#anyway I am cold why is Florida cold this is not the right temperature

[finrays]

All right, bitches, it’s CORAL TIME!

SO! To start? We gotta understand that the planet doesn't spin straight on its axis; it has a tilt of 23.5 degrees on its axis. Normal stuff, right?

Well! The tilt means the sun doesn't heat the planet evenly. This means that, in some places, the air is warm, and wants to rise! But once it gets to altitude, it cools, and sinks. So, we wind (hehe) up with "cells" where air circulates... rising away from the surface of the earth, leaving low pressure zones (where the weather is generally pretty turbulent and stormy,) and descending in places with high pressure (areas that are typically calm and still and don't have much rain... it's no coincidence a lot of the world's deserts are at 30 degrees latitude) which results in global weather patterns!

BUT! Because the earth is also spinning on its axis... the air doesn't travel in a straight line. It curves... the Coriolis Effect, babey! So, from these cells, we get the Prevailing Winds! The Trades between 0 and 30 degrees latitude, the Westerlies between the 30 and 60 mark, and the Polar Easterlies between 60 and 90, at the top and bottom of the world!

Spiffy diagram!

Not even GAIA can change the tilt of the planet, or the way the sun shines on it! So the prevailing winds and cells should be the same in Aloy’s time as they are in ours.

NOW! Our planet should... probably called Ocean instead of Earth, because we have a fucking lot of it. And the wind blowing over the surface of the ocean creates currents! So we get major ocean circulation, driven by wind at the surface, and then at depth, after some... complex physical oceanography interactions (I’m not gonna talk about Ekman spirals, I’m an ecologist,) driven by temperature and salinity! Thermohaline circulation, though, isn’t super important to this little... ecology lesson? Rant? 

Let’s call it an Extended Clown Honk. 

Anyway. We’re mostly concerned about the North Atlantic with regards to climate change, and with GAIA in control, and sea ice restoration being noted in the Old Ones news materials, I’m gonna err on the side of “they’ve solved that potential problem.” See The Day After Tomorrow for some good science on a bad time scale if you’re curious about it!

You wind up with a diagram that looks like this; gyres! On the western side of an ocean basin, a warm current. On the eastern side, a cold one. And I know this doesn’t make sense from our point of view, considering California the “west” for most of the continent.

 But! The coast of California counts as the eastern shore of the Pacific. The California Current is a cold eastern boundary current. A component of the North Pacific Gyre! 

And THAT’S where we finally get to coral.

It bears repeating, because I have a BALLS idea of what Common Ocean Knowledge is as a marine ecologist raised in Florida, but coral is an animal! A cnidarian, in the same family as jellyfish! They are gelatinous polyps that build a calcium carbonate skeleton, which forms reefs! Their tentacles reach out to snag food, and push it into a mouth. BUT! They can also gain food via symbiosis with a type of algae called zooxanthellae! You can see ‘em in the diagram. They’re what gives the coral its color; the skeleton itself is bone white! It’s the reason bleached coral is a thing.

Because when coral gets stressed? It kicks the zooxanthellae out. And it doesn’t do so well on its own. So it starts to slowly die.

And coral?

Coral is AS EASILY STRESSED AS I AM.

Corals are EXTREMELY fussy animals; they ONLY want water that is shallow (enough so that parts of a reef can be exposed at low tide, in places), clear enough to let in the MAXIMUM amount of light, nutrient-poor, and between 74 and 84 degrees Fahrenheit. If conditions get outside their range? They PANIC and expel their algal partners. Not good.

So why does this make coral in California a no-no for me?

Well... remember that cold current? Yeah. Even if she can shallow the water. Can remove nutrients and turbidity. Can make every other condition ideal for coral? GAIA can’t change the California Current. That water ought to be TOO COLD for coral growth. 

You can see that most coral grows in tropical areas, where the temps ae fairly constant and the water is warm and nutrient poor (cold water holds more nutrients and oxygen,) and most is in shallow areas close to islands or the continental shelf!

Kelp forests, though? They like those cooler waters and higher latitudes; 

So we’ve got an ASSLOAD of coral where it shouldn’t be, mixed with KELP FORESTS... kind of an ecological nightmare. 

Additionally? There’s sponges all over the exposed coral I’ve seen in the promotional materials so far. Which... sponges don’t have a circulatory system, or a digestive system, OR a nervous system (Phylum Porifera, baybeeeeee), and require saltwater to flow through their pores, carrying out waste and in food. All those sponges on top of those coral stacks???

Suuuuuuper dead. But they don’t LOOK suuuuuuuuper dead. They look... just fine! Compared to the HORRIBLE WRONGNESS of the in-game moon, this is small potatoes. But small potatoes can still get caught in your throat and make you cough.

Now! You could deal with this many ways, as an ecologist. You could sigh and move on with your life, because ultimately, it doesn’t matter. You could suspend your disbelief and enjoy all the pretty renders.

I have chosen to dunk my face into a bowl of water and let out a long, extended, anguished clown honk.

Thanks for reading my long, extended, anguished clown honk.

[violetngrey]

Quackitree’s writing event!

Summer nights

I’m so sorry this is so late, I actually did have a load of things going on this week and this will be uploaded while I’m at my sports training and as I’m still genuinely busy the rest of the week also so that’s why this couldn’t be longer or any better. I’m hoping to do more of these since they improve my quick thinking writing!

Make sure to go follow @quackitree as she deserves all the followers and enjoy!

Prompt; “Ugh, you’re sweaty! Get off” Sapnap

SFW

GN!Reader

When Sapnap asked you to move in with him and Dream a couple of months ago you couldn’t of been more excited to move in with your boyfriend and his best friend. What you didn’t take into account was the vast difference in weather patterns from England to America, more specifically, Florida.

What you weren’t expecting to be doing every night before bed was opening up all the top windows and putting all the fans you had on full blast just to be able to sleep with the covers thrown off. The Floridian heat was something your body wasn’t accustomed to normally, why not when Mother Nature decided to give you a heat wave and one of the hottest ones Florida has had in over 20 years. So it seemed that not only you were struggling but also Sapnap and Dream in your poorly air conditioned apartment with a limited way to get even the stagnant air into the complex.

Eventually you thought that the heat had calmed itself down and lowered enough for you and Sapnap to be able to have a nice night for the first time since you moved into this place, you thought that night was tonight.

Tidying the bed and putting new covers back onto you and Sapnaps shared quilt you smoothed out the crinkles in the fabric, new sheets meant fluffy comfort and cold material for when you got into it for the first time and it’s something you’ve been looking forward too since you last changed the sheets. Today didn’t seem as humid as yesterday so you had your hopes high that the day wouldn’t be too heated and you could finally cuddle with Sapnap for more than ten minutes before everything got too hot and you had to pull away from each other. The sun was already going down and you kept your fingers crossed and just hoped for the best, Sapnap had a late night jackbox stream tonight anyways so it won’t be for another couple of hours.

By the time you’d made dinner, had a shower and gotten ready for bed, Sapnap was two hours into his jackbox stream and it had no clear time to when it would be ending. It was currently almost twelve o’clock so you though you should just go to bed and wait for him by watching some series. Eventually he shuffled his way into the bedroom about an hour or so later with his shirt already off as his threw it onto your clothes chair and unbuttoned his trousers.

He threw himself onto the covers. “Mmm so tired babe, the heats finally gotten to me” Sapnap mumbled into the bedsheets.

“It’s the coolest it’s going to get right now, c’mere” You whispered next to him, pausing the TV so all you could hear was the buzzing of the fans.

He shuffled over to you as you cuddled his head into your chest, threading your finger through his hair and kissing the top of his head. He gave out a big sigh and snuggled into you, you knew he needed this even if he didn’t want to admit it. Finally thinking you’d be alright with just the thin over sheet you guys had on your bed over you.

Sapnap turned the bedside lamp off as you cuddled into each other for the first time since you moved in.

You could feel Sapnap tossing and turning all throughout the night as the temperature slowly rose. When you turned to face the bedside clock which read four am you could finally hear Sapnap grumble awake and throw the thin sheets completely off of the bed. He wiggled under you as he sweat he sleep off.

“Umm babe, you’re sweaty! get off” He whined into your chest. The both of you were just too hot again and you suspected this supposed opportunity wouldn’t come again for a very long time.

Sliding off under Sapnap you tried to hug the cold wall and flip your pillow to try and get back to sleep.

Why did Dream have to live in such a hot country in the first place anyway.

[notveryglittery]

we could fall through december

summary: winter made everything so slow. roman didn’t think it fair.  ship: romantic roceit (roman/deceit) / wc: 1,600 warnings: sympathetic deceit, self-doubt/hatred, seasonal affective disorder, emotional outburst. let me know if i need to add anything. a/n: first fic of 2020 and it’s a gift!! feels good, feels organic. hope you like this, @rusted-but-golden <3 

read on ao3 | @fandersfic-roceit​

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Roman wondered what it was keeping him from getting out of bed.

Was it the “loss of interest?” Maybe it was the “sleep deprivation.” It just as well could have been the “lack of concentration.” Knowing his luck, it was all of the above. It was every symptom Google had listed, the apathy and the mood swings and the fatigue. He had so many things to do. There was plenty of time to do them. It was barely even noon yet which meant he had the entire day to finish the projects he’d started…

The clock flashed mockingly at him, reading 3:27. The projects he’d started had been ages ago. He couldn’t remember the last time he had picked them up. He wasn’t even sure what the date was.

Roman rolled over, burying his face into his pillow. It made breathing unnecessarily difficult. Kind of like how everything else was unnecessarily difficult. Like, why couldn’t he just kick the blankets off and get his feet on the ground? He was a prince! He was a knight! He was tough, self-assured, resilient! He had faced monsters larger than this. He faced blows to his ego like this daily.

Why did the lack of sunshine make so much of a difference?

Besides, it wasn’t like he didn’t have plenty of sunshine in his life already! Patton himself might as well have counted as one’s regular dose of vitamin D. Sometimes, Roman was lucky enough to be on the receiving end of Virgil’s smile or to hear a rare but treasured laugh from Logan. Those alone ought to have been enough to combat any gloomy day.

Finally lifting his head, Roman narrowed his eyes, squinting out the window. Not to mention, Thomas lived in Florida! The Mindscape should have reflected that. They barely had winter! It was more like extended fall. It didn’t even snow or rain (save for their consistent 3pm storm that lasted no more than an hour every day). Sure, the sun was obscured often by cloud cover but… well, it was still there! He had no excuse to be all mopey and sluggish just because the temperature had dropped.

…

Maybe he ought to just take a nap. Roman blinked, hard, and released a frustrated groan. With more effort than he’d care to admit, he lifted his arm and scrubbed the heel of his palm against his eyes, which had, quite rudely, begun to burn suddenly with tears. This was so stupid! Forcing himself to sit up felt like a herculean task, but he shoved the covers away and reached blindly for his bedside table. Instead of grabbing a tissue, though, his uncoordinated movements instead just knocked the box of Kleenex to the floor.

“Oh, come on!” He snapped, choking back a sob.

A knock sounded at the door.

“I’m busy,” he called back, without hesitation.

“You’re lying,” responded the visitor.

Roman muttered a curse under his breath. Any other day, he’d be delighted to see his beloved. As it were, he’d been avoiding Deceit just as much as he’d been avoiding everyone else. Was it a good idea to isolate himself when there was a figurative (might as well have been literal) storm cloud hovering over his head? Of course not. Not like he ever had any good ideas to begin with, anyway.

“Roman,” Deceit purred from the other side of the door.

“Fine, fine,” Roman sighed, unlocking the door with a halfhearted snap of his fingers. “Come in, then.”

At least Deceit’s arrival had distracted him from crying any more. Running a hand through his hair to try and tame his bedhead, Roman watched as Deceit let himself in. He closed the door gently behind him. He looked as exquisite as always, not a hair or thread out of place. He was carrying two containers.

“Move over,” Deceit said, seating himself on the mattress without waiting.

He set the tupperware down and turned to Roman. His eyes scanned over Roman’s face. A lot of good his poker face did him when Roman was intimately aware of every one of Deceit’s expressions and facial tics by now.

“Hi,” Deceit said softly.

“Hey,” Roman replied, muted.

Roman shifted, pulling the sheets more tightly around his waist. God, he hated winter. It was so cold. He didn’t even have the energy to conjure a space heater or electric blankets.

“Brought you lunch,” Deceit offered, picking one of the meals up and prying the lid off.

The container was full of grilled cheese sandwiches, cut into hearts. Roman looked at Deceit, unable to resist grinning a little bit.

“Patton insisted on helping,” Deceit grumbled.

Roman reached for the other and found it filled with tomato bisque. It was warm in his hands. Without a care in the world, he lifted the bowl to his mouth and drank the soup straight from it. His arms ached doing so but damn if it didn’t taste good.

“There are spoons, you know!” Deceit said, scowling.

Roman licked his lips. “Sorry.”

They ate in relative silence after that. Sometimes they took turns dipping the grilled cheeses into the soup. At one point, Roman shyly held up one of his half-eaten heart shaped sandwiches and Deceit rolled his eyes as he held his own half up against Roman’s. Deceit would talk occasionally; about Virgil and Patton taking up the living room for a blanket fort that no one else was allowed in; about Thomas and Joan’s latest additions to Reasons to Smile; about the debate he and Logan had recently regarding whether or not Pluto was a planet.

“Did he end it with viva la Pluto, fuck you?” Roman asked, reaching forward to… His fingers twitched and he pulled back, looking away.

“Of course he did,” Deceit answered. He waved a hand and the containers disappeared. A heated blanket appeared in their place. “Come here, then.”

Roman hesitated. Deceit twirled a finger in the air, changing into comfy loungewear. The next movement was directed at Roman, whose pajamas were replaced with clean ones that smelled just slightly of lavender. Deceit shoved the blanket into Roman’s lap.

God, again with the stupid tears—

“Shh,” Deceit hushed him, hands coming up to cradle Roman’s face gently. “I know. It’s okay.”

“It isn’t,” Roman croaked, allowing himself to curl his fingers around one of Deceit’s wrists. “I’m supposed to be str… stronger than this.”

“Is Patton weak when he has his Days?”

“Of course not,” Roman defended, vehemently.

“Surely, Virgil is when he panics over the tiniest of things.”

“He isn't!”

“Then why, Roman, would you think yourself weak for this?”

“It’s just a lack of sunlight,” Roman scoffed, dropping his hand to his lap, where he proceeded to pick at his chipped nail polish. He tried to turn away, tried to break their locked gaze. He was pathetic enough without having to see Deceit’s pitying expression.

“Ro,” Deceit interrupted those thoughts, tone scolding. He let Roman go, knowing better than to keep his hold when it wasn’t wanted. “Logan’s with Thomas right now but don’t think for a second that I won’t call him here if that’s what it takes.”

“We’re not going to bother him with this—”

“Bother?”

“You know what I mean!”

“Actually, I don’t,” Deceit disagreed, sneering. He hated when it came to that. “Why don’t you explain it to me?”

“The first result for "things people also ask" when you search for seasonal affective disorder is whether or not it’s real,” Roman snapped. “And I’m not real, not technically, so how can something like seasonal fucking depression affect me!”

Roman gestured towards the floor to ceiling windows that comprised one wall of his room. The sky was bright blue. “Even if it did, I have complete control over the Fantasy Realm. I could just pop in for a few hours of basking in the sunshine and I’d be all better! I can’t even do that, though!”

“Dearheart, you know vitamin D in the Fantasy Realm would work just as well as hugs and food do.” Deceit tried not to think about the last time Roman had forgotten this. It’d been… frightening, to say the least.

“They literally have lamps that do the same thing but go off I guess.”

“Alright.” Deceit said abruptly.

He grabbed the heated blanket and draped it over Roman’s shoulders. Then, with perhaps more force than necessary, he pushed Roman back down onto the pillows.

“Hey!” Roman shouted, not appreciating being manhandled, thank you very much.

Deceit didn’t answer and instead just sprawled himself on top of Roman’s chest. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed but whenever you start to talk bad about yourself, one of the reasons is because you’re touch-starved.”

“I am not—!” Roman would have finished his sentence if Deceit hadn’t buried a hand into his hair and scraped his nails along his scalp. Goosebumps erupted on his arms and at the back of his neck. “That…” Roman’s eyes slid shut. “That is cheating.”

“We’re not done talking about this,” Deceit promised, carding his fingers through Roman’s locks. “Right now, though, I think you could just use some physical affection and a nap.”

“I’m…” Roman sighed, melting under Deceit’s gentle touches.

“Hmm?” Deceit hummed, shifting so that he was a bit more comfortable and so that Roman could still breathe easily. “What is it, my articulate amor?”

“M’sorry.”

“Nothing to apologize for,” Deceit insisted, leaning up just close enough to press a kiss to Roman’s jaw. He tucked his face into the crook of Roman’s neck.

“... Okay,” Roman agreed haltingly. “I love you, darling.”

“I love you, your highness. Rest now.”

Whatever Roman had wanted to say was overtaken by a huge yawn. He shuffled as best he could further under the blankets, warmth wrapped around his shoulders and laid reassuringly on top of him. The idea of returning to this discussion scared him more than he thought it ought to but… He supposed he could work through it if he had someone so secure and patient like Deceit to help him.

[babysprouseisart]

tag game! get to know me

tagged by: the darling Anna @edamamechips​, thank you <3 Sorry, my dear, that I am answering so late, I appreciate your mention, and thank you for not forgetting me!

1. what is the color of your hairbrush? dark blue with black

2. name a food you never eat. liver or fish soup with cod/mackerel (I only accept trout/salmon soup, and it's not because I'm so rich or biased, I just don't like the smell of other fish)

3. are you typically too warm or too cold? if we are talking about temperature of the body, then - too cold, for sure, It’s because I have vegetative-vascular dystonia

4. what were you doing 45 minutes ago? I was taking the English grammar olympiad (contest)

5. what’s your favorite candy bar? Bounty bar or the sesame bar, cause I really love coconut and sesame

6. have you ever been to a professional sports game? no (if only the figure skating is considered a sport, then - yes)

7. what is the last thing you said out loud? ‘fuck it’ (not kidding)

8. what is your favorite ice cream? I like sherbet, fruit ice and a cone with any filling, but more with currant jam or chocolate.

9. what was the last thing you had to drink? had? a whole glass of water (for medicinal purposes)

10. do you like your wallet? I don’t work, don’t have any wallet, only some pocket money

11. what is the last thing you ate? soup and bread with ketchup and tomatoes, I suppose

12. did you buy any new clothes last weekend? nah

13. what’s the last sporting event you watched? Ummm, I sometimes watch F1 (Formula 1) with my brother (he plays it on his phone so fucking loud, so, yeah, here I am again, and I don’t now it is countable, but anyways)

14. what is your favorite flavor of popcorn? sweet popcorn is my favourite 

15. who is the last person you sent a text message to? I rarely send text messages (SMS), cause I have a pushbutton phone right now, and it takes a lot of time to send a text message, but I have messaged my classmate by telegram using computer recently.

16. ever been camping? no (only had been in the forest searching the mushrooms several times and had a quick bite sitting on the glade)

17. do you take vitamins? yes, I often take ascorbic acid

18. do you regularly attend a place of worship? no, just on occasions sometimes

19. do you have a tan? no, why? And it’s weird, cause: 1) It’s autumn and it is getting colder and colder and it is raining sometimes, so no almost sun and 2) I NEVER get a tan, I just immediately get burned under the open rays of sunshine. 

20. do you prefer chinese or pizza? hmmm, I remember trying chinese food and I getting sick after, and I haven’t tried it again, so I am not completely familiar with it, I don't know if I really enjoy it, that’s why - pizza

21. do you drink your soda through a straw? nooo... But fun fact: I love drinking soda with a loaf or with drying with poppy seeds

22. what color socks do you usually wear? I usually wear beige nylon socks (with shoes) or white socks (with sneakers)

23. do you ever drive above the speed limit? I don’t drive by myself at all, but, yeah, my brother and dad do sometimes

24. what terrifies you? a lot of things actually... Like, death of the relatives, upcoming exams, unfairness of life (more like irritates me), poverty, war, the possibility of non-reciprocal love, violence, cruelty, drunkenness and drug addiction of the partner and suffering with a child alone, I do not know, there are other fears, like heights and spiders, but much simpler...

25. look to your left, what do you see? notebooks and telephone

26. what chore do you hate most? cleaning the kitchen and mopping the floor

27. what do you think of when you hear an australian accent? I feel curious and think about australia: kangaroo, coalas, Sydney, Stewart and Meghan (native speakers with whom we sometimes have classes), the tribes, the heat

28. what’s your favorite soda? Duchess, Mojito, Schweppes

29. do you go in a fast food place or just hit the drive thru? 50/50, sometimes I don’t have time to sit inside, and sometimes, when, for example, I hang out with my friends, I go inside and sit there eating

30. what’s your favorite number? I don’t have one and only, it changes every time, let it be 25, my birthday number

31. who’s the last person you talked to? my brother, Alexey

32. favorite meat? beef I think, but I also love chicken

33. last song you listened to? oh, God, grant me memory it was daytime and now it's evening... I think it was “What you do to me” by John Legend

34. last book you read? errr, only school programe, so - “Sotnikov” by V. Bykov”, Russian story about war

35. favorite day of the week? according to the school timetable - monday, and in general - friday

36. can you say the alphabet backwards? ohhh, no, i am so silly, yeah? 

37. how do you like your coffee? I like coffee in any shape, form or whatever, just give me coffee and I am yours... *winks*

Just kidding, I really love latte (with milk)  

38. favorite pair of shoes? actually, I love my autumn boots, they are cute and fit anything

39. time you normally get up? at half past 6am at weekdays or at 11am on the weekends

40. what do you prefer, sunrise or sunsets? sunsets are my love

Just look at this:

41. how many blankets are on your bed? one currently, cause it’s pretty warm still

42. describe your kitchen plates: ummm, i don’t know what does this exactly mean, but...we have the flat small plates, they are mostly white with a pattern of flowers, or deeper, with a gold border (border) or with a pattern, there are also salad bowls of different colors and saucers for tea or lemon

43. describe your kitchen at the moment: what? okay, there is now soup and stuff cooking, kettle boiling, my brother is washing dishes and so on, we have only one finished part of the kitchen (white cabinets, table), a bit old stove, sink, spices and microwave on the windowsill, some other small things, we have a gas boiler there too...

44. do you have a favorite alcoholic drink? I don’t drink alcohol AT ALL, I have only tried energy drink (with caffeine)

45. do you play cards? yep, but rarely

46. what color is your car? I don’t have a car as I don’t drive

47. can you change a tire? again, for the 29325932 time - no car no problems

48. your favorite state or province? in our country there aren’t states, but I love the silent sceneric places, near the sea or lake, or river, I dont’ know, somewhere like this... Also, if we are considering other places, I love and would like to visit California, Florida, Oregon

49. favorite job you’ve had? to be honest, I haven’t had the job, only was planning to get one

tagging: @hbiccjsblog, @aliciarm, @cs-bh22, @raymondebidochonlifechoices, @aussiejonesandsprouse​, @monia-sprousehart and anyone who wants!

[luv-surveys]

45

Have you ever started reading a book and wondered if you’d read it before? yes i have. What has been bothering you a lot lately? the fact that i’m sick and super behind on all of my homework but can’t do anything about it. What (or who) have you been missing lately? i’ve been missing home lately since i’m going home this weekend for the first time in a few months. Are you trustworthy? i’d like to believe so. Did your parents teach that white lies were ok? they never specified but i was taught that lies in general are bad. Have you ever hallucinated? yes. Do you sleep with your door open or closed? i sleep with my bedroom door open, but i sleep with my dorm door closed. What flags do you have in your room, if any? i don’t have any flags. What (or who) is the best thing that ever happened to you? i’d probably say beginning to play music in fourth grade, as that really set me down the path that i’m on right now as a student in music school. What is the worst decision you ever made? probably beginning to let my anxiety control me -- it led me down a path that i’m still recovering from, a year later. Do you miss college? no, given that i’m in college right now... Have you ever called a teacher “mom”? i once called my french teacher “mom” because i accidentally said “madame” without the d so it sounded like “ma-ame” = “mom.” What is your favorite arcade game? probably skee-ball. i used to play that all the time growing up. Do you feel neglected? no. What school subject(s) are/were your best? definitely french and english. Are you allergic to grass? no. Do you remember to water plants? no... hence why i don’t own plants anymore. What season is your birthday in? it’s in fall. Name 3 creative people you know. my friend sophie, my friend danielle, and my friend dan. Name 3 YouTubers you aspire to be like. i’d say aspen ovard, jasmine from tbhstudying, and ava jules. What color was your first car? i’ve never owned a car. What year did you graduate? i graduated this year, 2020. When was the last time you saw the person you currently have feelings for? last saturday. Have you ever been scammed? yes. Are you allergic to pollen? yes :( What style of wedding dress do you like best? probably ballgown. Are you over your first love? i’m like 90% there. Do you talk on the phone a lot? pretty often. Would you rather call or text? probably text. Do you always answer your phone? no, i only answer if i recognize the number. When was the last time you went to a party? there really haven’t been any parties since quarantine started, but my friend did have a birthday in may, so probably then. What was the last thing you ate? chicken noodle soup. What’s the last book you checked out from the library? i checked out like nine books, all young adult fantasy. Do you have a twitter? no. If so, what was the last thing you tweeted? nothing. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? the guy i’m seeing. What’s the last thing you cooked on the stove? pancakes. What color is the cover of the last notebook you used? white and gold. Who was the last person you know to have a birthday? a girl on my snap. Who sent the last e-mail you got? my flute professor responding to my email about a rental. What song is currently stuck in your head? “look what you made me do” by taylor swift Do you have a favorite shape? probably circle. What color are the sheets on your bed? at home, they’re yellow. in my dorm, they’re pink, What time do you usually go to bed? usually, i go to bed between 11 and 12. Do you ever use coloring books? no. Are you planning on watching the Olympics? when they actually happen, yes. Do you pronounce the word “often” with or without a “t” in the middle? with the t. Have you ever been on a trapeze? no. Do you enjoy popping bubble wrap? yes of course. Are there any waterfalls near where you live? no. Do you like seafood? not particularly -- i do like shrimp, though. Have you ever had to wear a uniform for anything? yes, for marching band. If so, what did it look like? it was a maroon jacket, black bibbers, black long socks, black marching shoes, white gauntlets, white gloves, and a maroon shako. and under we had to wear our tour shirts and spandex/leggings. Do you personally know anyone who is an author? yes, my dad is. Do you own a Polaroid camera? nope. Do you enjoy baking? i love baking! What’s your favorite type of flower? right now, daisies. Last time (if ever) you were on an airplane, where were you going? home from florida. Do you know anyone who is left-handed? i have a couple left-handed friends and family members. What is something you think is underrated? probably classical music. too many people think it’s boring but there are some really amazing pieces. Around what temperature do you consider it to be too hot outside? probably around 85 degrees. In what ways do you expect your life to be different one year from now? i expect covid to not be as big of an issue. How often do you travel outside of the state/province you live in? probably around once a month at most. What’s a hobby you used to have, but don’t anymore? definitely reading. i used to read all the time, and now i just don’t have the time or motivation. What has been your favorite job you’ve had so far? i’ve never had a job. What’s your favorite kind of salsa/dip to go with tortilla chips? probably guacamole. Do you wash your car by hand or drive through a car wash? i don’t have a car. Where is the farthest north you’ve traveled to? alaska. Farthest south? florida. East? russia. West? again, alaska. How often do you run the dishwasher? at my house, we run the dishwasher every night. Do you wash your face at the sink or in the shower? i wash it in the shower. Name a stereotype about your gender that you don’t fit. i don’t enjoy wearing dresses whatsoever. Name a stereotype about your age that you don’t fit. i don’t have any interest in trying drugs or smoking. Do you have any unusual decorations in your home? we have a “butler” named jeeves, a family of elephants on a window sill facing away from the front door for good luck, and a couple other things. Do you have any uncommon kitchen appliances, such as espresso machines, waffle irons, etc? we have a panini maker and other things like that. What did your parents major/minor in in college, if they went? my mom majored in psychology while my dad majored in business. Has either of their careers influenced what career you chose or want to pursue? nope. What is the highest level math class you’ve completed? precalculus. How old were you when you learned how to ride a bike? probably around 7. How old were you when you learned how to swim? i’d say 10ish. How do you react when someone is rude to you? i get annoyed but try to remain sweet and kind so i don’t stoop to their level/they don’t have anything against me. Have you ever had a friend who was too clingy? yes, and it was annoying. What kind of natural disaster is most common where you live? probably snowstorms/blizzards. Why is your least favorite season your least favorite? i hate winter because it’s cold and depressing. Do you have a Netflix account? yes. Have you ever had an animal get into your attic? yeah, occasionally that happens. Where is your favorite place to go on vacation? i enjoy traveling to europe since there’s so much history there. How long does it take to get there? it’d be about a six hour flight. When was the last time you started a “new chapter” of your life? this fall when i started college. What room in your home do you spend the least amount of time in? i’d say our downstairs bathroom -- i never use that bathroom. What is the last random act of kindness you did? i can’t really remember since i’ve been alone and sick for the past few days. Do you do anything to reduce the amount of electricity you use? not really... Are you usually open to trying a new food that you aren’t familiar with? yes, but if it’s some type of body part (like liver) then no. Do you listen to Panic! At The Disco? no. Have you ever had a kinky dream about a celebrity? nope. Is there a song you can’t stop listening to atm? not currently. Has anyone ever told you that they loved you, and you couldn’t say it back? no. If your Facebook status doesn’t get any likes/comments, does it bother you? i never post on facebook. Which friend do you confide in most? the guy i’m seeing haha. Do you wear a cross? no. What is your opinion on Arby’s? it’s good and their fries are amazing. When you have your own kitchen, how will it be done? i’d like an island definitely, and lots of counter space. i’d want it to be an open layout too. What is your favorite doughnut? probably jelly. Do you have a hot tub? If so, where is it located? no way. Did you read the Twilight series, or jump on the bandwagon after the movie? i have never read the entire series or been interested in it. What is your favorite party game? wii party or cards against humanity. Do you or your parents rake your yard? my parents do. Were you pro-Obama? nope, but i couldn’t vote anyway. What is your favorite scent from Bath & Body Works? i think a thousand wishes?  What was the last illegal thing you did? probably speeding when i was driving. Who did you last go to the movies with? i think my sister, her boyfriend, and my ex. What color was the last vehicle you were in? white. Do you have any family members in the military right now? nope. Is there a ceiling fan in the room you’re in? no. When was the last time you wished time would move faster? during my class earlier today. Are there any owls in your room (as decor, of course)? nope. Have you ever heard voices? Audibly? no. Do you believe in angels and demons? yes. Who is the worst neighbor you have ever had? we have neighbors that accuse us of things we don’t do and get into fights with us over stupid things. Did your Barbies go on dates? yes! If you’re not straight, who was the first person you came out to? i’m straight. Where did you meet your first crush? school. Do you remember the first time your first crush ever said hi to you? nope. Do you ever go places with wet hair? occasionally, but i try not to. Who is your favorite little girl? probably my cousin. What do you want the most in life? happiness. What is a decision you’ve made that changed your entire life? my college decision. Do you ever wonder what kind of person you’d have turned out to be if a certain event never happened to you? occasionally, yeah. When you’re home alone, do you still shower with the bathroom door closed? yep, i keep it closed and locked. If you could have anyone’s singing voice, whose would you choose? maybe ariana grande. What are your top 3 favorite genres of music? classical, jazz, and electroswing. Where did you buy your dishes from? i’m pretty sure my mom gets them from williams-sonoma. Do you think Mars will be colonized in your lifetime? not in my lifetime. What’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought that turned out to be a waste of money? probably some type of appliance that i never use. What’s something you’ve bought that turned out to be way more useful than you anticipated? my shower shoes! Have you ever been on a ship? yeah. Do you ever take intentional breaks from checking/posting on social media? nope. Who was Van Halen’s better singer - David Lee Roth, or Sammy Hagar? i don’t know what you’re talking about lol. Which fictional character has the most memorable quotes? maybe dumbledore from harry potter? i can’t think of anyone off the top of my head. What’s a class you did not take in school, but now wish you had? forensic sciences. Have you ever been to either of your parents’ workplaces? all the time. What do you think of the ‘Healthy At Every Size’ movement/philosophy? no... not every size is healthy bruh. Have you ever been bitten so hard that their teeth marks were there after? yes. Ever been given a hickey? (Love bite) yeah. Ever gave one? nope. Are you more of an outgoing type or shy type? more shy. Do you think it’s weird if guys wear make-up like eyeliner? nah. Are you self conscious? If so what are you self conscious about? a lot, but mainly my height and paleness. Are you flirty at all? sometimes. Are you racist at all? no. Would you ever date a disabled person? (Be honest) depends on the disability, but more likely than not, no. If you found a baby randomly by itself what would you do? probably look around for parents, and if they’re not there, contact authorities. Would you rather adopt or have your own child? i’d rather have my own. What would you class as cheating on someone? purposefully seeking a romantic relationship/interaction with another person. Do you try to be politically correct? i try to. What’s your favorite kind of sea critter? maybe starfish. Have you ever tasted locally-made honey before? no. As far as earrings go, would you rather wear hoops or studs? hoops! Do you find P.E. humiliating, or think schools shouldn’t teach it? i don’t think it’s humiliating, but from my experience, i don’t know if it’s worth teaching. Do you recycle? yeah. Are you interested in current world issues? for the most part. Do you think you are mature, or immature? mostly mature. What kind of career are you interested in? i’m interested in teaching or performing music. Do you own a pair of sunglasses? yes. Do you use bobby pins, hair clips, or elastic hair ties? Which? i use all of the above. How badly do you get acne? (If at all) i barely get any acne. What’s the best way to cope with a breakup? remember all the things you hated about them and distract yourself. also, a glow-up and showing off your successes never hurts. If someone dislikes you, what is most likely to be the reason? probably because they think i’m egotistical. How many text messages do you have in your inbox atm? 72. When was the last time you had a difficult decision to make? probably deciding whether or not i should stay with the guy i’m seeing. In school, what subjects do/did you find the most difficult? math! Do you still speak to the person you had your first kiss with? not really. Where did you meet the last person you swapped numbers with? here at college. Who was the last person to add you as a friend on Facebook? a kid from my theory class. Who was the last person that asked if you were okay? my roommate, because i’ve been unhealthy. What does your handwriting look like? it’s pretty bubbly and very neat. Do you use any products on your hair, other than shampoo and conditioner? yes, i use dry shampoo and dry conditioner. Who were your best friends in primary school? lindsey. Do you still speak to any of them? nope. What was the last thing you bought from a vending machine? i think candy. What color hair did your first crush have? blond. What type of shoes do you find the most comfortable? moccasins! Are you more masculine or feminine? more feminine, definitely. If you could design your own mug, what would you put on it? something minimalist, like a tiny illustration. What is the best beach you’ve been to? the beach at ocean city, maryland. What is one thing you physically can’t do? i cannot do a pull-up, nope. Have you ever been to a funeral? yep. Have you ever visited your state’s capitol building? no. Have you ever visited your nation’s capitol building? yes. Do/did you have a favorite seat in church? yeah, the one on the left close to the front. What is your favorite park? probably six flags? or disney? Have you ever felt an earthquake? nope. Do you chew gum regularly? no. Where did you go on your first train ride? i think when i was a baby. Do you know anyone with a dual citizenship? yep. What sports teams do you root for, if any? (Extra points for Boston fans.) i don’t root for any sports teams. Do you dunk your cookies in milk? no ma’am. What is something you are confident about? my eye color. Have you ever been physically addicted to a substance? What? i’ve been addicted to afrin during colds, but i always manage to tear myself away. How do you feel about needles? they’re not great, but i’m not particularly scared of them. What is your favorite accent to listen to? i love scottish accents. What was the reason you last got dressed up? church. Have you ever been the subject of cruel rumors? not really. ^ What were they? -- Do you prefer loose or form-fitting clothing? more form-fitting. ^ What about on your preferred gender? more form-fitting as well. What do you do when you are really, really mad? i go somewhere to be alone so i can cool off. Would you rather go naked than wear fur? i’d rather wear fur, but i wouldn’t like it. Do you put a line through your 7’s? no. ^ What about your Z’s? nope. What is one thing that someone could do to you that is unforgivable? cheat on me if we’re in a relationship. Are you able to forgive and forget? it’s hard, but sometimes. Do you like cold pizza? no. What is your favorite fruit? pineapple! What about your favorite fruit juice, if it differs from solid fruit? white grape juice has my heart. Do you like broccoli and cheese? i’ve never had it but it sounds yummy. What about potatoes and cheese? oh yeah that’s good. Have you written a letter by hand, lately? To whom? yep, to the guy i’m seeing. Toaster or toaster oven? toaster. What are you most known for? being a musician haha. Do you have any reputations? What are they? i don’t believe so. Do you wear band shirts? nope. ^ What band was on the last one you wore? -- Do you own any hats? Describe them. yeah, i own a black adidas cap and a white cap. What about masks, you got any? Describe those. oh, i have plenty... thanks covid. i have a black one, a white one, a pink one, a brown one, a green camo one, and a blue floral one. What was the last thing to leave you speechless? probably my flu since it hurts to talk LOL. Do your parents like your friends? If they don’t, why not? yep. Have you been called a bad influence? no way. Describe your favorite pair of socks. i like all my pairs of black socks. Have you experienced any life-changing news, events, etc, lately? not really. Have any self-done piercings? nope. Ever pierced someone else? nooo. Do you get distracted easily? sometimes, but not if i’m focused on homework. Is talking to strangers enjoyable for you, or stressful? it’s stressful usually. How do you feel about getting new neighbors? it’s exciting! How many ceiling fans are in your home? one. Do you tweet your life away? nope. How do you feel about shameless self promoting? i don’t mind it if it isn’t too in the way. When reading words. like. this. do. you always pause after the periods? yep. What about screaming when reading something IN ALL CAPS? uh-huh.

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the exorcism of mulder and scully

 A few folks asked for a continuation of the Plus One story I posted yesterday. This may not be precisely what you’re looking for, but I’m sharing a casefic I wrote that takes place directly after Plus One and before TLAOFS. It’s M/S undercover as a married couple, lots of MSR, spooky stuff, and deals specifically with what went down between them in Plus One. I’ll post the first chapter here but please click the link at the bottom to read the entire story!

                                                        Prologue

THE EXCELSIOR KEYS HOTEL

KEY WEST, FLORIDA

AUGUST 24, 1991 7:31 PM

His eyes opened slowly and there was only blackness and terror. He was afraid. He wasn’t sure exactly why, or of what, but the terror was real, and it was familiar.

He knew he must be in the hotel. He had to be; it was the only place that could create such fear within him. Ever since he began working here a couple years ago he’d felt it.

Cal Hodges had worked at many other establishments before, but none that were most definitely haunted. He’d never believed in ghosts before he and his wife moved to the Keys, but now… he’d seen things. He couldn’t deny the way he felt; the oppressive dread that coursed through his body whenever he was inside these walls. Outside it was better: he could think properly when he tended the lawn or replanted the petunias. But whenever he got a call to replace a doorknob or fix a leaking faucet, the fear returned.

As his eyes adjusted to the darkness they darted around the room. He was lying on a bed, somewhere. His wrists were tied behind him and his feet were tied below and while he and his wife occasionally enjoyed an adventurous romp this wasn’t anything he recalled consenting to.

He could smell a faint odor of… something. It was hard to place, but somewhat familiar. Like herbs, musty and organic. He saw a silhouette approach him and a multitude of possibilities went through his mind, horrific possibilities but not one of them was what actually happened when the voice began speaking.

“From all evil, deliver us, o Lord. From all sin, from your wrath, from sudden and unprovided death, from the snares of the devil, we sinners, we beg you to hear us.”

Hodges felt water splash his face as the man drew nearer. He’d never been much of a churchgoer, but he recognized what was going on here. And he recognized the voice. His terror grew.

“Let me go!” Hodges cried. He tugged at the restraints.

“Just relax, I’m here to help you,” the voice said gently. “I’m the only one who can help you.”

“Help me with what?” Hodges asked, desperate. He hadn’t asked for help, had he? What was going on?

The man came up close to his ear.

“You got the demons,” he said. “You got ‘em in you.”

Demons?

His eyes widened in fear. Was any of this real? Is this what explained how he’d been feeling? The omnipresent shroud that seemed to cloak him every time he stepped foot inside this hotel?

The man put his hand on his shoulder, pressing him back, but he fought. Hodges pulled at his restraints, and either they weren’t very tight, or he was very lucky, but one of his wrists got free and he punched the man in the face. With a grunt, he went over the side of the bed, groaning pitifully.

The man didn’t get back up right away, as either age or weight precluded, and Hodges went to work on the other restraints. With a hand free, he made quick work of it, and was off the bed and out the door before the other man had even gotten up.

He hated this place, but he knew it like the back of his hand, and he tore through the hallways to the stairs, through the lobby and out the front door. There were no guests along the way, the hour the most likely reason.

He ran like his life depended upon it.

***

This fucking place again.

The young officer pulled his police cruiser up to the front curb of the old hotel. He’d only been on the job a few months but he was starting to learn this particular establishment was a running problem for the Key West police department. He'd definitely been called out here more times than he'd like.

The place wasn’t enormous but still had a definite sense of foreboding, and he was unnerved regardless of his skepticism when it came to ghosts and spirits. He’d moved to the Keys only recently but had already seen enough weirdness to last a lifetime.

The 911 dispatcher had informed him the caller had been a panicked woman, saying her husband had been killed, but she’d hung up before giving any more information.

He stepped out of the car and started to approach the front door when he began to hear music coming from outside the building. He changed direction, heading towards the source.

To the left of the hotel stood a small maintenance shed and he could hear what sounded like the plucking mandolin strings of R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion,” but it was somewhat distorted. As he drew closer he could see it sounded that way because the radio from which the song emanated had been smashed on the ground.

He pulled out his flashlight and peered inside the shed. As he entered he noticed a drastic change in temperature; it was August in Florida and this tiny shed had no right to be so fucking cold. A chill went through his body, from the top of his head to the ends of his toes. And just when he thought he was imagining things he saw the very thing he’d come for.

He tore across back the lawn to his car and picked up his radio, frantically dialing.

“This is Officer Myers responding to a 911 call at the Excelsior Keys. Sir…“ his eyes darted back to the shed, then to the hotel. “Sir, we’ve got another one.”

                                                    Chapter One

SOMEWHERE ALONG I-95

11:49 AM

PRESENT DAY

The landscape of I-95 flew by in a whir, and Scully shifted a bit in the passenger seat of the rented Explorer. Everything was moving so fast, too fast, not mind-numbingly slow, which was how she’d always been accustomed to things with Mulder.

They’d deposited the second rental car back in Henrico County and climbed into Mulder’s. His insistence (and her acquiescence) that they not further pollute the planet was the only thing keeping them from driving home in separate cars and avoiding their current situation entirely. Although they were doing a fine job of that anyway, sitting together now, mere inches away from one another, not uttering a word.

Road trip, business trip, X File, whatever they wanted to call it, at least it was the two of them again, doing what they did best. Our bread and butter, Mulder had called it. It felt nice and familiar.

Only it had been quite some time since they’d done it with the smell of sex lingering in the car, stolen furtive glances at every mile marker, the air thick with the kind of tension they’d much sooner ignore than address. That was most certainly the Mulder and Scully she remembered. That was their real bread and butter.

She closed her eyes and laid back against the headrest, allowing her mind to wander to last night. And, to this morning.

And, to again this morning.

It was hard not to do, impossible really, now that sex had become something she and Mulder were apparently doing again. She should have known once it happened once, the floodgates would open and she’d want to do it again and again.

He gripped the steering wheel and stared straight ahead, his sleeves rolled up to the crooks of his elbows in that way he used to back when she first fell for him; that way that drove her absolutely crazy. His inescapable Mulder scent snaked around the car and underneath her nostrils, her body responding in all kinds of inconvenient ways. She felt like Pepé le Pew, the horniest cartoon character ever thrust upon polite society, and it was all she could do not to tell him to pull the car over right now.

The sex had been amazing; of course it was. And in the moment it felt like the right thing to do. But as they drew closer and closer to Washington D.C., towards the safe boundary of home, she felt less and less like it had been the right call.

What would happen when they stopped the car? Could they just get out and pretend everything was normal like they always did, even though they both knew it wasn’t? There were too many things between them, twenty five years of stuff, a lot of it bad stuff that they had never confronted. She didn’t blame Mulder for that, not really; she blamed herself. She hadn’t wanted to look into the darkness anymore, so she simply stopped. Even if it meant turning her back on things they needed to discuss; things like their son, things like Mulder’s depression.

Things like their fundamental inability to communicate about any of it.

Now that they’d crossed this particular line, she worried what would happen next. What if they just continued to have sex without talking? They did that the first time around, and she regretted it. So much time lost, so much unnecessary heartache, and for what? Because they couldn’t tell each other the truth; that they’d been in love with each other for years and couldn’t speak of it out of fear, or some kind of misguided obligation?

She was afraid again, but this time it wasn’t because she feared he didn’t love her. This time she was afraid because she knew he did.

“Are you hungry, Scully? Because I sure am.”

His voice came from nowhere, an assault on her senses. That voice could do things to her she never dreamed possible; could make her do things she never dreamed possible. It was a timbre he had, a specific cadence, some intonation that had the power to burrow deep inside her psyche, convincing her of almost anything. Robert Patrick Modell had nothing on Mulder.

“Yeah, I could eat,” she admitted.

He pulled off the turnpike to a roadside diner, and she felt her stomach turn in reluctant anticipation of the greasy offerings in store for her. Such an activity had been so commonplace for them over the years she felt a sensation of dejà vú come over her.

He parked the car and the silence within was deafening. She could sense his discomfort; it matched hers perfectly. He sighed loudly, then turned to her and spoke.

“Look, Scully, I know this is awkward. But you haven’t said a word to me since we checked out.”

She shifted again, unbuckling her seatbelt. Truthfully, she’d been mortified by the side-eye the motel manager had given them. They weren’t exactly quiet last night, all night, she thought with a clandestine smile. But it only further demonstrated how powerless she’d been to her urges, how uninhibited she was when she was with Mulder.

Suddenly a greasy burger sounded like the best thing in the world. Anything to get them out of this car.

“I’m sorry, I, uh-”

“It’s me, Scully.” He looked at her with raw emotion and her only thought was how much she’d missed those eyes. “Don’t let this become another thing for us that just… happened. Please.”

For some reason her memory flashed to that night in her apartment years ago when she’d given in to those same eyes, only to realize it hadn’t really been him. It was Eddie Van BlundHt who wanted her that night, not Mulder. The realization of that in the moment left her feeling betrayed and confused about her own feelings. Things settled down after that and they both knew exactly what had happened, but neither ever acknowledged it. It was just… something that happened. It was the way they always dealt with their feelings for each other. It hadn’t been enough to push them forward. It never was.

They sat in silence for a minute, and her eyes met his, earnest and inquisitive. They communicated with hers in a way that said don’t shut me out, not this time.

She wasn’t an idiot, she knew what would happen if they didn’t talk. Something that just happened was exactly what this would become. She didn’t want that either, and it surprised her that he was being so forthcoming.

“It isn’t something that just happened, Mulder,” she sighed. “That’s what I’m afraid of, to be honest.”

There it was: brutal honesty. It was refreshing.

Mulder looked taken aback, but impressed. It was as if he’d been waiting for permission to reveal a little bit, too.

“Okay, then. That’s a start.”

He looked at her for a moment and she could tell he wasn’t struggling with this the same way she was. He appeared confident, sure of what he was saying. And he didn’t want her to get away with her usual brand of silence. It was so unlike him, so new. She liked it, but she wasn’t prepared for any of this. She hadn’t planned to sleep with him, but it happened all the same.

“What are you afraid of, Scully?”

She paused, then spoke. “I’m afraid… of this tidal wave I can see in the distance, coming for me fast, and taking me out. And I’m afraid I’m not ready for it, Mulder.”

It was the most honest she’d been with him in a while. She wasn’t sure what she wanted. She wasn’t sure if she was ready to get back together with him. She didn’t know if things would be better this time around, she honestly didn’t. And she was terrified of hurting him, of breaking his heart again. But she also knew deep down that being apart from him wasn’t right, either. She felt the connection to him still, in her bones. It had never gone away.

He nodded, looking right at her, like he could see into her soul. Like he always did, no matter which particular high or low they were riding. He reached over and took her hand, which wasn’t typically a big deal for them, and especially shouldn’t feel big after what they’d done mere hours ago.

Three times.

“Okay, I get it. A wave.” He covered her hand with his other one. “Is it too much for me to ask... that you at least don’t run this time?”

She looked at him with affection, surprised by his maturity. Who was this Fox Mulder sitting next to her, pleading with her to give them a second chance? Where was he years ago, when she needed him?

She shook her head, slowly. “No, it’s not too much to ask.”

“So… let’s just regroup, okay? Can we do that?”

She nodded. “Yeah, I think that would be good.”

“What happens in the field stays in the field?” he grinned, an eyebrow rising up high.

She smiled, accepting these terms he seemed to be laying out. Maybe some rules were a good idea. “Yeah, I think that’s probably wise.”

His lips curved into the smile that was her moon, her stars, her truth; everything they’d ever searched for together. Maybe he’d always be looking for something but she’d found it in him a long time ago. She was done looking. She couldn’t help but wonder if that was their whole problem in the first place.

She found herself falling back into that smile, the way she always had. She was powerless to his effect on her, and part of her hated herself for that. She knew it was the reason she kept her distance from him all these years. But the other part of her could only respond to the effect. She was still human, after all.

“Hey, Mulder.” She put her hand on his thigh to stop him as he went for the car door.

“Yeah?”

“We’re… technically still in the field, aren’t we?”

He pulled his hand away from the door, looking intently at her. She searched his eyes and saw the desire within them; she wouldn’t have expected otherwise. But this was new territory for them as a couple, or non-couple, or whatever the fuck they were anymore. Seeking permission, sending and reading signals. They hadn’t done this in ages.

Her eyes told him what she wanted, though, and his eyes said the same, and suddenly they were entwined again, a console between them the only wall in this moment left to break down. His lips met hers with the hunger he’d recently expressed, only instead of greasy food they devoured her, again, and despite her apprehensions she let him in, again.

Inside a rental car in broad daylight wasn’t an ideal sexual scenario but her need for him had been reawakened, and just as it was before everything went to shit, she felt the same feeling, the same magnetism that drew them together from the day they entered each other’s lives. It was a truth she couldn’t deny, and certainly wouldn’t now, her tongue gliding along his bottom lip, his hands delving underneath her shirt.

She was out of her own body, like the evil twin she’d seen mere hours ago. The twin was back, thinking and doing things she knew she shouldn’t be, and it felt so real she wondered if in fact she’d given that particular paranormal possibility enough consideration.

She decided to go with it. Blaming her evil twin sounded like a great way to fuck Mulder whenever she felt like it.

He lowered the seat until it laid flat, this particular routine perfected while they’d spent all those months on the run years and years ago. It felt like another lifetime, another Mulder, another Scully. But it made her feel alive again, remembering how intense those times had been, how much they’d relied on one another. When there was literally nothing else in her life that mattered the way he did.

There wasn’t anyone in the parking lot and the car was situated around the corner of the restaurant. No one witnessed the tryst taking place just outside an establishment with a single cash register, tattered vinyl booths and a twenty year old grill. Broken down and worn out, it had seen its share of shit, but still nowhere near what Agents Mulder and Scully had been through.

Pushing his chest backwards, she unzipped his pants, inside them seeking the relief she craved. And as she felt him fill her for the fourth time in about as many hours she wanted to cry, she missed this so much.

This is fine, this is okay, she tried to convince herself as she rocked against him, her desire for him only increasing with each time they gave in. We aren’t home yet.

We aren’t home yet.

They weren’t, not even close. But she wanted to go home, she wanted to, desperately.

She threw her head back and moaned his name, a plaintive cry of yearning she’d suppressed for years, now erupting with abandon in the hollow shell of this rented SUV. He pulled her in again, whispering her own name roughly in her ear, his hands entangling in her hair, disappearing along with their inhibitions.

After she came and he came and the moment was over, she laid spent across his chest, sweat dripping everywhere. She felt an untenable sense of guilt and shame for some reason. She wished it away but it remained. Several minutes seemed to go by and they said nothing, only their breathing audible. She was keenly aware he was waiting for her to speak, so she did.

“Mulder, I-”

“It’s okay, Scully… I get it.” He held her against him and she felt his heart beating through his chest, his hand softly stroking her hair, his lips pressing a chaste kiss to her crown.

She wondered if he really did get it, if he got how much she fucking loved him, how much she wanted this to work out. How hard she’d tried when he hadn’t seemed to try at all. She wondered if he was really ready to try again. And she wondered if this was all a terrible mistake.

His phone buzzed in the cup holder and he reached down to look at it.

“Shit. We have a new case. Meeting with Skinner at 1:30.”

“Are we even going to have time to go home first?” she asked, concerned. Then again, it was their own fault they hadn’t checked out on time. Skinner wasn’t privy to their activities. He probably assumed they were back by now.

“Probably not, no thanks to you,” he grinned, giving her backside a soft slap.

She knew he was just being playful but it occurred to her all the sex that took place over the past few hours she had been the one to initiate. She suddenly felt embarrassed of how unable she was to control her own impulses around him. Sitting up on his lap, she started buttoning her shirt, looking around the parking lot for onlookers, finding none, thankfully.

“Let’s go eat, Mulder.”

“Scully, I was kidding.”

“I know,” she interjected sharply, not wanting him to have the upper hand anymore. “Let’s go eat.”

The sooner they got out of this car the sooner she could refocus on pretending nothing happened in the first place.

Thanks for reading! This one is a ride. For their meeting with Skinner and the rest of the story, click here for Chapter Two.

[alteridolriley]

In the Heat of the Moment

Fandom: Sanders Sides Pairings: Prinxiety (if you squint hard enough) Words: 1,093

A/N: This idea was created by my great friend @availe so please go read her comic version here too!

Prompt: It’s hot. But Virgil refuses to take off his jacket.

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It was stifling in the commons area today.

Thomas had been asked to go hiking with some friends and since Logan had planned a day off in between videos, Thomas agreed to go with his friends. Living in Florida, there wasn’t much to the areas where people hiked or camped, but the one major thing that sucked most of all about the idea: it was hot.

Not just the hot that you need a drink of water to cool you off, but more like the air around you felt wet, and the longer you stood outside the more you just felt like dying inside. The heat sucked all of the coolness off your body the instant you walked outside.

Because Thomas himself was in a hot environment, the sides themselves were also feeling the heat.

