#anyways the full episode is available to watch on YouTube now if you haven’t already seen it!

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I need to nerd out about Haikyuu right now (Season 1 Episode 1) (manga spoilers)

I have nobody that I can nerd out about Haikyuu with so I’ll do it here.

My first introduction to volleyball was through Haikyuu and watching reactors from coaches and players on YouTube really expanded my understanding of this manga/anime. Now that I’ve finished the manga and watched all available episodes (more than once) I want to see why I find this shounen sports anime so bloody compelling.

A good beginning sets up the middle and end. The opening scene of Haikyuu is the famous “a tall, tall wall looms before me…”. Before the rewatch, I had it in my head that the scene after the opening (Hinata seeing the Little Giant on TV) was the first scene. So, no, Furudate-sensei actually started this chapter at the end – Hinata is already in the Karasuno gym, he’s already scared of the block, and he’s lining up with the shoes of five of his teammates. This is a common framing technique – sets up the question of “how did we get here?”.

On my first watch of Haikyuu, I didn’t know anything about volleyball. I have, however, watched a fair amount of anime, including shounen. I think my inexperience actually helped me understand why Hinata was so awestruck by the Little Giant when he saw him on TV.

I knew the premise of the anime – tiny Shoyo wants to play a sport made for tall people – but rewatching it actually confused me. This scene is set 3-4 years before even making it to Karasuno, so Shoyo is, what, 11? He doesn’t know how tall he’s going to be, so why was he fixated on this “small” player going up against the bigger blockers? I mean, he could still be small for his age and be self-conscious about it, I guess, but not like he would be at 15. Then I thought – maybe it’s because the Little Giant jumped so high?

Shoyo is small, yes, but he can jump high. This is a defining aspect of his character. This was also the moment Shoyo became interested in volleyball, from what I can tell. So, if he’s as inexperienced as me, he wouldn’t be able to see the technique that the Little Giant used to defeat the big blockers. In his little kid head, maybe he assumed that the Little Giant beat the blockers because he jumped so high. So, perhaps little Shoyo thought: hey, I can jump high → I’ll be good at volleyball.

Themes

What are the overarching themes of Haikyuu shown in this episode?

Friendship. This is a Shounen anime, after all. Hinata makes friends wherever he goes, but it’s not until the match in this episode (and later Karasuno) that he finds a place that he belongs. Hinata has a wide variety of friends and is lovable enough to both get Izumi and Koji to join his team and make them emotional about the game.

Kageyama takes a liking to him from this match (although whether Mr Grumpy himself even recognises this is up to interpretation). From the moment they snap at each other in the hallway outside the gym bathroom to that beautiful jump that scores the first genuine point for Hinata’s team, Kageyama is intrigued by the bouncing ball of sunshine. After the match is finished, Kageyama snaps at Hinata “what were you doing for the last three years?”. He’s the first person to see Hinata’s potential, although Hinata takes it as an insult. It’s okay – they just don’t know each other yet.

Rivalry. Kageyama vs Hinata. Later (ep 6 minor spoilers??): Karasuno (Hinata and Kageyama) versus Aoba Johsai (Kunimi and Kindaichi). Shoyo sees Kageyama as the biggest barrier to his dream of playing volleyball. He wants to defeat him with all his being: if he can defeat the strong player, then he will be the strong player.

Victory and defeat. Duh. It’s a sports anime. One team plays another in a game where only one can win. Hinata is sure he is capable – he’s over-confident and inexperienced. He doesn’t know what good volleyball looks like, let alone how to implement it. But he’s also a show-off – a facet of his personality I didn’t really grasp until season 4. He wants the recognition the Little Giant got. He wants a stadium of people to go “wow, did you see him jump? Did you see how he beat the three-man block? Oh my god, he’s so amazing”. I’m sure the cool nickname – the Little Giant – caught his attention as well. So if he tries hard and jumps high enough, he’ll win, right?

Yeah. Poor baby learns a very harsh lesson. This defeat is crushing. He jumped high, like the Little Giant, but he couldn’t defeat the block. Those looming hands haunt him – “a tall, tall wall looms before me…”. This is a barrier he can’t overcome and he doesn’t know *why...*You can see it on his face after the block – ‘huh? I copied the Little Giant’. This sets up the goal of the first season: Hinata needs to learn how to see what’s at the top, the other side of that tall wall. He needs to hit rock-bottom before he can start climbing up.

Kageyama’s team won because it was a better team. Kitagawa Daichi is a powerhouse on the Miyagi junior high volleyball scene. I don’t know if it’s a private school, but it’s a feeder school for Aoba Johsai, which is a private school. Both seem to have a specialism in volleyball training. Maybe if Hinata went to Kitagawa Daichi, [Manga spoilers] if he’d been introduced to volleyball as early as Kageyama was, maybe he’d already be a monster. Or maybe his natural instincts would have been trained out of him. It’s important to the story that Hinata starts off as an untrained underdog, deprived of good volleyball and hungry for victory.

Team versus the individual. Kitagawa Daichi was the favourite to win the whole tournament. It’s a powerhouse team with more players than can fit on the bench. They’re tall, they’re scary, they’re elite. The team members often go on to Aoba Johsai, a high school powerhouse. Hinata’s school didn’t even have a team until he came along. They’re small (exactly 6 players, no reserves, no libero). His teammates don’t even know the rules for the game. Hinata had to fight tooth and nail to get on the court. However, he’s encouraging to his team members and dedicated. He’s glowing at just being there. He wants to win, of course, but most of all he wants to play volleyball.

Volleyball is a team sport. “The team that wins is the one with the strongest six players”. However, at times, it seems like both Hinata and Kageyama are the only ones really playing on their teams. Kageyama is giving it his all, yelling at his team for not keeping up with him and slacking off. Hinata is the only one on his team who wants to be there, the only one who wants to play. He’s hitting the most spikes, jumping the highest, playing the best (not that that’s saying much). This match, in a large way, is Kageyama versus Hinata.

Talent. Kageyama is a genius setter. (Manga spoilers:) He was raised in a family of volleyball players (one of which is an alumnus of Shiratorizawa for christ’s sake). He’s enamoured with the sport – obsessed with it. He lives and breathes volleyball. (Manga spoilers:) he keeps a volleyball journal where he records and analyses every play, practice and game he’s ever made. He’s tall and strong and athletic. He goes to a school with a good volleyball training programme. He’s built for this game.

Hinata is (superhumanly) athletic. He can run fast and jump high. But he’s short and untrained. His talent is raw and unrefined. But it’s still enough to catch Kageyama’s attention.

Characters

Furudate-sensei is a fan of the Meaningful Name™ convention. This is actually fairly common in Japanese culture anyway: traditionally baby names are carefully chosen to reflect the parents’ aspirations for the children. (I also don't speak Japanese so I'm going off other people's translations for the kanji).

HINATA SHOYO (日向 翔陽) - “sun place” “soaring sunlight”. He’s a bouncing ball of sunshine who makes friends wherever he goes and jumps really high. He’s a shounen protagonist to his core: boundless enthusiasm, determination, friendship, the underdog. He’s also a magnetic hero.

This episode needs to cement the key aspects of Shoyo’s personality. He’s outgoing and “magnetic” – he makes friends with people from all walks of life. He is an underdog. Everyone loves an underdog, right? Effort and passion should be rewarded. The good guys should win. This episode really sets up how hard little Shoyo had to fight to be on the court and how he’s willing to fight to stay on it. The flashback occurring the moment he walks into the gym for his first tournament demonstrates this nicely: his junior high school didn’t have a team or a real club, none of his friends was interested in volleyball (although they were athletes of various persuasions) and he spent most of his time practising by himself against the wall or begging his friends to set the ball for him.

It’s okay, though: he has the magnetism of a true Shounen protagonist and not only manages to talk his friends into occasionally throwing the ball to him but also drags them to a tournament of a sport they’ve never played and don’t really understand. He’s also managed to talk some first-years into joining the team. Shoyo is very magnetic and I wonder how much he’s aware of it at this point. He’s not exactly reflective or a deep thinker.

He’s enthusiastic and determined. He will play volleyball to his full capabilities until the match point. When his teammate worries about getting hurt after watching him run into a wall, his response is “I don’t understand [why you want to slow down]. We haven’t lost yet”. It ain’t over until it’s over.

KAGEYAMA TOBIO (影山 飛雄) - “Shadow Mountain” “Flying Hero”. What are his main traits? He’s volleyball mad, he’s ambitious and competitive, he’s tall, he’s athletic and strong, and he’s grumpy. Also intimidating – to his opponents and his teammates. The second-years on his team are scared of him. He hates to hear them trash-talking other players as they are only benchwarmers. He’s a setter – a control freak who takes every match he plays seriously, no matter the opponent. He will win at his best, dammit, and without holding back. He especially seems annoyed that the benchwarmers on his team place themselves above Hinata, even though they’re not even good enough to be regulars. “Don’t ride the coat-tails”, he tells them.

He wants to beat the block and the faster the attack, the better the hit, he believes. If people can’t keep up with him, that’s their fault. His sets are perfect. They need to keep up with him. If only they were as fast as Hinata, and capable of hitting difficult sets like when Izumi fumbles the ball and Shoyo leaps to save it and hits it anyway. They score their first genuine point off that, and Kageyama is impressed.

Kageyama and Shoyo are opposites, but they’re also mirrors of each other. Both are reckless: Kageyama throws reckless sets and Shoyo will leap for the ball even if he has to crash into walls and what-have-you. Both want to win. Both have their talents. Both love volleyball.

Something I found interesting is how the characters are in “sets”. Shoyo and Kageyama, obviously – their relationship is one of the major focuses of the whole series. The secondary characters too: Kunimi and Kindaichi to Kageyama and Izumi and Koji to Shoyo. They share the same jersey numbers: Kindaichi and Izumi are #5 and Kunimi and Koji are #6. These “sets” of minor characters only exist in the narrative in relation to each other. If Kindaichi appears, Kunimi is never far behind.

