions. I mean, I don’t have I don’t think that crosses any lines for us building stacks, right?

Yeah, yeah. Because a lot of those can have things like male enhancement, and it depends on the affiliate that you’re running. We’re not going to do any of that, but I’m not gonna have my people don’t do any Yeah, we just don’t do it. So we don’t get them. Brian and you’re watching this just email support@mgyb.co. To tell them what your actual like what your keywords are, and they’ll write Marco they’ll be able to tell them from that whether or not they can build it, right. So no doubt No, no pharma, gambling. I don’t know. It’s epic. Guys. It has to be in English. Don’t ask us to do Hungarian because that’s the one and the money that we have to target to do a one of is not feasible.

Can You Build An Agency Just By Outsourcing To Whitelabels?

Yeah. I so click SEO as the next one, he says or she says can you build an agency just outsourcing to white labels? Yeah, you certainly can. I like good. Jordan Fowler followed up. He’s one of our mastermind members and very successful but agency owner. And so and I agree very much with what he said, and that is that you can but you have to understand what it is that you’re talking about for when you do get questions, or at least be honest and say that you’ll get the answer if you don’t have it, you know, whatever the case may be, you want to make sure that you’re not talking at a on with ignorance to a potential customer or client with, you know, without being able to answer the questions, and it’s something that you can learn as you go, depending on what all your service offerings are, you know, we were going to be talking a lot about that in the coming weeks or coming months for for, you know, different things that you can do to build an agency without you have to do all of the work. And so I think it’s important to understand the concepts, the foundation of it, then then from there, you can you know, you can learn how to best manage questions and such for each one of the services depending on what kind of also confidence level you have in your done for you service providers. Does that make sense? Yeah. So anybody want to comment on now I think we’re understanding just the basic Six at least I mean, at a minimum, but you know, I, this may not be a great analogy. I’m doing this on the fly, but I was like, can you own? Maybe a few automotive repair shops and not be a mechanic? Sure. Is it going to benefit you greatly to understand the business you’re in? Yeah, you know, better. So I’ll leave it at that. But I know Markco has got some more to say, well, we make it simple, right? We not only provide the services that you need them for you to, to get everything that you need to do for the client. But if you join the mastermind, then you get access to us so that if you run into tough questions, you can just come back, excuse me, come ask us. How do I answer this question? client asked me this. I need an answer what I say and we’ll give you an answer. And we’ve simplified every we boil it down to make it so simple. That I I think that people think that our simplicity means that it doesn’t work. And it’s just the other way around as people make it so complex, that they need to confuse you because it confuse, they can keep making money from. We want it we want to boil all that shit away all that garbage. All we want is that pure rock we want. We want that good.

Guys, that’s what because when we have that when we when we simplify it, that’s what really works. And that’s why this is this is so good in the way that we’ve set it all up for you to come and take advantage of it. It just rocks and all you have to do is join the mastermind. I mean, it’s so simple. I don’t know why more people don’t don’t do it. Maybe I don’t I don’t know doubters doubting Thomases, whatever it is, get past it, because you need to make so much money.

Cool. Thank you. Alright, so we’re almost Well, we still got about 10 minutes. Well, I think we’re gonna have to end it a couple minutes early, right? Yeah, cuz I know we’re streaming through yours. Oh, no.

What Else Can You Do To Improve The Rank Of A Website Aside From Having GMB Drive Stack, 3 Press Releases, And Aged Site?

Fitz says I have a site that is showing 27 Google console page three on main keyword manual search number one main keyword on GMB, drive stack, three press releases, aged site, what can I do to improve? I don’t know, because that was kind of a word salad at the end there. I’m not really sure what you were saying. But as far as if you’ve got a page three, excuse me keywords on page three in Search Console, it means that they’re closed with some proper maybe on page or maybe some supporting articles that through the same silo that would link to those that page specifically syndicated across your network, for example, that’s going to help to kind of reinforce the theme for that particular post. Again, this is all provided that you have proper on page if your structures poor on page, then it’s going to be difficult to push, but it will respond to so much better to these cut type of tactics if you have good good structure, good internal linking. So doing that syndicating to their you know, maybe adding some additional Drive files within a particular, you know, siloed Drive folder that would do the same thing link back to those posts, the supporting posts that were linking to, to kind of boost that the posts on that are showing up with the keywords, the pages that are showing up on page three, that kind of stuff. Those are all things that you can do. also getting traffic to them, either through organic means or through buying way to traffic to those new posts that have been created is going to help to kind of activate all of that stuff. So, I mean, obviously, you know, just all the stuff we talked about mirror that same sort of paid page or post on a G site. Once again, you can even iframe it in there. That’s all the stuff we get into in RYS Academy. Marco, do you have any comments on that?

Marco: Yeah, GMB post silos.

Bradley: Okay. Yeah, you gotta GMB. It says your, your, your question their Fitz. So yeah, you can silo those together as well. Use press releases press release silo stalking. We talked about that recently, too. It’s on our YouTube channel. So once again, you just got a mirror all that stuff through all the different assets that you have available. Okay, then link link below to all that. And once that’s done, you take it, you take you take all that and you run an embed gig and you link build to all that and then see where it see where it sits after that.

Hernan: nice.

Adam: You know, I just thought back to something where Wayne was asking us and you know, I realized I don’t think we mentioned that. Everyone here, you know, that asked about link building and embeds, you’ve got to talk to dead. Yeah. And for the people who know who that is, or has heard the him mentioned, he was at POFU Live two years in a row from India, flew over and pay for his ticket came over and joined us and today this time he’s dropping some bombs did a case study was helping people out? That was really cool. It was just really good to see. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. People appreciate it. So Wayne, that was another one that was cool because I know you know who he is. And for other people who who may think you know, he’s just somebody exists out in the internet like real deal came to down and joined us the second year in a row was all sounds awesome. That’s great. Well, listen, I don’t see any other questions. So I think it’s time we can wrap it up a few minutes early guys. So we want to say hi again from Dubai from Denver, Semantic Mastery from Denver except for Marco but we piped him in as usual. So we’ll see you guys next week. See you guys

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Bradley: Hi. And last but not least went on over there who’s being goofy

Hernan: Hey everybody

Adam: Oh, man looks like Marco is coming on so as soon as he unmutes himself Marco if you want to say hi and you’re in here say hello to everybody

Marco: I don’t want to say hello in any thinking body man. I’m just playing What’s up everybody? Good to be here. It’s good to be here. Hump Day Hangout. I’m going to join you guys. Oh, yeah. My ready.

Bradley: Alright, cool. So do we have any announcements or like are we going to do normal announcements are we gonna go through it?

Adam: You know, we just for those of you who know or don’t know, obviously we just got done with POFU Live event here in Denver. Get to meet up with returning people as well as some new people which is amazing. Sharing stuff in small groups there’s a lot of fun just had a blast and then of course carrying that on meeting up outside whether it’s for lunch whether we did some evening events that were a lot of fun and you know we wanted to give people cuz we were hearing from people you know I missed it this year, you know, I couldn’t make it things got mixed up, that’s fine. But we want to give you a special offer to get in now and I’ll put that on the page. If you want to grab a VIP ticket, you can grab that now it’s going to be up for a limited period of time and you can save a bundle on that and come join us next year so if you you know you’re one of those people are saying hey, I will be there next year I want to be then this is the time to do that.

Nice you guys got the figured out over here. Yeah, I don’t think so. So no worries and other than that, I want to say for the people watching today maybe for the first time you are in the right place for watching us you can check out the replays of course on YouTube on Semantic Mastery channel just hit subscribe stay up to date with those. If you ever have any digital marketing questions just come semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, ask us. Of course if you’re live you can get a little bit more out of it by clarifying or giving us some feedback. But you know, we understand you can always make it live so you can just ask your questions, check out the replay. And then the next step for you would be the Battle Plan if you want repeatable processes for your SEO and digital marketing, and check it out at battleplan.semanticmastery.com and for everyone else, who wants to take things up a few notches, you know, you want to be around the people who are doing what you’re doing, which is trying to either grow your agency grow your business, then you need to be in the mastermind. And you can find out more about that at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. Right on cool. And last but not least, because we got several questions about it this week, but if you need done for you services, which should be everyone whether you’re doing it for yourself, or you’re doing it for client projects, go to MGYB.co. All right stuff syndication networks are West drive, stacks, press releases, links, embeds, and a lot more coming. So head over there and get that stuff done. And as far as announcements on my end, that’s about it. Marco Are you guys we got anything else we need to touch base on

Good no good. Yeah, we got a lot of questions so let’s go into that standby cuz I gotta try to find it.

Okay, so it looks like the first one is from Mike he says thanks for the great information I want to try to get back to you by mentioned that you have a good intro video but it has very high volume compared the video volume level hope it’s okay to say it. Thanks. That’s a good thing. Can you make a note of that too? Yeah, view that is you’re gonna try to edit our processes if that’s the case. So thank you for that, Mike. We do appreciate that.

URL Structure For Siloed Website

Next is a question. He says. What about strip the category base from category slug so it looks like a page site.com. Katie’s asking obviously about the URL structure for a siloed website. Because I’m Yeah, yes, he’s asking if he can use the restricted category slash post name out of the permalink structure for silo and absolutely you can just using post name premier link structure, it’s fine. It’s called a virtual silo works just as well as a regular siloed would Sorry, just bug does it in the face.

What Are Your Thoughts On Having A Syndicated Branded Network Using High Quality Spun Articles?

The next is vitality says hello Hope everyone is doing great. What are your thoughts on syndication network versus syndication network on the branding network using high quality spun articles readable that can this bring more SEO benefit? I mean, I know you don’t need to I would on your primary tier one branded network, you’re just going to be republishing content from your blog anyways, if that’s what you mean publishing spun articles to your blog, I would recommend now and recommend that instead, you would use curated content, it’s better content and creates co citation. And you don’t have to be a subject matter expert. You can just find other good content out there that you can grab snippets from and share we’ve got a product called content kingpin, which shows you exactly how to do that. That’s what I recommend is just going to read better it’s going to be more valuable. Produce more benefit than spun crappy articles would be if yes, what you mean. Marco, do you want to comment on that?

Marco: That’s exactly what I told him in the Facebook group, I just wanted him to come here. So that we could get go a little bit more in depth. And just to make sure that we hammered that home right that you’re doing, you’re way better off with curated content, citing sources and all of that versus just a crappy spun article that nobody knows what the hell is saying. One of the things that’s important here is that as your tier one brand, and you want it to look good, and if someone happens to come along to your tier one brand and you want that person possibly converting or getting into your funnel so that they end up on the website, and they end up in your sales funnel. And so what do you want that person to see in your tier one branded? Which is your brand amplified? Do you want them to see a crappy spun article that makes absolutely no sense or do you want to curate something that convert that person into a website visitor and perhaps a client or a customer. That’s the question that you need to ask.

What Are The Best Techniques To Let Google Recognize Entities?

Right on. So the next one is from Steve. He says, Hey SM team, what are the best techniques for getting Google to recognize entities? For those doing GMB or Google My Business? Google readily creates knowledge panels or me, or excuse me, MREIDs. But what about those working with the web properties? People products, etc? What can we do beyond schema and Id pages and the G stack? Getting a Wikipedia entry clearly works, but it’s very difficult for most gyms, taxis probably wouldn’t married a Wikipedia page, but it does, but gets in MREID through GMB. So, how do we level up the field for non GMB entities? Well, that sounds like a perfect question for Marco, I quickly would say that, you know, creating all of the syndication network and drive stack and all of that SEO shield including the ID page, all of it together is going to help having the structured data using sameas attributes is going to help. But there are other things that you can do, for example, have a paid account of some sort that helps to validate the entity as well. Meaning like pay Google for something AdWords campaigns, or, you know, Google Ads campaigns or for extra drive storage, all of the above, a G Suite account, something like that. But Marco, what else can you add to that?

Marco: Now, you just went over exactly what he supposed to do. If you can’t go in and get a verified GMB, which has a completed was not the complete entity in Google, because you can add social media and all these other things. Then what you need to do is you go in and you verify it another way and the best way that I know is getting that credit card on file, whether it’s a company credit card, a personal credit card, where you’re directly related to the company. What that’s going to do is it turns you into into Google’s customer, right other than a mage, and elite, and someone who is just abusing services, rather than payment, it gets that credit card on file. And what happens is, you know, yeah, you can have fake credit cards or whatever. But but that belongs to someone, it’s a thing. Then, on the web, it’s it’s in their database. It belongs to a person, but it belongs to a company. So you just went a long way towards validating the fact that you’re real. You’re not just another mooch, another leech, then you do everything else that we recommend. Absolutely. The schema, the @ID amplify it through the drive stack plus Gsite, press releases, I mean, companies do that on a regular basis, they announced their news, and then link building to all of those to just help to solidify everything. That’s what’s going to get you when you can’t get a GMB and Google understands that then there’s other way, getting into all of the different data aggregates.

Bradley: crunchbase would also be a good one.

Marco: crunchbase is perfect, but I was going to also say wiki data because Google is drawing directly from wiki data, you say that Wikipedia isn’t feasible, or sometimes it would merit. But your company wouldn’t merit a Wikipedia entry, a Wikipedia page, about the company and about everything that it does. So you pay someone to get you on Wikipedia, you pay someone to get your Wiki data. I just as interesting as I just posted to my partners this morning, about getting into Wikipedia, wiki data, for Semantic Mastery, because I know a guy that does it and his prices are really, really good. So that’s absolutely you get everywhere. That RankBrain goes to aggregate data about your entity about your thing, and make sure that it’s consistent throughout citations. I can’t remember if you mentioned citations, but that’s a perfect way. citations are a really good way. It doesn’t have to be just for local. It can just be your company. Right?

Can You Share Some Basic Guidelines For Link Building?

Right on next one is Mike. Mike says hello everyone. Can you please share some basic guidelines about backlinks specifically about the text when doing backlinks? When to use exact match keywords for anchor text link or my brand anchor text when writing a small post or short reply on forums, what information you suggest to include in the text and what links? Okay, there’s a lot of questions squeezed into this one, Mike.

So on a kind of a broad level. Personally, I don’t really sweat backlink ratios as far as anchor text ratio is like I used two years ago because I mainly just do everything through naked URLs and like any other any real backlinks that are going to be built are going to be built by my team and MGYB by Dadea. And he knows what to do. You just provide them with your seat set of keywords and he creates all the ratios to where I don’t really bother with it because I don’t really build my links outside of what we have him do.

But really, I use mainly when I’m doing like press releases, for example, because I do publish a lot of press releases, it’s almost 90%, just naked URLs, do brand anchors, and very rarely actually use any keyword anchor text, because it’s not really now off page, I mean, on page, that’s a different story. So, you know, you want to have, if you have content silos on page, you want to make sure that you’re linking through the content, you know, to daisy chain things together using variations of keywords that belong in that specific silo, but not always the same page because or, excuse me, the same keyword anchor. But as far as, you know, link building or blogging even in by the way, when you do that, if you’re syndicating content to a network, it’s going to make sure that you’re not always hammering and getting External links from even your syndication network, your branded network, always pointing back with the same anchor text. That’s why you want to do that.

But once again, you also have all those keywords that we add the same type of keywords that we would add to a drive stack build would be the ones that we would add to the link building campaign. And it’s a way to just continue to push relevancy in at different tiers. There’s different sets of rules as to what you can do as far as anchor text ratios, right. So again, I just hand that over to Dadea and he handles all of it. You want to add to that? Anybody?

Adam: Not to that, but to the next part, so

Marco: Okay, yeah, yeah, that first part generic naked, and brand anchors, right? Yeah. Because what we want to do is what we want to create link diversity. Once you have that, then it’s a lot more powerful when you hit it with that with that with whatever anchor text it is that the broad right and then you can go really eating hone in on the exact match, because your your link diversity is going to withstand some exact match anchors. If you don’t do that, though, if you don’t get those generic naked brand anchors and whatever you can in there, then what’s going to happen is you’re going to get it totally unnatural over optimization problems. And if you if you raise enough red flags that way, it could cause a manual which is when you get into all kinds of problems.

Bradley: Yeah, you’re gonna do it,

Adam: the tech you were writing a small post or a short reply in the forums, what information do you suggest including the text and what links? For me, I mean, I start out by saying that, you know, it’s, it’s too vague, but if you’re just doing this, I look at this as you probably want to look at it more from Hey, what information makes sense and if you’re doing this for an actual strategy, that you’re putting information out there, that increases the likelihood that your post is going to get traffic which I understand sounds kind of goofy, but for a forum that it’s it’s well received, right? And basically, I’m saying quality you know, don’t just say I’ve got to include x y&z you know, if you’re going in here and doing this for a long term strategy, I would say make sure you’re putting out quality information.

Bradley: Not only that, but if you really want to know how to test what type of a text and link to use as your best link for a forum signature tested in AdWords like search, you know what I’m saying? Because if you can get your headline, and you know your brief description and and the link and the offer to convert on through AdWords, and that’s what you put in your forum signature, and you’ll probably have a lot more likelihood of it doing well. I mean, it’s, it’s because you could test it quicker as my point other than trying to have some signature line that really isn’t very compelling, it doesn’t convert very well. And you have to wait for weeks or months to get any results to determine that, right? Because you’ve done a lot of posts, you can really kind of hone that in very quickly using AdWords or Google ads, and then add those to your forum signatures, if that makes sense.

Okay, anything else? Is it better to link to most of the times the homepage or a specific service product page? hope it’s not too complex of a question was a lot of questions you squeeze in there. I think it depends on what your call to action is within the content that you’re using for the link building. Right. I think it makes sense to link to the homepage at times, but also to more specific.

You also, you know, more specific product and or service pages. However, you also got to keep in mind, like, what is the purpose of the content that you’re doing and the overall strategy for that campaign? Because if you’re trying to push, you know, specific, a specific keyword like for particular siloed, for example, you can hit any one of the pieces of content within that silo, which you would call a deep link, because it’s not going to matter if you have the dawn page structured correct, which is what we talked about a lot in the mastermind, then anywhere that you’re going to hit that particular silo with, you know, inbound link, equity, it’s going to benefit the entire siloed. Right, so you wouldn’t want to comment on that anybody good or no? I would just say, Well, no, sorry. No, as a general strategy, he should be probably looking at distributing backlinks through his inner period.

Adam: But yeah, beyond that, like Bradley said, it just depends on again, what you’re, what you’re referencing, or what exactly you’re doing, but you definitely want to distribution

Bradley: Yeah, yeah, I mean, in other words, you don’t want to just always hammer one or the other. Does that make sense? You want you do want to split it up and spread it out. Crazy be we can have it.

Marco: Well, what matters here is how the website is set up, right? Right setting up the whole the homepage to convert, or are you setting up a category right pages as categories or categories as pages where you’re looking to push your silo through your supporting poles, and then that top market level category is going to be what you’re trying to rank because that’s where you want people to convert, actually, you want people to convert all along the way. But just to be sure on the question, if your link building to an inner page, right, then you make sure that you have it set up so that you’re pushing that top market level category up, because that’s what’s going to bring all of the other keywords with it. It doesn’t make sense to only link build to the homepage, if what you’re trying to rank results somewhere on an inner page in the category or in a post, or maybe it’s a lander, within the website, it all has to do with how everything is set up, how your website is set up. Should be how you direct your link building.

Bradley: Awesome. Thanks, man.

Adam: Sorry, real quick. I’ve got to bring this up now. So Wayne has a question for you. It’s the most recent one. But says Bradley, Your voice sounds very different today. Is this part of the new makeover for Hump Day hangouts to make it more sexy? Okay, thanks, Wayne. I’m not really sure how to answer that one. Yeah, let’s take a compliment. Yeah, just couldn’t we have to read that? Alright,

How Long Before You Can See The Results Of Battle Plan 3.0?

so next one is I have been following the Battle Plan 3.0 for a GMB asset. It’s been about two weeks since I followed steps one and two of the plan. How long before I find out the results? I don’t know if I’m facing stiff competition or middle of the road competition. How long do I have to wait before I hit it again? I did. I didn’t want to read set the G algorithm Thanks. Okay, um, put all the pieces together. You know, that’s what we talked about, if you use the Battle Plan, it’s not a, if you just do 25% of the work, you won’t get 25% of the results, if that makes sense, because you put all the pieces together and it has a more like a, an exponential effect, if you will. So it will work a lot better if you put all of the components together to create that entity loop or that SEO shield, whatever you want to call it. So if one and two if you put one in two pieces together or completed steps one and two, and you know, you know, complete the next steps to and I wouldn’t stop until all that entire asset creation. You know that SEO shield is really put together. So we’re going to be talking a lot more about that in the coming weeks for some of the stuff that we’ve got coming up. But Marco, do you want to add to that? I think he’s muted.

Marco: Sorry. I do want to talk about this a little bit? Because something about this really stands out to me. And I don’t want to pick on him, because I see that he’s just beginning. It’s following the Battle Plan. He’s in step two. But dude, how can you not know your competition? If you’re just starting out? Like sometimes when you get to the point where you know how much power you can push, when you know exactly what you’re doing, then the competition doesn’t matter. It’s just a matter of what you’re going to do to take the competition down. You’re at the start so you have to do thorough competition analysis to know exactly how much power it is that you’re going to need to push. Because a lot of this, you might do too much, and it might not be necessary, or you may be doing too little and more might be necessary. So I mean, you have to know what are people paying for AdWords in this niche? Google ads, how much are they paying? are they paying for Facebook ads, YouTube ads, other ads? How many competing pages does it have? Is it in the 2000s? Is it in the millions but singles is it in the 10s of millions is that in the hundreds of millions? Once you have all of that together, you’ll know exactly how tough and how stiff the competition is and then you’ll know exactly what to do. But the plan is still the same right syndication network, drive stack plus Gsite, press releases link building, and then embed runs and link building. And then you you do all of that before you start analyzing the data and seeing where your project has landed in rank. Because you’ll see that different keywords rank differently, different niches rank differently. So you have to know whether you need to isolate one of your market level keywords one of your top keywords that may be stuck second, third page, you may have to isolate that and hit that individually. Once you’ve done everything.

So without completing everything part one of the plan, as Bradley said, finish everything first. Once you do that link building one which it which is which is the final piece, you let it sit 21 days, four weeks, and then you come back and analyze the data and see what it is that you have to do. But guys starting out, when you’re starting in this, it’s a must for you to be able to analyze the competition and understand what it is that you’re up against. Because whether it’s you investing your money, or whether you’re investing your clients’ money you have what you’re going to spend your money on, and how much of it.

Adam: Yeah, and I’m not going to be able to get the quote right, Marco, maybe you can help me but this reminds me of what you said, might have been during your talk of POFU Live, but basically like Sun Tzu and the art of war and saying you want to come to the battle knowing you’re already going to win and you can’t do that. If you don’t know what your competition is.

Marco: You have to know that you’re going to win the war before you fight the first battle. I’m paraphrasing because I can’t remember the exact quote of him but but it’s along those lines. How can you know whether you going into you know, you can’t go blind into battle I might a bow and arrow and I’m going up against how it’s all right. I’m going up against a nuclear missile that well I’m not going to do very very well. So once once you lay it all out, and you’re absolutely right, it is war. And you understand your enemy your competition is your enemy always. And you know exactly what it is that you have to do to take down your enemy Well, you you win the war and you haven’t done and think about it all you’ve done is study the enemy. It was I love Sun Tzu and thank you. That’s awesome.

Is It Possible To Target National Keywords By Using Verified GMBs?

Alright, so the next one says Is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMBs? So are gonna hand that one over to you because I know you talked about different strategies for that kind of stuff. He’s got an example a follow up question next. So again, is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMB? For example, a long tail keyword like how to lose weight?

Marco: This isn’t totally an independent, it depends question. Yeah, what is it that you’re that you’re trying to do because one thing is local. And what you’re targeting is the proximity factor and then overriding the proximity factor so that you can get into outlying areas and target those. You can totally do that. You can totally extend the centroid and somebody was just somebody who guys who was in our local GMB Pro just came out with extending the centroid in in his own training his own original train, and I’m not going there. I’m just saying what the fuck man? But yes, you can extend the century and there are different ways that we can for extending the century, so you can totally do it, you’re going to need a whole lot of GMBs.

Because in a place like like New York City, Chicago, LA, you’re going to need to push a lot of power inside inside just I’m going to get one GMB do a whole bunch of pose, and then that’s going to get me where I need to go. It Again, it depends on the competition. Now, if it’s a national keyword, like cosmetic manufacturer, and there’s no location, like you don’t need to use location, there’s nothing location based. Why would you target it with a GMB? Other than to create like a national headquarters for the brand, but that would be branding. That wouldn’t be so so this is this question is kind of confusing. Yes. I don’t know about you guys. Because because they were talking about two different things here. And maybe what what you what you’re trying but what you’re thinking is you want to become the knowledge panel for the keywords. Well, that’s brand plus keyword association. And I think Fabian is in RYS Academy Reloaded and we teach that all day long we we should we show how to do that? I mean, we’ve been doing it for a while will be going in five years and mates and says Bradley ranked is Virginia SEO, SEO Virginia? So yes, it can be done. It depends on what you’re trying to do.

All right, but I’ll take you to the next question lockout Marco, you guys. It’s like back and forth. Is it? Yeah, so I totally said what I meant if or is maybe hosting original content on the money site, but on the branding network, instead of syndicating content, hosting high quality spun versions of posts from money site. Best regards? No, I mean, there’s no reason to. That’s what I’m saying. Like if it’s your branding, network, your branded network, then there’s no reason that you would need do post spunversions of your money site post because I’ve just republished the money site posts again, I don’t recommend using spun content as any on page or any first tier link building stuff, because it’s just not a good idea to do that now it’s even if it’s high quality spun stuff, which I guess you can still get away with that if it’s done very, very well. Okay, cool.

Will An Existing (Non-Semantic Mastery) GSite And Drive Stack Interfere With The Ones Being Built By MGYB?

Next one, Katie says Hey guys, I was talking to a dentist about his SEO he told me his son was doing it but he was getting nowhere I spoke to the son and he told me he bought some gigs on Fiverr for Google sites and drive files I told the dentist you get what you pay for. And then I may be able to help do it properly. Can I go to MGYB and by G site and drive stack for this one or is it too late? Well, the current g sites are drive stack his son setup interfere with the one MGYB would build. I don’t think the sun will let me delete all of the work he has done. Thanks.

Well, I’ll let Marco also answer on this one but I would absolutely get a new drive stack and G site that is built correctly. Which will likely the other one because the other one was not put together properly. So it’s not really pushing any relevancy or entity validation, if that makes sense. So once it’s done right, that would be the one that would come be associated with your entity because it will be done correctly. But Marco, what would you say was is it critical that the other one would be removed or deleted?

Marco: No it won’t matter and as a matter of fact what what you could do is add those satellites to push into the new drive stack was decide that we’re going to create for for you which is done right, then you can link building to all of those which is only going to help I mean, it’s not gonna hurt. Absolutely not. But you what you do need is that is that friend that drive stack empty site created my way, not somebody else’s way. Because they always skip corners. They never do the work that they’re supposed to think about. And I’ve said this before, it takes between six and eight hours for a train building. Jessen, by the way that the original RYS to do one and do it properly. Someone was going to charge you, maybe, I don’t know, 50 bucks. And they’re going to spend six hours, maybe eight hours building and drive stack? No, no, it’s not gonna happen. The money just isn’t there, right for five bucks. 10 bucks, 15 bucks. We charge what we charge for a reason. You and you’re absolutely right that and when I saw this, I couldn’t believe it you do get what you pay for. And if you go to Fiverr sometimes you’ve got some really good gigs in there that do a specific thing. But when you’re talking about pushing power, the Rank Your Shit Academy Reloaded me. There’s only one way to do it. You go with the original.

I agree. Yeah, this one I would probably be careful if I was in this position, because now I’m thinking okay, there’s someone else in there. So this to me goes back to managing client expectations and saying, Well, now there’s a son who’s got, you know, backend access to everything. So you might want to be managing to him. The son’s involved and he’s screwing around with stuff on that I don’t know about then, you know, I can’t be held responsible for some of this stuff. Yeah. working against our goals, so I’d be careful with it.

Okay, moving on the next one. See, I’m trying to find a guy stand by me. I think Jordan had a good one. He said mastermind plus sub mastermind group equals the cat’s meow. I totally agree with that. It’s not a question but I like it.

Do You Work With Third Party Syndication Networks And Stacks That Are Not Setup Correctly?

Okay, so the next question I see is I have questions about your done for you service syndication and stacks. I’ve had other vendors create those before but don’t think they were set up correctly. I see a theme here any any any problem with having you do them again? No, actually, that’s the best thing to do is just come on, come get it done correctly. And then you can analyze the ones that we’ve built for you versus the ones that you got from other vendors and, you know, figure out what was done wrong and apply it to the old ones. Yeah, yeah.

That idea. So yeah, that’s what I would do, because that’s what a lot of people, I mean, see that I go by RYS Academy. And that way you can go through the training and then you can understand what was done and then go fix the ones but again, your time is best spent on just purchasing them and letting somebody else do all that manual work, right.

Do You Create One Google Stack For Each Service Offering URL?

So the next one is Nathan says, when you build these stacks for people I know you ask them for the main keyword However, what if they offer multiple services? Do you create one g stack for each URL? For example, the company that offered HVAC and plumbing services do you create a stack for each URL or service offering a company slash and he went through several examples now, I mean, you can but another way to do it is to have a brand stack created, which is what we do. We recommend for whatever your primary keyword is or keywords, top level keywords, and then from there, once you get it back, and at some point, we’re going to provide this as an additional service, but once you get the branded drive stack back, you can go in and clone the folders that are contained in the the primary drive stack folder, and then re optimize that it does require some manual work, but for each one of your silos or product services or categories on your site, so that way, you’re mirroring your internal files from the drive stack inside of a branded and overall branded Drive folder. So again, you’re just building that relevancy, you’re going to mirror the same type of site structure that you have on your website into your drive stack. It does require some manual work. But the most important thing is to have that branded drive stack with the top-level keywords associated with that brand. So that makes sense. And Marco, do you want to come in on that?

Marco: No, that’s what I would have said. No, we’re not going to create both. If you submit HVAC, and if you submit plumbing, and you, you asked us to do keyword research, we’re going to give you everything that’s related to that. If nothing you have to do your own keyword research and submit the keywords that you want related to your brand which as Bradley said, we asked for about 50 and go for top keywords. Don’t go for the long tails, the long tails you’re going to get as you build it out as you build your supporting post and as you build your inner pages and you mirror your G site is up your money site on on the G site. But Bradley just so you guys know and I just got the news yesterday we’re testing the drive stack and G site as we speak. It’s coming right it’s gonna make it a lot easier. And right now like if he wants to make it easier on himself and clone, the drive stacks, then what he can do is he can make a donation to my charity and then right to Christie for the webinars right through charity webinars for last year and the scripts, and I’ll put the link to the donation. That’s awesome. Thank you.

And I’m not seeing any other questions you guys see any more? No will give people a minute here and I know that there’s a little bit of a delay here. There’s not much delay through zoom though.

So um, I did see a question in YouTube here. I said we’re in Colorado, we’re still in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, we’re a very short period. So what is the URL if people want to get the early bird discount for next year POFU Live go to pofulive.com/2022. I’m pulling up to make sure I’m not lying, pofulive.com/2020 and make sure you use the coupon code 2020 or 2020 action taker. Yeah. That’s going to be the lowest price ever. Oh, yeah. It definitely was a good event. I thought it was really good. Well, actually, let’s touch on that.

Real quick we got a few minutes we can wait for some questions here I want to share with people so we had Catherine Jones. So if you haven’t seen her you can probably get search for CF design school Semantic Mastery, check out a webinar we had with her, she dropped some good knowledge for everybody. Especially a lot of the people, they’re growing their agencies growing their consulting and you know, she taught them and us about funnel design but not just you know, hey, me do this to make your funnel look pretty. But you know, it’s about converting, not being pretty. And then how you can do this and how in a short period of time, you can create these things that you know, you can really crush it in terms of selling to clients or adding it onto your agency. So that was pretty cool. I don’t guys have anything else to say about Katherine’s presentation I was gonna get and then Adam Benjamin was another one of our guest speakers. That was great guys got a ton of sales experience. This was really cool talking to him getting some insights about basically kind of brand positioning, which tied in really well with what her non talked about about just one second.

Part of an audience presentation was about personal branding. And then how you can help yourself basically by growing yourself as an authority and it’s not some, you know, 25 step crazy, you know, diagram you got to follow to do this it was it was pretty simple, but combining that with what I think Adam said would be really powerful, so cool

What Was The Biggest Takeaway That You Can Share From POFU 2019?

Wayne says what was the biggest takeaway that you can share from POFU Live 2019? Uh, did you should go to pofulive.com/2020 and Wayne because what we want to see you there, and to you know, I’m not dodging the question, I’ll let these guys answer it. But like we’ve told people and like all of the testimonial say when we just ask people, hey, what do you want to share about Cooper life? You know, hey, content was great. It took something away immediately that paid for it. But on top of that, it’s you know, interacting with people, and that’s what you get out of a small group. So whether it’s us whether it’s a guest speakers, or whether it’s each other and saying, Oh, you know what, I have not been doing this one little thing or, you know, you open my eyes to a whole new area. I could either be doing for myself doing for clients stuff like that. But that’s consistently what we’ve heard. Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, I think so too. If I can add real quick, I think that as digital marketing, or digital agency owners, most of the people that come to POFU Live there, they spend most of their time alone, right? They might have a couple of VAs, they might have small team, but most of them are remote, right? So come in here and being in a room for three days with people that have kind of the same ideas that you have. And some of them might be, you know, even ahead than you and some of them you might help to get to the point where you are right now, I think that that’s one of the best things that can possibly happen to an entrepreneur or digital agency owner. So yeah, yeah.

Bradley: And on a purely SEO basis, I want to say that it was awesome to hear how just putting the SEO shield together, the way that we teach works across the board, and you know, here in that for some several hours remembers that POFU Live to talk about how it’s like the cheat code. so it’s awesome because it’s validation beyond. I mean, we all knew it worked anyways. But it’s really good to hear when members actually take our advice and put it together the way that we teach. And then they get the same kind of results. And so that to me, was a very great takeaway to know that we’ve got something that’s been working for us for years that continues to work beyond updates to or through or despite of updates, you know what I mean? So it’s just very encouraging to see that. Yeah.

Adam: So Wayne, that popped into answer your question for myself, I think, you know, the biggest takeaway looking for something like either tactical or real world was Rob got up. Rob gave a great, great presentation and then he hopped on the whiteboard. And right and that’s where the magic happens. And so went through stuff, but he’s going to be sharing that with people in Bradley already mentioned SEO shield, and exactly what people can do. And basically taking the Battle Plan, combining it with what’s been done already and what will come in MGYB, and saying you now here’s what you got to do. So again, not to use it, but it’s on its way out. And I will share it with everybody as soon as we have something. Marco: I’d like to answer Wayne’s question because my biggest takeaway, not only this year, but also last year, is that the people who come to us, the action takers, they generally have already have everything as SEO wise that they need to get results. Because we’ve been proving it since since we started that when you implement what we give you, you get results. Now, what I often see and in my mini mastermind and in doing this for so long, is that people simply get stuck. I mean, it’s a joke, right? Don’t get stuck in the middle, but are you getting the middle of the big fat fuck you.

But it’s true guys. Do you want to finger prodding you in the middle? When you’re not doing anything? Is that what you’re really looking for? Or are you constantly going to go taking action and doing the things that you need to do to get to where you want to be. Because it’s not being where you have to be. That sucks. It sucks having to be somewhere and having to do something. But when you want to do it, and you like to do it, even if it’s something that you know you have to do, to continue on that path to POFU, it’s fulfilling. And you don’t get all of these different things joining and pulling you away. Because you’re hyper focus, you know that you can get results. We give them to you, we give you everything. You can come and reach out to us personally and we’ll answer your questions. We’ll do everything we can to help you make money, but we still have people stuck in the middle even mastermind members, we have people stuck in the middle, because they won’t do the shit that they’re supposed to do to be successful.

And so one of the things that you need to do to be successful is get with like minded people, and the only way you’re going to do that is by attending these events. And I don’t I don’t mean the bullshit events where you’re going to have hundreds of people. And you know you, you do that for networking. More than anything you do that to see how you’re going to make money and when and where do it do that. But when you really want to get with like minded people who are hyper focus on making money, that’s what you need to be in one of these events, the real ones, the ones where you get the gritty living by the ones where you get down to business, down with brass tacks and you get what you’re supposed to get so that you can continue making money.

Adam: definitely, hey, real quick got some questions on YouTube. I want to answer before we hop to the next question, which I love and click SEO. But first of all, Brian Kato says what’s up guys? Hey, good to meet you, man.

Do You Do Stacks For Dating Sites?

And then also another Brian was asking do you guys do stacks for dating sites. We don’t believe we have any restrictions. I mean, I don’t have I don’t think that crosses any lines for us building stacks, right?

Yeah, yeah. Because a lot of those can have things like male enhancement, and it depends on the affiliate that you’re running. We’re not going to do any of that, but I’m not gonna have my people don’t do any Yeah, we just don’t do it. So we don’t get them. Brian and you’re watching this just email support@mgyb.co. To tell them what your actual like what your keywords are, and they’ll write Marco they’ll be able to tell them from that whether or not they can build it, right. So no doubt No, no pharma, gambling. I don’t know. It’s epic. Guys. It has to be in English. Don’t ask us to do Hungarian because that’s the one and the money that we have to target to do a one of is not feasible.

Can You Build An Agency Just By Outsourcing To Whitelabels?

Yeah. I so click SEO as the next one, he says or she says can you build an agency just outsourcing to white labels? Yeah, you certainly can. I like good. Jordan Fowler followed up. He’s one of our mastermind members and very successful but agency owner. And so and I agree very much with what he said, and that is that you can but you have to understand what it is that you’re talking about for when you do get questions, or at least be honest and say that you’ll get the answer if you don’t have it, you know, whatever the case may be, you want to make sure that you’re not talking at a on with ignorance to a potential customer or client with, you know, without being able to answer the questions, and it’s something that you can learn as you go, depending on what all your service offerings are, you know, we were going to be talking a lot about that in the coming weeks or coming months for for, you know, different things that you can do to build an agency without you have to do all of the work. And so I think it’s important to understand the concepts, the foundation of it, then then from there, you can you know, you can learn how to best manage questions and such for each one of the services depending on what kind of also confidence level you have in your done for you service providers. Does that make sense? Yeah. So anybody want to comment on now I think we’re understanding just the basic Six at least I mean, at a minimum, but you know, I, this may not be a great analogy. I’m doing this on the fly, but I was like, can you own? Maybe a few automotive repair shops and not be a mechanic? Sure. Is it going to benefit you greatly to understand the business you’re in? Yeah, you know, better. So I’ll leave it at that. But I know Markco has got some more to say, well, we make it simple, right? We not only provide the services that you need them for you to, to get everything that you need to do for the client. But if you join the mastermind, then you get access to us so that if you run into tough questions, you can just come back, excuse me, come ask us. How do I answer this question? client asked me this. I need an answer what I say and we’ll give you an answer. And we’ve simplified every we boil it down to make it so simple. That I I think that people think that our simplicity means that it doesn’t work. And it’s just the other way around as people make it so complex, that they need to confuse you because it confuse, they can keep making money from. We want it we want to boil all that shit away all that garbage. All we want is that pure rock we want. We want that good.

Guys, that’s what because when we have that when we when we simplify it, that’s what really works. And that’s why this is this is so good in the way that we’ve set it all up for you to come and take advantage of it. It just rocks and all you have to do is join the mastermind. I mean, it’s so simple. I don’t know why more people don’t don’t do it. Maybe I don’t I don’t know doubters doubting Thomases, whatever it is, get past it, because you need to make so much money.

Cool. Thank you. Alright, so we’re almost Well, we still got about 10 minutes. Well, I think we’re gonna have to end it a couple minutes early, right? Yeah, cuz I know we’re streaming through yours. Oh, no.

What Else Can You Do To Improve The Rank Of A Website Aside From Having GMB Drive Stack, 3 Press Releases, And Aged Site?

Fitz says I have a site that is showing 27 Google console page three on main keyword manual search number one main keyword on GMB, drive stack, three press releases, aged site, what can I do to improve? I don’t know, because that was kind of a word salad at the end there. I’m not really sure what you were saying. But as far as if you’ve got a page three, excuse me keywords on page three in Search Console, it means that they’re closed with some proper maybe on page or maybe some supporting articles that through the same silo that would link to those that page specifically syndicated across your network, for example, that’s going to help to kind of reinforce the theme for that particular post. Again, this is all provided that you have proper on page if your structures poor on page, then it’s going to be difficult to push, but it will respond to so much better to these cut type of tactics if you have good good structure, good internal linking. So doing that syndicating to their you know, maybe adding some additional Drive files within a particular, you know, siloed Drive folder that would do the same thing link back to those posts, the supporting posts that were linking to, to kind of boost that the posts on that are showing up with the keywords, the pages that are showing up on page three, that kind of stuff. Those are all things that you can do. also getting traffic to them, either through organic means or through buying way to traffic to those new posts that have been created is going to help to kind of activate all of that stuff. So, I mean, obviously, you know, just all the stuff we talked about mirror that same sort of paid page or post on a G site. Once again, you can even iframe it in there. That’s all the stuff we get into in RYS Academy. Marco, do you have any comments on that?

Marco: Yeah, GMB post silos.

Bradley: Okay. Yeah, you gotta GMB. It says your, your, your question their Fitz. So yeah, you can silo those together as well. Use press releases press release silo stalking. We talked about that recently, too. It’s on our YouTube channel. So once again, you just got a mirror all that stuff through all the different assets that you have available. Okay, then link link below to all that. And once that’s done, you take it, you take you take all that and you run an embed gig and you link build to all that and then see where it see where it sits after that.

Hernan: nice.

Adam: You know, I just thought back to something where Wayne was asking us and you know, I realized I don’t think we mentioned that. Everyone here, you know, that asked about link building and embeds, you’ve got to talk to dead. Yeah. And for the people who know who that is, or has heard the him mentioned, he was at POFU Live two years in a row from India, flew over and pay for his ticket came over and joined us and today this time he’s dropping some bombs did a case study was helping people out? That was really cool. It was just really good to see. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. People appreciate it. So Wayne, that was another one that was cool because I know you know who he is. And for other people who who may think you know, he’s just somebody exists out in the internet like real deal came to down and joined us the second year in a row was all sounds awesome. That’s great. Well, listen, I don’t see any other questions. So I think it’s time we can wrap it up a few minutes early guys. So we want to say hi again from Dubai from Denver, Semantic Mastery from Denver except for Marco but we piped him in as usual. So we’ll see you guys next week. See you guys

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Announcement

Bradley: So that means we’re live now actually. We’re going live here. Okay, so Hey guys, this is Bradley Benner with Semantic Mastery. So let’s see what we’re trying to get a live Hump Day hangouts going here.

Hernan: So get your camera.

Bradley: Activate the camera. Yeah. Sweet. And then looking at you. So bear with us. We’re trying to see the pin, I think.

Adam: Okay, yeah. So we’re going to try this, everybody. Welcome to the episode at 258 Semantic Mastery is in Denver. Hey, I just wanted to say hello. Now that we’ve actually got this up and going and we’re going to do our usual thing real quick. If you’re joining us for the first time, I might be a little confused because clearly we are we’re still trying to figure out how to work computers. We didn’t get Marco and you can join on hard work on the technical side, back in. But while he’s doing that, I’m gonna go down and say hello to everybody real quick starting on my right here with Chris. How are you doing?

Chris: I’m doing good.

Adam: And normally I would ask you what the weather’s like. Stupid so it nice. Yeah, it’s about 70-75 pretty nice. I’m Adam. And next to me, of course, is Bradley Benner.

Bradley: Hi. And last but not least went on over there who’s being goofy

Hernan: Hey everybody

Adam: Oh, man looks like Marco is coming on so as soon as he unmutes himself Marco if you want to say hi and you’re in here say hello to everybody

Marco: I don’t want to say hello in any thinking body man. I’m just playing What’s up everybody? Good to be here. It’s good to be here. Hump Day Hangout. I’m going to join you guys. Oh, yeah. My ready.

Bradley: Alright, cool. So do we have any announcements or like are we going to do normal announcements are we gonna go through it?

Adam: You know, we just for those of you who know or don’t know, obviously we just got done with POFU Live event here in Denver. Get to meet up with returning people as well as some new people which is amazing. Sharing stuff in small groups there’s a lot of fun just had a blast and then of course carrying that on meeting up outside whether it’s for lunch whether we did some evening events that were a lot of fun and you know we wanted to give people cuz we were hearing from people you know I missed it this year, you know, I couldn’t make it things got mixed up, that’s fine. But we want to give you a special offer to get in now and I’ll put that on the page. If you want to grab a VIP ticket, you can grab that now it’s going to be up for a limited period of time and you can save a bundle on that and come join us next year so if you you know you’re one of those people are saying hey, I will be there next year I want to be then this is the time to do that.

Nice you guys got the figured out over here. Yeah, I don’t think so. So no worries and other than that, I want to say for the people watching today maybe for the first time you are in the right place for watching us you can check out the replays of course on YouTube on Semantic Mastery channel just hit subscribe stay up to date with those. If you ever have any digital marketing questions just come semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, ask us. Of course if you’re live you can get a little bit more out of it by clarifying or giving us some feedback. But you know, we understand you can always make it live so you can just ask your questions, check out the replay. And then the next step for you would be the Battle Plan if you want repeatable processes for your SEO and digital marketing, and check it out at battleplan.semanticmastery.com and for everyone else, who wants to take things up a few notches, you know, you want to be around the people who are doing what you’re doing, which is trying to either grow your agency grow your business, then you need to be in the mastermind. And you can find out more about that at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. Right on cool. And last but not least, because we got several questions about it this week, but if you need done for you services, which should be everyone whether you’re doing it for yourself, or you’re doing it for client projects, go to MGYB.co. All right stuff syndication networks are West drive, stacks, press releases, links, embeds, and a lot more coming. So head over there and get that stuff done. And as far as announcements on my end, that’s about it. Marco Are you guys we got anything else we need to touch base on

Good no good. Yeah, we got a lot of questions so let’s go into that standby cuz I gotta try to find it.

Okay, so it looks like the first one is from Mike he says thanks for the great information I want to try to get back to you by mentioned that you have a good intro video but it has very high volume compared the video volume level hope it’s okay to say it. Thanks. That’s a good thing. Can you make a note of that too? Yeah, view that is you’re gonna try to edit our processes if that’s the case. So thank you for that, Mike. We do appreciate that.

URL Structure For Siloed Website

Next is a question. He says. What about strip the category base from category slug so it looks like a page site.com. Katie’s asking obviously about the URL structure for a siloed website. Because I’m Yeah, yes, he’s asking if he can use the restricted category slash post name out of the permalink structure for silo and absolutely you can just using post name premier link structure, it’s fine. It’s called a virtual silo works just as well as a regular siloed would Sorry, just bug does it in the face.

What Are Your Thoughts On Having A Syndicated Branded Network Using High Quality Spun Articles?

The next is vitality says hello Hope everyone is doing great. What are your thoughts on syndication network versus syndication network on the branding network using high quality spun articles readable that can this bring more SEO benefit? I mean, I know you don’t need to I would on your primary tier one branded network, you’re just going to be republishing content from your blog anyways, if that’s what you mean publishing spun articles to your blog, I would recommend now and recommend that instead, you would use curated content, it’s better content and creates co citation. And you don’t have to be a subject matter expert. You can just find other good content out there that you can grab snippets from and share we’ve got a product called content kingpin, which shows you exactly how to do that. That’s what I recommend is just going to read better it’s going to be more valuable. Produce more benefit than spun crappy articles would be if yes, what you mean. Marco, do you want to comment on that?

Marco: That’s exactly what I told him in the Facebook group, I just wanted him to come here. So that we could get go a little bit more in depth. And just to make sure that we hammered that home right that you’re doing, you’re way better off with curated content, citing sources and all of that versus just a crappy spun article that nobody knows what the hell is saying. One of the things that’s important here is that as your tier one brand, and you want it to look good, and if someone happens to come along to your tier one brand and you want that person possibly converting or getting into your funnel so that they end up on the website, and they end up in your sales funnel. And so what do you want that person to see in your tier one branded? Which is your brand amplified? Do you want them to see a crappy spun article that makes absolutely no sense or do you want to curate something that convert that person into a website visitor and perhaps a client or a customer. That’s the question that you need to ask.

What Are The Best Techniques To Let Google Recognize Entities?

Right on. So the next one is from Steve. He says, Hey SM team, what are the best techniques for getting Google to recognize entities? For those doing GMB or Google My Business? Google readily creates knowledge panels or me, or excuse me, MREIDs. But what about those working with the web properties? People products, etc? What can we do beyond schema and Id pages and the G stack? Getting a Wikipedia entry clearly works, but it’s very difficult for most gyms, taxis probably wouldn’t married a Wikipedia page, but it does, but gets in MREID through GMB. So, how do we level up the field for non GMB entities? Well, that sounds like a perfect question for Marco, I quickly would say that, you know, creating all of the syndication network and drive stack and all of that SEO shield including the ID page, all of it together is going to help having the structured data using sameas attributes is going to help. But there are other things that you can do, for example, have a paid account of some sort that helps to validate the entity as well. Meaning like pay Google for something AdWords campaigns, or, you know, Google Ads campaigns or for extra drive storage, all of the above, a G Suite account, something like that. But Marco, what else can you add to that?

Marco: Now, you just went over exactly what he supposed to do. If you can’t go in and get a verified GMB, which has a completed was not the complete entity in Google, because you can add social media and all these other things. Then what you need to do is you go in and you verify it another way and the best way that I know is getting that credit card on file, whether it’s a company credit card, a personal credit card, where you’re directly related to the company. What that’s going to do is it turns you into into Google’s customer, right other than a mage, and elite, and someone who is just abusing services, rather than payment, it gets that credit card on file. And what happens is, you know, yeah, you can have fake credit cards or whatever. But but that belongs to someone, it’s a thing. Then, on the web, it’s it’s in their database. It belongs to a person, but it belongs to a company. So you just went a long way towards validating the fact that you’re real. You’re not just another mooch, another leech, then you do everything else that we recommend. Absolutely. The schema, the @ID amplify it through the drive stack plus Gsite, press releases, I mean, companies do that on a regular basis, they announced their news, and then link building to all of those to just help to solidify everything. That’s what’s going to get you when you can’t get a GMB and Google understands that then there’s other way, getting into all of the different data aggregates.

Bradley: crunchbase would also be a good one.

Marco: crunchbase is perfect, but I was going to also say wiki data because Google is drawing directly from wiki data, you say that Wikipedia isn’t feasible, or sometimes it would merit. But your company wouldn’t merit a Wikipedia entry, a Wikipedia page, about the company and about everything that it does. So you pay someone to get you on Wikipedia, you pay someone to get your Wiki data. I just as interesting as I just posted to my partners this morning, about getting into Wikipedia, wiki data, for Semantic Mastery, because I know a guy that does it and his prices are really, really good. So that’s absolutely you get everywhere. That RankBrain goes to aggregate data about your entity about your thing, and make sure that it’s consistent throughout citations. I can’t remember if you mentioned citations, but that’s a perfect way. citations are a really good way. It doesn’t have to be just for local. It can just be your company. Right?

Can You Share Some Basic Guidelines For Link Building?

Right on next one is Mike. Mike says hello everyone. Can you please share some basic guidelines about backlinks specifically about the text when doing backlinks? When to use exact match keywords for anchor text link or my brand anchor text when writing a small post or short reply on forums, what information you suggest to include in the text and what links? Okay, there’s a lot of questions squeezed into this one, Mike.

So on a kind of a broad level. Personally, I don’t really sweat backlink ratios as far as anchor text ratio is like I used two years ago because I mainly just do everything through naked URLs and like any other any real backlinks that are going to be built are going to be built by my team and MGYB by Dadea. And he knows what to do. You just provide them with your seat set of keywords and he creates all the ratios to where I don’t really bother with it because I don’t really build my links outside of what we have him do.

But really, I use mainly when I’m doing like press releases, for example, because I do publish a lot of press releases, it’s almost 90%, just naked URLs, do brand anchors, and very rarely actually use any keyword anchor text, because it’s not really now off page, I mean, on page, that’s a different story. So, you know, you want to have, if you have content silos on page, you want to make sure that you’re linking through the content, you know, to daisy chain things together using variations of keywords that belong in that specific silo, but not always the same page because or, excuse me, the same keyword anchor. But as far as, you know, link building or blogging even in by the way, when you do that, if you’re syndicating content to a network, it’s going to make sure that you’re not always hammering and getting External links from even your syndication network, your branded network, always pointing back with the same anchor text. That’s why you want to do that.

But once again, you also have all those keywords that we add the same type of keywords that we would add to a drive stack build would be the ones that we would add to the link building campaign. And it’s a way to just continue to push relevancy in at different tiers. There’s different sets of rules as to what you can do as far as anchor text ratios, right. So again, I just hand that over to Dadea and he handles all of it. You want to add to that? Anybody?

Adam: Not to that, but to the next part, so

Marco: Okay, yeah, yeah, that first part generic naked, and brand anchors, right? Yeah. Because what we want to do is what we want to create link diversity. Once you have that, then it’s a lot more powerful when you hit it with that with that with whatever anchor text it is that the broad right and then you can go really eating hone in on the exact match, because your your link diversity is going to withstand some exact match anchors. If you don’t do that, though, if you don’t get those generic naked brand anchors and whatever you can in there, then what’s going to happen is you’re going to get it totally unnatural over optimization problems. And if you if you raise enough red flags that way, it could cause a manual which is when you get into all kinds of problems.

Bradley: Yeah, you’re gonna do it,

Adam: the tech you were writing a small post or a short reply in the forums, what information do you suggest including the text and what links? For me, I mean, I start out by saying that, you know, it’s, it’s too vague, but if you’re just doing this, I look at this as you probably want to look at it more from Hey, what information makes sense and if you’re doing this for an actual strategy, that you’re putting information out there, that increases the likelihood that your post is going to get traffic which I understand sounds kind of goofy, but for a forum that it’s it’s well received, right? And basically, I’m saying quality you know, don’t just say I’ve got to include x y&z you know, if you’re going in here and doing this for a long term strategy, I would say make sure you’re putting out quality information.

Bradley: Not only that, but if you really want to know how to test what type of a text and link to use as your best link for a forum signature tested in AdWords like search, you know what I’m saying? Because if you can get your headline, and you know your brief description and and the link and the offer to convert on through AdWords, and that’s what you put in your forum signature, and you’ll probably have a lot more likelihood of it doing well. I mean, it’s, it’s because you could test it quicker as my point other than trying to have some signature line that really isn’t very compelling, it doesn’t convert very well. And you have to wait for weeks or months to get any results to determine that, right? Because you’ve done a lot of posts, you can really kind of hone that in very quickly using AdWords or Google ads, and then add those to your forum signatures, if that makes sense.

Okay, anything else? Is it better to link to most of the times the homepage or a specific service product page? hope it’s not too complex of a question was a lot of questions you squeeze in there. I think it depends on what your call to action is within the content that you’re using for the link building. Right. I think it makes sense to link to the homepage at times, but also to more specific.

You also, you know, more specific product and or service pages. However, you also got to keep in mind, like, what is the purpose of the content that you’re doing and the overall strategy for that campaign? Because if you’re trying to push, you know, specific, a specific keyword like for particular siloed, for example, you can hit any one of the pieces of content within that silo, which you would call a deep link, because it’s not going to matter if you have the dawn page structured correct, which is what we talked about a lot in the mastermind, then anywhere that you’re going to hit that particular silo with, you know, inbound link, equity, it’s going to benefit the entire siloed. Right, so you wouldn’t want to comment on that anybody good or no? I would just say, Well, no, sorry. No, as a general strategy, he should be probably looking at distributing backlinks through his inner period.

Adam: But yeah, beyond that, like Bradley said, it just depends on again, what you’re, what you’re referencing, or what exactly you’re doing, but you definitely want to distribution

Bradley: Yeah, yeah, I mean, in other words, you don’t want to just always hammer one or the other. Does that make sense? You want you do want to split it up and spread it out. Crazy be we can have it.

Marco: Well, what matters here is how the website is set up, right? Right setting up the whole the homepage to convert, or are you setting up a category right pages as categories or categories as pages where you’re looking to push your silo through your supporting poles, and then that top market level category is going to be what you’re trying to rank because that’s where you want people to convert, actually, you want people to convert all along the way. But just to be sure on the question, if your link building to an inner page, right, then you make sure that you have it set up so that you’re pushing that top market level category up, because that’s what’s going to bring all of the other keywords with it. It doesn’t make sense to only link build to the homepage, if what you’re trying to rank results somewhere on an inner page in the category or in a post, or maybe it’s a lander, within the website, it all has to do with how everything is set up, how your website is set up. Should be how you direct your link building.

Bradley: Awesome. Thanks, man.

Adam: Sorry, real quick. I’ve got to bring this up now. So Wayne has a question for you. It’s the most recent one. But says Bradley, Your voice sounds very different today. Is this part of the new makeover for Hump Day hangouts to make it more sexy? Okay, thanks, Wayne. I’m not really sure how to answer that one. Yeah, let’s take a compliment. Yeah, just couldn’t we have to read that? Alright,

How Long Before You Can See The Results Of Battle Plan 3.0?

so next one is I have been following the Battle Plan 3.0 for a GMB asset. It’s been about two weeks since I followed steps one and two of the plan. How long before I find out the results? I don’t know if I’m facing stiff competition or middle of the road competition. How long do I have to wait before I hit it again? I did. I didn’t want to read set the G algorithm Thanks. Okay, um, put all the pieces together. You know, that’s what we talked about, if you use the Battle Plan, it’s not a, if you just do 25% of the work, you won’t get 25% of the results, if that makes sense, because you put all the pieces together and it has a more like a, an exponential effect, if you will. So it will work a lot better if you put all of the components together to create that entity loop or that SEO shield, whatever you want to call it. So if one and two if you put one in two pieces together or completed steps one and two, and you know, you know, complete the next steps to and I wouldn’t stop until all that entire asset creation. You know that SEO shield is really put together. So we’re going to be talking a lot more about that in the coming weeks for some of the stuff that we’ve got coming up. But Marco, do you want to add to that? I think he’s muted.

Marco: Sorry. I do want to talk about this a little bit? Because something about this really stands out to me. And I don’t want to pick on him, because I see that he’s just beginning. It’s following the Battle Plan. He’s in step two. But dude, how can you not know your competition? If you’re just starting out? Like sometimes when you get to the point where you know how much power you can push, when you know exactly what you’re doing, then the competition doesn’t matter. It’s just a matter of what you’re going to do to take the competition down. You’re at the start so you have to do thorough competition analysis to know exactly how much power it is that you’re going to need to push. Because a lot of this, you might do too much, and it might not be necessary, or you may be doing too little and more might be necessary. So I mean, you have to know what are people paying for AdWords in this niche? Google ads, how much are they paying? are they paying for Facebook ads, YouTube ads, other ads? How many competing pages does it have? Is it in the 2000s? Is it in the millions but singles is it in the 10s of millions is that in the hundreds of millions? Once you have all of that together, you’ll know exactly how tough and how stiff the competition is and then you’ll know exactly what to do. But the plan is still the same right syndication network, drive stack plus Gsite, press releases link building, and then embed runs and link building. And then you you do all of that before you start analyzing the data and seeing where your project has landed in rank. Because you’ll see that different keywords rank differently, different niches rank differently. So you have to know whether you need to isolate one of your market level keywords one of your top keywords that may be stuck second, third page, you may have to isolate that and hit that individually. Once you’ve done everything.

So without completing everything part one of the plan, as Bradley said, finish everything first. Once you do that link building one which it which is which is the final piece, you let it sit 21 days, four weeks, and then you come back and analyze the data and see what it is that you have to do. But guys starting out, when you’re starting in this, it’s a must for you to be able to analyze the competition and understand what it is that you’re up against. Because whether it’s you investing your money, or whether you’re investing your clients’ money you have what you’re going to spend your money on, and how much of it.

Adam: Yeah, and I’m not going to be able to get the quote right, Marco, maybe you can help me but this reminds me of what you said, might have been during your talk of POFU Live, but basically like Sun Tzu and the art of war and saying you want to come to the battle knowing you’re already going to win and you can’t do that. If you don’t know what your competition is.

Marco: You have to know that you’re going to win the war before you fight the first battle. I’m paraphrasing because I can’t remember the exact quote of him but but it’s along those lines. How can you know whether you going into you know, you can’t go blind into battle I might a bow and arrow and I’m going up against how it’s all right. I’m going up against a nuclear missile that well I’m not going to do very very well. So once once you lay it all out, and you’re absolutely right, it is war. And you understand your enemy your competition is your enemy always. And you know exactly what it is that you have to do to take down your enemy Well, you you win the war and you haven’t done and think about it all you’ve done is study the enemy. It was I love Sun Tzu and thank you. That’s awesome.

Is It Possible To Target National Keywords By Using Verified GMBs?

Alright, so the next one says Is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMBs? So are gonna hand that one over to you because I know you talked about different strategies for that kind of stuff. He’s got an example a follow up question next. So again, is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMB? For example, a long tail keyword like how to lose weight?

Marco: This isn’t totally an independent, it depends question. Yeah, what is it that you’re that you’re trying to do because one thing is local. And what you’re targeting is the proximity factor and then overriding the proximity factor so that you can get into outlying areas and target those. You can totally do that. You can totally extend the centroid and somebody was just somebody who guys who was in our local GMB Pro just came out with extending the centroid in in his own training his own original train, and I’m not going there. I’m just saying what the fuck man? But yes, you can extend the century and there are different ways that we can for extending the century, so you can totally do it, you’re going to need a whole lot of GMBs.

Because in a place like like New York City, Chicago, LA, you’re going to need to push a lot of power inside inside just I’m going to get one GMB do a whole bunch of pose, and then that’s going to get me where I need to go. It Again, it depends on the competition. Now, if it’s a national keyword, like cosmetic manufacturer, and there’s no location, like you don’t need to use location, there’s nothing location based. Why would you target it with a GMB? Other than to create like a national headquarters for the brand, but that would be branding. That wouldn’t be so so this is this question is kind of confusing. Yes. I don’t know about you guys. Because because they were talking about two different things here. And maybe what what you what you’re trying but what you’re thinking is you want to become the knowledge panel for the keywords. Well, that’s brand plus keyword association. And I think Fabian is in RYS Academy Reloaded and we teach that all day long we we should we show how to do that? I mean, we’ve been doing it for a while will be going in five years and mates and says Bradley ranked is Virginia SEO, SEO Virginia? So yes, it can be done. It depends on what you’re trying to do.

All right, but I’ll take you to the next question lockout Marco, you guys. It’s like back and forth. Is it? Yeah, so I totally said what I meant if or is maybe hosting original content on the money site, but on the branding network, instead of syndicating content, hosting high quality spun versions of posts from money site. Best regards? No, I mean, there’s no reason to. That’s what I’m saying. Like if it’s your branding, network, your branded network, then there’s no reason that you would need do post spunversions of your money site post because I’ve just republished the money site posts again, I don’t recommend using spun content as any on page or any first tier link building stuff, because it’s just not a good idea to do that now it’s even if it’s high quality spun stuff, which I guess you can still get away with that if it’s done very, very well. Okay, cool.

Will An Existing (Non-Semantic Mastery) GSite And Drive Stack Interfere With The Ones Being Built By MGYB?

Next one, Katie says Hey guys, I was talking to a dentist about his SEO he told me his son was doing it but he was getting nowhere I spoke to the son and he told me he bought some gigs on Fiverr for Google sites and drive files I told the dentist you get what you pay for. And then I may be able to help do it properly. Can I go to MGYB and by G site and drive stack for this one or is it too late? Well, the current g sites are drive stack his son setup interfere with the one MGYB would build. I don’t think the sun will let me delete all of the work he has done. Thanks.

Well, I’ll let Marco also answer on this one but I would absolutely get a new drive stack and G site that is built correctly. Which will likely the other one because the other one was not put together properly. So it’s not really pushing any relevancy or entity validation, if that makes sense. So once it’s done right, that would be the one that would come be associated with your entity because it will be done correctly. But Marco, what would you say was is it critical that the other one would be removed or deleted?

Marco: No it won’t matter and as a matter of fact what what you could do is add those satellites to push into the new drive stack was decide that we’re going to create for for you which is done right, then you can link building to all of those which is only going to help I mean, it’s not gonna hurt. Absolutely not. But you what you do need is that is that friend that drive stack empty site created my way, not somebody else’s way. Because they always skip corners. They never do the work that they’re supposed to think about. And I’ve said this before, it takes between six and eight hours for a train building. Jessen, by the way that the original RYS to do one and do it properly. Someone was going to charge you, maybe, I don’t know, 50 bucks. And they’re going to spend six hours, maybe eight hours building and drive stack? No, no, it’s not gonna happen. The money just isn’t there, right for five bucks. 10 bucks, 15 bucks. We charge what we charge for a reason. You and you’re absolutely right that and when I saw this, I couldn’t believe it you do get what you pay for. And if you go to Fiverr sometimes you’ve got some really good gigs in there that do a specific thing. But when you’re talking about pushing power, the Rank Your Shit Academy Reloaded me. There’s only one way to do it. You go with the original.

I agree. Yeah, this one I would probably be careful if I was in this position, because now I’m thinking okay, there’s someone else in there. So this to me goes back to managing client expectations and saying, Well, now there’s a son who’s got, you know, backend access to everything. So you might want to be managing to him. The son’s involved and he’s screwing around with stuff on that I don’t know about then, you know, I can’t be held responsible for some of this stuff. Yeah. working against our goals, so I’d be careful with it.

Okay, moving on the next one. See, I’m trying to find a guy stand by me. I think Jordan had a good one. He said mastermind plus sub mastermind group equals the cat’s meow. I totally agree with that. It’s not a question but I like it.

Do You Work With Third Party Syndication Networks And Stacks That Are Not Setup Correctly?

Okay, so the next question I see is I have questions about your done for you service syndication and stacks. I’ve had other vendors create those before but don’t think they were set up correctly. I see a theme here any any any problem with having you do them again? No, actually, that’s the best thing to do is just come on, come get it done correctly. And then you can analyze the ones that we’ve built for you versus the ones that you got from other vendors and, you know, figure out what was done wrong and apply it to the old ones. Yeah, yeah.

That idea. So yeah, that’s what I would do, because that’s what a lot of people, I mean, see that I go by RYS Academy. And that way you can go through the training and then you can understand what was done and then go fix the ones but again, your time is best spent on just purchasing them and letting somebody else do all that manual work, right.

Do You Create One Google Stack For Each Service Offering URL?