Luckily for Roman, Patton, and Logan, their clothing was pretty thin, just a small fan blowing towards them was enough to keep them happy. However, Virgil was another story. He had hold himself up in his room claiming that the commons area was just too bright for him that day.

Virgil paced around his room, trying to fan himself with his hands but it wasn’t nearly enough. He absolutely refused to take off his clothing - it felt as if it was a part of who he was now, especially after his change up. The hoodie was very thick though and adding onto his long sleeve undershirt, Virgil was sweating pretty profusely.

The dark side decided maybe it would feel cooler in the commons area since Patton had set up the fans in that room. Though he knew Sir Sing A Lot would never let him live it down. Virgil had told them earlier he’s wasn’t hot and Roman had taunted him a bit. Virgil hated to consider that the prince had been right.

Virgil appeared outside of his room in the hallway leading to the common area. He could hear the TV going, the lines of a familiar Disney movie flowing into his ears. As he walked towards the room, suddenly his vision blurred and he felt super sleepy. As soon as his elbow hit the wall, he was jarred back awake. Virgil shook his head and pulled his hood over. It was probably nothing to worry about. He hadn’t been sleeping that well anyway.

Upon arriving to the commons area, he saw Logan sitting on one end of the couch, his nose stuck into a fairly thick book. It seemed like he was very into it as he had his right hand holding the book and his left hand holding his chin; his face contorted to intrigue with some confusion thrown in. Patton was engrossed into Aladdin, he didn’t even notice that Virgil had walked into the room.

Virgil didn’t know where he planned to sit. The emotional and logical sides had pretty much the entire couch taken up since Patton was laying on his stomach. They both had fans blowing in their faces, moving their purple hair ever so slightly.

As Virgil tried to look around the room, his eyes glossed over again. He tried to blink to make it go away, but it refused to clear up.

Virgil glanced to his right and noticed Roman had walked up next to him. How had he not seen him approach?

“Hey Mr. Edgelord, you okay?” Roman said, his hand brushing back his hair behind his left ear. He raised an eyebrow after getting a good look at Virgil. “You look sweaty.”

Virgil tried to hide his face. He crossed his arms. “M'fine…” his voice was slurred.

Suddenly, Virgil felt extremely dizzy. He could feel his lungs about to burst. It wasn’t any cooler in this room and the heat was taking its toll on him. He began to pant heavily, trying to hide it from Roman. Before Virgil realized it, he felt himself falling over but there was nothing he could do. His limbs felt like they were asleep; and his sight was basically gone.

“W-whoa! Hey!” Roman nearly shouted, confused as he watched Virgil start to fall to the side.

The prince reached out his arms nearly instantaneously and slid his leg over, using some momentum just in time to catch the anxious one.

Patton and Logan were jolted out of their revere at Virgil’s plight.

“Oh my goodness, what’s going on?” Patton said, frantically as he jumped up from the couch. “Virgil!” He dashed over towards them.

Logan snapped his book shut, looking right at Virgil’s face. He could see his flushed cheeks. Without asking anything, Logan knew exactly what happened. “Patton, Virgil’s fine. He just overheated because he refuses to take off his jacket.” He stood and moved the fan on the coffee table to the floor. It had a cord long enough to put it pointing towards Virgil. “Why don’t you go get a cold wet cloth to put on his face?” Logan questioned to Patton. “That will help his internal temperature to lower quicker.”

Patton nodded, his father like instincts making him very rushed. He dashed over toward the kitchen area. Logan continued to move other fans toward Virgil as Roman took off Virgil’s jacket. The anxious side was completely unconscious by this point. Roman couldn’t help but smirk at Virgil as he folded the jacket neatly and laid it next to him.

“Dude, your jacket is too warm…” Roman said as he pulled Virgil onto his lap. He picked up a nearby script notebook off of the side table and began to fan Virgil gently. “…even if it is marvelous.”

Virgil stirred just a bit, rolling closer to Roman. “Nooooo….” He mumbled.

Roman chuckled under his breath. “Even unconscious you still want to argue with me. Why am I not surprised by that, Hot Topic?”

Patton returned with the wet cloth and folded it into a perfect rectangle. “What a silly boy.” Patton smiled as he brushed Virgil’s bangs out of his face. He laid the cloth gently onto Virgil’s forehead.

Logan walked up behind Patton, having moved the last of the fans around Virgil. He kneeled down behind Patton, putting his hand onto Patton’s shoulder. A smile formed on his face. “Yes, but he’s our silly boy, isn’t he?” Logan said softly, feeling sympathetic to Virgil.

The sides sat in the floor, waiting for Virgil to awaken, knowing he’d immediately want his jacket back.

But that was okay. They’d watch out for him.

After all, they were a family.

[thehoneybuzz]

The Summit of Salkantay

The second day of our trek would be our biggest challenge. Summit at 15 thousand and a brutal series of 7 switchbacks called the Seven Snakes to get there. We knew it would be a challenging day even before it started raining... then sleeting... then snowing as we endlessly climbed.

I was soaked totally through, shoes squelching in the pools that gathered on grassy plateaus and sloshing in the trails turned rivers by rain and melting snow. I am frozen. Feeling every minute like I am from Florida - out of breath in altitude and cold in temperatures below 60. It was well below freezing. I counted my steps, I breathed in time to them, and just kept climbing. 5 sets of 20 steps, rest. 5 sets of 10 steps, rest. Repeat. Look up. Make it to the top of the mountain.

I am there. Coca tea burns my throat. I drink it as fast as I can, fingers tingling with regained feeling as they clasp the warm, metal cup. Heat. I felt I could curl up in that small metal cup. Or at least dip in my toes. I toss a small rock, carried with me up the summit, to my guide. He had asked for stones to say a prayer to the mountain. The exchange rate, for once on my journey, seemed fair. Carry a rock, earn your tea, give a prayer. Win win win.

I adjust my cap for a photo at the summit sign and laugh as I feel snow accumulated on the brim. I think that’s the reason I’m smiling in the picture as I couldn’t feel my face when it was captured. I was literally snowcapped.

I race down the mountain. My knee - which I had been forced to duct tape the day prior due to issues with a previous injury - was strong. Strong like it knew how very badly I wanted down to the vague promise of better conditions. I didn’t think I would ever be dry again, but wet was slightly better than frozen. My guide had told me our next meeting place was some distance up the trail. An hour? Two? I don’t remember now and I didn’t really remember then. I knew I would recognize a stopping place when I saw one, structures were sparse and therefore recognizable as rendezvous points. What I did know is that my hasty descent made measuring the distance in minutes futile. I had no idea how much further to salvation.

Down kept its promises. I looked up one moment to fog, trudged on for some immeasurable distance, and as if in an instant I look up to see the sky had broken into a cloudless blue. The sky literally open, revealing peaks, and the secrets it was keeping about how far I had traveled and how far I had yet to go. Everything was suddenly visible and endless and I sat down. Not in exhaustion but wonder. Mesmerized.

A hawk dove in and between mountains, and I captured him - barely- by a waterfall. My eyes couldn’t keep up with him. He dove with ultimate freedom and I thought of flying airplanes, my heart feeling full to have something in common with a hawk in the Andes. I felt the wet earth soaking through my layers as I went from damped to soaked through on my ass. I was lost in my camera lens, stunned at the reward for the work I had just done. Happy to be wet when moments ago I was running down a mountain in fear of it.

“Of course this is why people climb mountains,” I thought. “Look at the view.”

I had been the first one up to the summit, but I was the very last to make it down. I couldn’t move quickly enough through my distracted bliss, and no one was keeping track anyway. Looking down to find footing seemed far less important than drinking in the view. Our prize. My friend offered me dry socks and my smile all but split my face - it was giddiness and joy. Giddiness over socks.

We walk for hours more. After the summit it is down, down, down into the high Amazon forest. Sunshine here. I couldn’t believe it but I had walked into total dryness - except for my feet which blistered even despite the new socks. I didn’t stop to confirm these blisters but there was a particular, painful certainty in my guess. My knee went out worse than the previous day, absolutely zapped by adrenaline. I had taped it again not sure if it would make a difference. I tried in vain to placebo myself.

Then we were there. Walking into camp at our Andean huts. I sat down on the tarp holding our bags which had been portered over on mules and horses when two dogs came and sat in my lap. Like all dogs in my Peruvian experience, they were dirty but happy to see us. I dodged their kisses as best I could. A shower to rinse them off would cost me 10 soles and didn’t promise to be warm.

Sleep was easy that night. A river raged on endlessly. It was right next to our campsite. To sleep at home I often play nature sounds on an endless loop on Spotify. Even with the barking dogs the real thing was better.

It was a day I will never forget. Day 2 on The Salkantay Trail.

[ryangonzales928]

Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 236

Click on the video above to watch Episode 236 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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The latest upcoming free SEO Q&A Hump Day Hangout can be found at http://semanticmastery.com/humpday.

Announcement

Adam: everybody welcomes to Hump Day hangouts Episode 236. The episode where we asked you the questions. Now we’ll get to that actually we do have a question for you who are viewing today and if you’re watching the replay but first we’re going to say hello to everybody. We got everybody here so going to start on the left with Chris How are you doing today?

Chris: Doing good. Not excited to be back. It’s basically winter temperatures here. It snowed again rain. five degrees Celsius.

Adam: Okay, take it you’re back in Austria, then you’re definitely not.

Chris: Yeah, unfortunately, I’m already making plans to fly back.

Adam: tough, tough or not. Hernan, how are you doing? Are you What are you warm or cold?

Hernan: Now it’s cold, man. It’s getting chillier, but it’s okay. It’s a nice time of the season. I am enjoying this and down here in Buenos Aires. I’ll be Miami in a couple of weeks. So if you happen to be in the South Florida area, hit me up. Maybe we can grab something to drink or whatever. But yeah, looking good, man. A lot of work but everything is soaking up.

Adam: Cool, cool. Alright, Marco. How about you, man?

Marco: Damn. It’s cold today, man. Yeah, it’s 72 I’m gonna have to go walk around the corner and come back. If people are flying here and there I don’t know. I’ll just walk around the corner they’ll get better.

Adam: I got sidetracked there. Bradley. How are you doing man?

Bradley: Wayne Clayton says his name Wayne Clayton hashtag stood looking at his comment. That’s funny. Anyways, I’m good. Glad to be here. So, not quite as warm as Marco who’s saying it’s cold. It’s freaking cold in Virginia right now. I don’t know why it’s like 60 degrees. Cool for this time of year. So yeah.

Adam: I’m near San Francisco is supposed to be nice this time of year and we’re supposed to get like a month’s worth of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours. So that’s gonna be nice. Yeah. Yeah, enough of the weather reports. If you’re new thanks for holding with us here while we give you a worldwide update on weather conditions. And I want to say, first of all, you’re in the right spot. Thanks for checking out Hump Day Hangouts. Whether you’re watching us live right now or whether you’re catching the replay. This is the place to be you can always go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions for that week, Humpday Hangouts, ask your questions. Get them up there ahead of time, it’s a first come first serve, we just ask that you try to not ask you know, 10 questions at once just one maybe to let other people go or else we’ll kind of have to skip your answers because we can’t focus on one person for too long. It just wouldn’t be fair.

But secondly, if you’re also wondering where to start, grab the Battle Plan. All right, go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about it. Just go check it out. You can find out all you want about it. But if you’re looking to take things to kind of to the next level as far as either starting or growing your own local digital marketing agency, then you should definitely join our mastermind You can find out more at mastermind.semanticmastery.com

For anybody who’s looking for premium done for you services, head over to mygb.co. Alright done for you kick ass services. It’s the stuff that we use or developed to use in our own businesses. And then, you know, as people wanted them, we put them in there and made them available so others can benefit from it. And I guess now’s a good time to ask questions, guys. Should we ask, should we ask the question we were talking about? Yeah. I’ll hand it over. I’m gonna let Bradley do this. He seems like he’s interested in.

Bradley: The question is, ever since we had to switch to hang out since Google events shut the Google events page is down, which is where we had hosted it for shit three, we’re over three years now. Right. We’re going on for four years now. Our way? Yeah. It’s been a long time since we’ve been doing this. But yeah, we’re like in four and a half years now. We’ve been doing this and it’s only been like three months or so since they shut Google events down. You know, Google Plus down, which is where we were hosting them and we used to have a lot more engagement on our Hump Day Hangouts, that we do now. And it could be because of that stupid, you know, the stupid chat app that we’re using now, which was better than the Facebook chat app that got some accounts suspended or whatever locked or that kind of stuff. But we’re still trying to work our way through like finding the best place to host these guys. So we want to ask your opinion, those of you that are attending right now, today live, posting that silly 1980s looking chat box that we’re using right now, where would you prefer us to host Hump Day hangouts directly on YouTube watch pages? Or should perhaps we try to stream it into Facebook and use our Facebook group, the SEO Marketing tutorials or whatever group and maybe host it there?

You guys let us know because honestly, the attendance rate has gone down and the number of questions has gone down. Ever since we shut Google or Google events shut down. And so we’re debating whether we should keep it going or not. certainly, want to I’ve always enjoyed these, you know, four and a half years into it. I’d hate to give it up. I’ve really have enjoyed this a lot. But honestly, if we’re not going to get the engagement, we’re not going to show up and answer three or four questions and shut it down. So we would like to ask you guys for your opinion. Do you think we should try it over on YouTube? Should we maybe try it and Facebook or give us your suggestion? You know, let us know. So with that said,

Adam: and I’m biased, thank you. I believe that’s Mike crest. Yeah, that’s awesome. Love the 80s if you love the goofy chatbot that’s okay, too. Just for an unbiased opinion for me. Okay, cool. Yeah, we’ll take everything into account and we’ll let everybody now but yeah, we got any other announcements, you guys I think that was everything I had.

Bradley: There’s a stuffed animal dog talking. I do like the fact that this chat outlet says meme again though because for a while we couldn’t even do that.

Anyways, alright, I don’t have any specific announcements other than we’ve got our mastermind webinar tomorrow, one of our newer members, G, he, we’re calling you G, by the way from now on, because I’m not sure how to pronounce your name. So we’re going to actually dig into a project that he’s been asking a bunch of questions about. Marco and I are going to analyze that. And that’s something I want to talk about briefly is, you know, that is the value of the mastermind, in my opinion, is coming in and being able to interact with us as well as the other members. It’s not just about us, we’ve got a lot of savvy members in our group and it’s the, you know, very active and engaged the Facebook group. So pretty much any kind of question can be asked there and you get a bunch of really good replies back or responses from other successful marketers or that are successful in whatever type of marketing business they’re in. It’s not just all local SEO stuff. We talk a lot about that. That’s primarily because that’s what I do. But there are members in our group to do national SEO, some affiliate stuff, you know, all that so and then it’s also getting access to us directly, but then on the mastermind webinars we go into in depth into whatever anybody wants to get into, most of the time I do some sort of training. And then before we get into questions and answers, but then when we get it to member questions, we go really in-depth into whatever anybody wants to go into. And there’s no holds barred. Like, in other words, we don’t, we don’t hold anything back.

Like we have to hear in a public setting, right. So, you know, for example, if a member comes in, and they want us to analyze a website, or a specific marketing campaign or something like that is if they’re willing to share that they will go you know, deep dive in it, Marco and I really analyze it, pick it apart, in a nice way, kind of point out how it can get better results and that kind of stuff. And that’s really where the value comes in, guys, because that’s, you know, again, it’s about networking with others. Yes, there’s a lot of training in the mastermind, yes, you get discounts and things like that, but that’s not what the value is, in my opinion. The value is in networking with us and the other members, getting questions answered in almost real time, about pretty much any sort of issue you’re having in marketing or business related regardless or outsourcing? Or, I mean, some of our members even asked questions that aren’t even marketing or business related. And that’s, that’s perfectly fine. That’s what it’s for. So does anybody want to comment on that or any other not yet?

Marco: I’d like to comment on that on one of your comments. You, you’re the nice guy. So you will look at a website nicely. But if a width website is crappy, I’m going to tell someone, you your website sucks. Your SEO sucks. I’m a real man, I can’t help it. That’s just the way I am. I’m going to give it to you. kind of try to shock you into seeing what you’re not seeing or what you’re avoiding seeing what you’re avoiding doing. And that’s what this is all about getting real. With people getting past all of that shiny shit that they’re fed every day. All of that bullshit, all of that crap that that doesn’t work. It’s just made, so that so that they will so that people will just spend more money. There’s no purpose to it, other than to get the people to fork over more money, more training. That’s never really complete. What we try to do is we try to give you the steps, right? That you need to take in order to take your shit to the next level, whatever your shit on it online might be, it could be anything. But guys, please understand that our purpose is to help you.

If you go into our Facebook group into our mastermind, I said, Look going there a month, and see that the value is really in that Facebook group, and being able to ask us all questions and getting an answer almost immediately. If it’s the weekend, of course, sometimes, I’m often with family, but someone sometimes jumps in on weekends and ask us questions. So it’s not just here that we answer questions, we ask your questions in all of our groups, but mainly our focus is the mastermind. And no matter what your question is, we try to get you an answer. And if we don’t know then the answer might just be we don’t know. because trust me, I don’t know a whole lot of shit. I’m still learning every day. But we do try to come up with an answer.

Or try to steer you in the right direction and we don’t have it will tell you, yeah, we will work on it or just give you or send you in the right direction. So that’s what I have to say about this.

Bradley: Sweet. Okay, now I got to find the actual questions and comments now.

Adam: Yeah, well, I want to say one more thing too because we are using YouTube regardless where, you know, obviously still being broadcast on YouTube. I guess potentially that could change but we’re never going to stop putting out content on YouTube. So if you find this useful or you find other video clips, like Anna just said in the comments, you know, she that’s part of how she came across us and joined the mastermind and how she got involved with Semantic Mastery and with our community. So if you come across video clips that are useful, or you know that they would be useful to other people, please do us a favor, do them a favor, share it, send them a link and you know, this is part of why we do this we definitely want to help out and it’s mutually beneficial. You know, we want people discovered more us more often and we want to help them go out and we can.

Bradley: Sweet. All right, I’m gonna steal the screen. And we’re going to get ..

Marco: and Subscribe, subscribe to our YouTube channel. That’s another way to help us out and continue this as a free medium.

Bradley: There you go.

How Do You Find The Town Center In Google Maps?

All right. We had one from a few days ago, Cool Cat says how do I figure out the center of my town using Google Maps? As far as I know, if you type in the name of your city, then typically the map pulls up with the city center as the center point of the map. Has that changed? Or is that correct? Marco Do you know?

Marco: As far as I know, that’s the way you just type in the city. You can type in the state if there are other cities that are named the same Island because there are in other states. You just type in the city and you should get to the geographical what Google considers the geographical center of the city.

So if I say Culpeper. Yeah. Yeah, so that should be the center of the map here should be what it thinks is the center of Culpeper, in this case, right? As far as I know, that’s how it is now, I mean, so you just dropped your pin somewhere like you know, somewhere in there. And usually when you click on it twice, it puts a little great pin maybe you’ve got a zoom all the way in anyways, typically when you There goes finally there’s a little gray pan and there are your geo coordinates now there might be another way to do it you can probably search Google and say how to find city center and probably get an answer so you know when in doubt use Google.

How To Handle A Mass Page WordPress Site To Rank 10 GMBs Within 30-Mile Radius Of The Centre City?

Alright, so we’re gonna move on Dan demand from Canada says hey gents, I didn’t have a question about how to handle a mass page WordPress site in relation to 10 gm bees, all in a 30-mile radius of the city of the center city. If I’m working to rank these 10 GMBs all for the same niche, does it make sense to set up city pages? For example remodelers.com/locations/city, and then point citations to those individual city pages. I was then contemplating directing the city pages to the individual city, GMB assets. thoughts. Good idea. Terrible. Thanks, man. Well, I’m not sure why you would I mean, if you’re going to build a page, a location based page for each GMB, I’m not sure why you would redirect it, why wouldn’t you just use that location-based GMB or the location-based page as the website, the landing page URL for the GMB asset, see what I’m saying?

Like if you’re building I mean, unless it’s because it’s a mass page site that you’re doing that and it’s a spammy type looking or you know spamming type site, which most mass page sites are, in which case I wouldn’t build citations to that because then what happens if you get that site to deindex which is very likely happened, right? Mass page sites that happen to kind of regularly. And so if you’re building citations to that, and then you have to redirect it, what happens if it gets suspended or, you know, deindexed, then you’ve either got to go clean up. You can still leave it redirected. But now you’re redirecting through a potentially, you know, deindex domain penalize domain. So I wouldn’t do that. That’s why I’m saying if you were going to build citations, I would build citations directly to the GMB assets or set up a domain with subdomains and have a separate subdomain for each location. Because that way, if anyone of those subdomains now you can’t do that with them, I mean, I guess you could with a mass page site, but you’re trying to do it all on one domain. So location pages, inner pages, but again, I wouldn’t do that with the mass page site and build citations to it backlink shore. Because I mean, you know, no big deal but with citations again, if you lose that domain. Now you’ve got a whole bunch of citations to clean up unless you left the redirect up through a deindex domain, which I wouldn’t recommend doing.

So personally, I would not do it that way. I would build everything like if you were going to build out and self-hosted site for each location, I would do it on subdomains or not use a Mass Page Builder is what I’m saying, you guys, there’s nothing wrong with creating location pages and having inner pages for multiple locations. When you’re building something out like this, the problem occurs is if you’re you’ve got spam, the map addresses number one, and number two, if you’re doing something spammy to the domain, but if you’re keeping the domain clean, which is what we teach, right, I mean, we really do we teach about keeping the primary domain clean, building your tier one assets out and you know, especially the way that we build them out syndication networks to drive stacks using press releases, citations also count, you know, all of that stuff, then you can do all your spammy stuff up to that and keep your main your primary domain, clean Gsites. That’s a big part of it. What I’m saying is you can build the inner location pages and it’s not going to be an issue, as long as you’re not doing anything spammy. Now, again, I want to say this with the caveat, if you are using GMBs that are spammed addresses, there’s always that chance that they get suspended because they’re not real physical locations. So in that case, I wouldn’t want to have all of them necessarily associated with a money site domain, as opposed to if you can still do it, but I would recommend doing it through a subdomain. Even if it was just a redirect to like the GMB website URL. Right. So that’s, you know, whatever your business site, GMB website, right, you can still use a branded domain in that case and set up a sub domain redirect for each one of those to just redirect. I’ve got several projects like that where I’m using a branded domain. Can you guys still hear me?

Marco: Yeah

Bradley: okay because it looks like a reset on me where I’m using a branded domain, but I use a subdomain with the city name for each different location and the subdomain redirects to the GMB website like for a lot of my multi-location sites, guys, I got rid of the self hosted WordPress sites for my lead gen stuff especially because it’s just an additional management piece of, you know, something else that I have to manage and update regularly. You guys know how much WordPress updates and I just got tired of doing it and it’s really unnecessary because we’re able to get results with just GMB stuff right? So for that I’ve actually redirected I’ve eliminated a lot of my WordPress sites now and I just have GMB. Excuse me subdomains redirecting to the GMB website. So anyway, hopefully, that makes sense. I’m not a mass page fan builder or fan fanboy. Do you know what I’m saying? I don’t like those, just because they, they tend to get indexed. And it’s a lot of work and I’ve never had really good results with it unless I continually build sites that get taken down.

So I can’t really give you the best advice on that. I certainly wouldn’t build citations to a mass index or mass, a mass page type site. Any comments on that?

Marco: No, I don’t have any because I don’t use math page builder.

How To Embed A GMB Post Into A GSite?

Bradley: Yeah. Fitz, what’s up a fence? He says, Is there a way to embed a GMB post into a G site? Not that I’m aware of it because Marco would be able to answer that, but as far as I know, GMB posts cannot be iframe, correct?

Marco: Yes, they can.

Bradley: They can. Really? Okay.

Marco: Yeah, yeah, they can. Okay, forgive me then. I was wrong. Alright, so there you go, Fitz. Have you tried using just an iframe generator, and with the GMB post URLs or something secretive that we can’t talk about here?

Marco: No. I mean it’s just a straight iframe, like YouTube and or anything else? Okay, the iframe code and I was just playing with a day the other day so I’m pretty sure I’ll go back on look at my notes, but I’m pretty sure that it’s one of the ones that I tried and yes, you can.

Bradley: Okay. So there you go try it fits use the iframe generator, which is right there. And check it out. So it looks like Scott already answered it. Sorry, I didn’t even see that Scott till just now. So it looks like you can and Scott is confirming that huh? Okay, cool. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate that Scott Walker somebody. So he’s saying go into GMB site and get the URL for the post will be saved individually and have a URL like yes, it’s those long funky URL, place the URL and the iframe generator, right. Create the iframe use classic Google sites to embed the iframe insert HTML. There you go. That’s Yeah, you can insert the HTML as an element in the classic G sites. So cool. It does actually do that. That’s cool. I didn’t but you can.

Marco: You can also iframe it into the new Gsites.

Bradley: Can you? I’ve never done any work in the new g sites on

Marco: There’s an embed in the menu. Well, somebody’s coming through.

Bradley: I was watching soccer or something?

Marco: Yeah. But anyway, yeah, yeah. I’m pretty sure it is. Post the GMB site and it both on new and classic. Oh, there you go.

Mike, Chris says he doesn’t miss the old way he hated his g sweet account. Okay. James, wherever we end up saying he can’t do means on YouTube comments so so might have to be in Facebook.

Will You Still Upload Video To YouTube If You Host It On A Facebook Page?

If you host it on the Facebook page, we still upload videos to YouTube? Yes, BJ. And what I meant was if we host it on Facebook will stream it into Facebook. It’ll still be primarily through YouTube, or through perhaps zoom Mark has been pushing us to do that for quite some time. I didn’t want to get away from YouTube, but we can also use like something like OBS to stream from YouTube into Facebook simultaneously. Right? So yeah, that too. So should we do? Yeah, I mean YouTube is where we get most you know, we’ve got you to know close to 7000 subscribers in there and it’s just it’s we got a ton of content in there so I’m not going to get away from that. I wish I could Can I delete that this is terrible. Unbelievable unit towards these guys I want you to look.

Alright. Alright, next. Ready, let’s add them. Is this the end of Hump Day? Anna says no, not yet. No. We just got to change it to a platform where we get more engagement. Don says he’s okay with this chat format. I would just like to keep the hump day hangouts going. Well, thanks, John. We appreciate that. I’d love to keep them going as well. I just get notified to join and it was difficult to even find this.

If you’re subscribed to our channel, you should get notifications in Gmail, if you’re using Gmail and the social tab as well as if you’re in YouTube, it should give you a notification at the top all that kind of stuff. Here we also send out emails By the way, Adam does every 30 minutes or 30 minutes before Hump Day Hangouts. If you’re on our list, you should get an email to. Okay, keep on moving. Adam. Wayne says okay, Wayne is talking about Adams Facebook group that he has called the real world productivity growth group. Yeah, Adam does get a lot of cool stuff in there, guys. If you want to learn how to be more productive, get automate stuff, you know, make your life easier using apps and Zapier and slack. Can you tell if you want to go check out Adams group, Adam that I do outsell that probably not

Adam: my skin? Yeah, if anybody’s interested in that stuff if that’s your jam, or you want to make things easier on yourself, whether it’s just productivity, time management, automate all that sort of stuff then that’s a place to be. If that stuff makes you want to cry, then don’t join the group that’s not the place for you

Any Recommended Tips To Rank Or Push Power To GStacks?

All right, here’s a real question from Mike crest. He says having problems getting my G stacks to rank or pushes power, follows the plan, hit links, embeds, PBNs, added content increase the depth and pages just finding they don’t push I know the market will likely hammer me. But these are built by you guys any tips or tricks to make these push? Well, I’m going to jump on that briefly before Marco goes off on a tangent on a rant. But honestly, I don’t expect my drive stack files to rank it all just so you guys know what my expectation is when I’m using drive stacks, which I’m using it for everything now as well, for even quite some time. I didn’t use them on everything but I am now because what I but I don’t expect the files that drive stack files to rank at all what I expect them to rank is what I’m linking to, like, for example, could be a G site, or could be a money site or could be a number of tier one properties that I’m trying to rank. And I’ve got a new business that I just started recently that I’m going to be talking about a lot in the mastermind over the next few weeks, or coming months really, because it’s, it’s starting to do really well for me. And I just set up a Click Funnels page, a landing page. And it was interesting because, and I talked about this in the Syndication Academy update webinar that was also like the MGYB webinar that we did a few weeks ago where we were talking about the why syndication networks are every bit as powerful now in 2019, as they were before. The way that the power has shifted away from just doing posting and syndicating, which is still certainly helpful is that they help to validate and solidify an entity. And I proved that with this new business, this new website and I just bought a branded domain. I created a new name for this business. And there but apparently that that business name, it’s similar to several other types of businesses. So it wasn’t 100% unique. It is unique but it was very similar to several other businesses with a similar name, excuse me.

And so anyway, I set up a Click Funnels landing page, I flesh that page out Well, it’s got content on it questions and answers and things like that, but it’s just a single page, Click Funnels website, essentially. And it was when I would do a search for that company name. It was, you know, that the, which was my title tag essentially along with a couple of keywords. For the first three weeks or so, it would hover on like page three and page for like, that’s where that would and that was just for doing a brand name search for this new business that I set up. But then when I got the syndication network, I hired one of our syndication network builders outside of his normal job duties to do this because he asked for some extra hours to make some extra money. So I hired him outside of that to do that for me. And you know, a couple of days later, I got this syndication network back and I think you delivered to me on a Friday and on Monday I went and just did another brand search and boom, that Click Funnels page was number one now, that was syndication networks. But the reason why I’m telling you that was because and that was without posting any content, guys no syndicating of any content. It’s a Click Funnels page. I can’t even syndicate content to the syndication network from Click Funnels. I did create a WordPress blog on a subdomain. But all I did was published one post and that was after it had already pushed the brand search to the Click Funnels page to the number one position for that brand search term. Now that said, I mentioned just a moment ago and the title tag, I had a couple of keywords. Now, this is not an Uber competitive market. But there are a few Pete players in this market that are savvy and doing SEO work as well as some PPC stuff. And the primary keywords that I’m targeting are in the title tag of that Click Funnels page, but the page itself isn’t really optimized for those keywords. Well, I had the same builder that I hired to do to build a syndication network. I had him build a drive stack. He was actually in training to build drive stacks. And so I gave him that project for this particular new business to build a drive stack now that was about three weeks ago and now without doing any additional SEO work I think I’ve published one press release but just the drive stack alone has now pushed that page that Click Funnels page to page one and it bounces between the bottom of page one and the top of page two right now for the primary keyword phrases which is great and guys I’m telling you I haven’t done anything differently so it does provide a push and I haven’t even hit that drive stack with backlinks yet. So it does absolutely provide a push if you’re in a significantly competitive market it’s obviously going to require more plus sometimes depending on the level what market it is what keywords the competition level there’s a lot of variables but sometimes they take longer to take effect and others with that said I’m gonna turn it over to Marco.

Marco: Yeah, there’s no reason for me to go off on this if you got one of our RYS done for you start. Now he also says that he added depth as far as pages. Was that done also in the drive stack? How did you do it? Was that done according to the training? And if you’re in the training, then this is a better question to ask me in RYS Academy Reloaded. So you can cash in your 30-minute coupon with me, so that we can go over the drive stack and all of the things that you’ve done. Now, without proper context, I can’t say what the problem is and why it’s not pushing power. Now, what was the timeframe in which this was done? Is it still dancing? Because a lot of times, you just have to be patient 21 days have to clear from the lab, whatever it was that you did from when you hit it with links. If you did an embed run, then it’s 21 days from that. And if you did it too quickly, over and over, then it’s just dancing until it settles like Bradley said it could take a while for it to just finish being wherever it is that it’s going to end up. Now. This is out of context for me because I don’t know. Like the drive stack is always done. The same way for everyone. But outside of that, what you did, I can’t account for my guys did. And I can go and look at it and say, Okay, this was either not done right or it was done right. Oh, and whatever it was that you did on the inside of it is not having the effect that it should be cut. But without being able to look at what you did. I can’t really answer this come hit me up in RYS Academy Facebook group. And I’ll be happy to answer this and to take half an hour with you and go over it and see what it is that stopping the power from flowing.

Bradley: There you go. That’s hard. That’s hard to pass that up, man. So I mean, that’s how much Marco believes in the fact that they work because he’ll give up a half an hour of his time to analyze what it is and provide suggestions that kind of stuff and, and I agree it’s crazy because you know, sometimes when, you know I don’t see the power of drive stacks on a regular basis and unless I’m monitoring it closely, in other words, like if I got a client and I get I just got, I picked up two new clients over the last month or so. And, you know, standard operating procedure syndication network, then a drive stack, but we’re doing press releases. So we’re kind of doing all these things all at once. But this new business that I started, I’m just doing things kind of slowly, because it’s, you know, it’s not, I’m just not hitting it really hard with everything. And I’m seeing the effects of the various things. As I said, the syndication network, made it pop to number one position for the brand search. I know that’s not Uber competitive. It was a brand search phrase, you know, like a branded name. But it was interesting to see it jumped three pages just from a syndication network without publishing any content to it. Right. Then now the primary keywords that it’s targeting, and it’s not an SEO page, guys, it’s just a landing, I’m driving traffic to it via other methods. I wasn’t planning on it being an SEO type thing yet at least. And just having a drive stack bill in about three weeks time, two to three weeks time. I’ve actually seen a significant push that and I did a press release too. But again, it’s interesting to see that kind of result from these things when you’re monitoring it that closely. When you’re doing them all the time for multiple clients and that kind of stuff. It’s not something that I typically monitor especially when you’re hitting up the assets with multiple multiple angles like multiple SEO angles, you know, it’s kind of hard to at that point isolate What did what, but we know that it works otherwise we wouldn’t keep using it. So

How To Regain Access To A Locked Facebook Account?

okay, cool. A grant says, oh, Grant seven hard time getting back into Facebook. Yeah, I don’t know. What’s going on with that grant. I’m not sure that that was caused from us specifically, but there was or from the chat app but there was we had the Facebook chat up I think we did it for two weeks and one week it just like caused a lot like some accounts to get locked mine too. And what’s crazy is guys, this makes makes a good point to talk about why you shouldn’t friend people on Facebook that you don’t know that you don’t really know because one of the things that they do is make you identify photos from friends, Facebook feeds and like who the people are in the photos and that was like I was like Oh shit, like I don’t friend I get a ton of friend requests on Facebook that I just never accept and it’s because if I don’t know you I’m not going to accept your friend request for the most part.

And so you know, some in that verification process some of the photos were from people that apparently aren’t on my friends’ list that I really don’t know. And so I was thinking Oh shit, I’m going to screw this up like I’m not gonna because you only get to fail I think two or three times before permanently or locks you out to where you have to you know another level of security to get back in anyway, I was fortunate enough to be able to get through but goes to show you don’t friend people you don’t know because it could keep you prevent you from getting access.

Let’s see. Alright, what’s next? 56k modem firing up. Oh, wow. Okay, Stoke jellyfish mastermind subgroup we’re going to take over the world everyone should be extremely jealous. Okay, cool. That must be one of the mastermind subgroups who named a jellyfish

Adam: huh oh, that’s why we just name it different animals and stuff each time to make them easy to deal with.

Adam: This is actually a cool point I want to tell people about this. I know we mentioned it before, but this is something we do for the mastermind members, you know, there’s a lot of power in the network and in the group and being a part of a big group like that and having peers as well as access to us. But also there’s power in meeting in a small group, you know, and so we put people to group if they want to, once a quarter we group people up in groups of like four to six so that they can meet up you know, give loose instructions, here’s how it’s a good way to do this. And then you really get that quick feedback, you can do hot seats, you can do all sorts of stuff from the people that you’re in there with and then on a really more hesitate to use it but on a more intimate level if you will. So it’s a really powerful way to even get more out of the mastermind.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. It’s about networking. So my Chris says to me Maybe I need to hit the folders instead of the G site. I would agree with that. We say, Marco.

Marco: Dadea, it takes care of link building. So I don’t, I’ll say I don’t know. Because whatever, whenever I do something, I just tell daddy, I need link building. And then he says, Okay, give me the main URLs and 300 or so keywords to go with it. And that totally needs then he goes in and finds everything else. So I don’t know it could be. But again, I’m not sure I don’t know how your inner folders and files were done. Because I know that my people didn’t do those as well without knowing that, without seeing that I can’t help you. Yeah.

Bradley: Very good guys. Any other questions? Otherwise, we can wrap it up early. Be a short Humpday Hangout.

Marco: And just for Anna. It’s not that I try to swear. Whenever I talk. It’s kind of just comes out. Must be the sailor in me. Sorry if I offend anyone. Fuck you anyway.

Bradley: That’s right. That’s right. Okay, well, it looks like unless we got something else we want to train about right now. Anybody? We can wrap it up a little bit early today.

Hernan: We’re good.

Adam: get time to hit the trails.

Bradley: You’re gonna go in the woods.

Adam: Yeah, gotta go for a run.

Bradley: You know, that’s code for right.

Adam: running long distances.

Bradley: Yeah, no that’s cool.

Oh, here comes I have a question, guys. Yeah, G is away, buddy. We’re going to analyze your stuff tomorrow on the mastermind webinar. We’re going to get into that deep so let’s see what he says. I would love to talk about niches sometimes Anna says.

Do You Wait 21 Days Before Doing Another Link Building?

BJ after you do the link building Do you wait 21 days before doing another link code? I mean, I don’t wait like a specific amount of time. I just wait to see what kind of results comes from it. And I don’t usually stack link building campaigns three weeks apart like that, you know, usually, it’s usually longer for me, like I’ll hit something with links and you know, typically I’ll have a Rank Tracker or something that’s kind of monitoring that and I’ll just check on it every you know, every few days or every couple of weeks and check to see what kind of push it is and but you remember I’m I don’t just do link building. I think that’s very, very powerful. But you know, we press releases and content marketing And oh, by the way, somebody asked questions about citations and I didn’t answer that. So forgive me on that. Son guest says are local citations still relevant? GMB is dominating now. So how much does impact how much does it still impact rankings worth working through all the Citations Sources like Yelp Yelp page citations is still important if you’ve got a valid business address, I recommend building citations if it’s a spam to business you know I for like lead gen stuff if you’re getting, for example, would lead gen stuff if you’re if you go out and get an actual physical address like a PO Box right? You use the street addressing option, then you can still get away with building citations because you can list the street address right the street address plus the number sign and in the box number, and that still works perfectly well. If you’re buying a verified GMB, which is an essentially it’s a spam address somewhere. I don’t recommend building citations in that in that situation or that scenario and the reason why is because if it was an address that was pulled from somebody’s house, which I hope people aren’t building them that way, then you could literally be starting start getting marketing mail sent to somebody’s house, a lot of the times those addresses are going to be spam from a commercial location. Once again, now those it’ll start they’ll start getting solicitation mail like physical mail with that company’s name on it because now like if you start building citations and Yellow Pages and things like that you get put on the company gets put on mailing lists, and now direct mail spam direct mail solicitation offers will start getting sent there.

Credit Card off, like a business credit card, offers all kinds of stuff. You can get reported that way by the recipient of those that mail right because it’s going to have some other companies address on there. So I don’t recommend that. Also, I don’t like to publish the address. One of the other questions we had recently was if you’re high if the service area business and you’re hiding your business address and the GMB which you should ask for Google’s Terms of Service for service area business. Should you go out and build all the citations without the street address? Well, there are only a few platforms that I know of that will allow you to do that. Most platforms to build a citation unless it’s changed recently because I don’t build my own citations anymore. I haven’t for the longest time, you know, we hire that out. But for the longest time, I know that most platforms would require a street address, or else it wouldn’t allow you to add a citation to their platform, right.

So again, for NAP stuff for area businesses. If it’s a spam address, I don’t recommend building citations. I’ll do everything else but citations. But if you have a valid business address or you go get like a PO Box where you have a physical place to send mail that you can go collect, then yeah, absolutely, they’re still effective, there’s no doubt they’re still effective. I still use them all the time for clients and everything else.

Marco: I would also add that if you can get hyper-local citations, those are really effective. And everywhere you’re looking at the greater picture wherein the semantic where we all we always have to think the entity. It’s just another way to validate your entity you. It’s your presence in all of these places. It’s placed where you’ve taken the time to go and get that citation to get it done properly. So that you know the more powerful ones like Yelp, those could become part of your same math. And it just adds validity to your entity and I got it guys we did the webinar. Not too long ago right for MGYB Syndication Academy where we talked about ads, I can’t emphasize it enough how important it is. And that and one of the reasons why RYS Academy Reloaded the RYS text works so well, is because we focus on the entity right from the beginning. And we push power to the entity so that we go after what I call the end game.

Bradley: I suggest for those of you who didn’t get a chance to see it, I mean, you should go, do we have it on MGYB? Do we have the URL, because I think people should go and watch that all day down to our YouTube channel, as well as on MGYB store on the webinar page now, which is that isn’t that in the header in the navigation menu now?

Marco: where it should be? So just to drive this into people’s head over and over whenever you start working on anything, even if it’s fake, you have to make it look as real as possible to Google that there is a thing on the web, and that this thing has some kind of validity. And we talked about the different ways to validate your entity.

Bradley: So just to talk about since you know, we’ve got time, let’s do this, we still got 20 minutes and it looks like some more questions popped up. But let’s talk about this very specifically because you mentioned hyper-local citations. So what I want to do is kind of demonstrate here how to get how to find those. Now if you can hire a lot of citation building services that will do this now a marketer center is a pretty good spot to get some of these they’ll it’s still kind of automated if you want to. I mean, they have like, you know, lists that they build from. I think the best citation building service available is Logan x. There’s no doubt it but it’s more expensive. You’re going to pay more for it, but it’s a really good service because they build structured citations and unstructured citations, social citations, document citations, video citations, audio citations, all of those and then they hit all of them with backlinks. Like they automatically build backlinks to the citations as part of the service. They’ve got a monthly citation bonus service 150 bucks a month. For clients, it’s an almost standard operating procedure for me, because it’s just really good service. And if they do really, really well, they perform well as, but for hyperlocal citations, I’m just going to use this as an example. I think we’re using plumber Fairfax, a couple of weeks ago for an example.

So one of the ways to get hyper-local citations is well one is to take a look at competitors. So like, let’s say that John C Flood was, which is the plumber site that we’re looking at was a client of mine, okay, or, you know, a lead gen project, whatever. Let’s just say that that was the case. One of the things you can do is take a look at the top-ranked, and he’s doing well organically at least. Maybe not so much in maps, but he’s doing well for organics, but maybe look at FJ hooks plumbing is number one in maps and put that into a notepad file, right so I’m just going to say hooks, plumbing, Inc. And then I always use this is the way that you can do these guys use to have three data points for NAP to have it doesn’t matter which two but I typically use the company name and the phone number. Okay? So in this case, it’s going to be 783-591-1284.

Okay, do that for each one of the, you know, top five or so. So it would be FJ Hooks Long’s Corporation, I think that’s the example we were looking at a couple of weeks ago, calories, plumbing, home service doctors in my plumber, heating, cooling and electrical, right, so I would take the top five, I would copy down or jot into a notepad file or an Excel sheet or something like that Google Sheet, whatever their company name as it’s listed in the NA and the Google Maps, right, and then also their phone number. That’s typically the two data points that I’ll pull, right and I’ll copy that and I’ll just go over to Google and I’ll do a search. Okay. And then what I’ll do this. And again, you can train to be able to do these guys is go through really, all you need to do is go through like the top two pages and copy the URLs or at least note, you don’t need to copy the URLs for them, your competitors or whatever. But in this case, this is the top level, the one and number, the number one position in maps. So go through and take a look Manta, I’d put Manta in the spreadsheet. So if you got a spreadsheet or a notepad file doesn’t matter, I just put Manta com, Yelp, yelp.com Okay, Facebook, we know that’s a big one that’s a branded profile. Anyways, MapQuest. checkbook.org which is interesting. I’ve not seen that before. Angie’s List com white pages. So you guys get the idea. I would go through the top two for every single one of the the the top five listed maps, compete for your competitors that are listed in the top five in maps, right and if you’re in the top five, then you know you’re going to select the top five plus, you know besides yours.

So what I’m saying is if you’re in the top five, then you know, you’re going to select maybe one, two, and in four or five and six or something like that my point is to get the top five competitors compared to where you are, and then copy their name and their phone number down and just do a search a simple Google search. And again, he can have a VA do this and go figure out just make a list of the top level citation directories for those companies specific to that area. Does that make sense? That’s one of the ways to get the best performing citations for your specific area.

Guys, there are niche directories like plumbing directories in this case. And then there are our business national business directories which are like Yelp and Manta, for example, and Angie’s List would be another one. But then there’s hyperlocal citations and want to walk through a quick example of that too. But regardless of the different types of directories again, national which are common, that’s what we see the most, Niche directories which are powerful because they’re topically relevant, right. And then there’s a, there are local citations that are going to be common to specific areas. In other words, there will be certain citations that are going to show up repeatedly for Fairfax plumbers or plumbers in Fairfax, that I could go to Richmond, Virginia, which is, I don’t know, 90-100 miles away. And they’re going to be a different set of common citation or business directory type sites that are common down there. So what I’m saying is, every area is slightly different. That’s why you can’t just have a master list and expect that master list to perform the same across all different niches and all different locations. That’s why it’s very simple.

When you go to Google and you use Google to determine that again, you can have a VA do it take the top five, do it search for their name and address or name and phone number, I’d use name and phone number and then just write down or, you know, put into a notepad file right in the Excel sheet, the business directory domains that are in the top two pages for each one of those five, right? And then you can, you know, you’ll see commonalities, the ones that are common across all of those are across all five, which you’ll see some of those, those are going to be your most powerful citation sources. So make sure you’re listed on that, then to Marco’s point to go hyperlocal, what you would want to do in this case, also you can go remember as I said, niche directories right so you could type into just do a Google search and say plumbing directory, right? And I misspelled plumbing but plumbing directory right and you go right through here and okay home advisor you know, I don’t like home advisor but my zip plumbers. com that’s a local plumbing directory, local, that’s a national directory, but they have a plumbing category, obviously, the plumbing info.com right. So national plumbers directory.org so this is how you very easily just put in your service, your keyword, whatever directory and now you’ve got niche directories those are more powerful than just plain national directories right because they’re topically relevant. All right.

Now lastly, for getting hyper-local citations in this case, we’re going to say Fairfax County. Business Directory, right? Boom right there. Web NoVa chamber org business directory. That’s Nova stands for Northern Virginia. Discover Fairfax, VA. com business directory, Fairfax County, EDA or Economic Development Authority, get your business listed there are your clients business listed there, right. A liable Fairfax county.gov. business right. Find out how you get listed on the Fairfax County. That’s the official Fairfax County government website, guys. You can get listed there find out sometimes they’re paid listings, who cares? It’s it’s not usually very expensive. And it’s worth it because these are what Marco just mentioned are hyper-local citations. They’re very powerful. And it doesn’t just have to stop with business directories, you could put Fairfax County blogs, right? Because a lot of times you can actually get listed on Fairfax County blogs guys, it sometimes it just requires outreach to the, you know, the blog owners and maybe you have a press release written or something like that and you reach out. And again, you don’t have to do this, you can hire people to do this and have them reach out to them because guys, these are all local blogs now talking about events and activities, and, you know, places to go, and products and services and all of that kind of stuff that is hyper-local, local to this area. Those types of links are so much more powerful than links that anybody can get from anywhere from like national directories if that makes sense. Because Google understands there’s that geographic relationship. There’s that geographic relevancy, and it’s so much more powerful. And so again, these are all kinds of thing. I mean, there’s a ton of them that just popped up right here, right that you could potentially get listed on Fairfax County, let’s say newspaper that a lot of the times there’s business directories there, and you could put online newspapers, things like that. But a lot of times there’s classifieds. And you can get, those are powerful citations, you can run little classified online classified ads that will give you a link from those local newspaper and online newspapers. Again, very, very powerful.

Something like Topix. Topix that we used to hack these long years ago. If you guys are familiar with Topix, there’s Topix.com Fairfax, that’s like a forum. And there’s, there’s a local location forum, like there, this site is siloed. Well, and it’s got forums specific to locations and you can actually kind of there’s this requires like some social engineering stuff, but you can actually go in and start a thread and at like with, you know, a profile you want to use multiple profiles with multiple IPS but most of you have that kind of stuff anyway, but you can go in and register and ask a question like and start a new thread in the fair in this case, like the Fairfax County topics category. And there’s a lot of traffic and traction in there, guys. And it’s very, very powerful. And you can start a thread and say something like, Hey, I just moved into the area. And I really need a good plumber in Fairfax, work your keywords into the question, any recommendations, right and leave it like that and then login with another account that under a different IP that you may have answered, you may have commented on some other threads within that same category, the same Fairfax category, so that you’re not just posting a link because a lot of times in these types of forums that if you if you’re new and you post a link, your comment will get moderated out. So if you season one of those accounts to where you can, you know, you created some comments again, guys, you can hire all this stuff out you can train a staff member or VA to do this kind of stuff for you. But if you season an account that so that you get past that threshold to where you can drop a link, then you use that profile to go in and answer that question from the other profile Hey, I just moved in the area, I’m really looking for a good plumber in Fairfax. And now you drop. The first comment underneath that is, hey, here’s a great plumber. It’s what was the one that I was saying was my business FJ hooks plumbing, Inc, they’re located in Fairfax, here’s their phone number. Here’s their website URL. Now that’s a citation from a very powerful Local Business Forum. With it now being the first comment in a new thread and other people will come in and chime in on that thread. And that social engagement, other people commenting on that actually pushes more power into that particular thread and makes that citation even more powerful. That’s very, very powerful. Most people don’t do that because it’s not as easy as just going and hiring a citation building service. It requires manual work, but if you want really good results, that’s how you do it. I mean, and again, guys, you can train a VA to do this stuff. It’s not something that you can find in a service online typically, but you can train a VA to do this stuff for you and you’re going to get much better results. Okay. So hopefully that was helpful. See, we can do this on Hump Day hang out sometimes. That’s usually what we do in our paid groups, right? Go into training.

What Will Happen If IFrame A Good Content From A Money Site To An Exact Match Domain?

Alright, Ji says, what if I iframe a piece of good content from my money site to an exact match domain? So you mean buying exact match domain and just put iframe a piece of content into that? I mean, sure, but you can do that with the G site. I’m not I mean, I don’t know why you get more power out of doing it from an Amazon s3 hosted page or a G site than you would from bindings an exact match domain that has no inherent authority. Right? Because you can build keyword relevancy from putting content around the iframe is my point. So why not use something that has massive authority already, like a Google site, which is on the Google domain, or an Amazon s3 page write an HTML page that’s ham hosted on Amazon bucket now you’re you’re you’re siphoning authority from Amazon, right you can create the relevancy what you don’t need the exact match keyword in the domain, you can create the relevancy from the content, the text around the iframe, and in the metadata and in the Jason structure, you know, the LD structured data, all of that. So,

I mean, I get where you’re going with that, Jay, but that’s not, you know, I think you go about it better than going out and buying an exact match domain that as essentially starting from zero, you’d have to build some authority to that. And I just go ahead and use what’s available to us for free, right. So the exact mastermind only has an iframe from my money site and that and I link a spam GMB to the exact match domain. I’m not sure what you mean on that. A spam Google My Business. So you’re talking about like, building like lead gen GMB assets, you link that to your exact match domain. Oh, I see what you’re saying. So you’re talking about if you’re going to build additional GMBs, and you iframe with a different domain and exact to match them. And that becomes your landing page. But really it’s a page on your web, your primary website that’s just iframe into it. I don’t know. I, I don’t know. I don’t know if I would do that. Marco, what do you think about that?

Marco: Whenever someone asked me what if questions, I say, test it, and let me know what happens. Yeah. Because I can’t tell you what if on every scenario that I haven’t tried, but what I meant by when I was asking, what do you think about that, as I’m not sure that I would want to iframe a money site page into a domain? That was it. That was only set up as a spam GMB asset with just my money site. I framed and knew it as the landing page like in other words, I don’t know if that could cause any negativity. If Google terminated that, you know, I would say on that if it’s going to have a TMP and he’s going to take the time to work on the entity power up the entity. It could work but I would as you said, I spend my resources my time and my money on just getting the power from a D site where you know, you can’t harm your money site, because Google will just won’t pass a penalty though. Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. I’m not sure that I would do that I mark is right. I would recommend if you wanted to try that you’d have to test it. I can’t we can’t speculate on what would happen. I mean, I personally wouldn’t want to do that because it doesn’t to me. As I said, I’d rather I guys, you could even use a Google site is your domain, your website URL for GMB? You know, you can do that. There’s I’ve never seen it not happen. You know what I’m saying? So why not just use that right? You can create a Google site and flesh that out a bit and make that the website of the GMB. That makes sense. You still want to create the GSB website and put that in the appointment URL. You know, you can that’s what I’ve been doing. So he says, What can I expect Google picks up the content starts to rank for the exact match again. I don’t know how that would treat this G. We haven’t tested that. And so, you know, it would be speculation so I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. So,

How Quickly Can You Livestream Videos To A Channel Connected To A 4-Ring IFTTT Network?

Dan, the man says, or Dan Damman How quickly can you last new videos to a channel connected to a four ring IFTTT network so as to not go too fast and destroy the syndication network effective. I mean, you can live stream whenever if you’re talking about, you know, publishing multiple, like, for example, just using it as a spam channel where but it uses live streams as opposed to uploading.

If it’s a seasoned network, it can you what I mean by that is if it’s got some age to it, and you’ve slowly, you know, started posting to it, and then slowly ramped up the speed with which you post with the velocity, whatever you want to call it, the frequency of posting, then a lot of times it’ll it’ll be okay. But if it’s a new network, a newer network, and you start posting, you know, multiple times per day. Especially if they’re spammy videos with similar content, that kind of stuff, then you know, you can get a lot of your network properties terminated. So that’s why, like I said, I, you know, in my opinion, you’re better off doing that, if you’re going to do that kind of stuff that you’re, you know, you don’t.

A lot of times you don’t need syndication networks, if you’re going to do that type of, I don’t know what kind of a strategy you’re asking about specifically, I’m only making assumptions here. But a lot of times you can get results with YouTube spam stuff, by just using multiple accounts, YouTube accounts that don’t even need syndication networks. Why not? If I’m going to take the time to build or you know, purchase, you know, spend money or whatever on syndication networks for YouTube syndication stuff, I’m going to try to keep them around not spam them to death. Right. And so typically, the videos are going to be a better quality it’s not going to be the same video just spun. You know what I mean? Like to change the video encoding and that stuff and continually repeating publishing the same damn video. I’ve seen that too much. Guys, and that shit used to work years ago. And I guess you can still get some results from that. But most people, you know, don’t react to those kinds of videos. And honestly, a lot of the syndication network sites and stuff will actually terminate, because they detect those as spam. So I would recommend if you’re going to take the time to build networks out or purchase networks, which is what we recommend, and certainly, that you would try to keep your channel and the content good enough to where that’s not a date, you’re not in danger of doing that. So if you’re actually doing real live streams, then I wouldn’t worry about it at all, because they’re all going to be real and unique. They’re not spammy. But if you’re just using live streams, and you’re basically mass, you know, duplicating a video and constantly re-streaming it to a channel or uploading it to a channel that’s connected to syndication networks, you’re in danger of getting those terminated. Okay, especially if it’s brand new.