Izumi and Koji are third-years at this point, so why are their numbers lower than the first years? I realised (at the end of the episode) that Shoyo actually talked the first years into joining the volleyball club, not just the tournament team. Shoyo inspired a new generation of volleyball players – something he continues to do throughout the series.

Kindaichi and Kunimi are often showed in the background of Kageyama’s shots. Kunimi is the first person to serve in the game – he gets a few service aces. Kindaichi is the ace(?) of the team, often shown spiking Kageyama’s sets. This is an example of the subtle manipulation of the audience: hinting that these faces will reappear. It’s the same kind of story-telling that makes the reactors I’ve watched feel so smart when they predict something. The author wants you to notice them. The author is practically hanging a sign over them saying “remember these two!”.

When Kindaichi almost misses a reckless toss from Kageyama and expresses surprise that they managed to score from it, Kageyama responds “Faster!”, which makes Kindaichi irritated. Kunimi complain about his sets with him – Kunimi makes a comment about not having to work so hard as they’re outclassing Hinata’s team by miles – but Kageyama is taking the game seriously.

Kunimi and Kageyama squabble over Kunimi’s “laziness” – he doesn’t run for balls when they’re far enough in points, he doesn’t see why they have to try hard against such a weak and untrained team.

Kindaichi and Kageyama argue over Kageyama’s sets. Kageyama is the self-centred King of the Court after all. I think Kindaichi is actually a friendly sweetheart – and he seems to interact with Kageyama the most and deals with most of his sets. These missed friendships are missed opportunities for the three of them. (Manga spoilers): Kageyama shows he wants to be friends and play with them as adults.

Then, there are the Karasuno players. No faces, just those awesome black club jackets. I love those things. I now know that they are Suga, Daichi and Tanaka, but Furudate-sensei is good at building tension and anticipation by hiding their faces.

They appear in the stands at the junior high tournament, talking about Hinata and Kageyama’s match. Suga comments on Kageyama being “the King of the Court”. Ep 2 spoiler: Suga is a setter. Of course he’s going to appreciate Kageyama. Daichi also appreciates the overwhelming talent. It’s Tanaka who bets on Hinata becoming a threat. Tanaka seems to like Hinata’s spirit and athleticism. Ep 2 spoilers: He’s also the main hitter for the team at this point, so as the setter recognises the setter, the hitter acknowledges the hitter.

We later see them upon Shoyo’s arrival at Karasuno amongst the other clubs gathering applicants. Shimizu is also there. Daichi comments on the limited selection of applicants – this sets up the fact that Karasuno has been in decline: the “flightless crows” and such. There’s character establishing moments: Suga trying to cheer up Daichi and Tanaka flirting (and getting shut down) by Shimizu.

The Little Giant. Shoyo’s inspiration and hero, who shapes the entire course of his life. The 170 cm wing spiker makes him fall in love with volleyball and determined to enter Karasuno High School. Interesting how Shoyo never mentions his name. Maybe he doesn’t know it? He doesn’t really seem to understand the Little Giant at all. (Manga spoilers): I think this is why, by the time we meet Tenma Udai, he isn’t upset about his hero leaving volleyball behind. Now that he understands volleyball, he knows that he could never be the Little Giant anyway. Their play styles are different. Their positions are different. Shoyo can now be himself, forge his own playstyle – Ninja Shoyo, the ultimate decoy.

One thing I like about the characters is how their personalities/character development reflect their play styles, which becomes more apparent later on.

Motifs

“A tall, tall wall looms before me…”. This is the opening (and closing) of the season. It’s Shoyo’s greatest barrier – a literal wall holding him back from scoring. He can’t overcome it on his own, so, as shown in the opening scene, he needs the five other players on his side to get through it.

Crows (obvs). I find it funny to watch non-weeb reactors who don’t know what “Karasu” means. There are crows everywhere in this anime*.* The first time Shoyo sees the Little Giant jump, he sees black crow wings over the arms and gets blasted by crow feathers. Inspiration – seeing a human fly. Shoyo is now hooked on volleyball. When Shoyo’s running to the volleyball gym on Karasuno campus, he startles a crow who drops a feather in his face.

King of the Court. Before Shoyo even hears Kageyama’s nickname, he sees him wearing a cape and crown. The crowd (which Furudate-sensei often uses for exposition) also give him that name, and then Suga repeats it. When Kageyama appears in the hallway outside the bathroom, Shoyo sees him wearing the same outfit. Of course, Shoyo thinks this is a great thing – a reflection of his talent and powerful aura. Kageyama sets too fast for Kindaichi during the warm-ups and criticises him. Kindaichi rolls his eyes and half-heartedly apologies. The coach scolds him and tells him that the best set is the easiest for the hitter to spike.

Face receives. 2. 1 with a football (soccer) to Shoyo’s face, the other when Koji misses a receive.

“I can jump”. Shoyo says it to Kageyama while he’s being chastised for talking big. Izumi says it to Shoyo when they’re trying to sike themselves up for their match.

The pre-game bathroom break. Shoyo gets nervous after seeing Kitagawa Daichi and runs to the bathroom, only to run into players from the opposing team. This is a running gag throughout the series.

I don’t know if this counts, but I saw Shiratorizawa jackets in the crowd at the junior high tournament.

Many Youtube reactors commented on how Shoyo runs everywhere. He runs through the Karasuno campus on the way to the gym. The bouncing ball of sunshine has one gear: zoom. Similarly, Kageyama sets fast while Shoyo can cross the volleyball court in the blink of an eye. Their play styles complete each other.

Jersey numbers. Shoyo is 1, Kageyama is 2. When they get their jerseys (spoiler maybe?), Kageyama is 9 and Shoyo is 10. This is the only time Shoyo’s jersey number is higher than Kageyama. (Manga spoilers): in the V-league, Kageyama is 20, Shoyo is 21, then 9 and 10 again in the Olympics. As mentioned above, Kindaichi and Izumi are #5 and Kunimi and Koji are #6.

“One more” - mou ikkai. Hinata will forever ask for one more chance to play volleyball. He asks Izumi to set for him despite his complaints.

“The strong get to remain on the court”. Shoyo has to be good at volleyball to play volleyball. He wasn’t good enough to beat Kageyama, so he only got to play 31 minutes before having to leave, while everyone else got to play more games. Kageyama is used to winning at this point and only values people who can stay on the court.

Plot

Kageyama versus Hinata. This is arguably the main plot point of the series. Hinata wants to win and Kageyama defeats him. Hinata sees him as a good player, so if he also wants to be a good player, he needs to be able to outplay him. Kageyama envies his natural jumping height and speed. They argue and fight and challenge and inspire each other – destined rivals. Such a shounen trope.

Hinata is an underdog who had to fight to stay on the court. He didn’t have a coach, he didn’t have a team. Kind of an aside, but somehow he has good jumping form (according to Coach Donny) which seems to confuse volleyball players who react to Haikyuu. They wonder why he doesn’t know how to change his spike direction and forget that he’s new to the sport. As someone who doesn’t know anything about volleyball form, I found this interesting.

Hinata is willing to put the work in to develop his skills. At the beginning of the episode, he is horrified when a teacher suggests he joins the girl’s volleyball team but asks them for help (along with the 1st years who seem to be permanent members now) at the end of the episode during the montage. He also studies for the High School entrance exams and makes it into Karasuno – his determination has paid off and he wants to go to his dream school even if he has to bike over the mountains every day.

Kitagawa Daichi is in the newspaper/magazines stating their defeat. This is foreshadowing the downfall of Kageyama and the King of the Court and sort of the big plot twist at the end of the episode:

“I’m finally at Karasuno!” Shoyo thinks, running to his first meet at the gymnasium. Then...Boom – Kageyama. His sworn rival is now his teammate.

I'm sure I missed a whole lot of stuff but this was what caught my attention.

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I'm here to talk about find me in Paris. I won't watch s3 because I'm pissed about them breaking Lena/Max and Thea/Frank. But can you please tell me what happens with Isaac and Jeff through the season?

Hell yeah man!!! I’m like,,,,hoping that it was the actors’ (Max and Thea) decision to leave bc if not that’s seriously the worst writing choice of all time but not watching s3 is such a valid choice I’m literally only continuing for Jeff/Isaac and ines bc I love her

Ok so I haven’t finished yet but I’ll reblog this with updates when I do and if there are any, but basically Jeff and Isaac have theoretically already spoken to each other about their feelings by the time the show begins completely ignoring the fact that it literally picks up where s2 left off. So they just casually mention they’re together and they’re boyfriends a couple of episodes in which disappointed me a little but I was willing to let it go,,,,

Except then like every SINGLE plot line they have with each other is just them fighting about something. First it was Jeff embarrassing Isaac in front of his dance partner bc he mentioned how Isaac had said she was too controlling.

Then it was Jeff and Isaac getting in trouble for fooling around during rehearsals which led to Isaac going behind Jeff’s back and turning a role that had been for both of them into a solo for himself and he didn’t tell Jeff until Armando mentioned that it had been changed.

Then after the performance had been done and the workshop they went to finished Armando ranked all the students and Jeff got first boy while Isaac got second so now all the tension is coming from Isaac acting like he doesn’t think Jeff deserves it and that it must be some mistake even tho they’re literal actual boyfriends and he should be supportive.

Oh ALSO auditions for company are coming up soon but there’s only one spot available for male dancers and so that’s creating a kind of rift between them bc they’re competing for it all while Isaac is still resentful that Jeff was ranked first.

There have been a couple nice moments like when they make up and dance on a boardwalk a little bit and Jeff kisses the side of Isaac’s cheek to reassure him and they create a YouTube channel for Jeff’s hip-hop which was a nice project for them to do together,,, but overall a lot of it is just fighting, they’re not really given a break between all the different drama and are just hopping from one to the next, and they’re definitely definitely NOT given the same care and weight that all the heterosexual couples are even tho they’ve been together longer than both Oscar/Bree and Nico/Lena (nico’s a new character) and (presumably) Ines/Frank.