So the next one is Nathan says, when you build these stacks for people I know you ask them for the main keyword However, what if they offer multiple services? Do you create one g stack for each URL? For example, the company that offered HVAC and plumbing services do you create a stack for each URL or service offering a company slash and he went through several examples now, I mean, you can but another way to do it is to have a brand stack created, which is what we do. We recommend for whatever your primary keyword is or keywords, top level keywords, and then from there, once you get it back, and at some point, we’re going to provide this as an additional service, but once you get the branded drive stack back, you can go in and clone the folders that are contained in the the primary drive stack folder, and then re optimize that it does require some manual work, but for each one of your silos or product services or categories on your site, so that way, you’re mirroring your internal files from the drive stack inside of a branded and overall branded Drive folder. So again, you’re just building that relevancy, you’re going to mirror the same type of site structure that you have on your website into your drive stack. It does require some manual work. But the most important thing is to have that branded drive stack with the top-level keywords associated with that brand. So that makes sense. And Marco, do you want to come in on that?

Marco: No, that’s what I would have said. No, we’re not going to create both. If you submit HVAC, and if you submit plumbing, and you, you asked us to do keyword research, we’re going to give you everything that’s related to that. If nothing you have to do your own keyword research and submit the keywords that you want related to your brand which as Bradley said, we asked for about 50 and go for top keywords. Don’t go for the long tails, the long tails you’re going to get as you build it out as you build your supporting post and as you build your inner pages and you mirror your G site is up your money site on on the G site. But Bradley just so you guys know and I just got the news yesterday we’re testing the drive stack and G site as we speak. It’s coming right it’s gonna make it a lot easier. And right now like if he wants to make it easier on himself and clone, the drive stacks, then what he can do is he can make a donation to my charity and then right to Christie for the webinars right through charity webinars for last year and the scripts, and I’ll put the link to the donation. That’s awesome. Thank you.

And I’m not seeing any other questions you guys see any more? No will give people a minute here and I know that there’s a little bit of a delay here. There’s not much delay through zoom though.

So um, I did see a question in YouTube here. I said we’re in Colorado, we’re still in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, we’re a very short period. So what is the URL if people want to get the early bird discount for next year POFU Live go to pofulive.com/2022. I’m pulling up to make sure I’m not lying, pofulive.com/2020 and make sure you use the coupon code 2020 or 2020 action taker. Yeah. That’s going to be the lowest price ever. Oh, yeah. It definitely was a good event. I thought it was really good. Well, actually, let’s touch on that.

Real quick we got a few minutes we can wait for some questions here I want to share with people so we had Catherine Jones. So if you haven’t seen her you can probably get search for CF design school Semantic Mastery, check out a webinar we had with her, she dropped some good knowledge for everybody. Especially a lot of the people, they’re growing their agencies growing their consulting and you know, she taught them and us about funnel design but not just you know, hey, me do this to make your funnel look pretty. But you know, it’s about converting, not being pretty. And then how you can do this and how in a short period of time, you can create these things that you know, you can really crush it in terms of selling to clients or adding it onto your agency. So that was pretty cool. I don’t guys have anything else to say about Katherine’s presentation I was gonna get and then Adam Benjamin was another one of our guest speakers. That was great guys got a ton of sales experience. This was really cool talking to him getting some insights about basically kind of brand positioning, which tied in really well with what her non talked about about just one second.

Part of an audience presentation was about personal branding. And then how you can help yourself basically by growing yourself as an authority and it’s not some, you know, 25 step crazy, you know, diagram you got to follow to do this it was it was pretty simple, but combining that with what I think Adam said would be really powerful, so cool

What Was The Biggest Takeaway That You Can Share From POFU 2019?

Wayne says what was the biggest takeaway that you can share from POFU Live 2019? Uh, did you should go to pofulive.com/2020 and Wayne because what we want to see you there, and to you know, I’m not dodging the question, I’ll let these guys answer it. But like we’ve told people and like all of the testimonial say when we just ask people, hey, what do you want to share about Cooper life? You know, hey, content was great. It took something away immediately that paid for it. But on top of that, it’s you know, interacting with people, and that’s what you get out of a small group. So whether it’s us whether it’s a guest speakers, or whether it’s each other and saying, Oh, you know what, I have not been doing this one little thing or, you know, you open my eyes to a whole new area. I could either be doing for myself doing for clients stuff like that. But that’s consistently what we’ve heard. Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, I think so too. If I can add real quick, I think that as digital marketing, or digital agency owners, most of the people that come to POFU Live there, they spend most of their time alone, right? They might have a couple of VAs, they might have small team, but most of them are remote, right? So come in here and being in a room for three days with people that have kind of the same ideas that you have. And some of them might be, you know, even ahead than you and some of them you might help to get to the point where you are right now, I think that that’s one of the best things that can possibly happen to an entrepreneur or digital agency owner. So yeah, yeah.

Bradley: And on a purely SEO basis, I want to say that it was awesome to hear how just putting the SEO shield together, the way that we teach works across the board, and you know, here in that for some several hours remembers that POFU Live to talk about how it’s like the cheat code. so it’s awesome because it’s validation beyond. I mean, we all knew it worked anyways. But it’s really good to hear when members actually take our advice and put it together the way that we teach. And then they get the same kind of results. And so that to me, was a very great takeaway to know that we’ve got something that’s been working for us for years that continues to work beyond updates to or through or despite of updates, you know what I mean? So it’s just very encouraging to see that. Yeah.

Adam: So Wayne, that popped into answer your question for myself, I think, you know, the biggest takeaway looking for something like either tactical or real world was Rob got up. Rob gave a great, great presentation and then he hopped on the whiteboard. And right and that’s where the magic happens. And so went through stuff, but he’s going to be sharing that with people in Bradley already mentioned SEO shield, and exactly what people can do. And basically taking the Battle Plan, combining it with what’s been done already and what will come in MGYB, and saying you now here’s what you got to do. So again, not to use it, but it’s on its way out. And I will share it with everybody as soon as we have something. Marco: I’d like to answer Wayne’s question because my biggest takeaway, not only this year, but also last year, is that the people who come to us, the action takers, they generally have already have everything as SEO wise that they need to get results. Because we’ve been proving it since since we started that when you implement what we give you, you get results. Now, what I often see and in my mini mastermind and in doing this for so long, is that people simply get stuck. I mean, it’s a joke, right? Don’t get stuck in the middle, but are you getting the middle of the big fat fuck you.

But it’s true guys. Do you want to finger prodding you in the middle? When you’re not doing anything? Is that what you’re really looking for? Or are you constantly going to go taking action and doing the things that you need to do to get to where you want to be. Because it’s not being where you have to be. That sucks. It sucks having to be somewhere and having to do something. But when you want to do it, and you like to do it, even if it’s something that you know you have to do, to continue on that path to POFU, it’s fulfilling. And you don’t get all of these different things joining and pulling you away. Because you’re hyper focus, you know that you can get results. We give them to you, we give you everything. You can come and reach out to us personally and we’ll answer your questions. We’ll do everything we can to help you make money, but we still have people stuck in the middle even mastermind members, we have people stuck in the middle, because they won’t do the shit that they’re supposed to do to be successful.

And so one of the things that you need to do to be successful is get with like minded people, and the only way you’re going to do that is by attending these events. And I don’t I don’t mean the bullshit events where you’re going to have hundreds of people. And you know you, you do that for networking. More than anything you do that to see how you’re going to make money and when and where do it do that. But when you really want to get with like minded people who are hyper focus on making money, that’s what you need to be in one of these events, the real ones, the ones where you get the gritty living by the ones where you get down to business, down with brass tacks and you get what you’re supposed to get so that you can continue making money.

Adam: definitely, hey, real quick got some questions on YouTube. I want to answer before we hop to the next question, which I love and click SEO. But first of all, Brian Kato says what’s up guys? Hey, good to meet you, man.

Do You Do Stacks For Dating Sites?

And then also another Brian was asking do you guys do stacks for dating sites. We don’t believe we have any restrictions. I mean, I don’t have I don’t think that crosses any lines for us building stacks, right?

Yeah, yeah. Because a lot of those can have things like male enhancement, and it depends on the affiliate that you’re running. We’re not going to do any of that, but I’m not gonna have my people don’t do any Yeah, we just don’t do it. So we don’t get them. Brian and you’re watching this just email support@mgyb.co. To tell them what your actual like what your keywords are, and they’ll write Marco they’ll be able to tell them from that whether or not they can build it, right. So no doubt No, no pharma, gambling. I don’t know. It’s epic. Guys. It has to be in English. Don’t ask us to do Hungarian because that’s the one and the money that we have to target to do a one of is not feasible.

Can You Build An Agency Just By Outsourcing To Whitelabels?

Yeah. I so click SEO as the next one, he says or she says can you build an agency just outsourcing to white labels? Yeah, you certainly can. I like good. Jordan Fowler followed up. He’s one of our mastermind members and very successful but agency owner. And so and I agree very much with what he said, and that is that you can but you have to understand what it is that you’re talking about for when you do get questions, or at least be honest and say that you’ll get the answer if you don’t have it, you know, whatever the case may be, you want to make sure that you’re not talking at a on with ignorance to a potential customer or client with, you know, without being able to answer the questions, and it’s something that you can learn as you go, depending on what all your service offerings are, you know, we were going to be talking a lot about that in the coming weeks or coming months for for, you know, different things that you can do to build an agency without you have to do all of the work. And so I think it’s important to understand the concepts, the foundation of it, then then from there, you can you know, you can learn how to best manage questions and such for each one of the services depending on what kind of also confidence level you have in your done for you service providers. Does that make sense? Yeah. So anybody want to comment on now I think we’re understanding just the basic Six at least I mean, at a minimum, but you know, I, this may not be a great analogy. I’m doing this on the fly, but I was like, can you own? Maybe a few automotive repair shops and not be a mechanic? Sure. Is it going to benefit you greatly to understand the business you’re in? Yeah, you know, better. So I’ll leave it at that. But I know Markco has got some more to say, well, we make it simple, right? We not only provide the services that you need them for you to, to get everything that you need to do for the client. But if you join the mastermind, then you get access to us so that if you run into tough questions, you can just come back, excuse me, come ask us. How do I answer this question? client asked me this. I need an answer what I say and we’ll give you an answer. And we’ve simplified every we boil it down to make it so simple. That I I think that people think that our simplicity means that it doesn’t work. And it’s just the other way around as people make it so complex, that they need to confuse you because it confuse, they can keep making money from. We want it we want to boil all that shit away all that garbage. All we want is that pure rock we want. We want that good.

Guys, that’s what because when we have that when we when we simplify it, that’s what really works. And that’s why this is this is so good in the way that we’ve set it all up for you to come and take advantage of it. It just rocks and all you have to do is join the mastermind. I mean, it’s so simple. I don’t know why more people don’t don’t do it. Maybe I don’t I don’t know doubters doubting Thomases, whatever it is, get past it, because you need to make so much money.

Cool. Thank you. Alright, so we’re almost Well, we still got about 10 minutes. Well, I think we’re gonna have to end it a couple minutes early, right? Yeah, cuz I know we’re streaming through yours. Oh, no.

What Else Can You Do To Improve The Rank Of A Website Aside From Having GMB Drive Stack, 3 Press Releases, And Aged Site?

Fitz says I have a site that is showing 27 Google console page three on main keyword manual search number one main keyword on GMB, drive stack, three press releases, aged site, what can I do to improve? I don’t know, because that was kind of a word salad at the end there. I’m not really sure what you were saying. But as far as if you’ve got a page three, excuse me keywords on page three in Search Console, it means that they’re closed with some proper maybe on page or maybe some supporting articles that through the same silo that would link to those that page specifically syndicated across your network, for example, that’s going to help to kind of reinforce the theme for that particular post. Again, this is all provided that you have proper on page if your structures poor on page, then it’s going to be difficult to push, but it will respond to so much better to these cut type of tactics if you have good good structure, good internal linking. So doing that syndicating to their you know, maybe adding some additional Drive files within a particular, you know, siloed Drive folder that would do the same thing link back to those posts, the supporting posts that were linking to, to kind of boost that the posts on that are showing up with the keywords, the pages that are showing up on page three, that kind of stuff. Those are all things that you can do. also getting traffic to them, either through organic means or through buying way to traffic to those new posts that have been created is going to help to kind of activate all of that stuff. So, I mean, obviously, you know, just all the stuff we talked about mirror that same sort of paid page or post on a G site. Once again, you can even iframe it in there. That’s all the stuff we get into in RYS Academy. Marco, do you have any comments on that?

Marco: Yeah, GMB post silos.

Bradley: Okay. Yeah, you gotta GMB. It says your, your, your question their Fitz. So yeah, you can silo those together as well. Use press releases press release silo stalking. We talked about that recently, too. It’s on our YouTube channel. So once again, you just got a mirror all that stuff through all the different assets that you have available. Okay, then link link below to all that. And once that’s done, you take it, you take you take all that and you run an embed gig and you link build to all that and then see where it see where it sits after that.

Hernan: nice.

Adam: You know, I just thought back to something where Wayne was asking us and you know, I realized I don’t think we mentioned that. Everyone here, you know, that asked about link building and embeds, you’ve got to talk to dead. Yeah. And for the people who know who that is, or has heard the him mentioned, he was at POFU Live two years in a row from India, flew over and pay for his ticket came over and joined us and today this time he’s dropping some bombs did a case study was helping people out? That was really cool. It was just really good to see. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. People appreciate it. So Wayne, that was another one that was cool because I know you know who he is. And for other people who who may think you know, he’s just somebody exists out in the internet like real deal came to down and joined us the second year in a row was all sounds awesome. That’s great. Well, listen, I don’t see any other questions. So I think it’s time we can wrap it up a few minutes early guys. So we want to say hi again from Dubai from Denver, Semantic Mastery from Denver except for Marco but we piped him in as usual. So we’ll see you guys next week. See you guys

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Announcement

Bradley: So that means we’re live now actually. We’re going live here. Okay, so Hey guys, this is Bradley Benner with Semantic Mastery. So let’s see what we’re trying to get a live Hump Day hangouts going here.

Hernan: So get your camera.

Bradley: Activate the camera. Yeah. Sweet. And then looking at you. So bear with us. We’re trying to see the pin, I think.

Adam: Okay, yeah. So we’re going to try this, everybody. Welcome to the episode at 258 Semantic Mastery is in Denver. Hey, I just wanted to say hello. Now that we’ve actually got this up and going and we’re going to do our usual thing real quick. If you’re joining us for the first time, I might be a little confused because clearly we are we’re still trying to figure out how to work computers. We didn’t get Marco and you can join on hard work on the technical side, back in. But while he’s doing that, I’m gonna go down and say hello to everybody real quick starting on my right here with Chris. How are you doing?

Chris: I’m doing good.

Adam: And normally I would ask you what the weather’s like. Stupid so it nice. Yeah, it’s about 70-75 pretty nice. I’m Adam. And next to me, of course, is Bradley Benner.

Bradley: Hi. And last but not least went on over there who’s being goofy

Hernan: Hey everybody

Adam: Oh, man looks like Marco is coming on so as soon as he unmutes himself Marco if you want to say hi and you’re in here say hello to everybody

Marco: I don’t want to say hello in any thinking body man. I’m just playing What’s up everybody? Good to be here. It’s good to be here. Hump Day Hangout. I’m going to join you guys. Oh, yeah. My ready.

Bradley: Alright, cool. So do we have any announcements or like are we going to do normal announcements are we gonna go through it?

Adam: You know, we just for those of you who know or don’t know, obviously we just got done with POFU Live event here in Denver. Get to meet up with returning people as well as some new people which is amazing. Sharing stuff in small groups there’s a lot of fun just had a blast and then of course carrying that on meeting up outside whether it’s for lunch whether we did some evening events that were a lot of fun and you know we wanted to give people cuz we were hearing from people you know I missed it this year, you know, I couldn’t make it things got mixed up, that’s fine. But we want to give you a special offer to get in now and I’ll put that on the page. If you want to grab a VIP ticket, you can grab that now it’s going to be up for a limited period of time and you can save a bundle on that and come join us next year so if you you know you’re one of those people are saying hey, I will be there next year I want to be then this is the time to do that.

Nice you guys got the figured out over here. Yeah, I don’t think so. So no worries and other than that, I want to say for the people watching today maybe for the first time you are in the right place for watching us you can check out the replays of course on YouTube on Semantic Mastery channel just hit subscribe stay up to date with those. If you ever have any digital marketing questions just come semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, ask us. Of course if you’re live you can get a little bit more out of it by clarifying or giving us some feedback. But you know, we understand you can always make it live so you can just ask your questions, check out the replay. And then the next step for you would be the Battle Plan if you want repeatable processes for your SEO and digital marketing, and check it out at battleplan.semanticmastery.com and for everyone else, who wants to take things up a few notches, you know, you want to be around the people who are doing what you’re doing, which is trying to either grow your agency grow your business, then you need to be in the mastermind. And you can find out more about that at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. Right on cool. And last but not least, because we got several questions about it this week, but if you need done for you services, which should be everyone whether you’re doing it for yourself, or you’re doing it for client projects, go to MGYB.co. All right stuff syndication networks are West drive, stacks, press releases, links, embeds, and a lot more coming. So head over there and get that stuff done. And as far as announcements on my end, that’s about it. Marco Are you guys we got anything else we need to touch base on

Good no good. Yeah, we got a lot of questions so let’s go into that standby cuz I gotta try to find it.

Okay, so it looks like the first one is from Mike he says thanks for the great information I want to try to get back to you by mentioned that you have a good intro video but it has very high volume compared the video volume level hope it’s okay to say it. Thanks. That’s a good thing. Can you make a note of that too? Yeah, view that is you’re gonna try to edit our processes if that’s the case. So thank you for that, Mike. We do appreciate that.

URL Structure For Siloed Website

Next is a question. He says. What about strip the category base from category slug so it looks like a page site.com. Katie’s asking obviously about the URL structure for a siloed website. Because I’m Yeah, yes, he’s asking if he can use the restricted category slash post name out of the permalink structure for silo and absolutely you can just using post name premier link structure, it’s fine. It’s called a virtual silo works just as well as a regular siloed would Sorry, just bug does it in the face.

What Are Your Thoughts On Having A Syndicated Branded Network Using High Quality Spun Articles?

The next is vitality says hello Hope everyone is doing great. What are your thoughts on syndication network versus syndication network on the branding network using high quality spun articles readable that can this bring more SEO benefit? I mean, I know you don’t need to I would on your primary tier one branded network, you’re just going to be republishing content from your blog anyways, if that’s what you mean publishing spun articles to your blog, I would recommend now and recommend that instead, you would use curated content, it’s better content and creates co citation. And you don’t have to be a subject matter expert. You can just find other good content out there that you can grab snippets from and share we’ve got a product called content kingpin, which shows you exactly how to do that. That’s what I recommend is just going to read better it’s going to be more valuable. Produce more benefit than spun crappy articles would be if yes, what you mean. Marco, do you want to comment on that?

Marco: That’s exactly what I told him in the Facebook group, I just wanted him to come here. So that we could get go a little bit more in depth. And just to make sure that we hammered that home right that you’re doing, you’re way better off with curated content, citing sources and all of that versus just a crappy spun article that nobody knows what the hell is saying. One of the things that’s important here is that as your tier one brand, and you want it to look good, and if someone happens to come along to your tier one brand and you want that person possibly converting or getting into your funnel so that they end up on the website, and they end up in your sales funnel. And so what do you want that person to see in your tier one branded? Which is your brand amplified? Do you want them to see a crappy spun article that makes absolutely no sense or do you want to curate something that convert that person into a website visitor and perhaps a client or a customer. That’s the question that you need to ask.

What Are The Best Techniques To Let Google Recognize Entities?

Right on. So the next one is from Steve. He says, Hey SM team, what are the best techniques for getting Google to recognize entities? For those doing GMB or Google My Business? Google readily creates knowledge panels or me, or excuse me, MREIDs. But what about those working with the web properties? People products, etc? What can we do beyond schema and Id pages and the G stack? Getting a Wikipedia entry clearly works, but it’s very difficult for most gyms, taxis probably wouldn’t married a Wikipedia page, but it does, but gets in MREID through GMB. So, how do we level up the field for non GMB entities? Well, that sounds like a perfect question for Marco, I quickly would say that, you know, creating all of the syndication network and drive stack and all of that SEO shield including the ID page, all of it together is going to help having the structured data using sameas attributes is going to help. But there are other things that you can do, for example, have a paid account of some sort that helps to validate the entity as well. Meaning like pay Google for something AdWords campaigns, or, you know, Google Ads campaigns or for extra drive storage, all of the above, a G Suite account, something like that. But Marco, what else can you add to that?

Marco: Now, you just went over exactly what he supposed to do. If you can’t go in and get a verified GMB, which has a completed was not the complete entity in Google, because you can add social media and all these other things. Then what you need to do is you go in and you verify it another way and the best way that I know is getting that credit card on file, whether it’s a company credit card, a personal credit card, where you’re directly related to the company. What that’s going to do is it turns you into into Google’s customer, right other than a mage, and elite, and someone who is just abusing services, rather than payment, it gets that credit card on file. And what happens is, you know, yeah, you can have fake credit cards or whatever. But but that belongs to someone, it’s a thing. Then, on the web, it’s it’s in their database. It belongs to a person, but it belongs to a company. So you just went a long way towards validating the fact that you’re real. You’re not just another mooch, another leech, then you do everything else that we recommend. Absolutely. The schema, the @ID amplify it through the drive stack plus Gsite, press releases, I mean, companies do that on a regular basis, they announced their news, and then link building to all of those to just help to solidify everything. That’s what’s going to get you when you can’t get a GMB and Google understands that then there’s other way, getting into all of the different data aggregates.

Bradley: crunchbase would also be a good one.

Marco: crunchbase is perfect, but I was going to also say wiki data because Google is drawing directly from wiki data, you say that Wikipedia isn’t feasible, or sometimes it would merit. But your company wouldn’t merit a Wikipedia entry, a Wikipedia page, about the company and about everything that it does. So you pay someone to get you on Wikipedia, you pay someone to get your Wiki data. I just as interesting as I just posted to my partners this morning, about getting into Wikipedia, wiki data, for Semantic Mastery, because I know a guy that does it and his prices are really, really good. So that’s absolutely you get everywhere. That RankBrain goes to aggregate data about your entity about your thing, and make sure that it’s consistent throughout citations. I can’t remember if you mentioned citations, but that’s a perfect way. citations are a really good way. It doesn’t have to be just for local. It can just be your company. Right?

Can You Share Some Basic Guidelines For Link Building?

Right on next one is Mike. Mike says hello everyone. Can you please share some basic guidelines about backlinks specifically about the text when doing backlinks? When to use exact match keywords for anchor text link or my brand anchor text when writing a small post or short reply on forums, what information you suggest to include in the text and what links? Okay, there’s a lot of questions squeezed into this one, Mike.

So on a kind of a broad level. Personally, I don’t really sweat backlink ratios as far as anchor text ratio is like I used two years ago because I mainly just do everything through naked URLs and like any other any real backlinks that are going to be built are going to be built by my team and MGYB by Dadea. And he knows what to do. You just provide them with your seat set of keywords and he creates all the ratios to where I don’t really bother with it because I don’t really build my links outside of what we have him do.

But really, I use mainly when I’m doing like press releases, for example, because I do publish a lot of press releases, it’s almost 90%, just naked URLs, do brand anchors, and very rarely actually use any keyword anchor text, because it’s not really now off page, I mean, on page, that’s a different story. So, you know, you want to have, if you have content silos on page, you want to make sure that you’re linking through the content, you know, to daisy chain things together using variations of keywords that belong in that specific silo, but not always the same page because or, excuse me, the same keyword anchor. But as far as, you know, link building or blogging even in by the way, when you do that, if you’re syndicating content to a network, it’s going to make sure that you’re not always hammering and getting External links from even your syndication network, your branded network, always pointing back with the same anchor text. That’s why you want to do that.

But once again, you also have all those keywords that we add the same type of keywords that we would add to a drive stack build would be the ones that we would add to the link building campaign. And it’s a way to just continue to push relevancy in at different tiers. There’s different sets of rules as to what you can do as far as anchor text ratios, right. So again, I just hand that over to Dadea and he handles all of it. You want to add to that? Anybody?

Adam: Not to that, but to the next part, so

Marco: Okay, yeah, yeah, that first part generic naked, and brand anchors, right? Yeah. Because what we want to do is what we want to create link diversity. Once you have that, then it’s a lot more powerful when you hit it with that with that with whatever anchor text it is that the broad right and then you can go really eating hone in on the exact match, because your your link diversity is going to withstand some exact match anchors. If you don’t do that, though, if you don’t get those generic naked brand anchors and whatever you can in there, then what’s going to happen is you’re going to get it totally unnatural over optimization problems. And if you if you raise enough red flags that way, it could cause a manual which is when you get into all kinds of problems.

Bradley: Yeah, you’re gonna do it,

Adam: the tech you were writing a small post or a short reply in the forums, what information do you suggest including the text and what links? For me, I mean, I start out by saying that, you know, it’s, it’s too vague, but if you’re just doing this, I look at this as you probably want to look at it more from Hey, what information makes sense and if you’re doing this for an actual strategy, that you’re putting information out there, that increases the likelihood that your post is going to get traffic which I understand sounds kind of goofy, but for a forum that it’s it’s well received, right? And basically, I’m saying quality you know, don’t just say I’ve got to include x y&z you know, if you’re going in here and doing this for a long term strategy, I would say make sure you’re putting out quality information.

Bradley: Not only that, but if you really want to know how to test what type of a text and link to use as your best link for a forum signature tested in AdWords like search, you know what I’m saying? Because if you can get your headline, and you know your brief description and and the link and the offer to convert on through AdWords, and that’s what you put in your forum signature, and you’ll probably have a lot more likelihood of it doing well. I mean, it’s, it’s because you could test it quicker as my point other than trying to have some signature line that really isn’t very compelling, it doesn’t convert very well. And you have to wait for weeks or months to get any results to determine that, right? Because you’ve done a lot of posts, you can really kind of hone that in very quickly using AdWords or Google ads, and then add those to your forum signatures, if that makes sense.

Okay, anything else? Is it better to link to most of the times the homepage or a specific service product page? hope it’s not too complex of a question was a lot of questions you squeeze in there. I think it depends on what your call to action is within the content that you’re using for the link building. Right. I think it makes sense to link to the homepage at times, but also to more specific.

You also, you know, more specific product and or service pages. However, you also got to keep in mind, like, what is the purpose of the content that you’re doing and the overall strategy for that campaign? Because if you’re trying to push, you know, specific, a specific keyword like for particular siloed, for example, you can hit any one of the pieces of content within that silo, which you would call a deep link, because it’s not going to matter if you have the dawn page structured correct, which is what we talked about a lot in the mastermind, then anywhere that you’re going to hit that particular silo with, you know, inbound link, equity, it’s going to benefit the entire siloed. Right, so you wouldn’t want to comment on that anybody good or no? I would just say, Well, no, sorry. No, as a general strategy, he should be probably looking at distributing backlinks through his inner period.

Adam: But yeah, beyond that, like Bradley said, it just depends on again, what you’re, what you’re referencing, or what exactly you’re doing, but you definitely want to distribution

Bradley: Yeah, yeah, I mean, in other words, you don’t want to just always hammer one or the other. Does that make sense? You want you do want to split it up and spread it out. Crazy be we can have it.

Marco: Well, what matters here is how the website is set up, right? Right setting up the whole the homepage to convert, or are you setting up a category right pages as categories or categories as pages where you’re looking to push your silo through your supporting poles, and then that top market level category is going to be what you’re trying to rank because that’s where you want people to convert, actually, you want people to convert all along the way. But just to be sure on the question, if your link building to an inner page, right, then you make sure that you have it set up so that you’re pushing that top market level category up, because that’s what’s going to bring all of the other keywords with it. It doesn’t make sense to only link build to the homepage, if what you’re trying to rank results somewhere on an inner page in the category or in a post, or maybe it’s a lander, within the website, it all has to do with how everything is set up, how your website is set up. Should be how you direct your link building.

Bradley: Awesome. Thanks, man.

Adam: Sorry, real quick. I’ve got to bring this up now. So Wayne has a question for you. It’s the most recent one. But says Bradley, Your voice sounds very different today. Is this part of the new makeover for Hump Day hangouts to make it more sexy? Okay, thanks, Wayne. I’m not really sure how to answer that one. Yeah, let’s take a compliment. Yeah, just couldn’t we have to read that? Alright,

How Long Before You Can See The Results Of Battle Plan 3.0?

so next one is I have been following the Battle Plan 3.0 for a GMB asset. It’s been about two weeks since I followed steps one and two of the plan. How long before I find out the results? I don’t know if I’m facing stiff competition or middle of the road competition. How long do I have to wait before I hit it again? I did. I didn’t want to read set the G algorithm Thanks. Okay, um, put all the pieces together. You know, that’s what we talked about, if you use the Battle Plan, it’s not a, if you just do 25% of the work, you won’t get 25% of the results, if that makes sense, because you put all the pieces together and it has a more like a, an exponential effect, if you will. So it will work a lot better if you put all of the components together to create that entity loop or that SEO shield, whatever you want to call it. So if one and two if you put one in two pieces together or completed steps one and two, and you know, you know, complete the next steps to and I wouldn’t stop until all that entire asset creation. You know that SEO shield is really put together. So we’re going to be talking a lot more about that in the coming weeks for some of the stuff that we’ve got coming up. But Marco, do you want to add to that? I think he’s muted.

Marco: Sorry. I do want to talk about this a little bit? Because something about this really stands out to me. And I don’t want to pick on him, because I see that he’s just beginning. It’s following the Battle Plan. He’s in step two. But dude, how can you not know your competition? If you’re just starting out? Like sometimes when you get to the point where you know how much power you can push, when you know exactly what you’re doing, then the competition doesn’t matter. It’s just a matter of what you’re going to do to take the competition down. You’re at the start so you have to do thorough competition analysis to know exactly how much power it is that you’re going to need to push. Because a lot of this, you might do too much, and it might not be necessary, or you may be doing too little and more might be necessary. So I mean, you have to know what are people paying for AdWords in this niche? Google ads, how much are they paying? are they paying for Facebook ads, YouTube ads, other ads? How many competing pages does it have? Is it in the 2000s? Is it in the millions but singles is it in the 10s of millions is that in the hundreds of millions? Once you have all of that together, you’ll know exactly how tough and how stiff the competition is and then you’ll know exactly what to do. But the plan is still the same right syndication network, drive stack plus Gsite, press releases link building, and then embed runs and link building. And then you you do all of that before you start analyzing the data and seeing where your project has landed in rank. Because you’ll see that different keywords rank differently, different niches rank differently. So you have to know whether you need to isolate one of your market level keywords one of your top keywords that may be stuck second, third page, you may have to isolate that and hit that individually. Once you’ve done everything.

So without completing everything part one of the plan, as Bradley said, finish everything first. Once you do that link building one which it which is which is the final piece, you let it sit 21 days, four weeks, and then you come back and analyze the data and see what it is that you have to do. But guys starting out, when you’re starting in this, it’s a must for you to be able to analyze the competition and understand what it is that you’re up against. Because whether it’s you investing your money, or whether you’re investing your clients’ money you have what you’re going to spend your money on, and how much of it.

Adam: Yeah, and I’m not going to be able to get the quote right, Marco, maybe you can help me but this reminds me of what you said, might have been during your talk of POFU Live, but basically like Sun Tzu and the art of war and saying you want to come to the battle knowing you’re already going to win and you can’t do that. If you don’t know what your competition is.

Marco: You have to know that you’re going to win the war before you fight the first battle. I’m paraphrasing because I can’t remember the exact quote of him but but it’s along those lines. How can you know whether you going into you know, you can’t go blind into battle I might a bow and arrow and I’m going up against how it’s all right. I’m going up against a nuclear missile that well I’m not going to do very very well. So once once you lay it all out, and you’re absolutely right, it is war. And you understand your enemy your competition is your enemy always. And you know exactly what it is that you have to do to take down your enemy Well, you you win the war and you haven’t done and think about it all you’ve done is study the enemy. It was I love Sun Tzu and thank you. That’s awesome.

Is It Possible To Target National Keywords By Using Verified GMBs?

Alright, so the next one says Is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMBs? So are gonna hand that one over to you because I know you talked about different strategies for that kind of stuff. He’s got an example a follow up question next. So again, is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMB? For example, a long tail keyword like how to lose weight?

Marco: This isn’t totally an independent, it depends question. Yeah, what is it that you’re that you’re trying to do because one thing is local. And what you’re targeting is the proximity factor and then overriding the proximity factor so that you can get into outlying areas and target those. You can totally do that. You can totally extend the centroid and somebody was just somebody who guys who was in our local GMB Pro just came out with extending the centroid in in his own training his own original train, and I’m not going there. I’m just saying what the fuck man? But yes, you can extend the century and there are different ways that we can for extending the century, so you can totally do it, you’re going to need a whole lot of GMBs.

Because in a place like like New York City, Chicago, LA, you’re going to need to push a lot of power inside inside just I’m going to get one GMB do a whole bunch of pose, and then that’s going to get me where I need to go. It Again, it depends on the competition. Now, if it’s a national keyword, like cosmetic manufacturer, and there’s no location, like you don’t need to use location, there’s nothing location based. Why would you target it with a GMB? Other than to create like a national headquarters for the brand, but that would be branding. That wouldn’t be so so this is this question is kind of confusing. Yes. I don’t know about you guys. Because because they were talking about two different things here. And maybe what what you what you’re trying but what you’re thinking is you want to become the knowledge panel for the keywords. Well, that’s brand plus keyword association. And I think Fabian is in RYS Academy Reloaded and we teach that all day long we we should we show how to do that? I mean, we’ve been doing it for a while will be going in five years and mates and says Bradley ranked is Virginia SEO, SEO Virginia? So yes, it can be done. It depends on what you’re trying to do.

All right, but I’ll take you to the next question lockout Marco, you guys. It’s like back and forth. Is it? Yeah, so I totally said what I meant if or is maybe hosting original content on the money site, but on the branding network, instead of syndicating content, hosting high quality spun versions of posts from money site. Best regards? No, I mean, there’s no reason to. That’s what I’m saying. Like if it’s your branding, network, your branded network, then there’s no reason that you would need do post spunversions of your money site post because I’ve just republished the money site posts again, I don’t recommend using spun content as any on page or any first tier link building stuff, because it’s just not a good idea to do that now it’s even if it’s high quality spun stuff, which I guess you can still get away with that if it’s done very, very well. Okay, cool.

Will An Existing (Non-Semantic Mastery) GSite And Drive Stack Interfere With The Ones Being Built By MGYB?

Next one, Katie says Hey guys, I was talking to a dentist about his SEO he told me his son was doing it but he was getting nowhere I spoke to the son and he told me he bought some gigs on Fiverr for Google sites and drive files I told the dentist you get what you pay for. And then I may be able to help do it properly. Can I go to MGYB and by G site and drive stack for this one or is it too late? Well, the current g sites are drive stack his son setup interfere with the one MGYB would build. I don’t think the sun will let me delete all of the work he has done. Thanks.

Well, I’ll let Marco also answer on this one but I would absolutely get a new drive stack and G site that is built correctly. Which will likely the other one because the other one was not put together properly. So it’s not really pushing any relevancy or entity validation, if that makes sense. So once it’s done right, that would be the one that would come be associated with your entity because it will be done correctly. But Marco, what would you say was is it critical that the other one would be removed or deleted?

Marco: No it won’t matter and as a matter of fact what what you could do is add those satellites to push into the new drive stack was decide that we’re going to create for for you which is done right, then you can link building to all of those which is only going to help I mean, it’s not gonna hurt. Absolutely not. But you what you do need is that is that friend that drive stack empty site created my way, not somebody else’s way. Because they always skip corners. They never do the work that they’re supposed to think about. And I’ve said this before, it takes between six and eight hours for a train building. Jessen, by the way that the original RYS to do one and do it properly. Someone was going to charge you, maybe, I don’t know, 50 bucks. And they’re going to spend six hours, maybe eight hours building and drive stack? No, no, it’s not gonna happen. The money just isn’t there, right for five bucks. 10 bucks, 15 bucks. We charge what we charge for a reason. You and you’re absolutely right that and when I saw this, I couldn’t believe it you do get what you pay for. And if you go to Fiverr sometimes you’ve got some really good gigs in there that do a specific thing. But when you’re talking about pushing power, the Rank Your Shit Academy Reloaded me. There’s only one way to do it. You go with the original.

I agree. Yeah, this one I would probably be careful if I was in this position, because now I’m thinking okay, there’s someone else in there. So this to me goes back to managing client expectations and saying, Well, now there’s a son who’s got, you know, backend access to everything. So you might want to be managing to him. The son’s involved and he’s screwing around with stuff on that I don’t know about then, you know, I can’t be held responsible for some of this stuff. Yeah. working against our goals, so I’d be careful with it.

Okay, moving on the next one. See, I’m trying to find a guy stand by me. I think Jordan had a good one. He said mastermind plus sub mastermind group equals the cat’s meow. I totally agree with that. It’s not a question but I like it.

Do You Work With Third Party Syndication Networks And Stacks That Are Not Setup Correctly?

Okay, so the next question I see is I have questions about your done for you service syndication and stacks. I’ve had other vendors create those before but don’t think they were set up correctly. I see a theme here any any any problem with having you do them again? No, actually, that’s the best thing to do is just come on, come get it done correctly. And then you can analyze the ones that we’ve built for you versus the ones that you got from other vendors and, you know, figure out what was done wrong and apply it to the old ones. Yeah, yeah.

That idea. So yeah, that’s what I would do, because that’s what a lot of people, I mean, see that I go by RYS Academy. And that way you can go through the training and then you can understand what was done and then go fix the ones but again, your time is best spent on just purchasing them and letting somebody else do all that manual work, right.

Do You Create One Google Stack For Each Service Offering URL?

So the next one is Nathan says, when you build these stacks for people I know you ask them for the main keyword However, what if they offer multiple services? Do you create one g stack for each URL? For example, the company that offered HVAC and plumbing services do you create a stack for each URL or service offering a company slash and he went through several examples now, I mean, you can but another way to do it is to have a brand stack created, which is what we do. We recommend for whatever your primary keyword is or keywords, top level keywords, and then from there, once you get it back, and at some point, we’re going to provide this as an additional service, but once you get the branded drive stack back, you can go in and clone the folders that are contained in the the primary drive stack folder, and then re optimize that it does require some manual work, but for each one of your silos or product services or categories on your site, so that way, you’re mirroring your internal files from the drive stack inside of a branded and overall branded Drive folder. So again, you’re just building that relevancy, you’re going to mirror the same type of site structure that you have on your website into your drive stack. It does require some manual work. But the most important thing is to have that branded drive stack with the top-level keywords associated with that brand. So that makes sense. And Marco, do you want to come in on that?

Marco: No, that’s what I would have said. No, we’re not going to create both. If you submit HVAC, and if you submit plumbing, and you, you asked us to do keyword research, we’re going to give you everything that’s related to that. If nothing you have to do your own keyword research and submit the keywords that you want related to your brand which as Bradley said, we asked for about 50 and go for top keywords. Don’t go for the long tails, the long tails you’re going to get as you build it out as you build your supporting post and as you build your inner pages and you mirror your G site is up your money site on on the G site. But Bradley just so you guys know and I just got the news yesterday we’re testing the drive stack and G site as we speak. It’s coming right it’s gonna make it a lot easier. And right now like if he wants to make it easier on himself and clone, the drive stacks, then what he can do is he can make a donation to my charity and then right to Christie for the webinars right through charity webinars for last year and the scripts, and I’ll put the link to the donation. That’s awesome. Thank you.

And I’m not seeing any other questions you guys see any more? No will give people a minute here and I know that there’s a little bit of a delay here. There’s not much delay through zoom though.

So um, I did see a question in YouTube here. I said we’re in Colorado, we’re still in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, we’re a very short period. So what is the URL if people want to get the early bird discount for next year POFU Live go to pofulive.com/2022. I’m pulling up to make sure I’m not lying, pofulive.com/2020 and make sure you use the coupon code 2020 or 2020 action taker. Yeah. That’s going to be the lowest price ever. Oh, yeah. It definitely was a good event. I thought it was really good. Well, actually, let’s touch on that.

Real quick we got a few minutes we can wait for some questions here I want to share with people so we had Catherine Jones. So if you haven’t seen her you can probably get search for CF design school Semantic Mastery, check out a webinar we had with her, she dropped some good knowledge for everybody. Especially a lot of the people, they’re growing their agencies growing their consulting and you know, she taught them and us about funnel design but not just you know, hey, me do this to make your funnel look pretty. But you know, it’s about converting, not being pretty. And then how you can do this and how in a short period of time, you can create these things that you know, you can really crush it in terms of selling to clients or adding it onto your agency. So that was pretty cool. I don’t guys have anything else to say about Katherine’s presentation I was gonna get and then Adam Benjamin was another one of our guest speakers. That was great guys got a ton of sales experience. This was really cool talking to him getting some insights about basically kind of brand positioning, which tied in really well with what her non talked about about just one second.

Part of an audience presentation was about personal branding. And then how you can help yourself basically by growing yourself as an authority and it’s not some, you know, 25 step crazy, you know, diagram you got to follow to do this it was it was pretty simple, but combining that with what I think Adam said would be really powerful, so cool

What Was The Biggest Takeaway That You Can Share From POFU 2019?

Wayne says what was the biggest takeaway that you can share from POFU Live 2019? Uh, did you should go to pofulive.com/2020 and Wayne because what we want to see you there, and to you know, I’m not dodging the question, I’ll let these guys answer it. But like we’ve told people and like all of the testimonial say when we just ask people, hey, what do you want to share about Cooper life? You know, hey, content was great. It took something away immediately that paid for it. But on top of that, it’s you know, interacting with people, and that’s what you get out of a small group. So whether it’s us whether it’s a guest speakers, or whether it’s each other and saying, Oh, you know what, I have not been doing this one little thing or, you know, you open my eyes to a whole new area. I could either be doing for myself doing for clients stuff like that. But that’s consistently what we’ve heard. Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, I think so too. If I can add real quick, I think that as digital marketing, or digital agency owners, most of the people that come to POFU Live there, they spend most of their time alone, right? They might have a couple of VAs, they might have small team, but most of them are remote, right? So come in here and being in a room for three days with people that have kind of the same ideas that you have. And some of them might be, you know, even ahead than you and some of them you might help to get to the point where you are right now, I think that that’s one of the best things that can possibly happen to an entrepreneur or digital agency owner. So yeah, yeah.

Bradley: And on a purely SEO basis, I want to say that it was awesome to hear how just putting the SEO shield together, the way that we teach works across the board, and you know, here in that for some several hours remembers that POFU Live to talk about how it’s like the cheat code. so it’s awesome because it’s validation beyond. I mean, we all knew it worked anyways. But it’s really good to hear when members actually take our advice and put it together the way that we teach. And then they get the same kind of results. And so that to me, was a very great takeaway to know that we’ve got something that’s been working for us for years that continues to work beyond updates to or through or despite of updates, you know what I mean? So it’s just very encouraging to see that. Yeah.

Adam: So Wayne, that popped into answer your question for myself, I think, you know, the biggest takeaway looking for something like either tactical or real world was Rob got up. Rob gave a great, great presentation and then he hopped on the whiteboard. And right and that’s where the magic happens. And so went through stuff, but he’s going to be sharing that with people in Bradley already mentioned SEO shield, and exactly what people can do. And basically taking the Battle Plan, combining it with what’s been done already and what will come in MGYB, and saying you now here’s what you got to do. So again, not to use it, but it’s on its way out. And I will share it with everybody as soon as we have something. Marco: I’d like to answer Wayne’s question because my biggest takeaway, not only this year, but also last year, is that the people who come to us, the action takers, they generally have already have everything as SEO wise that they need to get results. Because we’ve been proving it since since we started that when you implement what we give you, you get results. Now, what I often see and in my mini mastermind and in doing this for so long, is that people simply get stuck. I mean, it’s a joke, right? Don’t get stuck in the middle, but are you getting the middle of the big fat fuck you.

But it’s true guys. Do you want to finger prodding you in the middle? When you’re not doing anything? Is that what you’re really looking for? Or are you constantly going to go taking action and doing the things that you need to do to get to where you want to be. Because it’s not being where you have to be. That sucks. It sucks having to be somewhere and having to do something. But when you want to do it, and you like to do it, even if it’s something that you know you have to do, to continue on that path to POFU, it’s fulfilling. And you don’t get all of these different things joining and pulling you away. Because you’re hyper focus, you know that you can get results. We give them to you, we give you everything. You can come and reach out to us personally and we’ll answer your questions. We’ll do everything we can to help you make money, but we still have people stuck in the middle even mastermind members, we have people stuck in the middle, because they won’t do the shit that they’re supposed to do to be successful.

And so one of the things that you need to do to be successful is get with like minded people, and the only way you’re going to do that is by attending these events. And I don’t I don’t mean the bullshit events where you’re going to have hundreds of people. And you know you, you do that for networking. More than anything you do that to see how you’re going to make money and when and where do it do that. But when you really want to get with like minded people who are hyper focus on making money, that’s what you need to be in one of these events, the real ones, the ones where you get the gritty living by the ones where you get down to business, down with brass tacks and you get what you’re supposed to get so that you can continue making money.

Adam: definitely, hey, real quick got some questions on YouTube. I want to answer before we hop to the next question, which I love and click SEO. But first of all, Brian Kato says what’s up guys? Hey, good to meet you, man.

Do You Do Stacks For Dating Sites?

And then also another Brian was asking do you guys do stacks for dating sites. We don’t believe we have any restrictions. I mean, I don’t have I don’t think that crosses any lines for us building stacks, right?

Yeah, yeah. Because a lot of those can have things like male enhancement, and it depends on the affiliate that you’re running. We’re not going to do any of that, but I’m not gonna have my people don’t do any Yeah, we just don’t do it. So we don’t get them. Brian and you’re watching this just email support@mgyb.co. To tell them what your actual like what your keywords are, and they’ll write Marco they’ll be able to tell them from that whether or not they can build it, right. So no doubt No, no pharma, gambling. I don’t know. It’s epic. Guys. It has to be in English. Don’t ask us to do Hungarian because that’s the one and the money that we have to target to do a one of is not feasible.

Can You Build An Agency Just By Outsourcing To Whitelabels?

Yeah. I so click SEO as the next one, he says or she says can you build an agency just outsourcing to white labels? Yeah, you certainly can. I like good. Jordan Fowler followed up. He’s one of our mastermind members and very successful but agency owner. And so and I agree very much with what he said, and that is that you can but you have to understand what it is that you’re talking about for when you do get questions, or at least be honest and say that you’ll get the answer if you don’t have it, you know, whatever the case may be, you want to make sure that you’re not talking at a on with ignorance to a potential customer or client with, you know, without being able to answer the questions, and it’s something that you can learn as you go, depending on what all your service offerings are, you know, we were going to be talking a lot about that in the coming weeks or coming months for for, you know, different things that you can do to build an agency without you have to do all of the work. And so I think it’s important to understand the concepts, the foundation of it, then then from there, you can you know, you can learn how to best manage questions and such for each one of the services depending on what kind of also confidence level you have in your done for you service providers. Does that make sense? Yeah. So anybody want to comment on now I think we’re understanding just the basic Six at least I mean, at a minimum, but you know, I, this may not be a great analogy. I’m doing this on the fly, but I was like, can you own? Maybe a few automotive repair shops and not be a mechanic? Sure. Is it going to benefit you greatly to understand the business you’re in? Yeah, you know, better. So I’ll leave it at that. But I know Markco has got some more to say, well, we make it simple, right? We not only provide the services that you need them for you to, to get everything that you need to do for the client. But if you join the mastermind, then you get access to us so that if you run into tough questions, you can just come back, excuse me, come ask us. How do I answer this question? client asked me this. I need an answer what I say and we’ll give you an answer. And we’ve simplified every we boil it down to make it so simple. That I I think that people think that our simplicity means that it doesn’t work. And it’s just the other way around as people make it so complex, that they need to confuse you because it confuse, they can keep making money from. We want it we want to boil all that shit away all that garbage. All we want is that pure rock we want. We want that good.

Guys, that’s what because when we have that when we when we simplify it, that’s what really works. And that’s why this is this is so good in the way that we’ve set it all up for you to come and take advantage of it. It just rocks and all you have to do is join the mastermind. I mean, it’s so simple. I don’t know why more people don’t don’t do it. Maybe I don’t I don’t know doubters doubting Thomases, whatever it is, get past it, because you need to make so much money.

Cool. Thank you. Alright, so we’re almost Well, we still got about 10 minutes. Well, I think we’re gonna have to end it a couple minutes early, right? Yeah, cuz I know we’re streaming through yours. Oh, no.

What Else Can You Do To Improve The Rank Of A Website Aside From Having GMB Drive Stack, 3 Press Releases, And Aged Site?

Fitz says I have a site that is showing 27 Google console page three on main keyword manual search number one main keyword on GMB, drive stack, three press releases, aged site, what can I do to improve? I don’t know, because that was kind of a word salad at the end there. I’m not really sure what you were saying. But as far as if you’ve got a page three, excuse me keywords on page three in Search Console, it means that they’re closed with some proper maybe on page or maybe some supporting articles that through the same silo that would link to those that page specifically syndicated across your network, for example, that’s going to help to kind of reinforce the theme for that particular post. Again, this is all provided that you have proper on page if your structures poor on page, then it’s going to be difficult to push, but it will respond to so much better to these cut type of tactics if you have good good structure, good internal linking. So doing that syndicating to their you know, maybe adding some additional Drive files within a particular, you know, siloed Drive folder that would do the same thing link back to those posts, the supporting posts that were linking to, to kind of boost that the posts on that are showing up with the keywords, the pages that are showing up on page three, that kind of stuff. Those are all things that you can do. also getting traffic to them, either through organic means or through buying way to traffic to those new posts that have been created is going to help to kind of activate all of that stuff. So, I mean, obviously, you know, just all the stuff we talked about mirror that same sort of paid page or post on a G site. Once again, you can even iframe it in there. That’s all the stuff we get into in RYS Academy. Marco, do you have any comments on that?

Marco: Yeah, GMB post silos.

Bradley: Okay. Yeah, you gotta GMB. It says your, your, your question their Fitz. So yeah, you can silo those together as well. Use press releases press release silo stalking. We talked about that recently, too. It’s on our YouTube channel. So once again, you just got a mirror all that stuff through all the different assets that you have available. Okay, then link link below to all that. And once that’s done, you take it, you take you take all that and you run an embed gig and you link build to all that and then see where it see where it sits after that.

Hernan: nice.

Adam: You know, I just thought back to something where Wayne was asking us and you know, I realized I don’t think we mentioned that. Everyone here, you know, that asked about link building and embeds, you’ve got to talk to dead. Yeah. And for the people who know who that is, or has heard the him mentioned, he was at POFU Live two years in a row from India, flew over and pay for his ticket came over and joined us and today this time he’s dropping some bombs did a case study was helping people out? That was really cool. It was just really good to see. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. People appreciate it. So Wayne, that was another one that was cool because I know you know who he is. And for other people who who may think you know, he’s just somebody exists out in the internet like real deal came to down and joined us the second year in a row was all sounds awesome. That’s great. Well, listen, I don’t see any other questions. So I think it’s time we can wrap it up a few minutes early guys. So we want to say hi again from Dubai from Denver, Semantic Mastery from Denver except for Marco but we piped him in as usual. So we’ll see you guys next week. See you guys

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Announcement

Bradley: So that means we’re live now actually. We’re going live here. Okay, so Hey guys, this is Bradley Benner with Semantic Mastery. So let’s see what we’re trying to get a live Hump Day hangouts going here.

Hernan: So get your camera.

Bradley: Activate the camera. Yeah. Sweet. And then looking at you. So bear with us. We’re trying to see the pin, I think.

Adam: Okay, yeah. So we’re going to try this, everybody. Welcome to the episode at 258 Semantic Mastery is in Denver. Hey, I just wanted to say hello. Now that we’ve actually got this up and going and we’re going to do our usual thing real quick. If you’re joining us for the first time, I might be a little confused because clearly we are we’re still trying to figure out how to work computers. We didn’t get Marco and you can join on hard work on the technical side, back in. But while he’s doing that, I’m gonna go down and say hello to everybody real quick starting on my right here with Chris. How are you doing?

Chris: I’m doing good.

Adam: And normally I would ask you what the weather’s like. Stupid so it nice. Yeah, it’s about 70-75 pretty nice. I’m Adam. And next to me, of course, is Bradley Benner.

Bradley: Hi. And last but not least went on over there who’s being goofy

Hernan: Hey everybody

Adam: Oh, man looks like Marco is coming on so as soon as he unmutes himself Marco if you want to say hi and you’re in here say hello to everybody

Marco: I don’t want to say hello in any thinking body man. I’m just playing What’s up everybody? Good to be here. It’s good to be here. Hump Day Hangout. I’m going to join you guys. Oh, yeah. My ready.

Bradley: Alright, cool. So do we have any announcements or like are we going to do normal announcements are we gonna go through it?

Adam: You know, we just for those of you who know or don’t know, obviously we just got done with POFU Live event here in Denver. Get to meet up with returning people as well as some new people which is amazing. Sharing stuff in small groups there’s a lot of fun just had a blast and then of course carrying that on meeting up outside whether it’s for lunch whether we did some evening events that were a lot of fun and you know we wanted to give people cuz we were hearing from people you know I missed it this year, you know, I couldn’t make it things got mixed up, that’s fine. But we want to give you a special offer to get in now and I’ll put that on the page. If you want to grab a VIP ticket, you can grab that now it’s going to be up for a limited period of time and you can save a bundle on that and come join us next year so if you you know you’re one of those people are saying hey, I will be there next year I want to be then this is the time to do that.

Nice you guys got the figured out over here. Yeah, I don’t think so. So no worries and other than that, I want to say for the people watching today maybe for the first time you are in the right place for watching us you can check out the replays of course on YouTube on Semantic Mastery channel just hit subscribe stay up to date with those. If you ever have any digital marketing questions just come semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, ask us. Of course if you’re live you can get a little bit more out of it by clarifying or giving us some feedback. But you know, we understand you can always make it live so you can just ask your questions, check out the replay. And then the next step for you would be the Battle Plan if you want repeatable processes for your SEO and digital marketing, and check it out at battleplan.semanticmastery.com and for everyone else, who wants to take things up a few notches, you know, you want to be around the people who are doing what you’re doing, which is trying to either grow your agency grow your business, then you need to be in the mastermind. And you can find out more about that at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. Right on cool. And last but not least, because we got several questions about it this week, but if you need done for you services, which should be everyone whether you’re doing it for yourself, or you’re doing it for client projects, go to MGYB.co. All right stuff syndication networks are West drive, stacks, press releases, links, embeds, and a lot more coming. So head over there and get that stuff done. And as far as announcements on my end, that’s about it. Marco Are you guys we got anything else we need to touch base on

Good no good. Yeah, we got a lot of questions so let’s go into that standby cuz I gotta try to find it.

Okay, so it looks like the first one is from Mike he says thanks for the great information I want to try to get back to you by mentioned that you have a good intro video but it has very high volume compared the video volume level hope it’s okay to say it. Thanks. That’s a good thing. Can you make a note of that too? Yeah, view that is you’re gonna try to edit our processes if that’s the case. So thank you for that, Mike. We do appreciate that.

URL Structure For Siloed Website

Next is a question. He says. What about strip the category base from category slug so it looks like a page site.com. Katie’s asking obviously about the URL structure for a siloed website. Because I’m Yeah, yes, he’s asking if he can use the restricted category slash post name out of the permalink structure for silo and absolutely you can just using post name premier link structure, it’s fine. It’s called a virtual silo works just as well as a regular siloed would Sorry, just bug does it in the face.

What Are Your Thoughts On Having A Syndicated Branded Network Using High Quality Spun Articles?

The next is vitality says hello Hope everyone is doing great. What are your thoughts on syndication network versus syndication network on the branding network using high quality spun articles readable that can this bring more SEO benefit? I mean, I know you don’t need to I would on your primary tier one branded network, you’re just going to be republishing content from your blog anyways, if that’s what you mean publishing spun articles to your blog, I would recommend now and recommend that instead, you would use curated content, it’s better content and creates co citation. And you don’t have to be a subject matter expert. You can just find other good content out there that you can grab snippets from and share we’ve got a product called content kingpin, which shows you exactly how to do that. That’s what I recommend is just going to read better it’s going to be more valuable. Produce more benefit than spun crappy articles would be if yes, what you mean. Marco, do you want to comment on that?

Marco: That’s exactly what I told him in the Facebook group, I just wanted him to come here. So that we could get go a little bit more in depth. And just to make sure that we hammered that home right that you’re doing, you’re way better off with curated content, citing sources and all of that versus just a crappy spun article that nobody knows what the hell is saying. One of the things that’s important here is that as your tier one brand, and you want it to look good, and if someone happens to come along to your tier one brand and you want that person possibly converting or getting into your funnel so that they end up on the website, and they end up in your sales funnel. And so what do you want that person to see in your tier one branded? Which is your brand amplified? Do you want them to see a crappy spun article that makes absolutely no sense or do you want to curate something that convert that person into a website visitor and perhaps a client or a customer. That’s the question that you need to ask.

What Are The Best Techniques To Let Google Recognize Entities?

Right on. So the next one is from Steve. He says, Hey SM team, what are the best techniques for getting Google to recognize entities? For those doing GMB or Google My Business? Google readily creates knowledge panels or me, or excuse me, MREIDs. But what about those working with the web properties? People products, etc? What can we do beyond schema and Id pages and the G stack? Getting a Wikipedia entry clearly works, but it’s very difficult for most gyms, taxis probably wouldn’t married a Wikipedia page, but it does, but gets in MREID through GMB. So, how do we level up the field for non GMB entities? Well, that sounds like a perfect question for Marco, I quickly would say that, you know, creating all of the syndication network and drive stack and all of that SEO shield including the ID page, all of it together is going to help having the structured data using sameas attributes is going to help. But there are other things that you can do, for example, have a paid account of some sort that helps to validate the entity as well. Meaning like pay Google for something AdWords campaigns, or, you know, Google Ads campaigns or for extra drive storage, all of the above, a G Suite account, something like that. But Marco, what else can you add to that?

Marco: Now, you just went over exactly what he supposed to do. If you can’t go in and get a verified GMB, which has a completed was not the complete entity in Google, because you can add social media and all these other things. Then what you need to do is you go in and you verify it another way and the best way that I know is getting that credit card on file, whether it’s a company credit card, a personal credit card, where you’re directly related to the company. What that’s going to do is it turns you into into Google’s customer, right other than a mage, and elite, and someone who is just abusing services, rather than payment, it gets that credit card on file. And what happens is, you know, yeah, you can have fake credit cards or whatever. But but that belongs to someone, it’s a thing. Then, on the web, it’s it’s in their database. It belongs to a person, but it belongs to a company. So you just went a long way towards validating the fact that you’re real. You’re not just another mooch, another leech, then you do everything else that we recommend. Absolutely. The schema, the @ID amplify it through the drive stack plus Gsite, press releases, I mean, companies do that on a regular basis, they announced their news, and then link building to all of those to just help to solidify everything. That’s what’s going to get you when you can’t get a GMB and Google understands that then there’s other way, getting into all of the different data aggregates.

Bradley: crunchbase would also be a good one.

Marco: crunchbase is perfect, but I was going to also say wiki data because Google is drawing directly from wiki data, you say that Wikipedia isn’t feasible, or sometimes it would merit. But your company wouldn’t merit a Wikipedia entry, a Wikipedia page, about the company and about everything that it does. So you pay someone to get you on Wikipedia, you pay someone to get your Wiki data. I just as interesting as I just posted to my partners this morning, about getting into Wikipedia, wiki data, for Semantic Mastery, because I know a guy that does it and his prices are really, really good. So that’s absolutely you get everywhere. That RankBrain goes to aggregate data about your entity about your thing, and make sure that it’s consistent throughout citations. I can’t remember if you mentioned citations, but that’s a perfect way. citations are a really good way. It doesn’t have to be just for local. It can just be your company. Right?

Can You Share Some Basic Guidelines For Link Building?

Right on next one is Mike. Mike says hello everyone. Can you please share some basic guidelines about backlinks specifically about the text when doing backlinks? When to use exact match keywords for anchor text link or my brand anchor text when writing a small post or short reply on forums, what information you suggest to include in the text and what links? Okay, there’s a lot of questions squeezed into this one, Mike.

So on a kind of a broad level. Personally, I don’t really sweat backlink ratios as far as anchor text ratio is like I used two years ago because I mainly just do everything through naked URLs and like any other any real backlinks that are going to be built are going to be built by my team and MGYB by Dadea. And he knows what to do. You just provide them with your seat set of keywords and he creates all the ratios to where I don’t really bother with it because I don’t really build my links outside of what we have him do.

But really, I use mainly when I’m doing like press releases, for example, because I do publish a lot of press releases, it’s almost 90%, just naked URLs, do brand anchors, and very rarely actually use any keyword anchor text, because it’s not really now off page, I mean, on page, that’s a different story. So, you know, you want to have, if you have content silos on page, you want to make sure that you’re linking through the content, you know, to daisy chain things together using variations of keywords that belong in that specific silo, but not always the same page because or, excuse me, the same keyword anchor. But as far as, you know, link building or blogging even in by the way, when you do that, if you’re syndicating content to a network, it’s going to make sure that you’re not always hammering and getting External links from even your syndication network, your branded network, always pointing back with the same anchor text. That’s why you want to do that.

But once again, you also have all those keywords that we add the same type of keywords that we would add to a drive stack build would be the ones that we would add to the link building campaign. And it’s a way to just continue to push relevancy in at different tiers. There’s different sets of rules as to what you can do as far as anchor text ratios, right. So again, I just hand that over to Dadea and he handles all of it. You want to add to that? Anybody?

Adam: Not to that, but to the next part, so

Marco: Okay, yeah, yeah, that first part generic naked, and brand anchors, right? Yeah. Because what we want to do is what we want to create link diversity. Once you have that, then it’s a lot more powerful when you hit it with that with that with whatever anchor text it is that the broad right and then you can go really eating hone in on the exact match, because your your link diversity is going to withstand some exact match anchors. If you don’t do that, though, if you don’t get those generic naked brand anchors and whatever you can in there, then what’s going to happen is you’re going to get it totally unnatural over optimization problems. And if you if you raise enough red flags that way, it could cause a manual which is when you get into all kinds of problems.

Bradley: Yeah, you’re gonna do it,

Adam: the tech you were writing a small post or a short reply in the forums, what information do you suggest including the text and what links? For me, I mean, I start out by saying that, you know, it’s, it’s too vague, but if you’re just doing this, I look at this as you probably want to look at it more from Hey, what information makes sense and if you’re doing this for an actual strategy, that you’re putting information out there, that increases the likelihood that your post is going to get traffic which I understand sounds kind of goofy, but for a forum that it’s it’s well received, right? And basically, I’m saying quality you know, don’t just say I’ve got to include x y&z you know, if you’re going in here and doing this for a long term strategy, I would say make sure you’re putting out quality information.

Bradley: Not only that, but if you really want to know how to test what type of a text and link to use as your best link for a forum signature tested in AdWords like search, you know what I’m saying? Because if you can get your headline, and you know your brief description and and the link and the offer to convert on through AdWords, and that’s what you put in your forum signature, and you’ll probably have a lot more likelihood of it doing well. I mean, it’s, it’s because you could test it quicker as my point other than trying to have some signature line that really isn’t very compelling, it doesn’t convert very well. And you have to wait for weeks or months to get any results to determine that, right? Because you’ve done a lot of posts, you can really kind of hone that in very quickly using AdWords or Google ads, and then add those to your forum signatures, if that makes sense.

Okay, anything else? Is it better to link to most of the times the homepage or a specific service product page? hope it’s not too complex of a question was a lot of questions you squeeze in there. I think it depends on what your call to action is within the content that you’re using for the link building. Right. I think it makes sense to link to the homepage at times, but also to more specific.

You also, you know, more specific product and or service pages. However, you also got to keep in mind, like, what is the purpose of the content that you’re doing and the overall strategy for that campaign? Because if you’re trying to push, you know, specific, a specific keyword like for particular siloed, for example, you can hit any one of the pieces of content within that silo, which you would call a deep link, because it’s not going to matter if you have the dawn page structured correct, which is what we talked about a lot in the mastermind, then anywhere that you’re going to hit that particular silo with, you know, inbound link, equity, it’s going to benefit the entire siloed. Right, so you wouldn’t want to comment on that anybody good or no? I would just say, Well, no, sorry. No, as a general strategy, he should be probably looking at distributing backlinks through his inner period.

Adam: But yeah, beyond that, like Bradley said, it just depends on again, what you’re, what you’re referencing, or what exactly you’re doing, but you definitely want to distribution

Bradley: Yeah, yeah, I mean, in other words, you don’t want to just always hammer one or the other. Does that make sense? You want you do want to split it up and spread it out. Crazy be we can have it.

Marco: Well, what matters here is how the website is set up, right? Right setting up the whole the homepage to convert, or are you setting up a category right pages as categories or categories as pages where you’re looking to push your silo through your supporting poles, and then that top market level category is going to be what you’re trying to rank because that’s where you want people to convert, actually, you want people to convert all along the way. But just to be sure on the question, if your link building to an inner page, right, then you make sure that you have it set up so that you’re pushing that top market level category up, because that’s what’s going to bring all of the other keywords with it. It doesn’t make sense to only link build to the homepage, if what you’re trying to rank results somewhere on an inner page in the category or in a post, or maybe it’s a lander, within the website, it all has to do with how everything is set up, how your website is set up. Should be how you direct your link building.

Bradley: Awesome. Thanks, man.

Adam: Sorry, real quick. I’ve got to bring this up now. So Wayne has a question for you. It’s the most recent one. But says Bradley, Your voice sounds very different today. Is this part of the new makeover for Hump Day hangouts to make it more sexy? Okay, thanks, Wayne. I’m not really sure how to answer that one. Yeah, let’s take a compliment. Yeah, just couldn’t we have to read that? Alright,

How Long Before You Can See The Results Of Battle Plan 3.0?

so next one is I have been following the Battle Plan 3.0 for a GMB asset. It’s been about two weeks since I followed steps one and two of the plan. How long before I find out the results? I don’t know if I’m facing stiff competition or middle of the road competition. How long do I have to wait before I hit it again? I did. I didn’t want to read set the G algorithm Thanks. Okay, um, put all the pieces together. You know, that’s what we talked about, if you use the Battle Plan, it’s not a, if you just do 25% of the work, you won’t get 25% of the results, if that makes sense, because you put all the pieces together and it has a more like a, an exponential effect, if you will. So it will work a lot better if you put all of the components together to create that entity loop or that SEO shield, whatever you want to call it. So if one and two if you put one in two pieces together or completed steps one and two, and you know, you know, complete the next steps to and I wouldn’t stop until all that entire asset creation. You know that SEO shield is really put together. So we’re going to be talking a lot more about that in the coming weeks for some of the stuff that we’ve got coming up. But Marco, do you want to add to that? I think he’s muted.