We got more questions and we can answer now so we almost shut it down. And at the very last minute when we almost took it from you guys, you posted a shit ton questions that now can’t be answered.

So next time post early guys. We’re going to wrap it up. I’ve gotta run guys. My daughter’s got a softball game tonight I gotta go to so unfortunately, that’s gonna be it for today. So thanks for your extra engagement. We needed it guys we appreciate that. Thanks, guys for sticking around.

Bye, everyone.

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Announcement

Adam: everybody welcomes to Hump Day hangouts Episode 236. The episode where we asked you the questions. Now we’ll get to that actually we do have a question for you who are viewing today and if you’re watching the replay but first we’re going to say hello to everybody. We got everybody here so going to start on the left with Chris How are you doing today?

Chris: Doing good. Not excited to be back. It’s basically winter temperatures here. It snowed again rain. five degrees Celsius.

Adam: Okay, take it you’re back in Austria, then you’re definitely not.

Chris: Yeah, unfortunately, I’m already making plans to fly back.

Adam: tough, tough or not. Hernan, how are you doing? Are you What are you warm or cold?

Hernan: Now it’s cold, man. It’s getting chillier, but it’s okay. It’s a nice time of the season. I am enjoying this and down here in Buenos Aires. I’ll be Miami in a couple of weeks. So if you happen to be in the South Florida area, hit me up. Maybe we can grab something to drink or whatever. But yeah, looking good, man. A lot of work but everything is soaking up.

Adam: Cool, cool. Alright, Marco. How about you, man?

Marco: Damn. It’s cold today, man. Yeah, it’s 72 I’m gonna have to go walk around the corner and come back. If people are flying here and there I don’t know. I’ll just walk around the corner they’ll get better.

Adam: I got sidetracked there. Bradley. How are you doing man?

Bradley: Wayne Clayton says his name Wayne Clayton hashtag stood looking at his comment. That’s funny. Anyways, I’m good. Glad to be here. So, not quite as warm as Marco who’s saying it’s cold. It’s freaking cold in Virginia right now. I don’t know why it’s like 60 degrees. Cool for this time of year. So yeah.

Adam: I’m near San Francisco is supposed to be nice this time of year and we’re supposed to get like a month’s worth of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours. So that’s gonna be nice. Yeah. Yeah, enough of the weather reports. If you’re new thanks for holding with us here while we give you a worldwide update on weather conditions. And I want to say, first of all, you’re in the right spot. Thanks for checking out Hump Day Hangouts. Whether you’re watching us live right now or whether you’re catching the replay. This is the place to be you can always go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions for that week, Humpday Hangouts, ask your questions. Get them up there ahead of time, it’s a first come first serve, we just ask that you try to not ask you know, 10 questions at once just one maybe to let other people go or else we’ll kind of have to skip your answers because we can’t focus on one person for too long. It just wouldn’t be fair.

But secondly, if you’re also wondering where to start, grab the Battle Plan. All right, go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about it. Just go check it out. You can find out all you want about it. But if you’re looking to take things to kind of to the next level as far as either starting or growing your own local digital marketing agency, then you should definitely join our mastermind You can find out more at mastermind.semanticmastery.com

For anybody who’s looking for premium done for you services, head over to mygb.co. Alright done for you kick ass services. It’s the stuff that we use or developed to use in our own businesses. And then, you know, as people wanted them, we put them in there and made them available so others can benefit from it. And I guess now’s a good time to ask questions, guys. Should we ask, should we ask the question we were talking about? Yeah. I’ll hand it over. I’m gonna let Bradley do this. He seems like he’s interested in.

Bradley: The question is, ever since we had to switch to hang out since Google events shut the Google events page is down, which is where we had hosted it for shit three, we’re over three years now. Right. We’re going on for four years now. Our way? Yeah. It’s been a long time since we’ve been doing this. But yeah, we’re like in four and a half years now. We’ve been doing this and it’s only been like three months or so since they shut Google events down. You know, Google Plus down, which is where we were hosting them and we used to have a lot more engagement on our Hump Day Hangouts, that we do now. And it could be because of that stupid, you know, the stupid chat app that we’re using now, which was better than the Facebook chat app that got some accounts suspended or whatever locked or that kind of stuff. But we’re still trying to work our way through like finding the best place to host these guys. So we want to ask your opinion, those of you that are attending right now, today live, posting that silly 1980s looking chat box that we’re using right now, where would you prefer us to host Hump Day hangouts directly on YouTube watch pages? Or should perhaps we try to stream it into Facebook and use our Facebook group, the SEO Marketing tutorials or whatever group and maybe host it there?

You guys let us know because honestly, the attendance rate has gone down and the number of questions has gone down. Ever since we shut Google or Google events shut down. And so we’re debating whether we should keep it going or not. certainly, want to I’ve always enjoyed these, you know, four and a half years into it. I’d hate to give it up. I’ve really have enjoyed this a lot. But honestly, if we’re not going to get the engagement, we’re not going to show up and answer three or four questions and shut it down. So we would like to ask you guys for your opinion. Do you think we should try it over on YouTube? Should we maybe try it and Facebook or give us your suggestion? You know, let us know. So with that said,

Adam: and I’m biased, thank you. I believe that’s Mike crest. Yeah, that’s awesome. Love the 80s if you love the goofy chatbot that’s okay, too. Just for an unbiased opinion for me. Okay, cool. Yeah, we’ll take everything into account and we’ll let everybody now but yeah, we got any other announcements, you guys I think that was everything I had.

Bradley: There’s a stuffed animal dog talking. I do like the fact that this chat outlet says meme again though because for a while we couldn’t even do that.

Anyways, alright, I don’t have any specific announcements other than we’ve got our mastermind webinar tomorrow, one of our newer members, G, he, we’re calling you G, by the way from now on, because I’m not sure how to pronounce your name. So we’re going to actually dig into a project that he’s been asking a bunch of questions about. Marco and I are going to analyze that. And that’s something I want to talk about briefly is, you know, that is the value of the mastermind, in my opinion, is coming in and being able to interact with us as well as the other members. It’s not just about us, we’ve got a lot of savvy members in our group and it’s the, you know, very active and engaged the Facebook group. So pretty much any kind of question can be asked there and you get a bunch of really good replies back or responses from other successful marketers or that are successful in whatever type of marketing business they’re in. It’s not just all local SEO stuff. We talk a lot about that. That’s primarily because that’s what I do. But there are members in our group to do national SEO, some affiliate stuff, you know, all that so and then it’s also getting access to us directly, but then on the mastermind webinars we go into in depth into whatever anybody wants to get into, most of the time I do some sort of training. And then before we get into questions and answers, but then when we get it to member questions, we go really in-depth into whatever anybody wants to go into. And there’s no holds barred. Like, in other words, we don’t, we don’t hold anything back.

Like we have to hear in a public setting, right. So, you know, for example, if a member comes in, and they want us to analyze a website, or a specific marketing campaign or something like that is if they’re willing to share that they will go you know, deep dive in it, Marco and I really analyze it, pick it apart, in a nice way, kind of point out how it can get better results and that kind of stuff. And that’s really where the value comes in, guys, because that’s, you know, again, it’s about networking with others. Yes, there’s a lot of training in the mastermind, yes, you get discounts and things like that, but that’s not what the value is, in my opinion. The value is in networking with us and the other members, getting questions answered in almost real time, about pretty much any sort of issue you’re having in marketing or business related regardless or outsourcing? Or, I mean, some of our members even asked questions that aren’t even marketing or business related. And that’s, that’s perfectly fine. That’s what it’s for. So does anybody want to comment on that or any other not yet?

Marco: I’d like to comment on that on one of your comments. You, you’re the nice guy. So you will look at a website nicely. But if a width website is crappy, I’m going to tell someone, you your website sucks. Your SEO sucks. I’m a real man, I can’t help it. That’s just the way I am. I’m going to give it to you. kind of try to shock you into seeing what you’re not seeing or what you’re avoiding seeing what you’re avoiding doing. And that’s what this is all about getting real. With people getting past all of that shiny shit that they’re fed every day. All of that bullshit, all of that crap that that doesn’t work. It’s just made, so that so that they will so that people will just spend more money. There’s no purpose to it, other than to get the people to fork over more money, more training. That’s never really complete. What we try to do is we try to give you the steps, right? That you need to take in order to take your shit to the next level, whatever your shit on it online might be, it could be anything. But guys, please understand that our purpose is to help you.

If you go into our Facebook group into our mastermind, I said, Look going there a month, and see that the value is really in that Facebook group, and being able to ask us all questions and getting an answer almost immediately. If it’s the weekend, of course, sometimes, I’m often with family, but someone sometimes jumps in on weekends and ask us questions. So it’s not just here that we answer questions, we ask your questions in all of our groups, but mainly our focus is the mastermind. And no matter what your question is, we try to get you an answer. And if we don’t know then the answer might just be we don’t know. because trust me, I don’t know a whole lot of shit. I’m still learning every day. But we do try to come up with an answer.

Or try to steer you in the right direction and we don’t have it will tell you, yeah, we will work on it or just give you or send you in the right direction. So that’s what I have to say about this.

Bradley: Sweet. Okay, now I got to find the actual questions and comments now.

Adam: Yeah, well, I want to say one more thing too because we are using YouTube regardless where, you know, obviously still being broadcast on YouTube. I guess potentially that could change but we’re never going to stop putting out content on YouTube. So if you find this useful or you find other video clips, like Anna just said in the comments, you know, she that’s part of how she came across us and joined the mastermind and how she got involved with Semantic Mastery and with our community. So if you come across video clips that are useful, or you know that they would be useful to other people, please do us a favor, do them a favor, share it, send them a link and you know, this is part of why we do this we definitely want to help out and it’s mutually beneficial. You know, we want people discovered more us more often and we want to help them go out and we can.

Bradley: Sweet. All right, I’m gonna steal the screen. And we’re going to get ..

Marco: and Subscribe, subscribe to our YouTube channel. That’s another way to help us out and continue this as a free medium.

Bradley: There you go.

How Do You Find The Town Center In Google Maps?

All right. We had one from a few days ago, Cool Cat says how do I figure out the center of my town using Google Maps? As far as I know, if you type in the name of your city, then typically the map pulls up with the city center as the center point of the map. Has that changed? Or is that correct? Marco Do you know?

Marco: As far as I know, that’s the way you just type in the city. You can type in the state if there are other cities that are named the same Island because there are in other states. You just type in the city and you should get to the geographical what Google considers the geographical center of the city.

So if I say Culpeper. Yeah. Yeah, so that should be the center of the map here should be what it thinks is the center of Culpeper, in this case, right? As far as I know, that’s how it is now, I mean, so you just dropped your pin somewhere like you know, somewhere in there. And usually when you click on it twice, it puts a little great pin maybe you’ve got a zoom all the way in anyways, typically when you There goes finally there’s a little gray pan and there are your geo coordinates now there might be another way to do it you can probably search Google and say how to find city center and probably get an answer so you know when in doubt use Google.

How To Handle A Mass Page WordPress Site To Rank 10 GMBs Within 30-Mile Radius Of The Centre City?

Alright, so we’re gonna move on Dan demand from Canada says hey gents, I didn’t have a question about how to handle a mass page WordPress site in relation to 10 gm bees, all in a 30-mile radius of the city of the center city. If I’m working to rank these 10 GMBs all for the same niche, does it make sense to set up city pages? For example remodelers.com/locations/city, and then point citations to those individual city pages. I was then contemplating directing the city pages to the individual city, GMB assets. thoughts. Good idea. Terrible. Thanks, man. Well, I’m not sure why you would I mean, if you’re going to build a page, a location based page for each GMB, I’m not sure why you would redirect it, why wouldn’t you just use that location-based GMB or the location-based page as the website, the landing page URL for the GMB asset, see what I’m saying?

Like if you’re building I mean, unless it’s because it’s a mass page site that you’re doing that and it’s a spammy type looking or you know spamming type site, which most mass page sites are, in which case I wouldn’t build citations to that because then what happens if you get that site to deindex which is very likely happened, right? Mass page sites that happen to kind of regularly. And so if you’re building citations to that, and then you have to redirect it, what happens if it gets suspended or, you know, deindexed, then you’ve either got to go clean up. You can still leave it redirected. But now you’re redirecting through a potentially, you know, deindex domain penalize domain. So I wouldn’t do that. That’s why I’m saying if you were going to build citations, I would build citations directly to the GMB assets or set up a domain with subdomains and have a separate subdomain for each location. Because that way, if anyone of those subdomains now you can’t do that with them, I mean, I guess you could with a mass page site, but you’re trying to do it all on one domain. So location pages, inner pages, but again, I wouldn’t do that with the mass page site and build citations to it backlink shore. Because I mean, you know, no big deal but with citations again, if you lose that domain. Now you’ve got a whole bunch of citations to clean up unless you left the redirect up through a deindex domain, which I wouldn’t recommend doing.

So personally, I would not do it that way. I would build everything like if you were going to build out and self-hosted site for each location, I would do it on subdomains or not use a Mass Page Builder is what I’m saying, you guys, there’s nothing wrong with creating location pages and having inner pages for multiple locations. When you’re building something out like this, the problem occurs is if you’re you’ve got spam, the map addresses number one, and number two, if you’re doing something spammy to the domain, but if you’re keeping the domain clean, which is what we teach, right, I mean, we really do we teach about keeping the primary domain clean, building your tier one assets out and you know, especially the way that we build them out syndication networks to drive stacks using press releases, citations also count, you know, all of that stuff, then you can do all your spammy stuff up to that and keep your main your primary domain, clean Gsites. That’s a big part of it. What I’m saying is you can build the inner location pages and it’s not going to be an issue, as long as you’re not doing anything spammy. Now, again, I want to say this with the caveat, if you are using GMBs that are spammed addresses, there’s always that chance that they get suspended because they’re not real physical locations. So in that case, I wouldn’t want to have all of them necessarily associated with a money site domain, as opposed to if you can still do it, but I would recommend doing it through a subdomain. Even if it was just a redirect to like the GMB website URL. Right. So that’s, you know, whatever your business site, GMB website, right, you can still use a branded domain in that case and set up a sub domain redirect for each one of those to just redirect. I’ve got several projects like that where I’m using a branded domain. Can you guys still hear me?

Marco: Yeah

Bradley: okay because it looks like a reset on me where I’m using a branded domain, but I use a subdomain with the city name for each different location and the subdomain redirects to the GMB website like for a lot of my multi-location sites, guys, I got rid of the self hosted WordPress sites for my lead gen stuff especially because it’s just an additional management piece of, you know, something else that I have to manage and update regularly. You guys know how much WordPress updates and I just got tired of doing it and it’s really unnecessary because we’re able to get results with just GMB stuff right? So for that I’ve actually redirected I’ve eliminated a lot of my WordPress sites now and I just have GMB. Excuse me subdomains redirecting to the GMB website. So anyway, hopefully, that makes sense. I’m not a mass page fan builder or fan fanboy. Do you know what I’m saying? I don’t like those, just because they, they tend to get indexed. And it’s a lot of work and I’ve never had really good results with it unless I continually build sites that get taken down.

So I can’t really give you the best advice on that. I certainly wouldn’t build citations to a mass index or mass, a mass page type site. Any comments on that?

Marco: No, I don’t have any because I don’t use math page builder.

How To Embed A GMB Post Into A GSite?

Bradley: Yeah. Fitz, what’s up a fence? He says, Is there a way to embed a GMB post into a G site? Not that I’m aware of it because Marco would be able to answer that, but as far as I know, GMB posts cannot be iframe, correct?

Marco: Yes, they can.

Bradley: They can. Really? Okay.

Marco: Yeah, yeah, they can. Okay, forgive me then. I was wrong. Alright, so there you go, Fitz. Have you tried using just an iframe generator, and with the GMB post URLs or something secretive that we can’t talk about here?

Marco: No. I mean it’s just a straight iframe, like YouTube and or anything else? Okay, the iframe code and I was just playing with a day the other day so I’m pretty sure I’ll go back on look at my notes, but I’m pretty sure that it’s one of the ones that I tried and yes, you can.

Bradley: Okay. So there you go try it fits use the iframe generator, which is right there. And check it out. So it looks like Scott already answered it. Sorry, I didn’t even see that Scott till just now. So it looks like you can and Scott is confirming that huh? Okay, cool. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate that Scott Walker somebody. So he’s saying go into GMB site and get the URL for the post will be saved individually and have a URL like yes, it’s those long funky URL, place the URL and the iframe generator, right. Create the iframe use classic Google sites to embed the iframe insert HTML. There you go. That’s Yeah, you can insert the HTML as an element in the classic G sites. So cool. It does actually do that. That’s cool. I didn’t but you can.

Marco: You can also iframe it into the new Gsites.

Bradley: Can you? I’ve never done any work in the new g sites on

Marco: There’s an embed in the menu. Well, somebody’s coming through.

Bradley: I was watching soccer or something?

Marco: Yeah. But anyway, yeah, yeah. I’m pretty sure it is. Post the GMB site and it both on new and classic. Oh, there you go.

Mike, Chris says he doesn’t miss the old way he hated his g sweet account. Okay. James, wherever we end up saying he can’t do means on YouTube comments so so might have to be in Facebook.

Will You Still Upload Video To YouTube If You Host It On A Facebook Page?

If you host it on the Facebook page, we still upload videos to YouTube? Yes, BJ. And what I meant was if we host it on Facebook will stream it into Facebook. It’ll still be primarily through YouTube, or through perhaps zoom Mark has been pushing us to do that for quite some time. I didn’t want to get away from YouTube, but we can also use like something like OBS to stream from YouTube into Facebook simultaneously. Right? So yeah, that too. So should we do? Yeah, I mean YouTube is where we get most you know, we’ve got you to know close to 7000 subscribers in there and it’s just it’s we got a ton of content in there so I’m not going to get away from that. I wish I could Can I delete that this is terrible. Unbelievable unit towards these guys I want you to look.

Alright. Alright, next. Ready, let’s add them. Is this the end of Hump Day? Anna says no, not yet. No. We just got to change it to a platform where we get more engagement. Don says he’s okay with this chat format. I would just like to keep the hump day hangouts going. Well, thanks, John. We appreciate that. I’d love to keep them going as well. I just get notified to join and it was difficult to even find this.

If you’re subscribed to our channel, you should get notifications in Gmail, if you’re using Gmail and the social tab as well as if you’re in YouTube, it should give you a notification at the top all that kind of stuff. Here we also send out emails By the way, Adam does every 30 minutes or 30 minutes before Hump Day Hangouts. If you’re on our list, you should get an email to. Okay, keep on moving. Adam. Wayne says okay, Wayne is talking about Adams Facebook group that he has called the real world productivity growth group. Yeah, Adam does get a lot of cool stuff in there, guys. If you want to learn how to be more productive, get automate stuff, you know, make your life easier using apps and Zapier and slack. Can you tell if you want to go check out Adams group, Adam that I do outsell that probably not

Adam: my skin? Yeah, if anybody’s interested in that stuff if that’s your jam, or you want to make things easier on yourself, whether it’s just productivity, time management, automate all that sort of stuff then that’s a place to be. If that stuff makes you want to cry, then don’t join the group that’s not the place for you

Any Recommended Tips To Rank Or Push Power To GStacks?

All right, here’s a real question from Mike crest. He says having problems getting my G stacks to rank or pushes power, follows the plan, hit links, embeds, PBNs, added content increase the depth and pages just finding they don’t push I know the market will likely hammer me. But these are built by you guys any tips or tricks to make these push? Well, I’m going to jump on that briefly before Marco goes off on a tangent on a rant. But honestly, I don’t expect my drive stack files to rank it all just so you guys know what my expectation is when I’m using drive stacks, which I’m using it for everything now as well, for even quite some time. I didn’t use them on everything but I am now because what I but I don’t expect the files that drive stack files to rank at all what I expect them to rank is what I’m linking to, like, for example, could be a G site, or could be a money site or could be a number of tier one properties that I’m trying to rank. And I’ve got a new business that I just started recently that I’m going to be talking about a lot in the mastermind over the next few weeks, or coming months really, because it’s, it’s starting to do really well for me. And I just set up a Click Funnels page, a landing page. And it was interesting because, and I talked about this in the Syndication Academy update webinar that was also like the MGYB webinar that we did a few weeks ago where we were talking about the why syndication networks are every bit as powerful now in 2019, as they were before. The way that the power has shifted away from just doing posting and syndicating, which is still certainly helpful is that they help to validate and solidify an entity. And I proved that with this new business, this new website and I just bought a branded domain. I created a new name for this business. And there but apparently that that business name, it’s similar to several other types of businesses. So it wasn’t 100% unique. It is unique but it was very similar to several other businesses with a similar name, excuse me.

And so anyway, I set up a Click Funnels landing page, I flesh that page out Well, it’s got content on it questions and answers and things like that, but it’s just a single page, Click Funnels website, essentially. And it was when I would do a search for that company name. It was, you know, that the, which was my title tag essentially along with a couple of keywords. For the first three weeks or so, it would hover on like page three and page for like, that’s where that would and that was just for doing a brand name search for this new business that I set up. But then when I got the syndication network, I hired one of our syndication network builders outside of his normal job duties to do this because he asked for some extra hours to make some extra money. So I hired him outside of that to do that for me. And you know, a couple of days later, I got this syndication network back and I think you delivered to me on a Friday and on Monday I went and just did another brand search and boom, that Click Funnels page was number one now, that was syndication networks. But the reason why I’m telling you that was because and that was without posting any content, guys no syndicating of any content. It’s a Click Funnels page. I can’t even syndicate content to the syndication network from Click Funnels. I did create a WordPress blog on a subdomain. But all I did was published one post and that was after it had already pushed the brand search to the Click Funnels page to the number one position for that brand search term. Now that said, I mentioned just a moment ago and the title tag, I had a couple of keywords. Now, this is not an Uber competitive market. But there are a few Pete players in this market that are savvy and doing SEO work as well as some PPC stuff. And the primary keywords that I’m targeting are in the title tag of that Click Funnels page, but the page itself isn’t really optimized for those keywords. Well, I had the same builder that I hired to do to build a syndication network. I had him build a drive stack. He was actually in training to build drive stacks. And so I gave him that project for this particular new business to build a drive stack now that was about three weeks ago and now without doing any additional SEO work I think I’ve published one press release but just the drive stack alone has now pushed that page that Click Funnels page to page one and it bounces between the bottom of page one and the top of page two right now for the primary keyword phrases which is great and guys I’m telling you I haven’t done anything differently so it does provide a push and I haven’t even hit that drive stack with backlinks yet. So it does absolutely provide a push if you’re in a significantly competitive market it’s obviously going to require more plus sometimes depending on the level what market it is what keywords the competition level there’s a lot of variables but sometimes they take longer to take effect and others with that said I’m gonna turn it over to Marco.

Marco: Yeah, there’s no reason for me to go off on this if you got one of our RYS done for you start. Now he also says that he added depth as far as pages. Was that done also in the drive stack? How did you do it? Was that done according to the training? And if you’re in the training, then this is a better question to ask me in RYS Academy Reloaded. So you can cash in your 30-minute coupon with me, so that we can go over the drive stack and all of the things that you’ve done. Now, without proper context, I can’t say what the problem is and why it’s not pushing power. Now, what was the timeframe in which this was done? Is it still dancing? Because a lot of times, you just have to be patient 21 days have to clear from the lab, whatever it was that you did from when you hit it with links. If you did an embed run, then it’s 21 days from that. And if you did it too quickly, over and over, then it’s just dancing until it settles like Bradley said it could take a while for it to just finish being wherever it is that it’s going to end up. Now. This is out of context for me because I don’t know. Like the drive stack is always done. The same way for everyone. But outside of that, what you did, I can’t account for my guys did. And I can go and look at it and say, Okay, this was either not done right or it was done right. Oh, and whatever it was that you did on the inside of it is not having the effect that it should be cut. But without being able to look at what you did. I can’t really answer this come hit me up in RYS Academy Facebook group. And I’ll be happy to answer this and to take half an hour with you and go over it and see what it is that stopping the power from flowing.

Bradley: There you go. That’s hard. That’s hard to pass that up, man. So I mean, that’s how much Marco believes in the fact that they work because he’ll give up a half an hour of his time to analyze what it is and provide suggestions that kind of stuff and, and I agree it’s crazy because you know, sometimes when, you know I don’t see the power of drive stacks on a regular basis and unless I’m monitoring it closely, in other words, like if I got a client and I get I just got, I picked up two new clients over the last month or so. And, you know, standard operating procedure syndication network, then a drive stack, but we’re doing press releases. So we’re kind of doing all these things all at once. But this new business that I started, I’m just doing things kind of slowly, because it’s, you know, it’s not, I’m just not hitting it really hard with everything. And I’m seeing the effects of the various things. As I said, the syndication network, made it pop to number one position for the brand search. I know that’s not Uber competitive. It was a brand search phrase, you know, like a branded name. But it was interesting to see it jumped three pages just from a syndication network without publishing any content to it. Right. Then now the primary keywords that it’s targeting, and it’s not an SEO page, guys, it’s just a landing, I’m driving traffic to it via other methods. I wasn’t planning on it being an SEO type thing yet at least. And just having a drive stack bill in about three weeks time, two to three weeks time. I’ve actually seen a significant push that and I did a press release too. But again, it’s interesting to see that kind of result from these things when you’re monitoring it that closely. When you’re doing them all the time for multiple clients and that kind of stuff. It’s not something that I typically monitor especially when you’re hitting up the assets with multiple multiple angles like multiple SEO angles, you know, it’s kind of hard to at that point isolate What did what, but we know that it works otherwise we wouldn’t keep using it. So

How To Regain Access To A Locked Facebook Account?

okay, cool. A grant says, oh, Grant seven hard time getting back into Facebook. Yeah, I don’t know. What’s going on with that grant. I’m not sure that that was caused from us specifically, but there was or from the chat app but there was we had the Facebook chat up I think we did it for two weeks and one week it just like caused a lot like some accounts to get locked mine too. And what’s crazy is guys, this makes makes a good point to talk about why you shouldn’t friend people on Facebook that you don’t know that you don’t really know because one of the things that they do is make you identify photos from friends, Facebook feeds and like who the people are in the photos and that was like I was like Oh shit, like I don’t friend I get a ton of friend requests on Facebook that I just never accept and it’s because if I don’t know you I’m not going to accept your friend request for the most part.

And so you know, some in that verification process some of the photos were from people that apparently aren’t on my friends’ list that I really don’t know. And so I was thinking Oh shit, I’m going to screw this up like I’m not gonna because you only get to fail I think two or three times before permanently or locks you out to where you have to you know another level of security to get back in anyway, I was fortunate enough to be able to get through but goes to show you don’t friend people you don’t know because it could keep you prevent you from getting access.

Let’s see. Alright, what’s next? 56k modem firing up. Oh, wow. Okay, Stoke jellyfish mastermind subgroup we’re going to take over the world everyone should be extremely jealous. Okay, cool. That must be one of the mastermind subgroups who named a jellyfish

Adam: huh oh, that’s why we just name it different animals and stuff each time to make them easy to deal with.

Adam: This is actually a cool point I want to tell people about this. I know we mentioned it before, but this is something we do for the mastermind members, you know, there’s a lot of power in the network and in the group and being a part of a big group like that and having peers as well as access to us. But also there’s power in meeting in a small group, you know, and so we put people to group if they want to, once a quarter we group people up in groups of like four to six so that they can meet up you know, give loose instructions, here’s how it’s a good way to do this. And then you really get that quick feedback, you can do hot seats, you can do all sorts of stuff from the people that you’re in there with and then on a really more hesitate to use it but on a more intimate level if you will. So it’s a really powerful way to even get more out of the mastermind.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. It’s about networking. So my Chris says to me Maybe I need to hit the folders instead of the G site. I would agree with that. We say, Marco.

Marco: Dadea, it takes care of link building. So I don’t, I’ll say I don’t know. Because whatever, whenever I do something, I just tell daddy, I need link building. And then he says, Okay, give me the main URLs and 300 or so keywords to go with it. And that totally needs then he goes in and finds everything else. So I don’t know it could be. But again, I’m not sure I don’t know how your inner folders and files were done. Because I know that my people didn’t do those as well without knowing that, without seeing that I can’t help you. Yeah.

Bradley: Very good guys. Any other questions? Otherwise, we can wrap it up early. Be a short Humpday Hangout.

Marco: And just for Anna. It’s not that I try to swear. Whenever I talk. It’s kind of just comes out. Must be the sailor in me. Sorry if I offend anyone. Fuck you anyway.

Bradley: That’s right. That’s right. Okay, well, it looks like unless we got something else we want to train about right now. Anybody? We can wrap it up a little bit early today.

Hernan: We’re good.

Adam: get time to hit the trails.

Bradley: You’re gonna go in the woods.

Adam: Yeah, gotta go for a run.

Bradley: You know, that’s code for right.

Adam: running long distances.

Bradley: Yeah, no that’s cool.

Oh, here comes I have a question, guys. Yeah, G is away, buddy. We’re going to analyze your stuff tomorrow on the mastermind webinar. We’re going to get into that deep so let’s see what he says. I would love to talk about niches sometimes Anna says.

Do You Wait 21 Days Before Doing Another Link Building?

BJ after you do the link building Do you wait 21 days before doing another link code? I mean, I don’t wait like a specific amount of time. I just wait to see what kind of results comes from it. And I don’t usually stack link building campaigns three weeks apart like that, you know, usually, it’s usually longer for me, like I’ll hit something with links and you know, typically I’ll have a Rank Tracker or something that’s kind of monitoring that and I’ll just check on it every you know, every few days or every couple of weeks and check to see what kind of push it is and but you remember I’m I don’t just do link building. I think that’s very, very powerful. But you know, we press releases and content marketing And oh, by the way, somebody asked questions about citations and I didn’t answer that. So forgive me on that. Son guest says are local citations still relevant? GMB is dominating now. So how much does impact how much does it still impact rankings worth working through all the Citations Sources like Yelp Yelp page citations is still important if you’ve got a valid business address, I recommend building citations if it’s a spam to business you know I for like lead gen stuff if you’re getting, for example, would lead gen stuff if you’re if you go out and get an actual physical address like a PO Box right? You use the street addressing option, then you can still get away with building citations because you can list the street address right the street address plus the number sign and in the box number, and that still works perfectly well. If you’re buying a verified GMB, which is an essentially it’s a spam address somewhere. I don’t recommend building citations in that in that situation or that scenario and the reason why is because if it was an address that was pulled from somebody’s house, which I hope people aren’t building them that way, then you could literally be starting start getting marketing mail sent to somebody’s house, a lot of the times those addresses are going to be spam from a commercial location. Once again, now those it’ll start they’ll start getting solicitation mail like physical mail with that company’s name on it because now like if you start building citations and Yellow Pages and things like that you get put on the company gets put on mailing lists, and now direct mail spam direct mail solicitation offers will start getting sent there.

Credit Card off, like a business credit card, offers all kinds of stuff. You can get reported that way by the recipient of those that mail right because it’s going to have some other companies address on there. So I don’t recommend that. Also, I don’t like to publish the address. One of the other questions we had recently was if you’re high if the service area business and you’re hiding your business address and the GMB which you should ask for Google’s Terms of Service for service area business. Should you go out and build all the citations without the street address? Well, there are only a few platforms that I know of that will allow you to do that. Most platforms to build a citation unless it’s changed recently because I don’t build my own citations anymore. I haven’t for the longest time, you know, we hire that out. But for the longest time, I know that most platforms would require a street address, or else it wouldn’t allow you to add a citation to their platform, right.

So again, for NAP stuff for area businesses. If it’s a spam address, I don’t recommend building citations. I’ll do everything else but citations. But if you have a valid business address or you go get like a PO Box where you have a physical place to send mail that you can go collect, then yeah, absolutely, they’re still effective, there’s no doubt they’re still effective. I still use them all the time for clients and everything else.

Marco: I would also add that if you can get hyper-local citations, those are really effective. And everywhere you’re looking at the greater picture wherein the semantic where we all we always have to think the entity. It’s just another way to validate your entity you. It’s your presence in all of these places. It’s placed where you’ve taken the time to go and get that citation to get it done properly. So that you know the more powerful ones like Yelp, those could become part of your same math. And it just adds validity to your entity and I got it guys we did the webinar. Not too long ago right for MGYB Syndication Academy where we talked about ads, I can’t emphasize it enough how important it is. And that and one of the reasons why RYS Academy Reloaded the RYS text works so well, is because we focus on the entity right from the beginning. And we push power to the entity so that we go after what I call the end game.

Bradley: I suggest for those of you who didn’t get a chance to see it, I mean, you should go, do we have it on MGYB? Do we have the URL, because I think people should go and watch that all day down to our YouTube channel, as well as on MGYB store on the webinar page now, which is that isn’t that in the header in the navigation menu now?

Marco: where it should be? So just to drive this into people’s head over and over whenever you start working on anything, even if it’s fake, you have to make it look as real as possible to Google that there is a thing on the web, and that this thing has some kind of validity. And we talked about the different ways to validate your entity.

Bradley: So just to talk about since you know, we’ve got time, let’s do this, we still got 20 minutes and it looks like some more questions popped up. But let’s talk about this very specifically because you mentioned hyper-local citations. So what I want to do is kind of demonstrate here how to get how to find those. Now if you can hire a lot of citation building services that will do this now a marketer center is a pretty good spot to get some of these they’ll it’s still kind of automated if you want to. I mean, they have like, you know, lists that they build from. I think the best citation building service available is Logan x. There’s no doubt it but it’s more expensive. You’re going to pay more for it, but it’s a really good service because they build structured citations and unstructured citations, social citations, document citations, video citations, audio citations, all of those and then they hit all of them with backlinks. Like they automatically build backlinks to the citations as part of the service. They’ve got a monthly citation bonus service 150 bucks a month. For clients, it’s an almost standard operating procedure for me, because it’s just really good service. And if they do really, really well, they perform well as, but for hyperlocal citations, I’m just going to use this as an example. I think we’re using plumber Fairfax, a couple of weeks ago for an example.

So one of the ways to get hyper-local citations is well one is to take a look at competitors. So like, let’s say that John C Flood was, which is the plumber site that we’re looking at was a client of mine, okay, or, you know, a lead gen project, whatever. Let’s just say that that was the case. One of the things you can do is take a look at the top-ranked, and he’s doing well organically at least. Maybe not so much in maps, but he’s doing well for organics, but maybe look at FJ hooks plumbing is number one in maps and put that into a notepad file, right so I’m just going to say hooks, plumbing, Inc. And then I always use this is the way that you can do these guys use to have three data points for NAP to have it doesn’t matter which two but I typically use the company name and the phone number. Okay? So in this case, it’s going to be 783-591-1284.

Okay, do that for each one of the, you know, top five or so. So it would be FJ Hooks Long’s Corporation, I think that’s the example we were looking at a couple of weeks ago, calories, plumbing, home service doctors in my plumber, heating, cooling and electrical, right, so I would take the top five, I would copy down or jot into a notepad file or an Excel sheet or something like that Google Sheet, whatever their company name as it’s listed in the NA and the Google Maps, right, and then also their phone number. That’s typically the two data points that I’ll pull, right and I’ll copy that and I’ll just go over to Google and I’ll do a search. Okay. And then what I’ll do this. And again, you can train to be able to do these guys is go through really, all you need to do is go through like the top two pages and copy the URLs or at least note, you don’t need to copy the URLs for them, your competitors or whatever. But in this case, this is the top level, the one and number, the number one position in maps. So go through and take a look Manta, I’d put Manta in the spreadsheet. So if you got a spreadsheet or a notepad file doesn’t matter, I just put Manta com, Yelp, yelp.com Okay, Facebook, we know that’s a big one that��s a branded profile. Anyways, MapQuest. checkbook.org which is interesting. I’ve not seen that before. Angie’s List com white pages. So you guys get the idea. I would go through the top two for every single one of the the the top five listed maps, compete for your competitors that are listed in the top five in maps, right and if you’re in the top five, then you know you’re going to select the top five plus, you know besides yours.

So what I’m saying is if you’re in the top five, then you know, you’re going to select maybe one, two, and in four or five and six or something like that my point is to get the top five competitors compared to where you are, and then copy their name and their phone number down and just do a search a simple Google search. And again, he can have a VA do this and go figure out just make a list of the top level citation directories for those companies specific to that area. Does that make sense? That’s one of the ways to get the best performing citations for your specific area.

Guys, there are niche directories like plumbing directories in this case. And then there are our business national business directories which are like Yelp and Manta, for example, and Angie’s List would be another one. But then there’s hyperlocal citations and want to walk through a quick example of that too. But regardless of the different types of directories again, national which are common, that’s what we see the most, Niche directories which are powerful because they’re topically relevant, right. And then there’s a, there are local citations that are going to be common to specific areas. In other words, there will be certain citations that are going to show up repeatedly for Fairfax plumbers or plumbers in Fairfax, that I could go to Richmond, Virginia, which is, I don’t know, 90-100 miles away. And they’re going to be a different set of common citation or business directory type sites that are common down there. So what I’m saying is, every area is slightly different. That’s why you can’t just have a master list and expect that master list to perform the same across all different niches and all different locations. That’s why it’s very simple.

When you go to Google and you use Google to determine that again, you can have a VA do it take the top five, do it search for their name and address or name and phone number, I’d use name and phone number and then just write down or, you know, put into a notepad file right in the Excel sheet, the business directory domains that are in the top two pages for each one of those five, right? And then you can, you know, you’ll see commonalities, the ones that are common across all of those are across all five, which you’ll see some of those, those are going to be your most powerful citation sources. So make sure you’re listed on that, then to Marco’s point to go hyperlocal, what you would want to do in this case, also you can go remember as I said, niche directories right so you could type into just do a Google search and say plumbing directory, right? And I misspelled plumbing but plumbing directory right and you go right through here and okay home advisor you know, I don’t like home advisor but my zip plumbers. com that’s a local plumbing directory, local, that’s a national directory, but they have a plumbing category, obviously, the plumbing info.com right. So national plumbers directory.org so this is how you very easily just put in your service, your keyword, whatever directory and now you’ve got niche directories those are more powerful than just plain national directories right because they’re topically relevant. All right.

Now lastly, for getting hyper-local citations in this case, we’re going to say Fairfax County. Business Directory, right? Boom right there. Web NoVa chamber org business directory. That’s Nova stands for Northern Virginia. Discover Fairfax, VA. com business directory, Fairfax County, EDA or Economic Development Authority, get your business listed there are your clients business listed there, right. A liable Fairfax county.gov. business right. Find out how you get listed on the Fairfax County. That’s the official Fairfax County government website, guys. You can get listed there find out sometimes they’re paid listings, who cares? It’s it’s not usually very expensive. And it’s worth it because these are what Marco just mentioned are hyper-local citations. They’re very powerful. And it doesn’t just have to stop with business directories, you could put Fairfax County blogs, right? Because a lot of times you can actually get listed on Fairfax County blogs guys, it sometimes it just requires outreach to the, you know, the blog owners and maybe you have a press release written or something like that and you reach out. And again, you don’t have to do this, you can hire people to do this and have them reach out to them because guys, these are all local blogs now talking about events and activities, and, you know, places to go, and products and services and all of that kind of stuff that is hyper-local, local to this area. Those types of links are so much more powerful than links that anybody can get from anywhere from like national directories if that makes sense. Because Google understands there’s that geographic relationship. There’s that geographic relevancy, and it’s so much more powerful. And so again, these are all kinds of thing. I mean, there’s a ton of them that just popped up right here, right that you could potentially get listed on Fairfax County, let’s say newspaper that a lot of the times there’s business directories there, and you could put online newspapers, things like that. But a lot of times there’s classifieds. And you can get, those are powerful citations, you can run little classified online classified ads that will give you a link from those local newspaper and online newspapers. Again, very, very powerful.

Something like Topix. Topix that we used to hack these long years ago. If you guys are familiar with Topix, there’s Topix.com Fairfax, that’s like a forum. And there’s, there’s a local location forum, like there, this site is siloed. Well, and it’s got forums specific to locations and you can actually kind of there’s this requires like some social engineering stuff, but you can actually go in and start a thread and at like with, you know, a profile you want to use multiple profiles with multiple IPS but most of you have that kind of stuff anyway, but you can go in and register and ask a question like and start a new thread in the fair in this case, like the Fairfax County topics category. And there’s a lot of traffic and traction in there, guys. And it’s very, very powerful. And you can start a thread and say something like, Hey, I just moved into the area. And I really need a good plumber in Fairfax, work your keywords into the question, any recommendations, right and leave it like that and then login with another account that under a different IP that you may have answered, you may have commented on some other threads within that same category, the same Fairfax category, so that you’re not just posting a link because a lot of times in these types of forums that if you if you’re new and you post a link, your comment will get moderated out. So if you season one of those accounts to where you can, you know, you created some comments again, guys, you can hire all this stuff out you can train a staff member or VA to do this kind of stuff for you. But if you season an account that so that you get past that threshold to where you can drop a link, then you use that profile to go in and answer that question from the other profile Hey, I just moved in the area, I’m really looking for a good plumber in Fairfax. And now you drop. The first comment underneath that is, hey, here’s a great plumber. It’s what was the one that I was saying was my business FJ hooks plumbing, Inc, they’re located in Fairfax, here’s their phone number. Here’s their website URL. Now that’s a citation from a very powerful Local Business Forum. With it now being the first comment in a new thread and other people will come in and chime in on that thread. And that social engagement, other people commenting on that actually pushes more power into that particular thread and makes that citation even more powerful. That’s very, very powerful. Most people don’t do that because it’s not as easy as just going and hiring a citation building service. It requires manual work, but if you want really good results, that’s how you do it. I mean, and again, guys, you can train a VA to do this stuff. It’s not something that you can find in a service online typically, but you can train a VA to do this stuff for you and you’re going to get much better results. Okay. So hopefully that was helpful. See, we can do this on Hump Day hang out sometimes. That’s usually what we do in our paid groups, right? Go into training.

What Will Happen If IFrame A Good Content From A Money Site To An Exact Match Domain?

Alright, Ji says, what if I iframe a piece of good content from my money site to an exact match domain? So you mean buying exact match domain and just put iframe a piece of content into that? I mean, sure, but you can do that with the G site. I’m not I mean, I don’t know why you get more power out of doing it from an Amazon s3 hosted page or a G site than you would from bindings an exact match domain that has no inherent authority. Right? Because you can build keyword relevancy from putting content around the iframe is my point. So why not use something that has massive authority already, like a Google site, which is on the Google domain, or an Amazon s3 page write an HTML page that’s ham hosted on Amazon bucket now you’re you’re you’re siphoning authority from Amazon, right you can create the relevancy what you don’t need the exact match keyword in the domain, you can create the relevancy from the content, the text around the iframe, and in the metadata and in the Jason structure, you know, the LD structured data, all of that. So,

I mean, I get where you’re going with that, Jay, but that’s not, you know, I think you go about it better than going out and buying an exact match domain that as essentially starting from zero, you’d have to build some authority to that. And I just go ahead and use what’s available to us for free, right. So the exact mastermind only has an iframe from my money site and that and I link a spam GMB to the exact match domain. I’m not sure what you mean on that. A spam Google My Business. So you’re talking about like, building like lead gen GMB assets, you link that to your exact match domain. Oh, I see what you’re saying. So you’re talking about if you’re going to build additional GMBs, and you iframe with a different domain and exact to match them. And that becomes your landing page. But really it’s a page on your web, your primary website that’s just iframe into it. I don’t know. I, I don’t know. I don’t know if I would do that. Marco, what do you think about that?

Marco: Whenever someone asked me what if questions, I say, test it, and let me know what happens. Yeah. Because I can’t tell you what if on every scenario that I haven’t tried, but what I meant by when I was asking, what do you think about that, as I’m not sure that I would want to iframe a money site page into a domain? That was it. That was only set up as a spam GMB asset with just my money site. I framed and knew it as the landing page like in other words, I don’t know if that could cause any negativity. If Google terminated that, you know, I would say on that if it’s going to have a TMP and he’s going to take the time to work on the entity power up the entity. It could work but I would as you said, I spend my resources my time and my money on just getting the power from a D site where you know, you can’t harm your money site, because Google will just won’t pass a penalty though. Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. I’m not sure that I would do that I mark is right. I would recommend if you wanted to try that you’d have to test it. I can’t we can’t speculate on what would happen. I mean, I personally wouldn’t want to do that because it doesn’t to me. As I said, I’d rather I guys, you could even use a Google site is your domain, your website URL for GMB? You know, you can do that. There’s I’ve never seen it not happen. You know what I’m saying? So why not just use that right? You can create a Google site and flesh that out a bit and make that the website of the GMB. That makes sense. You still want to create the GSB website and put that in the appointment URL. You know, you can that’s what I’ve been doing. So he says, What can I expect Google picks up the content starts to rank for the exact match again. I don’t know how that would treat this G. We haven’t tested that. And so, you know, it would be speculation so I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. So,

How Quickly Can You Livestream Videos To A Channel Connected To A 4-Ring IFTTT Network?

Dan, the man says, or Dan Damman How quickly can you last new videos to a channel connected to a four ring IFTTT network so as to not go too fast and destroy the syndication network effective. I mean, you can live stream whenever if you’re talking about, you know, publishing multiple, like, for example, just using it as a spam channel where but it uses live streams as opposed to uploading.

If it’s a seasoned network, it can you what I mean by that is if it’s got some age to it, and you’ve slowly, you know, started posting to it, and then slowly ramped up the speed with which you post with the velocity, whatever you want to call it, the frequency of posting, then a lot of times it’ll it’ll be okay. But if it’s a new network, a newer network, and you start posting, you know, multiple times per day. Especially if they’re spammy videos with similar content, that kind of stuff, then you know, you can get a lot of your network properties terminated. So that’s why, like I said, I, you know, in my opinion, you’re better off doing that, if you’re going to do that kind of stuff that you’re, you know, you don’t.

A lot of times you don’t need syndication networks, if you’re going to do that type of, I don’t know what kind of a strategy you’re asking about specifically, I’m only making assumptions here. But a lot of times you can get results with YouTube spam stuff, by just using multiple accounts, YouTube accounts that don’t even need syndication networks. Why not? If I’m going to take the time to build or you know, purchase, you know, spend money or whatever on syndication networks for YouTube syndication stuff, I’m going to try to keep them around not spam them to death. Right. And so typically, the videos are going to be a better quality it’s not going to be the same video just spun. You know what I mean? Like to change the video encoding and that stuff and continually repeating publishing the same damn video. I’ve seen that too much. Guys, and that shit used to work years ago. And I guess you can still get some results from that. But most people, you know, don’t react to those kinds of videos. And honestly, a lot of the syndication network sites and stuff will actually terminate, because they detect those as spam. So I would recommend if you’re going to take the time to build networks out or purchase networks, which is what we recommend, and certainly, that you would try to keep your channel and the content good enough to where that’s not a date, you’re not in danger of doing that. So if you’re actually doing real live streams, then I wouldn’t worry about it at all, because they’re all going to be real and unique. They’re not spammy. But if you’re just using live streams, and you’re basically mass, you know, duplicating a video and constantly re-streaming it to a channel or uploading it to a channel that’s connected to syndication networks, you’re in danger of getting those terminated. Okay, especially if it’s brand new.

We got more questions and we can answer now so we almost shut it down. And at the very last minute when we almost took it from you guys, you posted a shit ton questions that now can’t be answered.

So next time post early guys. We’re going to wrap it up. I’ve gotta run guys. My daughter’s got a softball game tonight I gotta go to so unfortunately, that’s gonna be it for today. So thanks for your extra engagement. We needed it guys we appreciate that. Thanks, guys for sticking around.

Bye, everyone.

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Announcement

Adam: everybody welcomes to Hump Day hangouts Episode 236. The episode where we asked you the questions. Now we’ll get to that actually we do have a question for you who are viewing today and if you’re watching the replay but first we’re going to say hello to everybody. We got everybody here so going to start on the left with Chris How are you doing today?

Chris: Doing good. Not excited to be back. It’s basically winter temperatures here. It snowed again rain. five degrees Celsius.

Adam: Okay, take it you’re back in Austria, then you’re definitely not.

Chris: Yeah, unfortunately, I’m already making plans to fly back.

Adam: tough, tough or not. Hernan, how are you doing? Are you What are you warm or cold?

Hernan: Now it’s cold, man. It’s getting chillier, but it’s okay. It’s a nice time of the season. I am enjoying this and down here in Buenos Aires. I’ll be Miami in a couple of weeks. So if you happen to be in the South Florida area, hit me up. Maybe we can grab something to drink or whatever. But yeah, looking good, man. A lot of work but everything is soaking up.

Adam: Cool, cool. Alright, Marco. How about you, man?

Marco: Damn. It’s cold today, man. Yeah, it’s 72 I’m gonna have to go walk around the corner and come back. If people are flying here and there I don’t know. I’ll just walk around the corner they’ll get better.

Adam: I got sidetracked there. Bradley. How are you doing man?

Bradley: Wayne Clayton says his name Wayne Clayton hashtag stood looking at his comment. That’s funny. Anyways, I’m good. Glad to be here. So, not quite as warm as Marco who’s saying it’s cold. It’s freaking cold in Virginia right now. I don’t know why it’s like 60 degrees. Cool for this time of year. So yeah.

Adam: I’m near San Francisco is supposed to be nice this time of year and we’re supposed to get like a month’s worth of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours. So that’s gonna be nice. Yeah. Yeah, enough of the weather reports. If you’re new thanks for holding with us here while we give you a worldwide update on weather conditions. And I want to say, first of all, you’re in the right spot. Thanks for checking out Hump Day Hangouts. Whether you’re watching us live right now or whether you’re catching the replay. This is the place to be you can always go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions for that week, Humpday Hangouts, ask your questions. Get them up there ahead of time, it’s a first come first serve, we just ask that you try to not ask you know, 10 questions at once just one maybe to let other people go or else we’ll kind of have to skip your answers because we can’t focus on one person for too long. It just wouldn’t be fair.

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Bradley: The question is, ever since we had to switch to hang out since Google events shut the Google events page is down, which is where we had hosted it for shit three, we’re over three years now. Right. We’re going on for four years now. Our way? Yeah. It’s been a long time since we’ve been doing this. But yeah, we’re like in four and a half years now. We’ve been doing this and it’s only been like three months or so since they shut Google events down. You know, Google Plus down, which is where we were hosting them and we used to have a lot more engagement on our Hump Day Hangouts, that we do now. And it could be because of that stupid, you know, the stupid chat app that we’re using now, which was better than the Facebook chat app that got some accounts suspended or whatever locked or that kind of stuff. But we’re still trying to work our way through like finding the best place to host these guys. So we want to ask your opinion, those of you that are attending right now, today live, posting that silly 1980s looking chat box that we’re using right now, where would you prefer us to host Hump Day hangouts directly on YouTube watch pages? Or should perhaps we try to stream it into Facebook and use our Facebook group, the SEO Marketing tutorials or whatever group and maybe host it there?

You guys let us know because honestly, the attendance rate has gone down and the number of questions has gone down. Ever since we shut Google or Google events shut down. And so we’re debating whether we should keep it going or not. certainly, want to I’ve always enjoyed these, you know, four and a half years into it. I’d hate to give it up. I’ve really have enjoyed this a lot. But honestly, if we’re not going to get the engagement, we’re not going to show up and answer three or four questions and shut it down. So we would like to ask you guys for your opinion. Do you think we should try it over on YouTube? Should we maybe try it and Facebook or give us your suggestion? You know, let us know. So with that said,

Adam: and I’m biased, thank you. I believe that’s Mike crest. Yeah, that’s awesome. Love the 80s if you love the goofy chatbot that’s okay, too. Just for an unbiased opinion for me. Okay, cool. Yeah, we’ll take everything into account and we’ll let everybody now but yeah, we got any other announcements, you guys I think that was everything I had.

Bradley: There’s a stuffed animal dog talking. I do like the fact that this chat outlet says meme again though because for a while we couldn’t even do that.

Anyways, alright, I don’t have any specific announcements other than we’ve got our mastermind webinar tomorrow, one of our newer members, G, he, we’re calling you G, by the way from now on, because I’m not sure how to pronounce your name. So we’re going to actually dig into a project that he’s been asking a bunch of questions about. Marco and I are going to analyze that. And that’s something I want to talk about briefly is, you know, that is the value of the mastermind, in my opinion, is coming in and being able to interact with us as well as the other members. It’s not just about us, we’ve got a lot of savvy members in our group and it’s the, you know, very active and engaged the Facebook group. So pretty much any kind of question can be asked there and you get a bunch of really good replies back or responses from other successful marketers or that are successful in whatever type of marketing business they’re in. It’s not just all local SEO stuff. We talk a lot about that. That’s primarily because that’s what I do. But there are members in our group to do national SEO, some affiliate stuff, you know, all that so and then it’s also getting access to us directly, but then on the mastermind webinars we go into in depth into whatever anybody wants to get into, most of the time I do some sort of training. And then before we get into questions and answers, but then when we get it to member questions, we go really in-depth into whatever anybody wants to go into. And there’s no holds barred. Like, in other words, we don’t, we don’t hold anything back.

Like we have to hear in a public setting, right. So, you know, for example, if a member comes in, and they want us to analyze a website, or a specific marketing campaign or something like that is if they’re willing to share that they will go you know, deep dive in it, Marco and I really analyze it, pick it apart, in a nice way, kind of point out how it can get better results and that kind of stuff. And that’s really where the value comes in, guys, because that’s, you know, again, it’s about networking with others. Yes, there’s a lot of training in the mastermind, yes, you get discounts and things like that, but that’s not what the value is, in my opinion. The value is in networking with us and the other members, getting questions answered in almost real time, about pretty much any sort of issue you’re having in marketing or business related regardless or outsourcing? Or, I mean, some of our members even asked questions that aren’t even marketing or business related. And that’s, that’s perfectly fine. That’s what it’s for. So does anybody want to comment on that or any other not yet?