I’m very upset about the way their storyline is being handled and I’m very upset with the way they’re portraying Isaac as someone who’s jealous and not supportive especially since

A) he’s one of the few Black characters on the show and portraying him as the one who’s consistently starting all the problems in their relationship and painting him as irrational and unlikeable just reinforces the amount of attention and thought paid to all the white characters and

B) it does a disservice to his character since in s2 he was constantly shown as being supportive of Jeff (which was BEFORE they started dating) and he mentioned how much he admired Jeff’s ability to not care so much or be affected by what ppl think.

I don’t need their relationship to be perfect and by all means have that friction and that jealousy be there bc that’s understandable, but I’d much rather see Isaac working hard to be supportive of Jeff while struggling with the fact that he doesn’t feel as though his boyfriend deserves it and feeling guilty bc of that, instead of an Isaac who has no regard for Jeff’s feelings and very blatantly puts him down and says that he’s the obvious choice and deserves it way more.

Also there needs to be good stuff to outweigh or balance out all the fighting bc otherwise their relationship just doesn’t look like a good fit and I really really want it to be a good fit bc they are really adorable and good together

Anyway,,, Im not sure whether or not u just wanted casual updates in which case I apologize for the full on rant I just rly care about Jeff/Isaac and I wish the single gay relationship was given as much respect as the ridiculous amount of straight ones lol

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America’s Got Talent: Season 15 - Online Auditions

Alright, let's talk about the online auditions...And I don't just mean the ones they actually showed in full on the show last week, I mean all of the ones that were available to watch before the season even began! You can find all the videos here (you can't miss them): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsNUxRA5hGXEAZI3Mk_D3JQ/videos

So let's get right to it, shall we...?

10: Erin McCarthy. I'm sure Terry got flashbacks to his Old Spice days (I know it was the other guy, but still...) I guess the horse was a pretty amusing touch, but this lady's so pitchy that I was getting a migraine! All that said, this was a HELL of a way to close out the auditions...

9: Chris & Syd. Well, the guy's a nice singer, and the dog...is good at howling...Otherwise, this is a silly gimmick, and won't likely make it past the Judge Cuts next week...That said, if they do, they're gonna be a real threat in this game, bringing in votes from both the Heartland and dog lovers...

8: Tommy Socks. It's funny how they showed this right after the dude juggling flaming axes and a chainsaw...and yet THIS is the most dangerous-looking act I've seen in these online auditions! Usually, a man his age shuffling around on a hard-tile floor in his socks is a LifeCall waiting to happen! And yet he not only remained on his socked feet, but proved to be very spry on them for his age! This act is a silly gimmick, and he won't make it past the next round, but he still has my respect!

7: Max Major. OH MY GOD! THE FINGER TRICK WORKED ON ME TOO! HOW DID HE DO THAT!? IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN SIMPLE PHYSICS, HE MUST BE A WIZARD! ...Or a demon, like Simon said...But seriously, this was nothing amazing...I guess the fact that he was able to do this through video chat was impressive enough, although I did just read a comment about an “invisible deck”, which does make it less impressive...Still, I'm curious enough to see what he can do on a live stage...

6: Lauren O'Brien. Impressionists are always fun, even if the novelty of them tends to wear out pretty quickly from round to round...But I enjoyed her, and her impression of Sofia is all the more amusing now that I've gotten to know her more throughout the auditions. (Silly accent aside, she is growing on me as a judge...)

5: Darius. I guess he won't give his last name...(Rucker?) Very likable personality, good song choice, and a very nice singing voice! I wouldn't quite call him my favorite singer of the season, but this was a nice audition...It's actually kind of a shame that we won't likely see him again...At least this season...But if nothing else, maybe I'll actually get a little respect for my miserable time working retail (even though I quit that job months before COVID even broke out...)

4: Alexis & The Puppy Pals. Well, she's not quite at Alexa Lauenburger's level yet, but she's on her way! None of the tricks were anything I haven't seen before, but they were very impressive considering the age of the trainer...How interesting that some of the best dog trainers to come on this show are little girls! All that said...The 80s called, they want their wardrobe back!

3: Aaron...Bonk? (Sorry, I can't see his name spelled out anywhere, only hear Terry pronounce it.) Silly little diagonal mohawk aside, I'm always a sucker for rebellious-looking people juggling chainsaws and flaming weaponry! I'd love to see him do this act on a stage, but since they didn't even show him in last week's quick compilation of online acts, we're probably not even going to see him again...Again, at least until he tries auditioning again for one of the coming years...

2: The Hurd Family. Clearly, the dad and the eldest son are the real talent, while the two younger siblings are just there to cute it up a bit...Some very strong dancing, but sadly they probably won't make it past Judge Cuts since they were given the montage treatment in the official episode...

1: Simon's pajamas. A brilliant spectacle! BRRRRAVO!

This was a fun little collection of talent, and the home-recorded nature of everything kinda added to the charm...The judges were also more entertaining while just casually kicking back at their houses...Like with “Saturday Night Live”, I hope it doesn't have to continue like this, but for now, it was different and enjoyable...(Unfortunately, the Judge Cuts will be more of the same, so I really do wonder how they're gonna handle the remainder of this season...)

Probably the only acts from this who will pass the Judge Cuts next week are Alexis and MAYBE Max (if he can pull off a good enough trick). Everyone else were either silly gimmicks who don't even have the quality of so-bad-it's-good, or weren't shown in full for the official episode last week...

But we'll just see...For now, let's move on to tonight's “Best Of” show...Here are the auditions they compiled for this episode...

1: W.A.F.F.L.E. Crew

2: Double Dragon

3: Brandon Leake

4: Brett Loudermilk

5: Cristina Rae

6: The Spyros Bros

7: Voices of Our City Choir

8: Alan Silva

9: Roberta Battaglia

10: Vincent Marcus

11: Archie Williams

The reason why I listed these acts is because all of them are most likely in the live shows already (not counting the Golden Buzzer acts that we KNOW are already there). The “Best Of” shows tend to be made up of acts that the judges and/or producers liked the most, and by the time they air, the live performers have already been selected weeks or even months ago...So you know they must have liked them enough if they're in this compilation...

Can't say I'm surprised by any of these choices...except maybe Double Dragon; They were a little under my radar...I mean, if it were up to me, this compilation would have included Malik DOPE, Noah Epps, Nolan Neal, Winston, Brothers Gage, Wesley Williams and Sheldon Riley...But Waffle and Spyros are probably my two favorite auditions this season overall, so whatever...

I guess these were pretty good auditions overall...A few boring episodes here and there, but there was still a handful of memorable acts...I'd LIKE to think they'll all make it next week, but we'll just wait and see...The format's going to make things VERY difficult, and we might not even see some of them compete again...

Even the Golden Buzzer choices had some decent variety for once! Only two of them were solo singers (one child, and one adult), and for the other spots we have a choir, a poet and a dance group...Waffle's still the only act that really excites me, but it's refreshing when it's not just four singers and a dance act...Plus, from a cynical business standpoint, the choices all make perfect sense...

As for which of them will win this season...Well, it's a VERY tough call...I'm still rooting for Waffle, and they DO have the right aspects to help them out...But so far, they're not quite raking in the same enthusiasm that other winners have...

Roberta has the most views BY FAR on Youtube...But does she really have the uniqueness or overwhelming hype that previous winners had? While I like her overall, I REALLY don't want her to win this season, because NOTHING about her is distinguishable compared to all previous winners...MAYBE the quality of her singing voice compared to other child singers, but even that is a tough comparison...

Otherwise, we've had child singers with much more unique gimmicks win in the past, she's not writing her own songs (yet), she doesn't have a unique genre...Hell, even in terms of which judge's Golden Buzzer she is, it's hard to root for her; It's only Sofia's first season, and she's basically filling in for Gab Union (whose GB won last season), who in turn filled in for Mel B (whose GB won two seasons before that). Come to think of it, aside from Howie's GB the season before THAT, the only judge who has SEEN their GB win each year was the female minority judge (seeing that NONE of the GB's won in Season 13...though it was probably MEANT to be Howie's again...)

Point being, if there's any season where Simon's GB is to win, it should be the one where he selects an act that has potential to be one of my favorites...I guess it wouldn't hurt to give Heidi a year either...Or hell, more seasons where the winner ISN'T a Golden Buzzer...(You never know...It could be Archie...)

Anyway, that's all I got for now...See you next week when we find out which lucky acts get to perform live...Or...well...as live as they can make it...(God, PLEASE don't make this our “new normal”!)

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did medici the magnificent make you thirsty for matteo martari? are you Suffering because you want to watch him in more things, but you don’t know italian? fear not! i have tread this path already, and now you can enjoy the fruits of my labors thanks to this handy Guide To Watching Matteo Martari’s Filmography As An English-Speaker

note: most of these are on a paid streaming service such as amazon prime, because it’s almost impossible to find free streams of italian things with english subtitles. but free trials can go a long way in getting around this! i ended up not having to pay a cent aside from the amazon prime subscription that i already had anyway

note 2: i live in the US, so i’m not sure if some of these links might not work in other countries. i also can’t speak for how to find subtitles in languages other than english, sorry!

under the cut are links for watching: non uccidere, luisa spagnoli, 2night, and hundred to go, all of which matteo has a very major role in and thus are well worth watching if you enjoy looking at his face

update: find a more thorough and updated version of this list here

non uccidere (tv show, 2 seasons)

synopsis: a team of homicide detectives solve murders, with a healthy dose of personal drama on the side. this show is, obviously, pretty dark and intense and i would slap a whole bunch of trigger warnings on it. on the other hand, i personally was perfectly able to handle it and in fact absolutely loved it, and i’m usually a giant wimp, so make of that what you will

where i watched it with english subtitles: amazon prime (under the title “thou shalt not kill”)

note that it’s on the pbs masterpiece channel of amazon prime, which costs an additional $5 or $6 per month to subscribe to. but you get a 7-day free trial, and i easily finished the available episodes within 7 days, cancelled my channel subscription, and didn’t have to pay anything extra

also note that amazon prime lists it as 4 seasons, but in reality this is the full 2 seasons each split up into 2 parts

other places it’s available: not sure of anywhere else with english subs (it miiight be on xfinity x1 but i don’t have that myself so i haven’t checked), but if you know italian, the entire show is available for free on raiplay. it just doesn’t have subtitles in even italian there, let alone other languages

luisa spagnoli (tv movie, 4 hours)

synopsis: based on a true story. a woman in WWI italy buys a chocolate shop and ends up running a large-scale chocolate corporation. plenty of business drama and romantic drama. this movie honestly touched my Heart and i would highly recommend it

where i watched it with english subtitles: MHz choice

you have to make an account and it does ask for payment info, but you get a 30-day free trial and won’t be charged if you cancel within that timeframe

other places it’s available: amazon prime. same deal as non uccidere with needing an extra channel subscription, but you get a 7-day free trial here too.