Marco: Sorry. I do want to talk about this a little bit? Because something about this really stands out to me. And I don’t want to pick on him, because I see that he’s just beginning. It’s following the Battle Plan. He’s in step two. But dude, how can you not know your competition? If you’re just starting out? Like sometimes when you get to the point where you know how much power you can push, when you know exactly what you’re doing, then the competition doesn’t matter. It’s just a matter of what you’re going to do to take the competition down. You’re at the start so you have to do thorough competition analysis to know exactly how much power it is that you’re going to need to push. Because a lot of this, you might do too much, and it might not be necessary, or you may be doing too little and more might be necessary. So I mean, you have to know what are people paying for AdWords in this niche? Google ads, how much are they paying? are they paying for Facebook ads, YouTube ads, other ads? How many competing pages does it have? Is it in the 2000s? Is it in the millions but singles is it in the 10s of millions is that in the hundreds of millions? Once you have all of that together, you’ll know exactly how tough and how stiff the competition is and then you’ll know exactly what to do. But the plan is still the same right syndication network, drive stack plus Gsite, press releases link building, and then embed runs and link building. And then you you do all of that before you start analyzing the data and seeing where your project has landed in rank. Because you’ll see that different keywords rank differently, different niches rank differently. So you have to know whether you need to isolate one of your market level keywords one of your top keywords that may be stuck second, third page, you may have to isolate that and hit that individually. Once you’ve done everything.

So without completing everything part one of the plan, as Bradley said, finish everything first. Once you do that link building one which it which is which is the final piece, you let it sit 21 days, four weeks, and then you come back and analyze the data and see what it is that you have to do. But guys starting out, when you’re starting in this, it’s a must for you to be able to analyze the competition and understand what it is that you’re up against. Because whether it’s you investing your money, or whether you’re investing your clients’ money you have what you’re going to spend your money on, and how much of it.

Adam: Yeah, and I’m not going to be able to get the quote right, Marco, maybe you can help me but this reminds me of what you said, might have been during your talk of POFU Live, but basically like Sun Tzu and the art of war and saying you want to come to the battle knowing you’re already going to win and you can’t do that. If you don’t know what your competition is.

Marco: You have to know that you’re going to win the war before you fight the first battle. I’m paraphrasing because I can’t remember the exact quote of him but but it’s along those lines. How can you know whether you going into you know, you can’t go blind into battle I might a bow and arrow and I’m going up against how it’s all right. I’m going up against a nuclear missile that well I’m not going to do very very well. So once once you lay it all out, and you’re absolutely right, it is war. And you understand your enemy your competition is your enemy always. And you know exactly what it is that you have to do to take down your enemy Well, you you win the war and you haven’t done and think about it all you’ve done is study the enemy. It was I love Sun Tzu and thank you. That’s awesome.

Is It Possible To Target National Keywords By Using Verified GMBs?

Alright, so the next one says Is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMBs? So are gonna hand that one over to you because I know you talked about different strategies for that kind of stuff. He’s got an example a follow up question next. So again, is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMB? For example, a long tail keyword like how to lose weight?

Marco: This isn’t totally an independent, it depends question. Yeah, what is it that you’re that you’re trying to do because one thing is local. And what you’re targeting is the proximity factor and then overriding the proximity factor so that you can get into outlying areas and target those. You can totally do that. You can totally extend the centroid and somebody was just somebody who guys who was in our local GMB Pro just came out with extending the centroid in in his own training his own original train, and I’m not going there. I’m just saying what the fuck man? But yes, you can extend the century and there are different ways that we can for extending the century, so you can totally do it, you’re going to need a whole lot of GMBs.

Because in a place like like New York City, Chicago, LA, you’re going to need to push a lot of power inside inside just I’m going to get one GMB do a whole bunch of pose, and then that’s going to get me where I need to go. It Again, it depends on the competition. Now, if it’s a national keyword, like cosmetic manufacturer, and there’s no location, like you don’t need to use location, there’s nothing location based. Why would you target it with a GMB? Other than to create like a national headquarters for the brand, but that would be branding. That wouldn’t be so so this is this question is kind of confusing. Yes. I don’t know about you guys. Because because they were talking about two different things here. And maybe what what you what you’re trying but what you’re thinking is you want to become the knowledge panel for the keywords. Well, that’s brand plus keyword association. And I think Fabian is in RYS Academy Reloaded and we teach that all day long we we should we show how to do that? I mean, we’ve been doing it for a while will be going in five years and mates and says Bradley ranked is Virginia SEO, SEO Virginia? So yes, it can be done. It depends on what you’re trying to do.

All right, but I’ll take you to the next question lockout Marco, you guys. It’s like back and forth. Is it? Yeah, so I totally said what I meant if or is maybe hosting original content on the money site, but on the branding network, instead of syndicating content, hosting high quality spun versions of posts from money site. Best regards? No, I mean, there’s no reason to. That’s what I’m saying. Like if it’s your branding, network, your branded network, then there’s no reason that you would need do post spunversions of your money site post because I’ve just republished the money site posts again, I don’t recommend using spun content as any on page or any first tier link building stuff, because it’s just not a good idea to do that now it’s even if it’s high quality spun stuff, which I guess you can still get away with that if it’s done very, very well. Okay, cool.

Will An Existing (Non-Semantic Mastery) GSite And Drive Stack Interfere With The Ones Being Built By MGYB?

Next one, Katie says Hey guys, I was talking to a dentist about his SEO he told me his son was doing it but he was getting nowhere I spoke to the son and he told me he bought some gigs on Fiverr for Google sites and drive files I told the dentist you get what you pay for. And then I may be able to help do it properly. Can I go to MGYB and by G site and drive stack for this one or is it too late? Well, the current g sites are drive stack his son setup interfere with the one MGYB would build. I don’t think the sun will let me delete all of the work he has done. Thanks.

Well, I’ll let Marco also answer on this one but I would absolutely get a new drive stack and G site that is built correctly. Which will likely the other one because the other one was not put together properly. So it’s not really pushing any relevancy or entity validation, if that makes sense. So once it’s done right, that would be the one that would come be associated with your entity because it will be done correctly. But Marco, what would you say was is it critical that the other one would be removed or deleted?

Marco: No it won’t matter and as a matter of fact what what you could do is add those satellites to push into the new drive stack was decide that we’re going to create for for you which is done right, then you can link building to all of those which is only going to help I mean, it’s not gonna hurt. Absolutely not. But you what you do need is that is that friend that drive stack empty site created my way, not somebody else’s way. Because they always skip corners. They never do the work that they’re supposed to think about. And I’ve said this before, it takes between six and eight hours for a train building. Jessen, by the way that the original RYS to do one and do it properly. Someone was going to charge you, maybe, I don’t know, 50 bucks. And they’re going to spend six hours, maybe eight hours building and drive stack? No, no, it’s not gonna happen. The money just isn’t there, right for five bucks. 10 bucks, 15 bucks. We charge what we charge for a reason. You and you’re absolutely right that and when I saw this, I couldn’t believe it you do get what you pay for. And if you go to Fiverr sometimes you’ve got some really good gigs in there that do a specific thing. But when you’re talking about pushing power, the Rank Your Shit Academy Reloaded me. There’s only one way to do it. You go with the original.

I agree. Yeah, this one I would probably be careful if I was in this position, because now I’m thinking okay, there’s someone else in there. So this to me goes back to managing client expectations and saying, Well, now there’s a son who’s got, you know, backend access to everything. So you might want to be managing to him. The son’s involved and he’s screwing around with stuff on that I don’t know about then, you know, I can’t be held responsible for some of this stuff. Yeah. working against our goals, so I’d be careful with it.

Okay, moving on the next one. See, I’m trying to find a guy stand by me. I think Jordan had a good one. He said mastermind plus sub mastermind group equals the cat’s meow. I totally agree with that. It’s not a question but I like it.

Do You Work With Third Party Syndication Networks And Stacks That Are Not Setup Correctly?

Okay, so the next question I see is I have questions about your done for you service syndication and stacks. I’ve had other vendors create those before but don’t think they were set up correctly. I see a theme here any any any problem with having you do them again? No, actually, that’s the best thing to do is just come on, come get it done correctly. And then you can analyze the ones that we’ve built for you versus the ones that you got from other vendors and, you know, figure out what was done wrong and apply it to the old ones. Yeah, yeah.

That idea. So yeah, that’s what I would do, because that’s what a lot of people, I mean, see that I go by RYS Academy. And that way you can go through the training and then you can understand what was done and then go fix the ones but again, your time is best spent on just purchasing them and letting somebody else do all that manual work, right.

Do You Create One Google Stack For Each Service Offering URL?

So the next one is Nathan says, when you build these stacks for people I know you ask them for the main keyword However, what if they offer multiple services? Do you create one g stack for each URL? For example, the company that offered HVAC and plumbing services do you create a stack for each URL or service offering a company slash and he went through several examples now, I mean, you can but another way to do it is to have a brand stack created, which is what we do. We recommend for whatever your primary keyword is or keywords, top level keywords, and then from there, once you get it back, and at some point, we’re going to provide this as an additional service, but once you get the branded drive stack back, you can go in and clone the folders that are contained in the the primary drive stack folder, and then re optimize that it does require some manual work, but for each one of your silos or product services or categories on your site, so that way, you’re mirroring your internal files from the drive stack inside of a branded and overall branded Drive folder. So again, you’re just building that relevancy, you’re going to mirror the same type of site structure that you have on your website into your drive stack. It does require some manual work. But the most important thing is to have that branded drive stack with the top-level keywords associated with that brand. So that makes sense. And Marco, do you want to come in on that?

Marco: No, that’s what I would have said. No, we’re not going to create both. If you submit HVAC, and if you submit plumbing, and you, you asked us to do keyword research, we’re going to give you everything that’s related to that. If nothing you have to do your own keyword research and submit the keywords that you want related to your brand which as Bradley said, we asked for about 50 and go for top keywords. Don’t go for the long tails, the long tails you’re going to get as you build it out as you build your supporting post and as you build your inner pages and you mirror your G site is up your money site on on the G site. But Bradley just so you guys know and I just got the news yesterday we’re testing the drive stack and G site as we speak. It’s coming right it’s gonna make it a lot easier. And right now like if he wants to make it easier on himself and clone, the drive stacks, then what he can do is he can make a donation to my charity and then right to Christie for the webinars right through charity webinars for last year and the scripts, and I’ll put the link to the donation. That’s awesome. Thank you.

And I’m not seeing any other questions you guys see any more? No will give people a minute here and I know that there’s a little bit of a delay here. There’s not much delay through zoom though.

So um, I did see a question in YouTube here. I said we’re in Colorado, we’re still in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, we’re a very short period. So what is the URL if people want to get the early bird discount for next year POFU Live go to pofulive.com/2022. I’m pulling up to make sure I’m not lying, pofulive.com/2020 and make sure you use the coupon code 2020 or 2020 action taker. Yeah. That’s going to be the lowest price ever. Oh, yeah. It definitely was a good event. I thought it was really good. Well, actually, let’s touch on that.

Real quick we got a few minutes we can wait for some questions here I want to share with people so we had Catherine Jones. So if you haven’t seen her you can probably get search for CF design school Semantic Mastery, check out a webinar we had with her, she dropped some good knowledge for everybody. Especially a lot of the people, they’re growing their agencies growing their consulting and you know, she taught them and us about funnel design but not just you know, hey, me do this to make your funnel look pretty. But you know, it’s about converting, not being pretty. And then how you can do this and how in a short period of time, you can create these things that you know, you can really crush it in terms of selling to clients or adding it onto your agency. So that was pretty cool. I don’t guys have anything else to say about Katherine’s presentation I was gonna get and then Adam Benjamin was another one of our guest speakers. That was great guys got a ton of sales experience. This was really cool talking to him getting some insights about basically kind of brand positioning, which tied in really well with what her non talked about about just one second.

Part of an audience presentation was about personal branding. And then how you can help yourself basically by growing yourself as an authority and it’s not some, you know, 25 step crazy, you know, diagram you got to follow to do this it was it was pretty simple, but combining that with what I think Adam said would be really powerful, so cool

What Was The Biggest Takeaway That You Can Share From POFU 2019?

Wayne says what was the biggest takeaway that you can share from POFU Live 2019? Uh, did you should go to pofulive.com/2020 and Wayne because what we want to see you there, and to you know, I’m not dodging the question, I’ll let these guys answer it. But like we’ve told people and like all of the testimonial say when we just ask people, hey, what do you want to share about Cooper life? You know, hey, content was great. It took something away immediately that paid for it. But on top of that, it’s you know, interacting with people, and that’s what you get out of a small group. So whether it’s us whether it’s a guest speakers, or whether it’s each other and saying, Oh, you know what, I have not been doing this one little thing or, you know, you open my eyes to a whole new area. I could either be doing for myself doing for clients stuff like that. But that’s consistently what we’ve heard. Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, I think so too. If I can add real quick, I think that as digital marketing, or digital agency owners, most of the people that come to POFU Live there, they spend most of their time alone, right? They might have a couple of VAs, they might have small team, but most of them are remote, right? So come in here and being in a room for three days with people that have kind of the same ideas that you have. And some of them might be, you know, even ahead than you and some of them you might help to get to the point where you are right now, I think that that’s one of the best things that can possibly happen to an entrepreneur or digital agency owner. So yeah, yeah.

Bradley: And on a purely SEO basis, I want to say that it was awesome to hear how just putting the SEO shield together, the way that we teach works across the board, and you know, here in that for some several hours remembers that POFU Live to talk about how it’s like the cheat code. so it’s awesome because it’s validation beyond. I mean, we all knew it worked anyways. But it’s really good to hear when members actually take our advice and put it together the way that we teach. And then they get the same kind of results. And so that to me, was a very great takeaway to know that we’ve got something that’s been working for us for years that continues to work beyond updates to or through or despite of updates, you know what I mean? So it’s just very encouraging to see that. Yeah.

Adam: So Wayne, that popped into answer your question for myself, I think, you know, the biggest takeaway looking for something like either tactical or real world was Rob got up. Rob gave a great, great presentation and then he hopped on the whiteboard. And right and that’s where the magic happens. And so went through stuff, but he’s going to be sharing that with people in Bradley already mentioned SEO shield, and exactly what people can do. And basically taking the Battle Plan, combining it with what’s been done already and what will come in MGYB, and saying you now here’s what you got to do. So again, not to use it, but it’s on its way out. And I will share it with everybody as soon as we have something. Marco: I’d like to answer Wayne’s question because my biggest takeaway, not only this year, but also last year, is that the people who come to us, the action takers, they generally have already have everything as SEO wise that they need to get results. Because we’ve been proving it since since we started that when you implement what we give you, you get results. Now, what I often see and in my mini mastermind and in doing this for so long, is that people simply get stuck. I mean, it’s a joke, right? Don’t get stuck in the middle, but are you getting the middle of the big fat fuck you.

But it’s true guys. Do you want to finger prodding you in the middle? When you’re not doing anything? Is that what you’re really looking for? Or are you constantly going to go taking action and doing the things that you need to do to get to where you want to be. Because it’s not being where you have to be. That sucks. It sucks having to be somewhere and having to do something. But when you want to do it, and you like to do it, even if it’s something that you know you have to do, to continue on that path to POFU, it’s fulfilling. And you don’t get all of these different things joining and pulling you away. Because you’re hyper focus, you know that you can get results. We give them to you, we give you everything. You can come and reach out to us personally and we’ll answer your questions. We’ll do everything we can to help you make money, but we still have people stuck in the middle even mastermind members, we have people stuck in the middle, because they won’t do the shit that they’re supposed to do to be successful.

And so one of the things that you need to do to be successful is get with like minded people, and the only way you’re going to do that is by attending these events. And I don’t I don’t mean the bullshit events where you’re going to have hundreds of people. And you know you, you do that for networking. More than anything you do that to see how you’re going to make money and when and where do it do that. But when you really want to get with like minded people who are hyper focus on making money, that’s what you need to be in one of these events, the real ones, the ones where you get the gritty living by the ones where you get down to business, down with brass tacks and you get what you’re supposed to get so that you can continue making money.

Adam: definitely, hey, real quick got some questions on YouTube. I want to answer before we hop to the next question, which I love and click SEO. But first of all, Brian Kato says what’s up guys? Hey, good to meet you, man.

Do You Do Stacks For Dating Sites?

And then also another Brian was asking do you guys do stacks for dating sites. We don’t believe we have any restrictions. I mean, I don’t have I don’t think that crosses any lines for us building stacks, right?

Yeah, yeah. Because a lot of those can have things like male enhancement, and it depends on the affiliate that you’re running. We’re not going to do any of that, but I’m not gonna have my people don’t do any Yeah, we just don’t do it. So we don’t get them. Brian and you’re watching this just email support@mgyb.co. To tell them what your actual like what your keywords are, and they’ll write Marco they’ll be able to tell them from that whether or not they can build it, right. So no doubt No, no pharma, gambling. I don’t know. It’s epic. Guys. It has to be in English. Don’t ask us to do Hungarian because that’s the one and the money that we have to target to do a one of is not feasible.

Can You Build An Agency Just By Outsourcing To Whitelabels?

Yeah. I so click SEO as the next one, he says or she says can you build an agency just outsourcing to white labels? Yeah, you certainly can. I like good. Jordan Fowler followed up. He’s one of our mastermind members and very successful but agency owner. And so and I agree very much with what he said, and that is that you can but you have to understand what it is that you’re talking about for when you do get questions, or at least be honest and say that you’ll get the answer if you don’t have it, you know, whatever the case may be, you want to make sure that you’re not talking at a on with ignorance to a potential customer or client with, you know, without being able to answer the questions, and it’s something that you can learn as you go, depending on what all your service offerings are, you know, we were going to be talking a lot about that in the coming weeks or coming months for for, you know, different things that you can do to build an agency without you have to do all of the work. And so I think it’s important to understand the concepts, the foundation of it, then then from there, you can you know, you can learn how to best manage questions and such for each one of the services depending on what kind of also confidence level you have in your done for you service providers. Does that make sense? Yeah. So anybody want to comment on now I think we’re understanding just the basic Six at least I mean, at a minimum, but you know, I, this may not be a great analogy. I’m doing this on the fly, but I was like, can you own? Maybe a few automotive repair shops and not be a mechanic? Sure. Is it going to benefit you greatly to understand the business you’re in? Yeah, you know, better. So I’ll leave it at that. But I know Markco has got some more to say, well, we make it simple, right? We not only provide the services that you need them for you to, to get everything that you need to do for the client. But if you join the mastermind, then you get access to us so that if you run into tough questions, you can just come back, excuse me, come ask us. How do I answer this question? client asked me this. I need an answer what I say and we’ll give you an answer. And we’ve simplified every we boil it down to make it so simple. That I I think that people think that our simplicity means that it doesn’t work. And it’s just the other way around as people make it so complex, that they need to confuse you because it confuse, they can keep making money from. We want it we want to boil all that shit away all that garbage. All we want is that pure rock we want. We want that good.

Guys, that’s what because when we have that when we when we simplify it, that’s what really works. And that’s why this is this is so good in the way that we’ve set it all up for you to come and take advantage of it. It just rocks and all you have to do is join the mastermind. I mean, it’s so simple. I don’t know why more people don’t don’t do it. Maybe I don’t I don’t know doubters doubting Thomases, whatever it is, get past it, because you need to make so much money.

Cool. Thank you. Alright, so we’re almost Well, we still got about 10 minutes. Well, I think we’re gonna have to end it a couple minutes early, right? Yeah, cuz I know we’re streaming through yours. Oh, no.

What Else Can You Do To Improve The Rank Of A Website Aside From Having GMB Drive Stack, 3 Press Releases, And Aged Site?

Fitz says I have a site that is showing 27 Google console page three on main keyword manual search number one main keyword on GMB, drive stack, three press releases, aged site, what can I do to improve? I don’t know, because that was kind of a word salad at the end there. I’m not really sure what you were saying. But as far as if you’ve got a page three, excuse me keywords on page three in Search Console, it means that they’re closed with some proper maybe on page or maybe some supporting articles that through the same silo that would link to those that page specifically syndicated across your network, for example, that’s going to help to kind of reinforce the theme for that particular post. Again, this is all provided that you have proper on page if your structures poor on page, then it’s going to be difficult to push, but it will respond to so much better to these cut type of tactics if you have good good structure, good internal linking. So doing that syndicating to their you know, maybe adding some additional Drive files within a particular, you know, siloed Drive folder that would do the same thing link back to those posts, the supporting posts that were linking to, to kind of boost that the posts on that are showing up with the keywords, the pages that are showing up on page three, that kind of stuff. Those are all things that you can do. also getting traffic to them, either through organic means or through buying way to traffic to those new posts that have been created is going to help to kind of activate all of that stuff. So, I mean, obviously, you know, just all the stuff we talked about mirror that same sort of paid page or post on a G site. Once again, you can even iframe it in there. That’s all the stuff we get into in RYS Academy. Marco, do you have any comments on that?

Marco: Yeah, GMB post silos.

Bradley: Okay. Yeah, you gotta GMB. It says your, your, your question their Fitz. So yeah, you can silo those together as well. Use press releases press release silo stalking. We talked about that recently, too. It’s on our YouTube channel. So once again, you just got a mirror all that stuff through all the different assets that you have available. Okay, then link link below to all that. And once that’s done, you take it, you take you take all that and you run an embed gig and you link build to all that and then see where it see where it sits after that.

Hernan: nice.

Adam: You know, I just thought back to something where Wayne was asking us and you know, I realized I don’t think we mentioned that. Everyone here, you know, that asked about link building and embeds, you’ve got to talk to dead. Yeah. And for the people who know who that is, or has heard the him mentioned, he was at POFU Live two years in a row from India, flew over and pay for his ticket came over and joined us and today this time he’s dropping some bombs did a case study was helping people out? That was really cool. It was just really good to see. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. People appreciate it. So Wayne, that was another one that was cool because I know you know who he is. And for other people who who may think you know, he’s just somebody exists out in the internet like real deal came to down and joined us the second year in a row was all sounds awesome. That’s great. Well, listen, I don’t see any other questions. So I think it’s time we can wrap it up a few minutes early guys. So we want to say hi again from Dubai from Denver, Semantic Mastery from Denver except for Marco but we piped him in as usual. So we’ll see you guys next week. See you guys

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  Announcement

Bradley: So that means we're live now actually. We're going live here. Okay, so Hey guys, this is Bradley Benner with Semantic Mastery. So let's see what we're trying to get a live Hump Day hangouts going here.

Hernan: So get your camera.

Bradley: Activate the camera. Yeah. Sweet. And then looking at you. So bear with us. We're trying to see the pin, I think.

Adam: Okay, yeah. So we're going to try this, everybody. Welcome to the episode at 258 Semantic Mastery is in Denver. Hey, I just wanted to say hello. Now that we've actually got this up and going and we're going to do our usual thing real quick. If you're joining us for the first time, I might be a little confused because clearly we are we're still trying to figure out how to work computers. We didn't get Marco and you can join on hard work on the technical side, back in. But while he's doing that, I'm gonna go down and say hello to everybody real quick starting on my right here with Chris. How are you doing?

Chris: I'm doing good.

Adam: And normally I would ask you what the weather's like. Stupid so it nice. Yeah, it's about 70-75 pretty nice. I'm Adam. And next to me, of course, is Bradley Benner.

Bradley: Hi. And last but not least went on over there who's being goofy

Hernan: Hey everybody

Adam: Oh, man looks like Marco is coming on so as soon as he unmutes himself Marco if you want to say hi and you're in here say hello to everybody

Marco: I don't want to say hello in any thinking body man. I'm just playing What's up everybody? Good to be here. It's good to be here. Hump Day Hangout. I'm going to join you guys. Oh, yeah. My ready.

Bradley: Alright, cool. So do we have any announcements or like are we going to do normal announcements are we gonna go through it?

Adam: You know, we just for those of you who know or don't know, obviously we just got done with POFU Live event here in Denver. Get to meet up with returning people as well as some new people which is amazing. Sharing stuff in small groups there's a lot of fun just had a blast and then of course carrying that on meeting up outside whether it's for lunch whether we did some evening events that were a lot of fun and you know we wanted to give people cuz we were hearing from people you know I missed it this year, you know, I couldn't make it things got mixed up, that's fine. But we want to give you a special offer to get in now and I'll put that on the page. If you want to grab a VIP ticket, you can grab that now it's going to be up for a limited period of time and you can save a bundle on that and come join us next year so if you you know you're one of those people are saying hey, I will be there next year I want to be then this is the time to do that.

Nice you guys got the figured out over here. Yeah, I don't think so. So no worries and other than that, I want to say for the people watching today maybe for the first time you are in the right place for watching us you can check out the replays of course on YouTube on Semantic Mastery channel just hit subscribe stay up to date with those. If you ever have any digital marketing questions just come semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, ask us. Of course if you're live you can get a little bit more out of it by clarifying or giving us some feedback. But you know, we understand you can always make it live so you can just ask your questions, check out the replay. And then the next step for you would be the Battle Plan if you want repeatable processes for your SEO and digital marketing, and check it out at battleplan.semanticmastery.com and for everyone else, who wants to take things up a few notches, you know, you want to be around the people who are doing what you're doing, which is trying to either grow your agency grow your business, then you need to be in the mastermind. And you can find out more about that at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. Right on cool. And last but not least, because we got several questions about it this week, but if you need done for you services, which should be everyone whether you're doing it for yourself, or you're doing it for client projects, go to MGYB.co. All right stuff syndication networks are West drive, stacks, press releases, links, embeds, and a lot more coming. So head over there and get that stuff done. And as far as announcements on my end, that's about it. Marco Are you guys we got anything else we need to touch base on

Good no good. Yeah, we got a lot of questions so let's go into that standby cuz I gotta try to find it.

Okay, so it looks like the first one is from Mike he says thanks for the great information I want to try to get back to you by mentioned that you have a good intro video but it has very high volume compared the video volume level hope it's okay to say it. Thanks. That's a good thing. Can you make a note of that too? Yeah, view that is you're gonna try to edit our processes if that's the case. So thank you for that, Mike. We do appreciate that.

URL Structure For Siloed Website

Next is a question. He says. What about strip the category base from category slug so it looks like a page site.com. Katie's asking obviously about the URL structure for a siloed website. Because I'm Yeah, yes, he's asking if he can use the restricted category slash post name out of the permalink structure for silo and absolutely you can just using post name premier link structure, it's fine. It's called a virtual silo works just as well as a regular siloed would Sorry, just bug does it in the face.

What Are Your Thoughts On Having A Syndicated Branded Network Using High Quality Spun Articles?

The next is vitality says hello Hope everyone is doing great. What are your thoughts on syndication network versus syndication network on the branding network using high quality spun articles readable that can this bring more SEO benefit? I mean, I know you don't need to I would on your primary tier one branded network, you're just going to be republishing content from your blog anyways, if that's what you mean publishing spun articles to your blog, I would recommend now and recommend that instead, you would use curated content, it's better content and creates co citation. And you don't have to be a subject matter expert. You can just find other good content out there that you can grab snippets from and share we've got a product called content kingpin, which shows you exactly how to do that. That's what I recommend is just going to read better it's going to be more valuable. Produce more benefit than spun crappy articles would be if yes, what you mean. Marco, do you want to comment on that?

Marco: That's exactly what I told him in the Facebook group, I just wanted him to come here. So that we could get go a little bit more in depth. And just to make sure that we hammered that home right that you're doing, you're way better off with curated content, citing sources and all of that versus just a crappy spun article that nobody knows what the hell is saying. One of the things that's important here is that as your tier one brand, and you want it to look good, and if someone happens to come along to your tier one brand and you want that person possibly converting or getting into your funnel so that they end up on the website, and they end up in your sales funnel. And so what do you want that person to see in your tier one branded? Which is your brand amplified? Do you want them to see a crappy spun article that makes absolutely no sense or do you want to curate something that convert that person into a website visitor and perhaps a client or a customer. That's the question that you need to ask.

What Are The Best Techniques To Let Google Recognize Entities?

Right on. So the next one is from Steve. He says, Hey SM team, what are the best techniques for getting Google to recognize entities? For those doing GMB or Google My Business? Google readily creates knowledge panels or me, or excuse me, MREIDs. But what about those working with the web properties? People products, etc? What can we do beyond schema and Id pages and the G stack? Getting a Wikipedia entry clearly works, but it's very difficult for most gyms, taxis probably wouldn't married a Wikipedia page, but it does, but gets in MREID through GMB. So, how do we level up the field for non GMB entities? Well, that sounds like a perfect question for Marco, I quickly would say that, you know, creating all of the syndication network and drive stack and all of that SEO shield including the ID page, all of it together is going to help having the structured data using sameas attributes is going to help. But there are other things that you can do, for example, have a paid account of some sort that helps to validate the entity as well. Meaning like pay Google for something AdWords campaigns, or, you know, Google Ads campaigns or for extra drive storage, all of the above, a G Suite account, something like that. But Marco, what else can you add to that?

Marco: Now, you just went over exactly what he supposed to do. If you can't go in and get a verified GMB, which has a completed was not the complete entity in Google, because you can add social media and all these other things. Then what you need to do is you go in and you verify it another way and the best way that I know is getting that credit card on file, whether it's a company credit card, a personal credit card, where you're directly related to the company. What that's going to do is it turns you into into Google's customer, right other than a mage, and elite, and someone who is just abusing services, rather than payment, it gets that credit card on file. And what happens is, you know, yeah, you can have fake credit cards or whatever. But but that belongs to someone, it's a thing. Then, on the web, it's it's in their database. It belongs to a person, but it belongs to a company. So you just went a long way towards validating the fact that you're real. You're not just another mooch, another leech, then you do everything else that we recommend. Absolutely. The schema, the @ID amplify it through the drive stack plus Gsite, press releases, I mean, companies do that on a regular basis, they announced their news, and then link building to all of those to just help to solidify everything. That's what's going to get you when you can't get a GMB and Google understands that then there's other way, getting into all of the different data aggregates.

Bradley: crunchbase would also be a good one.

Marco: crunchbase is perfect, but I was going to also say wiki data because Google is drawing directly from wiki data, you say that Wikipedia isn't feasible, or sometimes it would merit. But your company wouldn't merit a Wikipedia entry, a Wikipedia page, about the company and about everything that it does. So you pay someone to get you on Wikipedia, you pay someone to get your Wiki data. I just as interesting as I just posted to my partners this morning, about getting into Wikipedia, wiki data, for Semantic Mastery, because I know a guy that does it and his prices are really, really good. So that's absolutely you get everywhere. That RankBrain goes to aggregate data about your entity about your thing, and make sure that it's consistent throughout citations. I can't remember if you mentioned citations, but that's a perfect way. citations are a really good way. It doesn't have to be just for local. It can just be your company. Right?

Can You Share Some Basic Guidelines For Link Building?

Right on next one is Mike. Mike says hello everyone. Can you please share some basic guidelines about backlinks specifically about the text when doing backlinks? When to use exact match keywords for anchor text link or my brand anchor text when writing a small post or short reply on forums, what information you suggest to include in the text and what links? Okay, there's a lot of questions squeezed into this one, Mike.

So on a kind of a broad level. Personally, I don't really sweat backlink ratios as far as anchor text ratio is like I used two years ago because I mainly just do everything through naked URLs and like any other any real backlinks that are going to be built are going to be built by my team and MGYB by Dadea. And he knows what to do. You just provide them with your seat set of keywords and he creates all the ratios to where I don't really bother with it because I don't really build my links outside of what we have him do.

But really, I use mainly when I'm doing like press releases, for example, because I do publish a lot of press releases, it's almost 90%, just naked URLs, do brand anchors, and very rarely actually use any keyword anchor text, because it's not really now off page, I mean, on page, that's a different story. So, you know, you want to have, if you have content silos on page, you want to make sure that you're linking through the content, you know, to daisy chain things together using variations of keywords that belong in that specific silo, but not always the same page because or, excuse me, the same keyword anchor. But as far as, you know, link building or blogging even in by the way, when you do that, if you're syndicating content to a network, it's going to make sure that you're not always hammering and getting External links from even your syndication network, your branded network, always pointing back with the same anchor text. That's why you want to do that.

But once again, you also have all those keywords that we add the same type of keywords that we would add to a drive stack build would be the ones that we would add to the link building campaign. And it's a way to just continue to push relevancy in at different tiers. There's different sets of rules as to what you can do as far as anchor text ratios, right. So again, I just hand that over to Dadea and he handles all of it. You want to add to that? Anybody?

Adam: Not to that, but to the next part, so

Marco: Okay, yeah, yeah, that first part generic naked, and brand anchors, right? Yeah. Because what we want to do is what we want to create link diversity. Once you have that, then it's a lot more powerful when you hit it with that with that with whatever anchor text it is that the broad right and then you can go really eating hone in on the exact match, because your your link diversity is going to withstand some exact match anchors. If you don't do that, though, if you don't get those generic naked brand anchors and whatever you can in there, then what's going to happen is you're going to get it totally unnatural over optimization problems. And if you if you raise enough red flags that way, it could cause a manual which is when you get into all kinds of problems.

Bradley: Yeah, you're gonna do it,

Adam: the tech you were writing a small post or a short reply in the forums, what information do you suggest including the text and what links? For me, I mean, I start out by saying that, you know, it's, it's too vague, but if you're just doing this, I look at this as you probably want to look at it more from Hey, what information makes sense and if you're doing this for an actual strategy, that you're putting information out there, that increases the likelihood that your post is going to get traffic which I understand sounds kind of goofy, but for a forum that it's it's well received, right? And basically, I'm saying quality you know, don't just say I've got to include x y&z you know, if you're going in here and doing this for a long term strategy, I would say make sure you're putting out quality information.

Bradley: Not only that, but if you really want to know how to test what type of a text and link to use as your best link for a forum signature tested in AdWords like search, you know what I'm saying? Because if you can get your headline, and you know your brief description and and the link and the offer to convert on through AdWords, and that's what you put in your forum signature, and you'll probably have a lot more likelihood of it doing well. I mean, it's, it's because you could test it quicker as my point other than trying to have some signature line that really isn't very compelling, it doesn't convert very well. And you have to wait for weeks or months to get any results to determine that, right? Because you've done a lot of posts, you can really kind of hone that in very quickly using AdWords or Google ads, and then add those to your forum signatures, if that makes sense.

Okay, anything else? Is it better to link to most of the times the homepage or a specific service product page? hope it's not too complex of a question was a lot of questions you squeeze in there. I think it depends on what your call to action is within the content that you're using for the link building. Right. I think it makes sense to link to the homepage at times, but also to more specific.

You also, you know, more specific product and or service pages. However, you also got to keep in mind, like, what is the purpose of the content that you're doing and the overall strategy for that campaign? Because if you're trying to push, you know, specific, a specific keyword like for particular siloed, for example, you can hit any one of the pieces of content within that silo, which you would call a deep link, because it's not going to matter if you have the dawn page structured correct, which is what we talked about a lot in the mastermind, then anywhere that you're going to hit that particular silo with, you know, inbound link, equity, it's going to benefit the entire siloed. Right, so you wouldn't want to comment on that anybody good or no? I would just say, Well, no, sorry. No, as a general strategy, he should be probably looking at distributing backlinks through his inner period.

Adam: But yeah, beyond that, like Bradley said, it just depends on again, what you're, what you're referencing, or what exactly you're doing, but you definitely want to distribution

Bradley: Yeah, yeah, I mean, in other words, you don't want to just always hammer one or the other. Does that make sense? You want you do want to split it up and spread it out. Crazy be we can have it.

Marco: Well, what matters here is how the website is set up, right? Right setting up the whole the homepage to convert, or are you setting up a category right pages as categories or categories as pages where you're looking to push your silo through your supporting poles, and then that top market level category is going to be what you're trying to rank because that's where you want people to convert, actually, you want people to convert all along the way. But just to be sure on the question, if your link building to an inner page, right, then you make sure that you have it set up so that you're pushing that top market level category up, because that's what's going to bring all of the other keywords with it. It doesn't make sense to only link build to the homepage, if what you're trying to rank results somewhere on an inner page in the category or in a post, or maybe it's a lander, within the website, it all has to do with how everything is set up, how your website is set up. Should be how you direct your link building.

Bradley: Awesome. Thanks, man.

Adam: Sorry, real quick. I've got to bring this up now. So Wayne has a question for you. It's the most recent one. But says Bradley, Your voice sounds very different today. Is this part of the new makeover for Hump Day hangouts to make it more sexy? Okay, thanks, Wayne. I'm not really sure how to answer that one. Yeah, let's take a compliment. Yeah, just couldn't we have to read that? Alright,

How Long Before You Can See The Results Of Battle Plan 3.0?

so next one is I have been following the Battle Plan 3.0 for a GMB asset. It's been about two weeks since I followed steps one and two of the plan. How long before I find out the results? I don't know if I'm facing stiff competition or middle of the road competition. How long do I have to wait before I hit it again? I did. I didn't want to read set the G algorithm Thanks. Okay, um, put all the pieces together. You know, that's what we talked about, if you use the Battle Plan, it's not a, if you just do 25% of the work, you won't get 25% of the results, if that makes sense, because you put all the pieces together and it has a more like a, an exponential effect, if you will. So it will work a lot better if you put all of the components together to create that entity loop or that SEO shield, whatever you want to call it. So if one and two if you put one in two pieces together or completed steps one and two, and you know, you know, complete the next steps to and I wouldn't stop until all that entire asset creation. You know that SEO shield is really put together. So we're going to be talking a lot more about that in the coming weeks for some of the stuff that we've got coming up. But Marco, do you want to add to that? I think he's muted.

Marco: Sorry. I do want to talk about this a little bit? Because something about this really stands out to me. And I don't want to pick on him, because I see that he's just beginning. It's following the Battle Plan. He's in step two. But dude, how can you not know your competition? If you're just starting out? Like sometimes when you get to the point where you know how much power you can push, when you know exactly what you're doing, then the competition doesn't matter. It's just a matter of what you're going to do to take the competition down. You're at the start so you have to do thorough competition analysis to know exactly how much power it is that you're going to need to push. Because a lot of this, you might do too much, and it might not be necessary, or you may be doing too little and more might be necessary. So I mean, you have to know what are people paying for AdWords in this niche? Google ads, how much are they paying? are they paying for Facebook ads, YouTube ads, other ads? How many competing pages does it have? Is it in the 2000s? Is it in the millions but singles is it in the 10s of millions is that in the hundreds of millions? Once you have all of that together, you'll know exactly how tough and how stiff the competition is and then you'll know exactly what to do. But the plan is still the same right syndication network, drive stack plus Gsite, press releases link building, and then embed runs and link building. And then you you do all of that before you start analyzing the data and seeing where your project has landed in rank. Because you'll see that different keywords rank differently, different niches rank differently. So you have to know whether you need to isolate one of your market level keywords one of your top keywords that may be stuck second, third page, you may have to isolate that and hit that individually. Once you've done everything.

So without completing everything part one of the plan, as Bradley said, finish everything first. Once you do that link building one which it which is which is the final piece, you let it sit 21 days, four weeks, and then you come back and analyze the data and see what it is that you have to do. But guys starting out, when you're starting in this, it's a must for you to be able to analyze the competition and understand what it is that you're up against. Because whether it's you investing your money, or whether you're investing your clients' money you have what you're going to spend your money on, and how much of it.

Adam: Yeah, and I'm not going to be able to get the quote right, Marco, maybe you can help me but this reminds me of what you said, might have been during your talk of POFU Live, but basically like Sun Tzu and the art of war and saying you want to come to the battle knowing you're already going to win and you can't do that. If you don't know what your competition is.

Marco: You have to know that you're going to win the war before you fight the first battle. I'm paraphrasing because I can't remember the exact quote of him but but it's along those lines. How can you know whether you going into you know, you can't go blind into battle I might a bow and arrow and I'm going up against how it's all right. I'm going up against a nuclear missile that well I'm not going to do very very well. So once once you lay it all out, and you're absolutely right, it is war. And you understand your enemy your competition is your enemy always. And you know exactly what it is that you have to do to take down your enemy Well, you you win the war and you haven't done and think about it all you've done is study the enemy. It was I love Sun Tzu and thank you. That's awesome.

Is It Possible To Target National Keywords By Using Verified GMBs?

Alright, so the next one says Is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMBs? So are gonna hand that one over to you because I know you talked about different strategies for that kind of stuff. He's got an example a follow up question next. So again, is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMB? For example, a long tail keyword like how to lose weight?

Marco: This isn't totally an independent, it depends question. Yeah, what is it that you're that you're trying to do because one thing is local. And what you're targeting is the proximity factor and then overriding the proximity factor so that you can get into outlying areas and target those. You can totally do that. You can totally extend the centroid and somebody was just somebody who guys who was in our local GMB Pro just came out with extending the centroid in in his own training his own original train, and I'm not going there. I'm just saying what the fuck man? But yes, you can extend the century and there are different ways that we can for extending the century, so you can totally do it, you're going to need a whole lot of GMBs.

Because in a place like like New York City, Chicago, LA, you're going to need to push a lot of power inside inside just I'm going to get one GMB do a whole bunch of pose, and then that's going to get me where I need to go. It Again, it depends on the competition. Now, if it's a national keyword, like cosmetic manufacturer, and there's no location, like you don't need to use location, there's nothing location based. Why would you target it with a GMB? Other than to create like a national headquarters for the brand, but that would be branding. That wouldn't be so so this is this question is kind of confusing. Yes. I don't know about you guys. Because because they were talking about two different things here. And maybe what what you what you're trying but what you're thinking is you want to become the knowledge panel for the keywords. Well, that's brand plus keyword association. And I think Fabian is in RYS Academy Reloaded and we teach that all day long we we should we show how to do that? I mean, we've been doing it for a while will be going in five years and mates and says Bradley ranked is Virginia SEO, SEO Virginia? So yes, it can be done. It depends on what you're trying to do.

All right, but I'll take you to the next question lockout Marco, you guys. It's like back and forth. Is it? Yeah, so I totally said what I meant if or is maybe hosting original content on the money site, but on the branding network, instead of syndicating content, hosting high quality spun versions of posts from money site. Best regards? No, I mean, there's no reason to. That's what I'm saying. Like if it's your branding, network, your branded network, then there's no reason that you would need do post spunversions of your money site post because I've just republished the money site posts again, I don't recommend using spun content as any on page or any first tier link building stuff, because it's just not a good idea to do that now it's even if it's high quality spun stuff, which I guess you can still get away with that if it's done very, very well. Okay, cool.

Will An Existing (Non-Semantic Mastery) GSite And Drive Stack Interfere With The Ones Being Built By MGYB?

Next one, Katie says Hey guys, I was talking to a dentist about his SEO he told me his son was doing it but he was getting nowhere I spoke to the son and he told me he bought some gigs on Fiverr for Google sites and drive files I told the dentist you get what you pay for. And then I may be able to help do it properly. Can I go to MGYB and by G site and drive stack for this one or is it too late? Well, the current g sites are drive stack his son setup interfere with the one MGYB would build. I don't think the sun will let me delete all of the work he has done. Thanks.

Well, I'll let Marco also answer on this one but I would absolutely get a new drive stack and G site that is built correctly. Which will likely the other one because the other one was not put together properly. So it's not really pushing any relevancy or entity validation, if that makes sense. So once it's done right, that would be the one that would come be associated with your entity because it will be done correctly. But Marco, what would you say was is it critical that the other one would be removed or deleted?

Marco: No it won't matter and as a matter of fact what what you could do is add those satellites to push into the new drive stack was decide that we're going to create for for you which is done right, then you can link building to all of those which is only going to help I mean, it's not gonna hurt. Absolutely not. But you what you do need is that is that friend that drive stack empty site created my way, not somebody else's way. Because they always skip corners. They never do the work that they're supposed to think about. And I've said this before, it takes between six and eight hours for a train building. Jessen, by the way that the original RYS to do one and do it properly. Someone was going to charge you, maybe, I don't know, 50 bucks. And they're going to spend six hours, maybe eight hours building and drive stack? No, no, it's not gonna happen. The money just isn't there, right for five bucks. 10 bucks, 15 bucks. We charge what we charge for a reason. You and you're absolutely right that and when I saw this, I couldn't believe it you do get what you pay for. And if you go to Fiverr sometimes you've got some really good gigs in there that do a specific thing. But when you're talking about pushing power, the Rank Your Shit Academy Reloaded me. There's only one way to do it. You go with the original.

I agree. Yeah, this one I would probably be careful if I was in this position, because now I'm thinking okay, there's someone else in there. So this to me goes back to managing client expectations and saying, Well, now there's a son who's got, you know, backend access to everything. So you might want to be managing to him. The son's involved and he's screwing around with stuff on that I don't know about then, you know, I can't be held responsible for some of this stuff. Yeah. working against our goals, so I'd be careful with it.

Okay, moving on the next one. See, I'm trying to find a guy stand by me. I think Jordan had a good one. He said mastermind plus sub mastermind group equals the cat's meow. I totally agree with that. It's not a question but I like it.

Do You Work With Third Party Syndication Networks And Stacks That Are Not Setup Correctly?

Okay, so the next question I see is I have questions about your done for you service syndication and stacks. I've had other vendors create those before but don't think they were set up correctly. I see a theme here any any any problem with having you do them again? No, actually, that's the best thing to do is just come on, come get it done correctly. And then you can analyze the ones that we've built for you versus the ones that you got from other vendors and, you know, figure out what was done wrong and apply it to the old ones. Yeah, yeah.

That idea. So yeah, that's what I would do, because that's what a lot of people, I mean, see that I go by RYS Academy. And that way you can go through the training and then you can understand what was done and then go fix the ones but again, your time is best spent on just purchasing them and letting somebody else do all that manual work, right.

Do You Create One Google Stack For Each Service Offering URL?

So the next one is Nathan says, when you build these stacks for people I know you ask them for the main keyword However, what if they offer multiple services? Do you create one g stack for each URL? For example, the company that offered HVAC and plumbing services do you create a stack for each URL or service offering a company slash and he went through several examples now, I mean, you can but another way to do it is to have a brand stack created, which is what we do. We recommend for whatever your primary keyword is or keywords, top level keywords, and then from there, once you get it back, and at some point, we're going to provide this as an additional service, but once you get the branded drive stack back, you can go in and clone the folders that are contained in the the primary drive stack folder, and then re optimize that it does require some manual work, but for each one of your silos or product services or categories on your site, so that way, you're mirroring your internal files from the drive stack inside of a branded and overall branded Drive folder. So again, you're just building that relevancy, you're going to mirror the same type of site structure that you have on your website into your drive stack. It does require some manual work. But the most important thing is to have that branded drive stack with the top-level keywords associated with that brand. So that makes sense. And Marco, do you want to come in on that?

Marco: No, that's what I would have said. No, we're not going to create both. If you submit HVAC, and if you submit plumbing, and you, you asked us to do keyword research, we're going to give you everything that's related to that. If nothing you have to do your own keyword research and submit the keywords that you want related to your brand which as Bradley said, we asked for about 50 and go for top keywords. Don't go for the long tails, the long tails you're going to get as you build it out as you build your supporting post and as you build your inner pages and you mirror your G site is up your money site on on the G site. But Bradley just so you guys know and I just got the news yesterday we're testing the drive stack and G site as we speak. It's coming right it's gonna make it a lot easier. And right now like if he wants to make it easier on himself and clone, the drive stacks, then what he can do is he can make a donation to my charity and then right to Christie for the webinars right through charity webinars for last year and the scripts, and I'll put the link to the donation. That's awesome. Thank you.

And I'm not seeing any other questions you guys see any more? No will give people a minute here and I know that there's a little bit of a delay here. There's not much delay through zoom though.

So um, I did see a question in YouTube here. I said we're in Colorado, we're still in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, we're a very short period. So what is the URL if people want to get the early bird discount for next year POFU Live go to pofulive.com/2022. I'm pulling up to make sure I'm not lying, pofulive.com/2020 and make sure you use the coupon code 2020 or 2020 action taker. Yeah. That's going to be the lowest price ever. Oh, yeah. It definitely was a good event. I thought it was really good. Well, actually, let's touch on that.

Real quick we got a few minutes we can wait for some questions here I want to share with people so we had Catherine Jones. So if you haven't seen her you can probably get search for CF design school Semantic Mastery, check out a webinar we had with her, she dropped some good knowledge for everybody. Especially a lot of the people, they're growing their agencies growing their consulting and you know, she taught them and us about funnel design but not just you know, hey, me do this to make your funnel look pretty. But you know, it's about converting, not being pretty. And then how you can do this and how in a short period of time, you can create these things that you know, you can really crush it in terms of selling to clients or adding it onto your agency. So that was pretty cool. I don't guys have anything else to say about Katherine's presentation I was gonna get and then Adam Benjamin was another one of our guest speakers. That was great guys got a ton of sales experience. This was really cool talking to him getting some insights about basically kind of brand positioning, which tied in really well with what her non talked about about just one second.

Part of an audience presentation was about personal branding. And then how you can help yourself basically by growing yourself as an authority and it's not some, you know, 25 step crazy, you know, diagram you got to follow to do this it was it was pretty simple, but combining that with what I think Adam said would be really powerful, so cool

What Was The Biggest Takeaway That You Can Share From POFU 2019?

Wayne says what was the biggest takeaway that you can share from POFU Live 2019? Uh, did you should go to pofulive.com/2020 and Wayne because what we want to see you there, and to you know, I'm not dodging the question, I'll let these guys answer it. But like we've told people and like all of the testimonial say when we just ask people, hey, what do you want to share about Cooper life? You know, hey, content was great. It took something away immediately that paid for it. But on top of that, it's you know, interacting with people, and that's what you get out of a small group. So whether it's us whether it's a guest speakers, or whether it's each other and saying, Oh, you know what, I have not been doing this one little thing or, you know, you open my eyes to a whole new area. I could either be doing for myself doing for clients stuff like that. But that's consistently what we've heard. Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, I think so too. If I can add real quick, I think that as digital marketing, or digital agency owners, most of the people that come to POFU Live there, they spend most of their time alone, right? They might have a couple of VAs, they might have small team, but most of them are remote, right? So come in here and being in a room for three days with people that have kind of the same ideas that you have. And some of them might be, you know, even ahead than you and some of them you might help to get to the point where you are right now, I think that that's one of the best things that can possibly happen to an entrepreneur or digital agency owner. So yeah, yeah.

Bradley: And on a purely SEO basis, I want to say that it was awesome to hear how just putting the SEO shield together, the way that we teach works across the board, and you know, here in that for some several hours remembers that POFU Live to talk about how it's like the cheat code. so it's awesome because it's validation beyond. I mean, we all knew it worked anyways. But it's really good to hear when members actually take our advice and put it together the way that we teach. And then they get the same kind of results. And so that to me, was a very great takeaway to know that we've got something that's been working for us for years that continues to work beyond updates to or through or despite of updates, you know what I mean? So it's just very encouraging to see that. Yeah.

Adam: So Wayne, that popped into answer your question for myself, I think, you know, the biggest takeaway looking for something like either tactical or real world was Rob got up. Rob gave a great, great presentation and then he hopped on the whiteboard. And right and that's where the magic happens. And so went through stuff, but he's going to be sharing that with people in Bradley already mentioned SEO shield, and exactly what people can do. And basically taking the Battle Plan, combining it with what's been done already and what will come in MGYB, and saying you now here's what you got to do. So again, not to use it, but it's on its way out. And I will share it with everybody as soon as we have something. Marco: I'd like to answer Wayne's question because my biggest takeaway, not only this year, but also last year, is that the people who come to us, the action takers, they generally have already have everything as SEO wise that they need to get results. Because we've been proving it since since we started that when you implement what we give you, you get results. Now, what I often see and in my mini mastermind and in doing this for so long, is that people simply get stuck. I mean, it's a joke, right? Don't get stuck in the middle, but are you getting the middle of the big fat fuck you.

But it's true guys. Do you want to finger prodding you in the middle? When you're not doing anything? Is that what you're really looking for? Or are you constantly going to go taking action and doing the things that you need to do to get to where you want to be. Because it's not being where you have to be. That sucks. It sucks having to be somewhere and having to do something. But when you want to do it, and you like to do it, even if it's something that you know you have to do, to continue on that path to POFU, it's fulfilling. And you don't get all of these different things joining and pulling you away. Because you're hyper focus, you know that you can get results. We give them to you, we give you everything. You can come and reach out to us personally and we'll answer your questions. We'll do everything we can to help you make money, but we still have people stuck in the middle even mastermind members, we have people stuck in the middle, because they won't do the shit that they're supposed to do to be successful.

And so one of the things that you need to do to be successful is get with like minded people, and the only way you're going to do that is by attending these events. And I don't I don't mean the bullshit events where you're going to have hundreds of people. And you know you, you do that for networking. More than anything you do that to see how you're going to make money and when and where do it do that. But when you really want to get with like minded people who are hyper focus on making money, that's what you need to be in one of these events, the real ones, the ones where you get the gritty living by the ones where you get down to business, down with brass tacks and you get what you're supposed to get so that you can continue making money.

Adam: definitely, hey, real quick got some questions on YouTube. I want to answer before we hop to the next question, which I love and click SEO. But first of all, Brian Kato says what's up guys? Hey, good to meet you, man.

Do You Do Stacks For Dating Sites?

And then also another Brian was asking do you guys do stacks for dating sites. We don't believe we have any restrictions. I mean, I don't have I don't think that crosses any lines for us building stacks, right?

Yeah, yeah. Because a lot of those can have things like male enhancement, and it depends on the affiliate that you're running. We're not going to do any of that, but I'm not gonna have my people don't do any Yeah, we just don't do it. So we don't get them. Brian and you're watching this just email support@mgyb.co. To tell them what your actual like what your keywords are, and they'll write Marco they'll be able to tell them from that whether or not they can build it, right. So no doubt No, no pharma, gambling. I don't know. It's epic. Guys. It has to be in English. Don't ask us to do Hungarian because that's the one and the money that we have to target to do a one of is not feasible.

Can You Build An Agency Just By Outsourcing To Whitelabels?

Yeah. I so click SEO as the next one, he says or she says can you build an agency just outsourcing to white labels? Yeah, you certainly can. I like good. Jordan Fowler followed up. He's one of our mastermind members and very successful but agency owner. And so and I agree very much with what he said, and that is that you can but you have to understand what it is that you're talking about for when you do get questions, or at least be honest and say that you'll get the answer if you don't have it, you know, whatever the case may be, you want to make sure that you're not talking at a on with ignorance to a potential customer or client with, you know, without being able to answer the questions, and it's something that you can learn as you go, depending on what all your service offerings are, you know, we were going to be talking a lot about that in the coming weeks or coming months for for, you know, different things that you can do to build an agency without you have to do all of the work. And so I think it's important to understand the concepts, the foundation of it, then then from there, you can you know, you can learn how to best manage questions and such for each one of the services depending on what kind of also confidence level you have in your done for you service providers. Does that make sense? Yeah. So anybody want to comment on now I think we're understanding just the basic Six at least I mean, at a minimum, but you know, I, this may not be a great analogy. I'm doing this on the fly, but I was like, can you own? Maybe a few automotive repair shops and not be a mechanic? Sure. Is it going to benefit you greatly to understand the business you're in? Yeah, you know, better. So I'll leave it at that. But I know Markco has got some more to say, well, we make it simple, right? We not only provide the services that you need them for you to, to get everything that you need to do for the client. But if you join the mastermind, then you get access to us so that if you run into tough questions, you can just come back, excuse me, come ask us. How do I answer this question? client asked me this. I need an answer what I say and we'll give you an answer. And we've simplified every we boil it down to make it so simple. That I I think that people think that our simplicity means that it doesn't work. And it's just the other way around as people make it so complex, that they need to confuse you because it confuse, they can keep making money from. We want it we want to boil all that shit away all that garbage. All we want is that pure rock we want. We want that good.

Guys, that's what because when we have that when we when we simplify it, that's what really works. And that's why this is this is so good in the way that we've set it all up for you to come and take advantage of it. It just rocks and all you have to do is join the mastermind. I mean, it's so simple. I don't know why more people don't don't do it. Maybe I don't I don't know doubters doubting Thomases, whatever it is, get past it, because you need to make so much money.

Cool. Thank you. Alright, so we're almost Well, we still got about 10 minutes. Well, I think we're gonna have to end it a couple minutes early, right? Yeah, cuz I know we're streaming through yours. Oh, no.

What Else Can You Do To Improve The Rank Of A Website Aside From Having GMB Drive Stack, 3 Press Releases, And Aged Site?

Fitz says I have a site that is showing 27 Google console page three on main keyword manual search number one main keyword on GMB, drive stack, three press releases, aged site, what can I do to improve? I don't know, because that was kind of a word salad at the end there. I'm not really sure what you were saying. But as far as if you've got a page three, excuse me keywords on page three in Search Console, it means that they're closed with some proper maybe on page or maybe some supporting articles that through the same silo that would link to those that page specifically syndicated across your network, for example, that's going to help to kind of reinforce the theme for that particular post. Again, this is all provided that you have proper on page if your structures poor on page, then it's going to be difficult to push, but it will respond to so much better to these cut type of tactics if you have good good structure, good internal linking. So doing that syndicating to their you know, maybe adding some additional Drive files within a particular, you know, siloed Drive folder that would do the same thing link back to those posts, the supporting posts that were linking to, to kind of boost that the posts on that are showing up with the keywords, the pages that are showing up on page three, that kind of stuff. Those are all things that you can do. also getting traffic to them, either through organic means or through buying way to traffic to those new posts that have been created is going to help to kind of activate all of that stuff. So, I mean, obviously, you know, just all the stuff we talked about mirror that same sort of paid page or post on a G site. Once again, you can even iframe it in there. That's all the stuff we get into in RYS Academy. Marco, do you have any comments on that?

Marco: Yeah, GMB post silos.

Bradley: Okay. Yeah, you gotta GMB. It says your, your, your question their Fitz. So yeah, you can silo those together as well. Use press releases press release silo stalking. We talked about that recently, too. It's on our YouTube channel. So once again, you just got a mirror all that stuff through all the different assets that you have available. Okay, then link link below to all that. And once that's done, you take it, you take you take all that and you run an embed gig and you link build to all that and then see where it see where it sits after that.

Hernan: nice.

Adam: You know, I just thought back to something where Wayne was asking us and you know, I realized I don't think we mentioned that. Everyone here, you know, that asked about link building and embeds, you've got to talk to dead. Yeah. And for the people who know who that is, or has heard the him mentioned, he was at POFU Live two years in a row from India, flew over and pay for his ticket came over and joined us and today this time he's dropping some bombs did a case study was helping people out? That was really cool. It was just really good to see. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. People appreciate it. So Wayne, that was another one that was cool because I know you know who he is. And for other people who who may think you know, he's just somebody exists out in the internet like real deal came to down and joined us the second year in a row was all sounds awesome. That's great. Well, listen, I don't see any other questions. So I think it's time we can wrap it up a few minutes early guys. So we want to say hi again from Dubai from Denver, Semantic Mastery from Denver except for Marco but we piped him in as usual. So we'll see you guys next week. See you guys

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 258

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Bradley: So that means we're live now actually. We're going live here. Okay, so Hey guys, this is Bradley Benner with Semantic Mastery. So let's see what we're trying to get a live Hump Day hangouts going here.

Hernan: So get your camera.

Bradley: Activate the camera. Yeah. Sweet. And then looking at you. So bear with us. We're trying to see the pin, I think.

Adam: Okay, yeah. So we're going to try this, everybody. Welcome to the episode at 258 Semantic Mastery is in Denver. Hey, I just wanted to say hello. Now that we've actually got this up and going and we're going to do our usual thing real quick. If you're joining us for the first time, I might be a little confused because clearly we are we're still trying to figure out how to work computers. We didn't get Marco and you can join on hard work on the technical side, back in. But while he's doing that, I'm gonna go down and say hello to everybody real quick starting on my right here with Chris. How are you doing?

Chris: I'm doing good.

Adam: And normally I would ask you what the weather's like. Stupid so it nice. Yeah, it's about 70-75 pretty nice. I'm Adam. And next to me, of course, is Bradley Benner.

Bradley: Hi. And last but not least went on over there who's being goofy

Hernan: Hey everybody

Adam: Oh, man looks like Marco is coming on so as soon as he unmutes himself Marco if you want to say hi and you're in here say hello to everybody

Marco: I don't want to say hello in any thinking body man. I'm just playing What's up everybody? Good to be here. It's good to be here. Hump Day Hangout. I'm going to join you guys. Oh, yeah. My ready.

Bradley: Alright, cool. So do we have any announcements or like are we going to do normal announcements are we gonna go through it?

Adam: You know, we just for those of you who know or don't know, obviously we just got done with POFU Live event here in Denver. Get to meet up with returning people as well as some new people which is amazing. Sharing stuff in small groups there's a lot of fun just had a blast and then of course carrying that on meeting up outside whether it's for lunch whether we did some evening events that were a lot of fun and you know we wanted to give people cuz we were hearing from people you know I missed it this year, you know, I couldn't make it things got mixed up, that's fine. But we want to give you a special offer to get in now and I'll put that on the page. If you want to grab a VIP ticket, you can grab that now it's going to be up for a limited period of time and you can save a bundle on that and come join us next year so if you you know you're one of those people are saying hey, I will be there next year I want to be then this is the time to do that.

Nice you guys got the figured out over here. Yeah, I don't think so. So no worries and other than that, I want to say for the people watching today maybe for the first time you are in the right place for watching us you can check out the replays of course on YouTube on Semantic Mastery channel just hit subscribe stay up to date with those. If you ever have any digital marketing questions just come semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, ask us. Of course if you're live you can get a little bit more out of it by clarifying or giving us some feedback. But you know, we understand you can always make it live so you can just ask your questions, check out the replay. And then the next step for you would be the Battle Plan if you want repeatable processes for your SEO and digital marketing, and check it out at battleplan.semanticmastery.com and for everyone else, who wants to take things up a few notches, you know, you want to be around the people who are doing what you're doing, which is trying to either grow your agency grow your business, then you need to be in the mastermind. And you can find out more about that at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. Right on cool. And last but not least, because we got several questions about it this week, but if you need done for you services, which should be everyone whether you're doing it for yourself, or you're doing it for client projects, go to MGYB.co. All right stuff syndication networks are West drive, stacks, press releases, links, embeds, and a lot more coming. So head over there and get that stuff done. And as far as announcements on my end, that's about it. Marco Are you guys we got anything else we need to touch base on

Good no good. Yeah, we got a lot of questions so let's go into that standby cuz I gotta try to find it.

Okay, so it looks like the first one is from Mike he says thanks for the great information I want to try to get back to you by mentioned that you have a good intro video but it has very high volume compared the video volume level hope it's okay to say it. Thanks. That's a good thing. Can you make a note of that too? Yeah, view that is you're gonna try to edit our processes if that's the case. So thank you for that, Mike. We do appreciate that.

URL Structure For Siloed Website

Next is a question. He says. What about strip the category base from category slug so it looks like a page site.com. Katie's asking obviously about the URL structure for a siloed website. Because I'm Yeah, yes, he's asking if he can use the restricted category slash post name out of the permalink structure for silo and absolutely you can just using post name premier link structure, it's fine. It's called a virtual silo works just as well as a regular siloed would Sorry, just bug does it in the face.

What Are Your Thoughts On Having A Syndicated Branded Network Using High Quality Spun Articles?

The next is vitality says hello Hope everyone is doing great. What are your thoughts on syndication network versus syndication network on the branding network using high quality spun articles readable that can this bring more SEO benefit? I mean, I know you don't need to I would on your primary tier one branded network, you're just going to be republishing content from your blog anyways, if that's what you mean publishing spun articles to your blog, I would recommend now and recommend that instead, you would use curated content, it's better content and creates co citation. And you don't have to be a subject matter expert. You can just find other good content out there that you can grab snippets from and share we've got a product called content kingpin, which shows you exactly how to do that. That's what I recommend is just going to read better it's going to be more valuable. Produce more benefit than spun crappy articles would be if yes, what you mean. Marco, do you want to comment on that?

Marco: That's exactly what I told him in the Facebook group, I just wanted him to come here. So that we could get go a little bit more in depth. And just to make sure that we hammered that home right that you're doing, you're way better off with curated content, citing sources and all of that versus just a crappy spun article that nobody knows what the hell is saying. One of the things that's important here is that as your tier one brand, and you want it to look good, and if someone happens to come along to your tier one brand and you want that person possibly converting or getting into your funnel so that they end up on the website, and they end up in your sales funnel. And so what do you want that person to see in your tier one branded? Which is your brand amplified? Do you want them to see a crappy spun article that makes absolutely no sense or do you want to curate something that convert that person into a website visitor and perhaps a client or a customer. That's the question that you need to ask.

What Are The Best Techniques To Let Google Recognize Entities?

Right on. So the next one is from Steve. He says, Hey SM team, what are the best techniques for getting Google to recognize entities? For those doing GMB or Google My Business? Google readily creates knowledge panels or me, or excuse me, MREIDs. But what about those working with the web properties? People products, etc? What can we do beyond schema and Id pages and the G stack? Getting a Wikipedia entry clearly works, but it's very difficult for most gyms, taxis probably wouldn't married a Wikipedia page, but it does, but gets in MREID through GMB. So, how do we level up the field for non GMB entities? Well, that sounds like a perfect question for Marco, I quickly would say that, you know, creating all of the syndication network and drive stack and all of that SEO shield including the ID page, all of it together is going to help having the structured data using sameas attributes is going to help. But there are other things that you can do, for example, have a paid account of some sort that helps to validate the entity as well. Meaning like pay Google for something AdWords campaigns, or, you know, Google Ads campaigns or for extra drive storage, all of the above, a G Suite account, something like that. But Marco, what else can you add to that?

Marco: Now, you just went over exactly what he supposed to do. If you can't go in and get a verified GMB, which has a completed was not the complete entity in Google, because you can add social media and all these other things. Then what you need to do is you go in and you verify it another way and the best way that I know is getting that credit card on file, whether it's a company credit card, a personal credit card, where you're directly related to the company. What that's going to do is it turns you into into Google's customer, right other than a mage, and elite, and someone who is just abusing services, rather than payment, it gets that credit card on file. And what happens is, you know, yeah, you can have fake credit cards or whatever. But but that belongs to someone, it's a thing. Then, on the web, it's it's in their database. It belongs to a person, but it belongs to a company. So you just went a long way towards validating the fact that you're real. You're not just another mooch, another leech, then you do everything else that we recommend. Absolutely. The schema, the @ID amplify it through the drive stack plus Gsite, press releases, I mean, companies do that on a regular basis, they announced their news, and then link building to all of those to just help to solidify everything. That's what's going to get you when you can't get a GMB and Google understands that then there's other way, getting into all of the different data aggregates.

Bradley: crunchbase would also be a good one.

Marco: crunchbase is perfect, but I was going to also say wiki data because Google is drawing directly from wiki data, you say that Wikipedia isn't feasible, or sometimes it would merit. But your company wouldn't merit a Wikipedia entry, a Wikipedia page, about the company and about everything that it does. So you pay someone to get you on Wikipedia, you pay someone to get your Wiki data. I just as interesting as I just posted to my partners this morning, about getting into Wikipedia, wiki data, for Semantic Mastery, because I know a guy that does it and his prices are really, really good. So that's absolutely you get everywhere. That RankBrain goes to aggregate data about your entity about your thing, and make sure that it's consistent throughout citations. I can't remember if you mentioned citations, but that's a perfect way. citations are a really good way. It doesn't have to be just for local. It can just be your company. Right?