Marco: I’d like to comment on that on one of your comments. You, you’re the nice guy. So you will look at a website nicely. But if a width website is crappy, I’m going to tell someone, you your website sucks. Your SEO sucks. I’m a real man, I can’t help it. That’s just the way I am. I’m going to give it to you. kind of try to shock you into seeing what you’re not seeing or what you’re avoiding seeing what you’re avoiding doing. And that’s what this is all about getting real. With people getting past all of that shiny shit that they’re fed every day. All of that bullshit, all of that crap that that doesn’t work. It’s just made, so that so that they will so that people will just spend more money. There’s no purpose to it, other than to get the people to fork over more money, more training. That’s never really complete. What we try to do is we try to give you the steps, right? That you need to take in order to take your shit to the next level, whatever your shit on it online might be, it could be anything. But guys, please understand that our purpose is to help you.

If you go into our Facebook group into our mastermind, I said, Look going there a month, and see that the value is really in that Facebook group, and being able to ask us all questions and getting an answer almost immediately. If it’s the weekend, of course, sometimes, I’m often with family, but someone sometimes jumps in on weekends and ask us questions. So it’s not just here that we answer questions, we ask your questions in all of our groups, but mainly our focus is the mastermind. And no matter what your question is, we try to get you an answer. And if we don’t know then the answer might just be we don’t know. because trust me, I don’t know a whole lot of shit. I’m still learning every day. But we do try to come up with an answer.

Or try to steer you in the right direction and we don’t have it will tell you, yeah, we will work on it or just give you or send you in the right direction. So that’s what I have to say about this.

Bradley: Sweet. Okay, now I got to find the actual questions and comments now.

Adam: Yeah, well, I want to say one more thing too because we are using YouTube regardless where, you know, obviously still being broadcast on YouTube. I guess potentially that could change but we’re never going to stop putting out content on YouTube. So if you find this useful or you find other video clips, like Anna just said in the comments, you know, she that’s part of how she came across us and joined the mastermind and how she got involved with Semantic Mastery and with our community. So if you come across video clips that are useful, or you know that they would be useful to other people, please do us a favor, do them a favor, share it, send them a link and you know, this is part of why we do this we definitely want to help out and it’s mutually beneficial. You know, we want people discovered more us more often and we want to help them go out and we can.

Bradley: Sweet. All right, I’m gonna steal the screen. And we’re going to get ..

Marco: and Subscribe, subscribe to our YouTube channel. That’s another way to help us out and continue this as a free medium.

Bradley: There you go.

How Do You Find The Town Center In Google Maps?

All right. We had one from a few days ago, Cool Cat says how do I figure out the center of my town using Google Maps? As far as I know, if you type in the name of your city, then typically the map pulls up with the city center as the center point of the map. Has that changed? Or is that correct? Marco Do you know?

Marco: As far as I know, that’s the way you just type in the city. You can type in the state if there are other cities that are named the same Island because there are in other states. You just type in the city and you should get to the geographical what Google considers the geographical center of the city.

So if I say Culpeper. Yeah. Yeah, so that should be the center of the map here should be what it thinks is the center of Culpeper, in this case, right? As far as I know, that’s how it is now, I mean, so you just dropped your pin somewhere like you know, somewhere in there. And usually when you click on it twice, it puts a little great pin maybe you’ve got a zoom all the way in anyways, typically when you There goes finally there’s a little gray pan and there are your geo coordinates now there might be another way to do it you can probably search Google and say how to find city center and probably get an answer so you know when in doubt use Google.

How To Handle A Mass Page WordPress Site To Rank 10 GMBs Within 30-Mile Radius Of The Centre City?

Alright, so we’re gonna move on Dan demand from Canada says hey gents, I didn’t have a question about how to handle a mass page WordPress site in relation to 10 gm bees, all in a 30-mile radius of the city of the center city. If I’m working to rank these 10 GMBs all for the same niche, does it make sense to set up city pages? For example remodelers.com/locations/city, and then point citations to those individual city pages. I was then contemplating directing the city pages to the individual city, GMB assets. thoughts. Good idea. Terrible. Thanks, man. Well, I’m not sure why you would I mean, if you’re going to build a page, a location based page for each GMB, I’m not sure why you would redirect it, why wouldn’t you just use that location-based GMB or the location-based page as the website, the landing page URL for the GMB asset, see what I’m saying?

Like if you’re building I mean, unless it’s because it’s a mass page site that you’re doing that and it’s a spammy type looking or you know spamming type site, which most mass page sites are, in which case I wouldn’t build citations to that because then what happens if you get that site to deindex which is very likely happened, right? Mass page sites that happen to kind of regularly. And so if you’re building citations to that, and then you have to redirect it, what happens if it gets suspended or, you know, deindexed, then you’ve either got to go clean up. You can still leave it redirected. But now you’re redirecting through a potentially, you know, deindex domain penalize domain. So I wouldn’t do that. That’s why I’m saying if you were going to build citations, I would build citations directly to the GMB assets or set up a domain with subdomains and have a separate subdomain for each location. Because that way, if anyone of those subdomains now you can’t do that with them, I mean, I guess you could with a mass page site, but you’re trying to do it all on one domain. So location pages, inner pages, but again, I wouldn’t do that with the mass page site and build citations to it backlink shore. Because I mean, you know, no big deal but with citations again, if you lose that domain. Now you’ve got a whole bunch of citations to clean up unless you left the redirect up through a deindex domain, which I wouldn’t recommend doing.

So personally, I would not do it that way. I would build everything like if you were going to build out and self-hosted site for each location, I would do it on subdomains or not use a Mass Page Builder is what I’m saying, you guys, there’s nothing wrong with creating location pages and having inner pages for multiple locations. When you’re building something out like this, the problem occurs is if you’re you’ve got spam, the map addresses number one, and number two, if you’re doing something spammy to the domain, but if you’re keeping the domain clean, which is what we teach, right, I mean, we really do we teach about keeping the primary domain clean, building your tier one assets out and you know, especially the way that we build them out syndication networks to drive stacks using press releases, citations also count, you know, all of that stuff, then you can do all your spammy stuff up to that and keep your main your primary domain, clean Gsites. That’s a big part of it. What I’m saying is you can build the inner location pages and it’s not going to be an issue, as long as you’re not doing anything spammy. Now, again, I want to say this with the caveat, if you are using GMBs that are spammed addresses, there’s always that chance that they get suspended because they’re not real physical locations. So in that case, I wouldn’t want to have all of them necessarily associated with a money site domain, as opposed to if you can still do it, but I would recommend doing it through a subdomain. Even if it was just a redirect to like the GMB website URL. Right. So that’s, you know, whatever your business site, GMB website, right, you can still use a branded domain in that case and set up a sub domain redirect for each one of those to just redirect. I’ve got several projects like that where I’m using a branded domain. Can you guys still hear me?

Marco: Yeah

Bradley: okay because it looks like a reset on me where I’m using a branded domain, but I use a subdomain with the city name for each different location and the subdomain redirects to the GMB website like for a lot of my multi-location sites, guys, I got rid of the self hosted WordPress sites for my lead gen stuff especially because it’s just an additional management piece of, you know, something else that I have to manage and update regularly. You guys know how much WordPress updates and I just got tired of doing it and it’s really unnecessary because we’re able to get results with just GMB stuff right? So for that I’ve actually redirected I’ve eliminated a lot of my WordPress sites now and I just have GMB. Excuse me subdomains redirecting to the GMB website. So anyway, hopefully, that makes sense. I’m not a mass page fan builder or fan fanboy. Do you know what I’m saying? I don’t like those, just because they, they tend to get indexed. And it’s a lot of work and I’ve never had really good results with it unless I continually build sites that get taken down.

So I can’t really give you the best advice on that. I certainly wouldn’t build citations to a mass index or mass, a mass page type site. Any comments on that?

Marco: No, I don’t have any because I don’t use math page builder.

How To Embed A GMB Post Into A GSite?

Bradley: Yeah. Fitz, what’s up a fence? He says, Is there a way to embed a GMB post into a G site? Not that I’m aware of it because Marco would be able to answer that, but as far as I know, GMB posts cannot be iframe, correct?

Marco: Yes, they can.

Bradley: They can. Really? Okay.

Marco: Yeah, yeah, they can. Okay, forgive me then. I was wrong. Alright, so there you go, Fitz. Have you tried using just an iframe generator, and with the GMB post URLs or something secretive that we can’t talk about here?

Marco: No. I mean it’s just a straight iframe, like YouTube and or anything else? Okay, the iframe code and I was just playing with a day the other day so I’m pretty sure I’ll go back on look at my notes, but I’m pretty sure that it’s one of the ones that I tried and yes, you can.

Bradley: Okay. So there you go try it fits use the iframe generator, which is right there. And check it out. So it looks like Scott already answered it. Sorry, I didn’t even see that Scott till just now. So it looks like you can and Scott is confirming that huh? Okay, cool. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate that Scott Walker somebody. So he’s saying go into GMB site and get the URL for the post will be saved individually and have a URL like yes, it’s those long funky URL, place the URL and the iframe generator, right. Create the iframe use classic Google sites to embed the iframe insert HTML. There you go. That’s Yeah, you can insert the HTML as an element in the classic G sites. So cool. It does actually do that. That’s cool. I didn’t but you can.

Marco: You can also iframe it into the new Gsites.

Bradley: Can you? I’ve never done any work in the new g sites on

Marco: There’s an embed in the menu. Well, somebody’s coming through.

Bradley: I was watching soccer or something?

Marco: Yeah. But anyway, yeah, yeah. I’m pretty sure it is. Post the GMB site and it both on new and classic. Oh, there you go.

Mike, Chris says he doesn’t miss the old way he hated his g sweet account. Okay. James, wherever we end up saying he can’t do means on YouTube comments so so might have to be in Facebook.

Will You Still Upload Video To YouTube If You Host It On A Facebook Page?

If you host it on the Facebook page, we still upload videos to YouTube? Yes, BJ. And what I meant was if we host it on Facebook will stream it into Facebook. It’ll still be primarily through YouTube, or through perhaps zoom Mark has been pushing us to do that for quite some time. I didn’t want to get away from YouTube, but we can also use like something like OBS to stream from YouTube into Facebook simultaneously. Right? So yeah, that too. So should we do? Yeah, I mean YouTube is where we get most you know, we’ve got you to know close to 7000 subscribers in there and it’s just it’s we got a ton of content in there so I’m not going to get away from that. I wish I could Can I delete that this is terrible. Unbelievable unit towards these guys I want you to look.

Alright. Alright, next. Ready, let’s add them. Is this the end of Hump Day? Anna says no, not yet. No. We just got to change it to a platform where we get more engagement. Don says he’s okay with this chat format. I would just like to keep the hump day hangouts going. Well, thanks, John. We appreciate that. I’d love to keep them going as well. I just get notified to join and it was difficult to even find this.

If you’re subscribed to our channel, you should get notifications in Gmail, if you’re using Gmail and the social tab as well as if you’re in YouTube, it should give you a notification at the top all that kind of stuff. Here we also send out emails By the way, Adam does every 30 minutes or 30 minutes before Hump Day Hangouts. If you’re on our list, you should get an email to. Okay, keep on moving. Adam. Wayne says okay, Wayne is talking about Adams Facebook group that he has called the real world productivity growth group. Yeah, Adam does get a lot of cool stuff in there, guys. If you want to learn how to be more productive, get automate stuff, you know, make your life easier using apps and Zapier and slack. Can you tell if you want to go check out Adams group, Adam that I do outsell that probably not

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Any Recommended Tips To Rank Or Push Power To GStacks?

All right, here’s a real question from Mike crest. He says having problems getting my G stacks to rank or pushes power, follows the plan, hit links, embeds, PBNs, added content increase the depth and pages just finding they don’t push I know the market will likely hammer me. But these are built by you guys any tips or tricks to make these push? Well, I’m going to jump on that briefly before Marco goes off on a tangent on a rant. But honestly, I don’t expect my drive stack files to rank it all just so you guys know what my expectation is when I’m using drive stacks, which I’m using it for everything now as well, for even quite some time. I didn’t use them on everything but I am now because what I but I don’t expect the files that drive stack files to rank at all what I expect them to rank is what I’m linking to, like, for example, could be a G site, or could be a money site or could be a number of tier one properties that I’m trying to rank. And I’ve got a new business that I just started recently that I’m going to be talking about a lot in the mastermind over the next few weeks, or coming months really, because it’s, it’s starting to do really well for me. And I just set up a Click Funnels page, a landing page. And it was interesting because, and I talked about this in the Syndication Academy update webinar that was also like the MGYB webinar that we did a few weeks ago where we were talking about the why syndication networks are every bit as powerful now in 2019, as they were before. The way that the power has shifted away from just doing posting and syndicating, which is still certainly helpful is that they help to validate and solidify an entity. And I proved that with this new business, this new website and I just bought a branded domain. I created a new name for this business. And there but apparently that that business name, it’s similar to several other types of businesses. So it wasn’t 100% unique. It is unique but it was very similar to several other businesses with a similar name, excuse me.

And so anyway, I set up a Click Funnels landing page, I flesh that page out Well, it’s got content on it questions and answers and things like that, but it’s just a single page, Click Funnels website, essentially. And it was when I would do a search for that company name. It was, you know, that the, which was my title tag essentially along with a couple of keywords. For the first three weeks or so, it would hover on like page three and page for like, that’s where that would and that was just for doing a brand name search for this new business that I set up. But then when I got the syndication network, I hired one of our syndication network builders outside of his normal job duties to do this because he asked for some extra hours to make some extra money. So I hired him outside of that to do that for me. And you know, a couple of days later, I got this syndication network back and I think you delivered to me on a Friday and on Monday I went and just did another brand search and boom, that Click Funnels page was number one now, that was syndication networks. But the reason why I’m telling you that was because and that was without posting any content, guys no syndicating of any content. It’s a Click Funnels page. I can’t even syndicate content to the syndication network from Click Funnels. I did create a WordPress blog on a subdomain. But all I did was published one post and that was after it had already pushed the brand search to the Click Funnels page to the number one position for that brand search term. Now that said, I mentioned just a moment ago and the title tag, I had a couple of keywords. Now, this is not an Uber competitive market. But there are a few Pete players in this market that are savvy and doing SEO work as well as some PPC stuff. And the primary keywords that I’m targeting are in the title tag of that Click Funnels page, but the page itself isn’t really optimized for those keywords. Well, I had the same builder that I hired to do to build a syndication network. I had him build a drive stack. He was actually in training to build drive stacks. And so I gave him that project for this particular new business to build a drive stack now that was about three weeks ago and now without doing any additional SEO work I think I’ve published one press release but just the drive stack alone has now pushed that page that Click Funnels page to page one and it bounces between the bottom of page one and the top of page two right now for the primary keyword phrases which is great and guys I’m telling you I haven’t done anything differently so it does provide a push and I haven’t even hit that drive stack with backlinks yet. So it does absolutely provide a push if you’re in a significantly competitive market it’s obviously going to require more plus sometimes depending on the level what market it is what keywords the competition level there’s a lot of variables but sometimes they take longer to take effect and others with that said I’m gonna turn it over to Marco.

Marco: Yeah, there’s no reason for me to go off on this if you got one of our RYS done for you start. Now he also says that he added depth as far as pages. Was that done also in the drive stack? How did you do it? Was that done according to the training? And if you’re in the training, then this is a better question to ask me in RYS Academy Reloaded. So you can cash in your 30-minute coupon with me, so that we can go over the drive stack and all of the things that you’ve done. Now, without proper context, I can’t say what the problem is and why it’s not pushing power. Now, what was the timeframe in which this was done? Is it still dancing? Because a lot of times, you just have to be patient 21 days have to clear from the lab, whatever it was that you did from when you hit it with links. If you did an embed run, then it’s 21 days from that. And if you did it too quickly, over and over, then it’s just dancing until it settles like Bradley said it could take a while for it to just finish being wherever it is that it’s going to end up. Now. This is out of context for me because I don’t know. Like the drive stack is always done. The same way for everyone. But outside of that, what you did, I can’t account for my guys did. And I can go and look at it and say, Okay, this was either not done right or it was done right. Oh, and whatever it was that you did on the inside of it is not having the effect that it should be cut. But without being able to look at what you did. I can’t really answer this come hit me up in RYS Academy Facebook group. And I’ll be happy to answer this and to take half an hour with you and go over it and see what it is that stopping the power from flowing.

Bradley: There you go. That’s hard. That’s hard to pass that up, man. So I mean, that’s how much Marco believes in the fact that they work because he’ll give up a half an hour of his time to analyze what it is and provide suggestions that kind of stuff and, and I agree it’s crazy because you know, sometimes when, you know I don’t see the power of drive stacks on a regular basis and unless I’m monitoring it closely, in other words, like if I got a client and I get I just got, I picked up two new clients over the last month or so. And, you know, standard operating procedure syndication network, then a drive stack, but we’re doing press releases. So we’re kind of doing all these things all at once. But this new business that I started, I’m just doing things kind of slowly, because it’s, you know, it’s not, I’m just not hitting it really hard with everything. And I’m seeing the effects of the various things. As I said, the syndication network, made it pop to number one position for the brand search. I know that’s not Uber competitive. It was a brand search phrase, you know, like a branded name. But it was interesting to see it jumped three pages just from a syndication network without publishing any content to it. Right. Then now the primary keywords that it’s targeting, and it’s not an SEO page, guys, it’s just a landing, I’m driving traffic to it via other methods. I wasn’t planning on it being an SEO type thing yet at least. And just having a drive stack bill in about three weeks time, two to three weeks time. I’ve actually seen a significant push that and I did a press release too. But again, it’s interesting to see that kind of result from these things when you’re monitoring it that closely. When you’re doing them all the time for multiple clients and that kind of stuff. It’s not something that I typically monitor especially when you’re hitting up the assets with multiple multiple angles like multiple SEO angles, you know, it’s kind of hard to at that point isolate What did what, but we know that it works otherwise we wouldn’t keep using it. So

How To Regain Access To A Locked Facebook Account?

okay, cool. A grant says, oh, Grant seven hard time getting back into Facebook. Yeah, I don’t know. What’s going on with that grant. I’m not sure that that was caused from us specifically, but there was or from the chat app but there was we had the Facebook chat up I think we did it for two weeks and one week it just like caused a lot like some accounts to get locked mine too. And what’s crazy is guys, this makes makes a good point to talk about why you shouldn’t friend people on Facebook that you don’t know that you don’t really know because one of the things that they do is make you identify photos from friends, Facebook feeds and like who the people are in the photos and that was like I was like Oh shit, like I don’t friend I get a ton of friend requests on Facebook that I just never accept and it’s because if I don’t know you I’m not going to accept your friend request for the most part.

And so you know, some in that verification process some of the photos were from people that apparently aren’t on my friends’ list that I really don’t know. And so I was thinking Oh shit, I’m going to screw this up like I’m not gonna because you only get to fail I think two or three times before permanently or locks you out to where you have to you know another level of security to get back in anyway, I was fortunate enough to be able to get through but goes to show you don’t friend people you don’t know because it could keep you prevent you from getting access.

Let’s see. Alright, what’s next? 56k modem firing up. Oh, wow. Okay, Stoke jellyfish mastermind subgroup we’re going to take over the world everyone should be extremely jealous. Okay, cool. That must be one of the mastermind subgroups who named a jellyfish

Adam: huh oh, that’s why we just name it different animals and stuff each time to make them easy to deal with.

Adam: This is actually a cool point I want to tell people about this. I know we mentioned it before, but this is something we do for the mastermind members, you know, there’s a lot of power in the network and in the group and being a part of a big group like that and having peers as well as access to us. But also there’s power in meeting in a small group, you know, and so we put people to group if they want to, once a quarter we group people up in groups of like four to six so that they can meet up you know, give loose instructions, here’s how it’s a good way to do this. And then you really get that quick feedback, you can do hot seats, you can do all sorts of stuff from the people that you’re in there with and then on a really more hesitate to use it but on a more intimate level if you will. So it’s a really powerful way to even get more out of the mastermind.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. It’s about networking. So my Chris says to me Maybe I need to hit the folders instead of the G site. I would agree with that. We say, Marco.

Marco: Dadea, it takes care of link building. So I don’t, I’ll say I don’t know. Because whatever, whenever I do something, I just tell daddy, I need link building. And then he says, Okay, give me the main URLs and 300 or so keywords to go with it. And that totally needs then he goes in and finds everything else. So I don’t know it could be. But again, I’m not sure I don’t know how your inner folders and files were done. Because I know that my people didn’t do those as well without knowing that, without seeing that I can’t help you. Yeah.

Bradley: Very good guys. Any other questions? Otherwise, we can wrap it up early. Be a short Humpday Hangout.

Marco: And just for Anna. It’s not that I try to swear. Whenever I talk. It’s kind of just comes out. Must be the sailor in me. Sorry if I offend anyone. Fuck you anyway.

Bradley: That’s right. That’s right. Okay, well, it looks like unless we got something else we want to train about right now. Anybody? We can wrap it up a little bit early today.

Hernan: We’re good.

Adam: get time to hit the trails.

Bradley: You’re gonna go in the woods.

Adam: Yeah, gotta go for a run.

Bradley: You know, that’s code for right.

Adam: running long distances.

Bradley: Yeah, no that’s cool.

Oh, here comes I have a question, guys. Yeah, G is away, buddy. We’re going to analyze your stuff tomorrow on the mastermind webinar. We’re going to get into that deep so let’s see what he says. I would love to talk about niches sometimes Anna says.

Do You Wait 21 Days Before Doing Another Link Building?

BJ after you do the link building Do you wait 21 days before doing another link code? I mean, I don’t wait like a specific amount of time. I just wait to see what kind of results comes from it. And I don’t usually stack link building campaigns three weeks apart like that, you know, usually, it’s usually longer for me, like I’ll hit something with links and you know, typically I’ll have a Rank Tracker or something that’s kind of monitoring that and I’ll just check on it every you know, every few days or every couple of weeks and check to see what kind of push it is and but you remember I’m I don’t just do link building. I think that’s very, very powerful. But you know, we press releases and content marketing And oh, by the way, somebody asked questions about citations and I didn’t answer that. So forgive me on that. Son guest says are local citations still relevant? GMB is dominating now. So how much does impact how much does it still impact rankings worth working through all the Citations Sources like Yelp Yelp page citations is still important if you’ve got a valid business address, I recommend building citations if it’s a spam to business you know I for like lead gen stuff if you’re getting, for example, would lead gen stuff if you’re if you go out and get an actual physical address like a PO Box right? You use the street addressing option, then you can still get away with building citations because you can list the street address right the street address plus the number sign and in the box number, and that still works perfectly well. If you’re buying a verified GMB, which is an essentially it’s a spam address somewhere. I don’t recommend building citations in that in that situation or that scenario and the reason why is because if it was an address that was pulled from somebody’s house, which I hope people aren’t building them that way, then you could literally be starting start getting marketing mail sent to somebody’s house, a lot of the times those addresses are going to be spam from a commercial location. Once again, now those it’ll start they’ll start getting solicitation mail like physical mail with that company’s name on it because now like if you start building citations and Yellow Pages and things like that you get put on the company gets put on mailing lists, and now direct mail spam direct mail solicitation offers will start getting sent there.

Credit Card off, like a business credit card, offers all kinds of stuff. You can get reported that way by the recipient of those that mail right because it’s going to have some other companies address on there. So I don’t recommend that. Also, I don’t like to publish the address. One of the other questions we had recently was if you’re high if the service area business and you’re hiding your business address and the GMB which you should ask for Google’s Terms of Service for service area business. Should you go out and build all the citations without the street address? Well, there are only a few platforms that I know of that will allow you to do that. Most platforms to build a citation unless it’s changed recently because I don’t build my own citations anymore. I haven’t for the longest time, you know, we hire that out. But for the longest time, I know that most platforms would require a street address, or else it wouldn’t allow you to add a citation to their platform, right.

So again, for NAP stuff for area businesses. If it’s a spam address, I don’t recommend building citations. I’ll do everything else but citations. But if you have a valid business address or you go get like a PO Box where you have a physical place to send mail that you can go collect, then yeah, absolutely, they’re still effective, there’s no doubt they’re still effective. I still use them all the time for clients and everything else.

Marco: I would also add that if you can get hyper-local citations, those are really effective. And everywhere you’re looking at the greater picture wherein the semantic where we all we always have to think the entity. It’s just another way to validate your entity you. It’s your presence in all of these places. It’s placed where you’ve taken the time to go and get that citation to get it done properly. So that you know the more powerful ones like Yelp, those could become part of your same math. And it just adds validity to your entity and I got it guys we did the webinar. Not too long ago right for MGYB Syndication Academy where we talked about ads, I can’t emphasize it enough how important it is. And that and one of the reasons why RYS Academy Reloaded the RYS text works so well, is because we focus on the entity right from the beginning. And we push power to the entity so that we go after what I call the end game.

Bradley: I suggest for those of you who didn’t get a chance to see it, I mean, you should go, do we have it on MGYB? Do we have the URL, because I think people should go and watch that all day down to our YouTube channel, as well as on MGYB store on the webinar page now, which is that isn’t that in the header in the navigation menu now?

Marco: where it should be? So just to drive this into people’s head over and over whenever you start working on anything, even if it’s fake, you have to make it look as real as possible to Google that there is a thing on the web, and that this thing has some kind of validity. And we talked about the different ways to validate your entity.

Bradley: So just to talk about since you know, we’ve got time, let’s do this, we still got 20 minutes and it looks like some more questions popped up. But let’s talk about this very specifically because you mentioned hyper-local citations. So what I want to do is kind of demonstrate here how to get how to find those. Now if you can hire a lot of citation building services that will do this now a marketer center is a pretty good spot to get some of these they’ll it’s still kind of automated if you want to. I mean, they have like, you know, lists that they build from. I think the best citation building service available is Logan x. There’s no doubt it but it’s more expensive. You’re going to pay more for it, but it’s a really good service because they build structured citations and unstructured citations, social citations, document citations, video citations, audio citations, all of those and then they hit all of them with backlinks. Like they automatically build backlinks to the citations as part of the service. They’ve got a monthly citation bonus service 150 bucks a month. For clients, it’s an almost standard operating procedure for me, because it’s just really good service. And if they do really, really well, they perform well as, but for hyperlocal citations, I’m just going to use this as an example. I think we’re using plumber Fairfax, a couple of weeks ago for an example.

So one of the ways to get hyper-local citations is well one is to take a look at competitors. So like, let’s say that John C Flood was, which is the plumber site that we’re looking at was a client of mine, okay, or, you know, a lead gen project, whatever. Let’s just say that that was the case. One of the things you can do is take a look at the top-ranked, and he’s doing well organically at least. Maybe not so much in maps, but he’s doing well for organics, but maybe look at FJ hooks plumbing is number one in maps and put that into a notepad file, right so I’m just going to say hooks, plumbing, Inc. And then I always use this is the way that you can do these guys use to have three data points for NAP to have it doesn’t matter which two but I typically use the company name and the phone number. Okay? So in this case, it’s going to be 783-591-1284.

Okay, do that for each one of the, you know, top five or so. So it would be FJ Hooks Long’s Corporation, I think that’s the example we were looking at a couple of weeks ago, calories, plumbing, home service doctors in my plumber, heating, cooling and electrical, right, so I would take the top five, I would copy down or jot into a notepad file or an Excel sheet or something like that Google Sheet, whatever their company name as it’s listed in the NA and the Google Maps, right, and then also their phone number. That’s typically the two data points that I’ll pull, right and I’ll copy that and I’ll just go over to Google and I’ll do a search. Okay. And then what I’ll do this. And again, you can train to be able to do these guys is go through really, all you need to do is go through like the top two pages and copy the URLs or at least note, you don’t need to copy the URLs for them, your competitors or whatever. But in this case, this is the top level, the one and number, the number one position in maps. So go through and take a look Manta, I’d put Manta in the spreadsheet. So if you got a spreadsheet or a notepad file doesn’t matter, I just put Manta com, Yelp, yelp.com Okay, Facebook, we know that’s a big one that’s a branded profile. Anyways, MapQuest. checkbook.org which is interesting. I’ve not seen that before. Angie’s List com white pages. So you guys get the idea. I would go through the top two for every single one of the the the top five listed maps, compete for your competitors that are listed in the top five in maps, right and if you’re in the top five, then you know you’re going to select the top five plus, you know besides yours.

So what I’m saying is if you’re in the top five, then you know, you’re going to select maybe one, two, and in four or five and six or something like that my point is to get the top five competitors compared to where you are, and then copy their name and their phone number down and just do a search a simple Google search. And again, he can have a VA do this and go figure out just make a list of the top level citation directories for those companies specific to that area. Does that make sense? That’s one of the ways to get the best performing citations for your specific area.

Guys, there are niche directories like plumbing directories in this case. And then there are our business national business directories which are like Yelp and Manta, for example, and Angie’s List would be another one. But then there’s hyperlocal citations and want to walk through a quick example of that too. But regardless of the different types of directories again, national which are common, that’s what we see the most, Niche directories which are powerful because they’re topically relevant, right. And then there’s a, there are local citations that are going to be common to specific areas. In other words, there will be certain citations that are going to show up repeatedly for Fairfax plumbers or plumbers in Fairfax, that I could go to Richmond, Virginia, which is, I don’t know, 90-100 miles away. And they’re going to be a different set of common citation or business directory type sites that are common down there. So what I’m saying is, every area is slightly different. That’s why you can’t just have a master list and expect that master list to perform the same across all different niches and all different locations. That’s why it’s very simple.

When you go to Google and you use Google to determine that again, you can have a VA do it take the top five, do it search for their name and address or name and phone number, I’d use name and phone number and then just write down or, you know, put into a notepad file right in the Excel sheet, the business directory domains that are in the top two pages for each one of those five, right? And then you can, you know, you’ll see commonalities, the ones that are common across all of those are across all five, which you’ll see some of those, those are going to be your most powerful citation sources. So make sure you’re listed on that, then to Marco’s point to go hyperlocal, what you would want to do in this case, also you can go remember as I said, niche directories right so you could type into just do a Google search and say plumbing directory, right? And I misspelled plumbing but plumbing directory right and you go right through here and okay home advisor you know, I don’t like home advisor but my zip plumbers. com that’s a local plumbing directory, local, that’s a national directory, but they have a plumbing category, obviously, the plumbing info.com right. So national plumbers directory.org so this is how you very easily just put in your service, your keyword, whatever directory and now you’ve got niche directories those are more powerful than just plain national directories right because they’re topically relevant. All right.

Now lastly, for getting hyper-local citations in this case, we’re going to say Fairfax County. Business Directory, right? Boom right there. Web NoVa chamber org business directory. That’s Nova stands for Northern Virginia. Discover Fairfax, VA. com business directory, Fairfax County, EDA or Economic Development Authority, get your business listed there are your clients business listed there, right. A liable Fairfax county.gov. business right. Find out how you get listed on the Fairfax County. That’s the official Fairfax County government website, guys. You can get listed there find out sometimes they’re paid listings, who cares? It’s it’s not usually very expensive. And it’s worth it because these are what Marco just mentioned are hyper-local citations. They’re very powerful. And it doesn’t just have to stop with business directories, you could put Fairfax County blogs, right? Because a lot of times you can actually get listed on Fairfax County blogs guys, it sometimes it just requires outreach to the, you know, the blog owners and maybe you have a press release written or something like that and you reach out. And again, you don’t have to do this, you can hire people to do this and have them reach out to them because guys, these are all local blogs now talking about events and activities, and, you know, places to go, and products and services and all of that kind of stuff that is hyper-local, local to this area. Those types of links are so much more powerful than links that anybody can get from anywhere from like national directories if that makes sense. Because Google understands there’s that geographic relationship. There’s that geographic relevancy, and it’s so much more powerful. And so again, these are all kinds of thing. I mean, there’s a ton of them that just popped up right here, right that you could potentially get listed on Fairfax County, let’s say newspaper that a lot of the times there’s business directories there, and you could put online newspapers, things like that. But a lot of times there’s classifieds. And you can get, those are powerful citations, you can run little classified online classified ads that will give you a link from those local newspaper and online newspapers. Again, very, very powerful.

Something like Topix. Topix that we used to hack these long years ago. If you guys are familiar with Topix, there’s Topix.com Fairfax, that’s like a forum. And there���s, there’s a local location forum, like there, this site is siloed. Well, and it’s got forums specific to locations and you can actually kind of there’s this requires like some social engineering stuff, but you can actually go in and start a thread and at like with, you know, a profile you want to use multiple profiles with multiple IPS but most of you have that kind of stuff anyway, but you can go in and register and ask a question like and start a new thread in the fair in this case, like the Fairfax County topics category. And there’s a lot of traffic and traction in there, guys. And it’s very, very powerful. And you can start a thread and say something like, Hey, I just moved into the area. And I really need a good plumber in Fairfax, work your keywords into the question, any recommendations, right and leave it like that and then login with another account that under a different IP that you may have answered, you may have commented on some other threads within that same category, the same Fairfax category, so that you’re not just posting a link because a lot of times in these types of forums that if you if you’re new and you post a link, your comment will get moderated out. So if you season one of those accounts to where you can, you know, you created some comments again, guys, you can hire all this stuff out you can train a staff member or VA to do this kind of stuff for you. But if you season an account that so that you get past that threshold to where you can drop a link, then you use that profile to go in and answer that question from the other profile Hey, I just moved in the area, I’m really looking for a good plumber in Fairfax. And now you drop. The first comment underneath that is, hey, here’s a great plumber. It’s what was the one that I was saying was my business FJ hooks plumbing, Inc, they’re located in Fairfax, here’s their phone number. Here’s their website URL. Now that’s a citation from a very powerful Local Business Forum. With it now being the first comment in a new thread and other people will come in and chime in on that thread. And that social engagement, other people commenting on that actually pushes more power into that particular thread and makes that citation even more powerful. That’s very, very powerful. Most people don’t do that because it’s not as easy as just going and hiring a citation building service. It requires manual work, but if you want really good results, that’s how you do it. I mean, and again, guys, you can train a VA to do this stuff. It’s not something that you can find in a service online typically, but you can train a VA to do this stuff for you and you’re going to get much better results. Okay. So hopefully that was helpful. See, we can do this on Hump Day hang out sometimes. That’s usually what we do in our paid groups, right? Go into training.

What Will Happen If IFrame A Good Content From A Money Site To An Exact Match Domain?

Alright, Ji says, what if I iframe a piece of good content from my money site to an exact match domain? So you mean buying exact match domain and just put iframe a piece of content into that? I mean, sure, but you can do that with the G site. I’m not I mean, I don’t know why you get more power out of doing it from an Amazon s3 hosted page or a G site than you would from bindings an exact match domain that has no inherent authority. Right? Because you can build keyword relevancy from putting content around the iframe is my point. So why not use something that has massive authority already, like a Google site, which is on the Google domain, or an Amazon s3 page write an HTML page that’s ham hosted on Amazon bucket now you’re you’re you’re siphoning authority from Amazon, right you can create the relevancy what you don’t need the exact match keyword in the domain, you can create the relevancy from the content, the text around the iframe, and in the metadata and in the Jason structure, you know, the LD structured data, all of that. So,

I mean, I get where you’re going with that, Jay, but that’s not, you know, I think you go about it better than going out and buying an exact match domain that as essentially starting from zero, you’d have to build some authority to that. And I just go ahead and use what’s available to us for free, right. So the exact mastermind only has an iframe from my money site and that and I link a spam GMB to the exact match domain. I’m not sure what you mean on that. A spam Google My Business. So you’re talking about like, building like lead gen GMB assets, you link that to your exact match domain. Oh, I see what you’re saying. So you’re talking about if you’re going to build additional GMBs, and you iframe with a different domain and exact to match them. And that becomes your landing page. But really it’s a page on your web, your primary website that’s just iframe into it. I don’t know. I, I don’t know. I don’t know if I would do that. Marco, what do you think about that?

Marco: Whenever someone asked me what if questions, I say, test it, and let me know what happens. Yeah. Because I can’t tell you what if on every scenario that I haven’t tried, but what I meant by when I was asking, what do you think about that, as I’m not sure that I would want to iframe a money site page into a domain? That was it. That was only set up as a spam GMB asset with just my money site. I framed and knew it as the landing page like in other words, I don’t know if that could cause any negativity. If Google terminated that, you know, I would say on that if it’s going to have a TMP and he’s going to take the time to work on the entity power up the entity. It could work but I would as you said, I spend my resources my time and my money on just getting the power from a D site where you know, you can’t harm your money site, because Google will just won’t pass a penalty though. Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. I’m not sure that I would do that I mark is right. I would recommend if you wanted to try that you’d have to test it. I can’t we can’t speculate on what would happen. I mean, I personally wouldn’t want to do that because it doesn’t to me. As I said, I’d rather I guys, you could even use a Google site is your domain, your website URL for GMB? You know, you can do that. There’s I’ve never seen it not happen. You know what I’m saying? So why not just use that right? You can create a Google site and flesh that out a bit and make that the website of the GMB. That makes sense. You still want to create the GSB website and put that in the appointment URL. You know, you can that’s what I’ve been doing. So he says, What can I expect Google picks up the content starts to rank for the exact match again. I don’t know how that would treat this G. We haven’t tested that. And so, you know, it would be speculation so I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. So,

How Quickly Can You Livestream Videos To A Channel Connected To A 4-Ring IFTTT Network?

Dan, the man says, or Dan Damman How quickly can you last new videos to a channel connected to a four ring IFTTT network so as to not go too fast and destroy the syndication network effective. I mean, you can live stream whenever if you’re talking about, you know, publishing multiple, like, for example, just using it as a spam channel where but it uses live streams as opposed to uploading.

If it’s a seasoned network, it can you what I mean by that is if it’s got some age to it, and you’ve slowly, you know, started posting to it, and then slowly ramped up the speed with which you post with the velocity, whatever you want to call it, the frequency of posting, then a lot of times it’ll it’ll be okay. But if it’s a new network, a newer network, and you start posting, you know, multiple times per day. Especially if they’re spammy videos with similar content, that kind of stuff, then you know, you can get a lot of your network properties terminated. So that’s why, like I said, I, you know, in my opinion, you’re better off doing that, if you’re going to do that kind of stuff that you’re, you know, you don’t.

A lot of times you don’t need syndication networks, if you’re going to do that type of, I don’t know what kind of a strategy you’re asking about specifically, I’m only making assumptions here. But a lot of times you can get results with YouTube spam stuff, by just using multiple accounts, YouTube accounts that don’t even need syndication networks. Why not? If I’m going to take the time to build or you know, purchase, you know, spend money or whatever on syndication networks for YouTube syndication stuff, I’m going to try to keep them around not spam them to death. Right. And so typically, the videos are going to be a better quality it’s not going to be the same video just spun. You know what I mean? Like to change the video encoding and that stuff and continually repeating publishing the same damn video. I’ve seen that too much. Guys, and that shit used to work years ago. And I guess you can still get some results from that. But most people, you know, don’t react to those kinds of videos. And honestly, a lot of the syndication network sites and stuff will actually terminate, because they detect those as spam. So I would recommend if you’re going to take the time to build networks out or purchase networks, which is what we recommend, and certainly, that you would try to keep your channel and the content good enough to where that’s not a date, you’re not in danger of doing that. So if you’re actually doing real live streams, then I wouldn’t worry about it at all, because they’re all going to be real and unique. They’re not spammy. But if you’re just using live streams, and you’re basically mass, you know, duplicating a video and constantly re-streaming it to a channel or uploading it to a channel that’s connected to syndication networks, you’re in danger of getting those terminated. Okay, especially if it’s brand new.

We got more questions and we can answer now so we almost shut it down. And at the very last minute when we almost took it from you guys, you posted a shit ton questions that now can’t be answered.

So next time post early guys. We’re going to wrap it up. I’ve gotta run guys. My daughter’s got a softball game tonight I gotta go to so unfortunately, that’s gonna be it for today. So thanks for your extra engagement. We needed it guys we appreciate that. Thanks, guys for sticking around.

Bye, everyone.

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Announcement

Adam: everybody welcomes to Hump Day hangouts Episode 236. The episode where we asked you the questions. Now we’ll get to that actually we do have a question for you who are viewing today and if you’re watching the replay but first we’re going to say hello to everybody. We got everybody here so going to start on the left with Chris How are you doing today?

Chris: Doing good. Not excited to be back. It’s basically winter temperatures here. It snowed again rain. five degrees Celsius.

Adam: Okay, take it you’re back in Austria, then you’re definitely not.

Chris: Yeah, unfortunately, I’m already making plans to fly back.

Adam: tough, tough or not. Hernan, how are you doing? Are you What are you warm or cold?

Hernan: Now it’s cold, man. It’s getting chillier, but it’s okay. It’s a nice time of the season. I am enjoying this and down here in Buenos Aires. I’ll be Miami in a couple of weeks. So if you happen to be in the South Florida area, hit me up. Maybe we can grab something to drink or whatever. But yeah, looking good, man. A lot of work but everything is soaking up.

Adam: Cool, cool. Alright, Marco. How about you, man?

Marco: Damn. It’s cold today, man. Yeah, it’s 72 I’m gonna have to go walk around the corner and come back. If people are flying here and there I don’t know. I’ll just walk around the corner they’ll get better.

Adam: I got sidetracked there. Bradley. How are you doing man?

Bradley: Wayne Clayton says his name Wayne Clayton hashtag stood looking at his comment. That’s funny. Anyways, I’m good. Glad to be here. So, not quite as warm as Marco who’s saying it’s cold. It’s freaking cold in Virginia right now. I don’t know why it’s like 60 degrees. Cool for this time of year. So yeah.

Adam: I’m near San Francisco is supposed to be nice this time of year and we’re supposed to get like a month’s worth of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours. So that’s gonna be nice. Yeah. Yeah, enough of the weather reports. If you’re new thanks for holding with us here while we give you a worldwide update on weather conditions. And I want to say, first of all, you’re in the right spot. Thanks for checking out Hump Day Hangouts. Whether you’re watching us live right now or whether you’re catching the replay. This is the place to be you can always go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions for that week, Humpday Hangouts, ask your questions. Get them up there ahead of time, it’s a first come first serve, we just ask that you try to not ask you know, 10 questions at once just one maybe to let other people go or else we’ll kind of have to skip your answers because we can’t focus on one person for too long. It just wouldn’t be fair.

But secondly, if you’re also wondering where to start, grab the Battle Plan. All right, go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about it. Just go check it out. You can find out all you want about it. But if you’re looking to take things to kind of to the next level as far as either starting or growing your own local digital marketing agency, then you should definitely join our mastermind You can find out more at mastermind.semanticmastery.com

For anybody who’s looking for premium done for you services, head over to mygb.co. Alright done for you kick ass services. It’s the stuff that we use or developed to use in our own businesses. And then, you know, as people wanted them, we put them in there and made them available so others can benefit from it. And I guess now’s a good time to ask questions, guys. Should we ask, should we ask the question we were talking about? Yeah. I’ll hand it over. I’m gonna let Bradley do this. He seems like he’s interested in.

Bradley: The question is, ever since we had to switch to hang out since Google events shut the Google events page is down, which is where we had hosted it for shit three, we’re over three years now. Right. We’re going on for four years now. Our way? Yeah. It’s been a long time since we’ve been doing this. But yeah, we’re like in four and a half years now. We’ve been doing this and it’s only been like three months or so since they shut Google events down. You know, Google Plus down, which is where we were hosting them and we used to have a lot more engagement on our Hump Day Hangouts, that we do now. And it could be because of that stupid, you know, the stupid chat app that we’re using now, which was better than the Facebook chat app that got some accounts suspended or whatever locked or that kind of stuff. But we’re still trying to work our way through like finding the best place to host these guys. So we want to ask your opinion, those of you that are attending right now, today live, posting that silly 1980s looking chat box that we’re using right now, where would you prefer us to host Hump Day hangouts directly on YouTube watch pages? Or should perhaps we try to stream it into Facebook and use our Facebook group, the SEO Marketing tutorials or whatever group and maybe host it there?

You guys let us know because honestly, the attendance rate has gone down and the number of questions has gone down. Ever since we shut Google or Google events shut down. And so we’re debating whether we should keep it going or not. certainly, want to I’ve always enjoyed these, you know, four and a half years into it. I’d hate to give it up. I’ve really have enjoyed this a lot. But honestly, if we’re not going to get the engagement, we’re not going to show up and answer three or four questions and shut it down. So we would like to ask you guys for your opinion. Do you think we should try it over on YouTube? Should we maybe try it and Facebook or give us your suggestion? You know, let us know. So with that said,

Adam: and I’m biased, thank you. I believe that’s Mike crest. Yeah, that’s awesome. Love the 80s if you love the goofy chatbot that’s okay, too. Just for an unbiased opinion for me. Okay, cool. Yeah, we’ll take everything into account and we’ll let everybody now but yeah, we got any other announcements, you guys I think that was everything I had.

Bradley: There’s a stuffed animal dog talking. I do like the fact that this chat outlet says meme again though because for a while we couldn’t even do that.

Anyways, alright, I don’t have any specific announcements other than we’ve got our mastermind webinar tomorrow, one of our newer members, G, he, we’re calling you G, by the way from now on, because I’m not sure how to pronounce your name. So we’re going to actually dig into a project that he’s been asking a bunch of questions about. Marco and I are going to analyze that. And that’s something I want to talk about briefly is, you know, that is the value of the mastermind, in my opinion, is coming in and being able to interact with us as well as the other members. It’s not just about us, we’ve got a lot of savvy members in our group and it’s the, you know, very active and engaged the Facebook group. So pretty much any kind of question can be asked there and you get a bunch of really good replies back or responses from other successful marketers or that are successful in whatever type of marketing business they’re in. It’s not just all local SEO stuff. We talk a lot about that. That’s primarily because that’s what I do. But there are members in our group to do national SEO, some affiliate stuff, you know, all that so and then it’s also getting access to us directly, but then on the mastermind webinars we go into in depth into whatever anybody wants to get into, most of the time I do some sort of training. And then before we get into questions and answers, but then when we get it to member questions, we go really in-depth into whatever anybody wants to go into. And there’s no holds barred. Like, in other words, we don’t, we don’t hold anything back.

Like we have to hear in a public setting, right. So, you know, for example, if a member comes in, and they want us to analyze a website, or a specific marketing campaign or something like that is if they’re willing to share that they will go you know, deep dive in it, Marco and I really analyze it, pick it apart, in a nice way, kind of point out how it can get better results and that kind of stuff. And that’s really where the value comes in, guys, because that’s, you know, again, it’s about networking with others. Yes, there’s a lot of training in the mastermind, yes, you get discounts and things like that, but that’s not what the value is, in my opinion. The value is in networking with us and the other members, getting questions answered in almost real time, about pretty much any sort of issue you’re having in marketing or business related regardless or outsourcing? Or, I mean, some of our members even asked questions that aren’t even marketing or business related. And that’s, that’s perfectly fine. That’s what it’s for. So does anybody want to comment on that or any other not yet?

Marco: I’d like to comment on that on one of your comments. You, you’re the nice guy. So you will look at a website nicely. But if a width website is crappy, I’m going to tell someone, you your website sucks. Your SEO sucks. I’m a real man, I can’t help it. That’s just the way I am. I’m going to give it to you. kind of try to shock you into seeing what you’re not seeing or what you’re avoiding seeing what you’re avoiding doing. And that’s what this is all about getting real. With people getting past all of that shiny shit that they’re fed every day. All of that bullshit, all of that crap that that doesn’t work. It’s just made, so that so that they will so that people will just spend more money. There’s no purpose to it, other than to get the people to fork over more money, more training. That’s never really complete. What we try to do is we try to give you the steps, right? That you need to take in order to take your shit to the next level, whatever your shit on it online might be, it could be anything. But guys, please understand that our purpose is to help you.

If you go into our Facebook group into our mastermind, I said, Look going there a month, and see that the value is really in that Facebook group, and being able to ask us all questions and getting an answer almost immediately. If it’s the weekend, of course, sometimes, I’m often with family, but someone sometimes jumps in on weekends and ask us questions. So it’s not just here that we answer questions, we ask your questions in all of our groups, but mainly our focus is the mastermind. And no matter what your question is, we try to get you an answer. And if we don’t know then the answer might just be we don’t know. because trust me, I don’t know a whole lot of shit. I’m still learning every day. But we do try to come up with an answer.

Or try to steer you in the right direction and we don’t have it will tell you, yeah, we will work on it or just give you or send you in the right direction. So that’s what I have to say about this.

Bradley: Sweet. Okay, now I got to find the actual questions and comments now.

Adam: Yeah, well, I want to say one more thing too because we are using YouTube regardless where, you know, obviously still being broadcast on YouTube. I guess potentially that could change but we’re never going to stop putting out content on YouTube. So if you find this useful or you find other video clips, like Anna just said in the comments, you know, she that’s part of how she came across us and joined the mastermind and how she got involved with Semantic Mastery and with our community. So if you come across video clips that are useful, or you know that they would be useful to other people, please do us a favor, do them a favor, share it, send them a link and you know, this is part of why we do this we definitely want to help out and it’s mutually beneficial. You know, we want people discovered more us more often and we want to help them go out and we can.

Bradley: Sweet. All right, I’m gonna steal the screen. And we’re going to get ..

Marco: and Subscribe, subscribe to our YouTube channel. That’s another way to help us out and continue this as a free medium.

Bradley: There you go.

How Do You Find The Town Center In Google Maps?

All right. We had one from a few days ago, Cool Cat says how do I figure out the center of my town using Google Maps? As far as I know, if you type in the name of your city, then typically the map pulls up with the city center as the center point of the map. Has that changed? Or is that correct? Marco Do you know?

Marco: As far as I know, that’s the way you just type in the city. You can type in the state if there are other cities that are named the same Island because there are in other states. You just type in the city and you should get to the geographical what Google considers the geographical center of the city.

So if I say Culpeper. Yeah. Yeah, so that should be the center of the map here should be what it thinks is the center of Culpeper, in this case, right? As far as I know, that’s how it is now, I mean, so you just dropped your pin somewhere like you know, somewhere in there. And usually when you click on it twice, it puts a little great pin maybe you’ve got a zoom all the way in anyways, typically when you There goes finally there’s a little gray pan and there are your geo coordinates now there might be another way to do it you can probably search Google and say how to find city center and probably get an answer so you know when in doubt use Google.

How To Handle A Mass Page WordPress Site To Rank 10 GMBs Within 30-Mile Radius Of The Centre City?

Alright, so we’re gonna move on Dan demand from Canada says hey gents, I didn’t have a question about how to handle a mass page WordPress site in relation to 10 gm bees, all in a 30-mile radius of the city of the center city. If I’m working to rank these 10 GMBs all for the same niche, does it make sense to set up city pages? For example remodelers.com/locations/city, and then point citations to those individual city pages. I was then contemplating directing the city pages to the individual city, GMB assets. thoughts. Good idea. Terrible. Thanks, man. Well, I’m not sure why you would I mean, if you’re going to build a page, a location based page for each GMB, I’m not sure why you would redirect it, why wouldn’t you just use that location-based GMB or the location-based page as the website, the landing page URL for the GMB asset, see what I’m saying?

Like if you’re building I mean, unless it’s because it’s a mass page site that you’re doing that and it’s a spammy type looking or you know spamming type site, which most mass page sites are, in which case I wouldn’t build citations to that because then what happens if you get that site to deindex which is very likely happened, right? Mass page sites that happen to kind of regularly. And so if you’re building citations to that, and then you have to redirect it, what happens if it gets suspended or, you know, deindexed, then you’ve either got to go clean up. You can still leave it redirected. But now you’re redirecting through a potentially, you know, deindex domain penalize domain. So I wouldn’t do that. That’s why I’m saying if you were going to build citations, I would build citations directly to the GMB assets or set up a domain with subdomains and have a separate subdomain for each location. Because that way, if anyone of those subdomains now you can’t do that with them, I mean, I guess you could with a mass page site, but you’re trying to do it all on one domain. So location pages, inner pages, but again, I wouldn’t do that with the mass page site and build citations to it backlink shore. Because I mean, you know, no big deal but with citations again, if you lose that domain. Now you’ve got a whole bunch of citations to clean up unless you left the redirect up through a deindex domain, which I wouldn’t recommend doing.

So personally, I would not do it that way. I would build everything like if you were going to build out and self-hosted site for each location, I would do it on subdomains or not use a Mass Page Builder is what I’m saying, you guys, there’s nothing wrong with creating location pages and having inner pages for multiple locations. When you’re building something out like this, the problem occurs is if you’re you’ve got spam, the map addresses number one, and number two, if you’re doing something spammy to the domain, but if you’re keeping the domain clean, which is what we teach, right, I mean, we really do we teach about keeping the primary domain clean, building your tier one assets out and you know, especially the way that we build them out syndication networks to drive stacks using press releases, citations also count, you know, all of that stuff, then you can do all your spammy stuff up to that and keep your main your primary domain, clean Gsites. That’s a big part of it. What I’m saying is you can build the inner location pages and it’s not going to be an issue, as long as you’re not doing anything spammy. Now, again, I want to say this with the caveat, if you are using GMBs that are spammed addresses, there’s always that chance that they get suspended because they’re not real physical locations. So in that case, I wouldn’t want to have all of them necessarily associated with a money site domain, as opposed to if you can still do it, but I would recommend doing it through a subdomain. Even if it was just a redirect to like the GMB website URL. Right. So that’s, you know, whatever your business site, GMB website, right, you can still use a branded domain in that case and set up a sub domain redirect for each one of those to just redirect. I’ve got several projects like that where I’m using a branded domain. Can you guys still hear me?

Marco: Yeah

Bradley: okay because it looks like a reset on me where I’m using a branded domain, but I use a subdomain with the city name for each different location and the subdomain redirects to the GMB website like for a lot of my multi-location sites, guys, I got rid of the self hosted WordPress sites for my lead gen stuff especially because it’s just an additional management piece of, you know, something else that I have to manage and update regularly. You guys know how much WordPress updates and I just got tired of doing it and it’s really unnecessary because we’re able to get results with just GMB stuff right? So for that I’ve actually redirected I’ve eliminated a lot of my WordPress sites now and I just have GMB. Excuse me subdomains redirecting to the GMB website. So anyway, hopefully, that makes sense. I’m not a mass page fan builder or fan fanboy. Do you know what I’m saying? I don’t like those, just because they, they tend to get indexed. And it’s a lot of work and I’ve never had really good results with it unless I continually build sites that get taken down.

So I can’t really give you the best advice on that. I certainly wouldn’t build citations to a mass index or mass, a mass page type site. Any comments on that?

Marco: No, I don’t have any because I don’t use math page builder.

How To Embed A GMB Post Into A GSite?

Bradley: Yeah. Fitz, what’s up a fence? He says, Is there a way to embed a GMB post into a G site? Not that I’m aware of it because Marco would be able to answer that, but as far as I know, GMB posts cannot be iframe, correct?

Marco: Yes, they can.

Bradley: They can. Really? Okay.