2night (movie, 1 hour 15 mins)

synopsis: two people meet at a club and spend the whole night driving around rome looking for a parking space so they can bang. it doesn’t sound that interesting, but i enjoyed it (it’s a very short movie anyway) plus matteo is one of only 2 characters so he’s in just about every single second of the movie, which is great for me

where i watched it with english subtitles: amazon prime, tubi

hundred to go (webseries, 40 minutes)

synopsis: in a society 100 years in the future, everybody has a clone. matteo 1 timetravels back to 2016 in order to prevent the dystopian society from happening, with assistance from matteo 2 who is still in the future. THIS ONE’S IN ENGLISH YAY!!! finally i get the privilege of hearing matteo speak english and oh my god is his accent adorable. and he plays two different characters which is cool

where i watched it: youtube

aaaand that’s it! i hope this helped the approximately 6 other english speakers on this website who know and love matteo martari lmfao happy watching!!

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AMC/ABC Actor Patterns

Okay, I said I’d get this posted this week. Let me first say that this won’t be terribly ground-breaking. It’s actually just more evidence for something I and many others have pointed out before. But I’ve been thinking about it off and on since Michael Cudlitz’s show—The Kids are Alright—was cancelled.

Quick recap: Many of us thought that the show Emily did a few years ago—Conviction—was kind of suspicious. It was small, produced by ABC (a partner/sister-network of AMC), promoted by AMC and TWD, and only lasted one season. We had lots of reasons it was strange. It seemed like Emily just took a small potatoes roll she and the network knew wouldn’t last, which adds to our theories of her return to TWD.

I most recently talked about this HERE when I pointed out that, just this past season, Lauren Cohen followed a similar pattern. The major difference is that they didn’t try to make us think Maggie was dead. They wrote her out of the show from the second half of the season (Ep 6-16), but just said she’d left, going to another place. So everyone assumed she’d be back.

But in the mean time, Lauren did Whiskey Cavalier. Other than Maggie’s character not having a death fakeout, it followed the exact same template. Lauren did a show that was produced by ABC, promoted by AMC and TWD, and only lasted one season. I thought WC had a better chance of getting picked up for additional seasons than Conviction ever did…but it wasn’t. So it ended up being the same. I saw that as simply being more proof that Emily will return to TWD at some point. And granted, we haven’t technically seen Lauren return yet, but it’s been confirmed that we’ll see her again in S10.

When Michael Cudlitz’s show got cancelled, that was the first time it occurred to me that his show followed this same pattern. Let’s examine the evidence, shall we?

First, let me say that this isn’t a team delusional/he’s really alive theory where Abraham’s character is concerned. I don’t think he survived Negan at all. How could he have? His injury was far and away more deadly and final than Beth’s was. So while I think Beth is alive, Abraham, not so much.

1.  During S4 of FTWD, we were introduced to Althea, who used to be an investigative journalist. She takes video of people she meets in the apocalypse. In her collection of tapes, one of them was labelled in a way that suggested it might possibly be of Abraham and Eugene. Michael Cudlitz even commented on this on Twitter.

2.  There’s a humorous commercial I remember seeing that features Abraham and Eugene. It’s for one of the TWD games. I haven’t seen it on TV in a while, but it aired long after Abraham’s death. Kinda suspicious. I mean, if we’re suspicious that they still use Beth and Daryl to promote the show, thinking it means that relationship will return at some point, then we have to apply the same thing to Abraham and Eugene. Check it out on YouTube.

I also think it’s important to point out that most of the deceased characters from TWD are not used this way to promote the show. We don’t see commercials including Bob, Tyrese, or Sasha that are used to promote the show. And similarly, there have been absolutely no whispers or rumors of their return to the show or the spinoff. So we can count on these kinds of promos as being hints of some sort.

3. It’s been said (X) that the new TWD spinoff, which we don’t have a title for yet, may feature the backstories of deceased TWD characters. Of course that could be any deceased character, but the fact is that this makes the idea of Abraham returning—showing his backstory BEFORE he met Glenn in S4—a real possibility.

4.  On this last episode of FTWD, Daniel had a cigar very reminiscent of the ones we saw around Abraham, and said a friend told him to save it for when things got better. I thought of Abraham, and given this edit I reposted from @theinfectedtwd (IG) obviously I wasn’t the only one. 

Even more “coincidental” (that’s sarcasm) is the fact that the FTWD crew is currently hanging out in Texas. Remember that Abraham and Eugene met and started out in Texas. Houston, if I remember correctly. So the idea of them having once run into Daniel and/or Althea really isn’t far fetched at all.

5. MC just finished up one season of The Kids are Alright, also produced by ABC, also promoted by AMC and TWD, and also only lasting one season. (I was thinking he’d done two seasons of this show. Maybe it’s just because ABC shows have longer seasons of 22-24 episodes, but I thought he’d done 2 seasons. Nope. Only one. Cancelled after that.)

So we’ll have to wait and see how this plays out. But assuming we see a lot of Maggie in TWD S10, and assuming Abraham and Eugene’s backstory shows up in the spinoff, that will now be three mainstream, TWD characters who left the show for a time, did a small-potatoes ABC series that lasted one season, and then returned. Well, I guess two. Beth hasn’t returned yet. But my point is that this is simply more evidence that she will. This is becoming an undeniable pattern.

In fact, if you google this, there’s a LOT of people talking about Abraham’s possible return to the show. Some even claim it’s been concerned, though most of those are clickbait articles, so I wouldn’t take their word until and unless AMC officially confirms it. But at this point, his return is almost a foregone conclusion.

In closing, let me throw one more thing out there. This is 100% my own opinion, based on all my years of research into this stuff, and not something I can prove, but I thought I’d share anyway. In each of these cases, the networks (both ABC and AMC) and the actors and everyone else involved goes into these short-lived ABC series acting like they genuinely believe/hope the series will succeed and be on the air for many seasons.

And of course they do. That’s their job. It’s the actors’ job to promote their shows and the everyone else’s job to be optimistic and gush about how great this series is. Otherwise, no one would watch.

But again, in my humble opinion, I think that’s a little deceptive on their part. I think each of these actors has gone into these ABC series knowing full well that the series won’t last long. Because ABC and AMC are sister companies, they can collaborate and choose to put the actors in the series that are least likely to run for the long term.

That may sound weird, but most networks start a number of new series each season. They use a lot of different variables to determine which ones are more likely to succeed and sink most of their advertising dollars into those ones, more or less ignoring the others. So why do these series if they’re not going to succeed? Because they have to put something on the air and you never know when you might get a runaway hit (like TWD).

So they may ask ABC to cast their actors in the series most likely to only run one season. They may also put into their contracts that, for example, Lauren will be returning to TWD in S10, so if ABC wants to continue Whiskey Cavalier, they’ll have to replace her with another actress.

But I digress.

The details really aren’t terribly important, and I don’t pretend to know the detailed ins and outs of this industry. Truly, I don’t. But I have a basic understanding of how big business works and I’ve been following this franchise closely for more than 4 years now.

I just find it suspicious that, despite how many people loved WC and how critically acclaimed it was, it was still cancelled after one season, and now we’re hearing that Lauren will definitely be in S10 a lot more than she was in S9.

Similarly, we have a lot of hints that Abraham might show up in a new TWD spinoff. It’s in the works and they’re casting for it now. I’m assuming they’ll start filming before too much longer. And suddenly, his show is ending. Which means he’ll be available for filming. Just saying.

One other thing I thought of while writing this. I was going to say that while, yes, we saw several deceased characters in Rick’s hallucination in 9x05, those were small, 5-minute roles. Not the characters returning to some branch of the franchise for an extended amount of time. And that’s true. But it occurred to me that we DO think Beth will return, and we heard her voice, but didn’t see her face. Who else’s voice did we hear? Abraham’s. An interesting parallel, if both of them return to the show in some way. I don’t know if this will end up being a thing—we’ll have to wait and see—but the other voices we heard were Morgan’s (already in another branch of the franchise) and...Lori’s. Interesting.

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Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 329

Click on the video above to watch Episode 329 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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Announcement

if you understand what I’m saying, Give me a one. You can give me a tool, or you can give me another kind of one. Now, when I’m, at least I’m not. I’ll admit it. I’m the worst marketer in the world. I know how to rank shit. But I suck at marketing. At any rate, welcome to Wednesday’s Hump Day Hangouts. Your reason to like Wednesdays, that’s why you’re here. Let me just go from left to right, as I see you, and introduce my partners, and see what they have to say her name. What’s up?

What’s up, dude, so I’m good. I’m excited to be here. You know, it’s always good. It’s always good to be on Hump Day Hangout, it’s always good to hang out with you guys. And to, you know, give back a little bit to the community that gives us so much so really excited to be here.

Cool, Chris, what’s up, man? Good here.

Doing something really exciting at the moment building my own ghetto gym. because well, Corona is like all the restrictions, everything is still shut down. And like, I don’t know, like currently, it’s like the fifth of April or something like that, then I bet it’s gonna be till May or something like that. So I’m not waiting any longer. So like, I’m looking forward to squatting again, proper bench press, and stuff. So super excited. Cool. Bradley. What’s up, man? What’s up, man? Busy as all hell. But it’s, um, it’s exciting. Got a lot of things cooking. So glad to be here. It’s good to be busy. And as you can see, guys, it’s Groundhog Day in Costa Rica. For over a year I’ve been showing away.