Can You Share Some Basic Guidelines For Link Building?

Right on next one is Mike. Mike says hello everyone. Can you please share some basic guidelines about backlinks specifically about the text when doing backlinks? When to use exact match keywords for anchor text link or my brand anchor text when writing a small post or short reply on forums, what information you suggest to include in the text and what links? Okay, there's a lot of questions squeezed into this one, Mike.

So on a kind of a broad level. Personally, I don't really sweat backlink ratios as far as anchor text ratio is like I used two years ago because I mainly just do everything through naked URLs and like any other any real backlinks that are going to be built are going to be built by my team and MGYB by Dadea. And he knows what to do. You just provide them with your seat set of keywords and he creates all the ratios to where I don't really bother with it because I don't really build my links outside of what we have him do.

But really, I use mainly when I'm doing like press releases, for example, because I do publish a lot of press releases, it's almost 90%, just naked URLs, do brand anchors, and very rarely actually use any keyword anchor text, because it's not really now off page, I mean, on page, that's a different story. So, you know, you want to have, if you have content silos on page, you want to make sure that you're linking through the content, you know, to daisy chain things together using variations of keywords that belong in that specific silo, but not always the same page because or, excuse me, the same keyword anchor. But as far as, you know, link building or blogging even in by the way, when you do that, if you're syndicating content to a network, it's going to make sure that you're not always hammering and getting External links from even your syndication network, your branded network, always pointing back with the same anchor text. That's why you want to do that.

But once again, you also have all those keywords that we add the same type of keywords that we would add to a drive stack build would be the ones that we would add to the link building campaign. And it's a way to just continue to push relevancy in at different tiers. There's different sets of rules as to what you can do as far as anchor text ratios, right. So again, I just hand that over to Dadea and he handles all of it. You want to add to that? Anybody?

Adam: Not to that, but to the next part, so

Marco: Okay, yeah, yeah, that first part generic naked, and brand anchors, right? Yeah. Because what we want to do is what we want to create link diversity. Once you have that, then it's a lot more powerful when you hit it with that with that with whatever anchor text it is that the broad right and then you can go really eating hone in on the exact match, because your your link diversity is going to withstand some exact match anchors. If you don't do that, though, if you don't get those generic naked brand anchors and whatever you can in there, then what's going to happen is you're going to get it totally unnatural over optimization problems. And if you if you raise enough red flags that way, it could cause a manual which is when you get into all kinds of problems.

Bradley: Yeah, you're gonna do it,

Adam: the tech you were writing a small post or a short reply in the forums, what information do you suggest including the text and what links? For me, I mean, I start out by saying that, you know, it's, it's too vague, but if you're just doing this, I look at this as you probably want to look at it more from Hey, what information makes sense and if you're doing this for an actual strategy, that you're putting information out there, that increases the likelihood that your post is going to get traffic which I understand sounds kind of goofy, but for a forum that it's it's well received, right? And basically, I'm saying quality you know, don't just say I've got to include x y&z you know, if you're going in here and doing this for a long term strategy, I would say make sure you're putting out quality information.

Bradley: Not only that, but if you really want to know how to test what type of a text and link to use as your best link for a forum signature tested in AdWords like search, you know what I'm saying? Because if you can get your headline, and you know your brief description and and the link and the offer to convert on through AdWords, and that's what you put in your forum signature, and you'll probably have a lot more likelihood of it doing well. I mean, it's, it's because you could test it quicker as my point other than trying to have some signature line that really isn't very compelling, it doesn't convert very well. And you have to wait for weeks or months to get any results to determine that, right? Because you've done a lot of posts, you can really kind of hone that in very quickly using AdWords or Google ads, and then add those to your forum signatures, if that makes sense.

Okay, anything else? Is it better to link to most of the times the homepage or a specific service product page? hope it's not too complex of a question was a lot of questions you squeeze in there. I think it depends on what your call to action is within the content that you're using for the link building. Right. I think it makes sense to link to the homepage at times, but also to more specific.

You also, you know, more specific product and or service pages. However, you also got to keep in mind, like, what is the purpose of the content that you're doing and the overall strategy for that campaign? Because if you're trying to push, you know, specific, a specific keyword like for particular siloed, for example, you can hit any one of the pieces of content within that silo, which you would call a deep link, because it's not going to matter if you have the dawn page structured correct, which is what we talked about a lot in the mastermind, then anywhere that you're going to hit that particular silo with, you know, inbound link, equity, it's going to benefit the entire siloed. Right, so you wouldn't want to comment on that anybody good or no? I would just say, Well, no, sorry. No, as a general strategy, he should be probably looking at distributing backlinks through his inner period.

Adam: But yeah, beyond that, like Bradley said, it just depends on again, what you're, what you're referencing, or what exactly you're doing, but you definitely want to distribution

Bradley: Yeah, yeah, I mean, in other words, you don't want to just always hammer one or the other. Does that make sense? You want you do want to split it up and spread it out. Crazy be we can have it.

Marco: Well, what matters here is how the website is set up, right? Right setting up the whole the homepage to convert, or are you setting up a category right pages as categories or categories as pages where you're looking to push your silo through your supporting poles, and then that top market level category is going to be what you're trying to rank because that's where you want people to convert, actually, you want people to convert all along the way. But just to be sure on the question, if your link building to an inner page, right, then you make sure that you have it set up so that you're pushing that top market level category up, because that's what's going to bring all of the other keywords with it. It doesn't make sense to only link build to the homepage, if what you're trying to rank results somewhere on an inner page in the category or in a post, or maybe it's a lander, within the website, it all has to do with how everything is set up, how your website is set up. Should be how you direct your link building.

Bradley: Awesome. Thanks, man.

Adam: Sorry, real quick. I've got to bring this up now. So Wayne has a question for you. It's the most recent one. But says Bradley, Your voice sounds very different today. Is this part of the new makeover for Hump Day hangouts to make it more sexy? Okay, thanks, Wayne. I'm not really sure how to answer that one. Yeah, let's take a compliment. Yeah, just couldn't we have to read that? Alright,

How Long Before You Can See The Results Of Battle Plan 3.0?

so next one is I have been following the Battle Plan 3.0 for a GMB asset. It's been about two weeks since I followed steps one and two of the plan. How long before I find out the results? I don't know if I'm facing stiff competition or middle of the road competition. How long do I have to wait before I hit it again? I did. I didn't want to read set the G algorithm Thanks. Okay, um, put all the pieces together. You know, that's what we talked about, if you use the Battle Plan, it's not a, if you just do 25% of the work, you won't get 25% of the results, if that makes sense, because you put all the pieces together and it has a more like a, an exponential effect, if you will. So it will work a lot better if you put all of the components together to create that entity loop or that SEO shield, whatever you want to call it. So if one and two if you put one in two pieces together or completed steps one and two, and you know, you know, complete the next steps to and I wouldn't stop until all that entire asset creation. You know that SEO shield is really put together. So we're going to be talking a lot more about that in the coming weeks for some of the stuff that we've got coming up. But Marco, do you want to add to that? I think he's muted.

Marco: Sorry. I do want to talk about this a little bit? Because something about this really stands out to me. And I don't want to pick on him, because I see that he's just beginning. It's following the Battle Plan. He's in step two. But dude, how can you not know your competition? If you're just starting out? Like sometimes when you get to the point where you know how much power you can push, when you know exactly what you're doing, then the competition doesn't matter. It's just a matter of what you're going to do to take the competition down. You're at the start so you have to do thorough competition analysis to know exactly how much power it is that you're going to need to push. Because a lot of this, you might do too much, and it might not be necessary, or you may be doing too little and more might be necessary. So I mean, you have to know what are people paying for AdWords in this niche? Google ads, how much are they paying? are they paying for Facebook ads, YouTube ads, other ads? How many competing pages does it have? Is it in the 2000s? Is it in the millions but singles is it in the 10s of millions is that in the hundreds of millions? Once you have all of that together, you'll know exactly how tough and how stiff the competition is and then you'll know exactly what to do. But the plan is still the same right syndication network, drive stack plus Gsite, press releases link building, and then embed runs and link building. And then you you do all of that before you start analyzing the data and seeing where your project has landed in rank. Because you'll see that different keywords rank differently, different niches rank differently. So you have to know whether you need to isolate one of your market level keywords one of your top keywords that may be stuck second, third page, you may have to isolate that and hit that individually. Once you've done everything.

So without completing everything part one of the plan, as Bradley said, finish everything first. Once you do that link building one which it which is which is the final piece, you let it sit 21 days, four weeks, and then you come back and analyze the data and see what it is that you have to do. But guys starting out, when you're starting in this, it's a must for you to be able to analyze the competition and understand what it is that you're up against. Because whether it's you investing your money, or whether you're investing your clients' money you have what you're going to spend your money on, and how much of it.

Adam: Yeah, and I'm not going to be able to get the quote right, Marco, maybe you can help me but this reminds me of what you said, might have been during your talk of POFU Live, but basically like Sun Tzu and the art of war and saying you want to come to the battle knowing you're already going to win and you can't do that. If you don't know what your competition is.

Marco: You have to know that you're going to win the war before you fight the first battle. I'm paraphrasing because I can't remember the exact quote of him but but it's along those lines. How can you know whether you going into you know, you can't go blind into battle I might a bow and arrow and I'm going up against how it's all right. I'm going up against a nuclear missile that well I'm not going to do very very well. So once once you lay it all out, and you're absolutely right, it is war. And you understand your enemy your competition is your enemy always. And you know exactly what it is that you have to do to take down your enemy Well, you you win the war and you haven't done and think about it all you've done is study the enemy. It was I love Sun Tzu and thank you. That's awesome.

Is It Possible To Target National Keywords By Using Verified GMBs?

Alright, so the next one says Is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMBs? So are gonna hand that one over to you because I know you talked about different strategies for that kind of stuff. He's got an example a follow up question next. So again, is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMB? For example, a long tail keyword like how to lose weight?

Marco: This isn't totally an independent, it depends question. Yeah, what is it that you're that you're trying to do because one thing is local. And what you're targeting is the proximity factor and then overriding the proximity factor so that you can get into outlying areas and target those. You can totally do that. You can totally extend the centroid and somebody was just somebody who guys who was in our local GMB Pro just came out with extending the centroid in in his own training his own original train, and I'm not going there. I'm just saying what the fuck man? But yes, you can extend the century and there are different ways that we can for extending the century, so you can totally do it, you're going to need a whole lot of GMBs.

Because in a place like like New York City, Chicago, LA, you're going to need to push a lot of power inside inside just I'm going to get one GMB do a whole bunch of pose, and then that's going to get me where I need to go. It Again, it depends on the competition. Now, if it's a national keyword, like cosmetic manufacturer, and there's no location, like you don't need to use location, there's nothing location based. Why would you target it with a GMB? Other than to create like a national headquarters for the brand, but that would be branding. That wouldn't be so so this is this question is kind of confusing. Yes. I don't know about you guys. Because because they were talking about two different things here. And maybe what what you what you're trying but what you're thinking is you want to become the knowledge panel for the keywords. Well, that's brand plus keyword association. And I think Fabian is in RYS Academy Reloaded and we teach that all day long we we should we show how to do that? I mean, we've been doing it for a while will be going in five years and mates and says Bradley ranked is Virginia SEO, SEO Virginia? So yes, it can be done. It depends on what you're trying to do.

All right, but I'll take you to the next question lockout Marco, you guys. It's like back and forth. Is it? Yeah, so I totally said what I meant if or is maybe hosting original content on the money site, but on the branding network, instead of syndicating content, hosting high quality spun versions of posts from money site. Best regards? No, I mean, there's no reason to. That's what I'm saying. Like if it's your branding, network, your branded network, then there's no reason that you would need do post spunversions of your money site post because I've just republished the money site posts again, I don't recommend using spun content as any on page or any first tier link building stuff, because it's just not a good idea to do that now it's even if it's high quality spun stuff, which I guess you can still get away with that if it's done very, very well. Okay, cool.

Will An Existing (Non-Semantic Mastery) GSite And Drive Stack Interfere With The Ones Being Built By MGYB?

Next one, Katie says Hey guys, I was talking to a dentist about his SEO he told me his son was doing it but he was getting nowhere I spoke to the son and he told me he bought some gigs on Fiverr for Google sites and drive files I told the dentist you get what you pay for. And then I may be able to help do it properly. Can I go to MGYB and by G site and drive stack for this one or is it too late? Well, the current g sites are drive stack his son setup interfere with the one MGYB would build. I don't think the sun will let me delete all of the work he has done. Thanks.

Well, I'll let Marco also answer on this one but I would absolutely get a new drive stack and G site that is built correctly. Which will likely the other one because the other one was not put together properly. So it's not really pushing any relevancy or entity validation, if that makes sense. So once it's done right, that would be the one that would come be associated with your entity because it will be done correctly. But Marco, what would you say was is it critical that the other one would be removed or deleted?

Marco: No it won't matter and as a matter of fact what what you could do is add those satellites to push into the new drive stack was decide that we're going to create for for you which is done right, then you can link building to all of those which is only going to help I mean, it's not gonna hurt. Absolutely not. But you what you do need is that is that friend that drive stack empty site created my way, not somebody else's way. Because they always skip corners. They never do the work that they're supposed to think about. And I've said this before, it takes between six and eight hours for a train building. Jessen, by the way that the original RYS to do one and do it properly. Someone was going to charge you, maybe, I don't know, 50 bucks. And they're going to spend six hours, maybe eight hours building and drive stack? No, no, it's not gonna happen. The money just isn't there, right for five bucks. 10 bucks, 15 bucks. We charge what we charge for a reason. You and you're absolutely right that and when I saw this, I couldn't believe it you do get what you pay for. And if you go to Fiverr sometimes you've got some really good gigs in there that do a specific thing. But when you're talking about pushing power, the Rank Your Shit Academy Reloaded me. There's only one way to do it. You go with the original.

I agree. Yeah, this one I would probably be careful if I was in this position, because now I'm thinking okay, there's someone else in there. So this to me goes back to managing client expectations and saying, Well, now there's a son who's got, you know, backend access to everything. So you might want to be managing to him. The son's involved and he's screwing around with stuff on that I don't know about then, you know, I can't be held responsible for some of this stuff. Yeah. working against our goals, so I'd be careful with it.

Okay, moving on the next one. See, I'm trying to find a guy stand by me. I think Jordan had a good one. He said mastermind plus sub mastermind group equals the cat's meow. I totally agree with that. It's not a question but I like it.

Do You Work With Third Party Syndication Networks And Stacks That Are Not Setup Correctly?

Okay, so the next question I see is I have questions about your done for you service syndication and stacks. I've had other vendors create those before but don't think they were set up correctly. I see a theme here any any any problem with having you do them again? No, actually, that's the best thing to do is just come on, come get it done correctly. And then you can analyze the ones that we've built for you versus the ones that you got from other vendors and, you know, figure out what was done wrong and apply it to the old ones. Yeah, yeah.

That idea. So yeah, that's what I would do, because that's what a lot of people, I mean, see that I go by RYS Academy. And that way you can go through the training and then you can understand what was done and then go fix the ones but again, your time is best spent on just purchasing them and letting somebody else do all that manual work, right.

Do You Create One Google Stack For Each Service Offering URL?

So the next one is Nathan says, when you build these stacks for people I know you ask them for the main keyword However, what if they offer multiple services? Do you create one g stack for each URL? For example, the company that offered HVAC and plumbing services do you create a stack for each URL or service offering a company slash and he went through several examples now, I mean, you can but another way to do it is to have a brand stack created, which is what we do. We recommend for whatever your primary keyword is or keywords, top level keywords, and then from there, once you get it back, and at some point, we're going to provide this as an additional service, but once you get the branded drive stack back, you can go in and clone the folders that are contained in the the primary drive stack folder, and then re optimize that it does require some manual work, but for each one of your silos or product services or categories on your site, so that way, you're mirroring your internal files from the drive stack inside of a branded and overall branded Drive folder. So again, you're just building that relevancy, you're going to mirror the same type of site structure that you have on your website into your drive stack. It does require some manual work. But the most important thing is to have that branded drive stack with the top-level keywords associated with that brand. So that makes sense. And Marco, do you want to come in on that?

Marco: No, that's what I would have said. No, we're not going to create both. If you submit HVAC, and if you submit plumbing, and you, you asked us to do keyword research, we're going to give you everything that's related to that. If nothing you have to do your own keyword research and submit the keywords that you want related to your brand which as Bradley said, we asked for about 50 and go for top keywords. Don't go for the long tails, the long tails you're going to get as you build it out as you build your supporting post and as you build your inner pages and you mirror your G site is up your money site on on the G site. But Bradley just so you guys know and I just got the news yesterday we're testing the drive stack and G site as we speak. It's coming right it's gonna make it a lot easier. And right now like if he wants to make it easier on himself and clone, the drive stacks, then what he can do is he can make a donation to my charity and then right to Christie for the webinars right through charity webinars for last year and the scripts, and I'll put the link to the donation. That's awesome. Thank you.

And I'm not seeing any other questions you guys see any more? No will give people a minute here and I know that there's a little bit of a delay here. There's not much delay through zoom though.

So um, I did see a question in YouTube here. I said we're in Colorado, we're still in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, we're a very short period. So what is the URL if people want to get the early bird discount for next year POFU Live go to pofulive.com/2022. I'm pulling up to make sure I'm not lying, pofulive.com/2020 and make sure you use the coupon code 2020 or 2020 action taker. Yeah. That's going to be the lowest price ever. Oh, yeah. It definitely was a good event. I thought it was really good. Well, actually, let's touch on that.

Real quick we got a few minutes we can wait for some questions here I want to share with people so we had Catherine Jones. So if you haven't seen her you can probably get search for CF design school Semantic Mastery, check out a webinar we had with her, she dropped some good knowledge for everybody. Especially a lot of the people, they're growing their agencies growing their consulting and you know, she taught them and us about funnel design but not just you know, hey, me do this to make your funnel look pretty. But you know, it's about converting, not being pretty. And then how you can do this and how in a short period of time, you can create these things that you know, you can really crush it in terms of selling to clients or adding it onto your agency. So that was pretty cool. I don't guys have anything else to say about Katherine's presentation I was gonna get and then Adam Benjamin was another one of our guest speakers. That was great guys got a ton of sales experience. This was really cool talking to him getting some insights about basically kind of brand positioning, which tied in really well with what her non talked about about just one second.

Part of an audience presentation was about personal branding. And then how you can help yourself basically by growing yourself as an authority and it's not some, you know, 25 step crazy, you know, diagram you got to follow to do this it was it was pretty simple, but combining that with what I think Adam said would be really powerful, so cool

What Was The Biggest Takeaway That You Can Share From POFU 2019?

Wayne says what was the biggest takeaway that you can share from POFU Live 2019? Uh, did you should go to pofulive.com/2020 and Wayne because what we want to see you there, and to you know, I'm not dodging the question, I'll let these guys answer it. But like we've told people and like all of the testimonial say when we just ask people, hey, what do you want to share about Cooper life? You know, hey, content was great. It took something away immediately that paid for it. But on top of that, it's you know, interacting with people, and that's what you get out of a small group. So whether it's us whether it's a guest speakers, or whether it's each other and saying, Oh, you know what, I have not been doing this one little thing or, you know, you open my eyes to a whole new area. I could either be doing for myself doing for clients stuff like that. But that's consistently what we've heard. Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, I think so too. If I can add real quick, I think that as digital marketing, or digital agency owners, most of the people that come to POFU Live there, they spend most of their time alone, right? They might have a couple of VAs, they might have small team, but most of them are remote, right? So come in here and being in a room for three days with people that have kind of the same ideas that you have. And some of them might be, you know, even ahead than you and some of them you might help to get to the point where you are right now, I think that that's one of the best things that can possibly happen to an entrepreneur or digital agency owner. So yeah, yeah.

Bradley: And on a purely SEO basis, I want to say that it was awesome to hear how just putting the SEO shield together, the way that we teach works across the board, and you know, here in that for some several hours remembers that POFU Live to talk about how it's like the cheat code. so it's awesome because it's validation beyond. I mean, we all knew it worked anyways. But it's really good to hear when members actually take our advice and put it together the way that we teach. And then they get the same kind of results. And so that to me, was a very great takeaway to know that we've got something that's been working for us for years that continues to work beyond updates to or through or despite of updates, you know what I mean? So it's just very encouraging to see that. Yeah.

Adam: So Wayne, that popped into answer your question for myself, I think, you know, the biggest takeaway looking for something like either tactical or real world was Rob got up. Rob gave a great, great presentation and then he hopped on the whiteboard. And right and that's where the magic happens. And so went through stuff, but he's going to be sharing that with people in Bradley already mentioned SEO shield, and exactly what people can do. And basically taking the Battle Plan, combining it with what's been done already and what will come in MGYB, and saying you now here's what you got to do. So again, not to use it, but it's on its way out. And I will share it with everybody as soon as we have something. Marco: I'd like to answer Wayne's question because my biggest takeaway, not only this year, but also last year, is that the people who come to us, the action takers, they generally have already have everything as SEO wise that they need to get results. Because we've been proving it since since we started that when you implement what we give you, you get results. Now, what I often see and in my mini mastermind and in doing this for so long, is that people simply get stuck. I mean, it's a joke, right? Don't get stuck in the middle, but are you getting the middle of the big fat fuck you.

But it's true guys. Do you want to finger prodding you in the middle? When you're not doing anything? Is that what you're really looking for? Or are you constantly going to go taking action and doing the things that you need to do to get to where you want to be. Because it's not being where you have to be. That sucks. It sucks having to be somewhere and having to do something. But when you want to do it, and you like to do it, even if it's something that you know you have to do, to continue on that path to POFU, it's fulfilling. And you don't get all of these different things joining and pulling you away. Because you're hyper focus, you know that you can get results. We give them to you, we give you everything. You can come and reach out to us personally and we'll answer your questions. We'll do everything we can to help you make money, but we still have people stuck in the middle even mastermind members, we have people stuck in the middle, because they won't do the shit that they're supposed to do to be successful.

And so one of the things that you need to do to be successful is get with like minded people, and the only way you're going to do that is by attending these events. And I don't I don't mean the bullshit events where you're going to have hundreds of people. And you know you, you do that for networking. More than anything you do that to see how you're going to make money and when and where do it do that. But when you really want to get with like minded people who are hyper focus on making money, that's what you need to be in one of these events, the real ones, the ones where you get the gritty living by the ones where you get down to business, down with brass tacks and you get what you're supposed to get so that you can continue making money.

Adam: definitely, hey, real quick got some questions on YouTube. I want to answer before we hop to the next question, which I love and click SEO. But first of all, Brian Kato says what's up guys? Hey, good to meet you, man.

Do You Do Stacks For Dating Sites?

And then also another Brian was asking do you guys do stacks for dating sites. We don't believe we have any restrictions. I mean, I don't have I don't think that crosses any lines for us building stacks, right?

Yeah, yeah. Because a lot of those can have things like male enhancement, and it depends on the affiliate that you're running. We're not going to do any of that, but I'm not gonna have my people don't do any Yeah, we just don't do it. So we don't get them. Brian and you're watching this just email support@mgyb.co. To tell them what your actual like what your keywords are, and they'll write Marco they'll be able to tell them from that whether or not they can build it, right. So no doubt No, no pharma, gambling. I don't know. It's epic. Guys. It has to be in English. Don't ask us to do Hungarian because that's the one and the money that we have to target to do a one of is not feasible.

Can You Build An Agency Just By Outsourcing To Whitelabels?

Yeah. I so click SEO as the next one, he says or she says can you build an agency just outsourcing to white labels? Yeah, you certainly can. I like good. Jordan Fowler followed up. He's one of our mastermind members and very successful but agency owner. And so and I agree very much with what he said, and that is that you can but you have to understand what it is that you're talking about for when you do get questions, or at least be honest and say that you'll get the answer if you don't have it, you know, whatever the case may be, you want to make sure that you're not talking at a on with ignorance to a potential customer or client with, you know, without being able to answer the questions, and it's something that you can learn as you go, depending on what all your service offerings are, you know, we were going to be talking a lot about that in the coming weeks or coming months for for, you know, different things that you can do to build an agency without you have to do all of the work. And so I think it's important to understand the concepts, the foundation of it, then then from there, you can you know, you can learn how to best manage questions and such for each one of the services depending on what kind of also confidence level you have in your done for you service providers. Does that make sense? Yeah. So anybody want to comment on now I think we're understanding just the basic Six at least I mean, at a minimum, but you know, I, this may not be a great analogy. I'm doing this on the fly, but I was like, can you own? Maybe a few automotive repair shops and not be a mechanic? Sure. Is it going to benefit you greatly to understand the business you're in? Yeah, you know, better. So I'll leave it at that. But I know Markco has got some more to say, well, we make it simple, right? We not only provide the services that you need them for you to, to get everything that you need to do for the client. But if you join the mastermind, then you get access to us so that if you run into tough questions, you can just come back, excuse me, come ask us. How do I answer this question? client asked me this. I need an answer what I say and we'll give you an answer. And we've simplified every we boil it down to make it so simple. That I I think that people think that our simplicity means that it doesn't work. And it's just the other way around as people make it so complex, that they need to confuse you because it confuse, they can keep making money from. We want it we want to boil all that shit away all that garbage. All we want is that pure rock we want. We want that good.

Guys, that's what because when we have that when we when we simplify it, that's what really works. And that's why this is this is so good in the way that we've set it all up for you to come and take advantage of it. It just rocks and all you have to do is join the mastermind. I mean, it's so simple. I don't know why more people don't don't do it. Maybe I don't I don't know doubters doubting Thomases, whatever it is, get past it, because you need to make so much money.

Cool. Thank you. Alright, so we're almost Well, we still got about 10 minutes. Well, I think we're gonna have to end it a couple minutes early, right? Yeah, cuz I know we're streaming through yours. Oh, no.

What Else Can You Do To Improve The Rank Of A Website Aside From Having GMB Drive Stack, 3 Press Releases, And Aged Site?

Fitz says I have a site that is showing 27 Google console page three on main keyword manual search number one main keyword on GMB, drive stack, three press releases, aged site, what can I do to improve? I don't know, because that was kind of a word salad at the end there. I'm not really sure what you were saying. But as far as if you've got a page three, excuse me keywords on page three in Search Console, it means that they're closed with some proper maybe on page or maybe some supporting articles that through the same silo that would link to those that page specifically syndicated across your network, for example, that's going to help to kind of reinforce the theme for that particular post. Again, this is all provided that you have proper on page if your structures poor on page, then it's going to be difficult to push, but it will respond to so much better to these cut type of tactics if you have good good structure, good internal linking. So doing that syndicating to their you know, maybe adding some additional Drive files within a particular, you know, siloed Drive folder that would do the same thing link back to those posts, the supporting posts that were linking to, to kind of boost that the posts on that are showing up with the keywords, the pages that are showing up on page three, that kind of stuff. Those are all things that you can do. also getting traffic to them, either through organic means or through buying way to traffic to those new posts that have been created is going to help to kind of activate all of that stuff. So, I mean, obviously, you know, just all the stuff we talked about mirror that same sort of paid page or post on a G site. Once again, you can even iframe it in there. That's all the stuff we get into in RYS Academy. Marco, do you have any comments on that?

Marco: Yeah, GMB post silos.

Bradley: Okay. Yeah, you gotta GMB. It says your, your, your question their Fitz. So yeah, you can silo those together as well. Use press releases press release silo stalking. We talked about that recently, too. It's on our YouTube channel. So once again, you just got a mirror all that stuff through all the different assets that you have available. Okay, then link link below to all that. And once that's done, you take it, you take you take all that and you run an embed gig and you link build to all that and then see where it see where it sits after that.

Hernan: nice.

Adam: You know, I just thought back to something where Wayne was asking us and you know, I realized I don't think we mentioned that. Everyone here, you know, that asked about link building and embeds, you've got to talk to dead. Yeah. And for the people who know who that is, or has heard the him mentioned, he was at POFU Live two years in a row from India, flew over and pay for his ticket came over and joined us and today this time he's dropping some bombs did a case study was helping people out? That was really cool. It was just really good to see. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. People appreciate it. So Wayne, that was another one that was cool because I know you know who he is. And for other people who who may think you know, he's just somebody exists out in the internet like real deal came to down and joined us the second year in a row was all sounds awesome. That's great. Well, listen, I don't see any other questions. So I think it's time we can wrap it up a few minutes early guys. So we want to say hi again from Dubai from Denver, Semantic Mastery from Denver except for Marco but we piped him in as usual. So we'll see you guys next week. See you guys

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 257

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Announcement

Adam: Alright, we are live Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. This is Episode 257. Today is the ninth of October 2019. And this is the last Hump Day hangouts before POFU Live 2019 in Denver. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, you’d like to show up whether you’re going to whether you live there you whether you want to drive in or you can make some last-minute flight plans, head to pofulive.com, grab your ticket. Now, before we get into it, just want to say if you’re joining us for the first time, thanks for watching, we’re going to get into questions and answers. If you’ve got any questions you’re watching us go ahead and pop them on the page at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. Remember to always head over there. If you’re watching on YouTube. We don’t want to read comments here. You’ve got to go to the page where we embed the video so that you can ask questions we can get to those. So with that said, let’s say hello guys real quick. We’re missing to the Semantic Mastery guys who I believe is started traveling over to POFU Live in Denver. Bradley, Marco and I are here today. So I’ll start at the top and say hello to Bradley. How are you doing?

Bradley: Good. How are you?

Adam: Not bad. Not bad. I’m enjoying some cooler weather here. It’s finally starting to act like a fall. It’s about 65-70 today.

Bradley: Well, you can enjoy cooler weather tomorrow when you get to Denver because it’s supposed to be snowing and freezing cold so

Adam: Yeah, I might have to post some pictures of her on maybe on the Facebook group or something like he heard on hates the cold weather and I think it’s supposed to be a high of 28 degrees tomorrow.

Bradley: Yeah, and snow to which is crazy, but it’s only tomorrow. Because then the rest of the time that we’re there it’s supposed to be between 65 and 70 during the day and then around 30 at night, but it was kind of interesting packing for that, you know?

Adam: Yeah, all over the place. Well, speaking of weather, Marco How are you doing, man?

Marco: I couldn’t be better. Like I couldn’t handle 28 I’m sorry. It’s not happening. I mean, it’s too late like a cold for me. I mentioned it before is 60-65 that range you know. We break out the old sheet and we cover ourselves it gets chilly man 28 gone from 65 to 20 I don’t think so.

Adam: That’s a big change and once it gets below 20 that’s where I start I can handle it depends on the window but yeah in the 20s still nice ones it’s sunny and then anyways tomorrow is going to be fun we’ll see how it goes with Hernan if he’s all bundled up and blankets and freezing to death or if he survives so. Anyways With that said, like I said earlier if you’re watching for the first time you’re in the right place, we’re going to get to q&a and answer your questions and appreciate you being here. Come here every week every Wednesday for pm eastern you can always ask your questions ahead of time as well if you know got a client call you’ve got some work you got things you got to do we understand that but you know benefit here is being live you can ask questions, clarify your questions, but like I said, if you have to you can ask your questions ahead of time at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions and then check out the replay on our YouTube channel, which you should subscribe to if you’re watching that right now.

And secondly, if you haven’t yet check out the Battle Plan right? That’s where you can get our step by step processes for getting results with everything from new websites, aged domains, YouTube channels, so much more. I’m not going to go through the entire laundry list of all the benefits there but head over to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. And if you want to join, you know, our mastermind is about a mastermind but you know, it’s both the mastermind, our mastermind. Basically what it is is an experienced community so you can get faster access to real-world info, testing and build that network of peers who are doing the same things we’re growing these digital marketing businesses or who have businesses and understand how they need to grow the digital marketing side of it. You can find out more about that and join at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And for everyone, we really recommend going over to mgyb.co. I mean we tell this to you watching these videos, we tell it to our mastermind members, we tell it to everyone

Else, you know if you can start building your team now. And part of that can be using MGYB to provide the services for you things like syndication networks are we as drive stack, press releases, link building embeds, all that sort of stuff. And there are a lot more great packages coming out where we’re going to help people get better, well, the literal package for Hey, you know, if your website is here, then you need these types of additions. You need these syndication networks. We’re going to make that a lot more streamlined so that you can do it for yourself, your projects as well as your clients. So keep your eyes and ears open for that. So with that said guys,

Marco: I have a couple of things. Yeah, right. Number one, people, they always ask us how to put everything together, they’ll go in and don’t order something. And the last, how do I put it together guys, it’s in the Battle Plan. I was just talking to my mini mastermind group. You guys know that I meet every Tuesday. In the evening with a mini mastermind group. I have seven people in there. I wish I could take more people because people keep reaching out to me and saying, hey, I want in on the group. But seven is more than enough. But the thing is that the people in my mini mastermind they follow the Battle Plan. I have a guy, that’s her over. But he started out at 12k a year in digital marketing and client work and SEO, whatever it is that he did. And this year, you know, he’s at around a quarter million for the year. And so it’s as simple as just buckling down doing the fucking work and following the instructions to the letter. You don’t veer from what we tell you to do until you’re ready to test and you shouldn’t be testing until you have a good revenue stream coming in that allows you to set aside time to do that kind of thing, right?

We got another one that Jeff right who went to POFU and he’s killing it. I mean, he’s ranking attorney type big attorney terms of ranking for it, for example, and IT services in New York City. Now imagine how competitive that is, but they’re like the companies have happier than a paycheck, because they’re number one for the term. And how did they do it? They follow the Battle Plan. They follow the instructions, they follow what we tell them, guys, how do you put it all together? Get the Battle Plan. Now, yes, the Battle Plan takes you to MGYB and the products and services. Why do we do that? Because it’s the simplest way we don’t want you doing all that work. Imagine the hours that you have to spend doing all that work keyword research three days. For the keyword research, really, do you really want to do that? Do you really want to spend all that time your client better be paying a whole lot of money to spend three days doing all of that keyword research, I mean, everything it takes time to do

Bradley: Marco, isn’t it more fun to buy shiny new software applications and spend all your time learning how to use it? Just to find out it doesn’t work very well.

Marco: That’s some work, right? Follow the next best, the next best. So it’s already there. We set the path out people who follow it are killing it. And that’s my point. And yes, we do send you to what works for us because it’s what we use guys. We use it, we apply it we get a result. And so we give it to you in a step by step method so that you can follow it through. So if you’re not doing it, you haven’t bought it go by the Battle Plan. It looks like a really simple PDF with links. But you do it step by step. I’m telling you, I just got validation yesterday from a couple of people that are in that range. I mean, you guys know Jordan.

You guys know, Jeff, you guys know, Ed, they’re telling it how following the Battle Plan. That’s one and two about the mastermind. I wanted to mention that it works is a two-way street. We do try to give people everything that works in the mastermind, right? And we do make everyone available that you’re free to exchange ideas and concepts and theories and tests and whatever. But every once in awhile, we’ll get in a thread, as we did with with with something that I talked about when doing silos. And it was a whole long thread and we went really deep into it. And then there’s another one about iframes now.

And then that one sent me into the rabbit hole, where I’m still testing and I’m getting really good results from some ideas that I got. Not like not directly but indirectly, as they posted. Okay, so can I do this Can I do that and I immediately started thinking, well, what if, and that’s when you read, your juices really start flowing? And what if I did this and I quoted it this way, and I hit it this way, and then it would cause no issues. And so what I’m thinking is anyone who attends POFU Live will have first crack at whatever I come up with, from my testing, because they deserve it. I mean, they took the time that they’re going to be there. And so we always say membership has its privileges. But this is a step up. This is a step where you’re trying to change the game and JN and Jeff Moore, Jeff sorry, they went to POFU Live, and they changed the whole mindset, they changed their business strategy, and they’re killing it. So So anyone going deserves it. And so that’s what I’m going to do and then at some future point, it’ll be shared with the mastermind, of course, I don’t know if it’ll be I’ll ever share it outside the mastermind.

But since the nugget was kind of the idea sprouted from a thread in the mastermind I think the mastermind deserves whatever comes from it. And I’m already testing and I’m already coding and that so this is the type of thing that goes on and in the mastermind, mastermind membership has its privileges. Attending POFU Live has its privileges. Most of the people that are in my mini mastermind, are people who went to POFU Live. So I just want to say about that definitely our mastermind members, but they also attended POFU Live and I think that they deserve special attention. That’s just my piece for today. Take it for what it’s worth, but I think it’s just totally worth joining the mastermind and attending POFU Live should be a must in your calendar.

Adam: Sounds good to me, like Marco said, Be there. That’s a pretty awesome thing that Marco is going to do there. So I don’t want to dive back into a Marco but I know that people work with you and your group have had a lot of success. And I’m sure that’s a no small part due to your involvement. So that’s pretty awesome. So if you want to grab your ticket, you can still make it we got a couple of days here before we kick things off on Friday for the VIP day and then Saturday and Sunday for the main event. You can grab your ticket at pofulive.com. Alright, guys, Bradley, anything else before we jump into it?

Bradley: No, I’m just excited too nervous at the same time because I gotta fly tomorrow. But looking forward to coming to Denver and hanging out with you guys and putting on a pretty cool presentation. I think that is pretty powerful. I think this is going to be just a really good event. So I’m excited about it.

Adam: Cool. All right. Let’s do it.

Bradley: All right, let me grab the screen. Stand by. Alright, you guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct.

Adam: Correct. Got your whole screen.

Bradley: All right. Not a lot of questions yet. So guys start posting. Otherwise, we’ll wrap it up a little bit early, which is fine because I’ve got still not 100% packed for I gotta leave really early tomorrow morning for my flight. So anyway, I don’t mind wrapping it up early if that’s what we need to do.

Is It Okay To Send A Full-Text Article With 20+ Affiliate Links Via RSS In A Single Tier Network?

But we’ll start with sutra he says when using a single tier, he’s talking about a single-tier syndication network, is it okay to send the full-text article via RSS? Even if the article has 20 plus affiliate links? I usually post 123 of these types of articles each day. Um, I would say no, and the reason why I say no is it not because it’s an SEO thing, but it’s likely that your blog accounts which would be like WordPress, Tumblr, blogger, not so much blogger but Tumblr and WordPress, will likely or may very well terminate the account for too many outbound links.

Especially like affiliate links and that kind of stuff that they don’t, they don’t typically like that. So I wouldn’t recommend that I would do a post summary. So set your RSS feed to just display the summary. That way, it’s really just pushing the juice back to your post URL that’s published on your blog, which is really all that matters, guys. I mean, if you’re doing a bunch of outbound linking in your blog posts anyways, whether it doesn’t, you don’t really need to worry about posting the full text because, you know, whether they’re nofollow or do follow, it doesn’t even matter. What I’m saying is what you’re looking for is the link back from the post on the syndication network properties back to the original post on your site. Right. And then obviously, if you’re doing internal SEO like on-page SEO correctly, then you’re going to have some sort of contextual link within the text of your blog post that goes up to our money, a money page, right so an actual page or something a category.

Whatever it is that you’re trying to rank on your site. So it really the benefit is pushing the juice from the syndication network properties back to the post URL that’s published on your blog. So I would recommend doing a summary post, you know, summary, just set the RSS feed settings to just display a summary instead of the full text. Now, that said, sometimes those can look spammy too. And sometimes you can find settings in your theme that will allow you to update the length of those RSS, like how much of the summary is shown. And so you might be able to set that and sometimes you have to actually edit the theme files in order for to, you know, to to adjust that some things will give you the option to do that, like it’s, you know, an option that you can set but other times you have to actually go in and edit the theme files. So that’s what I would recommend any comments?

Marco: Yeah, I would say no, and it’s for SEO and it’s because the whole idea behind this concept and what we do and why we send out iframes and everything that we do is to build PageRank. And the problem is, everything starts at PR one, correct? Everything on the web, it starts out at PR one. So if you have something that’s revenue, or even if it’s aged, it could only be a PR one. And the reason why is because you’re splitting the PageRank that you’re passing so low, that you can’t build it up properly. So you split it, you splitting it 20 times, and what you’re passing from a PR one isn’t PR one, it’s less than PR one. As I’ve said before, we’ve done the math we know within certain parameters, just how much PR is passed from a PR one and we know we know it’s a range. So when you splitting it, that fine you’re defeating the purpose of building up that PR building up that trust and authority and everything else. Not only that, having it be so spammy, it could just turn into a PR zero because of the fact that it’s so spammy. And so you’re not really passing anything. You’re not really doing anything is not mean you could grab some traffic. From that point, you could do so much more if you’re more selective with the way that you syndicate your affiliate links so that it doesn’t look so spammy so that it doesn’t look like it’s a whole bunch of garbage. And the only intent for that is to push your affiliate links, make it more user-friendly, making it more for the person that’s going to be reading it for the person to interact with that posts and with that content, and maybe share it maybe like it. Maybe visit the website, or those are all signals that you want. And I guarantee you that a spammy blog post with a whole bunch of affiliate links isn’t going to accomplish what you want.

Is It Good To Use And Embed The Original City Logo And Link The City Website Or Wikipedia City Page For A Local Service Website?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you. Mike says hello to a local service website. Do you think it’s a good idea to use and embed the original city logo and also link to the city website or Wikipedia city page? I can see the power in it, but I don’t think it’s a good idea. Thanks. Well, Mike, that’s what was pretty much standard operating procedure back in like 2012. And for a long time, you know, that was just traditional way they call it conventional wisdom when it came to I didn’t, does conventional wisdom is oftentimes not very smart. It’s just what people think is right. And conventional wisdom for the longest time was that you would link to always a.gov or a Wikipedia page, or, you know, excuse me, a Wikipedia page or a.gov site or a that, especially if you’re doing local to that, you know, corresponding Wikipedia page or the local government website or something like that. And that was supposed to add relevancy, which isn’t true. That’s that hasn’t been true for many, many years. Because Google doesn’t care about you linking to a Wikipedia page about a particular city unless it’s relevant to the content on that page. And even though you might be optimized, you know, for like a plumber and in particular city, just linking to that Wikipedia page arbitrarily with the keyword or without the keyword, whatever, just linking to that page really doesn’t do much, right. It’s not the algorithm is much smarter than that. Now, if you are citing something about that city, like some facts about the city or something that makes it relevant, and you want to cite the source where you gleaned that content from So for example, if you are curating content from a Wikipedia page or a.gov site about that particular city, then you want to cite the source now that adds that that’s a proper way to link to it. And Google can clearly see the relationship between why and why you’re linking to that. But you know, again, years ago, we used to mean just about everybody used to do it. What I always recommend is link outbound linking to relevant content that’s relevant to the concept within the body of the content that you’re linking to, like, in other words, that your UYY just linked to the city page or to the Wikipedia page. If the page is about plumbing services in a particular city.

It doesn’t really make sense just to link to the city website unless there’s a reason for it. And so, again, I’ve always gone back to I mean, four years since probably 2014 timeframe, I stopped doing that stopped doing what was conventional wisdom, and started linking to more relevant pages. So for example, linking to an article on bob Vila calm or do it yourself network or something like that, right, some sort of, like if it’s a plumbing website, right? linking to something that’s more relevant to the content of the page. And then if you want to have some sort of local relevancy in there, why not embed the map or a mind map or driving directions map from the store or the location of the business to that city or something like that, that That, to me makes a lot more sense. It’s more relevant. And so that’s the type of thing that I’ve always done as far as embedding a city logo from another website. I don’t recommend doing that. Because if you don’t have permission to use that, remember that that logo is likely trademarked or even if it’s not trademarked, it’s probably a copyright issue. Because I can tell you one thing you don’t want to do when you curate content and by the way, we have a training for a full training program called Content Kingpin which will teach you all about curating and why it’s very it’s so powerful because it creates co-citation, it allows you to generate content much quicker, it’s much more efficient, you don’t have to learn. You don’t have to be a content or subject matter expert. In order to be able to generate content, you just have to know how to locate it, and put it together in a logical fashion and then cite the sources properly. So I would recommend you look at that because one of the things that we learned the hard way, is you never want to curate images. Ever. Okay? Unless you there, wiki, what do they call Wiki Commons there? I don’t recommend ever curating images because you will, you can end up getting copyright infringement and be sued for that. And a lot of times like, it’s happened to me, it’s happened to me for almost three years in a row was two years in a row where I got hit with copyright.

Basically extortion letters where they would say you’ve got to pay so much or we’re taking you to court for copyright infringement and you’d have to pay or else they would take your ass to court, and it sucks so I learned a long time ago. Never curate images so I would really highly recommend not embedding a city logo. And don’t just arbitrarily link to a city Wikipedia page or a city government website, unless there’s a specific reason for it, that you clearly identify in the content that you’re let you know why you’re linking to it. If that makes sense. You’re much better off linking to something that’s more relevant. You want to comment on that, Marco?

Marco: I agree. Because there’s activity relevance, relevance, trust, and authority. Right? You’re much better off linking to something that has you know, that that’s updated regularly, and events page what’s going on, in you know, in the city, landmark, places to see if there are if this park, just anything, it’s just going a little bit further in as far as the geolocation is, yes, you’re part of the city. So it stands to reason that you would think I want to link to the Wikipedia city page for this, but you can go further and make get even more relevant. And in fact, if you can get that city schedule, into a calendar of events, the way that we do in RYS Academy Reloaded, and load those ups, and that’s constantly changing, and that’s constantly pushing, all of that relevance, everything that’s happening in that city, and mixed in with those calendar events are your events, what’s happening with your business, whatever it is, whether you want to coupon special, whether you want to send them to the GMB, the map, just whatever it is, you mix in all of that with all of the other relevance and it works a whole lot better than just simply making to the city page for x reason, which there’s really no reason.

Bradley: Yeah. I mean, again, that’s been such old tactics that you know, if it really worked well, Google would have killed it a long time ago because it’s been used forever. As I said, it’s just that it was like common knowledge. Conventional wisdom is just what people did and for the longest time I would you know, I would argue why would Why do you do that? Well, because you know, it’s adding relevancy I will have you tested it. Because if you test it, you’ll find that it doesn’t really do shit, you’re much better off linking the relevant content and I like curated content for that reason because it clearly gives a reason to link out to something and it can create co-citation, which is, is pretty powerful too. So

What’s The Difference Between Maps SEO And Website SEO?

Jonathan says are the map embeds the only thing MGYB sells for maps Seo? No, not by far. My furnace guy wants to rank in maps but doesn’t care about his website. What is the main difference in maps SEO versus website SEO? Well, there’s a lot of similarities, a lot of overlap. But with maps SEO there, you know, you can focus entirely on the Google properties, right, the Google ecosystem. So the map URL itself, I’m going to demonstrate how to get the best map URL to build links to you can do map embeds. You can do citation building. You know if he’s got legit if you say it’s your furnace guy, so I’m assuming is you know, HVAC guy, and he’s got a real business, then it’s probably registered to a real address. Even if it’s a service area business, you can build citations for that. That’s something I always recommend doing if you have a valid address. So there are I mean, there are a number of things that you can do, but very specifically MGYB sells, I mean, pretty much every one of our services can be applied to ranking in maps or maps SEO as you called it, right.

So for example, let me just give you a couple of examples here. This is something that you can go check out GMB.reviewsmaker.com, right. So let’s just go to I’m just going to type in HVAC contractor, Culpepper, for example. Okay, so I’m going to click on KNM Heating and Air heating and air conditioning. And in fact, actually, let me just copy that name. And this is what I’m going to do. So this is how you can get the best URL to build links to if you’re going to be doing link building to the map, right. So there are embeds, there’s also link building, there are press releases, there’s you can which you can embed a map in the press release. Plus, you can also create a contextual link or just a naked URL in the actual press release. To back to the map itself, I’m going to give you a few examples here of how you can get better results. So let’s go back to Google for it first. Here’s a couple of ways that you can do this. Number one, you can go into your GMB dashboard or your client’s GMB dashboard. And on the Info tab, where you’ll always see this one little section where it says view on maps or view on search and view on maps. You can right-click on the view on maps and copy the link address and paste it into a notepad file and then reformat it I’m going to show you the correct format. So that’s one way to find it. The best URL for building links to a map, Google map right. The second way is to go type in or go search for your client’s business name on Google. So in this case, I’m going to search for KNM Heating and Air Inc because that’s just the example that I pulled, then I’m going to click through to the maps listing.

And you’ll see up here in the US the address bar of Chrome, I’ve got this long, ugly URL, right? Well, if you go to GMB dot review, make reviews maker calm, okay, and you click to decode place ID, and just paste that long maps URL in there and click the code place Id take a second, then it’s going to come down and it’s going to give you this maps URL right here. Okay, I’m going to copy that link address. And I’m going to paste that into a notepad file. Now, if you take a look at this URL, I’ll show you and I’ve demonstrated this before, but I want to answer this question thoroughly for him. If we go to like, where it goes com or something like that, some sort of redirect tracer. I could paste that URL that it gives you, right? So from here, and if we take a look at this, you’ll see that this has got a 302 redirect built into it. In fact, there are two of them. So that is not a good URL to use for link building. Like if you want to build links to this URL, you’re not passing any PageRank or link equity essentially, through these two, three or two redirects, that stops it dead, right. So in other words, you can link to it, you somebody could click on that link, and it’s going to navigate, or jump to the final target URL or the destination, which is this. But as far as passing link equity, if you’re to build links to this, it’s not going to pass any. So it’s not a good URL to build links to which by the way, this URL right here, that the share URL, take a look at how many redirects are in this one. If we go back to where goes.

It might even there it goes. Look at that. Look, how many redirects are in there. Three 302 redirects and no matter refresh, so that’s not a good URL, either this share URL, don’t build links that are dumb. It does, it does no good, right? So what you want to do is you want to take that URL, which by the way, you can just take the URL from here and go to a redirect tracer, and then paste it in and then copy the final URL, or just memorize this, which is what I did. It’s very simple. copy that URL, and then just change it, just rearrange it to where you change the maps right there. So maps.google.com, you would change it to www.google.com. Then forward-slash question mark. See ID equals is what the original one is. So all you want to do is move maps from before and the subdomain from maps to the right after the forward-slash, then it’s question marks the ID equals and we’ll take that, Copy that, paste it in. So it’s just a quick change or modification of the URL. And now watch this. If we take this, we go back to a redirect tracer.

Quick, Tracy well there’s no reason XC that now if we go load that URL into the address bar and click Go, you’ll see once the page loads, it converts to that long URL, but it’s not technically a redirect. Right. So that’s the best URL to build links to is this one right here. So that’s something else that you can do. Right. So like I mentioned before, you can embed a map into press releases. You can also build links directly to this map URL, right. So that’s one thing you can do. RYS Drive stacks are incredibly powerful. If you provide the NAP. The name, address and phone number of the business, as well as the maps URL will build a drive stack that is hyper optimized for that specific location, right and will push a ton of power directly to the Google properties especially like you said, if he’s not interested in ranking a website, you can select to push all of the juice from the drive stack back to the maps the Google properties which would be the maps GMB website, will you’ll get it, you should order the, excuse me, the Google Site along with that the Google site will be part of that. So you can build all of the power back to the actual maps listing.

However, there are a couple other things I want to mention. Let’s see, just just because there are a few other points here that you can add additional power to, right. So for a note, another one is the reviews. This company, in particular, has 21 reviews, I don’t know how many your client has. But if we click on that review link, right, it’s going to pull up here Well, that is a different URL. So up here is another URL, I would suggest using your own three one redirects creator. There are a number of of them out there that you can use that are free, some of them that are paid like a subscription base, and others that you can create three one redirects from a plugin through your through a website, which is what I, you know, I prefer to do that through my own domain or something through or through a branded domain or a domain that I’m using specifically for redirects, that kind of thing. But if you take a guy here, open up Firefox just to show you that URL right there, I would create a 301 redirect out of that URL. And what’s it do? It automatically loads to these reviews. So you can push link equity into this. Well, let’s not stop there. What about each one of these individual reviews? For example, if I was to click Share on that one from Alan Jackson, which sounds like looks like a lot of the users’ spam, I don’t know. Jackson’s a country singer and Ronnie White is a Ron White isn’t a comedian. But if we’re to take that URL right there and paste that in, you’ll see that that is a separate URL, like that’s a redirect, as I just talked about, if you click the Share URL, it’s going to give you a redirect. So watch what happens when we trace that one. This is for the individual review. It’s still a 302 redirect. So that’s not what you want to build links to not this. What you want to build links to is this, which again, if you want to make it a pretty URL, all you got to do is use a 301 redirect creator.

As I said, there are some free ones out there, there are some ones that you can pay for a subscription basis, like a rebrand, delete rebrand.ly, for example of one, or there’s another one. Or like, what I like to do is use my own domain or clients domain, and use the pretty links pro plugin to create 301 redirects. Okay? Either way, that’s the URL you want to build to. And that’s the same URLs, what’s up here? Right, but you can build it through a 301 redirect. And look, that’s an individual review within that maps listing. And if this one’s got 21 reviews, that’s 21 additional link targets, right? Plus this one is a link target, which is the overall reviews URL plus the maps URL itself, right, which in this version of it that I just talked about being the best version. There’s more to think about photos, right? For example, this guy’s only got looks like it’s at four, but I’m only Well, maybe that was, let’s go back into photos here. For photos, it says for photos, each one of these areas a separate URL. So my point is if you’re just going to be doing map stuff for a client, what I like to do is extract all the URLs from the maps listing, set up redirects so that they’re pretty and they’re short, much easier to manage. And then start using those and link building campaigns, which you can also use those to be included in a drive stack as target URLs where we will build the drive stack to be targeting each one of those separate URLs. And what happens is you push juice into this listing from all different angles and every single point that you can push link equity into it. It’s very, very powerful. You want to

Marco: Yeah, he’s asking about maps SEO, and I’m just going to say local GMB Pro. It’s what set the standard for GMB optimization every other course came after copied what we did. So if you want the Trailblazer the standard bear the one that laid it down on how it’s properly done. There you go and get local GMB pro and you can learn what Bradley just talked about more in-depth, along with many other things that you could do to push the GMB the map into the three-pack, which is what your client is looking for. They don’t care about the website fine. So you work entirely within the GMB ecosystem, which is what local GMB Pro is all about. So guys, if you really want to do this, right, if you want that heart into the three-pack, you go into local GMP Pro.

Bradley: That’s right. And that’s an in there, we talked about various other things. I’m not going to talk about specific methods here, but just so you know that again, this this this client, or this client is not my client, but this contractor, HVAC contractor is also doing GMB posts, he probably has an SEO that is working on his stuff. And take a look at that guys. Again, these are all additional link targets, right? We copy that URL and go back to the redirect tracer, which I already closed.

And once again, this is a GMB post URL, right? It’s going to redirect, don’t ever use the share URLs for SEO purposes. You can use it for navigation purposes. But look, how many redirects are there. So what you want to do is end up taking this URL, and using that as that could be potentially another link target. Right? So that makes sense. So if we’re going to just open up that URL and see it didn’t bring it up, it’s probably the one prior to that this one, which is okay, because that’s a meta refresh, so that, that’s fine. Let’s open it up there.

There, see I brought it up, it brought that post up to the very top. So the same thing goes you can take an older post and do the same thing you could share it, grab, copy the share URL. Put it in now local GMB Pro, we talk about a hell of a lot of really cool things that you can do a GMB post, I’m not going to talk about here. But I’m just saying you can actually use these posts as additional places to build links to the right. So again, this one right here, I would take this URL, copy that, that’s what I would build links to and watch what happens if I load that into the browser. It’s going to pull up that post at the top See, the one that I just shared. So it makes sense. So all of those are linked targets. That’s why I said there’s just a ton of different things that you can do to push additional power into their not just through and beds and beds are very powerful. Don’t get me wrong, but there’s a number of other things that you can do. So that was a good question.

Does Google Sandbox New Domains For At Least 3 Weeks Or Longer?

Gordon’s up he says, Hey, guys, I don’t want to sound like a broken record. But I just want to say again, your Hump Day help is very much appreciated. Well, you’re welcome, Gordon. And we do appreciate that as well. If I remember correctly, you said in the past that you prefer to use a new domain instead of an aged domain to rank a local lead gen site. So you can control the name of the domain for SEO purposes and for branding purposes. That is correct. I have said that. But I was wondering if in fact Google does sandbox new domains for at least three weeks or probably longer other than losing the branding and partial keyword and domain benefit. Why is it not better to use a niche related aged domain with a clean niche related backlink profile? And if you use an aged domain would you need to to rebuild the old site pages and the old links pointing to using way back point old links point to using Wayback Machine the old things point to excuse me the way that I read that was wrong and if you use an aged domain, would you need to rebuild the old site pages that the old links point to using Wayback machine in order not to lose the link juice? Okay, so the first question is because I’m able to typically especially when I’m trying to rank for local stuff, the right which is what the maps I don’t

Is that getting a new brand new domains? Fine, because I’m not looking for the initial, the, you know, an existing link profile because it really doesn’t matter. Like I mean, if if the sites built really well and everything else, then it can have an effect on the maps, there’s no question. But as we were just talking about in the previous question, we can typically get results without even having a self-hosted website, if that makes sense, right? Because we can focus on specifically just the GMB properties and get results. That said, I always prefer to have a branded type of domain, one that I can build a brand around for, if especially for lead gen stuff that I could use in other locations, right, which is why I talked about if I’m going to have a website, I like to use subdomains with the city name is the subdomain so that I can build upon a particular brand.

Does that mean that you cannot that you can’t start with an aged domain that has been dropped by somebody else or whatever, and build a brand around that I suppose you could? But the problem that I would see with that is that there may be some other existing content on the web that can ambiguate, right? That’s a key term that can ambiguate the brand that you’re trying to build or the data that you’re trying to build through your new location, your new setup. Right? Now, if you’re talking about strictly organic SEO, yes, there’s some benefit for building through an aged domain that has a clean link profile. But having a clean link profile is kind of difficult to do or else why was I mean, a lot, I mean, you will find some domains like that, but they’re few and far between. A lot of times the aged domains that have been dropped are just they either have a shitty link profile or a non-existent link profile. In other words, they might have one or two links that are actually, you know, decent links, if any at all. And so my point is, I would rather just go with something new that’s branded so that I have more control over the content that’s going to be published and everything else and not have to worry about any sort of invigoration not have to worry about any potential links out there.

On the web that is toxic to it, or they’re going to cause any problems as I start building out the new project if that makes sense. So, I mean, there, you certainly can do that. If you want. I don’t recommend it. I don’t, you know, the only time I would use aged domains really is if I was building what I would call feeder sites are like PBNs, right? Because that kind of help to shortcut the process a little bit since you’re not starting from scratch. But when it came to a brand for lead gen site, or for a client, I would always recommend using a brand new one. Now if you are going to build an old domain, yes, it is better to rebuild those pages. You can do that using the Wayback Machine. It’ll you know you can download HTML files and upload those. There’s a couple of plugins and services out there where you can subscribe to or pay for credits I believe that will actually create a file of the Wayback Machine stuff that makes it much easier I know there’s some plugins I can’t even think was named now there’s there.

I know there are some plugins out there that will do that on a WordPress site to where you just basically, you can enter a file or upload the zip file that you get from the Wayback Machine. And it will automatically build out the old pages with the old content, you might have to do some formatting and stuff to them. But you can do that. And I would recommend doing that, or at least building some sort of page that has similar content on it doesn’t have to be the exact duplicates or replication of the old pages. But if it had a good link profile, and it ever in anybody ever goes and looks at, you know, the webmasters of the sites that were linking to that, and they noticed that there was a big change in the page or just doesn’t exist anymore, they may take that link down. So the reason why you would rebuild those previous pages or you know, the pages that aren’t there anymore, is because you’d want the links that were built to that page to stay there. That’s really the only reason where else you could just do a redirect.

My point is, if you just did a redirect from the old URL to the homepage or to a new URL, and a webmaster says, was analyzing or looking at the site and saying, you know, from one of their pages on their site, there was a link to your, to the, to the domain that they had linked to previously. And they look at and say, well, that’s not what I had linked to, I’m going to remove that, then you lose that link. And so you start to ultimately lose the power of having an aged domain with an inbound link profile anyways. And that happens unless you rebuild the pages, or have them redirected to something that’s very similar so that it’s still a value to the site that was originally linking to it. That all said, usually, when you’re dealing with, like, especially local business type sites, it’s just not worth all that trouble. You’re better off and you’re able to get just as quickly as just results just as quickly, excuse me, using methods that we talked about with a brand new domain. So Marco, do want to comment on that before we move on?

Marco: Yeah, absolutely. So imagine it if McDonald’s had come out with McDonald’s of Illinois, if Coca Cola wherever it began, it had come out with the Madison, if you have that, that that one, if you have that one that will boom, nationally or globally, you’re going to have to go and redo all of the work that you’ve done. Yeah, of course, it’s going to be worth it. But I’m the type and I know Bradley is too, that hates doing work, the same work over again. So why going and you have to do the work over again, when you can start off with a brand that doesn’t necessarily have to pigeonhole itself with geolocation or geographically because you can do that with a category or a pages category. It has the same effect. You don’t need it. And the Google sandbox is very real, but the way that we teach activity, relevance, trust, and authority. It trumps everything, including

The Google sandbox including proximity, including a whole bunch of other things, follow about Battle Plan to the letter, you get the services from MGYB.co the way that you’re told to do it and in, in the, in the one in the sequence that we tell you to do it, then you’re going to have the same if not better results than if you went and did all that work with, with an expired domain. And there’s no guarantee that that expired domain would hold its metrics. When it’s brought back, you’re still gonna have to do the work, you still gonna have to put in the content, you got to have to redo the content, you’re going to have to do a whole lot of work, when you could just go to MGYB.co and have us do it for you.

Bradley: I agree. So I said, I mean, it’s just so much, so much trouble that can go into building those ads. I just, I don’t think it’s worth it. I really don’t we can get results just as quickly with new domains. So unless you have found one that’s really super powerful I just wouldn’t even bother

Bradley: fit says good agent makes you part of it for you and it

Marco: will chime in. And the reason why he got some of my time is because he donated quite a bit of money to my charity and I decided to reciprocate by giving him some of my time so we had a really great call he’s in Australia by the way, so it’s really early in the morning for him to be on here. So thanks, Will.

How Do You Fix Duplicate Branded Syndication Networks That Were Purchased Via Fiverr?

Bradley: awesome thanks, Fitz says good day gents. Thanks for this form, ask real questions and get actionable answers I have a client who went to Fiverr and body syndication network and then worked with another marketer and bought a different network, many duplicates all branded. What should I do to fix that? Well, do you have access to those accounts is my point as if you if he bought these syndication networks and such from two different vendors, essentially. He probably has a login sheet right? Similar to you know,

We invented it or, you know. So I’m sure that the copy cat also provides a spreadsheet with all the accounts, the URLs, and the login data, what I would do is go in and I would, if I would log into the one that is the most closely branded to his brand name, you can’t have duplicate, right, you can’t have duplicate subdomains on WordPress or blogger or Tumblr or any of the other sites for that matter. So there has to be some sort of variation in the profile or the usernames, right. So I would take the one that is the most closely aligned with the actual brand and use that I would go in and update it. And then obviously go through and some SM style it Semantic Mastery style the syndication network. That’s number one, number two for the other one that’s out there. That’s also similarly branded. I don’t necessarily would say terminate those accounts, but I would make sure that you’re not syndicating to them anymore. In fact, if you have duplicate posts, and it’s not

I’m not talking about duplicate content guys, because that’s, that doesn’t happen on syndication networks. But if you have the same post posted on multiple semi branded networks, then I recommend removing that content specifically because you don’t, you don’t want to create a footprint with this with a blog syndication network or a syndication network where you’re syndicating website content, you can do it it’s fine with with YouTube, but with a blog now, where you know, with money site content, I don’t recommend that. So but that doesn’t mean you have to like go in and actually terminate those accounts, but I would manually go in and delete the existing content, and maybe just put up some kind of shitty content that might link to the other web to do to Dotto profiles. You know, just like one post on each one of the syndication network properties from the network that you’re not going to use right remove the IFTTT triggers, remove any content that’s been posted to both syndication networks, and then might just put some kind of short little article that’s relevant on each one of those other properties and maybe point to the profile URL on the the one that you’re going to keep right the network properties that you’re going to keep, that’s something I would do. And I would just leave it alone after that, and just continually update for the new or the syndication network that you decided to keep. If they’re both done very poorly, and you don’t want to go through which I don’t recommend, you know, I don’t blame me, if you don’t want to go through and actually update everything manually, then I would get access to all the accounts that you can go in and do what I just said to both sets of networks and by a well done Semantic Mastery stout network from MGYB. Right, and then maybe use those two other existing networks as a YouTube network or, you know, it could be possibly used for maybe a separate Twitter network or something like that.

Or you could do what I just said and just use them as kind of like a one-time link builder to your new network properties. If that makes sense. But I wouldn’t link directly back to the money site with those, you know, does that make sense? That’s what I would do. Because again, I totally understand it. By the way, if this guy bought his own syndication network at Fiverr, then he worked with another marketer. He’s probably one of those guys is going to micromanage you fits just so you’re aware of that if you have a business owner or client that has tried to do their own SEO work, and they’ve also hired somebody else to do something that they already attempted on their own. It’s probably going to they’re probably going to micromanage you as well. Just keep that in mind. Okay, I’m going to keep moving. That’s all right.

Is There A Risk Of Google Putting Home Address On The Web?

JACK says maps question please important client does professional services over the phone from home office don’t want home address under Google’s control, used paid use paid for Regis office locations in past but Google close them down? In your opinion, is there any risk of Google putting home address out there on the web as they don’t want their crazy client showing up at home. Are there any red flags to look out for in this plan? Thank you know not for if you’re going to do a Google My Business profile, no, you don’t have to worry about, you know, you need an address when you register in order for them to send the verification card. But it doesn’t publish the listing until you enter the verification code. So when you enter the verification code that you get in the postcard, then you immediately especially if it’s a service area business, which has to be professional services over the phone from home office. So yeah, I mean, you know, I would set that as a service area business, which means you go in and clear the physical address. Once you verify it, you go in into the Info tab and click on the location setting and then there’s a little link in their text link that says clear address and you click that and it’ll clear it and then save it so that it updates and you want to put your service areas in and then save it, Natalie, remove the address from being shown on maps. That’s absolutely

You Google is not going to publish that anywhere. The problem is if you want to build citations to help the maps listing rank, then a lot of the citation directories are going to require a physical address, like an actual street address. Some don’t, though, more more and more actually allowing service area businesses to add their data without a street address. But there’s still a ton of them out there to do required, so just keep that in mind. Okay.

But I wouldn’t worry about it not Google. Google’s not going to leak that at least I’ve never seen that. If you if you put it on, like Yelp or something like that word requires a street adjusting. Yeah, a lot of time. I mean, it’ll show but just don’t build citations on directories that require the street address if that’s the case. Scott says, Bradley, if you can fly to Haley, I’d have I’ll drive you to Denver. No, thanks. I’ve already got my ticket going flying directly to Denver, but thank you, Scott. I appreciate that.