Marco: Yeah, yeah, they can. Okay, forgive me then. I was wrong. Alright, so there you go, Fitz. Have you tried using just an iframe generator, and with the GMB post URLs or something secretive that we can’t talk about here?

Marco: No. I mean it’s just a straight iframe, like YouTube and or anything else? Okay, the iframe code and I was just playing with a day the other day so I’m pretty sure I’ll go back on look at my notes, but I’m pretty sure that it’s one of the ones that I tried and yes, you can.

Bradley: Okay. So there you go try it fits use the iframe generator, which is right there. And check it out. So it looks like Scott already answered it. Sorry, I didn’t even see that Scott till just now. So it looks like you can and Scott is confirming that huh? Okay, cool. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate that Scott Walker somebody. So he’s saying go into GMB site and get the URL for the post will be saved individually and have a URL like yes, it’s those long funky URL, place the URL and the iframe generator, right. Create the iframe use classic Google sites to embed the iframe insert HTML. There you go. That’s Yeah, you can insert the HTML as an element in the classic G sites. So cool. It does actually do that. That’s cool. I didn’t but you can.

Marco: You can also iframe it into the new Gsites.

Bradley: Can you? I’ve never done any work in the new g sites on

Marco: There’s an embed in the menu. Well, somebody’s coming through.

Bradley: I was watching soccer or something?

Marco: Yeah. But anyway, yeah, yeah. I’m pretty sure it is. Post the GMB site and it both on new and classic. Oh, there you go.

Mike, Chris says he doesn’t miss the old way he hated his g sweet account. Okay. James, wherever we end up saying he can’t do means on YouTube comments so so might have to be in Facebook.

Will You Still Upload Video To YouTube If You Host It On A Facebook Page?

If you host it on the Facebook page, we still upload videos to YouTube? Yes, BJ. And what I meant was if we host it on Facebook will stream it into Facebook. It’ll still be primarily through YouTube, or through perhaps zoom Mark has been pushing us to do that for quite some time. I didn’t want to get away from YouTube, but we can also use like something like OBS to stream from YouTube into Facebook simultaneously. Right? So yeah, that too. So should we do? Yeah, I mean YouTube is where we get most you know, we’ve got you to know close to 7000 subscribers in there and it’s just it’s we got a ton of content in there so I’m not going to get away from that. I wish I could Can I delete that this is terrible. Unbelievable unit towards these guys I want you to look.

Alright. Alright, next. Ready, let’s add them. Is this the end of Hump Day? Anna says no, not yet. No. We just got to change it to a platform where we get more engagement. Don says he’s okay with this chat format. I would just like to keep the hump day hangouts going. Well, thanks, John. We appreciate that. I’d love to keep them going as well. I just get notified to join and it was difficult to even find this.

If you’re subscribed to our channel, you should get notifications in Gmail, if you’re using Gmail and the social tab as well as if you’re in YouTube, it should give you a notification at the top all that kind of stuff. Here we also send out emails By the way, Adam does every 30 minutes or 30 minutes before Hump Day Hangouts. If you’re on our list, you should get an email to. Okay, keep on moving. Adam. Wayne says okay, Wayne is talking about Adams Facebook group that he has called the real world productivity growth group. Yeah, Adam does get a lot of cool stuff in there, guys. If you want to learn how to be more productive, get automate stuff, you know, make your life easier using apps and Zapier and slack. Can you tell if you want to go check out Adams group, Adam that I do outsell that probably not

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Any Recommended Tips To Rank Or Push Power To GStacks?

All right, here’s a real question from Mike crest. He says having problems getting my G stacks to rank or pushes power, follows the plan, hit links, embeds, PBNs, added content increase the depth and pages just finding they don’t push I know the market will likely hammer me. But these are built by you guys any tips or tricks to make these push? Well, I’m going to jump on that briefly before Marco goes off on a tangent on a rant. But honestly, I don’t expect my drive stack files to rank it all just so you guys know what my expectation is when I’m using drive stacks, which I’m using it for everything now as well, for even quite some time. I didn’t use them on everything but I am now because what I but I don’t expect the files that drive stack files to rank at all what I expect them to rank is what I’m linking to, like, for example, could be a G site, or could be a money site or could be a number of tier one properties that I’m trying to rank. And I’ve got a new business that I just started recently that I’m going to be talking about a lot in the mastermind over the next few weeks, or coming months really, because it’s, it’s starting to do really well for me. And I just set up a Click Funnels page, a landing page. And it was interesting because, and I talked about this in the Syndication Academy update webinar that was also like the MGYB webinar that we did a few weeks ago where we were talking about the why syndication networks are every bit as powerful now in 2019, as they were before. The way that the power has shifted away from just doing posting and syndicating, which is still certainly helpful is that they help to validate and solidify an entity. And I proved that with this new business, this new website and I just bought a branded domain. I created a new name for this business. And there but apparently that that business name, it’s similar to several other types of businesses. So it wasn’t 100% unique. It is unique but it was very similar to several other businesses with a similar name, excuse me.

And so anyway, I set up a Click Funnels landing page, I flesh that page out Well, it’s got content on it questions and answers and things like that, but it’s just a single page, Click Funnels website, essentially. And it was when I would do a search for that company name. It was, you know, that the, which was my title tag essentially along with a couple of keywords. For the first three weeks or so, it would hover on like page three and page for like, that’s where that would and that was just for doing a brand name search for this new business that I set up. But then when I got the syndication network, I hired one of our syndication network builders outside of his normal job duties to do this because he asked for some extra hours to make some extra money. So I hired him outside of that to do that for me. And you know, a couple of days later, I got this syndication network back and I think you delivered to me on a Friday and on Monday I went and just did another brand search and boom, that Click Funnels page was number one now, that was syndication networks. But the reason why I’m telling you that was because and that was without posting any content, guys no syndicating of any content. It’s a Click Funnels page. I can’t even syndicate content to the syndication network from Click Funnels. I did create a WordPress blog on a subdomain. But all I did was published one post and that was after it had already pushed the brand search to the Click Funnels page to the number one position for that brand search term. Now that said, I mentioned just a moment ago and the title tag, I had a couple of keywords. Now, this is not an Uber competitive market. But there are a few Pete players in this market that are savvy and doing SEO work as well as some PPC stuff. And the primary keywords that I’m targeting are in the title tag of that Click Funnels page, but the page itself isn’t really optimized for those keywords. Well, I had the same builder that I hired to do to build a syndication network. I had him build a drive stack. He was actually in training to build drive stacks. And so I gave him that project for this particular new business to build a drive stack now that was about three weeks ago and now without doing any additional SEO work I think I’ve published one press release but just the drive stack alone has now pushed that page that Click Funnels page to page one and it bounces between the bottom of page one and the top of page two right now for the primary keyword phrases which is great and guys I’m telling you I haven’t done anything differently so it does provide a push and I haven’t even hit that drive stack with backlinks yet. So it does absolutely provide a push if you’re in a significantly competitive market it’s obviously going to require more plus sometimes depending on the level what market it is what keywords the competition level there’s a lot of variables but sometimes they take longer to take effect and others with that said I’m gonna turn it over to Marco.

Marco: Yeah, there’s no reason for me to go off on this if you got one of our RYS done for you start. Now he also says that he added depth as far as pages. Was that done also in the drive stack? How did you do it? Was that done according to the training? And if you’re in the training, then this is a better question to ask me in RYS Academy Reloaded. So you can cash in your 30-minute coupon with me, so that we can go over the drive stack and all of the things that you’ve done. Now, without proper context, I can’t say what the problem is and why it’s not pushing power. Now, what was the timeframe in which this was done? Is it still dancing? Because a lot of times, you just have to be patient 21 days have to clear from the lab, whatever it was that you did from when you hit it with links. If you did an embed run, then it’s 21 days from that. And if you did it too quickly, over and over, then it’s just dancing until it settles like Bradley said it could take a while for it to just finish being wherever it is that it’s going to end up. Now. This is out of context for me because I don’t know. Like the drive stack is always done. The same way for everyone. But outside of that, what you did, I can’t account for my guys did. And I can go and look at it and say, Okay, this was either not done right or it was done right. Oh, and whatever it was that you did on the inside of it is not having the effect that it should be cut. But without being able to look at what you did. I can’t really answer this come hit me up in RYS Academy Facebook group. And I’ll be happy to answer this and to take half an hour with you and go over it and see what it is that stopping the power from flowing.

Bradley: There you go. That’s hard. That’s hard to pass that up, man. So I mean, that’s how much Marco believes in the fact that they work because he’ll give up a half an hour of his time to analyze what it is and provide suggestions that kind of stuff and, and I agree it’s crazy because you know, sometimes when, you know I don’t see the power of drive stacks on a regular basis and unless I’m monitoring it closely, in other words, like if I got a client and I get I just got, I picked up two new clients over the last month or so. And, you know, standard operating procedure syndication network, then a drive stack, but we’re doing press releases. So we’re kind of doing all these things all at once. But this new business that I started, I’m just doing things kind of slowly, because it’s, you know, it’s not, I’m just not hitting it really hard with everything. And I’m seeing the effects of the various things. As I said, the syndication network, made it pop to number one position for the brand search. I know that’s not Uber competitive. It was a brand search phrase, you know, like a branded name. But it was interesting to see it jumped three pages just from a syndication network without publishing any content to it. Right. Then now the primary keywords that it’s targeting, and it’s not an SEO page, guys, it’s just a landing, I’m driving traffic to it via other methods. I wasn’t planning on it being an SEO type thing yet at least. And just having a drive stack bill in about three weeks time, two to three weeks time. I’ve actually seen a significant push that and I did a press release too. But again, it’s interesting to see that kind of result from these things when you’re monitoring it that closely. When you’re doing them all the time for multiple clients and that kind of stuff. It’s not something that I typically monitor especially when you’re hitting up the assets with multiple multiple angles like multiple SEO angles, you know, it’s kind of hard to at that point isolate What did what, but we know that it works otherwise we wouldn’t keep using it. So

How To Regain Access To A Locked Facebook Account?

okay, cool. A grant says, oh, Grant seven hard time getting back into Facebook. Yeah, I don’t know. What’s going on with that grant. I’m not sure that that was caused from us specifically, but there was or from the chat app but there was we had the Facebook chat up I think we did it for two weeks and one week it just like caused a lot like some accounts to get locked mine too. And what’s crazy is guys, this makes makes a good point to talk about why you shouldn’t friend people on Facebook that you don’t know that you don’t really know because one of the things that they do is make you identify photos from friends, Facebook feeds and like who the people are in the photos and that was like I was like Oh shit, like I don’t friend I get a ton of friend requests on Facebook that I just never accept and it’s because if I don’t know you I’m not going to accept your friend request for the most part.

And so you know, some in that verification process some of the photos were from people that apparently aren’t on my friends’ list that I really don’t know. And so I was thinking Oh shit, I’m going to screw this up like I’m not gonna because you only get to fail I think two or three times before permanently or locks you out to where you have to you know another level of security to get back in anyway, I was fortunate enough to be able to get through but goes to show you don’t friend people you don’t know because it could keep you prevent you from getting access.

Let’s see. Alright, what’s next? 56k modem firing up. Oh, wow. Okay, Stoke jellyfish mastermind subgroup we’re going to take over the world everyone should be extremely jealous. Okay, cool. That must be one of the mastermind subgroups who named a jellyfish

Adam: huh oh, that’s why we just name it different animals and stuff each time to make them easy to deal with.

Adam: This is actually a cool point I want to tell people about this. I know we mentioned it before, but this is something we do for the mastermind members, you know, there’s a lot of power in the network and in the group and being a part of a big group like that and having peers as well as access to us. But also there’s power in meeting in a small group, you know, and so we put people to group if they want to, once a quarter we group people up in groups of like four to six so that they can meet up you know, give loose instructions, here’s how it’s a good way to do this. And then you really get that quick feedback, you can do hot seats, you can do all sorts of stuff from the people that you’re in there with and then on a really more hesitate to use it but on a more intimate level if you will. So it’s a really powerful way to even get more out of the mastermind.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. It’s about networking. So my Chris says to me Maybe I need to hit the folders instead of the G site. I would agree with that. We say, Marco.

Marco: Dadea, it takes care of link building. So I don’t, I’ll say I don’t know. Because whatever, whenever I do something, I just tell daddy, I need link building. And then he says, Okay, give me the main URLs and 300 or so keywords to go with it. And that totally needs then he goes in and finds everything else. So I don’t know it could be. But again, I’m not sure I don’t know how your inner folders and files were done. Because I know that my people didn’t do those as well without knowing that, without seeing that I can’t help you. Yeah.

Bradley: Very good guys. Any other questions? Otherwise, we can wrap it up early. Be a short Humpday Hangout.

Marco: And just for Anna. It’s not that I try to swear. Whenever I talk. It’s kind of just comes out. Must be the sailor in me. Sorry if I offend anyone. Fuck you anyway.

Bradley: That’s right. That’s right. Okay, well, it looks like unless we got something else we want to train about right now. Anybody? We can wrap it up a little bit early today.

Hernan: We’re good.

Adam: get time to hit the trails.

Bradley: You’re gonna go in the woods.

Adam: Yeah, gotta go for a run.

Bradley: You know, that’s code for right.

Adam: running long distances.

Bradley: Yeah, no that’s cool.

Oh, here comes I have a question, guys. Yeah, G is away, buddy. We’re going to analyze your stuff tomorrow on the mastermind webinar. We’re going to get into that deep so let’s see what he says. I would love to talk about niches sometimes Anna says.

Do You Wait 21 Days Before Doing Another Link Building?

BJ after you do the link building Do you wait 21 days before doing another link code? I mean, I don’t wait like a specific amount of time. I just wait to see what kind of results comes from it. And I don’t usually stack link building campaigns three weeks apart like that, you know, usually, it’s usually longer for me, like I’ll hit something with links and you know, typically I’ll have a Rank Tracker or something that’s kind of monitoring that and I’ll just check on it every you know, every few days or every couple of weeks and check to see what kind of push it is and but you remember I’m I don’t just do link building. I think that’s very, very powerful. But you know, we press releases and content marketing And oh, by the way, somebody asked questions about citations and I didn’t answer that. So forgive me on that. Son guest says are local citations still relevant? GMB is dominating now. So how much does impact how much does it still impact rankings worth working through all the Citations Sources like Yelp Yelp page citations is still important if you’ve got a valid business address, I recommend building citations if it’s a spam to business you know I for like lead gen stuff if you’re getting, for example, would lead gen stuff if you’re if you go out and get an actual physical address like a PO Box right? You use the street addressing option, then you can still get away with building citations because you can list the street address right the street address plus the number sign and in the box number, and that still works perfectly well. If you’re buying a verified GMB, which is an essentially it’s a spam address somewhere. I don’t recommend building citations in that in that situation or that scenario and the reason why is because if it was an address that was pulled from somebody’s house, which I hope people aren’t building them that way, then you could literally be starting start getting marketing mail sent to somebody’s house, a lot of the times those addresses are going to be spam from a commercial location. Once again, now those it’ll start they’ll start getting solicitation mail like physical mail with that company’s name on it because now like if you start building citations and Yellow Pages and things like that you get put on the company gets put on mailing lists, and now direct mail spam direct mail solicitation offers will start getting sent there.

Credit Card off, like a business credit card, offers all kinds of stuff. You can get reported that way by the recipient of those that mail right because it’s going to have some other companies address on there. So I don’t recommend that. Also, I don’t like to publish the address. One of the other questions we had recently was if you’re high if the service area business and you’re hiding your business address and the GMB which you should ask for Google’s Terms of Service for service area business. Should you go out and build all the citations without the street address? Well, there are only a few platforms that I know of that will allow you to do that. Most platforms to build a citation unless it’s changed recently because I don’t build my own citations anymore. I haven’t for the longest time, you know, we hire that out. But for the longest time, I know that most platforms would require a street address, or else it wouldn’t allow you to add a citation to their platform, right.

So again, for NAP stuff for area businesses. If it’s a spam address, I don’t recommend building citations. I’ll do everything else but citations. But if you have a valid business address or you go get like a PO Box where you have a physical place to send mail that you can go collect, then yeah, absolutely, they’re still effective, there’s no doubt they’re still effective. I still use them all the time for clients and everything else.

Marco: I would also add that if you can get hyper-local citations, those are really effective. And everywhere you’re looking at the greater picture wherein the semantic where we all we always have to think the entity. It’s just another way to validate your entity you. It’s your presence in all of these places. It’s placed where you’ve taken the time to go and get that citation to get it done properly. So that you know the more powerful ones like Yelp, those could become part of your same math. And it just adds validity to your entity and I got it guys we did the webinar. Not too long ago right for MGYB Syndication Academy where we talked about ads, I can’t emphasize it enough how important it is. And that and one of the reasons why RYS Academy Reloaded the RYS text works so well, is because we focus on the entity right from the beginning. And we push power to the entity so that we go after what I call the end game.

Bradley: I suggest for those of you who didn’t get a chance to see it, I mean, you should go, do we have it on MGYB? Do we have the URL, because I think people should go and watch that all day down to our YouTube channel, as well as on MGYB store on the webinar page now, which is that isn’t that in the header in the navigation menu now?

Marco: where it should be? So just to drive this into people’s head over and over whenever you start working on anything, even if it’s fake, you have to make it look as real as possible to Google that there is a thing on the web, and that this thing has some kind of validity. And we talked about the different ways to validate your entity.

Bradley: So just to talk about since you know, we’ve got time, let’s do this, we still got 20 minutes and it looks like some more questions popped up. But let’s talk about this very specifically because you mentioned hyper-local citations. So what I want to do is kind of demonstrate here how to get how to find those. Now if you can hire a lot of citation building services that will do this now a marketer center is a pretty good spot to get some of these they’ll it’s still kind of automated if you want to. I mean, they have like, you know, lists that they build from. I think the best citation building service available is Logan x. There’s no doubt it but it’s more expensive. You’re going to pay more for it, but it’s a really good service because they build structured citations and unstructured citations, social citations, document citations, video citations, audio citations, all of those and then they hit all of them with backlinks. Like they automatically build backlinks to the citations as part of the service. They’ve got a monthly citation bonus service 150 bucks a month. For clients, it’s an almost standard operating procedure for me, because it’s just really good service. And if they do really, really well, they perform well as, but for hyperlocal citations, I’m just going to use this as an example. I think we’re using plumber Fairfax, a couple of weeks ago for an example.

So one of the ways to get hyper-local citations is well one is to take a look at competitors. So like, let’s say that John C Flood was, which is the plumber site that we’re looking at was a client of mine, okay, or, you know, a lead gen project, whatever. Let’s just say that that was the case. One of the things you can do is take a look at the top-ranked, and he’s doing well organically at least. Maybe not so much in maps, but he’s doing well for organics, but maybe look at FJ hooks plumbing is number one in maps and put that into a notepad file, right so I’m just going to say hooks, plumbing, Inc. And then I always use this is the way that you can do these guys use to have three data points for NAP to have it doesn’t matter which two but I typically use the company name and the phone number. Okay? So in this case, it’s going to be 783-591-1284.

Okay, do that for each one of the, you know, top five or so. So it would be FJ Hooks Long’s Corporation, I think that’s the example we were looking at a couple of weeks ago, calories, plumbing, home service doctors in my plumber, heating, cooling and electrical, right, so I would take the top five, I would copy down or jot into a notepad file or an Excel sheet or something like that Google Sheet, whatever their company name as it’s listed in the NA and the Google Maps, right, and then also their phone number. That’s typically the two data points that I’ll pull, right and I’ll copy that and I’ll just go over to Google and I’ll do a search. Okay. And then what I’ll do this. And again, you can train to be able to do these guys is go through really, all you need to do is go through like the top two pages and copy the URLs or at least note, you don’t need to copy the URLs for them, your competitors or whatever. But in this case, this is the top level, the one and number, the number one position in maps. So go through and take a look Manta, I’d put Manta in the spreadsheet. So if you got a spreadsheet or a notepad file doesn’t matter, I just put Manta com, Yelp, yelp.com Okay, Facebook, we know that’s a big one that’s a branded profile. Anyways, MapQuest. checkbook.org which is interesting. I’ve not seen that before. Angie’s List com white pages. So you guys get the idea. I would go through the top two for every single one of the the the top five listed maps, compete for your competitors that are listed in the top five in maps, right and if you’re in the top five, then you know you’re going to select the top five plus, you know besides yours.

So what I’m saying is if you’re in the top five, then you know, you’re going to select maybe one, two, and in four or five and six or something like that my point is to get the top five competitors compared to where you are, and then copy their name and their phone number down and just do a search a simple Google search. And again, he can have a VA do this and go figure out just make a list of the top level citation directories for those companies specific to that area. Does that make sense? That’s one of the ways to get the best performing citations for your specific area.

Guys, there are niche directories like plumbing directories in this case. And then there are our business national business directories which are like Yelp and Manta, for example, and Angie’s List would be another one. But then there’s hyperlocal citations and want to walk through a quick example of that too. But regardless of the different types of directories again, national which are common, that’s what we see the most, Niche directories which are powerful because they’re topically relevant, right. And then there’s a, there are local citations that are going to be common to specific areas. In other words, there will be certain citations that are going to show up repeatedly for Fairfax plumbers or plumbers in Fairfax, that I could go to Richmond, Virginia, which is, I don’t know, 90-100 miles away. And they’re going to be a different set of common citation or business directory type sites that are common down there. So what I’m saying is, every area is slightly different. That’s why you can’t just have a master list and expect that master list to perform the same across all different niches and all different locations. That’s why it’s very simple.

When you go to Google and you use Google to determine that again, you can have a VA do it take the top five, do it search for their name and address or name and phone number, I’d use name and phone number and then just write down or, you know, put into a notepad file right in the Excel sheet, the business directory domains that are in the top two pages for each one of those five, right? And then you can, you know, you’ll see commonalities, the ones that are common across all of those are across all five, which you’ll see some of those, those are going to be your most powerful citation sources. So make sure you’re listed on that, then to Marco’s point to go hyperlocal, what you would want to do in this case, also you can go remember as I said, niche directories right so you could type into just do a Google search and say plumbing directory, right? And I misspelled plumbing but plumbing directory right and you go right through here and okay home advisor you know, I don’t like home advisor but my zip plumbers. com that’s a local plumbing directory, local, that’s a national directory, but they have a plumbing category, obviously, the plumbing info.com right. So national plumbers directory.org so this is how you very easily just put in your service, your keyword, whatever directory and now you’ve got niche directories those are more powerful than just plain national directories right because they’re topically relevant. All right.

Now lastly, for getting hyper-local citations in this case, we’re going to say Fairfax County. Business Directory, right? Boom right there. Web NoVa chamber org business directory. That’s Nova stands for Northern Virginia. Discover Fairfax, VA. com business directory, Fairfax County, EDA or Economic Development Authority, get your business listed there are your clients business listed there, right. A liable Fairfax county.gov. business right. Find out how you get listed on the Fairfax County. That’s the official Fairfax County government website, guys. You can get listed there find out sometimes they’re paid listings, who cares? It’s it’s not usually very expensive. And it’s worth it because these are what Marco just mentioned are hyper-local citations. They’re very powerful. And it doesn’t just have to stop with business directories, you could put Fairfax County blogs, right? Because a lot of times you can actually get listed on Fairfax County blogs guys, it sometimes it just requires outreach to the, you know, the blog owners and maybe you have a press release written or something like that and you reach out. And again, you don’t have to do this, you can hire people to do this and have them reach out to them because guys, these are all local blogs now talking about events and activities, and, you know, places to go, and products and services and all of that kind of stuff that is hyper-local, local to this area. Those types of links are so much more powerful than links that anybody can get from anywhere from like national directories if that makes sense. Because Google understands there’s that geographic relationship. There’s that geographic relevancy, and it’s so much more powerful. And so again, these are all kinds of thing. I mean, there’s a ton of them that just popped up right here, right that you could potentially get listed on Fairfax County, let’s say newspaper that a lot of the times there’s business directories there, and you could put online newspapers, things like that. But a lot of times there’s classifieds. And you can get, those are powerful citations, you can run little classified online classified ads that will give you a link from those local newspaper and online newspapers. Again, very, very powerful.

Something like Topix. Topix that we used to hack these long years ago. If you guys are familiar with Topix, there’s Topix.com Fairfax, that’s like a forum. And there’s, there’s a local location forum, like there, this site is siloed. Well, and it’s got forums specific to locations and you can actually kind of there’s this requires like some social engineering stuff, but you can actually go in and start a thread and at like with, you know, a profile you want to use multiple profiles with multiple IPS but most of you have that kind of stuff anyway, but you can go in and register and ask a question like and start a new thread in the fair in this case, like the Fairfax County topics category. And there’s a lot of traffic and traction in there, guys. And it’s very, very powerful. And you can start a thread and say something like, Hey, I just moved into the area. And I really need a good plumber in Fairfax, work your keywords into the question, any recommendations, right and leave it like that and then login with another account that under a different IP that you may have answered, you may have commented on some other threads within that same category, the same Fairfax category, so that you’re not just posting a link because a lot of times in these types of forums that if you if you’re new and you post a link, your comment will get moderated out. So if you season one of those accounts to where you can, you know, you created some comments again, guys, you can hire all this stuff out you can train a staff member or VA to do this kind of stuff for you. But if you season an account that so that you get past that threshold to where you can drop a link, then you use that profile to go in and answer that question from the other profile Hey, I just moved in the area, I’m really looking for a good plumber in Fairfax. And now you drop. The first comment underneath that is, hey, here’s a great plumber. It’s what was the one that I was saying was my business FJ hooks plumbing, Inc, they’re located in Fairfax, here’s their phone number. Here’s their website URL. Now that’s a citation from a very powerful Local Business Forum. With it now being the first comment in a new thread and other people will come in and chime in on that thread. And that social engagement, other people commenting on that actually pushes more power into that particular thread and makes that citation even more powerful. That’s very, very powerful. Most people don’t do that because it’s not as easy as just going and hiring a citation building service. It requires manual work, but if you want really good results, that’s how you do it. I mean, and again, guys, you can train a VA to do this stuff. It’s not something that you can find in a service online typically, but you can train a VA to do this stuff for you and you’re going to get much better results. Okay. So hopefully that was helpful. See, we can do this on Hump Day hang out sometimes. That’s usually what we do in our paid groups, right? Go into training.

What Will Happen If IFrame A Good Content From A Money Site To An Exact Match Domain?

Alright, Ji says, what if I iframe a piece of good content from my money site to an exact match domain? So you mean buying exact match domain and just put iframe a piece of content into that? I mean, sure, but you can do that with the G site. I’m not I mean, I don’t know why you get more power out of doing it from an Amazon s3 hosted page or a G site than you would from bindings an exact match domain that has no inherent authority. Right? Because you can build keyword relevancy from putting content around the iframe is my point. So why not use something that has massive authority already, like a Google site, which is on the Google domain, or an Amazon s3 page write an HTML page that’s ham hosted on Amazon bucket now you’re you’re you’re siphoning authority from Amazon, right you can create the relevancy what you don’t need the exact match keyword in the domain, you can create the relevancy from the content, the text around the iframe, and in the metadata and in the Jason structure, you know, the LD structured data, all of that. So,

I mean, I get where you’re going with that, Jay, but that’s not, you know, I think you go about it better than going out and buying an exact match domain that as essentially starting from zero, you’d have to build some authority to that. And I just go ahead and use what’s available to us for free, right. So the exact mastermind only has an iframe from my money site and that and I link a spam GMB to the exact match domain. I’m not sure what you mean on that. A spam Google My Business. So you’re talking about like, building like lead gen GMB assets, you link that to your exact match domain. Oh, I see what you’re saying. So you’re talking about if you’re going to build additional GMBs, and you iframe with a different domain and exact to match them. And that becomes your landing page. But really it’s a page on your web, your primary website that’s just iframe into it. I don’t know. I, I don’t know. I don’t know if I would do that. Marco, what do you think about that?

Marco: Whenever someone asked me what if questions, I say, test it, and let me know what happens. Yeah. Because I can’t tell you what if on every scenario that I haven’t tried, but what I meant by when I was asking, what do you think about that, as I’m not sure that I would want to iframe a money site page into a domain? That was it. That was only set up as a spam GMB asset with just my money site. I framed and knew it as the landing page like in other words, I don’t know if that could cause any negativity. If Google terminated that, you know, I would say on that if it’s going to have a TMP and he’s going to take the time to work on the entity power up the entity. It could work but I would as you said, I spend my resources my time and my money on just getting the power from a D site where you know, you can’t harm your money site, because Google will just won’t pass a penalty though. Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. I’m not sure that I would do that I mark is right. I would recommend if you wanted to try that you’d have to test it. I can’t we can’t speculate on what would happen. I mean, I personally wouldn’t want to do that because it doesn’t to me. As I said, I’d rather I guys, you could even use a Google site is your domain, your website URL for GMB? You know, you can do that. There’s I’ve never seen it not happen. You know what I’m saying? So why not just use that right? You can create a Google site and flesh that out a bit and make that the website of the GMB. That makes sense. You still want to create the GSB website and put that in the appointment URL. You know, you can that’s what I’ve been doing. So he says, What can I expect Google picks up the content starts to rank for the exact match again. I don’t know how that would treat this G. We haven’t tested that. And so, you know, it would be speculation so I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. So,

How Quickly Can You Livestream Videos To A Channel Connected To A 4-Ring IFTTT Network?

Dan, the man says, or Dan Damman How quickly can you last new videos to a channel connected to a four ring IFTTT network so as to not go too fast and destroy the syndication network effective. I mean, you can live stream whenever if you’re talking about, you know, publishing multiple, like, for example, just using it as a spam channel where but it uses live streams as opposed to uploading.

If it’s a seasoned network, it can you what I mean by that is if it’s got some age to it, and you’ve slowly, you know, started posting to it, and then slowly ramped up the speed with which you post with the velocity, whatever you want to call it, the frequency of posting, then a lot of times it’ll it’ll be okay. But if it’s a new network, a newer network, and you start posting, you know, multiple times per day. Especially if they’re spammy videos with similar content, that kind of stuff, then you know, you can get a lot of your network properties terminated. So that’s why, like I said, I, you know, in my opinion, you’re better off doing that, if you’re going to do that kind of stuff that you’re, you know, you don’t.

A lot of times you don’t need syndication networks, if you’re going to do that type of, I don’t know what kind of a strategy you’re asking about specifically, I’m only making assumptions here. But a lot of times you can get results with YouTube spam stuff, by just using multiple accounts, YouTube accounts that don’t even need syndication networks. Why not? If I’m going to take the time to build or you know, purchase, you know, spend money or whatever on syndication networks for YouTube syndication stuff, I’m going to try to keep them around not spam them to death. Right. And so typically, the videos are going to be a better quality it’s not going to be the same video just spun. You know what I mean? Like to change the video encoding and that stuff and continually repeating publishing the same damn video. I’ve seen that too much. Guys, and that shit used to work years ago. And I guess you can still get some results from that. But most people, you know, don’t react to those kinds of videos. And honestly, a lot of the syndication network sites and stuff will actually terminate, because they detect those as spam. So I would recommend if you’re going to take the time to build networks out or purchase networks, which is what we recommend, and certainly, that you would try to keep your channel and the content good enough to where that’s not a date, you’re not in danger of doing that. So if you’re actually doing real live streams, then I wouldn’t worry about it at all, because they’re all going to be real and unique. They’re not spammy. But if you’re just using live streams, and you’re basically mass, you know, duplicating a video and constantly re-streaming it to a channel or uploading it to a channel that’s connected to syndication networks, you’re in danger of getting those terminated. Okay, especially if it’s brand new.

We got more questions and we can answer now so we almost shut it down. And at the very last minute when we almost took it from you guys, you posted a shit ton questions that now can’t be answered.

So next time post early guys. We’re going to wrap it up. I’ve gotta run guys. My daughter’s got a softball game tonight I gotta go to so unfortunately, that’s gonna be it for today. So thanks for your extra engagement. We needed it guys we appreciate that. Thanks, guys for sticking around.

Bye, everyone.

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Announcement

Adam: everybody welcomes to Hump Day hangouts Episode 236. The episode where we asked you the questions. Now we’ll get to that actually we do have a question for you who are viewing today and if you’re watching the replay but first we’re going to say hello to everybody. We got everybody here so going to start on the left with Chris How are you doing today?

Chris: Doing good. Not excited to be back. It’s basically winter temperatures here. It snowed again rain. five degrees Celsius.

Adam: Okay, take it you’re back in Austria, then you’re definitely not.

Chris: Yeah, unfortunately, I’m already making plans to fly back.

Adam: tough, tough or not. Hernan, how are you doing? Are you What are you warm or cold?

Hernan: Now it’s cold, man. It’s getting chillier, but it’s okay. It’s a nice time of the season. I am enjoying this and down here in Buenos Aires. I’ll be Miami in a couple of weeks. So if you happen to be in the South Florida area, hit me up. Maybe we can grab something to drink or whatever. But yeah, looking good, man. A lot of work but everything is soaking up.

Adam: Cool, cool. Alright, Marco. How about you, man?

Marco: Damn. It’s cold today, man. Yeah, it’s 72 I’m gonna have to go walk around the corner and come back. If people are flying here and there I don’t know. I’ll just walk around the corner they’ll get better.

Adam: I got sidetracked there. Bradley. How are you doing man?

Bradley: Wayne Clayton says his name Wayne Clayton hashtag stood looking at his comment. That’s funny. Anyways, I’m good. Glad to be here. So, not quite as warm as Marco who’s saying it’s cold. It’s freaking cold in Virginia right now. I don’t know why it’s like 60 degrees. Cool for this time of year. So yeah.

Adam: I’m near San Francisco is supposed to be nice this time of year and we’re supposed to get like a month’s worth of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours. So that’s gonna be nice. Yeah. Yeah, enough of the weather reports. If you’re new thanks for holding with us here while we give you a worldwide update on weather conditions. And I want to say, first of all, you’re in the right spot. Thanks for checking out Hump Day Hangouts. Whether you’re watching us live right now or whether you’re catching the replay. This is the place to be you can always go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions for that week, Humpday Hangouts, ask your questions. Get them up there ahead of time, it’s a first come first serve, we just ask that you try to not ask you know, 10 questions at once just one maybe to let other people go or else we’ll kind of have to skip your answers because we can’t focus on one person for too long. It just wouldn’t be fair.

But secondly, if you’re also wondering where to start, grab the Battle Plan. All right, go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about it. Just go check it out. You can find out all you want about it. But if you’re looking to take things to kind of to the next level as far as either starting or growing your own local digital marketing agency, then you should definitely join our mastermind You can find out more at mastermind.semanticmastery.com

For anybody who’s looking for premium done for you services, head over to mygb.co. Alright done for you kick ass services. It’s the stuff that we use or developed to use in our own businesses. And then, you know, as people wanted them, we put them in there and made them available so others can benefit from it. And I guess now’s a good time to ask questions, guys. Should we ask, should we ask the question we were talking about? Yeah. I’ll hand it over. I’m gonna let Bradley do this. He seems like he’s interested in.

Bradley: The question is, ever since we had to switch to hang out since Google events shut the Google events page is down, which is where we had hosted it for shit three, we’re over three years now. Right. We’re going on for four years now. Our way? Yeah. It’s been a long time since we’ve been doing this. But yeah, we’re like in four and a half years now. We’ve been doing this and it’s only been like three months or so since they shut Google events down. You know, Google Plus down, which is where we were hosting them and we used to have a lot more engagement on our Hump Day Hangouts, that we do now. And it could be because of that stupid, you know, the stupid chat app that we’re using now, which was better than the Facebook chat app that got some accounts suspended or whatever locked or that kind of stuff. But we’re still trying to work our way through like finding the best place to host these guys. So we want to ask your opinion, those of you that are attending right now, today live, posting that silly 1980s looking chat box that we’re using right now, where would you prefer us to host Hump Day hangouts directly on YouTube watch pages? Or should perhaps we try to stream it into Facebook and use our Facebook group, the SEO Marketing tutorials or whatever group and maybe host it there?

You guys let us know because honestly, the attendance rate has gone down and the number of questions has gone down. Ever since we shut Google or Google events shut down. And so we’re debating whether we should keep it going or not. certainly, want to I’ve always enjoyed these, you know, four and a half years into it. I’d hate to give it up. I’ve really have enjoyed this a lot. But honestly, if we’re not going to get the engagement, we’re not going to show up and answer three or four questions and shut it down. So we would like to ask you guys for your opinion. Do you think we should try it over on YouTube? Should we maybe try it and Facebook or give us your suggestion? You know, let us know. So with that said,

Adam: and I’m biased, thank you. I believe that’s Mike crest. Yeah, that’s awesome. Love the 80s if you love the goofy chatbot that’s okay, too. Just for an unbiased opinion for me. Okay, cool. Yeah, we’ll take everything into account and we’ll let everybody now but yeah, we got any other announcements, you guys I think that was everything I had.

Bradley: There’s a stuffed animal dog talking. I do like the fact that this chat outlet says meme again though because for a while we couldn’t even do that.

Anyways, alright, I don’t have any specific announcements other than we’ve got our mastermind webinar tomorrow, one of our newer members, G, he, we’re calling you G, by the way from now on, because I’m not sure how to pronounce your name. So we’re going to actually dig into a project that he’s been asking a bunch of questions about. Marco and I are going to analyze that. And that’s something I want to talk about briefly is, you know, that is the value of the mastermind, in my opinion, is coming in and being able to interact with us as well as the other members. It’s not just about us, we’ve got a lot of savvy members in our group and it’s the, you know, very active and engaged the Facebook group. So pretty much any kind of question can be asked there and you get a bunch of really good replies back or responses from other successful marketers or that are successful in whatever type of marketing business they’re in. It’s not just all local SEO stuff. We talk a lot about that. That’s primarily because that’s what I do. But there are members in our group to do national SEO, some affiliate stuff, you know, all that so and then it’s also getting access to us directly, but then on the mastermind webinars we go into in depth into whatever anybody wants to get into, most of the time I do some sort of training. And then before we get into questions and answers, but then when we get it to member questions, we go really in-depth into whatever anybody wants to go into. And there’s no holds barred. Like, in other words, we don’t, we don’t hold anything back.

Like we have to hear in a public setting, right. So, you know, for example, if a member comes in, and they want us to analyze a website, or a specific marketing campaign or something like that is if they’re willing to share that they will go you know, deep dive in it, Marco and I really analyze it, pick it apart, in a nice way, kind of point out how it can get better results and that kind of stuff. And that’s really where the value comes in, guys, because that’s, you know, again, it’s about networking with others. Yes, there’s a lot of training in the mastermind, yes, you get discounts and things like that, but that’s not what the value is, in my opinion. The value is in networking with us and the other members, getting questions answered in almost real time, about pretty much any sort of issue you’re having in marketing or business related regardless or outsourcing? Or, I mean, some of our members even asked questions that aren’t even marketing or business related. And that’s, that’s perfectly fine. That’s what it’s for. So does anybody want to comment on that or any other not yet?

Marco: I’d like to comment on that on one of your comments. You, you’re the nice guy. So you will look at a website nicely. But if a width website is crappy, I’m going to tell someone, you your website sucks. Your SEO sucks. I’m a real man, I can’t help it. That’s just the way I am. I’m going to give it to you. kind of try to shock you into seeing what you’re not seeing or what you’re avoiding seeing what you’re avoiding doing. And that’s what this is all about getting real. With people getting past all of that shiny shit that they’re fed every day. All of that bullshit, all of that crap that that doesn’t work. It’s just made, so that so that they will so that people will just spend more money. There’s no purpose to it, other than to get the people to fork over more money, more training. That’s never really complete. What we try to do is we try to give you the steps, right? That you need to take in order to take your shit to the next level, whatever your shit on it online might be, it could be anything. But guys, please understand that our purpose is to help you.

If you go into our Facebook group into our mastermind, I said, Look going there a month, and see that the value is really in that Facebook group, and being able to ask us all questions and getting an answer almost immediately. If it’s the weekend, of course, sometimes, I’m often with family, but someone sometimes jumps in on weekends and ask us questions. So it’s not just here that we answer questions, we ask your questions in all of our groups, but mainly our focus is the mastermind. And no matter what your question is, we try to get you an answer. And if we don’t know then the answer might just be we don’t know. because trust me, I don’t know a whole lot of shit. I’m still learning every day. But we do try to come up with an answer.

Or try to steer you in the right direction and we don’t have it will tell you, yeah, we will work on it or just give you or send you in the right direction. So that’s what I have to say about this.

Bradley: Sweet. Okay, now I got to find the actual questions and comments now.

Adam: Yeah, well, I want to say one more thing too because we are using YouTube regardless where, you know, obviously still being broadcast on YouTube. I guess potentially that could change but we’re never going to stop putting out content on YouTube. So if you find this useful or you find other video clips, like Anna just said in the comments, you know, she that’s part of how she came across us and joined the mastermind and how she got involved with Semantic Mastery and with our community. So if you come across video clips that are useful, or you know that they would be useful to other people, please do us a favor, do them a favor, share it, send them a link and you know, this is part of why we do this we definitely want to help out and it’s mutually beneficial. You know, we want people discovered more us more often and we want to help them go out and we can.

Bradley: Sweet. All right, I’m gonna steal the screen. And we’re going to get ..

Marco: and Subscribe, subscribe to our YouTube channel. That’s another way to help us out and continue this as a free medium.

Bradley: There you go.

How Do You Find The Town Center In Google Maps?

All right. We had one from a few days ago, Cool Cat says how do I figure out the center of my town using Google Maps? As far as I know, if you type in the name of your city, then typically the map pulls up with the city center as the center point of the map. Has that changed? Or is that correct? Marco Do you know?

Marco: As far as I know, that’s the way you just type in the city. You can type in the state if there are other cities that are named the same Island because there are in other states. You just type in the city and you should get to the geographical what Google considers the geographical center of the city.

So if I say Culpeper. Yeah. Yeah, so that should be the center of the map here should be what it thinks is the center of Culpeper, in this case, right? As far as I know, that’s how it is now, I mean, so you just dropped your pin somewhere like you know, somewhere in there. And usually when you click on it twice, it puts a little great pin maybe you’ve got a zoom all the way in anyways, typically when you There goes finally there’s a little gray pan and there are your geo coordinates now there might be another way to do it you can probably search Google and say how to find city center and probably get an answer so you know when in doubt use Google.

How To Handle A Mass Page WordPress Site To Rank 10 GMBs Within 30-Mile Radius Of The Centre City?

Alright, so we’re gonna move on Dan demand from Canada says hey gents, I didn’t have a question about how to handle a mass page WordPress site in relation to 10 gm bees, all in a 30-mile radius of the city of the center city. If I’m working to rank these 10 GMBs all for the same niche, does it make sense to set up city pages? For example remodelers.com/locations/city, and then point citations to those individual city pages. I was then contemplating directing the city pages to the individual city, GMB assets. thoughts. Good idea. Terrible. Thanks, man. Well, I’m not sure why you would I mean, if you’re going to build a page, a location based page for each GMB, I’m not sure why you would redirect it, why wouldn’t you just use that location-based GMB or the location-based page as the website, the landing page URL for the GMB asset, see what I’m saying?

Like if you’re building I mean, unless it’s because it’s a mass page site that you’re doing that and it’s a spammy type looking or you know spamming type site, which most mass page sites are, in which case I wouldn’t build citations to that because then what happens if you get that site to deindex which is very likely happened, right? Mass page sites that happen to kind of regularly. And so if you’re building citations to that, and then you have to redirect it, what happens if it gets suspended or, you know, deindexed, then you’ve either got to go clean up. You can still leave it redirected. But now you’re redirecting through a potentially, you know, deindex domain penalize domain. So I wouldn’t do that. That’s why I’m saying if you were going to build citations, I would build citations directly to the GMB assets or set up a domain with subdomains and have a separate subdomain for each location. Because that way, if anyone of those subdomains now you can’t do that with them, I mean, I guess you could with a mass page site, but you’re trying to do it all on one domain. So location pages, inner pages, but again, I wouldn’t do that with the mass page site and build citations to it backlink shore. Because I mean, you know, no big deal but with citations again, if you lose that domain. Now you’ve got a whole bunch of citations to clean up unless you left the redirect up through a deindex domain, which I wouldn’t recommend doing.

So personally, I would not do it that way. I would build everything like if you were going to build out and self-hosted site for each location, I would do it on subdomains or not use a Mass Page Builder is what I’m saying, you guys, there’s nothing wrong with creating location pages and having inner pages for multiple locations. When you’re building something out like this, the problem occurs is if you’re you’ve got spam, the map addresses number one, and number two, if you’re doing something spammy to the domain, but if you’re keeping the domain clean, which is what we teach, right, I mean, we really do we teach about keeping the primary domain clean, building your tier one assets out and you know, especially the way that we build them out syndication networks to drive stacks using press releases, citations also count, you know, all of that stuff, then you can do all your spammy stuff up to that and keep your main your primary domain, clean Gsites. That’s a big part of it. What I’m saying is you can build the inner location pages and it’s not going to be an issue, as long as you’re not doing anything spammy. Now, again, I want to say this with the caveat, if you are using GMBs that are spammed addresses, there’s always that chance that they get suspended because they’re not real physical locations. So in that case, I wouldn’t want to have all of them necessarily associated with a money site domain, as opposed to if you can still do it, but I would recommend doing it through a subdomain. Even if it was just a redirect to like the GMB website URL. Right. So that’s, you know, whatever your business site, GMB website, right, you can still use a branded domain in that case and set up a sub domain redirect for each one of those to just redirect. I’ve got several projects like that where I’m using a branded domain. Can you guys still hear me?

Marco: Yeah

Bradley: okay because it looks like a reset on me where I’m using a branded domain, but I use a subdomain with the city name for each different location and the subdomain redirects to the GMB website like for a lot of my multi-location sites, guys, I got rid of the self hosted WordPress sites for my lead gen stuff especially because it’s just an additional management piece of, you know, something else that I have to manage and update regularly. You guys know how much WordPress updates and I just got tired of doing it and it’s really unnecessary because we’re able to get results with just GMB stuff right? So for that I’ve actually redirected I’ve eliminated a lot of my WordPress sites now and I just have GMB. Excuse me subdomains redirecting to the GMB website. So anyway, hopefully, that makes sense. I’m not a mass page fan builder or fan fanboy. Do you know what I’m saying? I don’t like those, just because they, they tend to get indexed. And it’s a lot of work and I’ve never had really good results with it unless I continually build sites that get taken down.

So I can’t really give you the best advice on that. I certainly wouldn’t build citations to a mass index or mass, a mass page type site. Any comments on that?

Marco: No, I don’t have any because I don’t use math page builder.

How To Embed A GMB Post Into A GSite?

Bradley: Yeah. Fitz, what’s up a fence? He says, Is there a way to embed a GMB post into a G site? Not that I’m aware of it because Marco would be able to answer that, but as far as I know, GMB posts cannot be iframe, correct?

Marco: Yes, they can.

Bradley: They can. Really? Okay.

Marco: Yeah, yeah, they can. Okay, forgive me then. I was wrong. Alright, so there you go, Fitz. Have you tried using just an iframe generator, and with the GMB post URLs or something secretive that we can’t talk about here?

Marco: No. I mean it’s just a straight iframe, like YouTube and or anything else? Okay, the iframe code and I was just playing with a day the other day so I’m pretty sure I’ll go back on look at my notes, but I’m pretty sure that it’s one of the ones that I tried and yes, you can.

Bradley: Okay. So there you go try it fits use the iframe generator, which is right there. And check it out. So it looks like Scott already answered it. Sorry, I didn’t even see that Scott till just now. So it looks like you can and Scott is confirming that huh? Okay, cool. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate that Scott Walker somebody. So he’s saying go into GMB site and get the URL for the post will be saved individually and have a URL like yes, it’s those long funky URL, place the URL and the iframe generator, right. Create the iframe use classic Google sites to embed the iframe insert HTML. There you go. That’s Yeah, you can insert the HTML as an element in the classic G sites. So cool. It does actually do that. That’s cool. I didn’t but you can.

Marco: You can also iframe it into the new Gsites.

Bradley: Can you? I’ve never done any work in the new g sites on

Marco: There’s an embed in the menu. Well, somebody’s coming through.

Bradley: I was watching soccer or something?

Marco: Yeah. But anyway, yeah, yeah. I’m pretty sure it is. Post the GMB site and it both on new and classic. Oh, there you go.

Mike, Chris says he doesn’t miss the old way he hated his g sweet account. Okay. James, wherever we end up saying he can’t do means on YouTube comments so so might have to be in Facebook.

Will You Still Upload Video To YouTube If You Host It On A Facebook Page?

If you host it on the Facebook page, we still upload videos to YouTube? Yes, BJ. And what I meant was if we host it on Facebook will stream it into Facebook. It’ll still be primarily through YouTube, or through perhaps zoom Mark has been pushing us to do that for quite some time. I didn’t want to get away from YouTube, but we can also use like something like OBS to stream from YouTube into Facebook simultaneously. Right? So yeah, that too. So should we do? Yeah, I mean YouTube is where we get most you know, we’ve got you to know close to 7000 subscribers in there and it’s just it’s we got a ton of content in there so I’m not going to get away from that. I wish I could Can I delete that this is terrible. Unbelievable unit towards these guys I want you to look.

Alright. Alright, next. Ready, let’s add them. Is this the end of Hump Day? Anna says no, not yet. No. We just got to change it to a platform where we get more engagement. Don says he’s okay with this chat format. I would just like to keep the hump day hangouts going. Well, thanks, John. We appreciate that. I’d love to keep them going as well. I just get notified to join and it was difficult to even find this.

If you’re subscribed to our channel, you should get notifications in Gmail, if you’re using Gmail and the social tab as well as if you’re in YouTube, it should give you a notification at the top all that kind of stuff. Here we also send out emails By the way, Adam does every 30 minutes or 30 minutes before Hump Day Hangouts. If you’re on our list, you should get an email to. Okay, keep on moving. Adam. Wayne says okay, Wayne is talking about Adams Facebook group that he has called the real world productivity growth group. Yeah, Adam does get a lot of cool stuff in there, guys. If you want to learn how to be more productive, get automate stuff, you know, make your life easier using apps and Zapier and slack. Can you tell if you want to go check out Adams group, Adam that I do outsell that probably not

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Any Recommended Tips To Rank Or Push Power To GStacks?

All right, here’s a real question from Mike crest. He says having problems getting my G stacks to rank or pushes power, follows the plan, hit links, embeds, PBNs, added content increase the depth and pages just finding they don’t push I know the market will likely hammer me. But these are built by you guys any tips or tricks to make these push? Well, I’m going to jump on that briefly before Marco goes off on a tangent on a rant. But honestly, I don’t expect my drive stack files to rank it all just so you guys know what my expectation is when I’m using drive stacks, which I’m using it for everything now as well, for even quite some time. I didn’t use them on everything but I am now because what I but I don’t expect the files that drive stack files to rank at all what I expect them to rank is what I’m linking to, like, for example, could be a G site, or could be a money site or could be a number of tier one properties that I’m trying to rank. And I’ve got a new business that I just started recently that I’m going to be talking about a lot in the mastermind over the next few weeks, or coming months really, because it’s, it’s starting to do really well for me. And I just set up a Click Funnels page, a landing page. And it was interesting because, and I talked about this in the Syndication Academy update webinar that was also like the MGYB webinar that we did a few weeks ago where we were talking about the why syndication networks are every bit as powerful now in 2019, as they were before. The way that the power has shifted away from just doing posting and syndicating, which is still certainly helpful is that they help to validate and solidify an entity. And I proved that with this new business, this new website and I just bought a branded domain. I created a new name for this business. And there but apparently that that business name, it’s similar to several other types of businesses. So it wasn’t 100% unique. It is unique but it was very similar to several other businesses with a similar name, excuse me.

And so anyway, I set up a Click Funnels landing page, I flesh that page out Well, it’s got content on it questions and answers and things like that, but it’s just a single page, Click Funnels website, essentially. And it was when I would do a search for that company name. It was, you know, that the, which was my title tag essentially along with a couple of keywords. For the first three weeks or so, it would hover on like page three and page for like, that’s where that would and that was just for doing a brand name search for this new business that I set up. But then when I got the syndication network, I hired one of our syndication network builders outside of his normal job duties to do this because he asked for some extra hours to make some extra money. So I hired him outside of that to do that for me. And you know, a couple of days later, I got this syndication network back and I think you delivered to me on a Friday and on Monday I went and just did another brand search and boom, that Click Funnels page was number one now, that was syndication networks. But the reason why I’m telling you that was because and that was without posting any content, guys no syndicating of any content. It’s a Click Funnels page. I can’t even syndicate content to the syndication network from Click Funnels. I did create a WordPress blog on a subdomain. But all I did was published one post and that was after it had already pushed the brand search to the Click Funnels page to the number one position for that brand search term. Now that said, I mentioned just a moment ago and the title tag, I had a couple of keywords. Now, this is not an Uber competitive market. But there are a few Pete players in this market that are savvy and doing SEO work as well as some PPC stuff. And the primary keywords that I’m targeting are in the title tag of that Click Funnels page, but the page itself isn’t really optimized for those keywords. Well, I had the same builder that I hired to do to build a syndication network. I had him build a drive stack. He was actually in training to build drive stacks. And so I gave him that project for this particular new business to build a drive stack now that was about three weeks ago and now without doing any additional SEO work I think I’ve published one press release but just the drive stack alone has now pushed that page that Click Funnels page to page one and it bounces between the bottom of page one and the top of page two right now for the primary keyword phrases which is great and guys I’m telling you I haven’t done anything differently so it does provide a push and I haven’t even hit that drive stack with backlinks yet. So it does absolutely provide a push if you’re in a significantly competitive market it’s obviously going to require more plus sometimes depending on the level what market it is what keywords the competition level there’s a lot of variables but sometimes they take longer to take effect and others with that said I’m gonna turn it over to Marco.

Marco: Yeah, there’s no reason for me to go off on this if you got one of our RYS done for you start. Now he also says that he added depth as far as pages. Was that done also in the drive stack? How did you do it? Was that done according to the training? And if you’re in the training, then this is a better question to ask me in RYS Academy Reloaded. So you can cash in your 30-minute coupon with me, so that we can go over the drive stack and all of the things that you’ve done. Now, without proper context, I can’t say what the problem is and why it’s not pushing power. Now, what was the timeframe in which this was done? Is it still dancing? Because a lot of times, you just have to be patient 21 days have to clear from the lab, whatever it was that you did from when you hit it with links. If you did an embed run, then it’s 21 days from that. And if you did it too quickly, over and over, then it’s just dancing until it settles like Bradley said it could take a while for it to just finish being wherever it is that it’s going to end up. Now. This is out of context for me because I don’t know. Like the drive stack is always done. The same way for everyone. But outside of that, what you did, I can’t account for my guys did. And I can go and look at it and say, Okay, this was either not done right or it was done right. Oh, and whatever it was that you did on the inside of it is not having the effect that it should be cut. But without being able to look at what you did. I can’t really answer this come hit me up in RYS Academy Facebook group. And I’ll be happy to answer this and to take half an hour with you and go over it and see what it is that stopping the power from flowing.