I don’t want I won’t give you too much light. Because I don’t want you to think that Mark was heading off into the light. But you guys can see it. It’s beautiful. It’s sunny. What can I say? It’s the price I paid for the life I live. Guys, it takes work to do this shit.

Is that easy, and it’s not free. But once you get the process in place, then the process takes care of everything. So you can step away and enjoy some of this. You go off to the beach, you go off to the mountains, you go and explore the jungles and the volcanoes and everything that this beautiful country has to offer. And anyway, if you want to know more about how it is that we do the do, then head on over to MGYB.co. That’s our store that I’ve done for you store. I just literally got done ordering link building package from MGYB about an hour ago. So it’s exactly what we use. It’s in the process is everything that we give you. And we give it to you for free. We tell you what the process is. We’re not going to show you how. But we tell you why. It’s not that it’s something nobody else will do. Nobody will tell you why we tell you why. We’re directly affecting the algorithms in a positive manner rather than in a negative manner. That’s what we’re doing, how we do it. It’s MGYB to but if you want the secret sauce, we’re not going to give you that how to cope with it. No, we’ll put it together for you. If you want the training then you have to come to semantic mastery comm our mastermind or you join the heavy hitter club or you join us if you’re not joined, but order our done for you services. And please if you’re listening to this, it’s like Caroline said we want to give back to the community. The whole purpose for this from day one was to give back to the SEO community that has given us so much. And so that this is it. So head on over to YouTube, help us grow, and help us stay free. Click that like button hit on that bell so you get a reminder whenever we’re coming on. Please do that. Help us out? Right. We help you so please help us and without further ado, let’s Oh wait, wait, wait a minute. I got a teaser. I got a teaser. And the end of the month. end of the month. Betty we just talked about it yesterday. You want to steal the thunder.

end of the month. And oh because of oh I’m sorry. I was thinking you were the end of February that just occurred. I didn’t realize you were talking about the end of March. So yeah, we’re uh there’s Adam. He’s coming now. He must get his hamsters running fast enough on the net. Don’t let it man just keep him waiting. Yeah, I’m sorry. I understand what you’re saying now. So yeah, the end of this month Syndication Academy relaunch or, I mean, let’s just lay it out there is it they completely 100% updated for 2021 and with a unique kind of presentation twist that we haven’t done in the past and should be good. I’m really looking forward to it is a kind of a new way for us to present training material and I hope it will be received well we’ll find out but um, it’s going to be awesome because we’ve we put a lot of additional methods and techniques and such into Syndication Academy this time. So we presented her already, right in Hump Day Hangouts. We just want people to know it’s launching we’re actually going to do it will first be done internally before goes public take advantage of the internal launch because that’s always a better price point that it will be when it goes public. The person doing the training she was brought in, because she was an outsider, because we wanted someone who had never seen the training, didn’t know what Semantic Mastery What didn’t know what SEO was, we wanted her and we wanted her going through the training, and updating, updating the training while she was going through it. Why? Because we want her available on Facebook, and she is going to be available in the group. So that when people come up with problems, she will know in detail how to deal with the problem. And she will be there to help people get through the problems. We have over 300 websites, I believe, I believe it is as webinar updates guys, we have over 300 websites that she will be going into and showing them how they can manipulate it, how can they how they can be manipulated and added to your internet profile to broaden the entity. And that’s what this is all about. The name of the game now is who has the best entity in the web. That’s the name of the game. The person who builds the strongest, most powerful entity rounded out in the way that Google expects is the one who wins. And one of the foundational principles of our method is Syndication Academy. It’s a must, it’s me, that’s why we put it into the SEO shield, you have to have it, you have to present a proper entity to Google that can be trusted, and that can become authoritative over time. That’s what this is all about. Don’t expect to rank for gold.

Or DUI, DUI attorney Toronto, three posts and one syndication network Not gonna happen. Don’t expect to rank, like plumber in dc, dc plumber. That took a lot of work. It was it’s what we call now the SEO power shield, and then embed runs precedences if you remember Rob was doing presently, like daily. Yeah, hammering it with link building. But it became the entity for the keyword DC plumber, the keyword and DC plumber, the company is inextricable right now. Right, the relationship that was created is so great. So this is one of the things that you can do with Syndication Academy is build that entity. It’s coming. Se is wonderful. She’s great at communicating. It’s just different. And we hope that people can really benefit from having her available like every day. She’ll be in there and she can spend an hour in there or however long it takes to answer questions then there will be monthly or I don’t know how often. It’ll be up. It’ll be updated. We will figure it out guys, but it’s coming. I’m really excited about this. Get on the Syndication Academy train.

Adam, anything you’d like to add to now? I couldn’t help myself. That’s it, man. Yeah, I’ve been having some weird internet issues are doing construction around our place. And just like three minutes before, posted a video on Facebook inviting people to come into Hump Day Hangouts and then tried to do anything else is dead. So happy to be here. I think you guys covered it. I’m pumped about Syndication Academy. There’s a lot, a lot of good stuff in there that people are gonna want to go over, and then with the continuous updates, it’s just gonna be badass. So that’s all I got for today.

Cool, but without further ado, and nobody else has objections. Let’s move on to the questions. All right, let me grab a screen. Oops, wrong button.

You guys are seeing it now. Correct. Looks good.

I don’t know why it stopped with your damn. I don’t know which ones are which anymore.

Can You Offset Average Reviews And Get Into The 3-Pack By Targeting Optimized Listings With Press Release, Backlinks, Drive Stacks From MGYB?

I think it’s a setting but let me take a look because I had to go in and you can do something but Oh, so it was you that changed some shit around. I didn’t do shit. No, Gordon. Gordon is is the last one. The last one. Hey, guys, I need your help with two podcasts. Yeah. All right. So hey, guys, I need your help with two quick questions. Number one, I’m presuming that having lots of four and five-star reviews still has a significant effect on getting a GMB listing into the three-pack. But if the business has just average quantity and quality reviews compared to their competitors, can you offset that deficiency and still get a new three-pack by targeting the optimized listing with press releases backlinks ROI is Google Drive stack, etc from MGYB. Yeah, I mean, I think reviews are a small part of ranking in the three-pack.

But I don’t know how. Like how much of a part of it is I don’t think it’s a huge part of it might Marko might have more insight on that than I do. Where I find reviews mostly beneficial, is not necessary. I mean, it’s great for social proof. There’s no question right? It helps to improve the click-through rate if they got good. A good number of reviews and obviously a high rating in those reviews. It helps to entice the click right it helps to cause visiter a Google user to want to click through to that, which is a great SEO signal in itself, right? That engagement signal, but as far as the reviews themselves having an effect on the SEO, it’s I don’t know how much of an effect the reviews actually have on the GMB. But where I find the most benefit is by going in and replying to those reviews and working keywords in and location names into the review. reply, if that makes sense. Because it’s a way to inject additional relevancy, either geographic or topical relevancy into the reviews themselves that typically, if you know, if you read a lot of reviews, a lot of times the keywords aren’t mentioned or the locations aren’t mentioned. And so you can work those in it’s just another opportunity to squeeze keywords and location terms into the GMB. So that’s how I find it. But I don’t know about how much maybe Marco Can you answer? Do you have any idea how much reviews affect GMB ranking?

Not rankings, but they do become link building targets? Right? Yeah.

And, and so that’s a great place to start, that’s a great way to use them is as link building target. That’s how I use them. They’re great for press release targets also for press releases, which is also link building.

And so you can think of them that way. Now, the quality of the reviews only matters, like when you’re seeing a lot of forum five stars when people are looking. I talked about this the other day I believe in in a webinar, you know, my daughter really pays attention to that. And she really looks at the reviews when she’s trying to buy something like an Amazon. Like how many good reviews does it have? How many bad reviews have Why are they getting bad reviews? Or why are they getting such good reviews? Or are they just generic reviews that these people are getting?

And so that’s when it matters, and then that CTR is like it’s not a cause and effect. It could be correlational. In other words, if you have a lot of quality reviews, then as you said people are likely to click on it. But as far as ranking, like, I’ve seen people with no reviews rank over people with 300 something reviews. Yeah, no problem.

Yeah, yeah, I see that too. And that’s why I mentioned I don’t know how much the reviews. Now, again, by being able to use those reviews as an opportunity for link building. I didn’t mention that. But yeah, that’s true. And that’s a lot of times, by the way, like Press Advantage will write press releases and actually quote, a review that they pulled from the GMB anyways for that company. So that’s a great opportunity to link to the share URL for that review. But also, as I said, there’s work you know, replying in replying to reviews gives you that opportunity to add additional keywords and location, relevancy. So I think that that helps as well. That’s a habit that we do for my clients.

Does Daily Posting In GMB Help In Ranking The Listing Higher?

So the second question was, I’m presuming that daily GMB posts are allowed. Yes, and I recently read that posting daily on GMB will significantly help the listing to rank higher and that optimizing the posts for your targeted search terms will also significantly help with ranking or either or both of these those true and if so, how much of an impact will either have. Gordon, I would suggest that you take low to join the Local GMB Pro course that we put out because it’s all specifically about GMB and how to get I mean, just absolutely crush a GMB location.

You know, doing nothing but the stuff inside of GMB. I mean, as you can forget about even if it has a self-hosted website and everything but what I’m saying is local GMB Pro is all about how to optimize and get results from the GMB and the assets that Google provides as part of the Google My Business profile. So I would encourage you to check that out if because it sounds like you’ve got some GMB work on your hands. So, Marco, what do you want to say about the post?

I’m like, Can I say outside of local GMB Pro people have paid really good money for that course. Right? And how much are we willing to give away for free?

Yeah, I mean, you have to look at what your competitors are doing to see what it is that you have to do to compete in the space.

Check to see if that like what frequency of posting you should have. There’s so much information that you can gather from a GMB and from insights. It’s ridiculous.