How Do You Retain The Ranking Position Of A GMB Page Into 3-Pack Using Semantic Mastery Products?

Okay, I still need Hi, we only got about seven minutes left guys. He says I still need help for clients GMB ranking, it’s already it already has RYS Drive stack and G site built by SM a few years ago, I’m ordering a syndication network and we’ll add link building, then embed maps and link build would appreciate your suggestion to get just this back into the three-pack. That’s kind of a bit of a loaded question because I don’t know. Like, honestly, you should have had a syndication network, even really before the G site. And drive stack, that doesn’t mean that, you know, you can’t add that now you certainly can. But what I would recommend also doing is manually going back into your drive stack once your syndication network has been built and, you know, start including those links in the drive stack, link building to all of them. What are some press releases that always help? You can do a map embeds now with press releases and a lot of other things. So I would recommend that you know, make sure that your link, go go buy local GMB Pro, which is what we just talked about earlier, because you can actually do really good results, just doing stuff within the Google ecosystem includes posting and you know, a lot of the stuff that we talked about on local GMB Pro.

So that’s a question that you could get a hell of a lot more help with if you joined the mastermind. Or if you posted that, like more detail as to exactly what it is that you’ve got done. And where so that we can help fill in the gaps. Just get, you know, if you don’t have the Battle Plan, follow the Battle Plan. If you’ve got an RYS drive stack and a G site that was built a few years ago, but you never had a syndication network, it’s obvious that you didn’t, you either didn’t have the Battle Plan or you didn’t follow the plan that we laid out. So I recommend picking that up. If you don’t already have the Battle Plan. And just following that step by step, any of the pieces that are currently missing, add those pieces, right, and then just kind of follow each one of those processes. And that’s going to help you to get the results that you need. I’m not saying that that’s going to do it. You know, that’s the start. That’s always the foundation. If you need additional help with that though, that’s where you would you know, like I said, join the mastermind and get local GMB Pro. Once you have the foundation complete, does that make sense? Any comment on that guys?

Marco: Yeah, definitely the Battle Plan, Local GMB Pro is what’s going to create the activity that he’s going to need, right? Because its activity relevance, trust and authority, and local GMB Pro is totally an activity base.

Does Having A Single Link From A Press Release To A Deep Page Is Better Than Having Multiple Press Release Links?

Okay, well says going back to a previous question about PageRank. Does that mean that if you have a single link from a press release to a deep page is better than having multiple links from the press release just to get better-focused SEO just your landing page? Yes, that is true. Well, you know you’re, you get more juice through one link, one outbound link in a press release to whatever you know, you’re trying to push juice to then if you have three outbound links, right. If you have three outback bound links, you’re splitting the link equity three ways that make sense. So if you want to push all of the link equity for through one link to like you said a deep page, or like a blog post that might have an internal link to the page on your site that you’re trying to rank or something like that. Yeah, that’s again, that’s link sculpting. So,

Is It Okay To Use Spun Content For YouTube Descriptions?

Austin Don says, I’ve been doing we buy house city, we buy houses, city videos, is it alright to use spun content for YouTube descriptions? To write individual descriptions is very time-consuming. Thanks. Yeah, you know, Uhm Austin Don, if you’re in the Austin, Texas market, you probably have other people competing. So having good descriptions is helpful for YouTube SEO. But I don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube descriptions anymore. years ago, it was more important in my opinion. Now it’s more about having you know, the primary SEO factors of a YouTube video optimized like the title the tags, having the keyword, like as probably the first thing in the video description. I like having NAP data-name, address, phone number, primary URL, such as website, Google Maps URL, the URL, that version that I just shared this one right here, linking to your top tier one asset branded or entity assets, as we talked about. So linking to a Facebook page if you’re doing Facebook stuff, you know any business directories if you’re using press releases, the organization page, anything like that, I like to put all of that in the video description now, but I usually don’t really flesh out a whole lot of content, written text content for the video description. It’s more about a call to action, right and enlisting the NAP data and relevant links that are entered to kind of reinforce the entity. And then it’s about traditional SEO signals, embeds and or backlinks and engagement signals.

I’m telling you that’s the secret sauce is the engagement signals which you can by using YouTube ads incredibly inexpensive, and for I’m telling you even I’ve got campaigns running right now for the local video production company that I’ve been doing SEO for like five or six years that I have 40 cents per day is my budget. So I’m spending less than $15 a month it comes out to be like $12 a month that I’m spending to constantly feed that video on a daily basis with relevant views from a very specific geographic area because I set my location targeting from an audience that is relevant to the video itself. And it helps to keep those videos ranked. And we’re talking some of these videos have been ranked for years and I haven’t done a damn bit of SEO work since the moment I uploaded it to my channel. And it’s syndicated across my networks. All I’ve done is kept the ad campaigns going because it’s constantly the engagement signals that are coming in that are helping it to rank. So that’s what I would recommend is that you know don’t spend a shit ton of time optimizing the text. Just optimize the key the titles, the tags, put a relevant call to action, link out to your primary tier one entity assets, NAP included.

And then make sure that you do your traditional SEO stuff use playlist, the YouTube Silo Academy method embeds and or backlinks. But at the same time make sure that you set up a YouTube ad campaign for each one of those videos. Even if you just did you know, as I said, I’ve got campaigns running at 40 cents a day. That comes out to be like $12 a month and it works like wonders. Okay.

We gotta go guys. It’s at five o'clock. Any comments before I wrap it up, guys? Sorry about any questions we didn’t get to. Know. I would say get in where you fit in. That’s it. definitely time to pack up head out for POFU Live. Live, baby. See you guys. I’ll see you, Adam, tomorrow. Sounds good. Have a good one everyone. See you

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Announcement

Adam: Alright, we are live Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. This is Episode 257. Today is the ninth of October 2019. And this is the last Hump Day hangouts before POFU Live 2019 in Denver. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, you’d like to show up whether you’re going to whether you live there you whether you want to drive in or you can make some last-minute flight plans, head to pofulive.com, grab your ticket. Now, before we get into it, just want to say if you’re joining us for the first time, thanks for watching, we’re going to get into questions and answers. If you’ve got any questions you’re watching us go ahead and pop them on the page at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. Remember to always head over there. If you’re watching on YouTube. We don’t want to read comments here. You’ve got to go to the page where we embed the video so that you can ask questions we can get to those. So with that said, let’s say hello guys real quick. We’re missing to the Semantic Mastery guys who I believe is started traveling over to POFU Live in Denver. Bradley, Marco and I are here today. So I’ll start at the top and say hello to Bradley. How are you doing?

Bradley: Good. How are you?

Adam: Not bad. Not bad. I’m enjoying some cooler weather here. It’s finally starting to act like a fall. It’s about 65-70 today.

Bradley: Well, you can enjoy cooler weather tomorrow when you get to Denver because it’s supposed to be snowing and freezing cold so

Adam: Yeah, I might have to post some pictures of her on maybe on the Facebook group or something like he heard on hates the cold weather and I think it’s supposed to be a high of 28 degrees tomorrow.

Bradley: Yeah, and snow to which is crazy, but it’s only tomorrow. Because then the rest of the time that we’re there it’s supposed to be between 65 and 70 during the day and then around 30 at night, but it was kind of interesting packing for that, you know?

Adam: Yeah, all over the place. Well, speaking of weather, Marco How are you doing, man?

Marco: I couldn’t be better. Like I couldn’t handle 28 I’m sorry. It’s not happening. I mean, it’s too late like a cold for me. I mentioned it before is 60-65 that range you know. We break out the old sheet and we cover ourselves it gets chilly man 28 gone from 65 to 20 I don’t think so.

Adam: That’s a big change and once it gets below 20 that’s where I start I can handle it depends on the window but yeah in the 20s still nice ones it’s sunny and then anyways tomorrow is going to be fun we’ll see how it goes with Hernan if he’s all bundled up and blankets and freezing to death or if he survives so. Anyways With that said, like I said earlier if you’re watching for the first time you’re in the right place, we’re going to get to q&a and answer your questions and appreciate you being here. Come here every week every Wednesday for pm eastern you can always ask your questions ahead of time as well if you know got a client call you’ve got some work you got things you got to do we understand that but you know benefit here is being live you can ask questions, clarify your questions, but like I said, if you have to you can ask your questions ahead of time at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions and then check out the replay on our YouTube channel, which you should subscribe to if you’re watching that right now.

And secondly, if you haven’t yet check out the Battle Plan right? That’s where you can get our step by step processes for getting results with everything from new websites, aged domains, YouTube channels, so much more. I’m not going to go through the entire laundry list of all the benefits there but head over to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. And if you want to join, you know, our mastermind is about a mastermind but you know, it’s both the mastermind, our mastermind. Basically what it is is an experienced community so you can get faster access to real-world info, testing and build that network of peers who are doing the same things we’re growing these digital marketing businesses or who have businesses and understand how they need to grow the digital marketing side of it. You can find out more about that and join at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And for everyone, we really recommend going over to mgyb.co. I mean we tell this to you watching these videos, we tell it to our mastermind members, we tell it to everyone

Else, you know if you can start building your team now. And part of that can be using MGYB to provide the services for you things like syndication networks are we as drive stack, press releases, link building embeds, all that sort of stuff. And there are a lot more great packages coming out where we’re going to help people get better, well, the literal package for Hey, you know, if your website is here, then you need these types of additions. You need these syndication networks. We’re going to make that a lot more streamlined so that you can do it for yourself, your projects as well as your clients. So keep your eyes and ears open for that. So with that said guys,

Marco: I have a couple of things. Yeah, right. Number one, people, they always ask us how to put everything together, they’ll go in and don’t order something. And the last, how do I put it together guys, it’s in the Battle Plan. I was just talking to my mini mastermind group. You guys know that I meet every Tuesday. In the evening with a mini mastermind group. I have seven people in there. I wish I could take more people because people keep reaching out to me and saying, hey, I want in on the group. But seven is more than enough. But the thing is that the people in my mini mastermind they follow the Battle Plan. I have a guy, that’s her over. But he started out at 12k a year in digital marketing and client work and SEO, whatever it is that he did. And this year, you know, he’s at around a quarter million for the year. And so it’s as simple as just buckling down doing the fucking work and following the instructions to the letter. You don’t veer from what we tell you to do until you’re ready to test and you shouldn’t be testing until you have a good revenue stream coming in that allows you to set aside time to do that kind of thing, right?

We got another one that Jeff right who went to POFU and he’s killing it. I mean, he’s ranking attorney type big attorney terms of ranking for it, for example, and IT services in New York City. Now imagine how competitive that is, but they’re like the companies have happier than a paycheck, because they’re number one for the term. And how did they do it? They follow the Battle Plan. They follow the instructions, they follow what we tell them, guys, how do you put it all together? Get the Battle Plan. Now, yes, the Battle Plan takes you to MGYB and the products and services. Why do we do that? Because it’s the simplest way we don’t want you doing all that work. Imagine the hours that you have to spend doing all that work keyword research three days. For the keyword research, really, do you really want to do that? Do you really want to spend all that time your client better be paying a whole lot of money to spend three days doing all of that keyword research, I mean, everything it takes time to do

Bradley: Marco, isn’t it more fun to buy shiny new software applications and spend all your time learning how to use it? Just to find out it doesn’t work very well.

Marco: That’s some work, right? Follow the next best, the next best. So it’s already there. We set the path out people who follow it are killing it. And that’s my point. And yes, we do send you to what works for us because it’s what we use guys. We use it, we apply it we get a result. And so we give it to you in a step by step method so that you can follow it through. So if you’re not doing it, you haven’t bought it go by the Battle Plan. It looks like a really simple PDF with links. But you do it step by step. I’m telling you, I just got validation yesterday from a couple of people that are in that range. I mean, you guys know Jordan.

You guys know, Jeff, you guys know, Ed, they’re telling it how following the Battle Plan. That’s one and two about the mastermind. I wanted to mention that it works is a two-way street. We do try to give people everything that works in the mastermind, right? And we do make everyone available that you’re free to exchange ideas and concepts and theories and tests and whatever. But every once in awhile, we’ll get in a thread, as we did with with with something that I talked about when doing silos. And it was a whole long thread and we went really deep into it. And then there’s another one about iframes now.

And then that one sent me into the rabbit hole, where I’m still testing and I’m getting really good results from some ideas that I got. Not like not directly but indirectly, as they posted. Okay, so can I do this Can I do that and I immediately started thinking, well, what if, and that’s when you read, your juices really start flowing? And what if I did this and I quoted it this way, and I hit it this way, and then it would cause no issues. And so what I’m thinking is anyone who attends POFU Live will have first crack at whatever I come up with, from my testing, because they deserve it. I mean, they took the time that they’re going to be there. And so we always say membership has its privileges. But this is a step up. This is a step where you’re trying to change the game and JN and Jeff Moore, Jeff sorry, they went to POFU Live, and they changed the whole mindset, they changed their business strategy, and they’re killing it. So So anyone going deserves it. And so that’s what I’m going to do and then at some future point, it’ll be shared with the mastermind, of course, I don’t know if it’ll be I’ll ever share it outside the mastermind.

But since the nugget was kind of the idea sprouted from a thread in the mastermind I think the mastermind deserves whatever comes from it. And I’m already testing and I’m already coding and that so this is the type of thing that goes on and in the mastermind, mastermind membership has its privileges. Attending POFU Live has its privileges. Most of the people that are in my mini mastermind, are people who went to POFU Live. So I just want to say about that definitely our mastermind members, but they also attended POFU Live and I think that they deserve special attention. That’s just my piece for today. Take it for what it’s worth, but I think it’s just totally worth joining the mastermind and attending POFU Live should be a must in your calendar.

Adam: Sounds good to me, like Marco said, Be there. That’s a pretty awesome thing that Marco is going to do there. So I don’t want to dive back into a Marco but I know that people work with you and your group have had a lot of success. And I’m sure that’s a no small part due to your involvement. So that’s pretty awesome. So if you want to grab your ticket, you can still make it we got a couple of days here before we kick things off on Friday for the VIP day and then Saturday and Sunday for the main event. You can grab your ticket at pofulive.com. Alright, guys, Bradley, anything else before we jump into it?

Bradley: No, I’m just excited too nervous at the same time because I gotta fly tomorrow. But looking forward to coming to Denver and hanging out with you guys and putting on a pretty cool presentation. I think that is pretty powerful. I think this is going to be just a really good event. So I’m excited about it.

Adam: Cool. All right. Let’s do it.

Bradley: All right, let me grab the screen. Stand by. Alright, you guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct.

Adam: Correct. Got your whole screen.

Bradley: All right. Not a lot of questions yet. So guys start posting. Otherwise, we’ll wrap it up a little bit early, which is fine because I’ve got still not 100% packed for I gotta leave really early tomorrow morning for my flight. So anyway, I don’t mind wrapping it up early if that’s what we need to do.

Is It Okay To Send A Full-Text Article With 20+ Affiliate Links Via RSS In A Single Tier Network?

But we’ll start with sutra he says when using a single tier, he’s talking about a single-tier syndication network, is it okay to send the full-text article via RSS? Even if the article has 20 plus affiliate links? I usually post 123 of these types of articles each day. Um, I would say no, and the reason why I say no is it not because it’s an SEO thing, but it’s likely that your blog accounts which would be like WordPress, Tumblr, blogger, not so much blogger but Tumblr and WordPress, will likely or may very well terminate the account for too many outbound links.

Especially like affiliate links and that kind of stuff that they don’t, they don’t typically like that. So I wouldn’t recommend that I would do a post summary. So set your RSS feed to just display the summary. That way, it’s really just pushing the juice back to your post URL that’s published on your blog, which is really all that matters, guys. I mean, if you’re doing a bunch of outbound linking in your blog posts anyways, whether it doesn’t, you don’t really need to worry about posting the full text because, you know, whether they’re nofollow or do follow, it doesn’t even matter. What I’m saying is what you’re looking for is the link back from the post on the syndication network properties back to the original post on your site. Right. And then obviously, if you’re doing internal SEO like on-page SEO correctly, then you’re going to have some sort of contextual link within the text of your blog post that goes up to our money, a money page, right so an actual page or something a category.

Whatever it is that you’re trying to rank on your site. So it really the benefit is pushing the juice from the syndication network properties back to the post URL that’s published on your blog. So I would recommend doing a summary post, you know, summary, just set the RSS feed settings to just display a summary instead of the full text. Now, that said, sometimes those can look spammy too. And sometimes you can find settings in your theme that will allow you to update the length of those RSS, like how much of the summary is shown. And so you might be able to set that and sometimes you have to actually edit the theme files in order for to, you know, to to adjust that some things will give you the option to do that, like it’s, you know, an option that you can set but other times you have to actually go in and edit the theme files. So that’s what I would recommend any comments?

Marco: Yeah, I would say no, and it’s for SEO and it’s because the whole idea behind this concept and what we do and why we send out iframes and everything that we do is to build PageRank. And the problem is, everything starts at PR one, correct? Everything on the web, it starts out at PR one. So if you have something that’s revenue, or even if it’s aged, it could only be a PR one. And the reason why is because you’re splitting the PageRank that you’re passing so low, that you can’t build it up properly. So you split it, you splitting it 20 times, and what you’re passing from a PR one isn’t PR one, it’s less than PR one. As I’ve said before, we’ve done the math we know within certain parameters, just how much PR is passed from a PR one and we know we know it’s a range. So when you splitting it, that fine you’re defeating the purpose of building up that PR building up that trust and authority and everything else. Not only that, having it be so spammy, it could just turn into a PR zero because of the fact that it’s so spammy. And so you’re not really passing anything. You’re not really doing anything is not mean you could grab some traffic. From that point, you could do so much more if you’re more selective with the way that you syndicate your affiliate links so that it doesn’t look so spammy so that it doesn’t look like it’s a whole bunch of garbage. And the only intent for that is to push your affiliate links, make it more user-friendly, making it more for the person that’s going to be reading it for the person to interact with that posts and with that content, and maybe share it maybe like it. Maybe visit the website, or those are all signals that you want. And I guarantee you that a spammy blog post with a whole bunch of affiliate links isn’t going to accomplish what you want.

Is It Good To Use And Embed The Original City Logo And Link The City Website Or Wikipedia City Page For A Local Service Website?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you. Mike says hello to a local service website. Do you think it’s a good idea to use and embed the original city logo and also link to the city website or Wikipedia city page? I can see the power in it, but I don’t think it’s a good idea. Thanks. Well, Mike, that’s what was pretty much standard operating procedure back in like 2012. And for a long time, you know, that was just traditional way they call it conventional wisdom when it came to I didn’t, does conventional wisdom is oftentimes not very smart. It’s just what people think is right. And conventional wisdom for the longest time was that you would link to always a.gov or a Wikipedia page, or, you know, excuse me, a Wikipedia page or a.gov site or a that, especially if you’re doing local to that, you know, corresponding Wikipedia page or the local government website or something like that. And that was supposed to add relevancy, which isn’t true. That’s that hasn’t been true for many, many years. Because Google doesn’t care about you linking to a Wikipedia page about a particular city unless it’s relevant to the content on that page. And even though you might be optimized, you know, for like a plumber and in particular city, just linking to that Wikipedia page arbitrarily with the keyword or without the keyword, whatever, just linking to that page really doesn’t do much, right. It’s not the algorithm is much smarter than that. Now, if you are citing something about that city, like some facts about the city or something that makes it relevant, and you want to cite the source where you gleaned that content from So for example, if you are curating content from a Wikipedia page or a.gov site about that particular city, then you want to cite the source now that adds that that’s a proper way to link to it. And Google can clearly see the relationship between why and why you’re linking to that. But you know, again, years ago, we used to mean just about everybody used to do it. What I always recommend is link outbound linking to relevant content that’s relevant to the concept within the body of the content that you’re linking to, like, in other words, that your UYY just linked to the city page or to the Wikipedia page. If the page is about plumbing services in a particular city.

It doesn’t really make sense just to link to the city website unless there’s a reason for it. And so, again, I’ve always gone back to I mean, four years since probably 2014 timeframe, I stopped doing that stopped doing what was conventional wisdom, and started linking to more relevant pages. So for example, linking to an article on bob Vila calm or do it yourself network or something like that, right, some sort of, like if it’s a plumbing website, right? linking to something that’s more relevant to the content of the page. And then if you want to have some sort of local relevancy in there, why not embed the map or a mind map or driving directions map from the store or the location of the business to that city or something like that, that That, to me makes a lot more sense. It’s more relevant. And so that’s the type of thing that I’ve always done as far as embedding a city logo from another website. I don’t recommend doing that. Because if you don’t have permission to use that, remember that that logo is likely trademarked or even if it’s not trademarked, it’s probably a copyright issue. Because I can tell you one thing you don’t want to do when you curate content and by the way, we have a training for a full training program called Content Kingpin which will teach you all about curating and why it’s very it’s so powerful because it creates co-citation, it allows you to generate content much quicker, it’s much more efficient, you don’t have to learn. You don’t have to be a content or subject matter expert. In order to be able to generate content, you just have to know how to locate it, and put it together in a logical fashion and then cite the sources properly. So I would recommend you look at that because one of the things that we learned the hard way, is you never want to curate images. Ever. Okay? Unless you there, wiki, what do they call Wiki Commons there? I don’t recommend ever curating images because you will, you can end up getting copyright infringement and be sued for that. And a lot of times like, it’s happened to me, it’s happened to me for almost three years in a row was two years in a row where I got hit with copyright.

Basically extortion letters where they would say you’ve got to pay so much or we’re taking you to court for copyright infringement and you’d have to pay or else they would take your ass to court, and it sucks so I learned a long time ago. Never curate images so I would really highly recommend not embedding a city logo. And don’t just arbitrarily link to a city Wikipedia page or a city government website, unless there’s a specific reason for it, that you clearly identify in the content that you’re let you know why you’re linking to it. If that makes sense. You’re much better off linking to something that’s more relevant. You want to comment on that, Marco?

Marco: I agree. Because there’s activity relevance, relevance, trust, and authority. Right? You’re much better off linking to something that has you know, that that’s updated regularly, and events page what’s going on, in you know, in the city, landmark, places to see if there are if this park, just anything, it’s just going a little bit further in as far as the geolocation is, yes, you’re part of the city. So it stands to reason that you would think I want to link to the Wikipedia city page for this, but you can go further and make get even more relevant. And in fact, if you can get that city schedule, into a calendar of events, the way that we do in RYS Academy Reloaded, and load those ups, and that’s constantly changing, and that’s constantly pushing, all of that relevance, everything that’s happening in that city, and mixed in with those calendar events are your events, what’s happening with your business, whatever it is, whether you want to coupon special, whether you want to send them to the GMB, the map, just whatever it is, you mix in all of that with all of the other relevance and it works a whole lot better than just simply making to the city page for x reason, which there’s really no reason.

Bradley: Yeah. I mean, again, that’s been such old tactics that you know, if it really worked well, Google would have killed it a long time ago because it’s been used forever. As I said, it’s just that it was like common knowledge. Conventional wisdom is just what people did and for the longest time I would you know, I would argue why would Why do you do that? Well, because you know, it’s adding relevancy I will have you tested it. Because if you test it, you’ll find that it doesn’t really do shit, you’re much better off linking the relevant content and I like curated content for that reason because it clearly gives a reason to link out to something and it can create co-citation, which is, is pretty powerful too. So

What’s The Difference Between Maps SEO And Website SEO?

Jonathan says are the map embeds the only thing MGYB sells for maps Seo? No, not by far. My furnace guy wants to rank in maps but doesn’t care about his website. What is the main difference in maps SEO versus website SEO? Well, there’s a lot of similarities, a lot of overlap. But with maps SEO there, you know, you can focus entirely on the Google properties, right, the Google ecosystem. So the map URL itself, I’m going to demonstrate how to get the best map URL to build links to you can do map embeds. You can do citation building. You know if he’s got legit if you say it’s your furnace guy, so I’m assuming is you know, HVAC guy, and he’s got a real business, then it’s probably registered to a real address. Even if it’s a service area business, you can build citations for that. That’s something I always recommend doing if you have a valid address. So there are I mean, there are a number of things that you can do, but very specifically MGYB sells, I mean, pretty much every one of our services can be applied to ranking in maps or maps SEO as you called it, right.

So for example, let me just give you a couple of examples here. This is something that you can go check out GMB.reviewsmaker.com, right. So let’s just go to I’m just going to type in HVAC contractor, Culpepper, for example. Okay, so I’m going to click on KNM Heating and Air heating and air conditioning. And in fact, actually, let me just copy that name. And this is what I’m going to do. So this is how you can get the best URL to build links to if you’re going to be doing link building to the map, right. So there are embeds, there’s also link building, there are press releases, there’s you can which you can embed a map in the press release. Plus, you can also create a contextual link or just a naked URL in the actual press release. To back to the map itself, I’m going to give you a few examples here of how you can get better results. So let’s go back to Google for it first. Here’s a couple of ways that you can do this. Number one, you can go into your GMB dashboard or your client’s GMB dashboard. And on the Info tab, where you’ll always see this one little section where it says view on maps or view on search and view on maps. You can right-click on the view on maps and copy the link address and paste it into a notepad file and then reformat it I’m going to show you the correct format. So that’s one way to find it. The best URL for building links to a map, Google map right. The second way is to go type in or go search for your client’s business name on Google. So in this case, I’m going to search for KNM Heating and Air Inc because that’s just the example that I pulled, then I’m going to click through to the maps listing.

And you’ll see up here in the US the address bar of Chrome, I’ve got this long, ugly URL, right? Well, if you go to GMB dot review, make reviews maker calm, okay, and you click to decode place ID, and just paste that long maps URL in there and click the code place Id take a second, then it’s going to come down and it’s going to give you this maps URL right here. Okay, I’m going to copy that link address. And I’m going to paste that into a notepad file. Now, if you take a look at this URL, I’ll show you and I’ve demonstrated this before, but I want to answer this question thoroughly for him. If we go to like, where it goes com or something like that, some sort of redirect tracer. I could paste that URL that it gives you, right? So from here, and if we take a look at this, you’ll see that this has got a 302 redirect built into it. In fact, there are two of them. So that is not a good URL to use for link building. Like if you want to build links to this URL, you’re not passing any PageRank or link equity essentially, through these two, three or two redirects, that stops it dead, right. So in other words, you can link to it, you somebody could click on that link, and it’s going to navigate, or jump to the final target URL or the destination, which is this. But as far as passing link equity, if you’re to build links to this, it’s not going to pass any. So it’s not a good URL to build links to which by the way, this URL right here, that the share URL, take a look at how many redirects are in this one. If we go back to where goes.

It might even there it goes. Look at that. Look, how many redirects are in there. Three 302 redirects and no matter refresh, so that’s not a good URL, either this share URL, don’t build links that are dumb. It does, it does no good, right? So what you want to do is you want to take that URL, which by the way, you can just take the URL from here and go to a redirect tracer, and then paste it in and then copy the final URL, or just memorize this, which is what I did. It’s very simple. copy that URL, and then just change it, just rearrange it to where you change the maps right there. So maps.google.com, you would change it to www.google.com. Then forward-slash question mark. See ID equals is what the original one is. So all you want to do is move maps from before and the subdomain from maps to the right after the forward-slash, then it’s question marks the ID equals and we’ll take that, Copy that, paste it in. So it’s just a quick change or modification of the URL. And now watch this. If we take this, we go back to a redirect tracer.

Quick, Tracy well there’s no reason XC that now if we go load that URL into the address bar and click Go, you’ll see once the page loads, it converts to that long URL, but it’s not technically a redirect. Right. So that’s the best URL to build links to is this one right here. So that’s something else that you can do. Right. So like I mentioned before, you can embed a map into press releases. You can also build links directly to this map URL, right. So that’s one thing you can do. RYS Drive stacks are incredibly powerful. If you provide the NAP. The name, address and phone number of the business, as well as the maps URL will build a drive stack that is hyper optimized for that specific location, right and will push a ton of power directly to the Google properties especially like you said, if he’s not interested in ranking a website, you can select to push all of the juice from the drive stack back to the maps the Google properties which would be the maps GMB website, will you’ll get it, you should order the, excuse me, the Google Site along with that the Google site will be part of that. So you can build all of the power back to the actual maps listing.

However, there are a couple other things I want to mention. Let’s see, just just because there are a few other points here that you can add additional power to, right. So for a note, another one is the reviews. This company, in particular, has 21 reviews, I don’t know how many your client has. But if we click on that review link, right, it’s going to pull up here Well, that is a different URL. So up here is another URL, I would suggest using your own three one redirects creator. There are a number of of them out there that you can use that are free, some of them that are paid like a subscription base, and others that you can create three one redirects from a plugin through your through a website, which is what I, you know, I prefer to do that through my own domain or something through or through a branded domain or a domain that I’m using specifically for redirects, that kind of thing. But if you take a guy here, open up Firefox just to show you that URL right there, I would create a 301 redirect out of that URL. And what’s it do? It automatically loads to these reviews. So you can push link equity into this. Well, let’s not stop there. What about each one of these individual reviews? For example, if I was to click Share on that one from Alan Jackson, which sounds like looks like a lot of the users’ spam, I don’t know. Jackson’s a country singer and Ronnie White is a Ron White isn’t a comedian. But if we’re to take that URL right there and paste that in, you’ll see that that is a separate URL, like that’s a redirect, as I just talked about, if you click the Share URL, it’s going to give you a redirect. So watch what happens when we trace that one. This is for the individual review. It’s still a 302 redirect. So that’s not what you want to build links to not this. What you want to build links to is this, which again, if you want to make it a pretty URL, all you got to do is use a 301 redirect creator.

As I said, there are some free ones out there, there are some ones that you can pay for a subscription basis, like a rebrand, delete rebrand.ly, for example of one, or there’s another one. Or like, what I like to do is use my own domain or clients domain, and use the pretty links pro plugin to create 301 redirects. Okay? Either way, that’s the URL you want to build to. And that’s the same URLs, what’s up here? Right, but you can build it through a 301 redirect. And look, that’s an individual review within that maps listing. And if this one’s got 21 reviews, that’s 21 additional link targets, right? Plus this one is a link target, which is the overall reviews URL plus the maps URL itself, right, which in this version of it that I just talked about being the best version. There’s more to think about photos, right? For example, this guy’s only got looks like it’s at four, but I’m only Well, maybe that was, let’s go back into photos here. For photos, it says for photos, each one of these areas a separate URL. So my point is if you’re just going to be doing map stuff for a client, what I like to do is extract all the URLs from the maps listing, set up redirects so that they’re pretty and they’re short, much easier to manage. And then start using those and link building campaigns, which you can also use those to be included in a drive stack as target URLs where we will build the drive stack to be targeting each one of those separate URLs. And what happens is you push juice into this listing from all different angles and every single point that you can push link equity into it. It’s very, very powerful. You want to

Marco: Yeah, he’s asking about maps SEO, and I’m just going to say local GMB Pro. It’s what set the standard for GMB optimization every other course came after copied what we did. So if you want the Trailblazer the standard bear the one that laid it down on how it’s properly done. There you go and get local GMB pro and you can learn what Bradley just talked about more in-depth, along with many other things that you could do to push the GMB the map into the three-pack, which is what your client is looking for. They don’t care about the website fine. So you work entirely within the GMB ecosystem, which is what local GMB Pro is all about. So guys, if you really want to do this, right, if you want that heart into the three-pack, you go into local GMP Pro.

Bradley: That’s right. And that’s an in there, we talked about various other things. I’m not going to talk about specific methods here, but just so you know that again, this this this client, or this client is not my client, but this contractor, HVAC contractor is also doing GMB posts, he probably has an SEO that is working on his stuff. And take a look at that guys. Again, these are all additional link targets, right? We copy that URL and go back to the redirect tracer, which I already closed.

And once again, this is a GMB post URL, right? It’s going to redirect, don’t ever use the share URLs for SEO purposes. You can use it for navigation purposes. But look, how many redirects are there. So what you want to do is end up taking this URL, and using that as that could be potentially another link target. Right? So that makes sense. So if we’re going to just open up that URL and see it didn’t bring it up, it’s probably the one prior to that this one, which is okay, because that’s a meta refresh, so that, that’s fine. Let’s open it up there.

There, see I brought it up, it brought that post up to the very top. So the same thing goes you can take an older post and do the same thing you could share it, grab, copy the share URL. Put it in now local GMB Pro, we talk about a hell of a lot of really cool things that you can do a GMB post, I’m not going to talk about here. But I’m just saying you can actually use these posts as additional places to build links to the right. So again, this one right here, I would take this URL, copy that, that’s what I would build links to and watch what happens if I load that into the browser. It’s going to pull up that post at the top See, the one that I just shared. So it makes sense. So all of those are linked targets. That’s why I said there’s just a ton of different things that you can do to push additional power into their not just through and beds and beds are very powerful. Don’t get me wrong, but there’s a number of other things that you can do. So that was a good question.

Does Google Sandbox New Domains For At Least 3 Weeks Or Longer?

Gordon’s up he says, Hey, guys, I don’t want to sound like a broken record. But I just want to say again, your Hump Day help is very much appreciated. Well, you’re welcome, Gordon. And we do appreciate that as well. If I remember correctly, you said in the past that you prefer to use a new domain instead of an aged domain to rank a local lead gen site. So you can control the name of the domain for SEO purposes and for branding purposes. That is correct. I have said that. But I was wondering if in fact Google does sandbox new domains for at least three weeks or probably longer other than losing the branding and partial keyword and domain benefit. Why is it not better to use a niche related aged domain with a clean niche related backlink profile? And if you use an aged domain would you need to to rebuild the old site pages and the old links pointing to using way back point old links point to using Wayback Machine the old things point to excuse me the way that I read that was wrong and if you use an aged domain, would you need to rebuild the old site pages that the old links point to using Wayback machine in order not to lose the link juice? Okay, so the first question is because I’m able to typically especially when I’m trying to rank for local stuff, the right which is what the maps I don’t

Is that getting a new brand new domains? Fine, because I’m not looking for the initial, the, you know, an existing link profile because it really doesn’t matter. Like I mean, if if the sites built really well and everything else, then it can have an effect on the maps, there’s no question. But as we were just talking about in the previous question, we can typically get results without even having a self-hosted website, if that makes sense, right? Because we can focus on specifically just the GMB properties and get results. That said, I always prefer to have a branded type of domain, one that I can build a brand around for, if especially for lead gen stuff that I could use in other locations, right, which is why I talked about if I’m going to have a website, I like to use subdomains with the city name is the subdomain so that I can build upon a particular brand.

Does that mean that you cannot that you can’t start with an aged domain that has been dropped by somebody else or whatever, and build a brand around that I suppose you could? But the problem that I would see with that is that there may be some other existing content on the web that can ambiguate, right? That’s a key term that can ambiguate the brand that you’re trying to build or the data that you’re trying to build through your new location, your new setup. Right? Now, if you’re talking about strictly organic SEO, yes, there’s some benefit for building through an aged domain that has a clean link profile. But having a clean link profile is kind of difficult to do or else why was I mean, a lot, I mean, you will find some domains like that, but they’re few and far between. A lot of times the aged domains that have been dropped are just they either have a shitty link profile or a non-existent link profile. In other words, they might have one or two links that are actually, you know, decent links, if any at all. And so my point is, I would rather just go with something new that’s branded so that I have more control over the content that’s going to be published and everything else and not have to worry about any sort of invigoration not have to worry about any potential links out there.

On the web that is toxic to it, or they’re going to cause any problems as I start building out the new project if that makes sense. So, I mean, there, you certainly can do that. If you want. I don’t recommend it. I don’t, you know, the only time I would use aged domains really is if I was building what I would call feeder sites are like PBNs, right? Because that kind of help to shortcut the process a little bit since you’re not starting from scratch. But when it came to a brand for lead gen site, or for a client, I would always recommend using a brand new one. Now if you are going to build an old domain, yes, it is better to rebuild those pages. You can do that using the Wayback Machine. It’ll you know you can download HTML files and upload those. There’s a couple of plugins and services out there where you can subscribe to or pay for credits I believe that will actually create a file of the Wayback Machine stuff that makes it much easier I know there’s some plugins I can’t even think was named now there’s there.

I know there are some plugins out there that will do that on a WordPress site to where you just basically, you can enter a file or upload the zip file that you get from the Wayback Machine. And it will automatically build out the old pages with the old content, you might have to do some formatting and stuff to them. But you can do that. And I would recommend doing that, or at least building some sort of page that has similar content on it doesn’t have to be the exact duplicates or replication of the old pages. But if it had a good link profile, and it ever in anybody ever goes and looks at, you know, the webmasters of the sites that were linking to that, and they noticed that there was a big change in the page or just doesn’t exist anymore, they may take that link down. So the reason why you would rebuild those previous pages or you know, the pages that aren’t there anymore, is because you’d want the links that were built to that page to stay there. That’s really the only reason where else you could just do a redirect.

My point is, if you just did a redirect from the old URL to the homepage or to a new URL, and a webmaster says, was analyzing or looking at the site and saying, you know, from one of their pages on their site, there was a link to your, to the, to the domain that they had linked to previously. And they look at and say, well, that’s not what I had linked to, I’m going to remove that, then you lose that link. And so you start to ultimately lose the power of having an aged domain with an inbound link profile anyways. And that happens unless you rebuild the pages, or have them redirected to something that’s very similar so that it’s still a value to the site that was originally linking to it. That all said, usually, when you’re dealing with, like, especially local business type sites, it’s just not worth all that trouble. You’re better off and you’re able to get just as quickly as just results just as quickly, excuse me, using methods that we talked about with a brand new domain. So Marco, do want to comment on that before we move on?

Marco: Yeah, absolutely. So imagine it if McDonald’s had come out with McDonald’s of Illinois, if Coca Cola wherever it began, it had come out with the Madison, if you have that, that that one, if you have that one that will boom, nationally or globally, you’re going to have to go and redo all of the work that you’ve done. Yeah, of course, it’s going to be worth it. But I’m the type and I know Bradley is too, that hates doing work, the same work over again. So why going and you have to do the work over again, when you can start off with a brand that doesn’t necessarily have to pigeonhole itself with geolocation or geographically because you can do that with a category or a pages category. It has the same effect. You don’t need it. And the Google sandbox is very real, but the way that we teach activity, relevance, trust, and authority. It trumps everything, including

The Google sandbox including proximity, including a whole bunch of other things, follow about Battle Plan to the letter, you get the services from MGYB.co the way that you’re told to do it and in, in the, in the one in the sequence that we tell you to do it, then you’re going to have the same if not better results than if you went and did all that work with, with an expired domain. And there’s no guarantee that that expired domain would hold its metrics. When it’s brought back, you’re still gonna have to do the work, you still gonna have to put in the content, you got to have to redo the content, you’re going to have to do a whole lot of work, when you could just go to MGYB.co and have us do it for you.

Bradley: I agree. So I said, I mean, it’s just so much, so much trouble that can go into building those ads. I just, I don’t think it’s worth it. I really don’t we can get results just as quickly with new domains. So unless you have found one that’s really super powerful I just wouldn’t even bother

Bradley: fit says good agent makes you part of it for you and it

Marco: will chime in. And the reason why he got some of my time is because he donated quite a bit of money to my charity and I decided to reciprocate by giving him some of my time so we had a really great call he’s in Australia by the way, so it’s really early in the morning for him to be on here. So thanks, Will.

How Do You Fix Duplicate Branded Syndication Networks That Were Purchased Via Fiverr?

Bradley: awesome thanks, Fitz says good day gents. Thanks for this form, ask real questions and get actionable answers I have a client who went to Fiverr and body syndication network and then worked with another marketer and bought a different network, many duplicates all branded. What should I do to fix that? Well, do you have access to those accounts is my point as if you if he bought these syndication networks and such from two different vendors, essentially. He probably has a login sheet right? Similar to you know,

We invented it or, you know. So I’m sure that the copy cat also provides a spreadsheet with all the accounts, the URLs, and the login data, what I would do is go in and I would, if I would log into the one that is the most closely branded to his brand name, you can’t have duplicate, right, you can’t have duplicate subdomains on WordPress or blogger or Tumblr or any of the other sites for that matter. So there has to be some sort of variation in the profile or the usernames, right. So I would take the one that is the most closely aligned with the actual brand and use that I would go in and update it. And then obviously go through and some SM style it Semantic Mastery style the syndication network. That’s number one, number two for the other one that’s out there. That’s also similarly branded. I don’t necessarily would say terminate those accounts, but I would make sure that you’re not syndicating to them anymore. In fact, if you have duplicate posts, and it’s not

I’m not talking about duplicate content guys, because that’s, that doesn’t happen on syndication networks. But if you have the same post posted on multiple semi branded networks, then I recommend removing that content specifically because you don’t, you don’t want to create a footprint with this with a blog syndication network or a syndication network where you’re syndicating website content, you can do it it’s fine with with YouTube, but with a blog now, where you know, with money site content, I don’t recommend that. So but that doesn’t mean you have to like go in and actually terminate those accounts, but I would manually go in and delete the existing content, and maybe just put up some kind of shitty content that might link to the other web to do to Dotto profiles. You know, just like one post on each one of the syndication network properties from the network that you’re not going to use right remove the IFTTT triggers, remove any content that’s been posted to both syndication networks, and then might just put some kind of short little article that’s relevant on each one of those other properties and maybe point to the profile URL on the the one that you’re going to keep right the network properties that you’re going to keep, that’s something I would do. And I would just leave it alone after that, and just continually update for the new or the syndication network that you decided to keep. If they’re both done very poorly, and you don’t want to go through which I don’t recommend, you know, I don’t blame me, if you don’t want to go through and actually update everything manually, then I would get access to all the accounts that you can go in and do what I just said to both sets of networks and by a well done Semantic Mastery stout network from MGYB. Right, and then maybe use those two other existing networks as a YouTube network or, you know, it could be possibly used for maybe a separate Twitter network or something like that.

Or you could do what I just said and just use them as kind of like a one-time link builder to your new network properties. If that makes sense. But I wouldn’t link directly back to the money site with those, you know, does that make sense? That’s what I would do. Because again, I totally understand it. By the way, if this guy bought his own syndication network at Fiverr, then he worked with another marketer. He’s probably one of those guys is going to micromanage you fits just so you’re aware of that if you have a business owner or client that has tried to do their own SEO work, and they’ve also hired somebody else to do something that they already attempted on their own. It’s probably going to they’re probably going to micromanage you as well. Just keep that in mind. Okay, I’m going to keep moving. That’s all right.

Is There A Risk Of Google Putting Home Address On The Web?

JACK says maps question please important client does professional services over the phone from home office don’t want home address under Google’s control, used paid use paid for Regis office locations in past but Google close them down? In your opinion, is there any risk of Google putting home address out there on the web as they don’t want their crazy client showing up at home. Are there any red flags to look out for in this plan? Thank you know not for if you’re going to do a Google My Business profile, no, you don’t have to worry about, you know, you need an address when you register in order for them to send the verification card. But it doesn’t publish the listing until you enter the verification code. So when you enter the verification code that you get in the postcard, then you immediately especially if it’s a service area business, which has to be professional services over the phone from home office. So yeah, I mean, you know, I would set that as a service area business, which means you go in and clear the physical address. Once you verify it, you go in into the Info tab and click on the location setting and then there’s a little link in their text link that says clear address and you click that and it’ll clear it and then save it so that it updates and you want to put your service areas in and then save it, Natalie, remove the address from being shown on maps. That’s absolutely

You Google is not going to publish that anywhere. The problem is if you want to build citations to help the maps listing rank, then a lot of the citation directories are going to require a physical address, like an actual street address. Some don’t, though, more more and more actually allowing service area businesses to add their data without a street address. But there’s still a ton of them out there to do required, so just keep that in mind. Okay.

But I wouldn’t worry about it not Google. Google’s not going to leak that at least I’ve never seen that. If you if you put it on, like Yelp or something like that word requires a street adjusting. Yeah, a lot of time. I mean, it’ll show but just don’t build citations on directories that require the street address if that’s the case. Scott says, Bradley, if you can fly to Haley, I’d have I’ll drive you to Denver. No, thanks. I’ve already got my ticket going flying directly to Denver, but thank you, Scott. I appreciate that.

How Do You Retain The Ranking Position Of A GMB Page Into 3-Pack Using Semantic Mastery Products?

Okay, I still need Hi, we only got about seven minutes left guys. He says I still need help for clients GMB ranking, it’s already it already has RYS Drive stack and G site built by SM a few years ago, I’m ordering a syndication network and we’ll add link building, then embed maps and link build would appreciate your suggestion to get just this back into the three-pack. That’s kind of a bit of a loaded question because I don’t know. Like, honestly, you should have had a syndication network, even really before the G site. And drive stack, that doesn’t mean that, you know, you can’t add that now you certainly can. But what I would recommend also doing is manually going back into your drive stack once your syndication network has been built and, you know, start including those links in the drive stack, link building to all of them. What are some press releases that always help? You can do a map embeds now with press releases and a lot of other things. So I would recommend that you know, make sure that your link, go go buy local GMB Pro, which is what we just talked about earlier, because you can actually do really good results, just doing stuff within the Google ecosystem includes posting and you know, a lot of the stuff that we talked about on local GMB Pro.

So that’s a question that you could get a hell of a lot more help with if you joined the mastermind. Or if you posted that, like more detail as to exactly what it is that you’ve got done. And where so that we can help fill in the gaps. Just get, you know, if you don’t have the Battle Plan, follow the Battle Plan. If you’ve got an RYS drive stack and a G site that was built a few years ago, but you never had a syndication network, it’s obvious that you didn’t, you either didn’t have the Battle Plan or you didn’t follow the plan that we laid out. So I recommend picking that up. If you don’t already have the Battle Plan. And just following that step by step, any of the pieces that are currently missing, add those pieces, right, and then just kind of follow each one of those processes. And that’s going to help you to get the results that you need. I’m not saying that that’s going to do it. You know, that’s the start. That’s always the foundation. If you need additional help with that though, that’s where you would you know, like I said, join the mastermind and get local GMB Pro. Once you have the foundation complete, does that make sense? Any comment on that guys?

Marco: Yeah, definitely the Battle Plan, Local GMB Pro is what’s going to create the activity that he’s going to need, right? Because its activity relevance, trust and authority, and local GMB Pro is totally an activity base.

Does Having A Single Link From A Press Release To A Deep Page Is Better Than Having Multiple Press Release Links?

Okay, well says going back to a previous question about PageRank. Does that mean that if you have a single link from a press release to a deep page is better than having multiple links from the press release just to get better-focused SEO just your landing page? Yes, that is true. Well, you know you’re, you get more juice through one link, one outbound link in a press release to whatever you know, you’re trying to push juice to then if you have three outbound links, right. If you have three outback bound links, you’re splitting the link equity three ways that make sense. So if you want to push all of the link equity for through one link to like you said a deep page, or like a blog post that might have an internal link to the page on your site that you’re trying to rank or something like that. Yeah, that’s again, that’s link sculpting. So,

Is It Okay To Use Spun Content For YouTube Descriptions?

Austin Don says, I’ve been doing we buy house city, we buy houses, city videos, is it alright to use spun content for YouTube descriptions? To write individual descriptions is very time-consuming. Thanks. Yeah, you know, Uhm Austin Don, if you’re in the Austin, Texas market, you probably have other people competing. So having good descriptions is helpful for YouTube SEO. But I don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube descriptions anymore. years ago, it was more important in my opinion. Now it’s more about having you know, the primary SEO factors of a YouTube video optimized like the title the tags, having the keyword, like as probably the first thing in the video description. I like having NAP data-name, address, phone number, primary URL, such as website, Google Maps URL, the URL, that version that I just shared this one right here, linking to your top tier one asset branded or entity assets, as we talked about. So linking to a Facebook page if you’re doing Facebook stuff, you know any business directories if you’re using press releases, the organization page, anything like that, I like to put all of that in the video description now, but I usually don’t really flesh out a whole lot of content, written text content for the video description. It’s more about a call to action, right and enlisting the NAP data and relevant links that are entered to kind of reinforce the entity. And then it’s about traditional SEO signals, embeds and or backlinks and engagement signals.

I’m telling you that’s the secret sauce is the engagement signals which you can by using YouTube ads incredibly inexpensive, and for I’m telling you even I’ve got campaigns running right now for the local video production company that I’ve been doing SEO for like five or six years that I have 40 cents per day is my budget. So I’m spending less than $15 a month it comes out to be like $12 a month that I’m spending to constantly feed that video on a daily basis with relevant views from a very specific geographic area because I set my location targeting from an audience that is relevant to the video itself. And it helps to keep those videos ranked. And we’re talking some of these videos have been ranked for years and I haven’t done a damn bit of SEO work since the moment I uploaded it to my channel. And it’s syndicated across my networks. All I’ve done is kept the ad campaigns going because it’s constantly the engagement signals that are coming in that are helping it to rank. So that’s what I would recommend is that you know don’t spend a shit ton of time optimizing the text. Just optimize the key the titles, the tags, put a relevant call to action, link out to your primary tier one entity assets, NAP included.

And then make sure that you do your traditional SEO stuff use playlist, the YouTube Silo Academy method embeds and or backlinks. But at the same time make sure that you set up a YouTube ad campaign for each one of those videos. Even if you just did you know, as I said, I’ve got campaigns running at 40 cents a day. That comes out to be like $12 a month and it works like wonders. Okay.

We gotta go guys. It’s at five o’clock. Any comments before I wrap it up, guys? Sorry about any questions we didn’t get to. Know. I would say get in where you fit in. That’s it. definitely time to pack up head out for POFU Live. Live, baby. See you guys. I’ll see you, Adam, tomorrow. Sounds good. Have a good one everyone. See you

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Adam: Alright, we are live Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. This is Episode 257. Today is the ninth of October 2019. And this is the last Hump Day hangouts before POFU Live 2019 in Denver. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, you’d like to show up whether you’re going to whether you live there you whether you want to drive in or you can make some last-minute flight plans, head to pofulive.com, grab your ticket. Now, before we get into it, just want to say if you’re joining us for the first time, thanks for watching, we’re going to get into questions and answers. If you’ve got any questions you’re watching us go ahead and pop them on the page at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. Remember to always head over there. If you’re watching on YouTube. We don’t want to read comments here. You’ve got to go to the page where we embed the video so that you can ask questions we can get to those. So with that said, let’s say hello guys real quick. We’re missing to the Semantic Mastery guys who I believe is started traveling over to POFU Live in Denver. Bradley, Marco and I are here today. So I’ll start at the top and say hello to Bradley. How are you doing?

Bradley: Good. How are you?

Adam: Not bad. Not bad. I’m enjoying some cooler weather here. It’s finally starting to act like a fall. It’s about 65-70 today.

Bradley: Well, you can enjoy cooler weather tomorrow when you get to Denver because it’s supposed to be snowing and freezing cold so

Adam: Yeah, I might have to post some pictures of her on maybe on the Facebook group or something like he heard on hates the cold weather and I think it’s supposed to be a high of 28 degrees tomorrow.

Bradley: Yeah, and snow to which is crazy, but it’s only tomorrow. Because then the rest of the time that we’re there it’s supposed to be between 65 and 70 during the day and then around 30 at night, but it was kind of interesting packing for that, you know?

Adam: Yeah, all over the place. Well, speaking of weather, Marco How are you doing, man?

Marco: I couldn’t be better. Like I couldn’t handle 28 I’m sorry. It’s not happening. I mean, it’s too late like a cold for me. I mentioned it before is 60-65 that range you know. We break out the old sheet and we cover ourselves it gets chilly man 28 gone from 65 to 20 I don’t think so.

Adam: That’s a big change and once it gets below 20 that’s where I start I can handle it depends on the window but yeah in the 20s still nice ones it’s sunny and then anyways tomorrow is going to be fun we’ll see how it goes with Hernan if he’s all bundled up and blankets and freezing to death or if he survives so. Anyways With that said, like I said earlier if you’re watching for the first time you’re in the right place, we’re going to get to q&a and answer your questions and appreciate you being here. Come here every week every Wednesday for pm eastern you can always ask your questions ahead of time as well if you know got a client call you’ve got some work you got things you got to do we understand that but you know benefit here is being live you can ask questions, clarify your questions, but like I said, if you have to you can ask your questions ahead of time at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions and then check out the replay on our YouTube channel, which you should subscribe to if you’re watching that right now.

And secondly, if you haven’t yet check out the Battle Plan right? That’s where you can get our step by step processes for getting results with everything from new websites, aged domains, YouTube channels, so much more. I’m not going to go through the entire laundry list of all the benefits there but head over to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. And if you want to join, you know, our mastermind is about a mastermind but you know, it’s both the mastermind, our mastermind. Basically what it is is an experienced community so you can get faster access to real-world info, testing and build that network of peers who are doing the same things we’re growing these digital marketing businesses or who have businesses and understand how they need to grow the digital marketing side of it. You can find out more about that and join at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And for everyone, we really recommend going over to mgyb.co. I mean we tell this to you watching these videos, we tell it to our mastermind members, we tell it to everyone

Else, you know if you can start building your team now. And part of that can be using MGYB to provide the services for you things like syndication networks are we as drive stack, press releases, link building embeds, all that sort of stuff. And there are a lot more great packages coming out where we’re going to help people get better, well, the literal package for Hey, you know, if your website is here, then you need these types of additions. You need these syndication networks. We’re going to make that a lot more streamlined so that you can do it for yourself, your projects as well as your clients. So keep your eyes and ears open for that. So with that said guys,

Marco: I have a couple of things. Yeah, right. Number one, people, they always ask us how to put everything together, they’ll go in and don’t order something. And the last, how do I put it together guys, it’s in the Battle Plan. I was just talking to my mini mastermind group. You guys know that I meet every Tuesday. In the evening with a mini mastermind group. I have seven people in there. I wish I could take more people because people keep reaching out to me and saying, hey, I want in on the group. But seven is more than enough. But the thing is that the people in my mini mastermind they follow the Battle Plan. I have a guy, that’s her over. But he started out at 12k a year in digital marketing and client work and SEO, whatever it is that he did. And this year, you know, he’s at around a quarter million for the year. And so it’s as simple as just buckling down doing the fucking work and following the instructions to the letter. You don’t veer from what we tell you to do until you’re ready to test and you shouldn’t be testing until you have a good revenue stream coming in that allows you to set aside time to do that kind of thing, right?

We got another one that Jeff right who went to POFU and he’s killing it. I mean, he’s ranking attorney type big attorney terms of ranking for it, for example, and IT services in New York City. Now imagine how competitive that is, but they’re like the companies have happier than a paycheck, because they’re number one for the term. And how did they do it? They follow the Battle Plan. They follow the instructions, they follow what we tell them, guys, how do you put it all together? Get the Battle Plan. Now, yes, the Battle Plan takes you to MGYB and the products and services. Why do we do that? Because it’s the simplest way we don’t want you doing all that work. Imagine the hours that you have to spend doing all that work keyword research three days. For the keyword research, really, do you really want to do that? Do you really want to spend all that time your client better be paying a whole lot of money to spend three days doing all of that keyword research, I mean, everything it takes time to do

Bradley: Marco, isn’t it more fun to buy shiny new software applications and spend all your time learning how to use it? Just to find out it doesn’t work very well.

Marco: That’s some work, right? Follow the next best, the next best. So it’s already there. We set the path out people who follow it are killing it. And that’s my point. And yes, we do send you to what works for us because it’s what we use guys. We use it, we apply it we get a result. And so we give it to you in a step by step method so that you can follow it through. So if you’re not doing it, you haven’t bought it go by the Battle Plan. It looks like a really simple PDF with links. But you do it step by step. I’m telling you, I just got validation yesterday from a couple of people that are in that range. I mean, you guys know Jordan.

You guys know, Jeff, you guys know, Ed, they’re telling it how following the Battle Plan. That’s one and two about the mastermind. I wanted to mention that it works is a two-way street. We do try to give people everything that works in the mastermind, right? And we do make everyone available that you’re free to exchange ideas and concepts and theories and tests and whatever. But every once in awhile, we’ll get in a thread, as we did with with with something that I talked about when doing silos. And it was a whole long thread and we went really deep into it. And then there’s another one about iframes now.

And then that one sent me into the rabbit hole, where I’m still testing and I’m getting really good results from some ideas that I got. Not like not directly but indirectly, as they posted. Okay, so can I do this Can I do that and I immediately started thinking, well, what if, and that’s when you read, your juices really start flowing? And what if I did this and I quoted it this way, and I hit it this way, and then it would cause no issues. And so what I’m thinking is anyone who attends POFU Live will have first crack at whatever I come up with, from my testing, because they deserve it. I mean, they took the time that they’re going to be there. And so we always say membership has its privileges. But this is a step up. This is a step where you’re trying to change the game and JN and Jeff Moore, Jeff sorry, they went to POFU Live, and they changed the whole mindset, they changed their business strategy, and they’re killing it. So So anyone going deserves it. And so that’s what I’m going to do and then at some future point, it’ll be shared with the mastermind, of course, I don’t know if it’ll be I’ll ever share it outside the mastermind.

But since the nugget was kind of the idea sprouted from a thread in the mastermind I think the mastermind deserves whatever comes from it. And I’m already testing and I’m already coding and that so this is the type of thing that goes on and in the mastermind, mastermind membership has its privileges. Attending POFU Live has its privileges. Most of the people that are in my mini mastermind, are people who went to POFU Live. So I just want to say about that definitely our mastermind members, but they also attended POFU Live and I think that they deserve special attention. That’s just my piece for today. Take it for what it’s worth, but I think it’s just totally worth joining the mastermind and attending POFU Live should be a must in your calendar.

Adam: Sounds good to me, like Marco said, Be there. That’s a pretty awesome thing that Marco is going to do there. So I don’t want to dive back into a Marco but I know that people work with you and your group have had a lot of success. And I’m sure that’s a no small part due to your involvement. So that’s pretty awesome. So if you want to grab your ticket, you can still make it we got a couple of days here before we kick things off on Friday for the VIP day and then Saturday and Sunday for the main event. You can grab your ticket at pofulive.com. Alright, guys, Bradley, anything else before we jump into it?

Bradley: No, I’m just excited too nervous at the same time because I gotta fly tomorrow. But looking forward to coming to Denver and hanging out with you guys and putting on a pretty cool presentation. I think that is pretty powerful. I think this is going to be just a really good event. So I’m excited about it.

Adam: Cool. All right. Let’s do it.

Bradley: All right, let me grab the screen. Stand by. Alright, you guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct.

Adam: Correct. Got your whole screen.

Bradley: All right. Not a lot of questions yet. So guys start posting. Otherwise, we’ll wrap it up a little bit early, which is fine because I’ve got still not 100% packed for I gotta leave really early tomorrow morning for my flight. So anyway, I don’t mind wrapping it up early if that’s what we need to do.

Is It Okay To Send A Full-Text Article With 20+ Affiliate Links Via RSS In A Single Tier Network?

But we’ll start with sutra he says when using a single tier, he’s talking about a single-tier syndication network, is it okay to send the full-text article via RSS? Even if the article has 20 plus affiliate links? I usually post 123 of these types of articles each day. Um, I would say no, and the reason why I say no is it not because it’s an SEO thing, but it’s likely that your blog accounts which would be like WordPress, Tumblr, blogger, not so much blogger but Tumblr and WordPress, will likely or may very well terminate the account for too many outbound links.

Especially like affiliate links and that kind of stuff that they don’t, they don’t typically like that. So I wouldn’t recommend that I would do a post summary. So set your RSS feed to just display the summary. That way, it’s really just pushing the juice back to your post URL that’s published on your blog, which is really all that matters, guys. I mean, if you’re doing a bunch of outbound linking in your blog posts anyways, whether it doesn’t, you don’t really need to worry about posting the full text because, you know, whether they’re nofollow or do follow, it doesn’t even matter. What I’m saying is what you’re looking for is the link back from the post on the syndication network properties back to the original post on your site. Right. And then obviously, if you’re doing internal SEO like on-page SEO correctly, then you’re going to have some sort of contextual link within the text of your blog post that goes up to our money, a money page, right so an actual page or something a category.

Whatever it is that you’re trying to rank on your site. So it really the benefit is pushing the juice from the syndication network properties back to the post URL that’s published on your blog. So I would recommend doing a summary post, you know, summary, just set the RSS feed settings to just display a summary instead of the full text. Now, that said, sometimes those can look spammy too. And sometimes you can find settings in your theme that will allow you to update the length of those RSS, like how much of the summary is shown. And so you might be able to set that and sometimes you have to actually edit the theme files in order for to, you know, to to adjust that some things will give you the option to do that, like it’s, you know, an option that you can set but other times you have to actually go in and edit the theme files. So that’s what I would recommend any comments?

Marco: Yeah, I would say no, and it’s for SEO and it’s because the whole idea behind this concept and what we do and why we send out iframes and everything that we do is to build PageRank. And the problem is, everything starts at PR one, correct? Everything on the web, it starts out at PR one. So if you have something that’s revenue, or even if it’s aged, it could only be a PR one. And the reason why is because you’re splitting the PageRank that you’re passing so low, that you can’t build it up properly. So you split it, you splitting it 20 times, and what you’re passing from a PR one isn’t PR one, it’s less than PR one. As I’ve said before, we’ve done the math we know within certain parameters, just how much PR is passed from a PR one and we know we know it’s a range. So when you splitting it, that fine you’re defeating the purpose of building up that PR building up that trust and authority and everything else. Not only that, having it be so spammy, it could just turn into a PR zero because of the fact that it’s so spammy. And so you’re not really passing anything. You’re not really doing anything is not mean you could grab some traffic. From that point, you could do so much more if you’re more selective with the way that you syndicate your affiliate links so that it doesn’t look so spammy so that it doesn’t look like it’s a whole bunch of garbage. And the only intent for that is to push your affiliate links, make it more user-friendly, making it more for the person that’s going to be reading it for the person to interact with that posts and with that content, and maybe share it maybe like it. Maybe visit the website, or those are all signals that you want. And I guarantee you that a spammy blog post with a whole bunch of affiliate links isn’t going to accomplish what you want.

Is It Good To Use And Embed The Original City Logo And Link The City Website Or Wikipedia City Page For A Local Service Website?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you. Mike says hello to a local service website. Do you think it’s a good idea to use and embed the original city logo and also link to the city website or Wikipedia city page? I can see the power in it, but I don’t think it’s a good idea. Thanks. Well, Mike, that’s what was pretty much standard operating procedure back in like 2012. And for a long time, you know, that was just traditional way they call it conventional wisdom when it came to I didn’t, does conventional wisdom is oftentimes not very smart. It’s just what people think is right. And conventional wisdom for the longest time was that you would link to always a.gov or a Wikipedia page, or, you know, excuse me, a Wikipedia page or a.gov site or a that, especially if you’re doing local to that, you know, corresponding Wikipedia page or the local government website or something like that. And that was supposed to add relevancy, which isn’t true. That’s that hasn’t been true for many, many years. Because Google doesn’t care about you linking to a Wikipedia page about a particular city unless it’s relevant to the content on that page. And even though you might be optimized, you know, for like a plumber and in particular city, just linking to that Wikipedia page arbitrarily with the keyword or without the keyword, whatever, just linking to that page really doesn’t do much, right. It’s not the algorithm is much smarter than that. Now, if you are citing something about that city, like some facts about the city or something that makes it relevant, and you want to cite the source where you gleaned that content from So for example, if you are curating content from a Wikipedia page or a.gov site about that particular city, then you want to cite the source now that adds that that’s a proper way to link to it. And Google can clearly see the relationship between why and why you’re linking to that. But you know, again, years ago, we used to mean just about everybody used to do it. What I always recommend is link outbound linking to relevant content that’s relevant to the concept within the body of the content that you’re linking to, like, in other words, that your UYY just linked to the city page or to the Wikipedia page. If the page is about plumbing services in a particular city.

It doesn’t really make sense just to link to the city website unless there’s a reason for it. And so, again, I’ve always gone back to I mean, four years since probably 2014 timeframe, I stopped doing that stopped doing what was conventional wisdom, and started linking to more relevant pages. So for example, linking to an article on bob Vila calm or do it yourself network or something like that, right, some sort of, like if it’s a plumbing website, right? linking to something that’s more relevant to the content of the page. And then if you want to have some sort of local relevancy in there, why not embed the map or a mind map or driving directions map from the store or the location of the business to that city or something like that, that That, to me makes a lot more sense. It’s more relevant. And so that’s the type of thing that I’ve always done as far as embedding a city logo from another website. I don’t recommend doing that. Because if you don’t have permission to use that, remember that that logo is likely trademarked or even if it’s not trademarked, it’s probably a copyright issue. Because I can tell you one thing you don’t want to do when you curate content and by the way, we have a training for a full training program called Content Kingpin which will teach you all about curating and why it’s very it’s so powerful because it creates co-citation, it allows you to generate content much quicker, it’s much more efficient, you don’t have to learn. You don’t have to be a content or subject matter expert. In order to be able to generate content, you just have to know how to locate it, and put it together in a logical fashion and then cite the sources properly. So I would recommend you look at that because one of the things that we learned the hard way, is you never want to curate images. Ever. Okay? Unless you there, wiki, what do they call Wiki Commons there? I don’t recommend ever curating images because you will, you can end up getting copyright infringement and be sued for that. And a lot of times like, it’s happened to me, it’s happened to me for almost three years in a row was two years in a row where I got hit with copyright.

Basically extortion letters where they would say you’ve got to pay so much or we’re taking you to court for copyright infringement and you’d have to pay or else they would take your ass to court, and it sucks so I learned a long time ago. Never curate images so I would really highly recommend not embedding a city logo. And don’t just arbitrarily link to a city Wikipedia page or a city government website, unless there’s a specific reason for it, that you clearly identify in the content that you’re let you know why you’re linking to it. If that makes sense. You’re much better off linking to something that’s more relevant. You want to comment on that, Marco?

Marco: I agree. Because there’s activity relevance, relevance, trust, and authority. Right? You’re much better off linking to something that has you know, that that’s updated regularly, and events page what’s going on, in you know, in the city, landmark, places to see if there are if this park, just anything, it’s just going a little bit further in as far as the geolocation is, yes, you’re part of the city. So it stands to reason that you would think I want to link to the Wikipedia city page for this, but you can go further and make get even more relevant. And in fact, if you can get that city schedule, into a calendar of events, the way that we do in RYS Academy Reloaded, and load those ups, and that’s constantly changing, and that’s constantly pushing, all of that relevance, everything that’s happening in that city, and mixed in with those calendar events are your events, what’s happening with your business, whatever it is, whether you want to coupon special, whether you want to send them to the GMB, the map, just whatever it is, you mix in all of that with all of the other relevance and it works a whole lot better than just simply making to the city page for x reason, which there’s really no reason.

Bradley: Yeah. I mean, again, that’s been such old tactics that you know, if it really worked well, Google would have killed it a long time ago because it’s been used forever. As I said, it’s just that it was like common knowledge. Conventional wisdom is just what people did and for the longest time I would you know, I would argue why would Why do you do that? Well, because you know, it’s adding relevancy I will have you tested it. Because if you test it, you’ll find that it doesn’t really do shit, you’re much better off linking the relevant content and I like curated content for that reason because it clearly gives a reason to link out to something and it can create co-citation, which is, is pretty powerful too. So

What’s The Difference Between Maps SEO And Website SEO?