Bradley: There you go. That’s hard. That’s hard to pass that up, man. So I mean, that’s how much Marco believes in the fact that they work because he’ll give up a half an hour of his time to analyze what it is and provide suggestions that kind of stuff and, and I agree it’s crazy because you know, sometimes when, you know I don’t see the power of drive stacks on a regular basis and unless I’m monitoring it closely, in other words, like if I got a client and I get I just got, I picked up two new clients over the last month or so. And, you know, standard operating procedure syndication network, then a drive stack, but we’re doing press releases. So we’re kind of doing all these things all at once. But this new business that I started, I’m just doing things kind of slowly, because it’s, you know, it’s not, I’m just not hitting it really hard with everything. And I’m seeing the effects of the various things. As I said, the syndication network, made it pop to number one position for the brand search. I know that’s not Uber competitive. It was a brand search phrase, you know, like a branded name. But it was interesting to see it jumped three pages just from a syndication network without publishing any content to it. Right. Then now the primary keywords that it’s targeting, and it’s not an SEO page, guys, it’s just a landing, I’m driving traffic to it via other methods. I wasn’t planning on it being an SEO type thing yet at least. And just having a drive stack bill in about three weeks time, two to three weeks time. I’ve actually seen a significant push that and I did a press release too. But again, it’s interesting to see that kind of result from these things when you’re monitoring it that closely. When you’re doing them all the time for multiple clients and that kind of stuff. It’s not something that I typically monitor especially when you’re hitting up the assets with multiple multiple angles like multiple SEO angles, you know, it’s kind of hard to at that point isolate What did what, but we know that it works otherwise we wouldn’t keep using it. So

How To Regain Access To A Locked Facebook Account?

okay, cool. A grant says, oh, Grant seven hard time getting back into Facebook. Yeah, I don’t know. What’s going on with that grant. I’m not sure that that was caused from us specifically, but there was or from the chat app but there was we had the Facebook chat up I think we did it for two weeks and one week it just like caused a lot like some accounts to get locked mine too. And what’s crazy is guys, this makes makes a good point to talk about why you shouldn’t friend people on Facebook that you don’t know that you don’t really know because one of the things that they do is make you identify photos from friends, Facebook feeds and like who the people are in the photos and that was like I was like Oh shit, like I don’t friend I get a ton of friend requests on Facebook that I just never accept and it’s because if I don’t know you I’m not going to accept your friend request for the most part.

And so you know, some in that verification process some of the photos were from people that apparently aren’t on my friends’ list that I really don’t know. And so I was thinking Oh shit, I’m going to screw this up like I’m not gonna because you only get to fail I think two or three times before permanently or locks you out to where you have to you know another level of security to get back in anyway, I was fortunate enough to be able to get through but goes to show you don’t friend people you don’t know because it could keep you prevent you from getting access.

Let’s see. Alright, what’s next? 56k modem firing up. Oh, wow. Okay, Stoke jellyfish mastermind subgroup we’re going to take over the world everyone should be extremely jealous. Okay, cool. That must be one of the mastermind subgroups who named a jellyfish

Adam: huh oh, that’s why we just name it different animals and stuff each time to make them easy to deal with.

Adam: This is actually a cool point I want to tell people about this. I know we mentioned it before, but this is something we do for the mastermind members, you know, there’s a lot of power in the network and in the group and being a part of a big group like that and having peers as well as access to us. But also there’s power in meeting in a small group, you know, and so we put people to group if they want to, once a quarter we group people up in groups of like four to six so that they can meet up you know, give loose instructions, here’s how it’s a good way to do this. And then you really get that quick feedback, you can do hot seats, you can do all sorts of stuff from the people that you’re in there with and then on a really more hesitate to use it but on a more intimate level if you will. So it’s a really powerful way to even get more out of the mastermind.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. It’s about networking. So my Chris says to me Maybe I need to hit the folders instead of the G site. I would agree with that. We say, Marco.

Marco: Dadea, it takes care of link building. So I don’t, I’ll say I don’t know. Because whatever, whenever I do something, I just tell daddy, I need link building. And then he says, Okay, give me the main URLs and 300 or so keywords to go with it. And that totally needs then he goes in and finds everything else. So I don’t know it could be. But again, I’m not sure I don’t know how your inner folders and files were done. Because I know that my people didn’t do those as well without knowing that, without seeing that I can’t help you. Yeah.

Bradley: Very good guys. Any other questions? Otherwise, we can wrap it up early. Be a short Humpday Hangout.

Marco: And just for Anna. It’s not that I try to swear. Whenever I talk. It’s kind of just comes out. Must be the sailor in me. Sorry if I offend anyone. Fuck you anyway.

Bradley: That’s right. That’s right. Okay, well, it looks like unless we got something else we want to train about right now. Anybody? We can wrap it up a little bit early today.

Hernan: We’re good.

Adam: get time to hit the trails.

Bradley: You’re gonna go in the woods.

Adam: Yeah, gotta go for a run.

Bradley: You know, that’s code for right.

Adam: running long distances.

Bradley: Yeah, no that’s cool.

Oh, here comes I have a question, guys. Yeah, G is away, buddy. We’re going to analyze your stuff tomorrow on the mastermind webinar. We’re going to get into that deep so let’s see what he says. I would love to talk about niches sometimes Anna says.

Do You Wait 21 Days Before Doing Another Link Building?

BJ after you do the link building Do you wait 21 days before doing another link code? I mean, I don’t wait like a specific amount of time. I just wait to see what kind of results comes from it. And I don’t usually stack link building campaigns three weeks apart like that, you know, usually, it’s usually longer for me, like I’ll hit something with links and you know, typically I’ll have a Rank Tracker or something that’s kind of monitoring that and I’ll just check on it every you know, every few days or every couple of weeks and check to see what kind of push it is and but you remember I’m I don’t just do link building. I think that’s very, very powerful. But you know, we press releases and content marketing And oh, by the way, somebody asked questions about citations and I didn’t answer that. So forgive me on that. Son guest says are local citations still relevant? GMB is dominating now. So how much does impact how much does it still impact rankings worth working through all the Citations Sources like Yelp Yelp page citations is still important if you’ve got a valid business address, I recommend building citations if it’s a spam to business you know I for like lead gen stuff if you’re getting, for example, would lead gen stuff if you’re if you go out and get an actual physical address like a PO Box right? You use the street addressing option, then you can still get away with building citations because you can list the street address right the street address plus the number sign and in the box number, and that still works perfectly well. If you’re buying a verified GMB, which is an essentially it’s a spam address somewhere. I don’t recommend building citations in that in that situation or that scenario and the reason why is because if it was an address that was pulled from somebody’s house, which I hope people aren’t building them that way, then you could literally be starting start getting marketing mail sent to somebody’s house, a lot of the times those addresses are going to be spam from a commercial location. Once again, now those it’ll start they’ll start getting solicitation mail like physical mail with that company’s name on it because now like if you start building citations and Yellow Pages and things like that you get put on the company gets put on mailing lists, and now direct mail spam direct mail solicitation offers will start getting sent there.

Credit Card off, like a business credit card, offers all kinds of stuff. You can get reported that way by the recipient of those that mail right because it’s going to have some other companies address on there. So I don’t recommend that. Also, I don’t like to publish the address. One of the other questions we had recently was if you’re high if the service area business and you’re hiding your business address and the GMB which you should ask for Google’s Terms of Service for service area business. Should you go out and build all the citations without the street address? Well, there are only a few platforms that I know of that will allow you to do that. Most platforms to build a citation unless it’s changed recently because I don’t build my own citations anymore. I haven’t for the longest time, you know, we hire that out. But for the longest time, I know that most platforms would require a street address, or else it wouldn’t allow you to add a citation to their platform, right.

So again, for NAP stuff for area businesses. If it’s a spam address, I don’t recommend building citations. I’ll do everything else but citations. But if you have a valid business address or you go get like a PO Box where you have a physical place to send mail that you can go collect, then yeah, absolutely, they’re still effective, there’s no doubt they’re still effective. I still use them all the time for clients and everything else.

Marco: I would also add that if you can get hyper-local citations, those are really effective. And everywhere you’re looking at the greater picture wherein the semantic where we all we always have to think the entity. It’s just another way to validate your entity you. It’s your presence in all of these places. It’s placed where you’ve taken the time to go and get that citation to get it done properly. So that you know the more powerful ones like Yelp, those could become part of your same math. And it just adds validity to your entity and I got it guys we did the webinar. Not too long ago right for MGYB Syndication Academy where we talked about ads, I can’t emphasize it enough how important it is. And that and one of the reasons why RYS Academy Reloaded the RYS text works so well, is because we focus on the entity right from the beginning. And we push power to the entity so that we go after what I call the end game.

Bradley: I suggest for those of you who didn’t get a chance to see it, I mean, you should go, do we have it on MGYB? Do we have the URL, because I think people should go and watch that all day down to our YouTube channel, as well as on MGYB store on the webinar page now, which is that isn’t that in the header in the navigation menu now?

Marco: where it should be? So just to drive this into people’s head over and over whenever you start working on anything, even if it’s fake, you have to make it look as real as possible to Google that there is a thing on the web, and that this thing has some kind of validity. And we talked about the different ways to validate your entity.

Bradley: So just to talk about since you know, we’ve got time, let’s do this, we still got 20 minutes and it looks like some more questions popped up. But let’s talk about this very specifically because you mentioned hyper-local citations. So what I want to do is kind of demonstrate here how to get how to find those. Now if you can hire a lot of citation building services that will do this now a marketer center is a pretty good spot to get some of these they’ll it’s still kind of automated if you want to. I mean, they have like, you know, lists that they build from. I think the best citation building service available is Logan x. There’s no doubt it but it’s more expensive. You’re going to pay more for it, but it’s a really good service because they build structured citations and unstructured citations, social citations, document citations, video citations, audio citations, all of those and then they hit all of them with backlinks. Like they automatically build backlinks to the citations as part of the service. They’ve got a monthly citation bonus service 150 bucks a month. For clients, it’s an almost standard operating procedure for me, because it’s just really good service. And if they do really, really well, they perform well as, but for hyperlocal citations, I’m just going to use this as an example. I think we’re using plumber Fairfax, a couple of weeks ago for an example.

So one of the ways to get hyper-local citations is well one is to take a look at competitors. So like, let’s say that John C Flood was, which is the plumber site that we’re looking at was a client of mine, okay, or, you know, a lead gen project, whatever. Let’s just say that that was the case. One of the things you can do is take a look at the top-ranked, and he’s doing well organically at least. Maybe not so much in maps, but he’s doing well for organics, but maybe look at FJ hooks plumbing is number one in maps and put that into a notepad file, right so I’m just going to say hooks, plumbing, Inc. And then I always use this is the way that you can do these guys use to have three data points for NAP to have it doesn’t matter which two but I typically use the company name and the phone number. Okay? So in this case, it’s going to be 783-591-1284.

Okay, do that for each one of the, you know, top five or so. So it would be FJ Hooks Long’s Corporation, I think that’s the example we were looking at a couple of weeks ago, calories, plumbing, home service doctors in my plumber, heating, cooling and electrical, right, so I would take the top five, I would copy down or jot into a notepad file or an Excel sheet or something like that Google Sheet, whatever their company name as it’s listed in the NA and the Google Maps, right, and then also their phone number. That’s typically the two data points that I’ll pull, right and I’ll copy that and I’ll just go over to Google and I’ll do a search. Okay. And then what I’ll do this. And again, you can train to be able to do these guys is go through really, all you need to do is go through like the top two pages and copy the URLs or at least note, you don’t need to copy the URLs for them, your competitors or whatever. But in this case, this is the top level, the one and number, the number one position in maps. So go through and take a look Manta, I’d put Manta in the spreadsheet. So if you got a spreadsheet or a notepad file doesn’t matter, I just put Manta com, Yelp, yelp.com Okay, Facebook, we know that’s a big one that’s a branded profile. Anyways, MapQuest. checkbook.org which is interesting. I’ve not seen that before. Angie’s List com white pages. So you guys get the idea. I would go through the top two for every single one of the the the top five listed maps, compete for your competitors that are listed in the top five in maps, right and if you’re in the top five, then you know you’re going to select the top five plus, you know besides yours.

So what I’m saying is if you’re in the top five, then you know, you’re going to select maybe one, two, and in four or five and six or something like that my point is to get the top five competitors compared to where you are, and then copy their name and their phone number down and just do a search a simple Google search. And again, he can have a VA do this and go figure out just make a list of the top level citation directories for those companies specific to that area. Does that make sense? That’s one of the ways to get the best performing citations for your specific area.

Guys, there are niche directories like plumbing directories in this case. And then there are our business national business directories which are like Yelp and Manta, for example, and Angie’s List would be another one. But then there’s hyperlocal citations and want to walk through a quick example of that too. But regardless of the different types of directories again, national which are common, that’s what we see the most, Niche directories which are powerful because they’re topically relevant, right. And then there’s a, there are local citations that are going to be common to specific areas. In other words, there will be certain citations that are going to show up repeatedly for Fairfax plumbers or plumbers in Fairfax, that I could go to Richmond, Virginia, which is, I don’t know, 90-100 miles away. And they’re going to be a different set of common citation or business directory type sites that are common down there. So what I’m saying is, every area is slightly different. That’s why you can’t just have a master list and expect that master list to perform the same across all different niches and all different locations. That’s why it’s very simple.

When you go to Google and you use Google to determine that again, you can have a VA do it take the top five, do it search for their name and address or name and phone number, I’d use name and phone number and then just write down or, you know, put into a notepad file right in the Excel sheet, the business directory domains that are in the top two pages for each one of those five, right? And then you can, you know, you’ll see commonalities, the ones that are common across all of those are across all five, which you’ll see some of those, those are going to be your most powerful citation sources. So make sure you’re listed on that, then to Marco’s point to go hyperlocal, what you would want to do in this case, also you can go remember as I said, niche directories right so you could type into just do a Google search and say plumbing directory, right? And I misspelled plumbing but plumbing directory right and you go right through here and okay home advisor you know, I don’t like home advisor but my zip plumbers. com that’s a local plumbing directory, local, that’s a national directory, but they have a plumbing category, obviously, the plumbing info.com right. So national plumbers directory.org so this is how you very easily just put in your service, your keyword, whatever directory and now you’ve got niche directories those are more powerful than just plain national directories right because they’re topically relevant. All right.

Now lastly, for getting hyper-local citations in this case, we’re going to say Fairfax County. Business Directory, right? Boom right there. Web NoVa chamber org business directory. That’s Nova stands for Northern Virginia. Discover Fairfax, VA. com business directory, Fairfax County, EDA or Economic Development Authority, get your business listed there are your clients business listed there, right. A liable Fairfax county.gov. business right. Find out how you get listed on the Fairfax County. That’s the official Fairfax County government website, guys. You can get listed there find out sometimes they’re paid listings, who cares? It’s it’s not usually very expensive. And it’s worth it because these are what Marco just mentioned are hyper-local citations. They’re very powerful. And it doesn’t just have to stop with business directories, you could put Fairfax County blogs, right? Because a lot of times you can actually get listed on Fairfax County blogs guys, it sometimes it just requires outreach to the, you know, the blog owners and maybe you have a press release written or something like that and you reach out. And again, you don’t have to do this, you can hire people to do this and have them reach out to them because guys, these are all local blogs now talking about events and activities, and, you know, places to go, and products and services and all of that kind of stuff that is hyper-local, local to this area. Those types of links are so much more powerful than links that anybody can get from anywhere from like national directories if that makes sense. Because Google understands there’s that geographic relationship. There’s that geographic relevancy, and it’s so much more powerful. And so again, these are all kinds of thing. I mean, there’s a ton of them that just popped up right here, right that you could potentially get listed on Fairfax County, let’s say newspaper that a lot of the times there’s business directories there, and you could put online newspapers, things like that. But a lot of times there’s classifieds. And you can get, those are powerful citations, you can run little classified online classified ads that will give you a link from those local newspaper and online newspapers. Again, very, very powerful.

Something like Topix. Topix that we used to hack these long years ago. If you guys are familiar with Topix, there’s Topix.com Fairfax, that’s like a forum. And there’s, there’s a local location forum, like there, this site is siloed. Well, and it’s got forums specific to locations and you can actually kind of there’s this requires like some social engineering stuff, but you can actually go in and start a thread and at like with, you know, a profile you want to use multiple profiles with multiple IPS but most of you have that kind of stuff anyway, but you can go in and register and ask a question like and start a new thread in the fair in this case, like the Fairfax County topics category. And there’s a lot of traffic and traction in there, guys. And it’s very, very powerful. And you can start a thread and say something like, Hey, I just moved into the area. And I really need a good plumber in Fairfax, work your keywords into the question, any recommendations, right and leave it like that and then login with another account that under a different IP that you may have answered, you may have commented on some other threads within that same category, the same Fairfax category, so that you’re not just posting a link because a lot of times in these types of forums that if you if you’re new and you post a link, your comment will get moderated out. So if you season one of those accounts to where you can, you know, you created some comments again, guys, you can hire all this stuff out you can train a staff member or VA to do this kind of stuff for you. But if you season an account that so that you get past that threshold to where you can drop a link, then you use that profile to go in and answer that question from the other profile Hey, I just moved in the area, I’m really looking for a good plumber in Fairfax. And now you drop. The first comment underneath that is, hey, here’s a great plumber. It’s what was the one that I was saying was my business FJ hooks plumbing, Inc, they’re located in Fairfax, here’s their phone number. Here’s their website URL. Now that’s a citation from a very powerful Local Business Forum. With it now being the first comment in a new thread and other people will come in and chime in on that thread. And that social engagement, other people commenting on that actually pushes more power into that particular thread and makes that citation even more powerful. That’s very, very powerful. Most people don’t do that because it’s not as easy as just going and hiring a citation building service. It requires manual work, but if you want really good results, that’s how you do it. I mean, and again, guys, you can train a VA to do this stuff. It’s not something that you can find in a service online typically, but you can train a VA to do this stuff for you and you’re going to get much better results. Okay. So hopefully that was helpful. See, we can do this on Hump Day hang out sometimes. That’s usually what we do in our paid groups, right? Go into training.

What Will Happen If IFrame A Good Content From A Money Site To An Exact Match Domain?

Alright, Ji says, what if I iframe a piece of good content from my money site to an exact match domain? So you mean buying exact match domain and just put iframe a piece of content into that? I mean, sure, but you can do that with the G site. I’m not I mean, I don’t know why you get more power out of doing it from an Amazon s3 hosted page or a G site than you would from bindings an exact match domain that has no inherent authority. Right? Because you can build keyword relevancy from putting content around the iframe is my point. So why not use something that has massive authority already, like a Google site, which is on the Google domain, or an Amazon s3 page write an HTML page that’s ham hosted on Amazon bucket now you’re you’re you’re siphoning authority from Amazon, right you can create the relevancy what you don’t need the exact match keyword in the domain, you can create the relevancy from the content, the text around the iframe, and in the metadata and in the Jason structure, you know, the LD structured data, all of that. So,

I mean, I get where you’re going with that, Jay, but that’s not, you know, I think you go about it better than going out and buying an exact match domain that as essentially starting from zero, you’d have to build some authority to that. And I just go ahead and use what’s available to us for free, right. So the exact mastermind only has an iframe from my money site and that and I link a spam GMB to the exact match domain. I’m not sure what you mean on that. A spam Google My Business. So you’re talking about like, building like lead gen GMB assets, you link that to your exact match domain. Oh, I see what you’re saying. So you’re talking about if you’re going to build additional GMBs, and you iframe with a different domain and exact to match them. And that becomes your landing page. But really it’s a page on your web, your primary website that’s just iframe into it. I don’t know. I, I don’t know. I don’t know if I would do that. Marco, what do you think about that?

Marco: Whenever someone asked me what if questions, I say, test it, and let me know what happens. Yeah. Because I can’t tell you what if on every scenario that I haven’t tried, but what I meant by when I was asking, what do you think about that, as I’m not sure that I would want to iframe a money site page into a domain? That was it. That was only set up as a spam GMB asset with just my money site. I framed and knew it as the landing page like in other words, I don’t know if that could cause any negativity. If Google terminated that, you know, I would say on that if it’s going to have a TMP and he’s going to take the time to work on the entity power up the entity. It could work but I would as you said, I spend my resources my time and my money on just getting the power from a D site where you know, you can’t harm your money site, because Google will just won’t pass a penalty though. Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. I’m not sure that I would do that I mark is right. I would recommend if you wanted to try that you’d have to test it. I can’t we can’t speculate on what would happen. I mean, I personally wouldn’t want to do that because it doesn’t to me. As I said, I’d rather I guys, you could even use a Google site is your domain, your website URL for GMB? You know, you can do that. There’s I’ve never seen it not happen. You know what I’m saying? So why not just use that right? You can create a Google site and flesh that out a bit and make that the website of the GMB. That makes sense. You still want to create the GSB website and put that in the appointment URL. You know, you can that’s what I’ve been doing. So he says, What can I expect Google picks up the content starts to rank for the exact match again. I don’t know how that would treat this G. We haven’t tested that. And so, you know, it would be speculation so I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. So,

How Quickly Can You Livestream Videos To A Channel Connected To A 4-Ring IFTTT Network?

Dan, the man says, or Dan Damman How quickly can you last new videos to a channel connected to a four ring IFTTT network so as to not go too fast and destroy the syndication network effective. I mean, you can live stream whenever if you’re talking about, you know, publishing multiple, like, for example, just using it as a spam channel where but it uses live streams as opposed to uploading.

If it’s a seasoned network, it can you what I mean by that is if it’s got some age to it, and you’ve slowly, you know, started posting to it, and then slowly ramped up the speed with which you post with the velocity, whatever you want to call it, the frequency of posting, then a lot of times it’ll it’ll be okay. But if it’s a new network, a newer network, and you start posting, you know, multiple times per day. Especially if they’re spammy videos with similar content, that kind of stuff, then you know, you can get a lot of your network properties terminated. So that’s why, like I said, I, you know, in my opinion, you’re better off doing that, if you’re going to do that kind of stuff that you’re, you know, you don’t.

A lot of times you don’t need syndication networks, if you’re going to do that type of, I don’t know what kind of a strategy you’re asking about specifically, I’m only making assumptions here. But a lot of times you can get results with YouTube spam stuff, by just using multiple accounts, YouTube accounts that don’t even need syndication networks. Why not? If I’m going to take the time to build or you know, purchase, you know, spend money or whatever on syndication networks for YouTube syndication stuff, I’m going to try to keep them around not spam them to death. Right. And so typically, the videos are going to be a better quality it’s not going to be the same video just spun. You know what I mean? Like to change the video encoding and that stuff and continually repeating publishing the same damn video. I’ve seen that too much. Guys, and that shit used to work years ago. And I guess you can still get some results from that. But most people, you know, don’t react to those kinds of videos. And honestly, a lot of the syndication network sites and stuff will actually terminate, because they detect those as spam. So I would recommend if you’re going to take the time to build networks out or purchase networks, which is what we recommend, and certainly, that you would try to keep your channel and the content good enough to where that’s not a date, you’re not in danger of doing that. So if you’re actually doing real live streams, then I wouldn’t worry about it at all, because they’re all going to be real and unique. They’re not spammy. But if you’re just using live streams, and you’re basically mass, you know, duplicating a video and constantly re-streaming it to a channel or uploading it to a channel that’s connected to syndication networks, you’re in danger of getting those terminated. Okay, especially if it’s brand new.

We got more questions and we can answer now so we almost shut it down. And at the very last minute when we almost took it from you guys, you posted a shit ton questions that now can’t be answered.

So next time post early guys. We’re going to wrap it up. I’ve gotta run guys. My daughter’s got a softball game tonight I gotta go to so unfortunately, that’s gonna be it for today. So thanks for your extra engagement. We needed it guys we appreciate that. Thanks, guys for sticking around.

Bye, everyone.

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Announcement

Adam: everybody welcomes to Hump Day hangouts Episode 236. The episode where we asked you the questions. Now we’ll get to that actually we do have a question for you who are viewing today and if you’re watching the replay but first we’re going to say hello to everybody. We got everybody here so going to start on the left with Chris How are you doing today?

Chris: Doing good. Not excited to be back. It’s basically winter temperatures here. It snowed again rain. five degrees Celsius.

Adam: Okay, take it you’re back in Austria, then you’re definitely not.

Chris: Yeah, unfortunately, I’m already making plans to fly back.

Adam: tough, tough or not. Hernan, how are you doing? Are you What are you warm or cold?

Hernan: Now it’s cold, man. It’s getting chillier, but it’s okay. It’s a nice time of the season. I am enjoying this and down here in Buenos Aires. I’ll be Miami in a couple of weeks. So if you happen to be in the South Florida area, hit me up. Maybe we can grab something to drink or whatever. But yeah, looking good, man. A lot of work but everything is soaking up.

Adam: Cool, cool. Alright, Marco. How about you, man?

Marco: Damn. It’s cold today, man. Yeah, it’s 72 I’m gonna have to go walk around the corner and come back. If people are flying here and there I don’t know. I’ll just walk around the corner they’ll get better.

Adam: I got sidetracked there. Bradley. How are you doing man?

Bradley: Wayne Clayton says his name Wayne Clayton hashtag stood looking at his comment. That’s funny. Anyways, I’m good. Glad to be here. So, not quite as warm as Marco who’s saying it’s cold. It’s freaking cold in Virginia right now. I don’t know why it’s like 60 degrees. Cool for this time of year. So yeah.

Adam: I’m near San Francisco is supposed to be nice this time of year and we’re supposed to get like a month’s worth of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours. So that’s gonna be nice. Yeah. Yeah, enough of the weather reports. If you’re new thanks for holding with us here while we give you a worldwide update on weather conditions. And I want to say, first of all, you’re in the right spot. Thanks for checking out Hump Day Hangouts. Whether you’re watching us live right now or whether you’re catching the replay. This is the place to be you can always go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions for that week, Humpday Hangouts, ask your questions. Get them up there ahead of time, it’s a first come first serve, we just ask that you try to not ask you know, 10 questions at once just one maybe to let other people go or else we’ll kind of have to skip your answers because we can’t focus on one person for too long. It just wouldn’t be fair.

But secondly, if you’re also wondering where to start, grab the Battle Plan. All right, go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about it. Just go check it out. You can find out all you want about it. But if you’re looking to take things to kind of to the next level as far as either starting or growing your own local digital marketing agency, then you should definitely join our mastermind You can find out more at mastermind.semanticmastery.com

For anybody who’s looking for premium done for you services, head over to mygb.co. Alright done for you kick ass services. It’s the stuff that we use or developed to use in our own businesses. And then, you know, as people wanted them, we put them in there and made them available so others can benefit from it. And I guess now’s a good time to ask questions, guys. Should we ask, should we ask the question we were talking about? Yeah. I’ll hand it over. I’m gonna let Bradley do this. He seems like he’s interested in.

Bradley: The question is, ever since we had to switch to hang out since Google events shut the Google events page is down, which is where we had hosted it for shit three, we’re over three years now. Right. We’re going on for four years now. Our way? Yeah. It’s been a long time since we’ve been doing this. But yeah, we’re like in four and a half years now. We’ve been doing this and it’s only been like three months or so since they shut Google events down. You know, Google Plus down, which is where we were hosting them and we used to have a lot more engagement on our Hump Day Hangouts, that we do now. And it could be because of that stupid, you know, the stupid chat app that we’re using now, which was better than the Facebook chat app that got some accounts suspended or whatever locked or that kind of stuff. But we’re still trying to work our way through like finding the best place to host these guys. So we want to ask your opinion, those of you that are attending right now, today live, posting that silly 1980s looking chat box that we’re using right now, where would you prefer us to host Hump Day hangouts directly on YouTube watch pages? Or should perhaps we try to stream it into Facebook and use our Facebook group, the SEO Marketing tutorials or whatever group and maybe host it there?

You guys let us know because honestly, the attendance rate has gone down and the number of questions has gone down. Ever since we shut Google or Google events shut down. And so we’re debating whether we should keep it going or not. certainly, want to I’ve always enjoyed these, you know, four and a half years into it. I’d hate to give it up. I’ve really have enjoyed this a lot. But honestly, if we’re not going to get the engagement, we’re not going to show up and answer three or four questions and shut it down. So we would like to ask you guys for your opinion. Do you think we should try it over on YouTube? Should we maybe try it and Facebook or give us your suggestion? You know, let us know. So with that said,

Adam: and I’m biased, thank you. I believe that’s Mike crest. Yeah, that’s awesome. Love the 80s if you love the goofy chatbot that’s okay, too. Just for an unbiased opinion for me. Okay, cool. Yeah, we’ll take everything into account and we’ll let everybody now but yeah, we got any other announcements, you guys I think that was everything I had.

Bradley: There’s a stuffed animal dog talking. I do like the fact that this chat outlet says meme again though because for a while we couldn’t even do that.

Anyways, alright, I don’t have any specific announcements other than we’ve got our mastermind webinar tomorrow, one of our newer members, G, he, we’re calling you G, by the way from now on, because I’m not sure how to pronounce your name. So we’re going to actually dig into a project that he’s been asking a bunch of questions about. Marco and I are going to analyze that. And that’s something I want to talk about briefly is, you know, that is the value of the mastermind, in my opinion, is coming in and being able to interact with us as well as the other members. It’s not just about us, we’ve got a lot of savvy members in our group and it’s the, you know, very active and engaged the Facebook group. So pretty much any kind of question can be asked there and you get a bunch of really good replies back or responses from other successful marketers or that are successful in whatever type of marketing business they’re in. It’s not just all local SEO stuff. We talk a lot about that. That’s primarily because that’s what I do. But there are members in our group to do national SEO, some affiliate stuff, you know, all that so and then it’s also getting access to us directly, but then on the mastermind webinars we go into in depth into whatever anybody wants to get into, most of the time I do some sort of training. And then before we get into questions and answers, but then when we get it to member questions, we go really in-depth into whatever anybody wants to go into. And there’s no holds barred. Like, in other words, we don’t, we don’t hold anything back.

Like we have to hear in a public setting, right. So, you know, for example, if a member comes in, and they want us to analyze a website, or a specific marketing campaign or something like that is if they’re willing to share that they will go you know, deep dive in it, Marco and I really analyze it, pick it apart, in a nice way, kind of point out how it can get better results and that kind of stuff. And that’s really where the value comes in, guys, because that’s, you know, again, it’s about networking with others. Yes, there’s a lot of training in the mastermind, yes, you get discounts and things like that, but that’s not what the value is, in my opinion. The value is in networking with us and the other members, getting questions answered in almost real time, about pretty much any sort of issue you’re having in marketing or business related regardless or outsourcing? Or, I mean, some of our members even asked questions that aren’t even marketing or business related. And that’s, that’s perfectly fine. That’s what it’s for. So does anybody want to comment on that or any other not yet?

Marco: I’d like to comment on that on one of your comments. You, you’re the nice guy. So you will look at a website nicely. But if a width website is crappy, I’m going to tell someone, you your website sucks. Your SEO sucks. I’m a real man, I can’t help it. That’s just the way I am. I’m going to give it to you. kind of try to shock you into seeing what you’re not seeing or what you’re avoiding seeing what you’re avoiding doing. And that’s what this is all about getting real. With people getting past all of that shiny shit that they’re fed every day. All of that bullshit, all of that crap that that doesn’t work. It’s just made, so that so that they will so that people will just spend more money. There’s no purpose to it, other than to get the people to fork over more money, more training. That’s never really complete. What we try to do is we try to give you the steps, right? That you need to take in order to take your shit to the next level, whatever your shit on it online might be, it could be anything. But guys, please understand that our purpose is to help you.

If you go into our Facebook group into our mastermind, I said, Look going there a month, and see that the value is really in that Facebook group, and being able to ask us all questions and getting an answer almost immediately. If it’s the weekend, of course, sometimes, I’m often with family, but someone sometimes jumps in on weekends and ask us questions. So it’s not just here that we answer questions, we ask your questions in all of our groups, but mainly our focus is the mastermind. And no matter what your question is, we try to get you an answer. And if we don’t know then the answer might just be we don’t know. because trust me, I don’t know a whole lot of shit. I’m still learning every day. But we do try to come up with an answer.

Or try to steer you in the right direction and we don’t have it will tell you, yeah, we will work on it or just give you or send you in the right direction. So that’s what I have to say about this.

Bradley: Sweet. Okay, now I got to find the actual questions and comments now.

Adam: Yeah, well, I want to say one more thing too because we are using YouTube regardless where, you know, obviously still being broadcast on YouTube. I guess potentially that could change but we’re never going to stop putting out content on YouTube. So if you find this useful or you find other video clips, like Anna just said in the comments, you know, she that’s part of how she came across us and joined the mastermind and how she got involved with Semantic Mastery and with our community. So if you come across video clips that are useful, or you know that they would be useful to other people, please do us a favor, do them a favor, share it, send them a link and you know, this is part of why we do this we definitely want to help out and it’s mutually beneficial. You know, we want people discovered more us more often and we want to help them go out and we can.

Bradley: Sweet. All right, I’m gonna steal the screen. And we’re going to get ..

Marco: and Subscribe, subscribe to our YouTube channel. That’s another way to help us out and continue this as a free medium.

Bradley: There you go.

How Do You Find The Town Center In Google Maps?

All right. We had one from a few days ago, Cool Cat says how do I figure out the center of my town using Google Maps? As far as I know, if you type in the name of your city, then typically the map pulls up with the city center as the center point of the map. Has that changed? Or is that correct? Marco Do you know?

Marco: As far as I know, that’s the way you just type in the city. You can type in the state if there are other cities that are named the same Island because there are in other states. You just type in the city and you should get to the geographical what Google considers the geographical center of the city.

So if I say Culpeper. Yeah. Yeah, so that should be the center of the map here should be what it thinks is the center of Culpeper, in this case, right? As far as I know, that’s how it is now, I mean, so you just dropped your pin somewhere like you know, somewhere in there. And usually when you click on it twice, it puts a little great pin maybe you’ve got a zoom all the way in anyways, typically when you There goes finally there’s a little gray pan and there are your geo coordinates now there might be another way to do it you can probably search Google and say how to find city center and probably get an answer so you know when in doubt use Google.

How To Handle A Mass Page WordPress Site To Rank 10 GMBs Within 30-Mile Radius Of The Centre City?

Alright, so we’re gonna move on Dan demand from Canada says hey gents, I didn’t have a question about how to handle a mass page WordPress site in relation to 10 gm bees, all in a 30-mile radius of the city of the center city. If I’m working to rank these 10 GMBs all for the same niche, does it make sense to set up city pages? For example remodelers.com/locations/city, and then point citations to those individual city pages. I was then contemplating directing the city pages to the individual city, GMB assets. thoughts. Good idea. Terrible. Thanks, man. Well, I’m not sure why you would I mean, if you’re going to build a page, a location based page for each GMB, I’m not sure why you would redirect it, why wouldn’t you just use that location-based GMB or the location-based page as the website, the landing page URL for the GMB asset, see what I’m saying?

Like if you’re building I mean, unless it’s because it’s a mass page site that you’re doing that and it’s a spammy type looking or you know spamming type site, which most mass page sites are, in which case I wouldn’t build citations to that because then what happens if you get that site to deindex which is very likely happened, right? Mass page sites that happen to kind of regularly. And so if you’re building citations to that, and then you have to redirect it, what happens if it gets suspended or, you know, deindexed, then you’ve either got to go clean up. You can still leave it redirected. But now you’re redirecting through a potentially, you know, deindex domain penalize domain. So I wouldn’t do that. That’s why I’m saying if you were going to build citations, I would build citations directly to the GMB assets or set up a domain with subdomains and have a separate subdomain for each location. Because that way, if anyone of those subdomains now you can’t do that with them, I mean, I guess you could with a mass page site, but you’re trying to do it all on one domain. So location pages, inner pages, but again, I wouldn’t do that with the mass page site and build citations to it backlink shore. Because I mean, you know, no big deal but with citations again, if you lose that domain. Now you’ve got a whole bunch of citations to clean up unless you left the redirect up through a deindex domain, which I wouldn’t recommend doing.

So personally, I would not do it that way. I would build everything like if you were going to build out and self-hosted site for each location, I would do it on subdomains or not use a Mass Page Builder is what I’m saying, you guys, there’s nothing wrong with creating location pages and having inner pages for multiple locations. When you’re building something out like this, the problem occurs is if you’re you’ve got spam, the map addresses number one, and number two, if you’re doing something spammy to the domain, but if you’re keeping the domain clean, which is what we teach, right, I mean, we really do we teach about keeping the primary domain clean, building your tier one assets out and you know, especially the way that we build them out syndication networks to drive stacks using press releases, citations also count, you know, all of that stuff, then you can do all your spammy stuff up to that and keep your main your primary domain, clean Gsites. That’s a big part of it. What I’m saying is you can build the inner location pages and it’s not going to be an issue, as long as you’re not doing anything spammy. Now, again, I want to say this with the caveat, if you are using GMBs that are spammed addresses, there’s always that chance that they get suspended because they’re not real physical locations. So in that case, I wouldn’t want to have all of them necessarily associated with a money site domain, as opposed to if you can still do it, but I would recommend doing it through a subdomain. Even if it was just a redirect to like the GMB website URL. Right. So that’s, you know, whatever your business site, GMB website, right, you can still use a branded domain in that case and set up a sub domain redirect for each one of those to just redirect. I’ve got several projects like that where I’m using a branded domain. Can you guys still hear me?

Marco: Yeah

Bradley: okay because it looks like a reset on me where I’m using a branded domain, but I use a subdomain with the city name for each different location and the subdomain redirects to the GMB website like for a lot of my multi-location sites, guys, I got rid of the self hosted WordPress sites for my lead gen stuff especially because it’s just an additional management piece of, you know, something else that I have to manage and update regularly. You guys know how much WordPress updates and I just got tired of doing it and it’s really unnecessary because we’re able to get results with just GMB stuff right? So for that I’ve actually redirected I’ve eliminated a lot of my WordPress sites now and I just have GMB. Excuse me subdomains redirecting to the GMB website. So anyway, hopefully, that makes sense. I’m not a mass page fan builder or fan fanboy. Do you know what I’m saying? I don’t like those, just because they, they tend to get indexed. And it’s a lot of work and I’ve never had really good results with it unless I continually build sites that get taken down.

So I can’t really give you the best advice on that. I certainly wouldn’t build citations to a mass index or mass, a mass page type site. Any comments on that?

Marco: No, I don’t have any because I don’t use math page builder.

How To Embed A GMB Post Into A GSite?

Bradley: Yeah. Fitz, what’s up a fence? He says, Is there a way to embed a GMB post into a G site? Not that I’m aware of it because Marco would be able to answer that, but as far as I know, GMB posts cannot be iframe, correct?

Marco: Yes, they can.

Bradley: They can. Really? Okay.

Marco: Yeah, yeah, they can. Okay, forgive me then. I was wrong. Alright, so there you go, Fitz. Have you tried using just an iframe generator, and with the GMB post URLs or something secretive that we can’t talk about here?

Marco: No. I mean it’s just a straight iframe, like YouTube and or anything else? Okay, the iframe code and I was just playing with a day the other day so I’m pretty sure I’ll go back on look at my notes, but I’m pretty sure that it’s one of the ones that I tried and yes, you can.

Bradley: Okay. So there you go try it fits use the iframe generator, which is right there. And check it out. So it looks like Scott already answered it. Sorry, I didn’t even see that Scott till just now. So it looks like you can and Scott is confirming that huh? Okay, cool. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate that Scott Walker somebody. So he’s saying go into GMB site and get the URL for the post will be saved individually and have a URL like yes, it’s those long funky URL, place the URL and the iframe generator, right. Create the iframe use classic Google sites to embed the iframe insert HTML. There you go. That’s Yeah, you can insert the HTML as an element in the classic G sites. So cool. It does actually do that. That’s cool. I didn’t but you can.

Marco: You can also iframe it into the new Gsites.

Bradley: Can you? I’ve never done any work in the new g sites on

Marco: There’s an embed in the menu. Well, somebody’s coming through.

Bradley: I was watching soccer or something?

Marco: Yeah. But anyway, yeah, yeah. I’m pretty sure it is. Post the GMB site and it both on new and classic. Oh, there you go.

Mike, Chris says he doesn’t miss the old way he hated his g sweet account. Okay. James, wherever we end up saying he can’t do means on YouTube comments so so might have to be in Facebook.

Will You Still Upload Video To YouTube If You Host It On A Facebook Page?

If you host it on the Facebook page, we still upload videos to YouTube? Yes, BJ. And what I meant was if we host it on Facebook will stream it into Facebook. It’ll still be primarily through YouTube, or through perhaps zoom Mark has been pushing us to do that for quite some time. I didn’t want to get away from YouTube, but we can also use like something like OBS to stream from YouTube into Facebook simultaneously. Right? So yeah, that too. So should we do? Yeah, I mean YouTube is where we get most you know, we’ve got you to know close to 7000 subscribers in there and it’s just it’s we got a ton of content in there so I’m not going to get away from that. I wish I could Can I delete that this is terrible. Unbelievable unit towards these guys I want you to look.

Alright. Alright, next. Ready, let’s add them. Is this the end of Hump Day? Anna says no, not yet. No. We just got to change it to a platform where we get more engagement. Don says he’s okay with this chat format. I would just like to keep the hump day hangouts going. Well, thanks, John. We appreciate that. I’d love to keep them going as well. I just get notified to join and it was difficult to even find this.

If you’re subscribed to our channel, you should get notifications in Gmail, if you’re using Gmail and the social tab as well as if you’re in YouTube, it should give you a notification at the top all that kind of stuff. Here we also send out emails By the way, Adam does every 30 minutes or 30 minutes before Hump Day Hangouts. If you’re on our list, you should get an email to. Okay, keep on moving. Adam. Wayne says okay, Wayne is talking about Adams Facebook group that he has called the real world productivity growth group. Yeah, Adam does get a lot of cool stuff in there, guys. If you want to learn how to be more productive, get automate stuff, you know, make your life easier using apps and Zapier and slack. Can you tell if you want to go check out Adams group, Adam that I do outsell that probably not

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Any Recommended Tips To Rank Or Push Power To GStacks?

All right, here’s a real question from Mike crest. He says having problems getting my G stacks to rank or pushes power, follows the plan, hit links, embeds, PBNs, added content increase the depth and pages just finding they don’t push I know the market will likely hammer me. But these are built by you guys any tips or tricks to make these push? Well, I’m going to jump on that briefly before Marco goes off on a tangent on a rant. But honestly, I don’t expect my drive stack files to rank it all just so you guys know what my expectation is when I’m using drive stacks, which I’m using it for everything now as well, for even quite some time. I didn’t use them on everything but I am now because what I but I don’t expect the files that drive stack files to rank at all what I expect them to rank is what I’m linking to, like, for example, could be a G site, or could be a money site or could be a number of tier one properties that I’m trying to rank. And I’ve got a new business that I just started recently that I’m going to be talking about a lot in the mastermind over the next few weeks, or coming months really, because it’s, it’s starting to do really well for me. And I just set up a Click Funnels page, a landing page. And it was interesting because, and I talked about this in the Syndication Academy update webinar that was also like the MGYB webinar that we did a few weeks ago where we were talking about the why syndication networks are every bit as powerful now in 2019, as they were before. The way that the power has shifted away from just doing posting and syndicating, which is still certainly helpful is that they help to validate and solidify an entity. And I proved that with this new business, this new website and I just bought a branded domain. I created a new name for this business. And there but apparently that that business name, it’s similar to several other types of businesses. So it wasn’t 100% unique. It is unique but it was very similar to several other businesses with a similar name, excuse me.

And so anyway, I set up a Click Funnels landing page, I flesh that page out Well, it’s got content on it questions and answers and things like that, but it’s just a single page, Click Funnels website, essentially. And it was when I would do a search for that company name. It was, you know, that the, which was my title tag essentially along with a couple of keywords. For the first three weeks or so, it would hover on like page three and page for like, that’s where that would and that was just for doing a brand name search for this new business that I set up. But then when I got the syndication network, I hired one of our syndication network builders outside of his normal job duties to do this because he asked for some extra hours to make some extra money. So I hired him outside of that to do that for me. And you know, a couple of days later, I got this syndication network back and I think you delivered to me on a Friday and on Monday I went and just did another brand search and boom, that Click Funnels page was number one now, that was syndication networks. But the reason why I’m telling you that was because and that was without posting any content, guys no syndicating of any content. It’s a Click Funnels page. I can’t even syndicate content to the syndication network from Click Funnels. I did create a WordPress blog on a subdomain. But all I did was published one post and that was after it had already pushed the brand search to the Click Funnels page to the number one position for that brand search term. Now that said, I mentioned just a moment ago and the title tag, I had a couple of keywords. Now, this is not an Uber competitive market. But there are a few Pete players in this market that are savvy and doing SEO work as well as some PPC stuff. And the primary keywords that I’m targeting are in the title tag of that Click Funnels page, but the page itself isn’t really optimized for those keywords. Well, I had the same builder that I hired to do to build a syndication network. I had him build a drive stack. He was actually in training to build drive stacks. And so I gave him that project for this particular new business to build a drive stack now that was about three weeks ago and now without doing any additional SEO work I think I’ve published one press release but just the drive stack alone has now pushed that page that Click Funnels page to page one and it bounces between the bottom of page one and the top of page two right now for the primary keyword phrases which is great and guys I’m telling you I haven’t done anything differently so it does provide a push and I haven’t even hit that drive stack with backlinks yet. So it does absolutely provide a push if you’re in a significantly competitive market it’s obviously going to require more plus sometimes depending on the level what market it is what keywords the competition level there’s a lot of variables but sometimes they take longer to take effect and others with that said I’m gonna turn it over to Marco.

Marco: Yeah, there’s no reason for me to go off on this if you got one of our RYS done for you start. Now he also says that he added depth as far as pages. Was that done also in the drive stack? How did you do it? Was that done according to the training? And if you’re in the training, then this is a better question to ask me in RYS Academy Reloaded. So you can cash in your 30-minute coupon with me, so that we can go over the drive stack and all of the things that you’ve done. Now, without proper context, I can’t say what the problem is and why it’s not pushing power. Now, what was the timeframe in which this was done? Is it still dancing? Because a lot of times, you just have to be patient 21 days have to clear from the lab, whatever it was that you did from when you hit it with links. If you did an embed run, then it’s 21 days from that. And if you did it too quickly, over and over, then it’s just dancing until it settles like Bradley said it could take a while for it to just finish being wherever it is that it’s going to end up. Now. This is out of context for me because I don’t know. Like the drive stack is always done. The same way for everyone. But outside of that, what you did, I can’t account for my guys did. And I can go and look at it and say, Okay, this was either not done right or it was done right. Oh, and whatever it was that you did on the inside of it is not having the effect that it should be cut. But without being able to look at what you did. I can’t really answer this come hit me up in RYS Academy Facebook group. And I’ll be happy to answer this and to take half an hour with you and go over it and see what it is that stopping the power from flowing.

Bradley: There you go. That’s hard. That’s hard to pass that up, man. So I mean, that’s how much Marco believes in the fact that they work because he’ll give up a half an hour of his time to analyze what it is and provide suggestions that kind of stuff and, and I agree it’s crazy because you know, sometimes when, you know I don’t see the power of drive stacks on a regular basis and unless I’m monitoring it closely, in other words, like if I got a client and I get I just got, I picked up two new clients over the last month or so. And, you know, standard operating procedure syndication network, then a drive stack, but we’re doing press releases. So we’re kind of doing all these things all at once. But this new business that I started, I’m just doing things kind of slowly, because it’s, you know, it’s not, I’m just not hitting it really hard with everything. And I’m seeing the effects of the various things. As I said, the syndication network, made it pop to number one position for the brand search. I know that’s not Uber competitive. It was a brand search phrase, you know, like a branded name. But it was interesting to see it jumped three pages just from a syndication network without publishing any content to it. Right. Then now the primary keywords that it’s targeting, and it’s not an SEO page, guys, it’s just a landing, I’m driving traffic to it via other methods. I wasn’t planning on it being an SEO type thing yet at least. And just having a drive stack bill in about three weeks time, two to three weeks time. I’ve actually seen a significant push that and I did a press release too. But again, it’s interesting to see that kind of result from these things when you’re monitoring it that closely. When you’re doing them all the time for multiple clients and that kind of stuff. It’s not something that I typically monitor especially when you’re hitting up the assets with multiple multiple angles like multiple SEO angles, you know, it’s kind of hard to at that point isolate What did what, but we know that it works otherwise we wouldn’t keep using it. So

How To Regain Access To A Locked Facebook Account?

okay, cool. A grant says, oh, Grant seven hard time getting back into Facebook. Yeah, I don’t know. What’s going on with that grant. I’m not sure that that was caused from us specifically, but there was or from the chat app but there was we had the Facebook chat up I think we did it for two weeks and one week it just like caused a lot like some accounts to get locked mine too. And what’s crazy is guys, this makes makes a good point to talk about why you shouldn’t friend people on Facebook that you don’t know that you don’t really know because one of the things that they do is make you identify photos from friends, Facebook feeds and like who the people are in the photos and that was like I was like Oh shit, like I don’t friend I get a ton of friend requests on Facebook that I just never accept and it’s because if I don’t know you I’m not going to accept your friend request for the most part.

And so you know, some in that verification process some of the photos were from people that apparently aren’t on my friends’ list that I really don’t know. And so I was thinking Oh shit, I’m going to screw this up like I’m not gonna because you only get to fail I think two or three times before permanently or locks you out to where you have to you know another level of security to get back in anyway, I was fortunate enough to be able to get through but goes to show you don’t friend people you don’t know because it could keep you prevent you from getting access.

Let’s see. Alright, what’s next? 56k modem firing up. Oh, wow. Okay, Stoke jellyfish mastermind subgroup we’re going to take over the world everyone should be extremely jealous. Okay, cool. That must be one of the mastermind subgroups who named a jellyfish

Adam: huh oh, that’s why we just name it different animals and stuff each time to make them easy to deal with.

Adam: This is actually a cool point I want to tell people about this. I know we mentioned it before, but this is something we do for the mastermind members, you know, there’s a lot of power in the network and in the group and being a part of a big group like that and having peers as well as access to us. But also there’s power in meeting in a small group, you know, and so we put people to group if they want to, once a quarter we group people up in groups of like four to six so that they can meet up you know, give loose instructions, here’s how it’s a good way to do this. And then you really get that quick feedback, you can do hot seats, you can do all sorts of stuff from the people that you’re in there with and then on a really more hesitate to use it but on a more intimate level if you will. So it’s a really powerful way to even get more out of the mastermind.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. It’s about networking. So my Chris says to me Maybe I need to hit the folders instead of the G site. I would agree with that. We say, Marco.

Marco: Dadea, it takes care of link building. So I don’t, I’ll say I don’t know. Because whatever, whenever I do something, I just tell daddy, I need link building. And then he says, Okay, give me the main URLs and 300 or so keywords to go with it. And that totally needs then he goes in and finds everything else. So I don’t know it could be. But again, I’m not sure I don’t know how your inner folders and files were done. Because I know that my people didn’t do those as well without knowing that, without seeing that I can’t help you. Yeah.

Bradley: Very good guys. Any other questions? Otherwise, we can wrap it up early. Be a short Humpday Hangout.

Marco: And just for Anna. It’s not that I try to swear. Whenever I talk. It’s kind of just comes out. Must be the sailor in me. Sorry if I offend anyone. Fuck you anyway.

Bradley: That’s right. That’s right. Okay, well, it looks like unless we got something else we want to train about right now. Anybody? We can wrap it up a little bit early today.

Hernan: We’re good.

Adam: get time to hit the trails.

Bradley: You’re gonna go in the woods.

Adam: Yeah, gotta go for a run.

Bradley: You know, that’s code for right.

Adam: running long distances.

Bradley: Yeah, no that’s cool.

Oh, here comes I have a question, guys. Yeah, G is away, buddy. We’re going to analyze your stuff tomorrow on the mastermind webinar. We’re going to get into that deep so let’s see what he says. I would love to talk about niches sometimes Anna says.

Do You Wait 21 Days Before Doing Another Link Building?

BJ after you do the link building Do you wait 21 days before doing another link code? I mean, I don’t wait like a specific amount of time. I just wait to see what kind of results comes from it. And I don’t usually stack link building campaigns three weeks apart like that, you know, usually, it’s usually longer for me, like I’ll hit something with links and you know, typically I’ll have a Rank Tracker or something that’s kind of monitoring that and I’ll just check on it every you know, every few days or every couple of weeks and check to see what kind of push it is and but you remember I’m I don’t just do link building. I think that’s very, very powerful. But you know, we press releases and content marketing And oh, by the way, somebody asked questions about citations and I didn’t answer that. So forgive me on that. Son guest says are local citations still relevant? GMB is dominating now. So how much does impact how much does it still impact rankings worth working through all the Citations Sources like Yelp Yelp page citations is still important if you’ve got a valid business address, I recommend building citations if it’s a spam to business you know I for like lead gen stuff if you’re getting, for example, would lead gen stuff if you’re if you go out and get an actual physical address like a PO Box right? You use the street addressing option, then you can still get away with building citations because you can list the street address right the street address plus the number sign and in the box number, and that still works perfectly well. If you’re buying a verified GMB, which is an essentially it’s a spam address somewhere. I don’t recommend building citations in that in that situation or that scenario and the reason why is because if it was an address that was pulled from somebody’s house, which I hope people aren’t building them that way, then you could literally be starting start getting marketing mail sent to somebody’s house, a lot of the times those addresses are going to be spam from a commercial location. Once again, now those it’ll start they’ll start getting solicitation mail like physical mail with that company’s name on it because now like if you start building citations and Yellow Pages and things like that you get put on the company gets put on mailing lists, and now direct mail spam direct mail solicitation offers will start getting sent there.

Credit Card off, like a business credit card, offers all kinds of stuff. You can get reported that way by the recipient of those that mail right because it’s going to have some other companies address on there. So I don’t recommend that. Also, I don’t like to publish the address. One of the other questions we had recently was if you’re high if the service area business and you’re hiding your business address and the GMB which you should ask for Google’s Terms of Service for service area business. Should you go out and build all the citations without the street address? Well, there are only a few platforms that I know of that will allow you to do that. Most platforms to build a citation unless it’s changed recently because I don’t build my own citations anymore. I haven’t for the longest time, you know, we hire that out. But for the longest time, I know that most platforms would require a street address, or else it wouldn’t allow you to add a citation to their platform, right.