Yeah, I mean, I can’t really say much more with it without just giving away too much. How we do the post not it’s not just a matter of posting but how we post how each one is done, how we approach the entity. The press releases everything. Everything goes hand in hand.

Yeah.

Should You Create A GMB For A Business Aiming To Get Monthly Membership Signups Even If It’s Not A Local Service Type?

Okay, well, thank you for that. Dan says, Hey gents, so I bought an SEO shield for a business that is looking to generate monthly membership signups. It isn’t a local business. Really, though. I am wondering if I should order a postcard and set up a GMB even though it really isn’t a local service type of business, my SEO shield is already in a queue without an address or phone number. Any advice is appreciated. Um, I mean, there’s a lot of benefits to having a GMB associated with a brand period. Even if it’s not a typical local business, I’m gonna pass this one over to Marco because he, he, he uses GM B’s for, you know, even national or global type projects. So market What do you say? What can you suggest to him? But it’s the entity right looks good. I’m sorry, Dan. We recently did charity webinars I suggest that you go and make a donation, send an email to the email that’s provided up I’ll write it later.

And really focus on what it is that we’re talking about because I talked about how to use a GMB a little bit. Not only to solidify the entity but in the entire process and why you should do this and why even if you don’t have a local company, you should have a GMB why you should have a listing why it’s important for Google to have a list and why is it important in your schema for your organization when you’re presenting everything to Google and why you’d be out doing everybody else?

There we go. And that’s so just to clarify Dan if you what I would suggest if you plan on getting a GMB is to contact MGYB support and find out you know how far they’ve gone with your order. Because if it hasn’t been really started yet or anything, I got an again, just a suggestion depending on where they are with the progress of your stack your drive stack, you may be able to ask them to pause it and wait until you get the GMB that way. It’s worked into the GMB. Now, if it’s already been started or completed or whatever, then that may, you know, unfortunately, that it may be too late. But it would be worth at least a support request to find out if it’s possible if you know where it is in it, you know and how far along it is. And if it can be paused until you get to GMB. If that’s what you plan on doing that would be a suggestion.

I would tell him Yes. I mean, we would totally pause it, we would give them 30 days actually, right 30 days to submit the information. If you haven’t submitted it in 30 days, then then you will get refunded. And you have to start again. But just so you know we can hold it. It’s not as if that no, we can’t just write to resale just right to resist. He’s fantastic. And support man. Yeah, supported MGYB.co.

Should You Buy An MGYB Link Package To Hit The RYS Stack After Purchasing A Depth Keyword Research?

Okay, next would be I also purchased in-depth keyword research, and I’m assuming that the next thing to buy would be a link package to hit dry stack with any suggestions on what else I could be doing. Fortunately, I have a monthly budget to spend on MGYB Yeah, that’s great, Dan. And that’s what we’ve, I can’t tell you how many times when we talk about, you know, the SEO shield, the power shield, you know, and everything that we talked about entity based SEO that you should have a budget from your client’s retainer every single month that’s dedicated towards link building and embeds and that kind of stuff, press releases, whatever. So it’s good that you have that because, you know, that’s, that’s the way to get results is to use that. So you just work that right into your proposal. Initially, whenever you’re signing a client, which it sounds like you did, so that’s great.

You know, I would go through either the SEOshield.com if you haven’t already gone through that, it’s free, it’s like a four-day training, Rob put that together, that will tell you like the best practices and how to get the most use out of it. And that kind of stuff. The other one would be semanticmastery.com/process which’s behind an opt-in now.

So you still have to exchange your email for it. But I did a training on that specifically, again, it’s high level, but I specifically talk about how to, you know how I cycle through link building and embeds and things like that and, you know, choose different target URLs different us, you know, groups of URLs to hit at different times and that kind of stuff. And I talked about that and kind of a high level through the process training, the entity based SEO process training, which again, you can find that at semantic mastery.com slash process. I believe that redirects to an opt-in page now but you can get access to it just by opting in. And I would recommend you go through that because it’ll give you some kind of link building schedule, like link building and embed, like off-page SEO schedule. It’s and it’s just a mock schedule, you can modify it to you know, your specific needs or to the project’s needs, but it’ll just give you some ideas on how to cycle through and constantly be planning applying pressure to your entity assets. And that’s the way that we suggest doing it any any comments guys. Yeah, I suggest go to the seoshield.com, I posted it on the page, it tells you why we’re not going to tell you how. But it tells you why.

And everything that you build off-page away from your money site becomes like a target for your link building. And for your press releases or for everything you do so that it powers up into your money site. So it’s just a fantastic way. But don’t just take that one link building run, it depends on the competition, it depends on the keyword that you’re doing. It depends on the niche, it may take a steady diet of this every month until you’re getting the results that you want. And then you want to let the natural traffic and the natural link building take over. If anything starts to slip, you just start over again. With more press releases more link building more embed runs, and more link building. I mean, it’s exactly the way that we do it.

Yeah.

What Software Can You Recommend To Automate LinkedIn Lead Generation?

Next question. This is a question for me for sure. So he says, Hey, guys, wondering if you know of any good LinkedIn automation lead generation software systems to help get more clients for agencies and clients? That’s a great question. In fact, I have just started, I just signed up last week and am in the process of working on, you know, developing my own LinkedIn strategy. Because I just launched my new agency less than three weeks ago. And I’m going to attempt to give a real attempt this time on LinkedIn, two to four prospecting.

Over the years, I’ve not done a whole lot of LinkedIn stuff. Number one, I just never had a desire to do it. It’s just like Facebook, I’m not a big fan.

But in the past, I’ve made some half-assed attempts to do prospecting on LinkedIn, and I never stuck with it long enough to get any results to fine-tune my pitch my messaging, you know, all that kind of stuff. So this time, I’m going to, I’m going to give it a full-hearted effort and stick with it long enough to try to get some results or prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it just isn’t going to work in the industry that I’m in, which is tree care contractors, although I just from some very, very basic stuff that I’ve done over the past week. I’ve seen some promise already. So I’m going to stick with it. That said, I would suggest a couple of things, I came across a really, really, really good resource. It’s called the LinkedIn Bible.

Ba mF CEO, I think is the name of the Yeah, right there. Ba mF CEO. And it’s called the LinkedIn Bible. There’s a collection of five books, but he’s got a, you know, free plus shipping funnel, essentially, I’m sure you’re aware of that.

There’s anyways, just go check it out. It’s called the LinkedIn Bible, it’s a series of books that you can get, I think the first one for free, but then you got to pay for the others. It’s, it’s really good. There’s a shit ton of information in there about how to optimize your profile.

How to start growing your network for your specific industry, you know, chosen industry or how to do that for clients, that kind of stuff. So there’s just a lot of real I mean, guys, it’s massive. The book itself is, I don’t know, 400 pages or something. It’s ridiculous. There’s I mean, but a lot of that screenshots and things like that anyway, it’s really good. I just started going through that just a few days ago, or, yeah, it was over the weekend, I think that I started, it’s all a blur. I’m working 14 hours a day right now, but it’s really good. As far as that, you know, that’s just going to give you some strategies. Now he recommends some tools and stuff in there, the tool that I decided to go with is called octopus crm.io. That’s this one. And I want with this one, just because it’s got all the features that I need, I’m using high level is my agency, marketing automation platform. And so you know, I didn’t really need like another full-on CRM and everything else. But octopus CRM actually has a set of one of the better monthly pricing options. A lot of the other ones are 100 bucks a month, this one’s $49 a month. And just a quick tip, if you sign up for the free trial, you will get an email and then a couple of days with a 5% off coupon that’s 5% off the monthly. So if you go with the monthly at 4999. And you get that 5% off coupon, it’s I mean, it’s only a couple bucks off, but just letting you know where you can go annual one, it’s like 25 bucks per month, but you have to pay for the whole year. So anyway, I would try that. There are a few other ones out there too, that I’ve looked at. But this is the one that I decided to go with. I haven’t really started any serious prospecting on LinkedIn yet because I’m still kind of in the learning the platform phase as long as well as optimizing, optimizing my profile, and developing my messaging sequence which I’m already testing that using email and SMS and cold voice drops through high levels. So once I have that kind of down in a bit of that message, I’m going to apply that to LinkedIn.

I obviously might have to tweak it a bit for the LinkedIn platform. But I think that’s what I’m going to be doing. So I will have more information as far as experience with LinkedIn and this CRM and or automation app in particular, but it’s going to be a few weeks. This is not you know, this, LinkedIn is another prospecting Avenue. For me, it’s not my primary source, if that makes sense. So anyway, anybody else has any suggestions for that? They give you a free pro trial, every once in a while. Yeah. And it worked out really well for me. So well, in fact, that I did pay a couple of extra months.

I mean, what I wanted to see is how good it was for prospecting, right. And I did it in the Virginia area got a bunch of people from Virginia, DC.

So I’d be there’s just a lot of SEO leads and related, like marketing, there’s a lot of things in marketing that you can do. And then like, I don’t know how much to give away, I’ll give it away, what I’ll do is I’ll just change the city that I’m in, I’ll change the phone number because then that’s the leads that you’ll get leads from there. So if you’d like if you’re around New York, and you can meet with people or Chicago, LA, whatever, I mean, it’s just a really good venue to get in front of people, you will have to like outbid others, I never send in.