Jonathan says are the map embeds the only thing MGYB sells for maps Seo? No, not by far. My furnace guy wants to rank in maps but doesn’t care about his website. What is the main difference in maps SEO versus website SEO? Well, there’s a lot of similarities, a lot of overlap. But with maps SEO there, you know, you can focus entirely on the Google properties, right, the Google ecosystem. So the map URL itself, I’m going to demonstrate how to get the best map URL to build links to you can do map embeds. You can do citation building. You know if he’s got legit if you say it’s your furnace guy, so I’m assuming is you know, HVAC guy, and he’s got a real business, then it’s probably registered to a real address. Even if it’s a service area business, you can build citations for that. That’s something I always recommend doing if you have a valid address. So there are I mean, there are a number of things that you can do, but very specifically MGYB sells, I mean, pretty much every one of our services can be applied to ranking in maps or maps SEO as you called it, right.

So for example, let me just give you a couple of examples here. This is something that you can go check out GMB.reviewsmaker.com, right. So let’s just go to I’m just going to type in HVAC contractor, Culpepper, for example. Okay, so I’m going to click on KNM Heating and Air heating and air conditioning. And in fact, actually, let me just copy that name. And this is what I’m going to do. So this is how you can get the best URL to build links to if you’re going to be doing link building to the map, right. So there are embeds, there’s also link building, there are press releases, there’s you can which you can embed a map in the press release. Plus, you can also create a contextual link or just a naked URL in the actual press release. To back to the map itself, I’m going to give you a few examples here of how you can get better results. So let’s go back to Google for it first. Here’s a couple of ways that you can do this. Number one, you can go into your GMB dashboard or your client’s GMB dashboard. And on the Info tab, where you’ll always see this one little section where it says view on maps or view on search and view on maps. You can right-click on the view on maps and copy the link address and paste it into a notepad file and then reformat it I’m going to show you the correct format. So that’s one way to find it. The best URL for building links to a map, Google map right. The second way is to go type in or go search for your client’s business name on Google. So in this case, I’m going to search for KNM Heating and Air Inc because that’s just the example that I pulled, then I’m going to click through to the maps listing.

And you’ll see up here in the US the address bar of Chrome, I’ve got this long, ugly URL, right? Well, if you go to GMB dot review, make reviews maker calm, okay, and you click to decode place ID, and just paste that long maps URL in there and click the code place Id take a second, then it’s going to come down and it’s going to give you this maps URL right here. Okay, I’m going to copy that link address. And I’m going to paste that into a notepad file. Now, if you take a look at this URL, I’ll show you and I’ve demonstrated this before, but I want to answer this question thoroughly for him. If we go to like, where it goes com or something like that, some sort of redirect tracer. I could paste that URL that it gives you, right? So from here, and if we take a look at this, you’ll see that this has got a 302 redirect built into it. In fact, there are two of them. So that is not a good URL to use for link building. Like if you want to build links to this URL, you’re not passing any PageRank or link equity essentially, through these two, three or two redirects, that stops it dead, right. So in other words, you can link to it, you somebody could click on that link, and it’s going to navigate, or jump to the final target URL or the destination, which is this. But as far as passing link equity, if you’re to build links to this, it’s not going to pass any. So it’s not a good URL to build links to which by the way, this URL right here, that the share URL, take a look at how many redirects are in this one. If we go back to where goes.

It might even there it goes. Look at that. Look, how many redirects are in there. Three 302 redirects and no matter refresh, so that’s not a good URL, either this share URL, don’t build links that are dumb. It does, it does no good, right? So what you want to do is you want to take that URL, which by the way, you can just take the URL from here and go to a redirect tracer, and then paste it in and then copy the final URL, or just memorize this, which is what I did. It’s very simple. copy that URL, and then just change it, just rearrange it to where you change the maps right there. So maps.google.com, you would change it to www.google.com. Then forward-slash question mark. See ID equals is what the original one is. So all you want to do is move maps from before and the subdomain from maps to the right after the forward-slash, then it’s question marks the ID equals and we’ll take that, Copy that, paste it in. So it’s just a quick change or modification of the URL. And now watch this. If we take this, we go back to a redirect tracer.

Quick, Tracy well there’s no reason XC that now if we go load that URL into the address bar and click Go, you’ll see once the page loads, it converts to that long URL, but it’s not technically a redirect. Right. So that’s the best URL to build links to is this one right here. So that’s something else that you can do. Right. So like I mentioned before, you can embed a map into press releases. You can also build links directly to this map URL, right. So that’s one thing you can do. RYS Drive stacks are incredibly powerful. If you provide the NAP. The name, address and phone number of the business, as well as the maps URL will build a drive stack that is hyper optimized for that specific location, right and will push a ton of power directly to the Google properties especially like you said, if he’s not interested in ranking a website, you can select to push all of the juice from the drive stack back to the maps the Google properties which would be the maps GMB website, will you’ll get it, you should order the, excuse me, the Google Site along with that the Google site will be part of that. So you can build all of the power back to the actual maps listing.

However, there are a couple other things I want to mention. Let’s see, just just because there are a few other points here that you can add additional power to, right. So for a note, another one is the reviews. This company, in particular, has 21 reviews, I don’t know how many your client has. But if we click on that review link, right, it’s going to pull up here Well, that is a different URL. So up here is another URL, I would suggest using your own three one redirects creator. There are a number of of them out there that you can use that are free, some of them that are paid like a subscription base, and others that you can create three one redirects from a plugin through your through a website, which is what I, you know, I prefer to do that through my own domain or something through or through a branded domain or a domain that I’m using specifically for redirects, that kind of thing. But if you take a guy here, open up Firefox just to show you that URL right there, I would create a 301 redirect out of that URL. And what’s it do? It automatically loads to these reviews. So you can push link equity into this. Well, let’s not stop there. What about each one of these individual reviews? For example, if I was to click Share on that one from Alan Jackson, which sounds like looks like a lot of the users’ spam, I don’t know. Jackson’s a country singer and Ronnie White is a Ron White isn’t a comedian. But if we’re to take that URL right there and paste that in, you’ll see that that is a separate URL, like that’s a redirect, as I just talked about, if you click the Share URL, it’s going to give you a redirect. So watch what happens when we trace that one. This is for the individual review. It’s still a 302 redirect. So that’s not what you want to build links to not this. What you want to build links to is this, which again, if you want to make it a pretty URL, all you got to do is use a 301 redirect creator.

As I said, there are some free ones out there, there are some ones that you can pay for a subscription basis, like a rebrand, delete rebrand.ly, for example of one, or there’s another one. Or like, what I like to do is use my own domain or clients domain, and use the pretty links pro plugin to create 301 redirects. Okay? Either way, that’s the URL you want to build to. And that’s the same URLs, what’s up here? Right, but you can build it through a 301 redirect. And look, that’s an individual review within that maps listing. And if this one’s got 21 reviews, that’s 21 additional link targets, right? Plus this one is a link target, which is the overall reviews URL plus the maps URL itself, right, which in this version of it that I just talked about being the best version. There’s more to think about photos, right? For example, this guy’s only got looks like it’s at four, but I’m only Well, maybe that was, let’s go back into photos here. For photos, it says for photos, each one of these areas a separate URL. So my point is if you��re just going to be doing map stuff for a client, what I like to do is extract all the URLs from the maps listing, set up redirects so that they’re pretty and they’re short, much easier to manage. And then start using those and link building campaigns, which you can also use those to be included in a drive stack as target URLs where we will build the drive stack to be targeting each one of those separate URLs. And what happens is you push juice into this listing from all different angles and every single point that you can push link equity into it. It’s very, very powerful. You want to

Marco: Yeah, he’s asking about maps SEO, and I’m just going to say local GMB Pro. It’s what set the standard for GMB optimization every other course came after copied what we did. So if you want the Trailblazer the standard bear the one that laid it down on how it’s properly done. There you go and get local GMB pro and you can learn what Bradley just talked about more in-depth, along with many other things that you could do to push the GMB the map into the three-pack, which is what your client is looking for. They don’t care about the website fine. So you work entirely within the GMB ecosystem, which is what local GMB Pro is all about. So guys, if you really want to do this, right, if you want that heart into the three-pack, you go into local GMP Pro.

Bradley: That’s right. And that’s an in there, we talked about various other things. I’m not going to talk about specific methods here, but just so you know that again, this this this client, or this client is not my client, but this contractor, HVAC contractor is also doing GMB posts, he probably has an SEO that is working on his stuff. And take a look at that guys. Again, these are all additional link targets, right? We copy that URL and go back to the redirect tracer, which I already closed.

And once again, this is a GMB post URL, right? It’s going to redirect, don’t ever use the share URLs for SEO purposes. You can use it for navigation purposes. But look, how many redirects are there. So what you want to do is end up taking this URL, and using that as that could be potentially another link target. Right? So that makes sense. So if we’re going to just open up that URL and see it didn’t bring it up, it’s probably the one prior to that this one, which is okay, because that’s a meta refresh, so that, that’s fine. Let’s open it up there.

There, see I brought it up, it brought that post up to the very top. So the same thing goes you can take an older post and do the same thing you could share it, grab, copy the share URL. Put it in now local GMB Pro, we talk about a hell of a lot of really cool things that you can do a GMB post, I’m not going to talk about here. But I’m just saying you can actually use these posts as additional places to build links to the right. So again, this one right here, I would take this URL, copy that, that’s what I would build links to and watch what happens if I load that into the browser. It’s going to pull up that post at the top See, the one that I just shared. So it makes sense. So all of those are linked targets. That’s why I said there’s just a ton of different things that you can do to push additional power into their not just through and beds and beds are very powerful. Don’t get me wrong, but there’s a number of other things that you can do. So that was a good question.

Does Google Sandbox New Domains For At Least 3 Weeks Or Longer?

Gordon’s up he says, Hey, guys, I don’t want to sound like a broken record. But I just want to say again, your Hump Day help is very much appreciated. Well, you’re welcome, Gordon. And we do appreciate that as well. If I remember correctly, you said in the past that you prefer to use a new domain instead of an aged domain to rank a local lead gen site. So you can control the name of the domain for SEO purposes and for branding purposes. That is correct. I have said that. But I was wondering if in fact Google does sandbox new domains for at least three weeks or probably longer other than losing the branding and partial keyword and domain benefit. Why is it not better to use a niche related aged domain with a clean niche related backlink profile? And if you use an aged domain would you need to to rebuild the old site pages and the old links pointing to using way back point old links point to using Wayback Machine the old things point to excuse me the way that I read that was wrong and if you use an aged domain, would you need to rebuild the old site pages that the old links point to using Wayback machine in order not to lose the link juice? Okay, so the first question is because I’m able to typically especially when I’m trying to rank for local stuff, the right which is what the maps I don’t

Is that getting a new brand new domains? Fine, because I’m not looking for the initial, the, you know, an existing link profile because it really doesn’t matter. Like I mean, if if the sites built really well and everything else, then it can have an effect on the maps, there’s no question. But as we were just talking about in the previous question, we can typically get results without even having a self-hosted website, if that makes sense, right? Because we can focus on specifically just the GMB properties and get results. That said, I always prefer to have a branded type of domain, one that I can build a brand around for, if especially for lead gen stuff that I could use in other locations, right, which is why I talked about if I’m going to have a website, I like to use subdomains with the city name is the subdomain so that I can build upon a particular brand.

Does that mean that you cannot that you can’t start with an aged domain that has been dropped by somebody else or whatever, and build a brand around that I suppose you could? But the problem that I would see with that is that there may be some other existing content on the web that can ambiguate, right? That’s a key term that can ambiguate the brand that you’re trying to build or the data that you’re trying to build through your new location, your new setup. Right? Now, if you’re talking about strictly organic SEO, yes, there’s some benefit for building through an aged domain that has a clean link profile. But having a clean link profile is kind of difficult to do or else why was I mean, a lot, I mean, you will find some domains like that, but they’re few and far between. A lot of times the aged domains that have been dropped are just they either have a shitty link profile or a non-existent link profile. In other words, they might have one or two links that are actually, you know, decent links, if any at all. And so my point is, I would rather just go with something new that’s branded so that I have more control over the content that’s going to be published and everything else and not have to worry about any sort of invigoration not have to worry about any potential links out there.

On the web that is toxic to it, or they’re going to cause any problems as I start building out the new project if that makes sense. So, I mean, there, you certainly can do that. If you want. I don’t recommend it. I don’t, you know, the only time I would use aged domains really is if I was building what I would call feeder sites are like PBNs, right? Because that kind of help to shortcut the process a little bit since you’re not starting from scratch. But when it came to a brand for lead gen site, or for a client, I would always recommend using a brand new one. Now if you are going to build an old domain, yes, it is better to rebuild those pages. You can do that using the Wayback Machine. It’ll you know you can download HTML files and upload those. There’s a couple of plugins and services out there where you can subscribe to or pay for credits I believe that will actually create a file of the Wayback Machine stuff that makes it much easier I know there’s some plugins I can’t even think was named now there’s there.

I know there are some plugins out there that will do that on a WordPress site to where you just basically, you can enter a file or upload the zip file that you get from the Wayback Machine. And it will automatically build out the old pages with the old content, you might have to do some formatting and stuff to them. But you can do that. And I would recommend doing that, or at least building some sort of page that has similar content on it doesn’t have to be the exact duplicates or replication of the old pages. But if it had a good link profile, and it ever in anybody ever goes and looks at, you know, the webmasters of the sites that were linking to that, and they noticed that there was a big change in the page or just doesn’t exist anymore, they may take that link down. So the reason why you would rebuild those previous pages or you know, the pages that aren’t there anymore, is because you’d want the links that were built to that page to stay there. That’s really the only reason where else you could just do a redirect.

My point is, if you just did a redirect from the old URL to the homepage or to a new URL, and a webmaster says, was analyzing or looking at the site and saying, you know, from one of their pages on their site, there was a link to your, to the, to the domain that they had linked to previously. And they look at and say, well, that’s not what I had linked to, I’m going to remove that, then you lose that link. And so you start to ultimately lose the power of having an aged domain with an inbound link profile anyways. And that happens unless you rebuild the pages, or have them redirected to something that’s very similar so that it’s still a value to the site that was originally linking to it. That all said, usually, when you’re dealing with, like, especially local business type sites, it’s just not worth all that trouble. You’re better off and you’re able to get just as quickly as just results just as quickly, excuse me, using methods that we talked about with a brand new domain. So Marco, do want to comment on that before we move on?

Marco: Yeah, absolutely. So imagine it if McDonald’s had come out with McDonald’s of Illinois, if Coca Cola wherever it began, it had come out with the Madison, if you have that, that that one, if you have that one that will boom, nationally or globally, you’re going to have to go and redo all of the work that you’ve done. Yeah, of course, it’s going to be worth it. But I’m the type and I know Bradley is too, that hates doing work, the same work over again. So why going and you have to do the work over again, when you can start off with a brand that doesn’t necessarily have to pigeonhole itself with geolocation or geographically because you can do that with a category or a pages category. It has the same effect. You don’t need it. And the Google sandbox is very real, but the way that we teach activity, relevance, trust, and authority. It trumps everything, including

The Google sandbox including proximity, including a whole bunch of other things, follow about Battle Plan to the letter, you get the services from MGYB.co the way that you’re told to do it and in, in the, in the one in the sequence that we tell you to do it, then you’re going to have the same if not better results than if you went and did all that work with, with an expired domain. And there’s no guarantee that that expired domain would hold its metrics. When it’s brought back, you’re still gonna have to do the work, you still gonna have to put in the content, you got to have to redo the content, you’re going to have to do a whole lot of work, when you could just go to MGYB.co and have us do it for you.

Bradley: I agree. So I said, I mean, it’s just so much, so much trouble that can go into building those ads. I just, I don’t think it’s worth it. I really don’t we can get results just as quickly with new domains. So unless you have found one that’s really super powerful I just wouldn’t even bother

Bradley: fit says good agent makes you part of it for you and it

Marco: will chime in. And the reason why he got some of my time is because he donated quite a bit of money to my charity and I decided to reciprocate by giving him some of my time so we had a really great call he’s in Australia by the way, so it’s really early in the morning for him to be on here. So thanks, Will.

How Do You Fix Duplicate Branded Syndication Networks That Were Purchased Via Fiverr?

Bradley: awesome thanks, Fitz says good day gents. Thanks for this form, ask real questions and get actionable answers I have a client who went to Fiverr and body syndication network and then worked with another marketer and bought a different network, many duplicates all branded. What should I do to fix that? Well, do you have access to those accounts is my point as if you if he bought these syndication networks and such from two different vendors, essentially. He probably has a login sheet right? Similar to you know,

We invented it or, you know. So I’m sure that the copy cat also provides a spreadsheet with all the accounts, the URLs, and the login data, what I would do is go in and I would, if I would log into the one that is the most closely branded to his brand name, you can’t have duplicate, right, you can’t have duplicate subdomains on WordPress or blogger or Tumblr or any of the other sites for that matter. So there has to be some sort of variation in the profile or the usernames, right. So I would take the one that is the most closely aligned with the actual brand and use that I would go in and update it. And then obviously go through and some SM style it Semantic Mastery style the syndication network. That’s number one, number two for the other one that’s out there. That’s also similarly branded. I don’t necessarily would say terminate those accounts, but I would make sure that you’re not syndicating to them anymore. In fact, if you have duplicate posts, and it’s not

I’m not talking about duplicate content guys, because that’s, that doesn’t happen on syndication networks. But if you have the same post posted on multiple semi branded networks, then I recommend removing that content specifically because you don’t, you don’t want to create a footprint with this with a blog syndication network or a syndication network where you’re syndicating website content, you can do it it’s fine with with YouTube, but with a blog now, where you know, with money site content, I don’t recommend that. So but that doesn’t mean you have to like go in and actually terminate those accounts, but I would manually go in and delete the existing content, and maybe just put up some kind of shitty content that might link to the other web to do to Dotto profiles. You know, just like one post on each one of the syndication network properties from the network that you’re not going to use right remove the IFTTT triggers, remove any content that’s been posted to both syndication networks, and then might just put some kind of short little article that’s relevant on each one of those other properties and maybe point to the profile URL on the the one that you’re going to keep right the network properties that you’re going to keep, that’s something I would do. And I would just leave it alone after that, and just continually update for the new or the syndication network that you decided to keep. If they’re both done very poorly, and you don’t want to go through which I don’t recommend, you know, I don’t blame me, if you don’t want to go through and actually update everything manually, then I would get access to all the accounts that you can go in and do what I just said to both sets of networks and by a well done Semantic Mastery stout network from MGYB. Right, and then maybe use those two other existing networks as a YouTube network or, you know, it could be possibly used for maybe a separate Twitter network or something like that.

Or you could do what I just said and just use them as kind of like a one-time link builder to your new network properties. If that makes sense. But I wouldn’t link directly back to the money site with those, you know, does that make sense? That’s what I would do. Because again, I totally understand it. By the way, if this guy bought his own syndication network at Fiverr, then he worked with another marketer. He’s probably one of those guys is going to micromanage you fits just so you’re aware of that if you have a business owner or client that has tried to do their own SEO work, and they’ve also hired somebody else to do something that they already attempted on their own. It’s probably going to they’re probably going to micromanage you as well. Just keep that in mind. Okay, I’m going to keep moving. That’s all right.

Is There A Risk Of Google Putting Home Address On The Web?

JACK says maps question please important client does professional services over the phone from home office don’t want home address under Google’s control, used paid use paid for Regis office locations in past but Google close them down? In your opinion, is there any risk of Google putting home address out there on the web as they don’t want their crazy client showing up at home. Are there any red flags to look out for in this plan? Thank you know not for if you’re going to do a Google My Business profile, no, you don’t have to worry about, you know, you need an address when you register in order for them to send the verification card. But it doesn’t publish the listing until you enter the verification code. So when you enter the verification code that you get in the postcard, then you immediately especially if it’s a service area business, which has to be professional services over the phone from home office. So yeah, I mean, you know, I would set that as a service area business, which means you go in and clear the physical address. Once you verify it, you go in into the Info tab and click on the location setting and then there’s a little link in their text link that says clear address and you click that and it’ll clear it and then save it so that it updates and you want to put your service areas in and then save it, Natalie, remove the address from being shown on maps. That’s absolutely

You Google is not going to publish that anywhere. The problem is if you want to build citations to help the maps listing rank, then a lot of the citation directories are going to require a physical address, like an actual street address. Some don’t, though, more more and more actually allowing service area businesses to add their data without a street address. But there’s still a ton of them out there to do required, so just keep that in mind. Okay.

But I wouldn’t worry about it not Google. Google’s not going to leak that at least I’ve never seen that. If you if you put it on, like Yelp or something like that word requires a street adjusting. Yeah, a lot of time. I mean, it’ll show but just don’t build citations on directories that require the street address if that’s the case. Scott says, Bradley, if you can fly to Haley, I’d have I’ll drive you to Denver. No, thanks. I’ve already got my ticket going flying directly to Denver, but thank you, Scott. I appreciate that.

How Do You Retain The Ranking Position Of A GMB Page Into 3-Pack Using Semantic Mastery Products?

Okay, I still need Hi, we only got about seven minutes left guys. He says I still need help for clients GMB ranking, it’s already it already has RYS Drive stack and G site built by SM a few years ago, I’m ordering a syndication network and we’ll add link building, then embed maps and link build would appreciate your suggestion to get just this back into the three-pack. That’s kind of a bit of a loaded question because I don’t know. Like, honestly, you should have had a syndication network, even really before the G site. And drive stack, that doesn’t mean that, you know, you can’t add that now you certainly can. But what I would recommend also doing is manually going back into your drive stack once your syndication network has been built and, you know, start including those links in the drive stack, link building to all of them. What are some press releases that always help? You can do a map embeds now with press releases and a lot of other things. So I would recommend that you know, make sure that your link, go go buy local GMB Pro, which is what we just talked about earlier, because you can actually do really good results, just doing stuff within the Google ecosystem includes posting and you know, a lot of the stuff that we talked about on local GMB Pro.

So that’s a question that you could get a hell of a lot more help with if you joined the mastermind. Or if you posted that, like more detail as to exactly what it is that you’ve got done. And where so that we can help fill in the gaps. Just get, you know, if you don’t have the Battle Plan, follow the Battle Plan. If you’ve got an RYS drive stack and a G site that was built a few years ago, but you never had a syndication network, it’s obvious that you didn’t, you either didn’t have the Battle Plan or you didn’t follow the plan that we laid out. So I recommend picking that up. If you don’t already have the Battle Plan. And just following that step by step, any of the pieces that are currently missing, add those pieces, right, and then just kind of follow each one of those processes. And that’s going to help you to get the results that you need. I’m not saying that that’s going to do it. You know, that’s the start. That’s always the foundation. If you need additional help with that though, that’s where you would you know, like I said, join the mastermind and get local GMB Pro. Once you have the foundation complete, does that make sense? Any comment on that guys?

Marco: Yeah, definitely the Battle Plan, Local GMB Pro is what’s going to create the activity that he’s going to need, right? Because its activity relevance, trust and authority, and local GMB Pro is totally an activity base.

Does Having A Single Link From A Press Release To A Deep Page Is Better Than Having Multiple Press Release Links?

Okay, well says going back to a previous question about PageRank. Does that mean that if you have a single link from a press release to a deep page is better than having multiple links from the press release just to get better-focused SEO just your landing page? Yes, that is true. Well, you know you’re, you get more juice through one link, one outbound link in a press release to whatever you know, you’re trying to push juice to then if you have three outbound links, right. If you have three outback bound links, you’re splitting the link equity three ways that make sense. So if you want to push all of the link equity for through one link to like you said a deep page, or like a blog post that might have an internal link to the page on your site that you’re trying to rank or something like that. Yeah, that’s again, that’s link sculpting. So,

Is It Okay To Use Spun Content For YouTube Descriptions?

Austin Don says, I’ve been doing we buy house city, we buy houses, city videos, is it alright to use spun content for YouTube descriptions? To write individual descriptions is very time-consuming. Thanks. Yeah, you know, Uhm Austin Don, if you’re in the Austin, Texas market, you probably have other people competing. So having good descriptions is helpful for YouTube SEO. But I don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube descriptions anymore. years ago, it was more important in my opinion. Now it’s more about having you know, the primary SEO factors of a YouTube video optimized like the title the tags, having the keyword, like as probably the first thing in the video description. I like having NAP data-name, address, phone number, primary URL, such as website, Google Maps URL, the URL, that version that I just shared this one right here, linking to your top tier one asset branded or entity assets, as we talked about. So linking to a Facebook page if you’re doing Facebook stuff, you know any business directories if you’re using press releases, the organization page, anything like that, I like to put all of that in the video description now, but I usually don’t really flesh out a whole lot of content, written text content for the video description. It’s more about a call to action, right and enlisting the NAP data and relevant links that are entered to kind of reinforce the entity. And then it’s about traditional SEO signals, embeds and or backlinks and engagement signals.

I’m telling you that’s the secret sauce is the engagement signals which you can by using YouTube ads incredibly inexpensive, and for I’m telling you even I’ve got campaigns running right now for the local video production company that I’ve been doing SEO for like five or six years that I have 40 cents per day is my budget. So I’m spending less than $15 a month it comes out to be like $12 a month that I’m spending to constantly feed that video on a daily basis with relevant views from a very specific geographic area because I set my location targeting from an audience that is relevant to the video itself. And it helps to keep those videos ranked. And we’re talking some of these videos have been ranked for years and I haven’t done a damn bit of SEO work since the moment I uploaded it to my channel. And it’s syndicated across my networks. All I’ve done is kept the ad campaigns going because it’s constantly the engagement signals that are coming in that are helping it to rank. So that’s what I would recommend is that you know don’t spend a shit ton of time optimizing the text. Just optimize the key the titles, the tags, put a relevant call to action, link out to your primary tier one entity assets, NAP included.

And then make sure that you do your traditional SEO stuff use playlist, the YouTube Silo Academy method embeds and or backlinks. But at the same time make sure that you set up a YouTube ad campaign for each one of those videos. Even if you just did you know, as I said, I’ve got campaigns running at 40 cents a day. That comes out to be like $12 a month and it works like wonders. Okay.

We gotta go guys. It’s at five o'clock. Any comments before I wrap it up, guys? Sorry about any questions we didn’t get to. Know. I would say get in where you fit in. That’s it. definitely time to pack up head out for POFU Live. Live, baby. See you guys. I’ll see you, Adam, tomorrow. Sounds good. Have a good one everyone. See you

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Announcement

Adam: Alright, we are live Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. This is Episode 257. Today is the ninth of October 2019. And this is the last Hump Day hangouts before POFU Live 2019 in Denver. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, you’d like to show up whether you’re going to whether you live there you whether you want to drive in or you can make some last-minute flight plans, head to pofulive.com, grab your ticket. Now, before we get into it, just want to say if you’re joining us for the first time, thanks for watching, we’re going to get into questions and answers. If you’ve got any questions you’re watching us go ahead and pop them on the page at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. Remember to always head over there. If you’re watching on YouTube. We don’t want to read comments here. You’ve got to go to the page where we embed the video so that you can ask questions we can get to those. So with that said, let’s say hello guys real quick. We’re missing to the Semantic Mastery guys who I believe is started traveling over to POFU Live in Denver. Bradley, Marco and I are here today. So I’ll start at the top and say hello to Bradley. How are you doing?

Bradley: Good. How are you?

Adam: Not bad. Not bad. I’m enjoying some cooler weather here. It’s finally starting to act like a fall. It’s about 65-70 today.

Bradley: Well, you can enjoy cooler weather tomorrow when you get to Denver because it’s supposed to be snowing and freezing cold so

Adam: Yeah, I might have to post some pictures of her on maybe on the Facebook group or something like he heard on hates the cold weather and I think it’s supposed to be a high of 28 degrees tomorrow.

Bradley: Yeah, and snow to which is crazy, but it’s only tomorrow. Because then the rest of the time that we’re there it’s supposed to be between 65 and 70 during the day and then around 30 at night, but it was kind of interesting packing for that, you know?

Adam: Yeah, all over the place. Well, speaking of weather, Marco How are you doing, man?

Marco: I couldn’t be better. Like I couldn’t handle 28 I’m sorry. It’s not happening. I mean, it’s too late like a cold for me. I mentioned it before is 60-65 that range you know. We break out the old sheet and we cover ourselves it gets chilly man 28 gone from 65 to 20 I don’t think so.

Adam: That’s a big change and once it gets below 20 that’s where I start I can handle it depends on the window but yeah in the 20s still nice ones it’s sunny and then anyways tomorrow is going to be fun we’ll see how it goes with Hernan if he’s all bundled up and blankets and freezing to death or if he survives so. Anyways With that said, like I said earlier if you’re watching for the first time you’re in the right place, we’re going to get to q&a and answer your questions and appreciate you being here. Come here every week every Wednesday for pm eastern you can always ask your questions ahead of time as well if you know got a client call you’ve got some work you got things you got to do we understand that but you know benefit here is being live you can ask questions, clarify your questions, but like I said, if you have to you can ask your questions ahead of time at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions and then check out the replay on our YouTube channel, which you should subscribe to if you’re watching that right now.

And secondly, if you haven’t yet check out the Battle Plan right? That’s where you can get our step by step processes for getting results with everything from new websites, aged domains, YouTube channels, so much more. I’m not going to go through the entire laundry list of all the benefits there but head over to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. And if you want to join, you know, our mastermind is about a mastermind but you know, it’s both the mastermind, our mastermind. Basically what it is is an experienced community so you can get faster access to real-world info, testing and build that network of peers who are doing the same things we’re growing these digital marketing businesses or who have businesses and understand how they need to grow the digital marketing side of it. You can find out more about that and join at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And for everyone, we really recommend going over to mgyb.co. I mean we tell this to you watching these videos, we tell it to our mastermind members, we tell it to everyone

Else, you know if you can start building your team now. And part of that can be using MGYB to provide the services for you things like syndication networks are we as drive stack, press releases, link building embeds, all that sort of stuff. And there are a lot more great packages coming out where we’re going to help people get better, well, the literal package for Hey, you know, if your website is here, then you need these types of additions. You need these syndication networks. We’re going to make that a lot more streamlined so that you can do it for yourself, your projects as well as your clients. So keep your eyes and ears open for that. So with that said guys,

Marco: I have a couple of things. Yeah, right. Number one, people, they always ask us how to put everything together, they’ll go in and don’t order something. And the last, how do I put it together guys, it’s in the Battle Plan. I was just talking to my mini mastermind group. You guys know that I meet every Tuesday. In the evening with a mini mastermind group. I have seven people in there. I wish I could take more people because people keep reaching out to me and saying, hey, I want in on the group. But seven is more than enough. But the thing is that the people in my mini mastermind they follow the Battle Plan. I have a guy, that’s her over. But he started out at 12k a year in digital marketing and client work and SEO, whatever it is that he did. And this year, you know, he’s at around a quarter million for the year. And so it’s as simple as just buckling down doing the fucking work and following the instructions to the letter. You don’t veer from what we tell you to do until you’re ready to test and you shouldn’t be testing until you have a good revenue stream coming in that allows you to set aside time to do that kind of thing, right?

We got another one that Jeff right who went to POFU and he’s killing it. I mean, he’s ranking attorney type big attorney terms of ranking for it, for example, and IT services in New York City. Now imagine how competitive that is, but they’re like the companies have happier than a paycheck, because they’re number one for the term. And how did they do it? They follow the Battle Plan. They follow the instructions, they follow what we tell them, guys, how do you put it all together? Get the Battle Plan. Now, yes, the Battle Plan takes you to MGYB and the products and services. Why do we do that? Because it’s the simplest way we don’t want you doing all that work. Imagine the hours that you have to spend doing all that work keyword research three days. For the keyword research, really, do you really want to do that? Do you really want to spend all that time your client better be paying a whole lot of money to spend three days doing all of that keyword research, I mean, everything it takes time to do

Bradley: Marco, isn’t it more fun to buy shiny new software applications and spend all your time learning how to use it? Just to find out it doesn’t work very well.

Marco: That’s some work, right? Follow the next best, the next best. So it’s already there. We set the path out people who follow it are killing it. And that’s my point. And yes, we do send you to what works for us because it’s what we use guys. We use it, we apply it we get a result. And so we give it to you in a step by step method so that you can follow it through. So if you’re not doing it, you haven’t bought it go by the Battle Plan. It looks like a really simple PDF with links. But you do it step by step. I’m telling you, I just got validation yesterday from a couple of people that are in that range. I mean, you guys know Jordan.

You guys know, Jeff, you guys know, Ed, they’re telling it how following the Battle Plan. That’s one and two about the mastermind. I wanted to mention that it works is a two-way street. We do try to give people everything that works in the mastermind, right? And we do make everyone available that you’re free to exchange ideas and concepts and theories and tests and whatever. But every once in awhile, we’ll get in a thread, as we did with with with something that I talked about when doing silos. And it was a whole long thread and we went really deep into it. And then there’s another one about iframes now.

And then that one sent me into the rabbit hole, where I’m still testing and I’m getting really good results from some ideas that I got. Not like not directly but indirectly, as they posted. Okay, so can I do this Can I do that and I immediately started thinking, well, what if, and that’s when you read, your juices really start flowing? And what if I did this and I quoted it this way, and I hit it this way, and then it would cause no issues. And so what I’m thinking is anyone who attends POFU Live will have first crack at whatever I come up with, from my testing, because they deserve it. I mean, they took the time that they’re going to be there. And so we always say membership has its privileges. But this is a step up. This is a step where you’re trying to change the game and JN and Jeff Moore, Jeff sorry, they went to POFU Live, and they changed the whole mindset, they changed their business strategy, and they’re killing it. So So anyone going deserves it. And so that’s what I’m going to do and then at some future point, it’ll be shared with the mastermind, of course, I don’t know if it’ll be I’ll ever share it outside the mastermind.

But since the nugget was kind of the idea sprouted from a thread in the mastermind I think the mastermind deserves whatever comes from it. And I’m already testing and I’m already coding and that so this is the type of thing that goes on and in the mastermind, mastermind membership has its privileges. Attending POFU Live has its privileges. Most of the people that are in my mini mastermind, are people who went to POFU Live. So I just want to say about that definitely our mastermind members, but they also attended POFU Live and I think that they deserve special attention. That’s just my piece for today. Take it for what it’s worth, but I think it’s just totally worth joining the mastermind and attending POFU Live should be a must in your calendar.

Adam: Sounds good to me, like Marco said, Be there. That’s a pretty awesome thing that Marco is going to do there. So I don’t want to dive back into a Marco but I know that people work with you and your group have had a lot of success. And I’m sure that’s a no small part due to your involvement. So that’s pretty awesome. So if you want to grab your ticket, you can still make it we got a couple of days here before we kick things off on Friday for the VIP day and then Saturday and Sunday for the main event. You can grab your ticket at pofulive.com. Alright, guys, Bradley, anything else before we jump into it?

Bradley: No, I’m just excited too nervous at the same time because I gotta fly tomorrow. But looking forward to coming to Denver and hanging out with you guys and putting on a pretty cool presentation. I think that is pretty powerful. I think this is going to be just a really good event. So I’m excited about it.

Adam: Cool. All right. Let’s do it.

Bradley: All right, let me grab the screen. Stand by. Alright, you guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct.

Adam: Correct. Got your whole screen.

Bradley: All right. Not a lot of questions yet. So guys start posting. Otherwise, we’ll wrap it up a little bit early, which is fine because I’ve got still not 100% packed for I gotta leave really early tomorrow morning for my flight. So anyway, I don’t mind wrapping it up early if that’s what we need to do.

Is It Okay To Send A Full-Text Article With 20+ Affiliate Links Via RSS In A Single Tier Network?

But we’ll start with sutra he says when using a single tier, he’s talking about a single-tier syndication network, is it okay to send the full-text article via RSS? Even if the article has 20 plus affiliate links? I usually post 123 of these types of articles each day. Um, I would say no, and the reason why I say no is it not because it’s an SEO thing, but it’s likely that your blog accounts which would be like WordPress, Tumblr, blogger, not so much blogger but Tumblr and WordPress, will likely or may very well terminate the account for too many outbound links.

Especially like affiliate links and that kind of stuff that they don’t, they don’t typically like that. So I wouldn’t recommend that I would do a post summary. So set your RSS feed to just display the summary. That way, it’s really just pushing the juice back to your post URL that’s published on your blog, which is really all that matters, guys. I mean, if you’re doing a bunch of outbound linking in your blog posts anyways, whether it doesn’t, you don’t really need to worry about posting the full text because, you know, whether they’re nofollow or do follow, it doesn’t even matter. What I’m saying is what you’re looking for is the link back from the post on the syndication network properties back to the original post on your site. Right. And then obviously, if you’re doing internal SEO like on-page SEO correctly, then you’re going to have some sort of contextual link within the text of your blog post that goes up to our money, a money page, right so an actual page or something a category.

Whatever it is that you’re trying to rank on your site. So it really the benefit is pushing the juice from the syndication network properties back to the post URL that’s published on your blog. So I would recommend doing a summary post, you know, summary, just set the RSS feed settings to just display a summary instead of the full text. Now, that said, sometimes those can look spammy too. And sometimes you can find settings in your theme that will allow you to update the length of those RSS, like how much of the summary is shown. And so you might be able to set that and sometimes you have to actually edit the theme files in order for to, you know, to to adjust that some things will give you the option to do that, like it’s, you know, an option that you can set but other times you have to actually go in and edit the theme files. So that’s what I would recommend any comments?

Marco: Yeah, I would say no, and it’s for SEO and it’s because the whole idea behind this concept and what we do and why we send out iframes and everything that we do is to build PageRank. And the problem is, everything starts at PR one, correct? Everything on the web, it starts out at PR one. So if you have something that’s revenue, or even if it’s aged, it could only be a PR one. And the reason why is because you’re splitting the PageRank that you’re passing so low, that you can’t build it up properly. So you split it, you splitting it 20 times, and what you’re passing from a PR one isn’t PR one, it’s less than PR one. As I’ve said before, we’ve done the math we know within certain parameters, just how much PR is passed from a PR one and we know we know it’s a range. So when you splitting it, that fine you’re defeating the purpose of building up that PR building up that trust and authority and everything else. Not only that, having it be so spammy, it could just turn into a PR zero because of the fact that it’s so spammy. And so you’re not really passing anything. You’re not really doing anything is not mean you could grab some traffic. From that point, you could do so much more if you’re more selective with the way that you syndicate your affiliate links so that it doesn’t look so spammy so that it doesn’t look like it’s a whole bunch of garbage. And the only intent for that is to push your affiliate links, make it more user-friendly, making it more for the person that’s going to be reading it for the person to interact with that posts and with that content, and maybe share it maybe like it. Maybe visit the website, or those are all signals that you want. And I guarantee you that a spammy blog post with a whole bunch of affiliate links isn’t going to accomplish what you want.

Is It Good To Use And Embed The Original City Logo And Link The City Website Or Wikipedia City Page For A Local Service Website?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you. Mike says hello to a local service website. Do you think it’s a good idea to use and embed the original city logo and also link to the city website or Wikipedia city page? I can see the power in it, but I don’t think it’s a good idea. Thanks. Well, Mike, that’s what was pretty much standard operating procedure back in like 2012. And for a long time, you know, that was just traditional way they call it conventional wisdom when it came to I didn’t, does conventional wisdom is oftentimes not very smart. It’s just what people think is right. And conventional wisdom for the longest time was that you would link to always a.gov or a Wikipedia page, or, you know, excuse me, a Wikipedia page or a.gov site or a that, especially if you’re doing local to that, you know, corresponding Wikipedia page or the local government website or something like that. And that was supposed to add relevancy, which isn’t true. That’s that hasn’t been true for many, many years. Because Google doesn’t care about you linking to a Wikipedia page about a particular city unless it’s relevant to the content on that page. And even though you might be optimized, you know, for like a plumber and in particular city, just linking to that Wikipedia page arbitrarily with the keyword or without the keyword, whatever, just linking to that page really doesn’t do much, right. It’s not the algorithm is much smarter than that. Now, if you are citing something about that city, like some facts about the city or something that makes it relevant, and you want to cite the source where you gleaned that content from So for example, if you are curating content from a Wikipedia page or a.gov site about that particular city, then you want to cite the source now that adds that that’s a proper way to link to it. And Google can clearly see the relationship between why and why you’re linking to that. But you know, again, years ago, we used to mean just about everybody used to do it. What I always recommend is link outbound linking to relevant content that’s relevant to the concept within the body of the content that you’re linking to, like, in other words, that your UYY just linked to the city page or to the Wikipedia page. If the page is about plumbing services in a particular city.

It doesn’t really make sense just to link to the city website unless there’s a reason for it. And so, again, I’ve always gone back to I mean, four years since probably 2014 timeframe, I stopped doing that stopped doing what was conventional wisdom, and started linking to more relevant pages. So for example, linking to an article on bob Vila calm or do it yourself network or something like that, right, some sort of, like if it’s a plumbing website, right? linking to something that’s more relevant to the content of the page. And then if you want to have some sort of local relevancy in there, why not embed the map or a mind map or driving directions map from the store or the location of the business to that city or something like that, that That, to me makes a lot more sense. It’s more relevant. And so that’s the type of thing that I’ve always done as far as embedding a city logo from another website. I don’t recommend doing that. Because if you don’t have permission to use that, remember that that logo is likely trademarked or even if it’s not trademarked, it’s probably a copyright issue. Because I can tell you one thing you don’t want to do when you curate content and by the way, we have a training for a full training program called Content Kingpin which will teach you all about curating and why it’s very it’s so powerful because it creates co-citation, it allows you to generate content much quicker, it’s much more efficient, you don’t have to learn. You don’t have to be a content or subject matter expert. In order to be able to generate content, you just have to know how to locate it, and put it together in a logical fashion and then cite the sources properly. So I would recommend you look at that because one of the things that we learned the hard way, is you never want to curate images. Ever. Okay? Unless you there, wiki, what do they call Wiki Commons there? I don’t recommend ever curating images because you will, you can end up getting copyright infringement and be sued for that. And a lot of times like, it’s happened to me, it’s happened to me for almost three years in a row was two years in a row where I got hit with copyright.

Basically extortion letters where they would say you’ve got to pay so much or we’re taking you to court for copyright infringement and you’d have to pay or else they would take your ass to court, and it sucks so I learned a long time ago. Never curate images so I would really highly recommend not embedding a city logo. And don’t just arbitrarily link to a city Wikipedia page or a city government website, unless there’s a specific reason for it, that you clearly identify in the content that you’re let you know why you’re linking to it. If that makes sense. You’re much better off linking to something that’s more relevant. You want to comment on that, Marco?

Marco: I agree. Because there’s activity relevance, relevance, trust, and authority. Right? You’re much better off linking to something that has you know, that that’s updated regularly, and events page what’s going on, in you know, in the city, landmark, places to see if there are if this park, just anything, it’s just going a little bit further in as far as the geolocation is, yes, you’re part of the city. So it stands to reason that you would think I want to link to the Wikipedia city page for this, but you can go further and make get even more relevant. And in fact, if you can get that city schedule, into a calendar of events, the way that we do in RYS Academy Reloaded, and load those ups, and that’s constantly changing, and that’s constantly pushing, all of that relevance, everything that’s happening in that city, and mixed in with those calendar events are your events, what’s happening with your business, whatever it is, whether you want to coupon special, whether you want to send them to the GMB, the map, just whatever it is, you mix in all of that with all of the other relevance and it works a whole lot better than just simply making to the city page for x reason, which there’s really no reason.

Bradley: Yeah. I mean, again, that’s been such old tactics that you know, if it really worked well, Google would have killed it a long time ago because it’s been used forever. As I said, it’s just that it was like common knowledge. Conventional wisdom is just what people did and for the longest time I would you know, I would argue why would Why do you do that? Well, because you know, it’s adding relevancy I will have you tested it. Because if you test it, you’ll find that it doesn’t really do shit, you’re much better off linking the relevant content and I like curated content for that reason because it clearly gives a reason to link out to something and it can create co-citation, which is, is pretty powerful too. So

What’s The Difference Between Maps SEO And Website SEO?

Jonathan says are the map embeds the only thing MGYB sells for maps Seo? No, not by far. My furnace guy wants to rank in maps but doesn’t care about his website. What is the main difference in maps SEO versus website SEO? Well, there’s a lot of similarities, a lot of overlap. But with maps SEO there, you know, you can focus entirely on the Google properties, right, the Google ecosystem. So the map URL itself, I’m going to demonstrate how to get the best map URL to build links to you can do map embeds. You can do citation building. You know if he’s got legit if you say it’s your furnace guy, so I’m assuming is you know, HVAC guy, and he’s got a real business, then it’s probably registered to a real address. Even if it’s a service area business, you can build citations for that. That’s something I always recommend doing if you have a valid address. So there are I mean, there are a number of things that you can do, but very specifically MGYB sells, I mean, pretty much every one of our services can be applied to ranking in maps or maps SEO as you called it, right.

So for example, let me just give you a couple of examples here. This is something that you can go check out GMB.reviewsmaker.com, right. So let’s just go to I’m just going to type in HVAC contractor, Culpepper, for example. Okay, so I’m going to click on KNM Heating and Air heating and air conditioning. And in fact, actually, let me just copy that name. And this is what I’m going to do. So this is how you can get the best URL to build links to if you’re going to be doing link building to the map, right. So there are embeds, there’s also link building, there are press releases, there’s you can which you can embed a map in the press release. Plus, you can also create a contextual link or just a naked URL in the actual press release. To back to the map itself, I’m going to give you a few examples here of how you can get better results. So let’s go back to Google for it first. Here’s a couple of ways that you can do this. Number one, you can go into your GMB dashboard or your client’s GMB dashboard. And on the Info tab, where you’ll always see this one little section where it says view on maps or view on search and view on maps. You can right-click on the view on maps and copy the link address and paste it into a notepad file and then reformat it I’m going to show you the correct format. So that’s one way to find it. The best URL for building links to a map, Google map right. The second way is to go type in or go search for your client’s business name on Google. So in this case, I’m going to search for KNM Heating and Air Inc because that’s just the example that I pulled, then I’m going to click through to the maps listing.

And you’ll see up here in the US the address bar of Chrome, I’ve got this long, ugly URL, right? Well, if you go to GMB dot review, make reviews maker calm, okay, and you click to decode place ID, and just paste that long maps URL in there and click the code place Id take a second, then it’s going to come down and it’s going to give you this maps URL right here. Okay, I’m going to copy that link address. And I’m going to paste that into a notepad file. Now, if you take a look at this URL, I’ll show you and I’ve demonstrated this before, but I want to answer this question thoroughly for him. If we go to like, where it goes com or something like that, some sort of redirect tracer. I could paste that URL that it gives you, right? So from here, and if we take a look at this, you’ll see that this has got a 302 redirect built into it. In fact, there are two of them. So that is not a good URL to use for link building. Like if you want to build links to this URL, you’re not passing any PageRank or link equity essentially, through these two, three or two redirects, that stops it dead, right. So in other words, you can link to it, you somebody could click on that link, and it’s going to navigate, or jump to the final target URL or the destination, which is this. But as far as passing link equity, if you’re to build links to this, it’s not going to pass any. So it’s not a good URL to build links to which by the way, this URL right here, that the share URL, take a look at how many redirects are in this one. If we go back to where goes.

It might even there it goes. Look at that. Look, how many redirects are in there. Three 302 redirects and no matter refresh, so that’s not a good URL, either this share URL, don’t build links that are dumb. It does, it does no good, right? So what you want to do is you want to take that URL, which by the way, you can just take the URL from here and go to a redirect tracer, and then paste it in and then copy the final URL, or just memorize this, which is what I did. It’s very simple. copy that URL, and then just change it, just rearrange it to where you change the maps right there. So maps.google.com, you would change it to www.google.com. Then forward-slash question mark. See ID equals is what the original one is. So all you want to do is move maps from before and the subdomain from maps to the right after the forward-slash, then it’s question marks the ID equals and we’ll take that, Copy that, paste it in. So it’s just a quick change or modification of the URL. And now watch this. If we take this, we go back to a redirect tracer.

Quick, Tracy well there’s no reason XC that now if we go load that URL into the address bar and click Go, you’ll see once the page loads, it converts to that long URL, but it’s not technically a redirect. Right. So that’s the best URL to build links to is this one right here. So that’s something else that you can do. Right. So like I mentioned before, you can embed a map into press releases. You can also build links directly to this map URL, right. So that’s one thing you can do. RYS Drive stacks are incredibly powerful. If you provide the NAP. The name, address and phone number of the business, as well as the maps URL will build a drive stack that is hyper optimized for that specific location, right and will push a ton of power directly to the Google properties especially like you said, if he’s not interested in ranking a website, you can select to push all of the juice from the drive stack back to the maps the Google properties which would be the maps GMB website, will you’ll get it, you should order the, excuse me, the Google Site along with that the Google site will be part of that. So you can build all of the power back to the actual maps listing.

However, there are a couple other things I want to mention. Let’s see, just just because there are a few other points here that you can add additional power to, right. So for a note, another one is the reviews. This company, in particular, has 21 reviews, I don’t know how many your client has. But if we click on that review link, right, it’s going to pull up here Well, that is a different URL. So up here is another URL, I would suggest using your own three one redirects creator. There are a number of of them out there that you can use that are free, some of them that are paid like a subscription base, and others that you can create three one redirects from a plugin through your through a website, which is what I, you know, I prefer to do that through my own domain or something through or through a branded domain or a domain that I’m using specifically for redirects, that kind of thing. But if you take a guy here, open up Firefox just to show you that URL right there, I would create a 301 redirect out of that URL. And what’s it do? It automatically loads to these reviews. So you can push link equity into this. Well, let’s not stop there. What about each one of these individual reviews? For example, if I was to click Share on that one from Alan Jackson, which sounds like looks like a lot of the users’ spam, I don’t know. Jackson’s a country singer and Ronnie White is a Ron White isn’t a comedian. But if we’re to take that URL right there and paste that in, you’ll see that that is a separate URL, like that’s a redirect, as I just talked about, if you click the Share URL, it’s going to give you a redirect. So watch what happens when we trace that one. This is for the individual review. It’s still a 302 redirect. So that’s not what you want to build links to not this. What you want to build links to is this, which again, if you want to make it a pretty URL, all you got to do is use a 301 redirect creator.

As I said, there are some free ones out there, there are some ones that you can pay for a subscription basis, like a rebrand, delete rebrand.ly, for example of one, or there’s another one. Or like, what I like to do is use my own domain or clients domain, and use the pretty links pro plugin to create 301 redirects. Okay? Either way, that’s the URL you want to build to. And that’s the same URLs, what’s up here? Right, but you can build it through a 301 redirect. And look, that’s an individual review within that maps listing. And if this one’s got 21 reviews, that’s 21 additional link targets, right? Plus this one is a link target, which is the overall reviews URL plus the maps URL itself, right, which in this version of it that I just talked about being the best version. There’s more to think about photos, right? For example, this guy’s only got looks like it’s at four, but I’m only Well, maybe that was, let’s go back into photos here. For photos, it says for photos, each one of these areas a separate URL. So my point is if you’re just going to be doing map stuff for a client, what I like to do is extract all the URLs from the maps listing, set up redirects so that they’re pretty and they’re short, much easier to manage. And then start using those and link building campaigns, which you can also use those to be included in a drive stack as target URLs where we will build the drive stack to be targeting each one of those separate URLs. And what happens is you push juice into this listing from all different angles and every single point that you can push link equity into it. It’s very, very powerful. You want to

Marco: Yeah, he’s asking about maps SEO, and I’m just going to say local GMB Pro. It’s what set the standard for GMB optimization every other course came after copied what we did. So if you want the Trailblazer the standard bear the one that laid it down on how it’s properly done. There you go and get local GMB pro and you can learn what Bradley just talked about more in-depth, along with many other things that you could do to push the GMB the map into the three-pack, which is what your client is looking for. They don’t care about the website fine. So you work entirely within the GMB ecosystem, which is what local GMB Pro is all about. So guys, if you really want to do this, right, if you want that heart into the three-pack, you go into local GMP Pro.

Bradley: That’s right. And that’s an in there, we talked about various other things. I’m not going to talk about specific methods here, but just so you know that again, this this this client, or this client is not my client, but this contractor, HVAC contractor is also doing GMB posts, he probably has an SEO that is working on his stuff. And take a look at that guys. Again, these are all additional link targets, right? We copy that URL and go back to the redirect tracer, which I already closed.

And once again, this is a GMB post URL, right? It’s going to redirect, don’t ever use the share URLs for SEO purposes. You can use it for navigation purposes. But look, how many redirects are there. So what you want to do is end up taking this URL, and using that as that could be potentially another link target. Right? So that makes sense. So if we’re going to just open up that URL and see it didn’t bring it up, it’s probably the one prior to that this one, which is okay, because that’s a meta refresh, so that, that’s fine. Let’s open it up there.

There, see I brought it up, it brought that post up to the very top. So the same thing goes you can take an older post and do the same thing you could share it, grab, copy the share URL. Put it in now local GMB Pro, we talk about a hell of a lot of really cool things that you can do a GMB post, I’m not going to talk about here. But I’m just saying you can actually use these posts as additional places to build links to the right. So again, this one right here, I would take this URL, copy that, that’s what I would build links to and watch what happens if I load that into the browser. It’s going to pull up that post at the top See, the one that I just shared. So it makes sense. So all of those are linked targets. That’s why I said there’s just a ton of different things that you can do to push additional power into their not just through and beds and beds are very powerful. Don’t get me wrong, but there’s a number of other things that you can do. So that was a good question.

Does Google Sandbox New Domains For At Least 3 Weeks Or Longer?

Gordon’s up he says, Hey, guys, I don’t want to sound like a broken record. But I just want to say again, your Hump Day help is very much appreciated. Well, you’re welcome, Gordon. And we do appreciate that as well. If I remember correctly, you said in the past that you prefer to use a new domain instead of an aged domain to rank a local lead gen site. So you can control the name of the domain for SEO purposes and for branding purposes. That is correct. I have said that. But I was wondering if in fact Google does sandbox new domains for at least three weeks or probably longer other than losing the branding and partial keyword and domain benefit. Why is it not better to use a niche related aged domain with a clean niche related backlink profile? And if you use an aged domain would you need to to rebuild the old site pages and the old links pointing to using way back point old links point to using Wayback Machine the old things point to excuse me the way that I read that was wrong and if you use an aged domain, would you need to rebuild the old site pages that the old links point to using Wayback machine in order not to lose the link juice? Okay, so the first question is because I’m able to typically especially when I’m trying to rank for local stuff, the right which is what the maps I don’t

Is that getting a new brand new domains? Fine, because I’m not looking for the initial, the, you know, an existing link profile because it really doesn’t matter. Like I mean, if if the sites built really well and everything else, then it can have an effect on the maps, there’s no question. But as we were just talking about in the previous question, we can typically get results without even having a self-hosted website, if that makes sense, right? Because we can focus on specifically just the GMB properties and get results. That said, I always prefer to have a branded type of domain, one that I can build a brand around for, if especially for lead gen stuff that I could use in other locations, right, which is why I talked about if I’m going to have a website, I like to use subdomains with the city name is the subdomain so that I can build upon a particular brand.

Does that mean that you cannot that you can’t start with an aged domain that has been dropped by somebody else or whatever, and build a brand around that I suppose you could? But the problem that I would see with that is that there may be some other existing content on the web that can ambiguate, right? That’s a key term that can ambiguate the brand that you’re trying to build or the data that you’re trying to build through your new location, your new setup. Right? Now, if you’re talking about strictly organic SEO, yes, there’s some benefit for building through an aged domain that has a clean link profile. But having a clean link profile is kind of difficult to do or else why was I mean, a lot, I mean, you will find some domains like that, but they’re few and far between. A lot of times the aged domains that have been dropped are just they either have a shitty link profile or a non-existent link profile. In other words, they might have one or two links that are actually, you know, decent links, if any at all. And so my point is, I would rather just go with something new that’s branded so that I have more control over the content that’s going to be published and everything else and not have to worry about any sort of invigoration not have to worry about any potential links out there.

On the web that is toxic to it, or they’re going to cause any problems as I start building out the new project if that makes sense. So, I mean, there, you certainly can do that. If you want. I don’t recommend it. I don’t, you know, the only time I would use aged domains really is if I was building what I would call feeder sites are like PBNs, right? Because that kind of help to shortcut the process a little bit since you’re not starting from scratch. But when it came to a brand for lead gen site, or for a client, I would always recommend using a brand new one. Now if you are going to build an old domain, yes, it is better to rebuild those pages. You can do that using the Wayback Machine. It’ll you know you can download HTML files and upload those. There’s a couple of plugins and services out there where you can subscribe to or pay for credits I believe that will actually create a file of the Wayback Machine stuff that makes it much easier I know there’s some plugins I can’t even think was named now there’s there.

I know there are some plugins out there that will do that on a WordPress site to where you just basically, you can enter a file or upload the zip file that you get from the Wayback Machine. And it will automatically build out the old pages with the old content, you might have to do some formatting and stuff to them. But you can do that. And I would recommend doing that, or at least building some sort of page that has similar content on it doesn’t have to be the exact duplicates or replication of the old pages. But if it had a good link profile, and it ever in anybody ever goes and looks at, you know, the webmasters of the sites that were linking to that, and they noticed that there was a big change in the page or just doesn’t exist anymore, they may take that link down. So the reason why you would rebuild those previous pages or you know, the pages that aren’t there anymore, is because you’d want the links that were built to that page to stay there. That’s really the only reason where else you could just do a redirect.

My point is, if you just did a redirect from the old URL to the homepage or to a new URL, and a webmaster says, was analyzing or looking at the site and saying, you know, from one of their pages on their site, there was a link to your, to the, to the domain that they had linked to previously. And they look at and say, well, that’s not what I had linked to, I’m going to remove that, then you lose that link. And so you start to ultimately lose the power of having an aged domain with an inbound link profile anyways. And that happens unless you rebuild the pages, or have them redirected to something that’s very similar so that it’s still a value to the site that was originally linking to it. That all said, usually, when you’re dealing with, like, especially local business type sites, it’s just not worth all that trouble. You’re better off and you’re able to get just as quickly as just results just as quickly, excuse me, using methods that we talked about with a brand new domain. So Marco, do want to comment on that before we move on?

Marco: Yeah, absolutely. So imagine it if McDonald’s had come out with McDonald’s of Illinois, if Coca Cola wherever it began, it had come out with the Madison, if you have that, that that one, if you have that one that will boom, nationally or globally, you’re going to have to go and redo all of the work that you’ve done. Yeah, of course, it’s going to be worth it. But I’m the type and I know Bradley is too, that hates doing work, the same work over again. So why going and you have to do the work over again, when you can start off with a brand that doesn’t necessarily have to pigeonhole itself with geolocation or geographically because you can do that with a category or a pages category. It has the same effect. You don’t need it. And the Google sandbox is very real, but the way that we teach activity, relevance, trust, and authority. It trumps everything, including

The Google sandbox including proximity, including a whole bunch of other things, follow about Battle Plan to the letter, you get the services from MGYB.co the way that you’re told to do it and in, in the, in the one in the sequence that we tell you to do it, then you’re going to have the same if not better results than if you went and did all that work with, with an expired domain. And there’s no guarantee that that expired domain would hold its metrics. When it’s brought back, you’re still gonna have to do the work, you still gonna have to put in the content, you got to have to redo the content, you’re going to have to do a whole lot of work, when you could just go to MGYB.co and have us do it for you.

Bradley: I agree. So I said, I mean, it’s just so much, so much trouble that can go into building those ads. I just, I don’t think it’s worth it. I really don’t we can get results just as quickly with new domains. So unless you have found one that’s really super powerful I just wouldn’t even bother

Bradley: fit says good agent makes you part of it for you and it

Marco: will chime in. And the reason why he got some of my time is because he donated quite a bit of money to my charity and I decided to reciprocate by giving him some of my time so we had a really great call he’s in Australia by the way, so it’s really early in the morning for him to be on here. So thanks, Will.

How Do You Fix Duplicate Branded Syndication Networks That Were Purchased Via Fiverr?

Bradley: awesome thanks, Fitz says good day gents. Thanks for this form, ask real questions and get actionable answers I have a client who went to Fiverr and body syndication network and then worked with another marketer and bought a different network, many duplicates all branded. What should I do to fix that? Well, do you have access to those accounts is my point as if you if he bought these syndication networks and such from two different vendors, essentially. He probably has a login sheet right? Similar to you know,

We invented it or, you know. So I’m sure that the copy cat also provides a spreadsheet with all the accounts, the URLs, and the login data, what I would do is go in and I would, if I would log into the one that is the most closely branded to his brand name, you can’t have duplicate, right, you can’t have duplicate subdomains on WordPress or blogger or Tumblr or any of the other sites for that matter. So there has to be some sort of variation in the profile or the usernames, right. So I would take the one that is the most closely aligned with the actual brand and use that I would go in and update it. And then obviously go through and some SM style it Semantic Mastery style the syndication network. That’s number one, number two for the other one that’s out there. That’s also similarly branded. I don’t necessarily would say terminate those accounts, but I would make sure that you’re not syndicating to them anymore. In fact, if you have duplicate posts, and it’s not

I’m not talking about duplicate content guys, because that’s, that doesn’t happen on syndication networks. But if you have the same post posted on multiple semi branded networks, then I recommend removing that content specifically because you don’t, you don’t want to create a footprint with this with a blog syndication network or a syndication network where you’re syndicating website content, you can do it it’s fine with with YouTube, but with a blog now, where you know, with money site content, I don’t recommend that. So but that doesn’t mean you have to like go in and actually terminate those accounts, but I would manually go in and delete the existing content, and maybe just put up some kind of shitty content that might link to the other web to do to Dotto profiles. You know, just like one post on each one of the syndication network properties from the network that you’re not going to use right remove the IFTTT triggers, remove any content that’s been posted to both syndication networks, and then might just put some kind of short little article that’s relevant on each one of those other properties and maybe point to the profile URL on the the one that you’re going to keep right the network properties that you’re going to keep, that’s something I would do. And I would just leave it alone after that, and just continually update for the new or the syndication network that you decided to keep. If they’re both done very poorly, and you don’t want to go through which I don’t recommend, you know, I don’t blame me, if you don’t want to go through and actually update everything manually, then I would get access to all the accounts that you can go in and do what I just said to both sets of networks and by a well done Semantic Mastery stout network from MGYB. Right, and then maybe use those two other existing networks as a YouTube network or, you know, it could be possibly used for maybe a separate Twitter network or something like that.

Or you could do what I just said and just use them as kind of like a one-time link builder to your new network properties. If that makes sense. But I wouldn’t link directly back to the money site with those, you know, does that make sense? That’s what I would do. Because again, I totally understand it. By the way, if this guy bought his own syndication network at Fiverr, then he worked with another marketer. He’s probably one of those guys is going to micromanage you fits just so you’re aware of that if you have a business owner or client that has tried to do their own SEO work, and they’ve also hired somebody else to do something that they already attempted on their own. It’s probably going to they’re probably going to micromanage you as well. Just keep that in mind. Okay, I’m going to keep moving. That’s all right.

Is There A Risk Of Google Putting Home Address On The Web?

JACK says maps question please important client does professional services over the phone from home office don’t want home address under Google’s control, used paid use paid for Regis office locations in past but Google close them down? In your opinion, is there any risk of Google putting home address out there on the web as they don’t want their crazy client showing up at home. Are there any red flags to look out for in this plan? Thank you know not for if you’re going to do a Google My Business profile, no, you don’t have to worry about, you know, you need an address when you register in order for them to send the verification card. But it doesn’t publish the listing until you enter the verification code. So when you enter the verification code that you get in the postcard, then you immediately especially if it’s a service area business, which has to be professional services over the phone from home office. So yeah, I mean, you know, I would set that as a service area business, which means you go in and clear the physical address. Once you verify it, you go in into the Info tab and click on the location setting and then there’s a little link in their text link that says clear address and you click that and it’ll clear it and then save it so that it updates and you want to put your service areas in and then save it, Natalie, remove the address from being shown on maps. That’s absolutely

You Google is not going to publish that anywhere. The problem is if you want to build citations to help the maps listing rank, then a lot of the citation directories are going to require a physical address, like an actual street address. Some don’t, though, more more and more actually allowing service area businesses to add their data without a street address. But there’s still a ton of them out there to do required, so just keep that in mind. Okay.

But I wouldn’t worry about it not Google. Google’s not going to leak that at least I’ve never seen that. If you if you put it on, like Yelp or something like that word requires a street adjusting. Yeah, a lot of time. I mean, it’ll show but just don’t build citations on directories that require the street address if that’s the case. Scott says, Bradley, if you can fly to Haley, I’d have I’ll drive you to Denver. No, thanks. I’ve already got my ticket going flying directly to Denver, but thank you, Scott. I appreciate that.

How Do You Retain The Ranking Position Of A GMB Page Into 3-Pack Using Semantic Mastery Products?

Okay, I still need Hi, we only got about seven minutes left guys. He says I still need help for clients GMB ranking, it’s already it already has RYS Drive stack and G site built by SM a few years ago, I’m ordering a syndication network and we’ll add link building, then embed maps and link build would appreciate your suggestion to get just this back into the three-pack. That’s kind of a bit of a loaded question because I don’t know. Like, honestly, you should have had a syndication network, even really before the G site. And drive stack, that doesn’t mean that, you know, you can’t add that now you certainly can. But what I would recommend also doing is manually going back into your drive stack once your syndication network has been built and, you know, start including those links in the drive stack, link building to all of them. What are some press releases that always help? You can do a map embeds now with press releases and a lot of other things. So I would recommend that you know, make sure that your link, go go buy local GMB Pro, which is what we just talked about earlier, because you can actually do really good results, just doing stuff within the Google ecosystem includes posting and you know, a lot of the stuff that we talked about on local GMB Pro.

So that’s a question that you could get a hell of a lot more help with if you joined the mastermind. Or if you posted that, like more detail as to exactly what it is that you’ve got done. And where so that we can help fill in the gaps. Just get, you know, if you don’t have the Battle Plan, follow the Battle Plan. If you’ve got an RYS drive stack and a G site that was built a few years ago, but you never had a syndication network, it’s obvious that you didn’t, you either didn’t have the Battle Plan or you didn’t follow the plan that we laid out. So I recommend picking that up. If you don’t already have the Battle Plan. And just following that step by step, any of the pieces that are currently missing, add those pieces, right, and then just kind of follow each one of those processes. And that’s going to help you to get the results that you need. I’m not saying that that’s going to do it. You know, that’s the start. That’s always the foundation. If you need additional help with that though, that’s where you would you know, like I said, join the mastermind and get local GMB Pro. Once you have the foundation complete, does that make sense? Any comment on that guys?

Marco: Yeah, definitely the Battle Plan, Local GMB Pro is what’s going to create the activity that he’s going to need, right? Because its activity relevance, trust and authority, and local GMB Pro is totally an activity base.

Does Having A Single Link From A Press Release To A Deep Page Is Better Than Having Multiple Press Release Links?