So again, for NAP stuff for area businesses. If it’s a spam address, I don’t recommend building citations. I’ll do everything else but citations. But if you have a valid business address or you go get like a PO Box where you have a physical place to send mail that you can go collect, then yeah, absolutely, they’re still effective, there’s no doubt they’re still effective. I still use them all the time for clients and everything else.

Marco: I would also add that if you can get hyper-local citations, those are really effective. And everywhere you’re looking at the greater picture wherein the semantic where we all we always have to think the entity. It’s just another way to validate your entity you. It’s your presence in all of these places. It’s placed where you’ve taken the time to go and get that citation to get it done properly. So that you know the more powerful ones like Yelp, those could become part of your same math. And it just adds validity to your entity and I got it guys we did the webinar. Not too long ago right for MGYB Syndication Academy where we talked about ads, I can’t emphasize it enough how important it is. And that and one of the reasons why RYS Academy Reloaded the RYS text works so well, is because we focus on the entity right from the beginning. And we push power to the entity so that we go after what I call the end game.

Bradley: I suggest for those of you who didn’t get a chance to see it, I mean, you should go, do we have it on MGYB? Do we have the URL, because I think people should go and watch that all day down to our YouTube channel, as well as on MGYB store on the webinar page now, which is that isn’t that in the header in the navigation menu now?

Marco: where it should be? So just to drive this into people’s head over and over whenever you start working on anything, even if it’s fake, you have to make it look as real as possible to Google that there is a thing on the web, and that this thing has some kind of validity. And we talked about the different ways to validate your entity.

Bradley: So just to talk about since you know, we’ve got time, let’s do this, we still got 20 minutes and it looks like some more questions popped up. But let’s talk about this very specifically because you mentioned hyper-local citations. So what I want to do is kind of demonstrate here how to get how to find those. Now if you can hire a lot of citation building services that will do this now a marketer center is a pretty good spot to get some of these they’ll it’s still kind of automated if you want to. I mean, they have like, you know, lists that they build from. I think the best citation building service available is Logan x. There’s no doubt it but it’s more expensive. You’re going to pay more for it, but it’s a really good service because they build structured citations and unstructured citations, social citations, document citations, video citations, audio citations, all of those and then they hit all of them with backlinks. Like they automatically build backlinks to the citations as part of the service. They’ve got a monthly citation bonus service 150 bucks a month. For clients, it’s an almost standard operating procedure for me, because it’s just really good service. And if they do really, really well, they perform well as, but for hyperlocal citations, I’m just going to use this as an example. I think we’re using plumber Fairfax, a couple of weeks ago for an example.

So one of the ways to get hyper-local citations is well one is to take a look at competitors. So like, let’s say that John C Flood was, which is the plumber site that we’re looking at was a client of mine, okay, or, you know, a lead gen project, whatever. Let’s just say that that was the case. One of the things you can do is take a look at the top-ranked, and he’s doing well organically at least. Maybe not so much in maps, but he’s doing well for organics, but maybe look at FJ hooks plumbing is number one in maps and put that into a notepad file, right so I’m just going to say hooks, plumbing, Inc. And then I always use this is the way that you can do these guys use to have three data points for NAP to have it doesn’t matter which two but I typically use the company name and the phone number. Okay? So in this case, it’s going to be 783-591-1284.

Okay, do that for each one of the, you know, top five or so. So it would be FJ Hooks Long’s Corporation, I think that’s the example we were looking at a couple of weeks ago, calories, plumbing, home service doctors in my plumber, heating, cooling and electrical, right, so I would take the top five, I would copy down or jot into a notepad file or an Excel sheet or something like that Google Sheet, whatever their company name as it’s listed in the NA and the Google Maps, right, and then also their phone number. That’s typically the two data points that I’ll pull, right and I’ll copy that and I’ll just go over to Google and I’ll do a search. Okay. And then what I’ll do this. And again, you can train to be able to do these guys is go through really, all you need to do is go through like the top two pages and copy the URLs or at least note, you don’t need to copy the URLs for them, your competitors or whatever. But in this case, this is the top level, the one and number, the number one position in maps. So go through and take a look Manta, I’d put Manta in the spreadsheet. So if you got a spreadsheet or a notepad file doesn’t matter, I just put Manta com, Yelp, yelp.com Okay, Facebook, we know that’s a big one that’s a branded profile. Anyways, MapQuest. checkbook.org which is interesting. I’ve not seen that before. Angie’s List com white pages. So you guys get the idea. I would go through the top two for every single one of the the the top five listed maps, compete for your competitors that are listed in the top five in maps, right and if you’re in the top five, then you know you’re going to select the top five plus, you know besides yours.

So what I’m saying is if you’re in the top five, then you know, you’re going to select maybe one, two, and in four or five and six or something like that my point is to get the top five competitors compared to where you are, and then copy their name and their phone number down and just do a search a simple Google search. And again, he can have a VA do this and go figure out just make a list of the top level citation directories for those companies specific to that area. Does that make sense? That’s one of the ways to get the best performing citations for your specific area.

Guys, there are niche directories like plumbing directories in this case. And then there are our business national business directories which are like Yelp and Manta, for example, and Angie’s List would be another one. But then there’s hyperlocal citations and want to walk through a quick example of that too. But regardless of the different types of directories again, national which are common, that’s what we see the most, Niche directories which are powerful because they’re topically relevant, right. And then there’s a, there are local citations that are going to be common to specific areas. In other words, there will be certain citations that are going to show up repeatedly for Fairfax plumbers or plumbers in Fairfax, that I could go to Richmond, Virginia, which is, I don’t know, 90-100 miles away. And they’re going to be a different set of common citation or business directory type sites that are common down there. So what I’m saying is, every area is slightly different. That’s why you can’t just have a master list and expect that master list to perform the same across all different niches and all different locations. That’s why it’s very simple.

When you go to Google and you use Google to determine that again, you can have a VA do it take the top five, do it search for their name and address or name and phone number, I’d use name and phone number and then just write down or, you know, put into a notepad file right in the Excel sheet, the business directory domains that are in the top two pages for each one of those five, right? And then you can, you know, you’ll see commonalities, the ones that are common across all of those are across all five, which you’ll see some of those, those are going to be your most powerful citation sources. So make sure you’re listed on that, then to Marco’s point to go hyperlocal, what you would want to do in this case, also you can go remember as I said, niche directories right so you could type into just do a Google search and say plumbing directory, right? And I misspelled plumbing but plumbing directory right and you go right through here and okay home advisor you know, I don’t like home advisor but my zip plumbers. com that’s a local plumbing directory, local, that’s a national directory, but they have a plumbing category, obviously, the plumbing info.com right. So national plumbers directory.org so this is how you very easily just put in your service, your keyword, whatever directory and now you’ve got niche directories those are more powerful than just plain national directories right because they’re topically relevant. All right.

Now lastly, for getting hyper-local citations in this case, we’re going to say Fairfax County. Business Directory, right? Boom right there. Web NoVa chamber org business directory. That’s Nova stands for Northern Virginia. Discover Fairfax, VA. com business directory, Fairfax County, EDA or Economic Development Authority, get your business listed there are your clients business listed there, right. A liable Fairfax county.gov. business right. Find out how you get listed on the Fairfax County. That’s the official Fairfax County government website, guys. You can get listed there find out sometimes they’re paid listings, who cares? It’s it’s not usually very expensive. And it’s worth it because these are what Marco just mentioned are hyper-local citations. They’re very powerful. And it doesn’t just have to stop with business directories, you could put Fairfax County blogs, right? Because a lot of times you can actually get listed on Fairfax County blogs guys, it sometimes it just requires outreach to the, you know, the blog owners and maybe you have a press release written or something like that and you reach out. And again, you don’t have to do this, you can hire people to do this and have them reach out to them because guys, these are all local blogs now talking about events and activities, and, you know, places to go, and products and services and all of that kind of stuff that is hyper-local, local to this area. Those types of links are so much more powerful than links that anybody can get from anywhere from like national directories if that makes sense. Because Google understands there’s that geographic relationship. There’s that geographic relevancy, and it’s so much more powerful. And so again, these are all kinds of thing. I mean, there’s a ton of them that just popped up right here, right that you could potentially get listed on Fairfax County, let’s say newspaper that a lot of the times there’s business directories there, and you could put online newspapers, things like that. But a lot of times there’s classifieds. And you can get, those are powerful citations, you can run little classified online classified ads that will give you a link from those local newspaper and online newspapers. Again, very, very powerful.

Something like Topix. Topix that we used to hack these long years ago. If you guys are familiar with Topix, there’s Topix.com Fairfax, that’s like a forum. And there’s, there’s a local location forum, like there, this site is siloed. Well, and it’s got forums specific to locations and you can actually kind of there’s this requires like some social engineering stuff, but you can actually go in and start a thread and at like with, you know, a profile you want to use multiple profiles with multiple IPS but most of you have that kind of stuff anyway, but you can go in and register and ask a question like and start a new thread in the fair in this case, like the Fairfax County topics category. And there’s a lot of traffic and traction in there, guys. And it’s very, very powerful. And you can start a thread and say something like, Hey, I just moved into the area. And I really need a good plumber in Fairfax, work your keywords into the question, any recommendations, right and leave it like that and then login with another account that under a different IP that you may have answered, you may have commented on some other threads within that same category, the same Fairfax category, so that you’re not just posting a link because a lot of times in these types of forums that if you if you’re new and you post a link, your comment will get moderated out. So if you season one of those accounts to where you can, you know, you created some comments again, guys, you can hire all this stuff out you can train a staff member or VA to do this kind of stuff for you. But if you season an account that so that you get past that threshold to where you can drop a link, then you use that profile to go in and answer that question from the other profile Hey, I just moved in the area, I’m really looking for a good plumber in Fairfax. And now you drop. The first comment underneath that is, hey, here’s a great plumber. It’s what was the one that I was saying was my business FJ hooks plumbing, Inc, they’re located in Fairfax, here’s their phone number. Here’s their website URL. Now that’s a citation from a very powerful Local Business Forum. With it now being the first comment in a new thread and other people will come in and chime in on that thread. And that social engagement, other people commenting on that actually pushes more power into that particular thread and makes that citation even more powerful. That’s very, very powerful. Most people don’t do that because it’s not as easy as just going and hiring a citation building service. It requires manual work, but if you want really good results, that’s how you do it. I mean, and again, guys, you can train a VA to do this stuff. It’s not something that you can find in a service online typically, but you can train a VA to do this stuff for you and you’re going to get much better results. Okay. So hopefully that was helpful. See, we can do this on Hump Day hang out sometimes. That’s usually what we do in our paid groups, right? Go into training.

What Will Happen If IFrame A Good Content From A Money Site To An Exact Match Domain?

Alright, Ji says, what if I iframe a piece of good content from my money site to an exact match domain? So you mean buying exact match domain and just put iframe a piece of content into that? I mean, sure, but you can do that with the G site. I’m not I mean, I don’t know why you get more power out of doing it from an Amazon s3 hosted page or a G site than you would from bindings an exact match domain that has no inherent authority. Right? Because you can build keyword relevancy from putting content around the iframe is my point. So why not use something that has massive authority already, like a Google site, which is on the Google domain, or an Amazon s3 page write an HTML page that’s ham hosted on Amazon bucket now you’re you’re you’re siphoning authority from Amazon, right you can create the relevancy what you don’t need the exact match keyword in the domain, you can create the relevancy from the content, the text around the iframe, and in the metadata and in the Jason structure, you know, the LD structured data, all of that. So,

I mean, I get where you’re going with that, Jay, but that’s not, you know, I think you go about it better than going out and buying an exact match domain that as essentially starting from zero, you’d have to build some authority to that. And I just go ahead and use what’s available to us for free, right. So the exact mastermind only has an iframe from my money site and that and I link a spam GMB to the exact match domain. I’m not sure what you mean on that. A spam Google My Business. So you’re talking about like, building like lead gen GMB assets, you link that to your exact match domain. Oh, I see what you’re saying. So you’re talking about if you’re going to build additional GMBs, and you iframe with a different domain and exact to match them. And that becomes your landing page. But really it’s a page on your web, your primary website that’s just iframe into it. I don’t know. I, I don’t know. I don’t know if I would do that. Marco, what do you think about that?

Marco: Whenever someone asked me what if questions, I say, test it, and let me know what happens. Yeah. Because I can’t tell you what if on every scenario that I haven’t tried, but what I meant by when I was asking, what do you think about that, as I’m not sure that I would want to iframe a money site page into a domain? That was it. That was only set up as a spam GMB asset with just my money site. I framed and knew it as the landing page like in other words, I don’t know if that could cause any negativity. If Google terminated that, you know, I would say on that if it’s going to have a TMP and he’s going to take the time to work on the entity power up the entity. It could work but I would as you said, I spend my resources my time and my money on just getting the power from a D site where you know, you can’t harm your money site, because Google will just won’t pass a penalty though. Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. I’m not sure that I would do that I mark is right. I would recommend if you wanted to try that you’d have to test it. I can’t we can’t speculate on what would happen. I mean, I personally wouldn’t want to do that because it doesn’t to me. As I said, I’d rather I guys, you could even use a Google site is your domain, your website URL for GMB? You know, you can do that. There’s I’ve never seen it not happen. You know what I’m saying? So why not just use that right? You can create a Google site and flesh that out a bit and make that the website of the GMB. That makes sense. You still want to create the GSB website and put that in the appointment URL. You know, you can that’s what I’ve been doing. So he says, What can I expect Google picks up the content starts to rank for the exact match again. I don’t know how that would treat this G. We haven’t tested that. And so, you know, it would be speculation so I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. So,

How Quickly Can You Livestream Videos To A Channel Connected To A 4-Ring IFTTT Network?

Dan, the man says, or Dan Damman How quickly can you last new videos to a channel connected to a four ring IFTTT network so as to not go too fast and destroy the syndication network effective. I mean, you can live stream whenever if you’re talking about, you know, publishing multiple, like, for example, just using it as a spam channel where but it uses live streams as opposed to uploading.

If it’s a seasoned network, it can you what I mean by that is if it’s got some age to it, and you’ve slowly, you know, started posting to it, and then slowly ramped up the speed with which you post with the velocity, whatever you want to call it, the frequency of posting, then a lot of times it’ll it’ll be okay. But if it’s a new network, a newer network, and you start posting, you know, multiple times per day. Especially if they’re spammy videos with similar content, that kind of stuff, then you know, you can get a lot of your network properties terminated. So that’s why, like I said, I, you know, in my opinion, you’re better off doing that, if you’re going to do that kind of stuff that you’re, you know, you don’t.

A lot of times you don’t need syndication networks, if you’re going to do that type of, I don’t know what kind of a strategy you’re asking about specifically, I’m only making assumptions here. But a lot of times you can get results with YouTube spam stuff, by just using multiple accounts, YouTube accounts that don’t even need syndication networks. Why not? If I’m going to take the time to build or you know, purchase, you know, spend money or whatever on syndication networks for YouTube syndication stuff, I’m going to try to keep them around not spam them to death. Right. And so typically, the videos are going to be a better quality it’s not going to be the same video just spun. You know what I mean? Like to change the video encoding and that stuff and continually repeating publishing the same damn video. I’ve seen that too much. Guys, and that shit used to work years ago. And I guess you can still get some results from that. But most people, you know, don’t react to those kinds of videos. And honestly, a lot of the syndication network sites and stuff will actually terminate, because they detect those as spam. So I would recommend if you’re going to take the time to build networks out or purchase networks, which is what we recommend, and certainly, that you would try to keep your channel and the content good enough to where that’s not a date, you’re not in danger of doing that. So if you’re actually doing real live streams, then I wouldn’t worry about it at all, because they’re all going to be real and unique. They’re not spammy. But if you’re just using live streams, and you’re basically mass, you know, duplicating a video and constantly re-streaming it to a channel or uploading it to a channel that’s connected to syndication networks, you’re in danger of getting those terminated. Okay, especially if it’s brand new.

We got more questions and we can answer now so we almost shut it down. And at the very last minute when we almost took it from you guys, you posted a shit ton questions that now can’t be answered.

So next time post early guys. We’re going to wrap it up. I’ve gotta run guys. My daughter’s got a softball game tonight I gotta go to so unfortunately, that’s gonna be it for today. So thanks for your extra engagement. We needed it guys we appreciate that. Thanks, guys for sticking around.

Bye, everyone.

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Announcement

Adam: everybody welcomes to Hump Day hangouts Episode 236. The episode where we asked you the questions. Now we’ll get to that actually we do have a question for you who are viewing today and if you’re watching the replay but first we’re going to say hello to everybody. We got everybody here so going to start on the left with Chris How are you doing today?

Chris: Doing good. Not excited to be back. It’s basically winter temperatures here. It snowed again rain. five degrees Celsius.

Adam: Okay, take it you’re back in Austria, then you’re definitely not.

Chris: Yeah, unfortunately, I’m already making plans to fly back.

Adam: tough, tough or not. Hernan, how are you doing? Are you What are you warm or cold?

Hernan: Now it’s cold, man. It’s getting chillier, but it’s okay. It’s a nice time of the season. I am enjoying this and down here in Buenos Aires. I’ll be Miami in a couple of weeks. So if you happen to be in the South Florida area, hit me up. Maybe we can grab something to drink or whatever. But yeah, looking good, man. A lot of work but everything is soaking up.

Adam: Cool, cool. Alright, Marco. How about you, man?

Marco: Damn. It’s cold today, man. Yeah, it’s 72 I’m gonna have to go walk around the corner and come back. If people are flying here and there I don’t know. I’ll just walk around the corner they’ll get better.

Adam: I got sidetracked there. Bradley. How are you doing man?

Bradley: Wayne Clayton says his name Wayne Clayton hashtag stood looking at his comment. That’s funny. Anyways, I’m good. Glad to be here. So, not quite as warm as Marco who’s saying it’s cold. It’s freaking cold in Virginia right now. I don’t know why it’s like 60 degrees. Cool for this time of year. So yeah.

Adam: I’m near San Francisco is supposed to be nice this time of year and we’re supposed to get like a month’s worth of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours. So that’s gonna be nice. Yeah. Yeah, enough of the weather reports. If you’re new thanks for holding with us here while we give you a worldwide update on weather conditions. And I want to say, first of all, you’re in the right spot. Thanks for checking out Hump Day Hangouts. Whether you’re watching us live right now or whether you’re catching the replay. This is the place to be you can always go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions for that week, Humpday Hangouts, ask your questions. Get them up there ahead of time, it’s a first come first serve, we just ask that you try to not ask you know, 10 questions at once just one maybe to let other people go or else we’ll kind of have to skip your answers because we can’t focus on one person for too long. It just wouldn’t be fair.

But secondly, if you’re also wondering where to start, grab the Battle Plan. All right, go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com. I’m not going to spend a lot of time talking about it. Just go check it out. You can find out all you want about it. But if you’re looking to take things to kind of to the next level as far as either starting or growing your own local digital marketing agency, then you should definitely join our mastermind You can find out more at mastermind.semanticmastery.com

For anybody who’s looking for premium done for you services, head over to mygb.co. Alright done for you kick ass services. It’s the stuff that we use or developed to use in our own businesses. And then, you know, as people wanted them, we put them in there and made them available so others can benefit from it. And I guess now’s a good time to ask questions, guys. Should we ask, should we ask the question we were talking about? Yeah. I’ll hand it over. I’m gonna let Bradley do this. He seems like he’s interested in.

Bradley: The question is, ever since we had to switch to hang out since Google events shut the Google events page is down, which is where we had hosted it for shit three, we’re over three years now. Right. We’re going on for four years now. Our way? Yeah. It’s been a long time since we’ve been doing this. But yeah, we’re like in four and a half years now. We’ve been doing this and it’s only been like three months or so since they shut Google events down. You know, Google Plus down, which is where we were hosting them and we used to have a lot more engagement on our Hump Day Hangouts, that we do now. And it could be because of that stupid, you know, the stupid chat app that we’re using now, which was better than the Facebook chat app that got some accounts suspended or whatever locked or that kind of stuff. But we’re still trying to work our way through like finding the best place to host these guys. So we want to ask your opinion, those of you that are attending right now, today live, posting that silly 1980s looking chat box that we’re using right now, where would you prefer us to host Hump Day hangouts directly on YouTube watch pages? Or should perhaps we try to stream it into Facebook and use our Facebook group, the SEO Marketing tutorials or whatever group and maybe host it there?

You guys let us know because honestly, the attendance rate has gone down and the number of questions has gone down. Ever since we shut Google or Google events shut down. And so we’re debating whether we should keep it going or not. certainly, want to I’ve always enjoyed these, you know, four and a half years into it. I’d hate to give it up. I’ve really have enjoyed this a lot. But honestly, if we’re not going to get the engagement, we’re not going to show up and answer three or four questions and shut it down. So we would like to ask you guys for your opinion. Do you think we should try it over on YouTube? Should we maybe try it and Facebook or give us your suggestion? You know, let us know. So with that said,

Adam: and I’m biased, thank you. I believe that’s Mike crest. Yeah, that’s awesome. Love the 80s if you love the goofy chatbot that’s okay, too. Just for an unbiased opinion for me. Okay, cool. Yeah, we’ll take everything into account and we’ll let everybody now but yeah, we got any other announcements, you guys I think that was everything I had.

Bradley: There’s a stuffed animal dog talking. I do like the fact that this chat outlet says meme again though because for a while we couldn’t even do that.

Anyways, alright, I don’t have any specific announcements other than we’ve got our mastermind webinar tomorrow, one of our newer members, G, he, we’re calling you G, by the way from now on, because I’m not sure how to pronounce your name. So we’re going to actually dig into a project that he’s been asking a bunch of questions about. Marco and I are going to analyze that. And that’s something I want to talk about briefly is, you know, that is the value of the mastermind, in my opinion, is coming in and being able to interact with us as well as the other members. It’s not just about us, we’ve got a lot of savvy members in our group and it’s the, you know, very active and engaged the Facebook group. So pretty much any kind of question can be asked there and you get a bunch of really good replies back or responses from other successful marketers or that are successful in whatever type of marketing business they’re in. It’s not just all local SEO stuff. We talk a lot about that. That’s primarily because that’s what I do. But there are members in our group to do national SEO, some affiliate stuff, you know, all that so and then it’s also getting access to us directly, but then on the mastermind webinars we go into in depth into whatever anybody wants to get into, most of the time I do some sort of training. And then before we get into questions and answers, but then when we get it to member questions, we go really in-depth into whatever anybody wants to go into. And there’s no holds barred. Like, in other words, we don’t, we don’t hold anything back.

Like we have to hear in a public setting, right. So, you know, for example, if a member comes in, and they want us to analyze a website, or a specific marketing campaign or something like that is if they’re willing to share that they will go you know, deep dive in it, Marco and I really analyze it, pick it apart, in a nice way, kind of point out how it can get better results and that kind of stuff. And that’s really where the value comes in, guys, because that’s, you know, again, it’s about networking with others. Yes, there’s a lot of training in the mastermind, yes, you get discounts and things like that, but that’s not what the value is, in my opinion. The value is in networking with us and the other members, getting questions answered in almost real time, about pretty much any sort of issue you’re having in marketing or business related regardless or outsourcing? Or, I mean, some of our members even asked questions that aren’t even marketing or business related. And that’s, that’s perfectly fine. That’s what it’s for. So does anybody want to comment on that or any other not yet?

Marco: I’d like to comment on that on one of your comments. You, you’re the nice guy. So you will look at a website nicely. But if a width website is crappy, I’m going to tell someone, you your website sucks. Your SEO sucks. I’m a real man, I can’t help it. That’s just the way I am. I’m going to give it to you. kind of try to shock you into seeing what you’re not seeing or what you’re avoiding seeing what you’re avoiding doing. And that’s what this is all about getting real. With people getting past all of that shiny shit that they’re fed every day. All of that bullshit, all of that crap that that doesn’t work. It’s just made, so that so that they will so that people will just spend more money. There’s no purpose to it, other than to get the people to fork over more money, more training. That’s never really complete. What we try to do is we try to give you the steps, right? That you need to take in order to take your shit to the next level, whatever your shit on it online might be, it could be anything. But guys, please understand that our purpose is to help you.

If you go into our Facebook group into our mastermind, I said, Look going there a month, and see that the value is really in that Facebook group, and being able to ask us all questions and getting an answer almost immediately. If it’s the weekend, of course, sometimes, I’m often with family, but someone sometimes jumps in on weekends and ask us questions. So it’s not just here that we answer questions, we ask your questions in all of our groups, but mainly our focus is the mastermind. And no matter what your question is, we try to get you an answer. And if we don’t know then the answer might just be we don’t know. because trust me, I don’t know a whole lot of shit. I’m still learning every day. But we do try to come up with an answer.

Or try to steer you in the right direction and we don’t have it will tell you, yeah, we will work on it or just give you or send you in the right direction. So that’s what I have to say about this.

Bradley: Sweet. Okay, now I got to find the actual questions and comments now.

Adam: Yeah, well, I want to say one more thing too because we are using YouTube regardless where, you know, obviously still being broadcast on YouTube. I guess potentially that could change but we’re never going to stop putting out content on YouTube. So if you find this useful or you find other video clips, like Anna just said in the comments, you know, she that’s part of how she came across us and joined the mastermind and how she got involved with Semantic Mastery and with our community. So if you come across video clips that are useful, or you know that they would be useful to other people, please do us a favor, do them a favor, share it, send them a link and you know, this is part of why we do this we definitely want to help out and it’s mutually beneficial. You know, we want people discovered more us more often and we want to help them go out and we can.

Bradley: Sweet. All right, I’m gonna steal the screen. And we’re going to get ..

Marco: and Subscribe, subscribe to our YouTube channel. That’s another way to help us out and continue this as a free medium.

Bradley: There you go.

How Do You Find The Town Center In Google Maps?

All right. We had one from a few days ago, Cool Cat says how do I figure out the center of my town using Google Maps? As far as I know, if you type in the name of your city, then typically the map pulls up with the city center as the center point of the map. Has that changed? Or is that correct? Marco Do you know?

Marco: As far as I know, that’s the way you just type in the city. You can type in the state if there are other cities that are named the same Island because there are in other states. You just type in the city and you should get to the geographical what Google considers the geographical center of the city.

So if I say Culpeper. Yeah. Yeah, so that should be the center of the map here should be what it thinks is the center of Culpeper, in this case, right? As far as I know, that’s how it is now, I mean, so you just dropped your pin somewhere like you know, somewhere in there. And usually when you click on it twice, it puts a little great pin maybe you’ve got a zoom all the way in anyways, typically when you There goes finally there’s a little gray pan and there are your geo coordinates now there might be another way to do it you can probably search Google and say how to find city center and probably get an answer so you know when in doubt use Google.

How To Handle A Mass Page WordPress Site To Rank 10 GMBs Within 30-Mile Radius Of The Centre City?

Alright, so we’re gonna move on Dan demand from Canada says hey gents, I didn’t have a question about how to handle a mass page WordPress site in relation to 10 gm bees, all in a 30-mile radius of the city of the center city. If I’m working to rank these 10 GMBs all for the same niche, does it make sense to set up city pages? For example remodelers.com/locations/city, and then point citations to those individual city pages. I was then contemplating directing the city pages to the individual city, GMB assets. thoughts. Good idea. Terrible. Thanks, man. Well, I’m not sure why you would I mean, if you’re going to build a page, a location based page for each GMB, I’m not sure why you would redirect it, why wouldn’t you just use that location-based GMB or the location-based page as the website, the landing page URL for the GMB asset, see what I’m saying?

Like if you’re building I mean, unless it’s because it’s a mass page site that you’re doing that and it’s a spammy type looking or you know spamming type site, which most mass page sites are, in which case I wouldn’t build citations to that because then what happens if you get that site to deindex which is very likely happened, right? Mass page sites that happen to kind of regularly. And so if you’re building citations to that, and then you have to redirect it, what happens if it gets suspended or, you know, deindexed, then you’ve either got to go clean up. You can still leave it redirected. But now you’re redirecting through a potentially, you know, deindex domain penalize domain. So I wouldn’t do that. That’s why I’m saying if you were going to build citations, I would build citations directly to the GMB assets or set up a domain with subdomains and have a separate subdomain for each location. Because that way, if anyone of those subdomains now you can’t do that with them, I mean, I guess you could with a mass page site, but you’re trying to do it all on one domain. So location pages, inner pages, but again, I wouldn’t do that with the mass page site and build citations to it backlink shore. Because I mean, you know, no big deal but with citations again, if you lose that domain. Now you’ve got a whole bunch of citations to clean up unless you left the redirect up through a deindex domain, which I wouldn’t recommend doing.

So personally, I would not do it that way. I would build everything like if you were going to build out and self-hosted site for each location, I would do it on subdomains or not use a Mass Page Builder is what I’m saying, you guys, there’s nothing wrong with creating location pages and having inner pages for multiple locations. When you’re building something out like this, the problem occurs is if you’re you’ve got spam, the map addresses number one, and number two, if you’re doing something spammy to the domain, but if you’re keeping the domain clean, which is what we teach, right, I mean, we really do we teach about keeping the primary domain clean, building your tier one assets out and you know, especially the way that we build them out syndication networks to drive stacks using press releases, citations also count, you know, all of that stuff, then you can do all your spammy stuff up to that and keep your main your primary domain, clean Gsites. That’s a big part of it. What I’m saying is you can build the inner location pages and it’s not going to be an issue, as long as you’re not doing anything spammy. Now, again, I want to say this with the caveat, if you are using GMBs that are spammed addresses, there’s always that chance that they get suspended because they’re not real physical locations. So in that case, I wouldn’t want to have all of them necessarily associated with a money site domain, as opposed to if you can still do it, but I would recommend doing it through a subdomain. Even if it was just a redirect to like the GMB website URL. Right. So that’s, you know, whatever your business site, GMB website, right, you can still use a branded domain in that case and set up a sub domain redirect for each one of those to just redirect. I’ve got several projects like that where I’m using a branded domain. Can you guys still hear me?

Marco: Yeah

Bradley: okay because it looks like a reset on me where I’m using a branded domain, but I use a subdomain with the city name for each different location and the subdomain redirects to the GMB website like for a lot of my multi-location sites, guys, I got rid of the self hosted WordPress sites for my lead gen stuff especially because it’s just an additional management piece of, you know, something else that I have to manage and update regularly. You guys know how much WordPress updates and I just got tired of doing it and it’s really unnecessary because we’re able to get results with just GMB stuff right? So for that I’ve actually redirected I’ve eliminated a lot of my WordPress sites now and I just have GMB. Excuse me subdomains redirecting to the GMB website. So anyway, hopefully, that makes sense. I’m not a mass page fan builder or fan fanboy. Do you know what I’m saying? I don’t like those, just because they, they tend to get indexed. And it’s a lot of work and I’ve never had really good results with it unless I continually build sites that get taken down.

So I can’t really give you the best advice on that. I certainly wouldn’t build citations to a mass index or mass, a mass page type site. Any comments on that?

Marco: No, I don’t have any because I don’t use math page builder.

How To Embed A GMB Post Into A GSite?

Bradley: Yeah. Fitz, what’s up a fence? He says, Is there a way to embed a GMB post into a G site? Not that I’m aware of it because Marco would be able to answer that, but as far as I know, GMB posts cannot be iframe, correct?

Marco: Yes, they can.

Bradley: They can. Really? Okay.

Marco: Yeah, yeah, they can. Okay, forgive me then. I was wrong. Alright, so there you go, Fitz. Have you tried using just an iframe generator, and with the GMB post URLs or something secretive that we can’t talk about here?

Marco: No. I mean it’s just a straight iframe, like YouTube and or anything else? Okay, the iframe code and I was just playing with a day the other day so I’m pretty sure I’ll go back on look at my notes, but I’m pretty sure that it’s one of the ones that I tried and yes, you can.

Bradley: Okay. So there you go try it fits use the iframe generator, which is right there. And check it out. So it looks like Scott already answered it. Sorry, I didn’t even see that Scott till just now. So it looks like you can and Scott is confirming that huh? Okay, cool. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate that Scott Walker somebody. So he’s saying go into GMB site and get the URL for the post will be saved individually and have a URL like yes, it’s those long funky URL, place the URL and the iframe generator, right. Create the iframe use classic Google sites to embed the iframe insert HTML. There you go. That’s Yeah, you can insert the HTML as an element in the classic G sites. So cool. It does actually do that. That’s cool. I didn’t but you can.

Marco: You can also iframe it into the new Gsites.

Bradley: Can you? I’ve never done any work in the new g sites on

Marco: There’s an embed in the menu. Well, somebody’s coming through.

Bradley: I was watching soccer or something?

Marco: Yeah. But anyway, yeah, yeah. I’m pretty sure it is. Post the GMB site and it both on new and classic. Oh, there you go.

Mike, Chris says he doesn’t miss the old way he hated his g sweet account. Okay. James, wherever we end up saying he can’t do means on YouTube comments so so might have to be in Facebook.

Will You Still Upload Video To YouTube If You Host It On A Facebook Page?

If you host it on the Facebook page, we still upload videos to YouTube? Yes, BJ. And what I meant was if we host it on Facebook will stream it into Facebook. It’ll still be primarily through YouTube, or through perhaps zoom Mark has been pushing us to do that for quite some time. I didn’t want to get away from YouTube, but we can also use like something like OBS to stream from YouTube into Facebook simultaneously. Right? So yeah, that too. So should we do? Yeah, I mean YouTube is where we get most you know, we’ve got you to know close to 7000 subscribers in there and it’s just it’s we got a ton of content in there so I’m not going to get away from that. I wish I could Can I delete that this is terrible. Unbelievable unit towards these guys I want you to look.

Alright. Alright, next. Ready, let’s add them. Is this the end of Hump Day? Anna says no, not yet. No. We just got to change it to a platform where we get more engagement. Don says he’s okay with this chat format. I would just like to keep the hump day hangouts going. Well, thanks, John. We appreciate that. I’d love to keep them going as well. I just get notified to join and it was difficult to even find this.

If you’re subscribed to our channel, you should get notifications in Gmail, if you’re using Gmail and the social tab as well as if you’re in YouTube, it should give you a notification at the top all that kind of stuff. Here we also send out emails By the way, Adam does every 30 minutes or 30 minutes before Hump Day Hangouts. If you’re on our list, you should get an email to. Okay, keep on moving. Adam. Wayne says okay, Wayne is talking about Adams Facebook group that he has called the real world productivity growth group. Yeah, Adam does get a lot of cool stuff in there, guys. If you want to learn how to be more productive, get automate stuff, you know, make your life easier using apps and Zapier and slack. Can you tell if you want to go check out Adams group, Adam that I do outsell that probably not

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Any Recommended Tips To Rank Or Push Power To GStacks?

All right, here’s a real question from Mike crest. He says having problems getting my G stacks to rank or pushes power, follows the plan, hit links, embeds, PBNs, added content increase the depth and pages just finding they don’t push I know the market will likely hammer me. But these are built by you guys any tips or tricks to make these push? Well, I’m going to jump on that briefly before Marco goes off on a tangent on a rant. But honestly, I don’t expect my drive stack files to rank it all just so you guys know what my expectation is when I’m using drive stacks, which I’m using it for everything now as well, for even quite some time. I didn’t use them on everything but I am now because what I but I don’t expect the files that drive stack files to rank at all what I expect them to rank is what I’m linking to, like, for example, could be a G site, or could be a money site or could be a number of tier one properties that I’m trying to rank. And I’ve got a new business that I just started recently that I’m going to be talking about a lot in the mastermind over the next few weeks, or coming months really, because it’s, it’s starting to do really well for me. And I just set up a Click Funnels page, a landing page. And it was interesting because, and I talked about this in the Syndication Academy update webinar that was also like the MGYB webinar that we did a few weeks ago where we were talking about the why syndication networks are every bit as powerful now in 2019, as they were before. The way that the power has shifted away from just doing posting and syndicating, which is still certainly helpful is that they help to validate and solidify an entity. And I proved that with this new business, this new website and I just bought a branded domain. I created a new name for this business. And there but apparently that that business name, it’s similar to several other types of businesses. So it wasn’t 100% unique. It is unique but it was very similar to several other businesses with a similar name, excuse me.

And so anyway, I set up a Click Funnels landing page, I flesh that page out Well, it’s got content on it questions and answers and things like that, but it’s just a single page, Click Funnels website, essentially. And it was when I would do a search for that company name. It was, you know, that the, which was my title tag essentially along with a couple of keywords. For the first three weeks or so, it would hover on like page three and page for like, that’s where that would and that was just for doing a brand name search for this new business that I set up. But then when I got the syndication network, I hired one of our syndication network builders outside of his normal job duties to do this because he asked for some extra hours to make some extra money. So I hired him outside of that to do that for me. And you know, a couple of days later, I got this syndication network back and I think you delivered to me on a Friday and on Monday I went and just did another brand search and boom, that Click Funnels page was number one now, that was syndication networks. But the reason why I’m telling you that was because and that was without posting any content, guys no syndicating of any content. It’s a Click Funnels page. I can’t even syndicate content to the syndication network from Click Funnels. I did create a WordPress blog on a subdomain. But all I did was published one post and that was after it had already pushed the brand search to the Click Funnels page to the number one position for that brand search term. Now that said, I mentioned just a moment ago and the title tag, I had a couple of keywords. Now, this is not an Uber competitive market. But there are a few Pete players in this market that are savvy and doing SEO work as well as some PPC stuff. And the primary keywords that I’m targeting are in the title tag of that Click Funnels page, but the page itself isn’t really optimized for those keywords. Well, I had the same builder that I hired to do to build a syndication network. I had him build a drive stack. He was actually in training to build drive stacks. And so I gave him that project for this particular new business to build a drive stack now that was about three weeks ago and now without doing any additional SEO work I think I’ve published one press release but just the drive stack alone has now pushed that page that Click Funnels page to page one and it bounces between the bottom of page one and the top of page two right now for the primary keyword phrases which is great and guys I’m telling you I haven’t done anything differently so it does provide a push and I haven’t even hit that drive stack with backlinks yet. So it does absolutely provide a push if you’re in a significantly competitive market it’s obviously going to require more plus sometimes depending on the level what market it is what keywords the competition level there’s a lot of variables but sometimes they take longer to take effect and others with that said I’m gonna turn it over to Marco.

Marco: Yeah, there’s no reason for me to go off on this if you got one of our RYS done for you start. Now he also says that he added depth as far as pages. Was that done also in the drive stack? How did you do it? Was that done according to the training? And if you’re in the training, then this is a better question to ask me in RYS Academy Reloaded. So you can cash in your 30-minute coupon with me, so that we can go over the drive stack and all of the things that you’ve done. Now, without proper context, I can’t say what the problem is and why it’s not pushing power. Now, what was the timeframe in which this was done? Is it still dancing? Because a lot of times, you just have to be patient 21 days have to clear from the lab, whatever it was that you did from when you hit it with links. If you did an embed run, then it’s 21 days from that. And if you did it too quickly, over and over, then it’s just dancing until it settles like Bradley said it could take a while for it to just finish being wherever it is that it’s going to end up. Now. This is out of context for me because I don’t know. Like the drive stack is always done. The same way for everyone. But outside of that, what you did, I can’t account for my guys did. And I can go and look at it and say, Okay, this was either not done right or it was done right. Oh, and whatever it was that you did on the inside of it is not having the effect that it should be cut. But without being able to look at what you did. I can’t really answer this come hit me up in RYS Academy Facebook group. And I’ll be happy to answer this and to take half an hour with you and go over it and see what it is that stopping the power from flowing.

Bradley: There you go. That’s hard. That’s hard to pass that up, man. So I mean, that’s how much Marco believes in the fact that they work because he’ll give up a half an hour of his time to analyze what it is and provide suggestions that kind of stuff and, and I agree it’s crazy because you know, sometimes when, you know I don’t see the power of drive stacks on a regular basis and unless I’m monitoring it closely, in other words, like if I got a client and I get I just got, I picked up two new clients over the last month or so. And, you know, standard operating procedure syndication network, then a drive stack, but we’re doing press releases. So we’re kind of doing all these things all at once. But this new business that I started, I’m just doing things kind of slowly, because it’s, you know, it’s not, I’m just not hitting it really hard with everything. And I’m seeing the effects of the various things. As I said, the syndication network, made it pop to number one position for the brand search. I know that’s not Uber competitive. It was a brand search phrase, you know, like a branded name. But it was interesting to see it jumped three pages just from a syndication network without publishing any content to it. Right. Then now the primary keywords that it’s targeting, and it’s not an SEO page, guys, it’s just a landing, I’m driving traffic to it via other methods. I wasn’t planning on it being an SEO type thing yet at least. And just having a drive stack bill in about three weeks time, two to three weeks time. I’ve actually seen a significant push that and I did a press release too. But again, it’s interesting to see that kind of result from these things when you’re monitoring it that closely. When you’re doing them all the time for multiple clients and that kind of stuff. It’s not something that I typically monitor especially when you’re hitting up the assets with multiple multiple angles like multiple SEO angles, you know, it’s kind of hard to at that point isolate What did what, but we know that it works otherwise we wouldn’t keep using it. So

How To Regain Access To A Locked Facebook Account?

okay, cool. A grant says, oh, Grant seven hard time getting back into Facebook. Yeah, I don’t know. What’s going on with that grant. I’m not sure that that was caused from us specifically, but there was or from the chat app but there was we had the Facebook chat up I think we did it for two weeks and one week it just like caused a lot like some accounts to get locked mine too. And what’s crazy is guys, this makes makes a good point to talk about why you shouldn’t friend people on Facebook that you don’t know that you don’t really know because one of the things that they do is make you identify photos from friends, Facebook feeds and like who the people are in the photos and that was like I was like Oh shit, like I don’t friend I get a ton of friend requests on Facebook that I just never accept and it’s because if I don’t know you I’m not going to accept your friend request for the most part.

And so you know, some in that verification process some of the photos were from people that apparently aren’t on my friends’ list that I really don’t know. And so I was thinking Oh shit, I’m going to screw this up like I’m not gonna because you only get to fail I think two or three times before permanently or locks you out to where you have to you know another level of security to get back in anyway, I was fortunate enough to be able to get through but goes to show you don’t friend people you don’t know because it could keep you prevent you from getting access.

Let’s see. Alright, what’s next? 56k modem firing up. Oh, wow. Okay, Stoke jellyfish mastermind subgroup we’re going to take over the world everyone should be extremely jealous. Okay, cool. That must be one of the mastermind subgroups who named a jellyfish

Adam: huh oh, that’s why we just name it different animals and stuff each time to make them easy to deal with.

Adam: This is actually a cool point I want to tell people about this. I know we mentioned it before, but this is something we do for the mastermind members, you know, there’s a lot of power in the network and in the group and being a part of a big group like that and having peers as well as access to us. But also there’s power in meeting in a small group, you know, and so we put people to group if they want to, once a quarter we group people up in groups of like four to six so that they can meet up you know, give loose instructions, here’s how it’s a good way to do this. And then you really get that quick feedback, you can do hot seats, you can do all sorts of stuff from the people that you’re in there with and then on a really more hesitate to use it but on a more intimate level if you will. So it’s a really powerful way to even get more out of the mastermind.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. It’s about networking. So my Chris says to me Maybe I need to hit the folders instead of the G site. I would agree with that. We say, Marco.

Marco: Dadea, it takes care of link building. So I don’t, I’ll say I don’t know. Because whatever, whenever I do something, I just tell daddy, I need link building. And then he says, Okay, give me the main URLs and 300 or so keywords to go with it. And that totally needs then he goes in and finds everything else. So I don’t know it could be. But again, I’m not sure I don’t know how your inner folders and files were done. Because I know that my people didn’t do those as well without knowing that, without seeing that I can’t help you. Yeah.

Bradley: Very good guys. Any other questions? Otherwise, we can wrap it up early. Be a short Humpday Hangout.

Marco: And just for Anna. It’s not that I try to swear. Whenever I talk. It’s kind of just comes out. Must be the sailor in me. Sorry if I offend anyone. Fuck you anyway.

Bradley: That’s right. That’s right. Okay, well, it looks like unless we got something else we want to train about right now. Anybody? We can wrap it up a little bit early today.

Hernan: We’re good.

Adam: get time to hit the trails.

Bradley: You’re gonna go in the woods.

Adam: Yeah, gotta go for a run.

Bradley: You know, that’s code for right.

Adam: running long distances.

Bradley: Yeah, no that’s cool.

Oh, here comes I have a question, guys. Yeah, G is away, buddy. We’re going to analyze your stuff tomorrow on the mastermind webinar. We’re going to get into that deep so let’s see what he says. I would love to talk about niches sometimes Anna says.

Do You Wait 21 Days Before Doing Another Link Building?

BJ after you do the link building Do you wait 21 days before doing another link code? I mean, I don’t wait like a specific amount of time. I just wait to see what kind of results comes from it. And I don’t usually stack link building campaigns three weeks apart like that, you know, usually, it’s usually longer for me, like I’ll hit something with links and you know, typically I’ll have a Rank Tracker or something that’s kind of monitoring that and I’ll just check on it every you know, every few days or every couple of weeks and check to see what kind of push it is and but you remember I’m I don’t just do link building. I think that’s very, very powerful. But you know, we press releases and content marketing And oh, by the way, somebody asked questions about citations and I didn’t answer that. So forgive me on that. Son guest says are local citations still relevant? GMB is dominating now. So how much does impact how much does it still impact rankings worth working through all the Citations Sources like Yelp Yelp page citations is still important if you’ve got a valid business address, I recommend building citations if it’s a spam to business you know I for like lead gen stuff if you’re getting, for example, would lead gen stuff if you’re if you go out and get an actual physical address like a PO Box right? You use the street addressing option, then you can still get away with building citations because you can list the street address right the street address plus the number sign and in the box number, and that still works perfectly well. If you’re buying a verified GMB, which is an essentially it’s a spam address somewhere. I don’t recommend building citations in that in that situation or that scenario and the reason why is because if it was an address that was pulled from somebody’s house, which I hope people aren’t building them that way, then you could literally be starting start getting marketing mail sent to somebody’s house, a lot of the times those addresses are going to be spam from a commercial location. Once again, now those it’ll start they’ll start getting solicitation mail like physical mail with that company’s name on it because now like if you start building citations and Yellow Pages and things like that you get put on the company gets put on mailing lists, and now direct mail spam direct mail solicitation offers will start getting sent there.

Credit Card off, like a business credit card, offers all kinds of stuff. You can get reported that way by the recipient of those that mail right because it’s going to have some other companies address on there. So I don’t recommend that. Also, I don’t like to publish the address. One of the other questions we had recently was if you’re high if the service area business and you’re hiding your business address and the GMB which you should ask for Google’s Terms of Service for service area business. Should you go out and build all the citations without the street address? Well, there are only a few platforms that I know of that will allow you to do that. Most platforms to build a citation unless it’s changed recently because I don’t build my own citations anymore. I haven’t for the longest time, you know, we hire that out. But for the longest time, I know that most platforms would require a street address, or else it wouldn’t allow you to add a citation to their platform, right.

So again, for NAP stuff for area businesses. If it’s a spam address, I don’t recommend building citations. I’ll do everything else but citations. But if you have a valid business address or you go get like a PO Box where you have a physical place to send mail that you can go collect, then yeah, absolutely, they’re still effective, there’s no doubt they’re still effective. I still use them all the time for clients and everything else.

Marco: I would also add that if you can get hyper-local citations, those are really effective. And everywhere you’re looking at the greater picture wherein the semantic where we all we always have to think the entity. It’s just another way to validate your entity you. It’s your presence in all of these places. It’s placed where you’ve taken the time to go and get that citation to get it done properly. So that you know the more powerful ones like Yelp, those could become part of your same math. And it just adds validity to your entity and I got it guys we did the webinar. Not too long ago right for MGYB Syndication Academy where we talked about ads, I can’t emphasize it enough how important it is. And that and one of the reasons why RYS Academy Reloaded the RYS text works so well, is because we focus on the entity right from the beginning. And we push power to the entity so that we go after what I call the end game.

Bradley: I suggest for those of you who didn’t get a chance to see it, I mean, you should go, do we have it on MGYB? Do we have the URL, because I think people should go and watch that all day down to our YouTube channel, as well as on MGYB store on the webinar page now, which is that isn’t that in the header in the navigation menu now?

Marco: where it should be? So just to drive this into people’s head over and over whenever you start working on anything, even if it’s fake, you have to make it look as real as possible to Google that there is a thing on the web, and that this thing has some kind of validity. And we talked about the different ways to validate your entity.

Bradley: So just to talk about since you know, we’ve got time, let’s do this, we still got 20 minutes and it looks like some more questions popped up. But let’s talk about this very specifically because you mentioned hyper-local citations. So what I want to do is kind of demonstrate here how to get how to find those. Now if you can hire a lot of citation building services that will do this now a marketer center is a pretty good spot to get some of these they’ll it’s still kind of automated if you want to. I mean, they have like, you know, lists that they build from. I think the best citation building service available is Logan x. There’s no doubt it but it’s more expensive. You’re going to pay more for it, but it’s a really good service because they build structured citations and unstructured citations, social citations, document citations, video citations, audio citations, all of those and then they hit all of them with backlinks. Like they automatically build backlinks to the citations as part of the service. They’ve got a monthly citation bonus service 150 bucks a month. For clients, it’s an almost standard operating procedure for me, because it’s just really good service. And if they do really, really well, they perform well as, but for hyperlocal citations, I’m just going to use this as an example. I think we’re using plumber Fairfax, a couple of weeks ago for an example.

So one of the ways to get hyper-local citations is well one is to take a look at competitors. So like, let’s say that John C Flood was, which is the plumber site that we’re looking at was a client of mine, okay, or, you know, a lead gen project, whatever. Let’s just say that that was the case. One of the things you can do is take a look at the top-ranked, and he’s doing well organically at least. Maybe not so much in maps, but he’s doing well for organics, but maybe look at FJ hooks plumbing is number one in maps and put that into a notepad file, right so I’m just going to say hooks, plumbing, Inc. And then I always use this is the way that you can do these guys use to have three data points for NAP to have it doesn’t matter which two but I typically use the company name and the phone number. Okay? So in this case, it’s going to be 783-591-1284.

Okay, do that for each one of the, you know, top five or so. So it would be FJ Hooks Long’s Corporation, I think that’s the example we were looking at a couple of weeks ago, calories, plumbing, home service doctors in my plumber, heating, cooling and electrical, right, so I would take the top five, I would copy down or jot into a notepad file or an Excel sheet or something like that Google Sheet, whatever their company name as it’s listed in the NA and the Google Maps, right, and then also their phone number. That’s typically the two data points that I’ll pull, right and I’ll copy that and I’ll just go over to Google and I’ll do a search. Okay. And then what I’ll do this. And again, you can train to be able to do these guys is go through really, all you need to do is go through like the top two pages and copy the URLs or at least note, you don’t need to copy the URLs for them, your competitors or whatever. But in this case, this is the top level, the one and number, the number one position in maps. So go through and take a look Manta, I’d put Manta in the spreadsheet. So if you got a spreadsheet or a notepad file doesn’t matter, I just put Manta com, Yelp, yelp.com Okay, Facebook, we know that’s a big one that’s a branded profile. Anyways, MapQuest. checkbook.org which is interesting. I’ve not seen that before. Angie’s List com white pages. So you guys get the idea. I would go through the top two for every single one of the the the top five listed maps, compete for your competitors that are listed in the top five in maps, right and if you’re in the top five, then you know you’re going to select the top five plus, you know besides yours.

So what I’m saying is if you’re in the top five, then you know, you’re going to select maybe one, two, and in four or five and six or something like that my point is to get the top five competitors compared to where you are, and then copy their name and their phone number down and just do a search a simple Google search. And again, he can have a VA do this and go figure out just make a list of the top level citation directories for those companies specific to that area. Does that make sense? That’s one of the ways to get the best performing citations for your specific area.

Guys, there are niche directories like plumbing directories in this case. And then there are our business national business directories which are like Yelp and Manta, for example, and Angie’s List would be another one. But then there’s hyperlocal citations and want to walk through a quick example of that too. But regardless of the different types of directories again, national which are common, that’s what we see the most, Niche directories which are powerful because they’re topically relevant, right. And then there’s a, there are local citations that are going to be common to specific areas. In other words, there will be certain citations that are going to show up repeatedly for Fairfax plumbers or plumbers in Fairfax, that I could go to Richmond, Virginia, which is, I don’t know, 90-100 miles away. And they’re going to be a different set of common citation or business directory type sites that are common down there. So what I’m saying is, every area is slightly different. That’s why you can’t just have a master list and expect that master list to perform the same across all different niches and all different locations. That’s why it’s very simple.

When you go to Google and you use Google to determine that again, you can have a VA do it take the top five, do it search for their name and address or name and phone number, I’d use name and phone number and then just write down or, you know, put into a notepad file right in the Excel sheet, the business directory domains that are in the top two pages for each one of those five, right? And then you can, you know, you’ll see commonalities, the ones that are common across all of those are across all five, which you’ll see some of those, those are going to be your most powerful citation sources. So make sure you’re listed on that, then to Marco’s point to go hyperlocal, what you would want to do in this case, also you can go remember as I said, niche directories right so you could type into just do a Google search and say plumbing directory, right? And I misspelled plumbing but plumbing directory right and you go right through here and okay home advisor you know, I don’t like home advisor but my zip plumbers. com that’s a local plumbing directory, local, that’s a national directory, but they have a plumbing category, obviously, the plumbing info.com right. So national plumbers directory.org so this is how you very easily just put in your service, your keyword, whatever directory and now you’ve got niche directories those are more powerful than just plain national directories right because they’re topically relevant. All right.

Now lastly, for getting hyper-local citations in this case, we’re going to say Fairfax County. Business Directory, right? Boom right there. Web NoVa chamber org business directory. That’s Nova stands for Northern Virginia. Discover Fairfax, VA. com business directory, Fairfax County, EDA or Economic Development Authority, get your business listed there are your clients business listed there, right. A liable Fairfax county.gov. business right. Find out how you get listed on the Fairfax County. That’s the official Fairfax County government website, guys. You can get listed there find out sometimes they’re paid listings, who cares? It’s it’s not usually very expensive. And it’s worth it because these are what Marco just mentioned are hyper-local citations. They’re very powerful. And it doesn’t just have to stop with business directories, you could put Fairfax County blogs, right? Because a lot of times you can actually get listed on Fairfax County blogs guys, it sometimes it just requires outreach to the, you know, the blog owners and maybe you have a press release written or something like that and you reach out. And again, you don’t have to do this, you can hire people to do this and have them reach out to them because guys, these are all local blogs now talking about events and activities, and, you know, places to go, and products and services and all of that kind of stuff that is hyper-local, local to this area. Those types of links are so much more powerful than links that anybody can get from anywhere from like national directories if that makes sense. Because Google understands there’s that geographic relationship. There’s that geographic relevancy, and it’s so much more powerful. And so again, these are all kinds of thing. I mean, there’s a ton of them that just popped up right here, right that you could potentially get listed on Fairfax County, let’s say newspaper that a lot of the times there’s business directories there, and you could put online newspapers, things like that. But a lot of times there’s classifieds. And you can get, those are powerful citations, you can run little classified online classified ads that will give you a link from those local newspaper and online newspapers. Again, very, very powerful.