I don’t want to get too technical. I never said send in the bids. I say to people, let’s get on a call. Let’s talk and they will see what it is that you want that you need. Because I can’t tell you exactly. I can’t charge you like $15,000 and not know what it is that you need. And so you get them on the phone. And they get to know you they get to know who you are they’ve already done their research on what it is that you do. And the closing rate is phenomenal. When you get in front of these people. You were talking about LinkedIn Pro Finder, though, right? Yes, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I actually bought a course from

Josh Harris about that called LinkedIn Pro Finder profits over a year ago now. But the niches in there, I mean, unless you’re just looking like, you know, as an SEO agency, or excuse me, a marketing agency, you can get, you know, you can go you can find people that have submitted proposal requests for SEO or marketing services. Specifically, I’m in you know, looking for trees, tree contractor clients, and there are no Pro Finderoptions for that. So, so I never ended up doing anything with it. But it looks like you could get quite a, you know, there’s not a whole lot of people competing on this, at least there wasn’t a year ago when I joined that program. It didn’t really fit my model. So I really never did anything with it. But you ought to check into that. As far as just doing flat-out outreach. And I think I said when I was talking about this earlier, $49 a month, it’s only $39 a month, which is and that’s on the monthly. That’s why part of the reason I joined this one, as opposed to some of the other ones was that it was so much less expensive. And with the unlimited account, it gives you Zapier, you know, connect, it will allow you to connect to Zapier, which will push the data from this app to a high level, which is really where I want it because the high level is what I’m using for my CRM and pipeline and all that kind of stuff. So that’s specifically why I went with the unlimited was so that I could connect it to a high level via Zapier. But yeah, pro finder, as far as I know, there’s from what I hear there was quite a bit of work that can be had from LinkedIn, like to get clients from and you can even sell if you get good on with LinkedIn pro finder, you can actually provide that as a service for, you know, businesses that provide that are looking for people that are asking for looking for clients, essentially, you can manage pro finder stuff for clients is what I’m saying. And that’s kind of pro finder profits course was from Josh Harris was all about, you know, doing that managing that for others. Again, it just didn’t fit any of my chosen industries. So I didn’t do it. But you might want to look into that as well. How it works is you get a notification anytime that there’s a lead available in your area. And you just go in and you write an email to that person, get that person to contact you be really good at getting in front of people and having them you know, get them on that on that phone. And then if you get on the phone, you can close them. Yeah. Yeah.

So yeah, it’s a great question. By the way, I’m just like I said, just starting to get into LinkedIn now.

I think it’s promising. So I’m gonna give it a real effort. I’ll share what I know when I know.

Any Advice On How To Optimize An Online Vehicle Dealership Web Platform In Facebook Marketplace & Other Sites?

Okay, so this was a question posted by Marco but it was from another group or something from Nicole Campbell and Facebook. I’m creating a web platform that will allow dealers to sell their vehicles online. However, regarding the marketing, I would like for their cars to be marketed through the Facebook marketplace and a ton of other platforms. I’m not sure how to go about doing this. Do I automate my platform or do I automate each featured vehicle that is uploaded on the platform, automate each vehicle that has a multi-tier syndication or a single-tier?

Yeah, that’s kind of a tough question, because I’m not sure I fully understand what she’s asking to do. Marco, do you want to take this one? Since you were aware of it? Well, first, you need a website.

And it’s not a cheap website that Nicole is needing, because this website is going to need to do a few things, for example, the vehicles that she’s that she wants to sell. Let me go back and look at this question again because that’s what it is so so she wants to show the vehicles online, but she also wants them in the Facebook marketplace. So you want to wait to automate going into the Facebook marketplace. I don’t know if there’s any way outside of the Facebook API to go into the Facebook marketplace. I don’t even don’t think that IFTTT, Zapier, but you’d have to look. So here’s the thing, though. And this is why I got into this. Our support both MGYB and Semantic Mastery are not there to give you SEO advice, which this or marketing for that matter or anything having to do with how to build your website and how to hook all this up. What they’re they’re there to do is to create a done-for-you syndication network. But it can’t be customized in this way. We have a set number of profiles that we do this with the Facebook marketplace is not one of them. So you’re talking about something that’s outside of what we do outside the specs or the spectrum of what it is that we do. So she wants to know, do I automate your platform? Yeah, you would automate your website to hook into the Facebook marketplace. If that’s even possible. Again, API, there has to be some kind of way that you can hook into the marketplace so that you can display your vehicles into the marketplace and then also syndicate out into your syndication network.

All right. Now, is this a multi-tier syndication? No, it’s a single tier, because we’re still talking about building the entity and pushing whatever it is that you’re doing your product service, or whatever it is, out into your entity, you’re not even at the multi-tier syndication level. At that point, it might require a multi-tier syndication network, depending on the automobiles are they use? Are they new? What kind of are wheels? Is it local? Is it global? What are you doing? And I can tell you that if you don’t already have the website, and you’re gonna you’re looking to develop, it’s not done on pennies. This is an expensive website that you’re talking about is one type of thing. I mean, you can look to adjust the template to do what you need it to do. I wanted to answer this For this reason, because there’s no way that our support can be expected to give you an answer for any of these questions. Since they simply don’t know, I don’t even know I’m just giving you what I would look to do with it, I would create my own custom theme, my own custom template, my own structure like we did with MGYB. To do the things that I wanted to do hiring a developer to do that is going to cost you if you’ve already done it. Now your job is to go and look to see how you can hook into the Facebook marketplace. Because it’s not one of the places that we go into. Yeah. And then from there, once you get once you have your SEO shield in place, look and how to incorporate whatever it is that you’re doing into that. That would be my answer for her.

Yeah, I mean, you could always go to something like Upwork and look for, you know, Facebook developers, for example, or Facebook app developers, like I don’t know, I don’t do shit on Facebook. So it’s, but I’m sure you can find somebody on Upwork that to let you know whether that’s even possible, you could probably even do some research on your own and figure out, I don’t know, I sell real estate that I flip, you know, land vacant land on Facebook marketplace, but we post those manually. We don’t do a lot of you know, a shit ton of volume. So there’s really no reason for us to automate that. But I don’t know, I don’t think I’ve seen in any of our automation apps, the ability to automate a Facebook marketplace post to profiles and post to groups and that kind of pages. Yes, but I’ve never I don’t think I’ve ever seen that option anywhere. And all the automation apps that I’ve used, not saying it can’t be done. It may be possible. I just never seen that. So I don’t think it’s common. So again, I would recommend that you just do some research first to see if you can automate Facebook posts, Facebook marketplace posts, excuse me. First and if you can’t determine whether that’s possible or not, then you know, again, go to like Upwork or something and post a job describing what it is you’re trying to accomplish? And you’ll start getting some replies back from people that, you know, depending on how you post your job and Facebook up work, excuse me, I usually do by invitation only. So I literally go look for people that say something in their profile that would, you know, lead me to believe that they’re able to help. And then I send them the invitation to review my job, the job posting, specifically, and that way I don’t get like 8000 replies that I have to sift and sort through, I’m only getting replies from people that I have selected. But that might be a good opportunity for you to find out. Just have some conversations with some people that understand Facebook development stuff, and they’d be able to steer you in the right direction. And then you might even find somebody to be able to develop what you need, right there on the upward platform. Any comments?

Can You Use The SEO Power Shield To A Website That Already Had A Google Drive & IFTTT Setup By Another Vendor?

No, that’s perfect. Okay. driven to rank. Alright, he says, I just purchased the power shield. Can I use it on a website that already had a Google Drive and IFTTT set up from another vendor? Or should I use it only on a site that doesn’t have those things set up? No, you know, you can use it for the same site.

It’s probably done a hell of a lot better too.

Since we did it not probably I’m sure it is. But um, yeah, no, as far as I’ll let Marco take this one. But yeah, you can apply it to the same site. What do you say, Marco?

Yeah.

Does that it?

I mean, they ask these questions, and you can never be really sure, right. Yeah, that’s true. It’s, uh,

I’m not sure what it is that we’re doing. Or can I use it on the website that already had a Google jet? Yes. Because we will use that Google Drive and we will get the IFTTT login. So what you’re missing is the G site. And if I’m reading this correctly, the ad ID but don’t use it on anything else. Unless I miss reading this.

While he’s saying that he had a website that already had a drive stack that was built by some other vendor as well as an IFTTT setup. Yeah, so he wants to apply the new SEO power shield that he bought from us and all of its components to the same website. And I’ve done that in the past guys, not I haven’t bought from other vendors. Because Because I’ve been building them myself or trained a team out of building them since 2011. So I’ve never bought a syndication network or a drive stack from another vendor. That said, I have had some, you know, networks that were older that weren’t set up correctly, or, you know, things have changed or whatever. And so, and for example, I’ve got a Tree Service.

One of my Tree Service locations that I built this drive stack for way back in probably 2015. When I learned how to do that, from Marco, before we had even launched our ys Academy. And I had built one in fact, it was the training that I did, I remember specifically it was for called pepper Tree Service. And it was because I had built that for the training that I did for ArcGIS Academy, because Gary, Dr. Gary did the training originally, but then people said they wanted me to do the training. So I went in and built a drive stack for call pepper Tree Service. And long story short, that was never that was built to those standards at that time. Well, things have changed a lot. You know, as far as like, how we build them. Now the way they look, the interlinking has gotten a lot better, everything else. And so about a year ago, I had, I had MGYB build another drive stack specifically for that brand that that that particular brand got brought in underneath another brand. But I had a new drive stack built for that I didn’t get rid of the old drive stack, it’s still out there, it’s still in fact, for you know, certain keyword searches, you can still see on page one some of those files and folders and such. But I just had a new one built to kind of replace that one but I just didn’t deindex the other one or set it to private or anything because there was really no perhaps except for the name being changed because I brought that other underneath another brand, the all the other NAEP data was the exact same and call pepper Tree Service is actually also a keyword instead of just a brand right that makes sense. So really didn’t am disambiguate or ambiguity ate my brand when I changed the brand name because all the other NAP data stayed the same. So my answer is I would just go ahead and apply the power shield to the project even if you had the other stuff. You can decide whether or not the other stuff was toxic and you want to eliminate it or set it to nonpublic or whatever. That’s up to you. You know we can’t tell you that without looking at anyways but I can tell you if it was built by somebody else you probably wouldn’t do right.

So yeah, we hit was responsible for what somebody else did. My main concern starting here would be, dude, don’t create ambiguity. If you create ambiguity, it’s going to kill whatever it is that you’re doing. And it’s really hard to disambiguate. Once you’ve done so.

Have You Tried Using 301 Redirect A Domain With Single Backlink From Authoritative Site To A Money Site?