Okay, well says going back to a previous question about PageRank. Does that mean that if you have a single link from a press release to a deep page is better than having multiple links from the press release just to get better-focused SEO just your landing page? Yes, that is true. Well, you know you’re, you get more juice through one link, one outbound link in a press release to whatever you know, you’re trying to push juice to then if you have three outbound links, right. If you have three outback bound links, you’re splitting the link equity three ways that make sense. So if you want to push all of the link equity for through one link to like you said a deep page, or like a blog post that might have an internal link to the page on your site that you’re trying to rank or something like that. Yeah, that’s again, that’s link sculpting. So,

Is It Okay To Use Spun Content For YouTube Descriptions?

Austin Don says, I’ve been doing we buy house city, we buy houses, city videos, is it alright to use spun content for YouTube descriptions? To write individual descriptions is very time-consuming. Thanks. Yeah, you know, Uhm Austin Don, if you’re in the Austin, Texas market, you probably have other people competing. So having good descriptions is helpful for YouTube SEO. But I don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube descriptions anymore. years ago, it was more important in my opinion. Now it’s more about having you know, the primary SEO factors of a YouTube video optimized like the title the tags, having the keyword, like as probably the first thing in the video description. I like having NAP data-name, address, phone number, primary URL, such as website, Google Maps URL, the URL, that version that I just shared this one right here, linking to your top tier one asset branded or entity assets, as we talked about. So linking to a Facebook page if you’re doing Facebook stuff, you know any business directories if you’re using press releases, the organization page, anything like that, I like to put all of that in the video description now, but I usually don’t really flesh out a whole lot of content, written text content for the video description. It’s more about a call to action, right and enlisting the NAP data and relevant links that are entered to kind of reinforce the entity. And then it’s about traditional SEO signals, embeds and or backlinks and engagement signals.

I’m telling you that’s the secret sauce is the engagement signals which you can by using YouTube ads incredibly inexpensive, and for I’m telling you even I’ve got campaigns running right now for the local video production company that I’ve been doing SEO for like five or six years that I have 40 cents per day is my budget. So I’m spending less than $15 a month it comes out to be like $12 a month that I’m spending to constantly feed that video on a daily basis with relevant views from a very specific geographic area because I set my location targeting from an audience that is relevant to the video itself. And it helps to keep those videos ranked. And we’re talking some of these videos have been ranked for years and I haven’t done a damn bit of SEO work since the moment I uploaded it to my channel. And it’s syndicated across my networks. All I’ve done is kept the ad campaigns going because it’s constantly the engagement signals that are coming in that are helping it to rank. So that’s what I would recommend is that you know don’t spend a shit ton of time optimizing the text. Just optimize the key the titles, the tags, put a relevant call to action, link out to your primary tier one entity assets, NAP included.

And then make sure that you do your traditional SEO stuff use playlist, the YouTube Silo Academy method embeds and or backlinks. But at the same time make sure that you set up a YouTube ad campaign for each one of those videos. Even if you just did you know, as I said, I’ve got campaigns running at 40 cents a day. That comes out to be like $12 a month and it works like wonders. Okay.

We gotta go guys. It’s at five o'clock. Any comments before I wrap it up, guys? Sorry about any questions we didn’t get to. Know. I would say get in where you fit in. That’s it. definitely time to pack up head out for POFU Live. Live, baby. See you guys. I’ll see you, Adam, tomorrow. Sounds good. Have a good one everyone. See you

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Adam: Alright, we are live Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. This is Episode 257. Today is the ninth of October 2019. And this is the last Hump Day hangouts before POFU Live 2019 in Denver. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, you’d like to show up whether you’re going to whether you live there you whether you want to drive in or you can make some last-minute flight plans, head to pofulive.com, grab your ticket. Now, before we get into it, just want to say if you’re joining us for the first time, thanks for watching, we’re going to get into questions and answers. If you’ve got any questions you’re watching us go ahead and pop them on the page at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. Remember to always head over there. If you’re watching on YouTube. We don’t want to read comments here. You’ve got to go to the page where we embed the video so that you can ask questions we can get to those. So with that said, let’s say hello guys real quick. We’re missing to the Semantic Mastery guys who I believe is started traveling over to POFU Live in Denver. Bradley, Marco and I are here today. So I’ll start at the top and say hello to Bradley. How are you doing?

Bradley: Good. How are you?

Adam: Not bad. Not bad. I’m enjoying some cooler weather here. It’s finally starting to act like a fall. It’s about 65-70 today.

Bradley: Well, you can enjoy cooler weather tomorrow when you get to Denver because it’s supposed to be snowing and freezing cold so

Adam: Yeah, I might have to post some pictures of her on maybe on the Facebook group or something like he heard on hates the cold weather and I think it’s supposed to be a high of 28 degrees tomorrow.

Bradley: Yeah, and snow to which is crazy, but it’s only tomorrow. Because then the rest of the time that we’re there it’s supposed to be between 65 and 70 during the day and then around 30 at night, but it was kind of interesting packing for that, you know?

Adam: Yeah, all over the place. Well, speaking of weather, Marco How are you doing, man?

Marco: I couldn’t be better. Like I couldn’t handle 28 I’m sorry. It’s not happening. I mean, it’s too late like a cold for me. I mentioned it before is 60-65 that range you know. We break out the old sheet and we cover ourselves it gets chilly man 28 gone from 65 to 20 I don’t think so.

Adam: That’s a big change and once it gets below 20 that’s where I start I can handle it depends on the window but yeah in the 20s still nice ones it’s sunny and then anyways tomorrow is going to be fun we’ll see how it goes with Hernan if he’s all bundled up and blankets and freezing to death or if he survives so. Anyways With that said, like I said earlier if you’re watching for the first time you’re in the right place, we’re going to get to q&a and answer your questions and appreciate you being here. Come here every week every Wednesday for pm eastern you can always ask your questions ahead of time as well if you know got a client call you’ve got some work you got things you got to do we understand that but you know benefit here is being live you can ask questions, clarify your questions, but like I said, if you have to you can ask your questions ahead of time at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions and then check out the replay on our YouTube channel, which you should subscribe to if you’re watching that right now.

And secondly, if you haven’t yet check out the Battle Plan right? That’s where you can get our step by step processes for getting results with everything from new websites, aged domains, YouTube channels, so much more. I’m not going to go through the entire laundry list of all the benefits there but head over to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. And if you want to join, you know, our mastermind is about a mastermind but you know, it’s both the mastermind, our mastermind. Basically what it is is an experienced community so you can get faster access to real-world info, testing and build that network of peers who are doing the same things we’re growing these digital marketing businesses or who have businesses and understand how they need to grow the digital marketing side of it. You can find out more about that and join at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And for everyone, we really recommend going over to mgyb.co. I mean we tell this to you watching these videos, we tell it to our mastermind members, we tell it to everyone

Else, you know if you can start building your team now. And part of that can be using MGYB to provide the services for you things like syndication networks are we as drive stack, press releases, link building embeds, all that sort of stuff. And there are a lot more great packages coming out where we’re going to help people get better, well, the literal package for Hey, you know, if your website is here, then you need these types of additions. You need these syndication networks. We’re going to make that a lot more streamlined so that you can do it for yourself, your projects as well as your clients. So keep your eyes and ears open for that. So with that said guys,

Marco: I have a couple of things. Yeah, right. Number one, people, they always ask us how to put everything together, they’ll go in and don’t order something. And the last, how do I put it together guys, it’s in the Battle Plan. I was just talking to my mini mastermind group. You guys know that I meet every Tuesday. In the evening with a mini mastermind group. I have seven people in there. I wish I could take more people because people keep reaching out to me and saying, hey, I want in on the group. But seven is more than enough. But the thing is that the people in my mini mastermind they follow the Battle Plan. I have a guy, that’s her over. But he started out at 12k a year in digital marketing and client work and SEO, whatever it is that he did. And this year, you know, he’s at around a quarter million for the year. And so it’s as simple as just buckling down doing the fucking work and following the instructions to the letter. You don’t veer from what we tell you to do until you’re ready to test and you shouldn’t be testing until you have a good revenue stream coming in that allows you to set aside time to do that kind of thing, right?

We got another one that Jeff right who went to POFU and he’s killing it. I mean, he’s ranking attorney type big attorney terms of ranking for it, for example, and IT services in New York City. Now imagine how competitive that is, but they’re like the companies have happier than a paycheck, because they’re number one for the term. And how did they do it? They follow the Battle Plan. They follow the instructions, they follow what we tell them, guys, how do you put it all together? Get the Battle Plan. Now, yes, the Battle Plan takes you to MGYB and the products and services. Why do we do that? Because it’s the simplest way we don’t want you doing all that work. Imagine the hours that you have to spend doing all that work keyword research three days. For the keyword research, really, do you really want to do that? Do you really want to spend all that time your client better be paying a whole lot of money to spend three days doing all of that keyword research, I mean, everything it takes time to do

Bradley: Marco, isn’t it more fun to buy shiny new software applications and spend all your time learning how to use it? Just to find out it doesn’t work very well.

Marco: That’s some work, right? Follow the next best, the next best. So it’s already there. We set the path out people who follow it are killing it. And that’s my point. And yes, we do send you to what works for us because it’s what we use guys. We use it, we apply it we get a result. And so we give it to you in a step by step method so that you can follow it through. So if you’re not doing it, you haven’t bought it go by the Battle Plan. It looks like a really simple PDF with links. But you do it step by step. I’m telling you, I just got validation yesterday from a couple of people that are in that range. I mean, you guys know Jordan.

You guys know, Jeff, you guys know, Ed, they’re telling it how following the Battle Plan. That’s one and two about the mastermind. I wanted to mention that it works is a two-way street. We do try to give people everything that works in the mastermind, right? And we do make everyone available that you’re free to exchange ideas and concepts and theories and tests and whatever. But every once in awhile, we’ll get in a thread, as we did with with with something that I talked about when doing silos. And it was a whole long thread and we went really deep into it. And then there’s another one about iframes now.

And then that one sent me into the rabbit hole, where I’m still testing and I’m getting really good results from some ideas that I got. Not like not directly but indirectly, as they posted. Okay, so can I do this Can I do that and I immediately started thinking, well, what if, and that’s when you read, your juices really start flowing? And what if I did this and I quoted it this way, and I hit it this way, and then it would cause no issues. And so what I’m thinking is anyone who attends POFU Live will have first crack at whatever I come up with, from my testing, because they deserve it. I mean, they took the time that they’re going to be there. And so we always say membership has its privileges. But this is a step up. This is a step where you’re trying to change the game and JN and Jeff Moore, Jeff sorry, they went to POFU Live, and they changed the whole mindset, they changed their business strategy, and they’re killing it. So So anyone going deserves it. And so that’s what I’m going to do and then at some future point, it’ll be shared with the mastermind, of course, I don’t know if it’ll be I’ll ever share it outside the mastermind.

But since the nugget was kind of the idea sprouted from a thread in the mastermind I think the mastermind deserves whatever comes from it. And I’m already testing and I’m already coding and that so this is the type of thing that goes on and in the mastermind, mastermind membership has its privileges. Attending POFU Live has its privileges. Most of the people that are in my mini mastermind, are people who went to POFU Live. So I just want to say about that definitely our mastermind members, but they also attended POFU Live and I think that they deserve special attention. That’s just my piece for today. Take it for what it’s worth, but I think it’s just totally worth joining the mastermind and attending POFU Live should be a must in your calendar.

Adam: Sounds good to me, like Marco said, Be there. That’s a pretty awesome thing that Marco is going to do there. So I don’t want to dive back into a Marco but I know that people work with you and your group have had a lot of success. And I’m sure that’s a no small part due to your involvement. So that’s pretty awesome. So if you want to grab your ticket, you can still make it we got a couple of days here before we kick things off on Friday for the VIP day and then Saturday and Sunday for the main event. You can grab your ticket at pofulive.com. Alright, guys, Bradley, anything else before we jump into it?

Bradley: No, I’m just excited too nervous at the same time because I gotta fly tomorrow. But looking forward to coming to Denver and hanging out with you guys and putting on a pretty cool presentation. I think that is pretty powerful. I think this is going to be just a really good event. So I’m excited about it.

Adam: Cool. All right. Let’s do it.

Bradley: All right, let me grab the screen. Stand by. Alright, you guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct.

Adam: Correct. Got your whole screen.

Bradley: All right. Not a lot of questions yet. So guys start posting. Otherwise, we’ll wrap it up a little bit early, which is fine because I’ve got still not 100% packed for I gotta leave really early tomorrow morning for my flight. So anyway, I don’t mind wrapping it up early if that’s what we need to do.

Is It Okay To Send A Full-Text Article With 20+ Affiliate Links Via RSS In A Single Tier Network?

But we’ll start with sutra he says when using a single tier, he’s talking about a single-tier syndication network, is it okay to send the full-text article via RSS? Even if the article has 20 plus affiliate links? I usually post 123 of these types of articles each day. Um, I would say no, and the reason why I say no is it not because it’s an SEO thing, but it’s likely that your blog accounts which would be like WordPress, Tumblr, blogger, not so much blogger but Tumblr and WordPress, will likely or may very well terminate the account for too many outbound links.

Especially like affiliate links and that kind of stuff that they don’t, they don’t typically like that. So I wouldn’t recommend that I would do a post summary. So set your RSS feed to just display the summary. That way, it’s really just pushing the juice back to your post URL that’s published on your blog, which is really all that matters, guys. I mean, if you’re doing a bunch of outbound linking in your blog posts anyways, whether it doesn’t, you don’t really need to worry about posting the full text because, you know, whether they’re nofollow or do follow, it doesn’t even matter. What I’m saying is what you’re looking for is the link back from the post on the syndication network properties back to the original post on your site. Right. And then obviously, if you’re doing internal SEO like on-page SEO correctly, then you’re going to have some sort of contextual link within the text of your blog post that goes up to our money, a money page, right so an actual page or something a category.

Whatever it is that you’re trying to rank on your site. So it really the benefit is pushing the juice from the syndication network properties back to the post URL that’s published on your blog. So I would recommend doing a summary post, you know, summary, just set the RSS feed settings to just display a summary instead of the full text. Now, that said, sometimes those can look spammy too. And sometimes you can find settings in your theme that will allow you to update the length of those RSS, like how much of the summary is shown. And so you might be able to set that and sometimes you have to actually edit the theme files in order for to, you know, to to adjust that some things will give you the option to do that, like it’s, you know, an option that you can set but other times you have to actually go in and edit the theme files. So that’s what I would recommend any comments?

Marco: Yeah, I would say no, and it’s for SEO and it’s because the whole idea behind this concept and what we do and why we send out iframes and everything that we do is to build PageRank. And the problem is, everything starts at PR one, correct? Everything on the web, it starts out at PR one. So if you have something that’s revenue, or even if it’s aged, it could only be a PR one. And the reason why is because you’re splitting the PageRank that you’re passing so low, that you can’t build it up properly. So you split it, you splitting it 20 times, and what you’re passing from a PR one isn’t PR one, it’s less than PR one. As I’ve said before, we’ve done the math we know within certain parameters, just how much PR is passed from a PR one and we know we know it’s a range. So when you splitting it, that fine you’re defeating the purpose of building up that PR building up that trust and authority and everything else. Not only that, having it be so spammy, it could just turn into a PR zero because of the fact that it’s so spammy. And so you’re not really passing anything. You’re not really doing anything is not mean you could grab some traffic. From that point, you could do so much more if you’re more selective with the way that you syndicate your affiliate links so that it doesn’t look so spammy so that it doesn’t look like it’s a whole bunch of garbage. And the only intent for that is to push your affiliate links, make it more user-friendly, making it more for the person that’s going to be reading it for the person to interact with that posts and with that content, and maybe share it maybe like it. Maybe visit the website, or those are all signals that you want. And I guarantee you that a spammy blog post with a whole bunch of affiliate links isn’t going to accomplish what you want.

Is It Good To Use And Embed The Original City Logo And Link The City Website Or Wikipedia City Page For A Local Service Website?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you. Mike says hello to a local service website. Do you think it’s a good idea to use and embed the original city logo and also link to the city website or Wikipedia city page? I can see the power in it, but I don’t think it’s a good idea. Thanks. Well, Mike, that’s what was pretty much standard operating procedure back in like 2012. And for a long time, you know, that was just traditional way they call it conventional wisdom when it came to I didn’t, does conventional wisdom is oftentimes not very smart. It’s just what people think is right. And conventional wisdom for the longest time was that you would link to always a.gov or a Wikipedia page, or, you know, excuse me, a Wikipedia page or a.gov site or a that, especially if you’re doing local to that, you know, corresponding Wikipedia page or the local government website or something like that. And that was supposed to add relevancy, which isn’t true. That’s that hasn’t been true for many, many years. Because Google doesn’t care about you linking to a Wikipedia page about a particular city unless it’s relevant to the content on that page. And even though you might be optimized, you know, for like a plumber and in particular city, just linking to that Wikipedia page arbitrarily with the keyword or without the keyword, whatever, just linking to that page really doesn’t do much, right. It’s not the algorithm is much smarter than that. Now, if you are citing something about that city, like some facts about the city or something that makes it relevant, and you want to cite the source where you gleaned that content from So for example, if you are curating content from a Wikipedia page or a.gov site about that particular city, then you want to cite the source now that adds that that’s a proper way to link to it. And Google can clearly see the relationship between why and why you’re linking to that. But you know, again, years ago, we used to mean just about everybody used to do it. What I always recommend is link outbound linking to relevant content that’s relevant to the concept within the body of the content that you’re linking to, like, in other words, that your UYY just linked to the city page or to the Wikipedia page. If the page is about plumbing services in a particular city.

It doesn’t really make sense just to link to the city website unless there’s a reason for it. And so, again, I’ve always gone back to I mean, four years since probably 2014 timeframe, I stopped doing that stopped doing what was conventional wisdom, and started linking to more relevant pages. So for example, linking to an article on bob Vila calm or do it yourself network or something like that, right, some sort of, like if it’s a plumbing website, right? linking to something that’s more relevant to the content of the page. And then if you want to have some sort of local relevancy in there, why not embed the map or a mind map or driving directions map from the store or the location of the business to that city or something like that, that That, to me makes a lot more sense. It’s more relevant. And so that’s the type of thing that I’ve always done as far as embedding a city logo from another website. I don’t recommend doing that. Because if you don’t have permission to use that, remember that that logo is likely trademarked or even if it’s not trademarked, it’s probably a copyright issue. Because I can tell you one thing you don’t want to do when you curate content and by the way, we have a training for a full training program called Content Kingpin which will teach you all about curating and why it’s very it’s so powerful because it creates co-citation, it allows you to generate content much quicker, it’s much more efficient, you don’t have to learn. You don’t have to be a content or subject matter expert. In order to be able to generate content, you just have to know how to locate it, and put it together in a logical fashion and then cite the sources properly. So I would recommend you look at that because one of the things that we learned the hard way, is you never want to curate images. Ever. Okay? Unless you there, wiki, what do they call Wiki Commons there? I don’t recommend ever curating images because you will, you can end up getting copyright infringement and be sued for that. And a lot of times like, it’s happened to me, it’s happened to me for almost three years in a row was two years in a row where I got hit with copyright.

Basically extortion letters where they would say you’ve got to pay so much or we’re taking you to court for copyright infringement and you’d have to pay or else they would take your ass to court, and it sucks so I learned a long time ago. Never curate images so I would really highly recommend not embedding a city logo. And don’t just arbitrarily link to a city Wikipedia page or a city government website, unless there’s a specific reason for it, that you clearly identify in the content that you’re let you know why you’re linking to it. If that makes sense. You’re much better off linking to something that’s more relevant. You want to comment on that, Marco?

Marco: I agree. Because there’s activity relevance, relevance, trust, and authority. Right? You’re much better off linking to something that has you know, that that’s updated regularly, and events page what’s going on, in you know, in the city, landmark, places to see if there are if this park, just anything, it’s just going a little bit further in as far as the geolocation is, yes, you’re part of the city. So it stands to reason that you would think I want to link to the Wikipedia city page for this, but you can go further and make get even more relevant. And in fact, if you can get that city schedule, into a calendar of events, the way that we do in RYS Academy Reloaded, and load those ups, and that’s constantly changing, and that’s constantly pushing, all of that relevance, everything that’s happening in that city, and mixed in with those calendar events are your events, what’s happening with your business, whatever it is, whether you want to coupon special, whether you want to send them to the GMB, the map, just whatever it is, you mix in all of that with all of the other relevance and it works a whole lot better than just simply making to the city page for x reason, which there’s really no reason.

Bradley: Yeah. I mean, again, that’s been such old tactics that you know, if it really worked well, Google would have killed it a long time ago because it’s been used forever. As I said, it’s just that it was like common knowledge. Conventional wisdom is just what people did and for the longest time I would you know, I would argue why would Why do you do that? Well, because you know, it’s adding relevancy I will have you tested it. Because if you test it, you’ll find that it doesn’t really do shit, you’re much better off linking the relevant content and I like curated content for that reason because it clearly gives a reason to link out to something and it can create co-citation, which is, is pretty powerful too. So

What’s The Difference Between Maps SEO And Website SEO?

Jonathan says are the map embeds the only thing MGYB sells for maps Seo? No, not by far. My furnace guy wants to rank in maps but doesn’t care about his website. What is the main difference in maps SEO versus website SEO? Well, there’s a lot of similarities, a lot of overlap. But with maps SEO there, you know, you can focus entirely on the Google properties, right, the Google ecosystem. So the map URL itself, I’m going to demonstrate how to get the best map URL to build links to you can do map embeds. You can do citation building. You know if he’s got legit if you say it’s your furnace guy, so I’m assuming is you know, HVAC guy, and he’s got a real business, then it’s probably registered to a real address. Even if it’s a service area business, you can build citations for that. That’s something I always recommend doing if you have a valid address. So there are I mean, there are a number of things that you can do, but very specifically MGYB sells, I mean, pretty much every one of our services can be applied to ranking in maps or maps SEO as you called it, right.

So for example, let me just give you a couple of examples here. This is something that you can go check out GMB.reviewsmaker.com, right. So let’s just go to I’m just going to type in HVAC contractor, Culpepper, for example. Okay, so I’m going to click on KNM Heating and Air heating and air conditioning. And in fact, actually, let me just copy that name. And this is what I’m going to do. So this is how you can get the best URL to build links to if you’re going to be doing link building to the map, right. So there are embeds, there’s also link building, there are press releases, there’s you can which you can embed a map in the press release. Plus, you can also create a contextual link or just a naked URL in the actual press release. To back to the map itself, I’m going to give you a few examples here of how you can get better results. So let’s go back to Google for it first. Here’s a couple of ways that you can do this. Number one, you can go into your GMB dashboard or your client’s GMB dashboard. And on the Info tab, where you’ll always see this one little section where it says view on maps or view on search and view on maps. You can right-click on the view on maps and copy the link address and paste it into a notepad file and then reformat it I’m going to show you the correct format. So that’s one way to find it. The best URL for building links to a map, Google map right. The second way is to go type in or go search for your client’s business name on Google. So in this case, I’m going to search for KNM Heating and Air Inc because that’s just the example that I pulled, then I’m going to click through to the maps listing.

And you’ll see up here in the US the address bar of Chrome, I’ve got this long, ugly URL, right? Well, if you go to GMB dot review, make reviews maker calm, okay, and you click to decode place ID, and just paste that long maps URL in there and click the code place Id take a second, then it’s going to come down and it’s going to give you this maps URL right here. Okay, I’m going to copy that link address. And I’m going to paste that into a notepad file. Now, if you take a look at this URL, I’ll show you and I’ve demonstrated this before, but I want to answer this question thoroughly for him. If we go to like, where it goes com or something like that, some sort of redirect tracer. I could paste that URL that it gives you, right? So from here, and if we take a look at this, you’ll see that this has got a 302 redirect built into it. In fact, there are two of them. So that is not a good URL to use for link building. Like if you want to build links to this URL, you’re not passing any PageRank or link equity essentially, through these two, three or two redirects, that stops it dead, right. So in other words, you can link to it, you somebody could click on that link, and it’s going to navigate, or jump to the final target URL or the destination, which is this. But as far as passing link equity, if you’re to build links to this, it’s not going to pass any. So it’s not a good URL to build links to which by the way, this URL right here, that the share URL, take a look at how many redirects are in this one. If we go back to where goes.

It might even there it goes. Look at that. Look, how many redirects are in there. Three 302 redirects and no matter refresh, so that’s not a good URL, either this share URL, don’t build links that are dumb. It does, it does no good, right? So what you want to do is you want to take that URL, which by the way, you can just take the URL from here and go to a redirect tracer, and then paste it in and then copy the final URL, or just memorize this, which is what I did. It’s very simple. copy that URL, and then just change it, just rearrange it to where you change the maps right there. So maps.google.com, you would change it to www.google.com. Then forward-slash question mark. See ID equals is what the original one is. So all you want to do is move maps from before and the subdomain from maps to the right after the forward-slash, then it’s question marks the ID equals and we’ll take that, Copy that, paste it in. So it’s just a quick change or modification of the URL. And now watch this. If we take this, we go back to a redirect tracer.

Quick, Tracy well there’s no reason XC that now if we go load that URL into the address bar and click Go, you’ll see once the page loads, it converts to that long URL, but it’s not technically a redirect. Right. So that’s the best URL to build links to is this one right here. So that’s something else that you can do. Right. So like I mentioned before, you can embed a map into press releases. You can also build links directly to this map URL, right. So that’s one thing you can do. RYS Drive stacks are incredibly powerful. If you provide the NAP. The name, address and phone number of the business, as well as the maps URL will build a drive stack that is hyper optimized for that specific location, right and will push a ton of power directly to the Google properties especially like you said, if he’s not interested in ranking a website, you can select to push all of the juice from the drive stack back to the maps the Google properties which would be the maps GMB website, will you’ll get it, you should order the, excuse me, the Google Site along with that the Google site will be part of that. So you can build all of the power back to the actual maps listing.

However, there are a couple other things I want to mention. Let’s see, just just because there are a few other points here that you can add additional power to, right. So for a note, another one is the reviews. This company, in particular, has 21 reviews, I don’t know how many your client has. But if we click on that review link, right, it’s going to pull up here Well, that is a different URL. So up here is another URL, I would suggest using your own three one redirects creator. There are a number of of them out there that you can use that are free, some of them that are paid like a subscription base, and others that you can create three one redirects from a plugin through your through a website, which is what I, you know, I prefer to do that through my own domain or something through or through a branded domain or a domain that I’m using specifically for redirects, that kind of thing. But if you take a guy here, open up Firefox just to show you that URL right there, I would create a 301 redirect out of that URL. And what’s it do? It automatically loads to these reviews. So you can push link equity into this. Well, let’s not stop there. What about each one of these individual reviews? For example, if I was to click Share on that one from Alan Jackson, which sounds like looks like a lot of the users’ spam, I don’t know. Jackson’s a country singer and Ronnie White is a Ron White isn’t a comedian. But if we’re to take that URL right there and paste that in, you’ll see that that is a separate URL, like that’s a redirect, as I just talked about, if you click the Share URL, it’s going to give you a redirect. So watch what happens when we trace that one. This is for the individual review. It’s still a 302 redirect. So that’s not what you want to build links to not this. What you want to build links to is this, which again, if you want to make it a pretty URL, all you got to do is use a 301 redirect creator.

As I said, there are some free ones out there, there are some ones that you can pay for a subscription basis, like a rebrand, delete rebrand.ly, for example of one, or there’s another one. Or like, what I like to do is use my own domain or clients domain, and use the pretty links pro plugin to create 301 redirects. Okay? Either way, that’s the URL you want to build to. And that’s the same URLs, what’s up here? Right, but you can build it through a 301 redirect. And look, that’s an individual review within that maps listing. And if this one’s got 21 reviews, that’s 21 additional link targets, right? Plus this one is a link target, which is the overall reviews URL plus the maps URL itself, right, which in this version of it that I just talked about being the best version. There’s more to think about photos, right? For example, this guy’s only got looks like it’s at four, but I’m only Well, maybe that was, let’s go back into photos here. For photos, it says for photos, each one of these areas a separate URL. So my point is if you’re just going to be doing map stuff for a client, what I like to do is extract all the URLs from the maps listing, set up redirects so that they’re pretty and they’re short, much easier to manage. And then start using those and link building campaigns, which you can also use those to be included in a drive stack as target URLs where we will build the drive stack to be targeting each one of those separate URLs. And what happens is you push juice into this listing from all different angles and every single point that you can push link equity into it. It’s very, very powerful. You want to

Marco: Yeah, he’s asking about maps SEO, and I’m just going to say local GMB Pro. It’s what set the standard for GMB optimization every other course came after copied what we did. So if you want the Trailblazer the standard bear the one that laid it down on how it’s properly done. There you go and get local GMB pro and you can learn what Bradley just talked about more in-depth, along with many other things that you could do to push the GMB the map into the three-pack, which is what your client is looking for. They don’t care about the website fine. So you work entirely within the GMB ecosystem, which is what local GMB Pro is all about. So guys, if you really want to do this, right, if you want that heart into the three-pack, you go into local GMP Pro.

Bradley: That’s right. And that’s an in there, we talked about various other things. I’m not going to talk about specific methods here, but just so you know that again, this this this client, or this client is not my client, but this contractor, HVAC contractor is also doing GMB posts, he probably has an SEO that is working on his stuff. And take a look at that guys. Again, these are all additional link targets, right? We copy that URL and go back to the redirect tracer, which I already closed.

And once again, this is a GMB post URL, right? It’s going to redirect, don’t ever use the share URLs for SEO purposes. You can use it for navigation purposes. But look, how many redirects are there. So what you want to do is end up taking this URL, and using that as that could be potentially another link target. Right? So that makes sense. So if we’re going to just open up that URL and see it didn’t bring it up, it’s probably the one prior to that this one, which is okay, because that’s a meta refresh, so that, that’s fine. Let’s open it up there.

There, see I brought it up, it brought that post up to the very top. So the same thing goes you can take an older post and do the same thing you could share it, grab, copy the share URL. Put it in now local GMB Pro, we talk about a hell of a lot of really cool things that you can do a GMB post, I’m not going to talk about here. But I’m just saying you can actually use these posts as additional places to build links to the right. So again, this one right here, I would take this URL, copy that, that’s what I would build links to and watch what happens if I load that into the browser. It’s going to pull up that post at the top See, the one that I just shared. So it makes sense. So all of those are linked targets. That’s why I said there’s just a ton of different things that you can do to push additional power into their not just through and beds and beds are very powerful. Don’t get me wrong, but there’s a number of other things that you can do. So that was a good question.

Does Google Sandbox New Domains For At Least 3 Weeks Or Longer?

Gordon’s up he says, Hey, guys, I don’t want to sound like a broken record. But I just want to say again, your Hump Day help is very much appreciated. Well, you’re welcome, Gordon. And we do appreciate that as well. If I remember correctly, you said in the past that you prefer to use a new domain instead of an aged domain to rank a local lead gen site. So you can control the name of the domain for SEO purposes and for branding purposes. That is correct. I have said that. But I was wondering if in fact Google does sandbox new domains for at least three weeks or probably longer other than losing the branding and partial keyword and domain benefit. Why is it not better to use a niche related aged domain with a clean niche related backlink profile? And if you use an aged domain would you need to to rebuild the old site pages and the old links pointing to using way back point old links point to using Wayback Machine the old things point to excuse me the way that I read that was wrong and if you use an aged domain, would you need to rebuild the old site pages that the old links point to using Wayback machine in order not to lose the link juice? Okay, so the first question is because I’m able to typically especially when I’m trying to rank for local stuff, the right which is what the maps I don’t

Is that getting a new brand new domains? Fine, because I’m not looking for the initial, the, you know, an existing link profile because it really doesn’t matter. Like I mean, if if the sites built really well and everything else, then it can have an effect on the maps, there’s no question. But as we were just talking about in the previous question, we can typically get results without even having a self-hosted website, if that makes sense, right? Because we can focus on specifically just the GMB properties and get results. That said, I always prefer to have a branded type of domain, one that I can build a brand around for, if especially for lead gen stuff that I could use in other locations, right, which is why I talked about if I’m going to have a website, I like to use subdomains with the city name is the subdomain so that I can build upon a particular brand.

Does that mean that you cannot that you can’t start with an aged domain that has been dropped by somebody else or whatever, and build a brand around that I suppose you could? But the problem that I would see with that is that there may be some other existing content on the web that can ambiguate, right? That’s a key term that can ambiguate the brand that you’re trying to build or the data that you’re trying to build through your new location, your new setup. Right? Now, if you’re talking about strictly organic SEO, yes, there’s some benefit for building through an aged domain that has a clean link profile. But having a clean link profile is kind of difficult to do or else why was I mean, a lot, I mean, you will find some domains like that, but they’re few and far between. A lot of times the aged domains that have been dropped are just they either have a shitty link profile or a non-existent link profile. In other words, they might have one or two links that are actually, you know, decent links, if any at all. And so my point is, I would rather just go with something new that’s branded so that I have more control over the content that’s going to be published and everything else and not have to worry about any sort of invigoration not have to worry about any potential links out there.

On the web that is toxic to it, or they’re going to cause any problems as I start building out the new project if that makes sense. So, I mean, there, you certainly can do that. If you want. I don’t recommend it. I don’t, you know, the only time I would use aged domains really is if I was building what I would call feeder sites are like PBNs, right? Because that kind of help to shortcut the process a little bit since you’re not starting from scratch. But when it came to a brand for lead gen site, or for a client, I would always recommend using a brand new one. Now if you are going to build an old domain, yes, it is better to rebuild those pages. You can do that using the Wayback Machine. It’ll you know you can download HTML files and upload those. There’s a couple of plugins and services out there where you can subscribe to or pay for credits I believe that will actually create a file of the Wayback Machine stuff that makes it much easier I know there’s some plugins I can’t even think was named now there’s there.

I know there are some plugins out there that will do that on a WordPress site to where you just basically, you can enter a file or upload the zip file that you get from the Wayback Machine. And it will automatically build out the old pages with the old content, you might have to do some formatting and stuff to them. But you can do that. And I would recommend doing that, or at least building some sort of page that has similar content on it doesn’t have to be the exact duplicates or replication of the old pages. But if it had a good link profile, and it ever in anybody ever goes and looks at, you know, the webmasters of the sites that were linking to that, and they noticed that there was a big change in the page or just doesn’t exist anymore, they may take that link down. So the reason why you would rebuild those previous pages or you know, the pages that aren’t there anymore, is because you’d want the links that were built to that page to stay there. That’s really the only reason where else you could just do a redirect.

My point is, if you just did a redirect from the old URL to the homepage or to a new URL, and a webmaster says, was analyzing or looking at the site and saying, you know, from one of their pages on their site, there was a link to your, to the, to the domain that they had linked to previously. And they look at and say, well, that’s not what I had linked to, I’m going to remove that, then you lose that link. And so you start to ultimately lose the power of having an aged domain with an inbound link profile anyways. And that happens unless you rebuild the pages, or have them redirected to something that’s very similar so that it’s still a value to the site that was originally linking to it. That all said, usually, when you’re dealing with, like, especially local business type sites, it’s just not worth all that trouble. You’re better off and you’re able to get just as quickly as just results just as quickly, excuse me, using methods that we talked about with a brand new domain. So Marco, do want to comment on that before we move on?

Marco: Yeah, absolutely. So imagine it if McDonald’s had come out with McDonald’s of Illinois, if Coca Cola wherever it began, it had come out with the Madison, if you have that, that that one, if you have that one that will boom, nationally or globally, you’re going to have to go and redo all of the work that you’ve done. Yeah, of course, it’s going to be worth it. But I’m the type and I know Bradley is too, that hates doing work, the same work over again. So why going and you have to do the work over again, when you can start off with a brand that doesn’t necessarily have to pigeonhole itself with geolocation or geographically because you can do that with a category or a pages category. It has the same effect. You don’t need it. And the Google sandbox is very real, but the way that we teach activity, relevance, trust, and authority. It trumps everything, including

The Google sandbox including proximity, including a whole bunch of other things, follow about Battle Plan to the letter, you get the services from MGYB.co the way that you’re told to do it and in, in the, in the one in the sequence that we tell you to do it, then you’re going to have the same if not better results than if you went and did all that work with, with an expired domain. And there’s no guarantee that that expired domain would hold its metrics. When it’s brought back, you’re still gonna have to do the work, you still gonna have to put in the content, you got to have to redo the content, you’re going to have to do a whole lot of work, when you could just go to MGYB.co and have us do it for you.

Bradley: I agree. So I said, I mean, it’s just so much, so much trouble that can go into building those ads. I just, I don’t think it’s worth it. I really don’t we can get results just as quickly with new domains. So unless you have found one that’s really super powerful I just wouldn’t even bother

Bradley: fit says good agent makes you part of it for you and it

Marco: will chime in. And the reason why he got some of my time is because he donated quite a bit of money to my charity and I decided to reciprocate by giving him some of my time so we had a really great call he’s in Australia by the way, so it’s really early in the morning for him to be on here. So thanks, Will.

How Do You Fix Duplicate Branded Syndication Networks That Were Purchased Via Fiverr?

Bradley: awesome thanks, Fitz says good day gents. Thanks for this form, ask real questions and get actionable answers I have a client who went to Fiverr and body syndication network and then worked with another marketer and bought a different network, many duplicates all branded. What should I do to fix that? Well, do you have access to those accounts is my point as if you if he bought these syndication networks and such from two different vendors, essentially. He probably has a login sheet right? Similar to you know,

We invented it or, you know. So I’m sure that the copy cat also provides a spreadsheet with all the accounts, the URLs, and the login data, what I would do is go in and I would, if I would log into the one that is the most closely branded to his brand name, you can’t have duplicate, right, you can’t have duplicate subdomains on WordPress or blogger or Tumblr or any of the other sites for that matter. So there has to be some sort of variation in the profile or the usernames, right. So I would take the one that is the most closely aligned with the actual brand and use that I would go in and update it. And then obviously go through and some SM style it Semantic Mastery style the syndication network. That’s number one, number two for the other one that’s out there. That’s also similarly branded. I don’t necessarily would say terminate those accounts, but I would make sure that you’re not syndicating to them anymore. In fact, if you have duplicate posts, and it’s not

I’m not talking about duplicate content guys, because that’s, that doesn’t happen on syndication networks. But if you have the same post posted on multiple semi branded networks, then I recommend removing that content specifically because you don’t, you don’t want to create a footprint with this with a blog syndication network or a syndication network where you’re syndicating website content, you can do it it’s fine with with YouTube, but with a blog now, where you know, with money site content, I don’t recommend that. So but that doesn’t mean you have to like go in and actually terminate those accounts, but I would manually go in and delete the existing content, and maybe just put up some kind of shitty content that might link to the other web to do to Dotto profiles. You know, just like one post on each one of the syndication network properties from the network that you’re not going to use right remove the IFTTT triggers, remove any content that’s been posted to both syndication networks, and then might just put some kind of short little article that’s relevant on each one of those other properties and maybe point to the profile URL on the the one that you’re going to keep right the network properties that you’re going to keep, that’s something I would do. And I would just leave it alone after that, and just continually update for the new or the syndication network that you decided to keep. If they’re both done very poorly, and you don’t want to go through which I don’t recommend, you know, I don’t blame me, if you don’t want to go through and actually update everything manually, then I would get access to all the accounts that you can go in and do what I just said to both sets of networks and by a well done Semantic Mastery stout network from MGYB. Right, and then maybe use those two other existing networks as a YouTube network or, you know, it could be possibly used for maybe a separate Twitter network or something like that.

Or you could do what I just said and just use them as kind of like a one-time link builder to your new network properties. If that makes sense. But I wouldn’t link directly back to the money site with those, you know, does that make sense? That’s what I would do. Because again, I totally understand it. By the way, if this guy bought his own syndication network at Fiverr, then he worked with another marketer. He’s probably one of those guys is going to micromanage you fits just so you’re aware of that if you have a business owner or client that has tried to do their own SEO work, and they’ve also hired somebody else to do something that they already attempted on their own. It’s probably going to they’re probably going to micromanage you as well. Just keep that in mind. Okay, I’m going to keep moving. That’s all right.

Is There A Risk Of Google Putting Home Address On The Web?

JACK says maps question please important client does professional services over the phone from home office don’t want home address under Google’s control, used paid use paid for Regis office locations in past but Google close them down? In your opinion, is there any risk of Google putting home address out there on the web as they don’t want their crazy client showing up at home. Are there any red flags to look out for in this plan? Thank you know not for if you’re going to do a Google My Business profile, no, you don’t have to worry about, you know, you need an address when you register in order for them to send the verification card. But it doesn’t publish the listing until you enter the verification code. So when you enter the verification code that you get in the postcard, then you immediately especially if it’s a service area business, which has to be professional services over the phone from home office. So yeah, I mean, you know, I would set that as a service area business, which means you go in and clear the physical address. Once you verify it, you go in into the Info tab and click on the location setting and then there’s a little link in their text link that says clear address and you click that and it’ll clear it and then save it so that it updates and you want to put your service areas in and then save it, Natalie, remove the address from being shown on maps. That’s absolutely

You Google is not going to publish that anywhere. The problem is if you want to build citations to help the maps listing rank, then a lot of the citation directories are going to require a physical address, like an actual street address. Some don’t, though, more more and more actually allowing service area businesses to add their data without a street address. But there’s still a ton of them out there to do required, so just keep that in mind. Okay.

But I wouldn’t worry about it not Google. Google’s not going to leak that at least I’ve never seen that. If you if you put it on, like Yelp or something like that word requires a street adjusting. Yeah, a lot of time. I mean, it’ll show but just don’t build citations on directories that require the street address if that’s the case. Scott says, Bradley, if you can fly to Haley, I’d have I’ll drive you to Denver. No, thanks. I’ve already got my ticket going flying directly to Denver, but thank you, Scott. I appreciate that.

How Do You Retain The Ranking Position Of A GMB Page Into 3-Pack Using Semantic Mastery Products?

Okay, I still need Hi, we only got about seven minutes left guys. He says I still need help for clients GMB ranking, it’s already it already has RYS Drive stack and G site built by SM a few years ago, I’m ordering a syndication network and we’ll add link building, then embed maps and link build would appreciate your suggestion to get just this back into the three-pack. That’s kind of a bit of a loaded question because I don’t know. Like, honestly, you should have had a syndication network, even really before the G site. And drive stack, that doesn’t mean that, you know, you can’t add that now you certainly can. But what I would recommend also doing is manually going back into your drive stack once your syndication network has been built and, you know, start including those links in the drive stack, link building to all of them. What are some press releases that always help? You can do a map embeds now with press releases and a lot of other things. So I would recommend that you know, make sure that your link, go go buy local GMB Pro, which is what we just talked about earlier, because you can actually do really good results, just doing stuff within the Google ecosystem includes posting and you know, a lot of the stuff that we talked about on local GMB Pro.

So that’s a question that you could get a hell of a lot more help with if you joined the mastermind. Or if you posted that, like more detail as to exactly what it is that you’ve got done. And where so that we can help fill in the gaps. Just get, you know, if you don’t have the Battle Plan, follow the Battle Plan. If you’ve got an RYS drive stack and a G site that was built a few years ago, but you never had a syndication network, it’s obvious that you didn’t, you either didn’t have the Battle Plan or you didn’t follow the plan that we laid out. So I recommend picking that up. If you don’t already have the Battle Plan. And just following that step by step, any of the pieces that are currently missing, add those pieces, right, and then just kind of follow each one of those processes. And that’s going to help you to get the results that you need. I’m not saying that that’s going to do it. You know, that’s the start. That’s always the foundation. If you need additional help with that though, that’s where you would you know, like I said, join the mastermind and get local GMB Pro. Once you have the foundation complete, does that make sense? Any comment on that guys?

Marco: Yeah, definitely the Battle Plan, Local GMB Pro is what’s going to create the activity that he’s going to need, right? Because its activity relevance, trust and authority, and local GMB Pro is totally an activity base.

Does Having A Single Link From A Press Release To A Deep Page Is Better Than Having Multiple Press Release Links?

Okay, well says going back to a previous question about PageRank. Does that mean that if you have a single link from a press release to a deep page is better than having multiple links from the press release just to get better-focused SEO just your landing page? Yes, that is true. Well, you know you’re, you get more juice through one link, one outbound link in a press release to whatever you know, you’re trying to push juice to then if you have three outbound links, right. If you have three outback bound links, you’re splitting the link equity three ways that make sense. So if you want to push all of the link equity for through one link to like you said a deep page, or like a blog post that might have an internal link to the page on your site that you’re trying to rank or something like that. Yeah, that’s again, that’s link sculpting. So,

Is It Okay To Use Spun Content For YouTube Descriptions?

Austin Don says, I’ve been doing we buy house city, we buy houses, city videos, is it alright to use spun content for YouTube descriptions? To write individual descriptions is very time-consuming. Thanks. Yeah, you know, Uhm Austin Don, if you’re in the Austin, Texas market, you probably have other people competing. So having good descriptions is helpful for YouTube SEO. But I don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube descriptions anymore. years ago, it was more important in my opinion. Now it’s more about having you know, the primary SEO factors of a YouTube video optimized like the title the tags, having the keyword, like as probably the first thing in the video description. I like having NAP data-name, address, phone number, primary URL, such as website, Google Maps URL, the URL, that version that I just shared this one right here, linking to your top tier one asset branded or entity assets, as we talked about. So linking to a Facebook page if you’re doing Facebook stuff, you know any business directories if you’re using press releases, the organization page, anything like that, I like to put all of that in the video description now, but I usually don’t really flesh out a whole lot of content, written text content for the video description. It’s more about a call to action, right and enlisting the NAP data and relevant links that are entered to kind of reinforce the entity. And then it’s about traditional SEO signals, embeds and or backlinks and engagement signals.

I’m telling you that’s the secret sauce is the engagement signals which you can by using YouTube ads incredibly inexpensive, and for I’m telling you even I’ve got campaigns running right now for the local video production company that I’ve been doing SEO for like five or six years that I have 40 cents per day is my budget. So I’m spending less than $15 a month it comes out to be like $12 a month that I’m spending to constantly feed that video on a daily basis with relevant views from a very specific geographic area because I set my location targeting from an audience that is relevant to the video itself. And it helps to keep those videos ranked. And we’re talking some of these videos have been ranked for years and I haven’t done a damn bit of SEO work since the moment I uploaded it to my channel. And it’s syndicated across my networks. All I’ve done is kept the ad campaigns going because it’s constantly the engagement signals that are coming in that are helping it to rank. So that’s what I would recommend is that you know don’t spend a shit ton of time optimizing the text. Just optimize the key the titles, the tags, put a relevant call to action, link out to your primary tier one entity assets, NAP included.

And then make sure that you do your traditional SEO stuff use playlist, the YouTube Silo Academy method embeds and or backlinks. But at the same time make sure that you set up a YouTube ad campaign for each one of those videos. Even if you just did you know, as I said, I’ve got campaigns running at 40 cents a day. That comes out to be like $12 a month and it works like wonders. Okay.

We gotta go guys. It’s at five o'clock. Any comments before I wrap it up, guys? Sorry about any questions we didn’t get to. Know. I would say get in where you fit in. That’s it. definitely time to pack up head out for POFU Live. Live, baby. See you guys. I’ll see you, Adam, tomorrow. Sounds good. Have a good one everyone. See you

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Adam: Alright, we are live Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. This is Episode 257. Today is the ninth of October 2019. And this is the last Hump Day hangouts before POFU Live 2019 in Denver. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, you’d like to show up whether you’re going to whether you live there you whether you want to drive in or you can make some last-minute flight plans, head to pofulive.com, grab your ticket. Now, before we get into it, just want to say if you’re joining us for the first time, thanks for watching, we’re going to get into questions and answers. If you’ve got any questions you’re watching us go ahead and pop them on the page at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. Remember to always head over there. If you’re watching on YouTube. We don’t want to read comments here. You’ve got to go to the page where we embed the video so that you can ask questions we can get to those. So with that said, let’s say hello guys real quick. We’re missing to the Semantic Mastery guys who I believe is started traveling over to POFU Live in Denver. Bradley, Marco and I are here today. So I’ll start at the top and say hello to Bradley. How are you doing?

Bradley: Good. How are you?

Adam: Not bad. Not bad. I’m enjoying some cooler weather here. It’s finally starting to act like a fall. It’s about 65-70 today.

Bradley: Well, you can enjoy cooler weather tomorrow when you get to Denver because it’s supposed to be snowing and freezing cold so

Adam: Yeah, I might have to post some pictures of her on maybe on the Facebook group or something like he heard on hates the cold weather and I think it’s supposed to be a high of 28 degrees tomorrow.

Bradley: Yeah, and snow to which is crazy, but it’s only tomorrow. Because then the rest of the time that we’re there it’s supposed to be between 65 and 70 during the day and then around 30 at night, but it was kind of interesting packing for that, you know?

Adam: Yeah, all over the place. Well, speaking of weather, Marco How are you doing, man?

Marco: I couldn’t be better. Like I couldn’t handle 28 I’m sorry. It’s not happening. I mean, it’s too late like a cold for me. I mentioned it before is 60-65 that range you know. We break out the old sheet and we cover ourselves it gets chilly man 28 gone from 65 to 20 I don’t think so.

Adam: That’s a big change and once it gets below 20 that’s where I start I can handle it depends on the window but yeah in the 20s still nice ones it’s sunny and then anyways tomorrow is going to be fun we’ll see how it goes with Hernan if he’s all bundled up and blankets and freezing to death or if he survives so. Anyways With that said, like I said earlier if you’re watching for the first time you’re in the right place, we’re going to get to q&a and answer your questions and appreciate you being here. Come here every week every Wednesday for pm eastern you can always ask your questions ahead of time as well if you know got a client call you’ve got some work you got things you got to do we understand that but you know benefit here is being live you can ask questions, clarify your questions, but like I said, if you have to you can ask your questions ahead of time at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions and then check out the replay on our YouTube channel, which you should subscribe to if you’re watching that right now.

And secondly, if you haven’t yet check out the Battle Plan right? That’s where you can get our step by step processes for getting results with everything from new websites, aged domains, YouTube channels, so much more. I’m not going to go through the entire laundry list of all the benefits there but head over to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. And if you want to join, you know, our mastermind is about a mastermind but you know, it’s both the mastermind, our mastermind. Basically what it is is an experienced community so you can get faster access to real-world info, testing and build that network of peers who are doing the same things we’re growing these digital marketing businesses or who have businesses and understand how they need to grow the digital marketing side of it. You can find out more about that and join at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And for everyone, we really recommend going over to mgyb.co. I mean we tell this to you watching these videos, we tell it to our mastermind members, we tell it to everyone

Else, you know if you can start building your team now. And part of that can be using MGYB to provide the services for you things like syndication networks are we as drive stack, press releases, link building embeds, all that sort of stuff. And there are a lot more great packages coming out where we’re going to help people get better, well, the literal package for Hey, you know, if your website is here, then you need these types of additions. You need these syndication networks. We’re going to make that a lot more streamlined so that you can do it for yourself, your projects as well as your clients. So keep your eyes and ears open for that. So with that said guys,

Marco: I have a couple of things. Yeah, right. Number one, people, they always ask us how to put everything together, they’ll go in and don’t order something. And the last, how do I put it together guys, it’s in the Battle Plan. I was just talking to my mini mastermind group. You guys know that I meet every Tuesday. In the evening with a mini mastermind group. I have seven people in there. I wish I could take more people because people keep reaching out to me and saying, hey, I want in on the group. But seven is more than enough. But the thing is that the people in my mini mastermind they follow the Battle Plan. I have a guy, that’s her over. But he started out at 12k a year in digital marketing and client work and SEO, whatever it is that he did. And this year, you know, he’s at around a quarter million for the year. And so it’s as simple as just buckling down doing the fucking work and following the instructions to the letter. You don’t veer from what we tell you to do until you’re ready to test and you shouldn’t be testing until you have a good revenue stream coming in that allows you to set aside time to do that kind of thing, right?

We got another one that Jeff right who went to POFU and he’s killing it. I mean, he’s ranking attorney type big attorney terms of ranking for it, for example, and IT services in New York City. Now imagine how competitive that is, but they’re like the companies have happier than a paycheck, because they’re number one for the term. And how did they do it? They follow the Battle Plan. They follow the instructions, they follow what we tell them, guys, how do you put it all together? Get the Battle Plan. Now, yes, the Battle Plan takes you to MGYB and the products and services. Why do we do that? Because it’s the simplest way we don’t want you doing all that work. Imagine the hours that you have to spend doing all that work keyword research three days. For the keyword research, really, do you really want to do that? Do you really want to spend all that time your client better be paying a whole lot of money to spend three days doing all of that keyword research, I mean, everything it takes time to do

Bradley: Marco, isn’t it more fun to buy shiny new software applications and spend all your time learning how to use it? Just to find out it doesn’t work very well.

Marco: That’s some work, right? Follow the next best, the next best. So it’s already there. We set the path out people who follow it are killing it. And that’s my point. And yes, we do send you to what works for us because it’s what we use guys. We use it, we apply it we get a result. And so we give it to you in a step by step method so that you can follow it through. So if you’re not doing it, you haven’t bought it go by the Battle Plan. It looks like a really simple PDF with links. But you do it step by step. I’m telling you, I just got validation yesterday from a couple of people that are in that range. I mean, you guys know Jordan.

You guys know, Jeff, you guys know, Ed, they’re telling it how following the Battle Plan. That’s one and two about the mastermind. I wanted to mention that it works is a two-way street. We do try to give people everything that works in the mastermind, right? And we do make everyone available that you’re free to exchange ideas and concepts and theories and tests and whatever. But every once in awhile, we’ll get in a thread, as we did with with with something that I talked about when doing silos. And it was a whole long thread and we went really deep into it. And then there’s another one about iframes now.

And then that one sent me into the rabbit hole, where I’m still testing and I’m getting really good results from some ideas that I got. Not like not directly but indirectly, as they posted. Okay, so can I do this Can I do that and I immediately started thinking, well, what if, and that’s when you read, your juices really start flowing? And what if I did this and I quoted it this way, and I hit it this way, and then it would cause no issues. And so what I’m thinking is anyone who attends POFU Live will have first crack at whatever I come up with, from my testing, because they deserve it. I mean, they took the time that they’re going to be there. And so we always say membership has its privileges. But this is a step up. This is a step where you’re trying to change the game and JN and Jeff Moore, Jeff sorry, they went to POFU Live, and they changed the whole mindset, they changed their business strategy, and they’re killing it. So So anyone going deserves it. And so that’s what I’m going to do and then at some future point, it’ll be shared with the mastermind, of course, I don’t know if it’ll be I’ll ever share it outside the mastermind.

But since the nugget was kind of the idea sprouted from a thread in the mastermind I think the mastermind deserves whatever comes from it. And I’m already testing and I’m already coding and that so this is the type of thing that goes on and in the mastermind, mastermind membership has its privileges. Attending POFU Live has its privileges. Most of the people that are in my mini mastermind, are people who went to POFU Live. So I just want to say about that definitely our mastermind members, but they also attended POFU Live and I think that they deserve special attention. That’s just my piece for today. Take it for what it’s worth, but I think it’s just totally worth joining the mastermind and attending POFU Live should be a must in your calendar.

Adam: Sounds good to me, like Marco said, Be there. That’s a pretty awesome thing that Marco is going to do there. So I don’t want to dive back into a Marco but I know that people work with you and your group have had a lot of success. And I’m sure that’s a no small part due to your involvement. So that’s pretty awesome. So if you want to grab your ticket, you can still make it we got a couple of days here before we kick things off on Friday for the VIP day and then Saturday and Sunday for the main event. You can grab your ticket at pofulive.com. Alright, guys, Bradley, anything else before we jump into it?

Bradley: No, I’m just excited too nervous at the same time because I gotta fly tomorrow. But looking forward to coming to Denver and hanging out with you guys and putting on a pretty cool presentation. I think that is pretty powerful. I think this is going to be just a really good event. So I’m excited about it.

Adam: Cool. All right. Let’s do it.

Bradley: All right, let me grab the screen. Stand by. Alright, you guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct.

Adam: Correct. Got your whole screen.

Bradley: All right. Not a lot of questions yet. So guys start posting. Otherwise, we’ll wrap it up a little bit early, which is fine because I’ve got still not 100% packed for I gotta leave really early tomorrow morning for my flight. So anyway, I don’t mind wrapping it up early if that’s what we need to do.

Is It Okay To Send A Full-Text Article With 20+ Affiliate Links Via RSS In A Single Tier Network?

But we’ll start with sutra he says when using a single tier, he’s talking about a single-tier syndication network, is it okay to send the full-text article via RSS? Even if the article has 20 plus affiliate links? I usually post 123 of these types of articles each day. Um, I would say no, and the reason why I say no is it not because it’s an SEO thing, but it’s likely that your blog accounts which would be like WordPress, Tumblr, blogger, not so much blogger but Tumblr and WordPress, will likely or may very well terminate the account for too many outbound links.

Especially like affiliate links and that kind of stuff that they don’t, they don’t typically like that. So I wouldn’t recommend that I would do a post summary. So set your RSS feed to just display the summary. That way, it’s really just pushing the juice back to your post URL that’s published on your blog, which is really all that matters, guys. I mean, if you’re doing a bunch of outbound linking in your blog posts anyways, whether it doesn’t, you don’t really need to worry about posting the full text because, you know, whether they’re nofollow or do follow, it doesn’t even matter. What I’m saying is what you’re looking for is the link back from the post on the syndication network properties back to the original post on your site. Right. And then obviously, if you’re doing internal SEO like on-page SEO correctly, then you’re going to have some sort of contextual link within the text of your blog post that goes up to our money, a money page, right so an actual page or something a category.

Whatever it is that you’re trying to rank on your site. So it really the benefit is pushing the juice from the syndication network properties back to the post URL that’s published on your blog. So I would recommend doing a summary post, you know, summary, just set the RSS feed settings to just display a summary instead of the full text. Now, that said, sometimes those can look spammy too. And sometimes you can find settings in your theme that will allow you to update the length of those RSS, like how much of the summary is shown. And so you might be able to set that and sometimes you have to actually edit the theme files in order for to, you know, to to adjust that some things will give you the option to do that, like it’s, you know, an option that you can set but other times you have to actually go in and edit the theme files. So that’s what I would recommend any comments?

Marco: Yeah, I would say no, and it’s for SEO and it’s because the whole idea behind this concept and what we do and why we send out iframes and everything that we do is to build PageRank. And the problem is, everything starts at PR one, correct? Everything on the web, it starts out at PR one. So if you have something that’s revenue, or even if it’s aged, it could only be a PR one. And the reason why is because you’re splitting the PageRank that you’re passing so low, that you can’t build it up properly. So you split it, you splitting it 20 times, and what you’re passing from a PR one isn’t PR one, it’s less than PR one. As I’ve said before, we’ve done the math we know within certain parameters, just how much PR is passed from a PR one and we know we know it’s a range. So when you splitting it, that fine you’re defeating the purpose of building up that PR building up that trust and authority and everything else. Not only that, having it be so spammy, it could just turn into a PR zero because of the fact that it’s so spammy. And so you’re not really passing anything. You’re not really doing anything is not mean you could grab some traffic. From that point, you could do so much more if you’re more selective with the way that you syndicate your affiliate links so that it doesn’t look so spammy so that it doesn’t look like it’s a whole bunch of garbage. And the only intent for that is to push your affiliate links, make it more user-friendly, making it more for the person that’s going to be reading it for the person to interact with that posts and with that content, and maybe share it maybe like it. Maybe visit the website, or those are all signals that you want. And I guarantee you that a spammy blog post with a whole bunch of affiliate links isn’t going to accomplish what you want.

Is It Good To Use And Embed The Original City Logo And Link The City Website Or Wikipedia City Page For A Local Service Website?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you. Mike says hello to a local service website. Do you think it’s a good idea to use and embed the original city logo and also link to the city website or Wikipedia city page? I can see the power in it, but I don’t think it’s a good idea. Thanks. Well, Mike, that’s what was pretty much standard operating procedure back in like 2012. And for a long time, you know, that was just traditional way they call it conventional wisdom when it came to I didn’t, does conventional wisdom is oftentimes not very smart. It’s just what people think is right. And conventional wisdom for the longest time was that you would link to always a.gov or a Wikipedia page, or, you know, excuse me, a Wikipedia page or a.gov site or a that, especially if you’re doing local to that, you know, corresponding Wikipedia page or the local government website or something like that. And that was supposed to add relevancy, which isn’t true. That’s that hasn’t been true for many, many years. Because Google doesn’t care about you linking to a Wikipedia page about a particular city unless it’s relevant to the content on that page. And even though you might be optimized, you know, for like a plumber and in particular city, just linking to that Wikipedia page arbitrarily with the keyword or without the keyword, whatever, just linking to that page really doesn’t do much, right. It’s not the algorithm is much smarter than that. Now, if you are citing something about that city, like some facts about the city or something that makes it relevant, and you want to cite the source where you gleaned that content from So for example, if you are curating content from a Wikipedia page or a.gov site about that particular city, then you want to cite the source now that adds that that’s a proper way to link to it. And Google can clearly see the relationship between why and why you’re linking to that. But you know, again, years ago, we used to mean just about everybody used to do it. What I always recommend is link outbound linking to relevant content that’s relevant to the concept within the body of the content that you’re linking to, like, in other words, that your UYY just linked to the city page or to the Wikipedia page. If the page is about plumbing services in a particular city.

It doesn’t really make sense just to link to the city website unless there’s a reason for it. And so, again, I’ve always gone back to I mean, four years since probably 2014 timeframe, I stopped doing that stopped doing what was conventional wisdom, and started linking to more relevant pages. So for example, linking to an article on bob Vila calm or do it yourself network or something like that, right, some sort of, like if it’s a plumbing website, right? linking to something that’s more relevant to the content of the page. And then if you want to have some sort of local relevancy in there, why not embed the map or a mind map or driving directions map from the store or the location of the business to that city or something like that, that That, to me makes a lot more sense. It’s more relevant. And so that’s the type of thing that I’ve always done as far as embedding a city logo from another website. I don’t recommend doing that. Because if you don’t have permission to use that, remember that that logo is likely trademarked or even if it’s not trademarked, it’s probably a copyright issue. Because I can tell you one thing you don’t want to do when you curate content and by the way, we have a training for a full training program called Content Kingpin which will teach you all about curating and why it’s very it’s so powerful because it creates co-citation, it allows you to generate content much quicker, it’s much more efficient, you don’t have to learn. You don’t have to be a content or subject matter expert. In order to be able to generate content, you just have to know how to locate it, and put it together in a logical fashion and then cite the sources properly. So I would recommend you look at that because one of the things that we learned the hard way, is you never want to curate images. Ever. Okay? Unless you there, wiki, what do they call Wiki Commons there? I don’t recommend ever curating images because you will, you can end up getting copyright infringement and be sued for that. And a lot of times like, it’s happened to me, it’s happened to me for almost three years in a row was two years in a row where I got hit with copyright.

Basically extortion letters where they would say you’ve got to pay so much or we’re taking you to court for copyright infringement and you’d have to pay or else they would take your ass to court, and it sucks so I learned a long time ago. Never curate images so I would really highly recommend not embedding a city logo. And don’t just arbitrarily link to a city Wikipedia page or a city government website, unless there’s a specific reason for it, that you clearly identify in the content that you’re let you know why you’re linking to it. If that makes sense. You’re much better off linking to something that’s more relevant. You want to comment on that, Marco?

Marco: I agree. Because there’s activity relevance, relevance, trust, and authority. Right? You’re much better off linking to something that has you know, that that’s updated regularly, and events page what’s going on, in you know, in the city, landmark, places to see if there are if this park, just anything, it’s just going a little bit further in as far as the geolocation is, yes, you’re part of the city. So it stands to reason that you would think I want to link to the Wikipedia city page for this, but you can go further and make get even more relevant. And in fact, if you can get that city schedule, into a calendar of events, the way that we do in RYS Academy Reloaded, and load those ups, and that’s constantly changing, and that’s constantly pushing, all of that relevance, everything that’s happening in that city, and mixed in with those calendar events are your events, what’s happening with your business, whatever it is, whether you want to coupon special, whether you want to send them to the GMB, the map, just whatever it is, you mix in all of that with all of the other relevance and it works a whole lot better than just simply making to the city page for x reason, which there’s really no reason.

Bradley: Yeah. I mean, again, that’s been such old tactics that you know, if it really worked well, Google would have killed it a long time ago because it’s been used forever. As I said, it’s just that it was like common knowledge. Conventional wisdom is just what people did and for the longest time I would you know, I would argue why would Why do you do that? Well, because you know, it’s adding relevancy I will have you tested it. Because if you test it, you’ll find that it doesn’t really do shit, you’re much better off linking the relevant content and I like curated content for that reason because it clearly gives a reason to link out to something and it can create co-citation, which is, is pretty powerful too. So

What’s The Difference Between Maps SEO And Website SEO?

Jonathan says are the map embeds the only thing MGYB sells for maps Seo? No, not by far. My furnace guy wants to rank in maps but doesn’t care about his website. What is the main difference in maps SEO versus website SEO? Well, there’s a lot of similarities, a lot of overlap. But with maps SEO there, you know, you can focus entirely on the Google properties, right, the Google ecosystem. So the map URL itself, I’m going to demonstrate how to get the best map URL to build links to you can do map embeds. You can do citation building. You know if he’s got legit if you say it’s your furnace guy, so I’m assuming is you know, HVAC guy, and he’s got a real business, then it’s probably registered to a real address. Even if it’s a service area business, you can build citations for that. That’s something I always recommend doing if you have a valid address. So there are I mean, there are a number of things that you can do, but very specifically MGYB sells, I mean, pretty much every one of our services can be applied to ranking in maps or maps SEO as you called it, right.

So for example, let me just give you a couple of examples here. This is something that you can go check out GMB.reviewsmaker.com, right. So let’s just go to I’m just going to type in HVAC contractor, Culpepper, for example. Okay, so I’m going to click on KNM Heating and Air heating and air conditioning. And in fact, actually, let me just copy that name. And this is what I’m going to do. So this is how you can get the best URL to build links to if you’re going to be doing link building to the map, right. So there are embeds, there’s also link building, there are press releases, there’s you can which you can embed a map in the press release. Plus, you can also create a contextual link or just a naked URL in the actual press release. To back to the map itself, I’m going to give you a few examples here of how you can get better results. So let’s go back to Google for it first. Here’s a couple of ways that you can do this. Number one, you can go into your GMB dashboard or your client’s GMB dashboard. And on the Info tab, where you’ll always see this one little section where it says view on maps or view on search and view on maps. You can right-click on the view on maps and copy the link address and paste it into a notepad file and then reformat it I’m going to show you the correct format. So that’s one way to find it. The best URL for building links to a map, Google map right. The second way is to go type in or go search for your client’s business name on Google. So in this case, I’m going to search for KNM Heating and Air Inc because that’s just the example that I pulled, then I’m going to click through to the maps listing.