Something like Topix. Topix that we used to hack these long years ago. If you guys are familiar with Topix, there’s Topix.com Fairfax, that’s like a forum. And there’s, there’s a local location forum, like there, this site is siloed. Well, and it’s got forums specific to locations and you can actually kind of there’s this requires like some social engineering stuff, but you can actually go in and start a thread and at like with, you know, a profile you want to use multiple profiles with multiple IPS but most of you have that kind of stuff anyway, but you can go in and register and ask a question like and start a new thread in the fair in this case, like the Fairfax County topics category. And there’s a lot of traffic and traction in there, guys. And it’s very, very powerful. And you can start a thread and say something like, Hey, I just moved into the area. And I really need a good plumber in Fairfax, work your keywords into the question, any recommendations, right and leave it like that and then login with another account that under a different IP that you may have answered, you may have commented on some other threads within that same category, the same Fairfax category, so that you’re not just posting a link because a lot of times in these types of forums that if you if you’re new and you post a link, your comment will get moderated out. So if you season one of those accounts to where you can, you know, you created some comments again, guys, you can hire all this stuff out you can train a staff member or VA to do this kind of stuff for you. But if you season an account that so that you get past that threshold to where you can drop a link, then you use that profile to go in and answer that question from the other profile Hey, I just moved in the area, I’m really looking for a good plumber in Fairfax. And now you drop. The first comment underneath that is, hey, here’s a great plumber. It’s what was the one that I was saying was my business FJ hooks plumbing, Inc, they’re located in Fairfax, here’s their phone number. Here’s their website URL. Now that’s a citation from a very powerful Local Business Forum. With it now being the first comment in a new thread and other people will come in and chime in on that thread. And that social engagement, other people commenting on that actually pushes more power into that particular thread and makes that citation even more powerful. That’s very, very powerful. Most people don’t do that because it’s not as easy as just going and hiring a citation building service. It requires manual work, but if you want really good results, that’s how you do it. I mean, and again, guys, you can train a VA to do this stuff. It’s not something that you can find in a service online typically, but you can train a VA to do this stuff for you and you’re going to get much better results. Okay. So hopefully that was helpful. See, we can do this on Hump Day hang out sometimes. That’s usually what we do in our paid groups, right? Go into training.

What Will Happen If IFrame A Good Content From A Money Site To An Exact Match Domain?

Alright, Ji says, what if I iframe a piece of good content from my money site to an exact match domain? So you mean buying exact match domain and just put iframe a piece of content into that? I mean, sure, but you can do that with the G site. I’m not I mean, I don’t know why you get more power out of doing it from an Amazon s3 hosted page or a G site than you would from bindings an exact match domain that has no inherent authority. Right? Because you can build keyword relevancy from putting content around the iframe is my point. So why not use something that has massive authority already, like a Google site, which is on the Google domain, or an Amazon s3 page write an HTML page that’s ham hosted on Amazon bucket now you’re you’re you’re siphoning authority from Amazon, right you can create the relevancy what you don’t need the exact match keyword in the domain, you can create the relevancy from the content, the text around the iframe, and in the metadata and in the Jason structure, you know, the LD structured data, all of that. So,

I mean, I get where you’re going with that, Jay, but that’s not, you know, I think you go about it better than going out and buying an exact match domain that as essentially starting from zero, you’d have to build some authority to that. And I just go ahead and use what’s available to us for free, right. So the exact mastermind only has an iframe from my money site and that and I link a spam GMB to the exact match domain. I’m not sure what you mean on that. A spam Google My Business. So you’re talking about like, building like lead gen GMB assets, you link that to your exact match domain. Oh, I see what you’re saying. So you’re talking about if you’re going to build additional GMBs, and you iframe with a different domain and exact to match them. And that becomes your landing page. But really it’s a page on your web, your primary website that’s just iframe into it. I don’t know. I, I don’t know. I don’t know if I would do that. Marco, what do you think about that?

Marco: Whenever someone asked me what if questions, I say, test it, and let me know what happens. Yeah. Because I can’t tell you what if on every scenario that I haven’t tried, but what I meant by when I was asking, what do you think about that, as I’m not sure that I would want to iframe a money site page into a domain? That was it. That was only set up as a spam GMB asset with just my money site. I framed and knew it as the landing page like in other words, I don’t know if that could cause any negativity. If Google terminated that, you know, I would say on that if it’s going to have a TMP and he’s going to take the time to work on the entity power up the entity. It could work but I would as you said, I spend my resources my time and my money on just getting the power from a D site where you know, you can’t harm your money site, because Google will just won’t pass a penalty though. Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. I’m not sure that I would do that I mark is right. I would recommend if you wanted to try that you’d have to test it. I can’t we can’t speculate on what would happen. I mean, I personally wouldn’t want to do that because it doesn’t to me. As I said, I’d rather I guys, you could even use a Google site is your domain, your website URL for GMB? You know, you can do that. There’s I’ve never seen it not happen. You know what I’m saying? So why not just use that right? You can create a Google site and flesh that out a bit and make that the website of the GMB. That makes sense. You still want to create the GSB website and put that in the appointment URL. You know, you can that’s what I’ve been doing. So he says, What can I expect Google picks up the content starts to rank for the exact match again. I don’t know how that would treat this G. We haven’t tested that. And so, you know, it would be speculation so I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. So,

How Quickly Can You Livestream Videos To A Channel Connected To A 4-Ring IFTTT Network?

Dan, the man says, or Dan Damman How quickly can you last new videos to a channel connected to a four ring IFTTT network so as to not go too fast and destroy the syndication network effective. I mean, you can live stream whenever if you’re talking about, you know, publishing multiple, like, for example, just using it as a spam channel where but it uses live streams as opposed to uploading.

If it’s a seasoned network, it can you what I mean by that is if it’s got some age to it, and you’ve slowly, you know, started posting to it, and then slowly ramped up the speed with which you post with the velocity, whatever you want to call it, the frequency of posting, then a lot of times it’ll it’ll be okay. But if it’s a new network, a newer network, and you start posting, you know, multiple times per day. Especially if they’re spammy videos with similar content, that kind of stuff, then you know, you can get a lot of your network properties terminated. So that’s why, like I said, I, you know, in my opinion, you’re better off doing that, if you’re going to do that kind of stuff that you’re, you know, you don’t.

A lot of times you don’t need syndication networks, if you’re going to do that type of, I don’t know what kind of a strategy you’re asking about specifically, I’m only making assumptions here. But a lot of times you can get results with YouTube spam stuff, by just using multiple accounts, YouTube accounts that don’t even need syndication networks. Why not? If I’m going to take the time to build or you know, purchase, you know, spend money or whatever on syndication networks for YouTube syndication stuff, I’m going to try to keep them around not spam them to death. Right. And so typically, the videos are going to be a better quality it’s not going to be the same video just spun. You know what I mean? Like to change the video encoding and that stuff and continually repeating publishing the same damn video. I’ve seen that too much. Guys, and that shit used to work years ago. And I guess you can still get some results from that. But most people, you know, don’t react to those kinds of videos. And honestly, a lot of the syndication network sites and stuff will actually terminate, because they detect those as spam. So I would recommend if you’re going to take the time to build networks out or purchase networks, which is what we recommend, and certainly, that you would try to keep your channel and the content good enough to where that’s not a date, you’re not in danger of doing that. So if you’re actually doing real live streams, then I wouldn’t worry about it at all, because they’re all going to be real and unique. They’re not spammy. But if you’re just using live streams, and you’re basically mass, you know, duplicating a video and constantly re-streaming it to a channel or uploading it to a channel that’s connected to syndication networks, you’re in danger of getting those terminated. Okay, especially if it’s brand new.

We got more questions and we can answer now so we almost shut it down. And at the very last minute when we almost took it from you guys, you posted a shit ton questions that now can’t be answered.

So next time post early guys. We’re going to wrap it up. I’ve gotta run guys. My daughter’s got a softball game tonight I gotta go to so unfortunately, that’s gonna be it for today. So thanks for your extra engagement. We needed it guys we appreciate that. Thanks, guys for sticking around.

Bye, everyone.

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Announcement

Adam: everybody welcomes to Hump Day hangouts Episode 236. The episode where we asked you the questions. Now we’ll get to that actually we do have a question for you who are viewing today and if you’re watching the replay but first we’re going to say hello to everybody. We got everybody here so going to start on the left with Chris How are you doing today?

Chris: Doing good. Not excited to be back. It’s basically winter temperatures here. It snowed again rain. five degrees Celsius.

Adam: Okay, take it you’re back in Austria, then you’re definitely not.

Chris: Yeah, unfortunately, I’m already making plans to fly back.

Adam: tough, tough or not. Hernan, how are you doing? Are you What are you warm or cold?

Hernan: Now it’s cold, man. It’s getting chillier, but it’s okay. It’s a nice time of the season. I am enjoying this and down here in Buenos Aires. I’ll be Miami in a couple of weeks. So if you happen to be in the South Florida area, hit me up. Maybe we can grab something to drink or whatever. But yeah, looking good, man. A lot of work but everything is soaking up.

Adam: Cool, cool. Alright, Marco. How about you, man?

Marco: Damn. It’s cold today, man. Yeah, it’s 72 I’m gonna have to go walk around the corner and come back. If people are flying here and there I don’t know. I’ll just walk around the corner they’ll get better.

Adam: I got sidetracked there. Bradley. How are you doing man?

Bradley: Wayne Clayton says his name Wayne Clayton hashtag stood looking at his comment. That’s funny. Anyways, I’m good. Glad to be here. So, not quite as warm as Marco who’s saying it’s cold. It’s freaking cold in Virginia right now. I don’t know why it’s like 60 degrees. Cool for this time of year. So yeah.

Adam: I’m near San Francisco is supposed to be nice this time of year and we’re supposed to get like a month’s worth of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours. So that’s gonna be nice. Yeah. Yeah, enough of the weather reports. If you’re new thanks for holding with us here while we give you a worldwide update on weather conditions. And I want to say, first of all, you’re in the right spot. Thanks for checking out Hump Day Hangouts. Whether you’re watching us live right now or whether you’re catching the replay. This is the place to be you can always go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions for that week, Humpday Hangouts, ask your questions. Get them up there ahead of time, it’s a first come first serve, we just ask that you try to not ask you know, 10 questions at once just one maybe to let other people go or else we’ll kind of have to skip your answers because we can’t focus on one person for too long. It just wouldn’t be fair.

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Bradley: The question is, ever since we had to switch to hang out since Google events shut the Google events page is down, which is where we had hosted it for shit three, we’re over three years now. Right. We’re going on for four years now. Our way? Yeah. It’s been a long time since we’ve been doing this. But yeah, we’re like in four and a half years now. We’ve been doing this and it’s only been like three months or so since they shut Google events down. You know, Google Plus down, which is where we were hosting them and we used to have a lot more engagement on our Hump Day Hangouts, that we do now. And it could be because of that stupid, you know, the stupid chat app that we’re using now, which was better than the Facebook chat app that got some accounts suspended or whatever locked or that kind of stuff. But we’re still trying to work our way through like finding the best place to host these guys. So we want to ask your opinion, those of you that are attending right now, today live, posting that silly 1980s looking chat box that we’re using right now, where would you prefer us to host Hump Day hangouts directly on YouTube watch pages? Or should perhaps we try to stream it into Facebook and use our Facebook group, the SEO Marketing tutorials or whatever group and maybe host it there?

You guys let us know because honestly, the attendance rate has gone down and the number of questions has gone down. Ever since we shut Google or Google events shut down. And so we’re debating whether we should keep it going or not. certainly, want to I’ve always enjoyed these, you know, four and a half years into it. I’d hate to give it up. I’ve really have enjoyed this a lot. But honestly, if we’re not going to get the engagement, we’re not going to show up and answer three or four questions and shut it down. So we would like to ask you guys for your opinion. Do you think we should try it over on YouTube? Should we maybe try it and Facebook or give us your suggestion? You know, let us know. So with that said,

Adam: and I’m biased, thank you. I believe that’s Mike crest. Yeah, that’s awesome. Love the 80s if you love the goofy chatbot that’s okay, too. Just for an unbiased opinion for me. Okay, cool. Yeah, we’ll take everything into account and we’ll let everybody now but yeah, we got any other announcements, you guys I think that was everything I had.

Bradley: There’s a stuffed animal dog talking. I do like the fact that this chat outlet says meme again though because for a while we couldn’t even do that.

Anyways, alright, I don’t have any specific announcements other than we’ve got our mastermind webinar tomorrow, one of our newer members, G, he, we’re calling you G, by the way from now on, because I’m not sure how to pronounce your name. So we’re going to actually dig into a project that he’s been asking a bunch of questions about. Marco and I are going to analyze that. And that’s something I want to talk about briefly is, you know, that is the value of the mastermind, in my opinion, is coming in and being able to interact with us as well as the other members. It’s not just about us, we’ve got a lot of savvy members in our group and it’s the, you know, very active and engaged the Facebook group. So pretty much any kind of question can be asked there and you get a bunch of really good replies back or responses from other successful marketers or that are successful in whatever type of marketing business they’re in. It’s not just all local SEO stuff. We talk a lot about that. That’s primarily because that’s what I do. But there are members in our group to do national SEO, some affiliate stuff, you know, all that so and then it’s also getting access to us directly, but then on the mastermind webinars we go into in depth into whatever anybody wants to get into, most of the time I do some sort of training. And then before we get into questions and answers, but then when we get it to member questions, we go really in-depth into whatever anybody wants to go into. And there’s no holds barred. Like, in other words, we don’t, we don’t hold anything back.

Like we have to hear in a public setting, right. So, you know, for example, if a member comes in, and they want us to analyze a website, or a specific marketing campaign or something like that is if they’re willing to share that they will go you know, deep dive in it, Marco and I really analyze it, pick it apart, in a nice way, kind of point out how it can get better results and that kind of stuff. And that’s really where the value comes in, guys, because that’s, you know, again, it’s about networking with others. Yes, there’s a lot of training in the mastermind, yes, you get discounts and things like that, but that’s not what the value is, in my opinion. The value is in networking with us and the other members, getting questions answered in almost real time, about pretty much any sort of issue you’re having in marketing or business related regardless or outsourcing? Or, I mean, some of our members even asked questions that aren’t even marketing or business related. And that’s, that’s perfectly fine. That’s what it’s for. So does anybody want to comment on that or any other not yet?

Marco: I’d like to comment on that on one of your comments. You, you’re the nice guy. So you will look at a website nicely. But if a width website is crappy, I’m going to tell someone, you your website sucks. Your SEO sucks. I’m a real man, I can’t help it. That’s just the way I am. I’m going to give it to you. kind of try to shock you into seeing what you’re not seeing or what you’re avoiding seeing what you’re avoiding doing. And that’s what this is all about getting real. With people getting past all of that shiny shit that they’re fed every day. All of that bullshit, all of that crap that that doesn’t work. It’s just made, so that so that they will so that people will just spend more money. There’s no purpose to it, other than to get the people to fork over more money, more training. That’s never really complete. What we try to do is we try to give you the steps, right? That you need to take in order to take your shit to the next level, whatever your shit on it online might be, it could be anything. But guys, please understand that our purpose is to help you.

If you go into our Facebook group into our mastermind, I said, Look going there a month, and see that the value is really in that Facebook group, and being able to ask us all questions and getting an answer almost immediately. If it’s the weekend, of course, sometimes, I’m often with family, but someone sometimes jumps in on weekends and ask us questions. So it’s not just here that we answer questions, we ask your questions in all of our groups, but mainly our focus is the mastermind. And no matter what your question is, we try to get you an answer. And if we don’t know then the answer might just be we don’t know. because trust me, I don’t know a whole lot of shit. I’m still learning every day. But we do try to come up with an answer.

Or try to steer you in the right direction and we don’t have it will tell you, yeah, we will work on it or just give you or send you in the right direction. So that’s what I have to say about this.

Bradley: Sweet. Okay, now I got to find the actual questions and comments now.

Adam: Yeah, well, I want to say one more thing too because we are using YouTube regardless where, you know, obviously still being broadcast on YouTube. I guess potentially that could change but we’re never going to stop putting out content on YouTube. So if you find this useful or you find other video clips, like Anna just said in the comments, you know, she that’s part of how she came across us and joined the mastermind and how she got involved with Semantic Mastery and with our community. So if you come across video clips that are useful, or you know that they would be useful to other people, please do us a favor, do them a favor, share it, send them a link and you know, this is part of why we do this we definitely want to help out and it’s mutually beneficial. You know, we want people discovered more us more often and we want to help them go out and we can.

Bradley: Sweet. All right, I’m gonna steal the screen. And we’re going to get ..

Marco: and Subscribe, subscribe to our YouTube channel. That’s another way to help us out and continue this as a free medium.

Bradley: There you go.

How Do You Find The Town Center In Google Maps?

All right. We had one from a few days ago, Cool Cat says how do I figure out the center of my town using Google Maps? As far as I know, if you type in the name of your city, then typically the map pulls up with the city center as the center point of the map. Has that changed? Or is that correct? Marco Do you know?

Marco: As far as I know, that’s the way you just type in the city. You can type in the state if there are other cities that are named the same Island because there are in other states. You just type in the city and you should get to the geographical what Google considers the geographical center of the city.

So if I say Culpeper. Yeah. Yeah, so that should be the center of the map here should be what it thinks is the center of Culpeper, in this case, right? As far as I know, that’s how it is now, I mean, so you just dropped your pin somewhere like you know, somewhere in there. And usually when you click on it twice, it puts a little great pin maybe you’ve got a zoom all the way in anyways, typically when you There goes finally there’s a little gray pan and there are your geo coordinates now there might be another way to do it you can probably search Google and say how to find city center and probably get an answer so you know when in doubt use Google.

How To Handle A Mass Page WordPress Site To Rank 10 GMBs Within 30-Mile Radius Of The Centre City?

Alright, so we’re gonna move on Dan demand from Canada says hey gents, I didn’t have a question about how to handle a mass page WordPress site in relation to 10 gm bees, all in a 30-mile radius of the city of the center city. If I’m working to rank these 10 GMBs all for the same niche, does it make sense to set up city pages? For example remodelers.com/locations/city, and then point citations to those individual city pages. I was then contemplating directing the city pages to the individual city, GMB assets. thoughts. Good idea. Terrible. Thanks, man. Well, I’m not sure why you would I mean, if you’re going to build a page, a location based page for each GMB, I’m not sure why you would redirect it, why wouldn’t you just use that location-based GMB or the location-based page as the website, the landing page URL for the GMB asset, see what I’m saying?

Like if you’re building I mean, unless it’s because it’s a mass page site that you’re doing that and it’s a spammy type looking or you know spamming type site, which most mass page sites are, in which case I wouldn’t build citations to that because then what happens if you get that site to deindex which is very likely happened, right? Mass page sites that happen to kind of regularly. And so if you’re building citations to that, and then you have to redirect it, what happens if it gets suspended or, you know, deindexed, then you’ve either got to go clean up. You can still leave it redirected. But now you’re redirecting through a potentially, you know, deindex domain penalize domain. So I wouldn’t do that. That’s why I’m saying if you were going to build citations, I would build citations directly to the GMB assets or set up a domain with subdomains and have a separate subdomain for each location. Because that way, if anyone of those subdomains now you can’t do that with them, I mean, I guess you could with a mass page site, but you’re trying to do it all on one domain. So location pages, inner pages, but again, I wouldn’t do that with the mass page site and build citations to it backlink shore. Because I mean, you know, no big deal but with citations again, if you lose that domain. Now you’ve got a whole bunch of citations to clean up unless you left the redirect up through a deindex domain, which I wouldn’t recommend doing.

So personally, I would not do it that way. I would build everything like if you were going to build out and self-hosted site for each location, I would do it on subdomains or not use a Mass Page Builder is what I’m saying, you guys, there’s nothing wrong with creating location pages and having inner pages for multiple locations. When you’re building something out like this, the problem occurs is if you’re you’ve got spam, the map addresses number one, and number two, if you’re doing something spammy to the domain, but if you’re keeping the domain clean, which is what we teach, right, I mean, we really do we teach about keeping the primary domain clean, building your tier one assets out and you know, especially the way that we build them out syndication networks to drive stacks using press releases, citations also count, you know, all of that stuff, then you can do all your spammy stuff up to that and keep your main your primary domain, clean Gsites. That’s a big part of it. What I’m saying is you can build the inner location pages and it’s not going to be an issue, as long as you’re not doing anything spammy. Now, again, I want to say this with the caveat, if you are using GMBs that are spammed addresses, there’s always that chance that they get suspended because they’re not real physical locations. So in that case, I wouldn’t want to have all of them necessarily associated with a money site domain, as opposed to if you can still do it, but I would recommend doing it through a subdomain. Even if it was just a redirect to like the GMB website URL. Right. So that’s, you know, whatever your business site, GMB website, right, you can still use a branded domain in that case and set up a sub domain redirect for each one of those to just redirect. I’ve got several projects like that where I’m using a branded domain. Can you guys still hear me?

Marco: Yeah

Bradley: okay because it looks like a reset on me where I’m using a branded domain, but I use a subdomain with the city name for each different location and the subdomain redirects to the GMB website like for a lot of my multi-location sites, guys, I got rid of the self hosted WordPress sites for my lead gen stuff especially because it’s just an additional management piece of, you know, something else that I have to manage and update regularly. You guys know how much WordPress updates and I just got tired of doing it and it’s really unnecessary because we’re able to get results with just GMB stuff right? So for that I’ve actually redirected I’ve eliminated a lot of my WordPress sites now and I just have GMB. Excuse me subdomains redirecting to the GMB website. So anyway, hopefully, that makes sense. I’m not a mass page fan builder or fan fanboy. Do you know what I’m saying? I don’t like those, just because they, they tend to get indexed. And it’s a lot of work and I’ve never had really good results with it unless I continually build sites that get taken down.

So I can’t really give you the best advice on that. I certainly wouldn’t build citations to a mass index or mass, a mass page type site. Any comments on that?

Marco: No, I don’t have any because I don’t use math page builder.

How To Embed A GMB Post Into A GSite?

Bradley: Yeah. Fitz, what’s up a fence? He says, Is there a way to embed a GMB post into a G site? Not that I’m aware of it because Marco would be able to answer that, but as far as I know, GMB posts cannot be iframe, correct?

Marco: Yes, they can.

Bradley: They can. Really? Okay.

Marco: Yeah, yeah, they can. Okay, forgive me then. I was wrong. Alright, so there you go, Fitz. Have you tried using just an iframe generator, and with the GMB post URLs or something secretive that we can’t talk about here?

Marco: No. I mean it’s just a straight iframe, like YouTube and or anything else? Okay, the iframe code and I was just playing with a day the other day so I’m pretty sure I’ll go back on look at my notes, but I’m pretty sure that it’s one of the ones that I tried and yes, you can.

Bradley: Okay. So there you go try it fits use the iframe generator, which is right there. And check it out. So it looks like Scott already answered it. Sorry, I didn’t even see that Scott till just now. So it looks like you can and Scott is confirming that huh? Okay, cool. Thanks, Scott. Appreciate that Scott Walker somebody. So he’s saying go into GMB site and get the URL for the post will be saved individually and have a URL like yes, it’s those long funky URL, place the URL and the iframe generator, right. Create the iframe use classic Google sites to embed the iframe insert HTML. There you go. That’s Yeah, you can insert the HTML as an element in the classic G sites. So cool. It does actually do that. That’s cool. I didn’t but you can.

Marco: You can also iframe it into the new Gsites.

Bradley: Can you? I’ve never done any work in the new g sites on

Marco: There’s an embed in the menu. Well, somebody’s coming through.

Bradley: I was watching soccer or something?

Marco: Yeah. But anyway, yeah, yeah. I’m pretty sure it is. Post the GMB site and it both on new and classic. Oh, there you go.

Mike, Chris says he doesn’t miss the old way he hated his g sweet account. Okay. James, wherever we end up saying he can’t do means on YouTube comments so so might have to be in Facebook.

Will You Still Upload Video To YouTube If You Host It On A Facebook Page?

If you host it on the Facebook page, we still upload videos to YouTube? Yes, BJ. And what I meant was if we host it on Facebook will stream it into Facebook. It’ll still be primarily through YouTube, or through perhaps zoom Mark has been pushing us to do that for quite some time. I didn’t want to get away from YouTube, but we can also use like something like OBS to stream from YouTube into Facebook simultaneously. Right? So yeah, that too. So should we do? Yeah, I mean YouTube is where we get most you know, we’ve got you to know close to 7000 subscribers in there and it’s just it’s we got a ton of content in there so I’m not going to get away from that. I wish I could Can I delete that this is terrible. Unbelievable unit towards these guys I want you to look.

Alright. Alright, next. Ready, let’s add them. Is this the end of Hump Day? Anna says no, not yet. No. We just got to change it to a platform where we get more engagement. Don says he’s okay with this chat format. I would just like to keep the hump day hangouts going. Well, thanks, John. We appreciate that. I’d love to keep them going as well. I just get notified to join and it was difficult to even find this.

If you’re subscribed to our channel, you should get notifications in Gmail, if you’re using Gmail and the social tab as well as if you’re in YouTube, it should give you a notification at the top all that kind of stuff. Here we also send out emails By the way, Adam does every 30 minutes or 30 minutes before Hump Day Hangouts. If you’re on our list, you should get an email to. Okay, keep on moving. Adam. Wayne says okay, Wayne is talking about Adams Facebook group that he has called the real world productivity growth group. Yeah, Adam does get a lot of cool stuff in there, guys. If you want to learn how to be more productive, get automate stuff, you know, make your life easier using apps and Zapier and slack. Can you tell if you want to go check out Adams group, Adam that I do outsell that probably not

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Any Recommended Tips To Rank Or Push Power To GStacks?

All right, here’s a real question from Mike crest. He says having problems getting my G stacks to rank or pushes power, follows the plan, hit links, embeds, PBNs, added content increase the depth and pages just finding they don’t push I know the market will likely hammer me. But these are built by you guys any tips or tricks to make these push? Well, I’m going to jump on that briefly before Marco goes off on a tangent on a rant. But honestly, I don’t expect my drive stack files to rank it all just so you guys know what my expectation is when I’m using drive stacks, which I’m using it for everything now as well, for even quite some time. I didn’t use them on everything but I am now because what I but I don’t expect the files that drive stack files to rank at all what I expect them to rank is what I’m linking to, like, for example, could be a G site, or could be a money site or could be a number of tier one properties that I’m trying to rank. And I’ve got a new business that I just started recently that I’m going to be talking about a lot in the mastermind over the next few weeks, or coming months really, because it’s, it’s starting to do really well for me. And I just set up a Click Funnels page, a landing page. And it was interesting because, and I talked about this in the Syndication Academy update webinar that was also like the MGYB webinar that we did a few weeks ago where we were talking about the why syndication networks are every bit as powerful now in 2019, as they were before. The way that the power has shifted away from just doing posting and syndicating, which is still certainly helpful is that they help to validate and solidify an entity. And I proved that with this new business, this new website and I just bought a branded domain. I created a new name for this business. And there but apparently that that business name, it’s similar to several other types of businesses. So it wasn’t 100% unique. It is unique but it was very similar to several other businesses with a similar name, excuse me.

And so anyway, I set up a Click Funnels landing page, I flesh that page out Well, it’s got content on it questions and answers and things like that, but it’s just a single page, Click Funnels website, essentially. And it was when I would do a search for that company name. It was, you know, that the, which was my title tag essentially along with a couple of keywords. For the first three weeks or so, it would hover on like page three and page for like, that’s where that would and that was just for doing a brand name search for this new business that I set up. But then when I got the syndication network, I hired one of our syndication network builders outside of his normal job duties to do this because he asked for some extra hours to make some extra money. So I hired him outside of that to do that for me. And you know, a couple of days later, I got this syndication network back and I think you delivered to me on a Friday and on Monday I went and just did another brand search and boom, that Click Funnels page was number one now, that was syndication networks. But the reason why I’m telling you that was because and that was without posting any content, guys no syndicating of any content. It’s a Click Funnels page. I can’t even syndicate content to the syndication network from Click Funnels. I did create a WordPress blog on a subdomain. But all I did was published one post and that was after it had already pushed the brand search to the Click Funnels page to the number one position for that brand search term. Now that said, I mentioned just a moment ago and the title tag, I had a couple of keywords. Now, this is not an Uber competitive market. But there are a few Pete players in this market that are savvy and doing SEO work as well as some PPC stuff. And the primary keywords that I’m targeting are in the title tag of that Click Funnels page, but the page itself isn’t really optimized for those keywords. Well, I had the same builder that I hired to do to build a syndication network. I had him build a drive stack. He was actually in training to build drive stacks. And so I gave him that project for this particular new business to build a drive stack now that was about three weeks ago and now without doing any additional SEO work I think I’ve published one press release but just the drive stack alone has now pushed that page that Click Funnels page to page one and it bounces between the bottom of page one and the top of page two right now for the primary keyword phrases which is great and guys I’m telling you I haven’t done anything differently so it does provide a push and I haven’t even hit that drive stack with backlinks yet. So it does absolutely provide a push if you’re in a significantly competitive market it’s obviously going to require more plus sometimes depending on the level what market it is what keywords the competition level there’s a lot of variables but sometimes they take longer to take effect and others with that said I’m gonna turn it over to Marco.

Marco: Yeah, there’s no reason for me to go off on this if you got one of our RYS done for you start. Now he also says that he added depth as far as pages. Was that done also in the drive stack? How did you do it? Was that done according to the training? And if you’re in the training, then this is a better question to ask me in RYS Academy Reloaded. So you can cash in your 30-minute coupon with me, so that we can go over the drive stack and all of the things that you’ve done. Now, without proper context, I can’t say what the problem is and why it’s not pushing power. Now, what was the timeframe in which this was done? Is it still dancing? Because a lot of times, you just have to be patient 21 days have to clear from the lab, whatever it was that you did from when you hit it with links. If you did an embed run, then it’s 21 days from that. And if you did it too quickly, over and over, then it’s just dancing until it settles like Bradley said it could take a while for it to just finish being wherever it is that it’s going to end up. Now. This is out of context for me because I don’t know. Like the drive stack is always done. The same way for everyone. But outside of that, what you did, I can’t account for my guys did. And I can go and look at it and say, Okay, this was either not done right or it was done right. Oh, and whatever it was that you did on the inside of it is not having the effect that it should be cut. But without being able to look at what you did. I can’t really answer this come hit me up in RYS Academy Facebook group. And I’ll be happy to answer this and to take half an hour with you and go over it and see what it is that stopping the power from flowing.

Bradley: There you go. That’s hard. That’s hard to pass that up, man. So I mean, that’s how much Marco believes in the fact that they work because he’ll give up a half an hour of his time to analyze what it is and provide suggestions that kind of stuff and, and I agree it’s crazy because you know, sometimes when, you know I don’t see the power of drive stacks on a regular basis and unless I’m monitoring it closely, in other words, like if I got a client and I get I just got, I picked up two new clients over the last month or so. And, you know, standard operating procedure syndication network, then a drive stack, but we’re doing press releases. So we’re kind of doing all these things all at once. But this new business that I started, I’m just doing things kind of slowly, because it’s, you know, it’s not, I’m just not hitting it really hard with everything. And I’m seeing the effects of the various things. As I said, the syndication network, made it pop to number one position for the brand search. I know that’s not Uber competitive. It was a brand search phrase, you know, like a branded name. But it was interesting to see it jumped three pages just from a syndication network without publishing any content to it. Right. Then now the primary keywords that it’s targeting, and it’s not an SEO page, guys, it’s just a landing, I’m driving traffic to it via other methods. I wasn’t planning on it being an SEO type thing yet at least. And just having a drive stack bill in about three weeks time, two to three weeks time. I’ve actually seen a significant push that and I did a press release too. But again, it’s interesting to see that kind of result from these things when you’re monitoring it that closely. When you’re doing them all the time for multiple clients and that kind of stuff. It’s not something that I typically monitor especially when you’re hitting up the assets with multiple multiple angles like multiple SEO angles, you know, it’s kind of hard to at that point isolate What did what, but we know that it works otherwise we wouldn’t keep using it. So

How To Regain Access To A Locked Facebook Account?

okay, cool. A grant says, oh, Grant seven hard time getting back into Facebook. Yeah, I don’t know. What’s going on with that grant. I’m not sure that that was caused from us specifically, but there was or from the chat app but there was we had the Facebook chat up I think we did it for two weeks and one week it just like caused a lot like some accounts to get locked mine too. And what’s crazy is guys, this makes makes a good point to talk about why you shouldn’t friend people on Facebook that you don’t know that you don’t really know because one of the things that they do is make you identify photos from friends, Facebook feeds and like who the people are in the photos and that was like I was like Oh shit, like I don’t friend I get a ton of friend requests on Facebook that I just never accept and it’s because if I don’t know you I’m not going to accept your friend request for the most part.

And so you know, some in that verification process some of the photos were from people that apparently aren’t on my friends’ list that I really don’t know. And so I was thinking Oh shit, I’m going to screw this up like I’m not gonna because you only get to fail I think two or three times before permanently or locks you out to where you have to you know another level of security to get back in anyway, I was fortunate enough to be able to get through but goes to show you don’t friend people you don’t know because it could keep you prevent you from getting access.

Let’s see. Alright, what’s next? 56k modem firing up. Oh, wow. Okay, Stoke jellyfish mastermind subgroup we’re going to take over the world everyone should be extremely jealous. Okay, cool. That must be one of the mastermind subgroups who named a jellyfish

Adam: huh oh, that’s why we just name it different animals and stuff each time to make them easy to deal with.

Adam: This is actually a cool point I want to tell people about this. I know we mentioned it before, but this is something we do for the mastermind members, you know, there’s a lot of power in the network and in the group and being a part of a big group like that and having peers as well as access to us. But also there’s power in meeting in a small group, you know, and so we put people to group if they want to, once a quarter we group people up in groups of like four to six so that they can meet up you know, give loose instructions, here’s how it’s a good way to do this. And then you really get that quick feedback, you can do hot seats, you can do all sorts of stuff from the people that you’re in there with and then on a really more hesitate to use it but on a more intimate level if you will. So it’s a really powerful way to even get more out of the mastermind.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. It’s about networking. So my Chris says to me Maybe I need to hit the folders instead of the G site. I would agree with that. We say, Marco.

Marco: Dadea, it takes care of link building. So I don’t, I’ll say I don’t know. Because whatever, whenever I do something, I just tell daddy, I need link building. And then he says, Okay, give me the main URLs and 300 or so keywords to go with it. And that totally needs then he goes in and finds everything else. So I don’t know it could be. But again, I’m not sure I don’t know how your inner folders and files were done. Because I know that my people didn’t do those as well without knowing that, without seeing that I can’t help you. Yeah.

Bradley: Very good guys. Any other questions? Otherwise, we can wrap it up early. Be a short Humpday Hangout.

Marco: And just for Anna. It’s not that I try to swear. Whenever I talk. It’s kind of just comes out. Must be the sailor in me. Sorry if I offend anyone. Fuck you anyway.

Bradley: That’s right. That’s right. Okay, well, it looks like unless we got something else we want to train about right now. Anybody? We can wrap it up a little bit early today.

Hernan: We’re good.

Adam: get time to hit the trails.

Bradley: You’re gonna go in the woods.

Adam: Yeah, gotta go for a run.

Bradley: You know, that’s code for right.

Adam: running long distances.

Bradley: Yeah, no that’s cool.

Oh, here comes I have a question, guys. Yeah, G is away, buddy. We’re going to analyze your stuff tomorrow on the mastermind webinar. We’re going to get into that deep so let’s see what he says. I would love to talk about niches sometimes Anna says.

Do You Wait 21 Days Before Doing Another Link Building?

BJ after you do the link building Do you wait 21 days before doing another link code? I mean, I don’t wait like a specific amount of time. I just wait to see what kind of results comes from it. And I don’t usually stack link building campaigns three weeks apart like that, you know, usually, it’s usually longer for me, like I’ll hit something with links and you know, typically I’ll have a Rank Tracker or something that’s kind of monitoring that and I’ll just check on it every you know, every few days or every couple of weeks and check to see what kind of push it is and but you remember I’m I don’t just do link building. I think that’s very, very powerful. But you know, we press releases and content marketing And oh, by the way, somebody asked questions about citations and I didn’t answer that. So forgive me on that. Son guest says are local citations still relevant? GMB is dominating now. So how much does impact how much does it still impact rankings worth working through all the Citations Sources like Yelp Yelp page citations is still important if you’ve got a valid business address, I recommend building citations if it’s a spam to business you know I for like lead gen stuff if you’re getting, for example, would lead gen stuff if you’re if you go out and get an actual physical address like a PO Box right? You use the street addressing option, then you can still get away with building citations because you can list the street address right the street address plus the number sign and in the box number, and that still works perfectly well. If you’re buying a verified GMB, which is an essentially it’s a spam address somewhere. I don’t recommend building citations in that in that situation or that scenario and the reason why is because if it was an address that was pulled from somebody’s house, which I hope people aren’t building them that way, then you could literally be starting start getting marketing mail sent to somebody’s house, a lot of the times those addresses are going to be spam from a commercial location. Once again, now those it’ll start they’ll start getting solicitation mail like physical mail with that company’s name on it because now like if you start building citations and Yellow Pages and things like that you get put on the company gets put on mailing lists, and now direct mail spam direct mail solicitation offers will start getting sent there.

Credit Card off, like a business credit card, offers all kinds of stuff. You can get reported that way by the recipient of those that mail right because it’s going to have some other companies address on there. So I don’t recommend that. Also, I don’t like to publish the address. One of the other questions we had recently was if you’re high if the service area business and you’re hiding your business address and the GMB which you should ask for Google’s Terms of Service for service area business. Should you go out and build all the citations without the street address? Well, there are only a few platforms that I know of that will allow you to do that. Most platforms to build a citation unless it’s changed recently because I don’t build my own citations anymore. I haven’t for the longest time, you know, we hire that out. But for the longest time, I know that most platforms would require a street address, or else it wouldn’t allow you to add a citation to their platform, right.

So again, for NAP stuff for area businesses. If it’s a spam address, I don’t recommend building citations. I’ll do everything else but citations. But if you have a valid business address or you go get like a PO Box where you have a physical place to send mail that you can go collect, then yeah, absolutely, they’re still effective, there’s no doubt they’re still effective. I still use them all the time for clients and everything else.

Marco: I would also add that if you can get hyper-local citations, those are really effective. And everywhere you’re looking at the greater picture wherein the semantic where we all we always have to think the entity. It’s just another way to validate your entity you. It’s your presence in all of these places. It’s placed where you’ve taken the time to go and get that citation to get it done properly. So that you know the more powerful ones like Yelp, those could become part of your same math. And it just adds validity to your entity and I got it guys we did the webinar. Not too long ago right for MGYB Syndication Academy where we talked about ads, I can’t emphasize it enough how important it is. And that and one of the reasons why RYS Academy Reloaded the RYS text works so well, is because we focus on the entity right from the beginning. And we push power to the entity so that we go after what I call the end game.

Bradley: I suggest for those of you who didn’t get a chance to see it, I mean, you should go, do we have it on MGYB? Do we have the URL, because I think people should go and watch that all day down to our YouTube channel, as well as on MGYB store on the webinar page now, which is that isn’t that in the header in the navigation menu now?

Marco: where it should be? So just to drive this into people’s head over and over whenever you start working on anything, even if it’s fake, you have to make it look as real as possible to Google that there is a thing on the web, and that this thing has some kind of validity. And we talked about the different ways to validate your entity.

Bradley: So just to talk about since you know, we’ve got time, let’s do this, we still got 20 minutes and it looks like some more questions popped up. But let’s talk about this very specifically because you mentioned hyper-local citations. So what I want to do is kind of demonstrate here how to get how to find those. Now if you can hire a lot of citation building services that will do this now a marketer center is a pretty good spot to get some of these they’ll it’s still kind of automated if you want to. I mean, they have like, you know, lists that they build from. I think the best citation building service available is Logan x. There’s no doubt it but it’s more expensive. You’re going to pay more for it, but it’s a really good service because they build structured citations and unstructured citations, social citations, document citations, video citations, audio citations, all of those and then they hit all of them with backlinks. Like they automatically build backlinks to the citations as part of the service. They’ve got a monthly citation bonus service 150 bucks a month. For clients, it’s an almost standard operating procedure for me, because it’s just really good service. And if they do really, really well, they perform well as, but for hyperlocal citations, I’m just going to use this as an example. I think we’re using plumber Fairfax, a couple of weeks ago for an example.

So one of the ways to get hyper-local citations is well one is to take a look at competitors. So like, let’s say that John C Flood was, which is the plumber site that we’re looking at was a client of mine, okay, or, you know, a lead gen project, whatever. Let’s just say that that was the case. One of the things you can do is take a look at the top-ranked, and he’s doing well organically at least. Maybe not so much in maps, but he’s doing well for organics, but maybe look at FJ hooks plumbing is number one in maps and put that into a notepad file, right so I’m just going to say hooks, plumbing, Inc. And then I always use this is the way that you can do these guys use to have three data points for NAP to have it doesn’t matter which two but I typically use the company name and the phone number. Okay? So in this case, it’s going to be 783-591-1284.

Okay, do that for each one of the, you know, top five or so. So it would be FJ Hooks Long’s Corporation, I think that’s the example we were looking at a couple of weeks ago, calories, plumbing, home service doctors in my plumber, heating, cooling and electrical, right, so I would take the top five, I would copy down or jot into a notepad file or an Excel sheet or something like that Google Sheet, whatever their company name as it’s listed in the NA and the Google Maps, right, and then also their phone number. That’s typically the two data points that I’ll pull, right and I’ll copy that and I’ll just go over to Google and I’ll do a search. Okay. And then what I’ll do this. And again, you can train to be able to do these guys is go through really, all you need to do is go through like the top two pages and copy the URLs or at least note, you don’t need to copy the URLs for them, your competitors or whatever. But in this case, this is the top level, the one and number, the number one position in maps. So go through and take a look Manta, I’d put Manta in the spreadsheet. So if you got a spreadsheet or a notepad file doesn’t matter, I just put Manta com, Yelp, yelp.com Okay, Facebook, we know that’s a big one that’s a branded profile. Anyways, MapQuest. checkbook.org which is interesting. I’ve not seen that before. Angie’s List com white pages. So you guys get the idea. I would go through the top two for every single one of the the the top five listed maps, compete for your competitors that are listed in the top five in maps, right and if you’re in the top five, then you know you’re going to select the top five plus, you know besides yours.

So what I’m saying is if you’re in the top five, then you know, you’re going to select maybe one, two, and in four or five and six or something like that my point is to get the top five competitors compared to where you are, and then copy their name and their phone number down and just do a search a simple Google search. And again, he can have a VA do this and go figure out just make a list of the top level citation directories for those companies specific to that area. Does that make sense? That’s one of the ways to get the best performing citations for your specific area.

Guys, there are niche directories like plumbing directories in this case. And then there are our business national business directories which are like Yelp and Manta, for example, and Angie’s List would be another one. But then there’s hyperlocal citations and want to walk through a quick example of that too. But regardless of the different types of directories again, national which are common, that’s what we see the most, Niche directories which are powerful because they’re topically relevant, right. And then there’s a, there are local citations that are going to be common to specific areas. In other words, there will be certain citations that are going to show up repeatedly for Fairfax plumbers or plumbers in Fairfax, that I could go to Richmond, Virginia, which is, I don’t know, 90-100 miles away. And they’re going to be a different set of common citation or business directory type sites that are common down there. So what I’m saying is, every area is slightly different. That’s why you can’t just have a master list and expect that master list to perform the same across all different niches and all different locations. That’s why it’s very simple.

When you go to Google and you use Google to determine that again, you can have a VA do it take the top five, do it search for their name and address or name and phone number, I’d use name and phone number and then just write down or, you know, put into a notepad file right in the Excel sheet, the business directory domains that are in the top two pages for each one of those five, right? And then you can, you know, you’ll see commonalities, the ones that are common across all of those are across all five, which you’ll see some of those, those are going to be your most powerful citation sources. So make sure you’re listed on that, then to Marco’s point to go hyperlocal, what you would want to do in this case, also you can go remember as I said, niche directories right so you could type into just do a Google search and say plumbing directory, right? And I misspelled plumbing but plumbing directory right and you go right through here and okay home advisor you know, I don’t like home advisor but my zip plumbers. com that’s a local plumbing directory, local, that’s a national directory, but they have a plumbing category, obviously, the plumbing info.com right. So national plumbers directory.org so this is how you very easily just put in your service, your keyword, whatever directory and now you’ve got niche directories those are more powerful than just plain national directories right because they’re topically relevant. All right.

Now lastly, for getting hyper-local citations in this case, we’re going to say Fairfax County. Business Directory, right? Boom right there. Web NoVa chamber org business directory. That’s Nova stands for Northern Virginia. Discover Fairfax, VA. com business directory, Fairfax County, EDA or Economic Development Authority, get your business listed there are your clients business listed there, right. A liable Fairfax county.gov. business right. Find out how you get listed on the Fairfax County. That’s the official Fairfax County government website, guys. You can get listed there find out sometimes they’re paid listings, who cares? It’s it’s not usually very expensive. And it’s worth it because these are what Marco just mentioned are hyper-local citations. They’re very powerful. And it doesn’t just have to stop with business directories, you could put Fairfax County blogs, right? Because a lot of times you can actually get listed on Fairfax County blogs guys, it sometimes it just requires outreach to the, you know, the blog owners and maybe you have a press release written or something like that and you reach out. And again, you don’t have to do this, you can hire people to do this and have them reach out to them because guys, these are all local blogs now talking about events and activities, and, you know, places to go, and products and services and all of that kind of stuff that is hyper-local, local to this area. Those types of links are so much more powerful than links that anybody can get from anywhere from like national directories if that makes sense. Because Google understands there’s that geographic relationship. There’s that geographic relevancy, and it’s so much more powerful. And so again, these are all kinds of thing. I mean, there’s a ton of them that just popped up right here, right that you could potentially get listed on Fairfax County, let’s say newspaper that a lot of the times there’s business directories there, and you could put online newspapers, things like that. But a lot of times there’s classifieds. And you can get, those are powerful citations, you can run little classified online classified ads that will give you a link from those local newspaper and online newspapers. Again, very, very powerful.

Something like Topix. Topix that we used to hack these long years ago. If you guys are familiar with Topix, there’s Topix.com Fairfax, that’s like a forum. And there’s, there’s a local location forum, like there, this site is siloed. Well, and it’s got forums specific to locations and you can actually kind of there’s this requires like some social engineering stuff, but you can actually go in and start a thread and at like with, you know, a profile you want to use multiple profiles with multiple IPS but most of you have that kind of stuff anyway, but you can go in and register and ask a question like and start a new thread in the fair in this case, like the Fairfax County topics category. And there’s a lot of traffic and traction in there, guys. And it’s very, very powerful. And you can start a thread and say something like, Hey, I just moved into the area. And I really need a good plumber in Fairfax, work your keywords into the question, any recommendations, right and leave it like that and then login with another account that under a different IP that you may have answered, you may have commented on some other threads within that same category, the same Fairfax category, so that you’re not just posting a link because a lot of times in these types of forums that if you if you’re new and you post a link, your comment will get moderated out. So if you season one of those accounts to where you can, you know, you created some comments again, guys, you can hire all this stuff out you can train a staff member or VA to do this kind of stuff for you. But if you season an account that so that you get past that threshold to where you can drop a link, then you use that profile to go in and answer that question from the other profile Hey, I just moved in the area, I’m really looking for a good plumber in Fairfax. And now you drop. The first comment underneath that is, hey, here’s a great plumber. It’s what was the one that I was saying was my business FJ hooks plumbing, Inc, they’re located in Fairfax, here’s their phone number. Here’s their website URL. Now that’s a citation from a very powerful Local Business Forum. With it now being the first comment in a new thread and other people will come in and chime in on that thread. And that social engagement, other people commenting on that actually pushes more power into that particular thread and makes that citation even more powerful. That’s very, very powerful. Most people don’t do that because it’s not as easy as just going and hiring a citation building service. It requires manual work, but if you want really good results, that’s how you do it. I mean, and again, guys, you can train a VA to do this stuff. It’s not something that you can find in a service online typically, but you can train a VA to do this stuff for you and you’re going to get much better results. Okay. So hopefully that was helpful. See, we can do this on Hump Day hang out sometimes. That’s usually what we do in our paid groups, right? Go into training.

What Will Happen If IFrame A Good Content From A Money Site To An Exact Match Domain?

Alright, Ji says, what if I iframe a piece of good content from my money site to an exact match domain? So you mean buying exact match domain and just put iframe a piece of content into that? I mean, sure, but you can do that with the G site. I’m not I mean, I don’t know why you get more power out of doing it from an Amazon s3 hosted page or a G site than you would from bindings an exact match domain that has no inherent authority. Right? Because you can build keyword relevancy from putting content around the iframe is my point. So why not use something that has massive authority already, like a Google site, which is on the Google domain, or an Amazon s3 page write an HTML page that’s ham hosted on Amazon bucket now you’re you’re you’re siphoning authority from Amazon, right you can create the relevancy what you don’t need the exact match keyword in the domain, you can create the relevancy from the content, the text around the iframe, and in the metadata and in the Jason structure, you know, the LD structured data, all of that. So,

I mean, I get where you’re going with that, Jay, but that’s not, you know, I think you go about it better than going out and buying an exact match domain that as essentially starting from zero, you’d have to build some authority to that. And I just go ahead and use what’s available to us for free, right. So the exact mastermind only has an iframe from my money site and that and I link a spam GMB to the exact match domain. I’m not sure what you mean on that. A spam Google My Business. So you’re talking about like, building like lead gen GMB assets, you link that to your exact match domain. Oh, I see what you’re saying. So you’re talking about if you’re going to build additional GMBs, and you iframe with a different domain and exact to match them. And that becomes your landing page. But really it’s a page on your web, your primary website that’s just iframe into it. I don’t know. I, I don’t know. I don’t know if I would do that. Marco, what do you think about that?

Marco: Whenever someone asked me what if questions, I say, test it, and let me know what happens. Yeah. Because I can’t tell you what if on every scenario that I haven’t tried, but what I meant by when I was asking, what do you think about that, as I’m not sure that I would want to iframe a money site page into a domain? That was it. That was only set up as a spam GMB asset with just my money site. I framed and knew it as the landing page like in other words, I don’t know if that could cause any negativity. If Google terminated that, you know, I would say on that if it’s going to have a TMP and he’s going to take the time to work on the entity power up the entity. It could work but I would as you said, I spend my resources my time and my money on just getting the power from a D site where you know, you can’t harm your money site, because Google will just won’t pass a penalty though. Yeah.

Bradley: Yeah, I agree. I’m not sure that I would do that I mark is right. I would recommend if you wanted to try that you’d have to test it. I can’t we can’t speculate on what would happen. I mean, I personally wouldn’t want to do that because it doesn’t to me. As I said, I’d rather I guys, you could even use a Google site is your domain, your website URL for GMB? You know, you can do that. There’s I’ve never seen it not happen. You know what I’m saying? So why not just use that right? You can create a Google site and flesh that out a bit and make that the website of the GMB. That makes sense. You still want to create the GSB website and put that in the appointment URL. You know, you can that’s what I’ve been doing. So he says, What can I expect Google picks up the content starts to rank for the exact match again. I don’t know how that would treat this G. We haven’t tested that. And so, you know, it would be speculation so I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. So,

How Quickly Can You Livestream Videos To A Channel Connected To A 4-Ring IFTTT Network?

Dan, the man says, or Dan Damman How quickly can you last new videos to a channel connected to a four ring IFTTT network so as to not go too fast and destroy the syndication network effective. I mean, you can live stream whenever if you’re talking about, you know, publishing multiple, like, for example, just using it as a spam channel where but it uses live streams as opposed to uploading.

If it’s a seasoned network, it can you what I mean by that is if it’s got some age to it, and you’ve slowly, you know, started posting to it, and then slowly ramped up the speed with which you post with the velocity, whatever you want to call it, the frequency of posting, then a lot of times it’ll it’ll be okay. But if it’s a new network, a newer network, and you start posting, you know, multiple times per day. Especially if they’re spammy videos with similar content, that kind of stuff, then you know, you can get a lot of your network properties terminated. So that’s why, like I said, I, you know, in my opinion, you’re better off doing that, if you’re going to do that kind of stuff that you’re, you know, you don’t.

A lot of times you don’t need syndication networks, if you’re going to do that type of, I don’t know what kind of a strategy you’re asking about specifically, I’m only making assumptions here. But a lot of times you can get results with YouTube spam stuff, by just using multiple accounts, YouTube accounts that don’t even need syndication networks. Why not? If I’m going to take the time to build or you know, purchase, you know, spend money or whatever on syndication networks for YouTube syndication stuff, I’m going to try to keep them around not spam them to death. Right. And so typically, the videos are going to be a better quality it’s not going to be the same video just spun. You know what I mean? Like to change the video encoding and that stuff and continually repeating publishing the same damn video. I’ve seen that too much. Guys, and that shit used to work years ago. And I guess you can still get some results from that. But most people, you know, don’t react to those kinds of videos. And honestly, a lot of the syndication network sites and stuff will actually terminate, because they detect those as spam. So I would recommend if you’re going to take the time to build networks out or purchase networks, which is what we recommend, and certainly, that you would try to keep your channel and the content good enough to where that’s not a date, you’re not in danger of doing that. So if you’re actually doing real live streams, then I wouldn’t worry about it at all, because they’re all going to be real and unique. They’re not spammy. But if you’re just using live streams, and you’re basically mass, you know, duplicating a video and constantly re-streaming it to a channel or uploading it to a channel that’s connected to syndication networks, you’re in danger of getting those terminated. Okay, especially if it’s brand new.

We got more questions and we can answer now so we almost shut it down. And at the very last minute when we almost took it from you guys, you posted a shit ton questions that now can’t be answered.

So next time post early guys. We’re going to wrap it up. I’ve gotta run guys. My daughter’s got a softball game tonight I gotta go to so unfortunately, that’s gonna be it for today. So thanks for your extra engagement. We needed it guys we appreciate that. Thanks, guys for sticking around.

Bye, everyone.

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