And you’ll see up here in the US the address bar of Chrome, I’ve got this long, ugly URL, right? Well, if you go to GMB dot review, make reviews maker calm, okay, and you click to decode place ID, and just paste that long maps URL in there and click the code place Id take a second, then it’s going to come down and it’s going to give you this maps URL right here. Okay, I’m going to copy that link address. And I’m going to paste that into a notepad file. Now, if you take a look at this URL, I’ll show you and I’ve demonstrated this before, but I want to answer this question thoroughly for him. If we go to like, where it goes com or something like that, some sort of redirect tracer. I could paste that URL that it gives you, right? So from here, and if we take a look at this, you’ll see that this has got a 302 redirect built into it. In fact, there are two of them. So that is not a good URL to use for link building. Like if you want to build links to this URL, you’re not passing any PageRank or link equity essentially, through these two, three or two redirects, that stops it dead, right. So in other words, you can link to it, you somebody could click on that link, and it’s going to navigate, or jump to the final target URL or the destination, which is this. But as far as passing link equity, if you’re to build links to this, it’s not going to pass any. So it’s not a good URL to build links to which by the way, this URL right here, that the share URL, take a look at how many redirects are in this one. If we go back to where goes.

It might even there it goes. Look at that. Look, how many redirects are in there. Three 302 redirects and no matter refresh, so that’s not a good URL, either this share URL, don’t build links that are dumb. It does, it does no good, right? So what you want to do is you want to take that URL, which by the way, you can just take the URL from here and go to a redirect tracer, and then paste it in and then copy the final URL, or just memorize this, which is what I did. It’s very simple. copy that URL, and then just change it, just rearrange it to where you change the maps right there. So maps.google.com, you would change it to www.google.com. Then forward-slash question mark. See ID equals is what the original one is. So all you want to do is move maps from before and the subdomain from maps to the right after the forward-slash, then it’s question marks the ID equals and we’ll take that, Copy that, paste it in. So it’s just a quick change or modification of the URL. And now watch this. If we take this, we go back to a redirect tracer.

Quick, Tracy well there’s no reason XC that now if we go load that URL into the address bar and click Go, you’ll see once the page loads, it converts to that long URL, but it’s not technically a redirect. Right. So that’s the best URL to build links to is this one right here. So that’s something else that you can do. Right. So like I mentioned before, you can embed a map into press releases. You can also build links directly to this map URL, right. So that’s one thing you can do. RYS Drive stacks are incredibly powerful. If you provide the NAP. The name, address and phone number of the business, as well as the maps URL will build a drive stack that is hyper optimized for that specific location, right and will push a ton of power directly to the Google properties especially like you said, if he’s not interested in ranking a website, you can select to push all of the juice from the drive stack back to the maps the Google properties which would be the maps GMB website, will you’ll get it, you should order the, excuse me, the Google Site along with that the Google site will be part of that. So you can build all of the power back to the actual maps listing.

However, there are a couple other things I want to mention. Let’s see, just just because there are a few other points here that you can add additional power to, right. So for a note, another one is the reviews. This company, in particular, has 21 reviews, I don’t know how many your client has. But if we click on that review link, right, it’s going to pull up here Well, that is a different URL. So up here is another URL, I would suggest using your own three one redirects creator. There are a number of of them out there that you can use that are free, some of them that are paid like a subscription base, and others that you can create three one redirects from a plugin through your through a website, which is what I, you know, I prefer to do that through my own domain or something through or through a branded domain or a domain that I’m using specifically for redirects, that kind of thing. But if you take a guy here, open up Firefox just to show you that URL right there, I would create a 301 redirect out of that URL. And what’s it do? It automatically loads to these reviews. So you can push link equity into this. Well, let’s not stop there. What about each one of these individual reviews? For example, if I was to click Share on that one from Alan Jackson, which sounds like looks like a lot of the users’ spam, I don’t know. Jackson’s a country singer and Ronnie White is a Ron White isn’t a comedian. But if we’re to take that URL right there and paste that in, you’ll see that that is a separate URL, like that’s a redirect, as I just talked about, if you click the Share URL, it’s going to give you a redirect. So watch what happens when we trace that one. This is for the individual review. It’s still a 302 redirect. So that’s not what you want to build links to not this. What you want to build links to is this, which again, if you want to make it a pretty URL, all you got to do is use a 301 redirect creator.

As I said, there are some free ones out there, there are some ones that you can pay for a subscription basis, like a rebrand, delete rebrand.ly, for example of one, or there’s another one. Or like, what I like to do is use my own domain or clients domain, and use the pretty links pro plugin to create 301 redirects. Okay? Either way, that’s the URL you want to build to. And that’s the same URLs, what’s up here? Right, but you can build it through a 301 redirect. And look, that’s an individual review within that maps listing. And if this one’s got 21 reviews, that’s 21 additional link targets, right? Plus this one is a link target, which is the overall reviews URL plus the maps URL itself, right, which in this version of it that I just talked about being the best version. There’s more to think about photos, right? For example, this guy’s only got looks like it’s at four, but I’m only Well, maybe that was, let’s go back into photos here. For photos, it says for photos, each one of these areas a separate URL. So my point is if you’re just going to be doing map stuff for a client, what I like to do is extract all the URLs from the maps listing, set up redirects so that they’re pretty and they’re short, much easier to manage. And then start using those and link building campaigns, which you can also use those to be included in a drive stack as target URLs where we will build the drive stack to be targeting each one of those separate URLs. And what happens is you push juice into this listing from all different angles and every single point that you can push link equity into it. It’s very, very powerful. You want to

Marco: Yeah, he’s asking about maps SEO, and I’m just going to say local GMB Pro. It’s what set the standard for GMB optimization every other course came after copied what we did. So if you want the Trailblazer the standard bear the one that laid it down on how it’s properly done. There you go and get local GMB pro and you can learn what Bradley just talked about more in-depth, along with many other things that you could do to push the GMB the map into the three-pack, which is what your client is looking for. They don’t care about the website fine. So you work entirely within the GMB ecosystem, which is what local GMB Pro is all about. So guys, if you really want to do this, right, if you want that heart into the three-pack, you go into local GMP Pro.

Bradley: That’s right. And that’s an in there, we talked about various other things. I’m not going to talk about specific methods here, but just so you know that again, this this this client, or this client is not my client, but this contractor, HVAC contractor is also doing GMB posts, he probably has an SEO that is working on his stuff. And take a look at that guys. Again, these are all additional link targets, right? We copy that URL and go back to the redirect tracer, which I already closed.

And once again, this is a GMB post URL, right? It’s going to redirect, don’t ever use the share URLs for SEO purposes. You can use it for navigation purposes. But look, how many redirects are there. So what you want to do is end up taking this URL, and using that as that could be potentially another link target. Right? So that makes sense. So if we’re going to just open up that URL and see it didn’t bring it up, it’s probably the one prior to that this one, which is okay, because that’s a meta refresh, so that, that’s fine. Let’s open it up there.

There, see I brought it up, it brought that post up to the very top. So the same thing goes you can take an older post and do the same thing you could share it, grab, copy the share URL. Put it in now local GMB Pro, we talk about a hell of a lot of really cool things that you can do a GMB post, I’m not going to talk about here. But I’m just saying you can actually use these posts as additional places to build links to the right. So again, this one right here, I would take this URL, copy that, that’s what I would build links to and watch what happens if I load that into the browser. It’s going to pull up that post at the top See, the one that I just shared. So it makes sense. So all of those are linked targets. That’s why I said there’s just a ton of different things that you can do to push additional power into their not just through and beds and beds are very powerful. Don’t get me wrong, but there’s a number of other things that you can do. So that was a good question.

Does Google Sandbox New Domains For At Least 3 Weeks Or Longer?

Gordon’s up he says, Hey, guys, I don’t want to sound like a broken record. But I just want to say again, your Hump Day help is very much appreciated. Well, you’re welcome, Gordon. And we do appreciate that as well. If I remember correctly, you said in the past that you prefer to use a new domain instead of an aged domain to rank a local lead gen site. So you can control the name of the domain for SEO purposes and for branding purposes. That is correct. I have said that. But I was wondering if in fact Google does sandbox new domains for at least three weeks or probably longer other than losing the branding and partial keyword and domain benefit. Why is it not better to use a niche related aged domain with a clean niche related backlink profile? And if you use an aged domain would you need to to rebuild the old site pages and the old links pointing to using way back point old links point to using Wayback Machine the old things point to excuse me the way that I read that was wrong and if you use an aged domain, would you need to rebuild the old site pages that the old links point to using Wayback machine in order not to lose the link juice? Okay, so the first question is because I’m able to typically especially when I’m trying to rank for local stuff, the right which is what the maps I don’t

Is that getting a new brand new domains? Fine, because I’m not looking for the initial, the, you know, an existing link profile because it really doesn’t matter. Like I mean, if if the sites built really well and everything else, then it can have an effect on the maps, there’s no question. But as we were just talking about in the previous question, we can typically get results without even having a self-hosted website, if that makes sense, right? Because we can focus on specifically just the GMB properties and get results. That said, I always prefer to have a branded type of domain, one that I can build a brand around for, if especially for lead gen stuff that I could use in other locations, right, which is why I talked about if I’m going to have a website, I like to use subdomains with the city name is the subdomain so that I can build upon a particular brand.

Does that mean that you cannot that you can’t start with an aged domain that has been dropped by somebody else or whatever, and build a brand around that I suppose you could? But the problem that I would see with that is that there may be some other existing content on the web that can ambiguate, right? That’s a key term that can ambiguate the brand that you’re trying to build or the data that you’re trying to build through your new location, your new setup. Right? Now, if you’re talking about strictly organic SEO, yes, there’s some benefit for building through an aged domain that has a clean link profile. But having a clean link profile is kind of difficult to do or else why was I mean, a lot, I mean, you will find some domains like that, but they’re few and far between. A lot of times the aged domains that have been dropped are just they either have a shitty link profile or a non-existent link profile. In other words, they might have one or two links that are actually, you know, decent links, if any at all. And so my point is, I would rather just go with something new that’s branded so that I have more control over the content that’s going to be published and everything else and not have to worry about any sort of invigoration not have to worry about any potential links out there.

On the web that is toxic to it, or they’re going to cause any problems as I start building out the new project if that makes sense. So, I mean, there, you certainly can do that. If you want. I don’t recommend it. I don’t, you know, the only time I would use aged domains really is if I was building what I would call feeder sites are like PBNs, right? Because that kind of help to shortcut the process a little bit since you’re not starting from scratch. But when it came to a brand for lead gen site, or for a client, I would always recommend using a brand new one. Now if you are going to build an old domain, yes, it is better to rebuild those pages. You can do that using the Wayback Machine. It’ll you know you can download HTML files and upload those. There’s a couple of plugins and services out there where you can subscribe to or pay for credits I believe that will actually create a file of the Wayback Machine stuff that makes it much easier I know there’s some plugins I can’t even think was named now there’s there.

I know there are some plugins out there that will do that on a WordPress site to where you just basically, you can enter a file or upload the zip file that you get from the Wayback Machine. And it will automatically build out the old pages with the old content, you might have to do some formatting and stuff to them. But you can do that. And I would recommend doing that, or at least building some sort of page that has similar content on it doesn’t have to be the exact duplicates or replication of the old pages. But if it had a good link profile, and it ever in anybody ever goes and looks at, you know, the webmasters of the sites that were linking to that, and they noticed that there was a big change in the page or just doesn’t exist anymore, they may take that link down. So the reason why you would rebuild those previous pages or you know, the pages that aren’t there anymore, is because you’d want the links that were built to that page to stay there. That’s really the only reason where else you could just do a redirect.

My point is, if you just did a redirect from the old URL to the homepage or to a new URL, and a webmaster says, was analyzing or looking at the site and saying, you know, from one of their pages on their site, there was a link to your, to the, to the domain that they had linked to previously. And they look at and say, well, that’s not what I had linked to, I’m going to remove that, then you lose that link. And so you start to ultimately lose the power of having an aged domain with an inbound link profile anyways. And that happens unless you rebuild the pages, or have them redirected to something that’s very similar so that it’s still a value to the site that was originally linking to it. That all said, usually, when you’re dealing with, like, especially local business type sites, it’s just not worth all that trouble. You’re better off and you’re able to get just as quickly as just results just as quickly, excuse me, using methods that we talked about with a brand new domain. So Marco, do want to comment on that before we move on?

Marco: Yeah, absolutely. So imagine it if McDonald’s had come out with McDonald’s of Illinois, if Coca Cola wherever it began, it had come out with the Madison, if you have that, that that one, if you have that one that will boom, nationally or globally, you’re going to have to go and redo all of the work that you’ve done. Yeah, of course, it’s going to be worth it. But I’m the type and I know Bradley is too, that hates doing work, the same work over again. So why going and you have to do the work over again, when you can start off with a brand that doesn’t necessarily have to pigeonhole itself with geolocation or geographically because you can do that with a category or a pages category. It has the same effect. You don’t need it. And the Google sandbox is very real, but the way that we teach activity, relevance, trust, and authority. It trumps everything, including

The Google sandbox including proximity, including a whole bunch of other things, follow about Battle Plan to the letter, you get the services from MGYB.co the way that you’re told to do it and in, in the, in the one in the sequence that we tell you to do it, then you’re going to have the same if not better results than if you went and did all that work with, with an expired domain. And there’s no guarantee that that expired domain would hold its metrics. When it’s brought back, you’re still gonna have to do the work, you still gonna have to put in the content, you got to have to redo the content, you’re going to have to do a whole lot of work, when you could just go to MGYB.co and have us do it for you.

Bradley: I agree. So I said, I mean, it’s just so much, so much trouble that can go into building those ads. I just, I don’t think it’s worth it. I really don’t we can get results just as quickly with new domains. So unless you have found one that’s really super powerful I just wouldn’t even bother

Bradley: fit says good agent makes you part of it for you and it

Marco: will chime in. And the reason why he got some of my time is because he donated quite a bit of money to my charity and I decided to reciprocate by giving him some of my time so we had a really great call he’s in Australia by the way, so it’s really early in the morning for him to be on here. So thanks, Will.

How Do You Fix Duplicate Branded Syndication Networks That Were Purchased Via Fiverr?

Bradley: awesome thanks, Fitz says good day gents. Thanks for this form, ask real questions and get actionable answers I have a client who went to Fiverr and body syndication network and then worked with another marketer and bought a different network, many duplicates all branded. What should I do to fix that? Well, do you have access to those accounts is my point as if you if he bought these syndication networks and such from two different vendors, essentially. He probably has a login sheet right? Similar to you know,

We invented it or, you know. So I’m sure that the copy cat also provides a spreadsheet with all the accounts, the URLs, and the login data, what I would do is go in and I would, if I would log into the one that is the most closely branded to his brand name, you can’t have duplicate, right, you can’t have duplicate subdomains on WordPress or blogger or Tumblr or any of the other sites for that matter. So there has to be some sort of variation in the profile or the usernames, right. So I would take the one that is the most closely aligned with the actual brand and use that I would go in and update it. And then obviously go through and some SM style it Semantic Mastery style the syndication network. That’s number one, number two for the other one that’s out there. That’s also similarly branded. I don’t necessarily would say terminate those accounts, but I would make sure that you’re not syndicating to them anymore. In fact, if you have duplicate posts, and it’s not

I’m not talking about duplicate content guys, because that’s, that doesn’t happen on syndication networks. But if you have the same post posted on multiple semi branded networks, then I recommend removing that content specifically because you don’t, you don’t want to create a footprint with this with a blog syndication network or a syndication network where you’re syndicating website content, you can do it it’s fine with with YouTube, but with a blog now, where you know, with money site content, I don’t recommend that. So but that doesn’t mean you have to like go in and actually terminate those accounts, but I would manually go in and delete the existing content, and maybe just put up some kind of shitty content that might link to the other web to do to Dotto profiles. You know, just like one post on each one of the syndication network properties from the network that you’re not going to use right remove the IFTTT triggers, remove any content that’s been posted to both syndication networks, and then might just put some kind of short little article that’s relevant on each one of those other properties and maybe point to the profile URL on the the one that you’re going to keep right the network properties that you’re going to keep, that’s something I would do. And I would just leave it alone after that, and just continually update for the new or the syndication network that you decided to keep. If they’re both done very poorly, and you don’t want to go through which I don’t recommend, you know, I don’t blame me, if you don’t want to go through and actually update everything manually, then I would get access to all the accounts that you can go in and do what I just said to both sets of networks and by a well done Semantic Mastery stout network from MGYB. Right, and then maybe use those two other existing networks as a YouTube network or, you know, it could be possibly used for maybe a separate Twitter network or something like that.

Or you could do what I just said and just use them as kind of like a one-time link builder to your new network properties. If that makes sense. But I wouldn’t link directly back to the money site with those, you know, does that make sense? That’s what I would do. Because again, I totally understand it. By the way, if this guy bought his own syndication network at Fiverr, then he worked with another marketer. He’s probably one of those guys is going to micromanage you fits just so you’re aware of that if you have a business owner or client that has tried to do their own SEO work, and they’ve also hired somebody else to do something that they already attempted on their own. It’s probably going to they’re probably going to micromanage you as well. Just keep that in mind. Okay, I’m going to keep moving. That’s all right.

Is There A Risk Of Google Putting Home Address On The Web?

JACK says maps question please important client does professional services over the phone from home office don’t want home address under Google’s control, used paid use paid for Regis office locations in past but Google close them down? In your opinion, is there any risk of Google putting home address out there on the web as they don’t want their crazy client showing up at home. Are there any red flags to look out for in this plan? Thank you know not for if you’re going to do a Google My Business profile, no, you don’t have to worry about, you know, you need an address when you register in order for them to send the verification card. But it doesn’t publish the listing until you enter the verification code. So when you enter the verification code that you get in the postcard, then you immediately especially if it’s a service area business, which has to be professional services over the phone from home office. So yeah, I mean, you know, I would set that as a service area business, which means you go in and clear the physical address. Once you verify it, you go in into the Info tab and click on the location setting and then there’s a little link in their text link that says clear address and you click that and it’ll clear it and then save it so that it updates and you want to put your service areas in and then save it, Natalie, remove the address from being shown on maps. That’s absolutely

You Google is not going to publish that anywhere. The problem is if you want to build citations to help the maps listing rank, then a lot of the citation directories are going to require a physical address, like an actual street address. Some don’t, though, more more and more actually allowing service area businesses to add their data without a street address. But there’s still a ton of them out there to do required, so just keep that in mind. Okay.

But I wouldn’t worry about it not Google. Google’s not going to leak that at least I’ve never seen that. If you if you put it on, like Yelp or something like that word requires a street adjusting. Yeah, a lot of time. I mean, it’ll show but just don’t build citations on directories that require the street address if that’s the case. Scott says, Bradley, if you can fly to Haley, I’d have I’ll drive you to Denver. No, thanks. I’ve already got my ticket going flying directly to Denver, but thank you, Scott. I appreciate that.

How Do You Retain The Ranking Position Of A GMB Page Into 3-Pack Using Semantic Mastery Products?

Okay, I still need Hi, we only got about seven minutes left guys. He says I still need help for clients GMB ranking, it’s already it already has RYS Drive stack and G site built by SM a few years ago, I’m ordering a syndication network and we’ll add link building, then embed maps and link build would appreciate your suggestion to get just this back into the three-pack. That’s kind of a bit of a loaded question because I don’t know. Like, honestly, you should have had a syndication network, even really before the G site. And drive stack, that doesn’t mean that, you know, you can’t add that now you certainly can. But what I would recommend also doing is manually going back into your drive stack once your syndication network has been built and, you know, start including those links in the drive stack, link building to all of them. What are some press releases that always help? You can do a map embeds now with press releases and a lot of other things. So I would recommend that you know, make sure that your link, go go buy local GMB Pro, which is what we just talked about earlier, because you can actually do really good results, just doing stuff within the Google ecosystem includes posting and you know, a lot of the stuff that we talked about on local GMB Pro.

So that’s a question that you could get a hell of a lot more help with if you joined the mastermind. Or if you posted that, like more detail as to exactly what it is that you’ve got done. And where so that we can help fill in the gaps. Just get, you know, if you don’t have the Battle Plan, follow the Battle Plan. If you’ve got an RYS drive stack and a G site that was built a few years ago, but you never had a syndication network, it’s obvious that you didn’t, you either didn’t have the Battle Plan or you didn’t follow the plan that we laid out. So I recommend picking that up. If you don’t already have the Battle Plan. And just following that step by step, any of the pieces that are currently missing, add those pieces, right, and then just kind of follow each one of those processes. And that’s going to help you to get the results that you need. I’m not saying that that’s going to do it. You know, that’s the start. That’s always the foundation. If you need additional help with that though, that’s where you would you know, like I said, join the mastermind and get local GMB Pro. Once you have the foundation complete, does that make sense? Any comment on that guys?

Marco: Yeah, definitely the Battle Plan, Local GMB Pro is what’s going to create the activity that he’s going to need, right? Because its activity relevance, trust and authority, and local GMB Pro is totally an activity base.

Does Having A Single Link From A Press Release To A Deep Page Is Better Than Having Multiple Press Release Links?

Okay, well says going back to a previous question about PageRank. Does that mean that if you have a single link from a press release to a deep page is better than having multiple links from the press release just to get better-focused SEO just your landing page? Yes, that is true. Well, you know you’re, you get more juice through one link, one outbound link in a press release to whatever you know, you’re trying to push juice to then if you have three outbound links, right. If you have three outback bound links, you’re splitting the link equity three ways that make sense. So if you want to push all of the link equity for through one link to like you said a deep page, or like a blog post that might have an internal link to the page on your site that you’re trying to rank or something like that. Yeah, that’s again, that’s link sculpting. So,

Is It Okay To Use Spun Content For YouTube Descriptions?

Austin Don says, I’ve been doing we buy house city, we buy houses, city videos, is it alright to use spun content for YouTube descriptions? To write individual descriptions is very time-consuming. Thanks. Yeah, you know, Uhm Austin Don, if you’re in the Austin, Texas market, you probably have other people competing. So having good descriptions is helpful for YouTube SEO. But I don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube descriptions anymore. years ago, it was more important in my opinion. Now it’s more about having you know, the primary SEO factors of a YouTube video optimized like the title the tags, having the keyword, like as probably the first thing in the video description. I like having NAP data-name, address, phone number, primary URL, such as website, Google Maps URL, the URL, that version that I just shared this one right here, linking to your top tier one asset branded or entity assets, as we talked about. So linking to a Facebook page if you’re doing Facebook stuff, you know any business directories if you’re using press releases, the organization page, anything like that, I like to put all of that in the video description now, but I usually don’t really flesh out a whole lot of content, written text content for the video description. It’s more about a call to action, right and enlisting the NAP data and relevant links that are entered to kind of reinforce the entity. And then it’s about traditional SEO signals, embeds and or backlinks and engagement signals.

I’m telling you that’s the secret sauce is the engagement signals which you can by using YouTube ads incredibly inexpensive, and for I’m telling you even I’ve got campaigns running right now for the local video production company that I’ve been doing SEO for like five or six years that I have 40 cents per day is my budget. So I’m spending less than $15 a month it comes out to be like $12 a month that I’m spending to constantly feed that video on a daily basis with relevant views from a very specific geographic area because I set my location targeting from an audience that is relevant to the video itself. And it helps to keep those videos ranked. And we’re talking some of these videos have been ranked for years and I haven’t done a damn bit of SEO work since the moment I uploaded it to my channel. And it’s syndicated across my networks. All I’ve done is kept the ad campaigns going because it’s constantly the engagement signals that are coming in that are helping it to rank. So that’s what I would recommend is that you know don’t spend a shit ton of time optimizing the text. Just optimize the key the titles, the tags, put a relevant call to action, link out to your primary tier one entity assets, NAP included.

And then make sure that you do your traditional SEO stuff use playlist, the YouTube Silo Academy method embeds and or backlinks. But at the same time make sure that you set up a YouTube ad campaign for each one of those videos. Even if you just did you know, as I said, I’ve got campaigns running at 40 cents a day. That comes out to be like $12 a month and it works like wonders. Okay.

We gotta go guys. It’s at five o'clock. Any comments before I wrap it up, guys? Sorry about any questions we didn’t get to. Know. I would say get in where you fit in. That’s it. definitely time to pack up head out for POFU Live. Live, baby. See you guys. I’ll see you, Adam, tomorrow. Sounds good. Have a good one everyone. See you

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Adam: Alright, we are live Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. This is Episode 257. Today is the ninth of October 2019. And this is the last Hump Day hangouts before POFU Live 2019 in Denver. If you haven't gotten your ticket yet, you'd like to show up whether you're going to whether you live there you whether you want to drive in or you can make some last-minute flight plans, head to pofulive.com, grab your ticket. Now, before we get into it, just want to say if you're joining us for the first time, thanks for watching, we're going to get into questions and answers. If you've got any questions you're watching us go ahead and pop them on the page at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions. Remember to always head over there. If you're watching on YouTube. We don't want to read comments here. You've got to go to the page where we embed the video so that you can ask questions we can get to those. So with that said, let's say hello guys real quick. We're missing to the Semantic Mastery guys who I believe is started traveling over to POFU Live in Denver. Bradley, Marco and I are here today. So I'll start at the top and say hello to Bradley. How are you doing?

Bradley: Good. How are you?

Adam: Not bad. Not bad. I'm enjoying some cooler weather here. It's finally starting to act like a fall. It's about 65-70 today.

Bradley: Well, you can enjoy cooler weather tomorrow when you get to Denver because it's supposed to be snowing and freezing cold so

Adam: Yeah, I might have to post some pictures of her on maybe on the Facebook group or something like he heard on hates the cold weather and I think it's supposed to be a high of 28 degrees tomorrow.

Bradley: Yeah, and snow to which is crazy, but it's only tomorrow. Because then the rest of the time that we're there it's supposed to be between 65 and 70 during the day and then around 30 at night, but it was kind of interesting packing for that, you know?

Adam: Yeah, all over the place. Well, speaking of weather, Marco How are you doing, man?

Marco: I couldn't be better. Like I couldn't handle 28 I'm sorry. It's not happening. I mean, it's too late like a cold for me. I mentioned it before is 60-65 that range you know. We break out the old sheet and we cover ourselves it gets chilly man 28 gone from 65 to 20 I don't think so.

Adam: That's a big change and once it gets below 20 that's where I start I can handle it depends on the window but yeah in the 20s still nice ones it's sunny and then anyways tomorrow is going to be fun we'll see how it goes with Hernan if he's all bundled up and blankets and freezing to death or if he survives so. Anyways With that said, like I said earlier if you're watching for the first time you're in the right place, we're going to get to q&a and answer your questions and appreciate you being here. Come here every week every Wednesday for pm eastern you can always ask your questions ahead of time as well if you know got a client call you've got some work you got things you got to do we understand that but you know benefit here is being live you can ask questions, clarify your questions, but like I said, if you have to you can ask your questions ahead of time at semanticmastery.com/hdquestions and then check out the replay on our YouTube channel, which you should subscribe to if you're watching that right now.

And secondly, if you haven't yet check out the Battle Plan right? That's where you can get our step by step processes for getting results with everything from new websites, aged domains, YouTube channels, so much more. I'm not going to go through the entire laundry list of all the benefits there but head over to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. And if you want to join, you know, our mastermind is about a mastermind but you know, it's both the mastermind, our mastermind. Basically what it is is an experienced community so you can get faster access to real-world info, testing and build that network of peers who are doing the same things we're growing these digital marketing businesses or who have businesses and understand how they need to grow the digital marketing side of it. You can find out more about that and join at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And for everyone, we really recommend going over to mgyb.co. I mean we tell this to you watching these videos, we tell it to our mastermind members, we tell it to everyone

Else, you know if you can start building your team now. And part of that can be using MGYB to provide the services for you things like syndication networks are we as drive stack, press releases, link building embeds, all that sort of stuff. And there are a lot more great packages coming out where we're going to help people get better, well, the literal package for Hey, you know, if your website is here, then you need these types of additions. You need these syndication networks. We're going to make that a lot more streamlined so that you can do it for yourself, your projects as well as your clients. So keep your eyes and ears open for that. So with that said guys,

Marco: I have a couple of things. Yeah, right. Number one, people, they always ask us how to put everything together, they'll go in and don't order something. And the last, how do I put it together guys, it's in the Battle Plan. I was just talking to my mini mastermind group. You guys know that I meet every Tuesday. In the evening with a mini mastermind group. I have seven people in there. I wish I could take more people because people keep reaching out to me and saying, hey, I want in on the group. But seven is more than enough. But the thing is that the people in my mini mastermind they follow the Battle Plan. I have a guy, that's her over. But he started out at 12k a year in digital marketing and client work and SEO, whatever it is that he did. And this year, you know, he's at around a quarter million for the year. And so it's as simple as just buckling down doing the fucking work and following the instructions to the letter. You don't veer from what we tell you to do until you're ready to test and you shouldn't be testing until you have a good revenue stream coming in that allows you to set aside time to do that kind of thing, right?

We got another one that Jeff right who went to POFU and he's killing it. I mean, he's ranking attorney type big attorney terms of ranking for it, for example, and IT services in New York City. Now imagine how competitive that is, but they're like the companies have happier than a paycheck, because they're number one for the term. And how did they do it? They follow the Battle Plan. They follow the instructions, they follow what we tell them, guys, how do you put it all together? Get the Battle Plan. Now, yes, the Battle Plan takes you to MGYB and the products and services. Why do we do that? Because it's the simplest way we don't want you doing all that work. Imagine the hours that you have to spend doing all that work keyword research three days. For the keyword research, really, do you really want to do that? Do you really want to spend all that time your client better be paying a whole lot of money to spend three days doing all of that keyword research, I mean, everything it takes time to do

Bradley: Marco, isn't it more fun to buy shiny new software applications and spend all your time learning how to use it? Just to find out it doesn't work very well.

Marco: That's some work, right? Follow the next best, the next best. So it's already there. We set the path out people who follow it are killing it. And that's my point. And yes, we do send you to what works for us because it's what we use guys. We use it, we apply it we get a result. And so we give it to you in a step by step method so that you can follow it through. So if you're not doing it, you haven't bought it go by the Battle Plan. It looks like a really simple PDF with links. But you do it step by step. I'm telling you, I just got validation yesterday from a couple of people that are in that range. I mean, you guys know Jordan.

You guys know, Jeff, you guys know, Ed, they're telling it how following the Battle Plan. That's one and two about the mastermind. I wanted to mention that it works is a two-way street. We do try to give people everything that works in the mastermind, right? And we do make everyone available that you're free to exchange ideas and concepts and theories and tests and whatever. But every once in awhile, we'll get in a thread, as we did with with with something that I talked about when doing silos. And it was a whole long thread and we went really deep into it. And then there's another one about iframes now.

And then that one sent me into the rabbit hole, where I'm still testing and I'm getting really good results from some ideas that I got. Not like not directly but indirectly, as they posted. Okay, so can I do this Can I do that and I immediately started thinking, well, what if, and that's when you read, your juices really start flowing? And what if I did this and I quoted it this way, and I hit it this way, and then it would cause no issues. And so what I'm thinking is anyone who attends POFU Live will have first crack at whatever I come up with, from my testing, because they deserve it. I mean, they took the time that they're going to be there. And so we always say membership has its privileges. But this is a step up. This is a step where you're trying to change the game and JN and Jeff Moore, Jeff sorry, they went to POFU Live, and they changed the whole mindset, they changed their business strategy, and they're killing it. So So anyone going deserves it. And so that's what I'm going to do and then at some future point, it'll be shared with the mastermind, of course, I don't know if it'll be I'll ever share it outside the mastermind.

But since the nugget was kind of the idea sprouted from a thread in the mastermind I think the mastermind deserves whatever comes from it. And I'm already testing and I'm already coding and that so this is the type of thing that goes on and in the mastermind, mastermind membership has its privileges. Attending POFU Live has its privileges. Most of the people that are in my mini mastermind, are people who went to POFU Live. So I just want to say about that definitely our mastermind members, but they also attended POFU Live and I think that they deserve special attention. That's just my piece for today. Take it for what it's worth, but I think it's just totally worth joining the mastermind and attending POFU Live should be a must in your calendar.

Adam: Sounds good to me, like Marco said, Be there. That's a pretty awesome thing that Marco is going to do there. So I don't want to dive back into a Marco but I know that people work with you and your group have had a lot of success. And I'm sure that's a no small part due to your involvement. So that's pretty awesome. So if you want to grab your ticket, you can still make it we got a couple of days here before we kick things off on Friday for the VIP day and then Saturday and Sunday for the main event. You can grab your ticket at pofulive.com. Alright, guys, Bradley, anything else before we jump into it?

Bradley: No, I'm just excited too nervous at the same time because I gotta fly tomorrow. But looking forward to coming to Denver and hanging out with you guys and putting on a pretty cool presentation. I think that is pretty powerful. I think this is going to be just a really good event. So I'm excited about it.

Adam: Cool. All right. Let's do it.

Bradley: All right, let me grab the screen. Stand by. Alright, you guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct.

Adam: Correct. Got your whole screen.

Bradley: All right. Not a lot of questions yet. So guys start posting. Otherwise, we'll wrap it up a little bit early, which is fine because I've got still not 100% packed for I gotta leave really early tomorrow morning for my flight. So anyway, I don't mind wrapping it up early if that's what we need to do.

Is It Okay To Send A Full-Text Article With 20+ Affiliate Links Via RSS In A Single Tier Network?

But we'll start with sutra he says when using a single tier, he's talking about a single-tier syndication network, is it okay to send the full-text article via RSS? Even if the article has 20 plus affiliate links? I usually post 123 of these types of articles each day. Um, I would say no, and the reason why I say no is it not because it's an SEO thing, but it's likely that your blog accounts which would be like WordPress, Tumblr, blogger, not so much blogger but Tumblr and WordPress, will likely or may very well terminate the account for too many outbound links.

Especially like affiliate links and that kind of stuff that they don't, they don't typically like that. So I wouldn't recommend that I would do a post summary. So set your RSS feed to just display the summary. That way, it's really just pushing the juice back to your post URL that's published on your blog, which is really all that matters, guys. I mean, if you're doing a bunch of outbound linking in your blog posts anyways, whether it doesn't, you don't really need to worry about posting the full text because, you know, whether they're nofollow or do follow, it doesn't even matter. What I'm saying is what you're looking for is the link back from the post on the syndication network properties back to the original post on your site. Right. And then obviously, if you're doing internal SEO like on-page SEO correctly, then you're going to have some sort of contextual link within the text of your blog post that goes up to our money, a money page, right so an actual page or something a category.

Whatever it is that you're trying to rank on your site. So it really the benefit is pushing the juice from the syndication network properties back to the post URL that's published on your blog. So I would recommend doing a summary post, you know, summary, just set the RSS feed settings to just display a summary instead of the full text. Now, that said, sometimes those can look spammy too. And sometimes you can find settings in your theme that will allow you to update the length of those RSS, like how much of the summary is shown. And so you might be able to set that and sometimes you have to actually edit the theme files in order for to, you know, to to adjust that some things will give you the option to do that, like it's, you know, an option that you can set but other times you have to actually go in and edit the theme files. So that's what I would recommend any comments?

Marco: Yeah, I would say no, and it's for SEO and it's because the whole idea behind this concept and what we do and why we send out iframes and everything that we do is to build PageRank. And the problem is, everything starts at PR one, correct? Everything on the web, it starts out at PR one. So if you have something that's revenue, or even if it's aged, it could only be a PR one. And the reason why is because you're splitting the PageRank that you're passing so low, that you can't build it up properly. So you split it, you splitting it 20 times, and what you're passing from a PR one isn't PR one, it's less than PR one. As I've said before, we've done the math we know within certain parameters, just how much PR is passed from a PR one and we know we know it's a range. So when you splitting it, that fine you're defeating the purpose of building up that PR building up that trust and authority and everything else. Not only that, having it be so spammy, it could just turn into a PR zero because of the fact that it's so spammy. And so you're not really passing anything. You're not really doing anything is not mean you could grab some traffic. From that point, you could do so much more if you're more selective with the way that you syndicate your affiliate links so that it doesn't look so spammy so that it doesn't look like it's a whole bunch of garbage. And the only intent for that is to push your affiliate links, make it more user-friendly, making it more for the person that's going to be reading it for the person to interact with that posts and with that content, and maybe share it maybe like it. Maybe visit the website, or those are all signals that you want. And I guarantee you that a spammy blog post with a whole bunch of affiliate links isn't going to accomplish what you want.

Is It Good To Use And Embed The Original City Logo And Link The City Website Or Wikipedia City Page For A Local Service Website?

Bradley: Very good. Thank you. Mike says hello to a local service website. Do you think it's a good idea to use and embed the original city logo and also link to the city website or Wikipedia city page? I can see the power in it, but I don't think it's a good idea. Thanks. Well, Mike, that's what was pretty much standard operating procedure back in like 2012. And for a long time, you know, that was just traditional way they call it conventional wisdom when it came to I didn't, does conventional wisdom is oftentimes not very smart. It's just what people think is right. And conventional wisdom for the longest time was that you would link to always a.gov or a Wikipedia page, or, you know, excuse me, a Wikipedia page or a.gov site or a that, especially if you're doing local to that, you know, corresponding Wikipedia page or the local government website or something like that. And that was supposed to add relevancy, which isn't true. That's that hasn't been true for many, many years. Because Google doesn't care about you linking to a Wikipedia page about a particular city unless it's relevant to the content on that page. And even though you might be optimized, you know, for like a plumber and in particular city, just linking to that Wikipedia page arbitrarily with the keyword or without the keyword, whatever, just linking to that page really doesn't do much, right. It's not the algorithm is much smarter than that. Now, if you are citing something about that city, like some facts about the city or something that makes it relevant, and you want to cite the source where you gleaned that content from So for example, if you are curating content from a Wikipedia page or a.gov site about that particular city, then you want to cite the source now that adds that that's a proper way to link to it. And Google can clearly see the relationship between why and why you're linking to that. But you know, again, years ago, we used to mean just about everybody used to do it. What I always recommend is link outbound linking to relevant content that's relevant to the concept within the body of the content that you're linking to, like, in other words, that your UYY just linked to the city page or to the Wikipedia page. If the page is about plumbing services in a particular city.

It doesn't really make sense just to link to the city website unless there's a reason for it. And so, again, I've always gone back to I mean, four years since probably 2014 timeframe, I stopped doing that stopped doing what was conventional wisdom, and started linking to more relevant pages. So for example, linking to an article on bob Vila calm or do it yourself network or something like that, right, some sort of, like if it's a plumbing website, right? linking to something that's more relevant to the content of the page. And then if you want to have some sort of local relevancy in there, why not embed the map or a mind map or driving directions map from the store or the location of the business to that city or something like that, that That, to me makes a lot more sense. It's more relevant. And so that's the type of thing that I've always done as far as embedding a city logo from another website. I don't recommend doing that. Because if you don't have permission to use that, remember that that logo is likely trademarked or even if it's not trademarked, it's probably a copyright issue. Because I can tell you one thing you don't want to do when you curate content and by the way, we have a training for a full training program called Content Kingpin which will teach you all about curating and why it's very it's so powerful because it creates co-citation, it allows you to generate content much quicker, it's much more efficient, you don't have to learn. You don't have to be a content or subject matter expert. In order to be able to generate content, you just have to know how to locate it, and put it together in a logical fashion and then cite the sources properly. So I would recommend you look at that because one of the things that we learned the hard way, is you never want to curate images. Ever. Okay? Unless you there, wiki, what do they call Wiki Commons there? I don't recommend ever curating images because you will, you can end up getting copyright infringement and be sued for that. And a lot of times like, it's happened to me, it's happened to me for almost three years in a row was two years in a row where I got hit with copyright.

Basically extortion letters where they would say you've got to pay so much or we're taking you to court for copyright infringement and you'd have to pay or else they would take your ass to court, and it sucks so I learned a long time ago. Never curate images so I would really highly recommend not embedding a city logo. And don't just arbitrarily link to a city Wikipedia page or a city government website, unless there's a specific reason for it, that you clearly identify in the content that you're let you know why you're linking to it. If that makes sense. You're much better off linking to something that's more relevant. You want to comment on that, Marco?

Marco: I agree. Because there's activity relevance, relevance, trust, and authority. Right? You're much better off linking to something that has you know, that that's updated regularly, and events page what's going on, in you know, in the city, landmark, places to see if there are if this park, just anything, it's just going a little bit further in as far as the geolocation is, yes, you're part of the city. So it stands to reason that you would think I want to link to the Wikipedia city page for this, but you can go further and make get even more relevant. And in fact, if you can get that city schedule, into a calendar of events, the way that we do in RYS Academy Reloaded, and load those ups, and that's constantly changing, and that's constantly pushing, all of that relevance, everything that's happening in that city, and mixed in with those calendar events are your events, what's happening with your business, whatever it is, whether you want to coupon special, whether you want to send them to the GMB, the map, just whatever it is, you mix in all of that with all of the other relevance and it works a whole lot better than just simply making to the city page for x reason, which there's really no reason.

Bradley: Yeah. I mean, again, that's been such old tactics that you know, if it really worked well, Google would have killed it a long time ago because it's been used forever. As I said, it's just that it was like common knowledge. Conventional wisdom is just what people did and for the longest time I would you know, I would argue why would Why do you do that? Well, because you know, it's adding relevancy I will have you tested it. Because if you test it, you'll find that it doesn't really do shit, you're much better off linking the relevant content and I like curated content for that reason because it clearly gives a reason to link out to something and it can create co-citation, which is, is pretty powerful too. So

What's The Difference Between Maps SEO And Website SEO?

Jonathan says are the map embeds the only thing MGYB sells for maps Seo? No, not by far. My furnace guy wants to rank in maps but doesn't care about his website. What is the main difference in maps SEO versus website SEO? Well, there's a lot of similarities, a lot of overlap. But with maps SEO there, you know, you can focus entirely on the Google properties, right, the Google ecosystem. So the map URL itself, I'm going to demonstrate how to get the best map URL to build links to you can do map embeds. You can do citation building. You know if he's got legit if you say it's your furnace guy, so I'm assuming is you know, HVAC guy, and he's got a real business, then it's probably registered to a real address. Even if it's a service area business, you can build citations for that. That's something I always recommend doing if you have a valid address. So there are I mean, there are a number of things that you can do, but very specifically MGYB sells, I mean, pretty much every one of our services can be applied to ranking in maps or maps SEO as you called it, right.

So for example, let me just give you a couple of examples here. This is something that you can go check out GMB.reviewsmaker.com, right. So let's just go to I'm just going to type in HVAC contractor, Culpepper, for example. Okay, so I'm going to click on KNM Heating and Air heating and air conditioning. And in fact, actually, let me just copy that name. And this is what I'm going to do. So this is how you can get the best URL to build links to if you're going to be doing link building to the map, right. So there are embeds, there's also link building, there are press releases, there's you can which you can embed a map in the press release. Plus, you can also create a contextual link or just a naked URL in the actual press release. To back to the map itself, I'm going to give you a few examples here of how you can get better results. So let's go back to Google for it first. Here's a couple of ways that you can do this. Number one, you can go into your GMB dashboard or your client's GMB dashboard. And on the Info tab, where you'll always see this one little section where it says view on maps or view on search and view on maps. You can right-click on the view on maps and copy the link address and paste it into a notepad file and then reformat it I'm going to show you the correct format. So that's one way to find it. The best URL for building links to a map, Google map right. The second way is to go type in or go search for your client's business name on Google. So in this case, I'm going to search for KNM Heating and Air Inc because that's just the example that I pulled, then I'm going to click through to the maps listing.

And you'll see up here in the US the address bar of Chrome, I've got this long, ugly URL, right? Well, if you go to GMB dot review, make reviews maker calm, okay, and you click to decode place ID, and just paste that long maps URL in there and click the code place Id take a second, then it's going to come down and it's going to give you this maps URL right here. Okay, I'm going to copy that link address. And I'm going to paste that into a notepad file. Now, if you take a look at this URL, I'll show you and I've demonstrated this before, but I want to answer this question thoroughly for him. If we go to like, where it goes com or something like that, some sort of redirect tracer. I could paste that URL that it gives you, right? So from here, and if we take a look at this, you'll see that this has got a 302 redirect built into it. In fact, there are two of them. So that is not a good URL to use for link building. Like if you want to build links to this URL, you're not passing any PageRank or link equity essentially, through these two, three or two redirects, that stops it dead, right. So in other words, you can link to it, you somebody could click on that link, and it's going to navigate, or jump to the final target URL or the destination, which is this. But as far as passing link equity, if you're to build links to this, it's not going to pass any. So it's not a good URL to build links to which by the way, this URL right here, that the share URL, take a look at how many redirects are in this one. If we go back to where goes.

It might even there it goes. Look at that. Look, how many redirects are in there. Three 302 redirects and no matter refresh, so that's not a good URL, either this share URL, don't build links that are dumb. It does, it does no good, right? So what you want to do is you want to take that URL, which by the way, you can just take the URL from here and go to a redirect tracer, and then paste it in and then copy the final URL, or just memorize this, which is what I did. It's very simple. copy that URL, and then just change it, just rearrange it to where you change the maps right there. So maps.google.com, you would change it to www.google.com. Then forward-slash question mark. See ID equals is what the original one is. So all you want to do is move maps from before and the subdomain from maps to the right after the forward-slash, then it's question marks the ID equals and we'll take that, Copy that, paste it in. So it's just a quick change or modification of the URL. And now watch this. If we take this, we go back to a redirect tracer.

Quick, Tracy well there's no reason XC that now if we go load that URL into the address bar and click Go, you'll see once the page loads, it converts to that long URL, but it's not technically a redirect. Right. So that's the best URL to build links to is this one right here. So that's something else that you can do. Right. So like I mentioned before, you can embed a map into press releases. You can also build links directly to this map URL, right. So that's one thing you can do. RYS Drive stacks are incredibly powerful. If you provide the NAP. The name, address and phone number of the business, as well as the maps URL will build a drive stack that is hyper optimized for that specific location, right and will push a ton of power directly to the Google properties especially like you said, if he's not interested in ranking a website, you can select to push all of the juice from the drive stack back to the maps the Google properties which would be the maps GMB website, will you'll get it, you should order the, excuse me, the Google Site along with that the Google site will be part of that. So you can build all of the power back to the actual maps listing.

However, there are a couple other things I want to mention. Let's see, just just because there are a few other points here that you can add additional power to, right. So for a note, another one is the reviews. This company, in particular, has 21 reviews, I don't know how many your client has. But if we click on that review link, right, it's going to pull up here Well, that is a different URL. So up here is another URL, I would suggest using your own three one redirects creator. There are a number of of them out there that you can use that are free, some of them that are paid like a subscription base, and others that you can create three one redirects from a plugin through your through a website, which is what I, you know, I prefer to do that through my own domain or something through or through a branded domain or a domain that I'm using specifically for redirects, that kind of thing. But if you take a guy here, open up Firefox just to show you that URL right there, I would create a 301 redirect out of that URL. And what's it do? It automatically loads to these reviews. So you can push link equity into this. Well, let's not stop there. What about each one of these individual reviews? For example, if I was to click Share on that one from Alan Jackson, which sounds like looks like a lot of the users' spam, I don't know. Jackson's a country singer and Ronnie White is a Ron White isn't a comedian. But if we're to take that URL right there and paste that in, you'll see that that is a separate URL, like that's a redirect, as I just talked about, if you click the Share URL, it's going to give you a redirect. So watch what happens when we trace that one. This is for the individual review. It's still a 302 redirect. So that's not what you want to build links to not this. What you want to build links to is this, which again, if you want to make it a pretty URL, all you got to do is use a 301 redirect creator.

As I said, there are some free ones out there, there are some ones that you can pay for a subscription basis, like a rebrand, delete rebrand.ly, for example of one, or there's another one. Or like, what I like to do is use my own domain or clients domain, and use the pretty links pro plugin to create 301 redirects. Okay? Either way, that's the URL you want to build to. And that's the same URLs, what's up here? Right, but you can build it through a 301 redirect. And look, that's an individual review within that maps listing. And if this one's got 21 reviews, that's 21 additional link targets, right? Plus this one is a link target, which is the overall reviews URL plus the maps URL itself, right, which in this version of it that I just talked about being the best version. There's more to think about photos, right? For example, this guy's only got looks like it's at four, but I'm only Well, maybe that was, let's go back into photos here. For photos, it says for photos, each one of these areas a separate URL. So my point is if you're just going to be doing map stuff for a client, what I like to do is extract all the URLs from the maps listing, set up redirects so that they're pretty and they're short, much easier to manage. And then start using those and link building campaigns, which you can also use those to be included in a drive stack as target URLs where we will build the drive stack to be targeting each one of those separate URLs. And what happens is you push juice into this listing from all different angles and every single point that you can push link equity into it. It's very, very powerful. You want to

Marco: Yeah, he's asking about maps SEO, and I'm just going to say local GMB Pro. It's what set the standard for GMB optimization every other course came after copied what we did. So if you want the Trailblazer the standard bear the one that laid it down on how it's properly done. There you go and get local GMB pro and you can learn what Bradley just talked about more in-depth, along with many other things that you could do to push the GMB the map into the three-pack, which is what your client is looking for. They don't care about the website fine. So you work entirely within the GMB ecosystem, which is what local GMB Pro is all about. So guys, if you really want to do this, right, if you want that heart into the three-pack, you go into local GMP Pro.

Bradley: That's right. And that's an in there, we talked about various other things. I'm not going to talk about specific methods here, but just so you know that again, this this this client, or this client is not my client, but this contractor, HVAC contractor is also doing GMB posts, he probably has an SEO that is working on his stuff. And take a look at that guys. Again, these are all additional link targets, right? We copy that URL and go back to the redirect tracer, which I already closed.

And once again, this is a GMB post URL, right? It's going to redirect, don't ever use the share URLs for SEO purposes. You can use it for navigation purposes. But look, how many redirects are there. So what you want to do is end up taking this URL, and using that as that could be potentially another link target. Right? So that makes sense. So if we're going to just open up that URL and see it didn't bring it up, it's probably the one prior to that this one, which is okay, because that's a meta refresh, so that, that's fine. Let's open it up there.

There, see I brought it up, it brought that post up to the very top. So the same thing goes you can take an older post and do the same thing you could share it, grab, copy the share URL. Put it in now local GMB Pro, we talk about a hell of a lot of really cool things that you can do a GMB post, I'm not going to talk about here. But I'm just saying you can actually use these posts as additional places to build links to the right. So again, this one right here, I would take this URL, copy that, that's what I would build links to and watch what happens if I load that into the browser. It's going to pull up that post at the top See, the one that I just shared. So it makes sense. So all of those are linked targets. That's why I said there's just a ton of different things that you can do to push additional power into their not just through and beds and beds are very powerful. Don't get me wrong, but there's a number of other things that you can do. So that was a good question.

Does Google Sandbox New Domains For At Least 3 Weeks Or Longer?

Gordon's up he says, Hey, guys, I don't want to sound like a broken record. But I just want to say again, your Hump Day help is very much appreciated. Well, you're welcome, Gordon. And we do appreciate that as well. If I remember correctly, you said in the past that you prefer to use a new domain instead of an aged domain to rank a local lead gen site. So you can control the name of the domain for SEO purposes and for branding purposes. That is correct. I have said that. But I was wondering if in fact Google does sandbox new domains for at least three weeks or probably longer other than losing the branding and partial keyword and domain benefit. Why is it not better to use a niche related aged domain with a clean niche related backlink profile? And if you use an aged domain would you need to to rebuild the old site pages and the old links pointing to using way back point old links point to using Wayback Machine the old things point to excuse me the way that I read that was wrong and if you use an aged domain, would you need to rebuild the old site pages that the old links point to using Wayback machine in order not to lose the link juice? Okay, so the first question is because I'm able to typically especially when I'm trying to rank for local stuff, the right which is what the maps I don't

Is that getting a new brand new domains? Fine, because I'm not looking for the initial, the, you know, an existing link profile because it really doesn't matter. Like I mean, if if the sites built really well and everything else, then it can have an effect on the maps, there's no question. But as we were just talking about in the previous question, we can typically get results without even having a self-hosted website, if that makes sense, right? Because we can focus on specifically just the GMB properties and get results. That said, I always prefer to have a branded type of domain, one that I can build a brand around for, if especially for lead gen stuff that I could use in other locations, right, which is why I talked about if I'm going to have a website, I like to use subdomains with the city name is the subdomain so that I can build upon a particular brand.

Does that mean that you cannot that you can't start with an aged domain that has been dropped by somebody else or whatever, and build a brand around that I suppose you could? But the problem that I would see with that is that there may be some other existing content on the web that can ambiguate, right? That's a key term that can ambiguate the brand that you're trying to build or the data that you're trying to build through your new location, your new setup. Right? Now, if you're talking about strictly organic SEO, yes, there's some benefit for building through an aged domain that has a clean link profile. But having a clean link profile is kind of difficult to do or else why was I mean, a lot, I mean, you will find some domains like that, but they're few and far between. A lot of times the aged domains that have been dropped are just they either have a shitty link profile or a non-existent link profile. In other words, they might have one or two links that are actually, you know, decent links, if any at all. And so my point is, I would rather just go with something new that's branded so that I have more control over the content that's going to be published and everything else and not have to worry about any sort of invigoration not have to worry about any potential links out there.

On the web that is toxic to it, or they're going to cause any problems as I start building out the new project if that makes sense. So, I mean, there, you certainly can do that. If you want. I don't recommend it. I don't, you know, the only time I would use aged domains really is if I was building what I would call feeder sites are like PBNs, right? Because that kind of help to shortcut the process a little bit since you're not starting from scratch. But when it came to a brand for lead gen site, or for a client, I would always recommend using a brand new one. Now if you are going to build an old domain, yes, it is better to rebuild those pages. You can do that using the Wayback Machine. It'll you know you can download HTML files and upload those. There's a couple of plugins and services out there where you can subscribe to or pay for credits I believe that will actually create a file of the Wayback Machine stuff that makes it much easier I know there's some plugins I can't even think was named now there's there.

I know there are some plugins out there that will do that on a WordPress site to where you just basically, you can enter a file or upload the zip file that you get from the Wayback Machine. And it will automatically build out the old pages with the old content, you might have to do some formatting and stuff to them. But you can do that. And I would recommend doing that, or at least building some sort of page that has similar content on it doesn't have to be the exact duplicates or replication of the old pages. But if it had a good link profile, and it ever in anybody ever goes and looks at, you know, the webmasters of the sites that were linking to that, and they noticed that there was a big change in the page or just doesn't exist anymore, they may take that link down. So the reason why you would rebuild those previous pages or you know, the pages that aren't there anymore, is because you'd want the links that were built to that page to stay there. That's really the only reason where else you could just do a redirect.

My point is, if you just did a redirect from the old URL to the homepage or to a new URL, and a webmaster says, was analyzing or looking at the site and saying, you know, from one of their pages on their site, there was a link to your, to the, to the domain that they had linked to previously. And they look at and say, well, that's not what I had linked to, I'm going to remove that, then you lose that link. And so you start to ultimately lose the power of having an aged domain with an inbound link profile anyways. And that happens unless you rebuild the pages, or have them redirected to something that's very similar so that it's still a value to the site that was originally linking to it. That all said, usually, when you're dealing with, like, especially local business type sites, it's just not worth all that trouble. You're better off and you're able to get just as quickly as just results just as quickly, excuse me, using methods that we talked about with a brand new domain. So Marco, do want to comment on that before we move on?

Marco: Yeah, absolutely. So imagine it if McDonald's had come out with McDonald's of Illinois, if Coca Cola wherever it began, it had come out with the Madison, if you have that, that that one, if you have that one that will boom, nationally or globally, you're going to have to go and redo all of the work that you've done. Yeah, of course, it's going to be worth it. But I'm the type and I know Bradley is too, that hates doing work, the same work over again. So why going and you have to do the work over again, when you can start off with a brand that doesn't necessarily have to pigeonhole itself with geolocation or geographically because you can do that with a category or a pages category. It has the same effect. You don't need it. And the Google sandbox is very real, but the way that we teach activity, relevance, trust, and authority. It trumps everything, including

The Google sandbox including proximity, including a whole bunch of other things, follow about Battle Plan to the letter, you get the services from MGYB.co the way that you're told to do it and in, in the, in the one in the sequence that we tell you to do it, then you're going to have the same if not better results than if you went and did all that work with, with an expired domain. And there's no guarantee that that expired domain would hold its metrics. When it's brought back, you're still gonna have to do the work, you still gonna have to put in the content, you got to have to redo the content, you're going to have to do a whole lot of work, when you could just go to MGYB.co and have us do it for you.

Bradley: I agree. So I said, I mean, it's just so much, so much trouble that can go into building those ads. I just, I don't think it's worth it. I really don't we can get results just as quickly with new domains. So unless you have found one that's really super powerful I just wouldn't even bother

Bradley: fit says good agent makes you part of it for you and it

Marco: will chime in. And the reason why he got some of my time is because he donated quite a bit of money to my charity and I decided to reciprocate by giving him some of my time so we had a really great call he's in Australia by the way, so it's really early in the morning for him to be on here. So thanks, Will.

How Do You Fix Duplicate Branded Syndication Networks That Were Purchased Via Fiverr?

Bradley: awesome thanks, Fitz says good day gents. Thanks for this form, ask real questions and get actionable answers I have a client who went to Fiverr and body syndication network and then worked with another marketer and bought a different network, many duplicates all branded. What should I do to fix that? Well, do you have access to those accounts is my point as if you if he bought these syndication networks and such from two different vendors, essentially. He probably has a login sheet right? Similar to you know,

We invented it or, you know. So I'm sure that the copy cat also provides a spreadsheet with all the accounts, the URLs, and the login data, what I would do is go in and I would, if I would log into the one that is the most closely branded to his brand name, you can't have duplicate, right, you can't have duplicate subdomains on WordPress or blogger or Tumblr or any of the other sites for that matter. So there has to be some sort of variation in the profile or the usernames, right. So I would take the one that is the most closely aligned with the actual brand and use that I would go in and update it. And then obviously go through and some SM style it Semantic Mastery style the syndication network. That's number one, number two for the other one that's out there. That's also similarly branded. I don't necessarily would say terminate those accounts, but I would make sure that you're not syndicating to them anymore. In fact, if you have duplicate posts, and it's not

I'm not talking about duplicate content guys, because that's, that doesn't happen on syndication networks. But if you have the same post posted on multiple semi branded networks, then I recommend removing that content specifically because you don't, you don't want to create a footprint with this with a blog syndication network or a syndication network where you're syndicating website content, you can do it it's fine with with YouTube, but with a blog now, where you know, with money site content, I don't recommend that. So but that doesn't mean you have to like go in and actually terminate those accounts, but I would manually go in and delete the existing content, and maybe just put up some kind of shitty content that might link to the other web to do to Dotto profiles. You know, just like one post on each one of the syndication network properties from the network that you're not going to use right remove the IFTTT triggers, remove any content that's been posted to both syndication networks, and then might just put some kind of short little article that's relevant on each one of those other properties and maybe point to the profile URL on the the one that you're going to keep right the network properties that you're going to keep, that's something I would do. And I would just leave it alone after that, and just continually update for the new or the syndication network that you decided to keep. If they're both done very poorly, and you don't want to go through which I don't recommend, you know, I don't blame me, if you don't want to go through and actually update everything manually, then I would get access to all the accounts that you can go in and do what I just said to both sets of networks and by a well done Semantic Mastery stout network from MGYB. Right, and then maybe use those two other existing networks as a YouTube network or, you know, it could be possibly used for maybe a separate Twitter network or something like that.

Or you could do what I just said and just use them as kind of like a one-time link builder to your new network properties. If that makes sense. But I wouldn't link directly back to the money site with those, you know, does that make sense? That's what I would do. Because again, I totally understand it. By the way, if this guy bought his own syndication network at Fiverr, then he worked with another marketer. He's probably one of those guys is going to micromanage you fits just so you're aware of that if you have a business owner or client that has tried to do their own SEO work, and they've also hired somebody else to do something that they already attempted on their own. It's probably going to they're probably going to micromanage you as well. Just keep that in mind. Okay, I'm going to keep moving. That's all right.

Is There A Risk Of Google Putting Home Address On The Web?

JACK says maps question please important client does professional services over the phone from home office don't want home address under Google's control, used paid use paid for Regis office locations in past but Google close them down? In your opinion, is there any risk of Google putting home address out there on the web as they don't want their crazy client showing up at home. Are there any red flags to look out for in this plan? Thank you know not for if you're going to do a Google My Business profile, no, you don't have to worry about, you know, you need an address when you register in order for them to send the verification card. But it doesn't publish the listing until you enter the verification code. So when you enter the verification code that you get in the postcard, then you immediately especially if it's a service area business, which has to be professional services over the phone from home office. So yeah, I mean, you know, I would set that as a service area business, which means you go in and clear the physical address. Once you verify it, you go in into the Info tab and click on the location setting and then there's a little link in their text link that says clear address and you click that and it'll clear it and then save it so that it updates and you want to put your service areas in and then save it, Natalie, remove the address from being shown on maps. That's absolutely

You Google is not going to publish that anywhere. The problem is if you want to build citations to help the maps listing rank, then a lot of the citation directories are going to require a physical address, like an actual street address. Some don't, though, more more and more actually allowing service area businesses to add their data without a street address. But there's still a ton of them out there to do required, so just keep that in mind. Okay.

But I wouldn't worry about it not Google. Google's not going to leak that at least I've never seen that. If you if you put it on, like Yelp or something like that word requires a street adjusting. Yeah, a lot of time. I mean, it'll show but just don't build citations on directories that require the street address if that's the case. Scott says, Bradley, if you can fly to Haley, I'd have I'll drive you to Denver. No, thanks. I've already got my ticket going flying directly to Denver, but thank you, Scott. I appreciate that.

How Do You Retain The Ranking Position Of A GMB Page Into 3-Pack Using Semantic Mastery Products?

Okay, I still need Hi, we only got about seven minutes left guys. He says I still need help for clients GMB ranking, it's already it already has RYS Drive stack and G site built by SM a few years ago, I'm ordering a syndication network and we'll add link building, then embed maps and link build would appreciate your suggestion to get just this back into the three-pack. That's kind of a bit of a loaded question because I don't know. Like, honestly, you should have had a syndication network, even really before the G site. And drive stack, that doesn't mean that, you know, you can't add that now you certainly can. But what I would recommend also doing is manually going back into your drive stack once your syndication network has been built and, you know, start including those links in the drive stack, link building to all of them. What are some press releases that always help? You can do a map embeds now with press releases and a lot of other things. So I would recommend that you know, make sure that your link, go go buy local GMB Pro, which is what we just talked about earlier, because you can actually do really good results, just doing stuff within the Google ecosystem includes posting and you know, a lot of the stuff that we talked about on local GMB Pro.

So that's a question that you could get a hell of a lot more help with if you joined the mastermind. Or if you posted that, like more detail as to exactly what it is that you've got done. And where so that we can help fill in the gaps. Just get, you know, if you don't have the Battle Plan, follow the Battle Plan. If you've got an RYS drive stack and a G site that was built a few years ago, but you never had a syndication network, it's obvious that you didn't, you either didn't have the Battle Plan or you didn't follow the plan that we laid out. So I recommend picking that up. If you don't already have the Battle Plan. And just following that step by step, any of the pieces that are currently missing, add those pieces, right, and then just kind of follow each one of those processes. And that's going to help you to get the results that you need. I'm not saying that that's going to do it. You know, that's the start. That's always the foundation. If you need additional help with that though, that's where you would you know, like I said, join the mastermind and get local GMB Pro. Once you have the foundation complete, does that make sense? Any comment on that guys?

Marco: Yeah, definitely the Battle Plan, Local GMB Pro is what's going to create the activity that he's going to need, right? Because its activity relevance, trust and authority, and local GMB Pro is totally an activity base.

Does Having A Single Link From A Press Release To A Deep Page Is Better Than Having Multiple Press Release Links?

Okay, well says going back to a previous question about PageRank. Does that mean that if you have a single link from a press release to a deep page is better than having multiple links from the press release just to get better-focused SEO just your landing page? Yes, that is true. Well, you know you're, you get more juice through one link, one outbound link in a press release to whatever you know, you're trying to push juice to then if you have three outbound links, right. If you have three outback bound links, you're splitting the link equity three ways that make sense. So if you want to push all of the link equity for through one link to like you said a deep page, or like a blog post that might have an internal link to the page on your site that you're trying to rank or something like that. Yeah, that's again, that's link sculpting. So,

Is It Okay To Use Spun Content For YouTube Descriptions?

Austin Don says, I've been doing we buy house city, we buy houses, city videos, is it alright to use spun content for YouTube descriptions? To write individual descriptions is very time-consuming. Thanks. Yeah, you know, Uhm Austin Don, if you're in the Austin, Texas market, you probably have other people competing. So having good descriptions is helpful for YouTube SEO. But I don't spend a lot of time on YouTube descriptions anymore. years ago, it was more important in my opinion. Now it's more about having you know, the primary SEO factors of a YouTube video optimized like the title the tags, having the keyword, like as probably the first thing in the video description. I like having NAP data-name, address, phone number, primary URL, such as website, Google Maps URL, the URL, that version that I just shared this one right here, linking to your top tier one asset branded or entity assets, as we talked about. So linking to a Facebook page if you're doing Facebook stuff, you know any business directories if you're using press releases, the organization page, anything like that, I like to put all of that in the video description now, but I usually don't really flesh out a whole lot of content, written text content for the video description. It's more about a call to action, right and enlisting the NAP data and relevant links that are entered to kind of reinforce the entity. And then it's about traditional SEO signals, embeds and or backlinks and engagement signals.

I'm telling you that's the secret sauce is the engagement signals which you can by using YouTube ads incredibly inexpensive, and for I'm telling you even I've got campaigns running right now for the local video production company that I've been doing SEO for like five or six years that I have 40 cents per day is my budget. So I'm spending less than $15 a month it comes out to be like $12 a month that I'm spending to constantly feed that video on a daily basis with relevant views from a very specific geographic area because I set my location targeting from an audience that is relevant to the video itself. And it helps to keep those videos ranked. And we're talking some of these videos have been ranked for years and I haven't done a damn bit of SEO work since the moment I uploaded it to my channel. And it's syndicated across my networks. All I've done is kept the ad campaigns going because it's constantly the engagement signals that are coming in that are helping it to rank. So that's what I would recommend is that you know don't spend a shit ton of time optimizing the text. Just optimize the key the titles, the tags, put a relevant call to action, link out to your primary tier one entity assets, NAP included.

And then make sure that you do your traditional SEO stuff use playlist, the YouTube Silo Academy method embeds and or backlinks. But at the same time make sure that you set up a YouTube ad campaign for each one of those videos. Even if you just did you know, as I said, I've got campaigns running at 40 cents a day. That comes out to be like $12 a month and it works like wonders. Okay.

We gotta go guys. It's at five o'clock. Any comments before I wrap it up, guys? Sorry about any questions we didn't get to. Know. I would say get in where you fit in. That's it. definitely time to pack up head out for POFU Live. Live, baby. See you guys. I'll see you, Adam, tomorrow. Sounds good. Have a good one everyone. See you