So BB’s up with a list of questions, many of which are hypothetical as always, No, I’m kidding. BB, what’s up? He says, Hey, guys, have you ever tried a 301? redirect a domain with a single backlink from an authoritative site to the money site? What were the results? If not, then what should be there? Well, yes, I’ve done that. In fact, I found a really good it was domain that had was expired domain, but it had one backlink from Wikipedia. That was it. It was one backlink. But it was from Wikipedia, as a real backlink from Wikipedia. And it happened. It happened to be for a landmark or something, some historical landmark that had a website at one time, but apparently, they let the domain expire. And it was in a particular it was in the Charlottesville, Virginia area. And I had a limo service company at the time, that was a client of mine, that was a limo service in Charlottesville. And so I found that expired domain with the one backlink that was on a page for a historical landmark in the city of Charlottesville. And so it was it just seemed like a great backlink. So I did what I purchased. But if I remember, I can’t remember if I just did a 301 redirect, or if I set up I think I set up an HTML page with the Wayback informing the original page content from the Wayback Machine archive.org. Right. And I think I set that up on an HTML, Amazon s3 hosted, you know, bucket hosted HTML page with so a recreation of what the Wayback Machine archive.org had as the content on there. But I stripped all the links out and everything else to where the only error was one backlink from that HTML page to my money site. And I saw like a seven-position jump in a matter of a week, which was really crazy. It was one keyword that I was targeting, in particular with that test. And I saw a significant jump.

So as far as I don’t know if I’ve done any just 301 redirects, but it will pass the PageRank, you know, through the redirect to your destination, if it is, you know, a little bit as lost through a 301 redirect, but not much. So yes, it will pass. You want to comment on that one, Marco. Yeah, watching Be careful, like how long the domain has been expired? And how much has been spammed? Because it could be that that that da will disappear real quick. Yeah. And not only that, the PageRank. So it depends on how much you’re going to spend on that domain, what you’re using it for. But if it has those really good link metrics, then yes, I wrote, I built one up to like 70 domain authority once. And then once I got that far, Google for some reason came in and just smack the shit out of me. And it got D indexed. Well, of course, it was just total spam, because domain authority is a third-party metric. And like the only thing that you should be caring about, like, is it relevant to whatever it is that you’re doing? And does it have good links, so that those links are relevant to whatever it is that you’re doing? So if you can find a website that’s actually relevant, and the links are relevant to whatever you’re doing, it doesn’t have to have direct relevance. But some relevance according to whatever it is that Google considers relevant. Not Moz. Not majestic. Not a truss, nothing but Google. And then yes, yes, it will have fantastic results, Wikipedia, any Wikipedia links that are especially related, will have fantastic results, that 301 will have an effect. And then what you can do is boost that expired domain, because it’s 301. So you’re actually adding a layer of protection. Be careful, though, because a penalty can pass through that 301 to wherever it’s directed. So never directed to your money site. Of course. That’s why I mentioned the HTML page on an s3 bucket. Yep. Yeah. And that was, that was my preferred method. I don’t like to 301 I like to create those buffer pages. And there’s like, in my opinion, there’s no better place to do it than an S3 HTML page. So that’s, that’s I did a lot of that where I would buy expired domains and readjust build a single HTML page with the content that you can scrape directly from archive.org. And it’s just one page. It’s just the root domain, whatever was on the root domain, you can recreate that and then strip out any navigation menu links and everything else to where there’s one backlink on that page pointed when it can be an anchor text link, or however, you know, you have to determine how you want to handle that. But that one link now, especially if it’s anchor text, and it’s embedded within content that adds relevancy. It can be incredibly powerful and in that HTML page becomes another target that you can just hammer with additional backlinks as well for, you know, to power that up even further. So there’s a good question.

Why Does Google Rank A Site With Higher Quality Backlinks Than A Long Form Content?

The next one is why? And this question, I’ve read it like six times now trying to decipher it. So not 100% Sure, I can fully understand the question, but I’m going to attempt it. I think what he’s asking is why will Google rank content that has maybe less content, but higher quality, higher quality backlinks than long-form content? That might be considered like, you know, you know, a really in-depth article about this topic, but fewer backlinks, why will Google out? And he says, isn’t Google’s purpose to give the best results? Yes, and no. I mean, yes, Google intends to give the best results. But one of the algorithms also determines through backlinks, backlinks, a big still a huge part of the algorithm on how things are, end up the ranking, right, and how they perform in search, I should say, backlinks are still a huge part of that this is definitely a good question for Marco. But you know, just having, you know, just having good content, or even the best content about a particular topic does not mean that you’re going to rank for it. Because if you don’t, again, if you don’t know how to structure the content properly, if you don’t know how to do internal linking properly, if you don’t do any external stuff, except for Jeffrey Smith, who is incredible at Jeff’s building PageRank through internal link structure and how he stacks content, properly through semantic, you know, through what he knows through how good he is, Jeffrey Smith, SEO boot camps, the only one that I’ve ever seen, that can outrank you know, sites with very little to no external backlinks at all because of how he structures and he builds all his PageRank through internal linking. So again, if you know how to do all that shit, then having really good quality content, you can rank well for it, but just having the best content on a particular subject or topic. If you don’t know, like, if none of the other metrics are there signals are there, then it’s not you know, chances are, it’ll never get found. So I don’t know, Marco, how do you want to expand on that?

You mentioned the metric word PageRank, which is the doorway into what Google is building, which is a ranking score. This is a good way to understand that no matter how much content you write if you don’t build back backlinks, you’re fucked until Google figures out what it is that you’re trying to do.

Perfect example, because you can write a whole bunch of content that nobody sees is what I tell people like they want a million-dollar website that nobody is ever going to see. So there’d be a whole bunch of money. Nobody sees the website, and you have some garbage from 2000. Right, that type of website that, you know, it’s crazy, but it’s converting, like nuts. And you wonder, Well, why? Why? Because all you’re concentrating on is a pretty website that nobody will see, instead of focusing on converting the people that are coming to the website, activity, relevance, trust, and authority, which builds PageRank. It builds ranking short, he’s hitting it with backlinks which create more PageRank more ranking scores. That’s what we focus on the entity, the activity relevance, trust, and authority building PageRank building ranking score.

How Come Google Ranks Pages With Blocked To Membership Content?

Sweet, thank you. How come Google ranks pages with blocked membership content? Um, I don’t know. I don’t know. I mean, if it’s you know, if it’s a particular word, like a brand name, or you know, a training course name or something like that, and there’s not a lot of competition for it, then it can rank even if it’s a block membership page unless it’s set to no index. And I’ve even seen Google ignore that no index directive before. So I don’t know, I can’t answer that. Can you Marco, you’re not gonna have it? What do you mean by block to membership? That doesn’t mean that Google can’t crawl the page and can’t index the page and can’t rank it as long as the content is relevant. Or if you built a whole bunch of length we just talked about it backlinks to it. Then it has activity relevance, trust, and authority because people are coming to the website.

I think something like this right.

So like a blank membership registration page or something, you know what I mean? I think that’s what he’s asking about but he’s getting activity. Yeah.

Okay, so Joey says Where do I sign up for Syndication Academy jelly well syndication.academy just go to syndication dot Academy that will take you to the sales page if you want to join prior to the relaunch but if you just want to wait till the relaunch it looks like Adam already got you.

Looks like we already have an early access landing page. Look at that. I hadn’t thought of everything yet. No, I did in the background during Hump Day Hangouts. Ah, the truth comes out.

I thought you were you had some foresight. I mean, yeah, that’s what I meant to say I had a couple of things there. Awesome. Well, look at that. See asking you shall receive. There you go. Muscle slug. Nice. Not sure what a muscle slug is, but

How To Properly Set The CloudFare Settings To Point To the Website?

okay, I recently purchased the video mail prospecting system that Bradley had done, which is awesome, by the way. Yeah, wait. Soon, soon, I’m going to be adding an additional module to that guy. And then we’ll probably relaunch it. And not, you know, we don’t do big launches anyways. But we’ll probably reintroduce it to you guys, our audience again, once I do, because I’ve got I’m doing I just launched a new agency less than three weeks ago, and I’m doing serious prospecting. More so than I’ve ever done, like industrial strength. That’s awesome. And it’s working well. And I’ve got a really nice little system that’s working well for starting a conversation, using video emails and all kinds of anyways, I’ll cover that I’m going to do an update to that training. And then we’re going to go into reintroducing it to you guys when it’s ready. So anyway, if you’ve already got it, you’ll get the update when it when I add it. Okay.

Back to the question. I have a technical question. In reference to this. Bradley had mentioned during your training to set up a website for the personalized name domain to help with email delivery. Yes, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to set the Cloudflare settings up to point to the website to work right. Normally, you set the name servers on the domain, to point to the hosting to work. I hope this makes sense on what I’m asking any suggestions on this? It’s probably a simple thing that I’m messing with that with this. Thanks, James. Yeah, James, it’s really simple. So you have if you are if you’re buying a domain, and you’re going to build a website, you’re and you’re going through Cloudflare, you just need to figure out what the IP addresses for your server, your host, right, and then you set the record in Cloudflare. So you set an A record, put the @ sign in CloudFlare as you know, subdomain or whatever, that just means it’s going to read it, it’s the root essentially. And then you put the IP address of your web server in you know, value field, and you hit it, you know, you add, you add that record, then you can also add a C name record for www dot and then put the same value your domain name in the value field, that’s a C name record. And that will so that the website will resolve on both the root domain and the www version of it. If that makes sense. Cloudflare has helped files for that if, if those are confusing, you can always go to YouTube, and say how to set up a domain on Cloudflare. And, you know, I’m sure there’s a shit ton of YouTube videos out there that will show you how to do that. It’s very simple. Once you learn how to do it, it’s super, super simple. And I use Cloudflare for just about everything. The only thing here’s something else. And I mentioned this, and I’ll give this away because I thought it was brilliant. I took a great email prospecting course from this is called cold email mastery. And it’s on gumroad.com. I don’t even know the trait, the guy’s name, who did the training, it was fabulous, really, really good. cold email prospecting course, I just took it like two weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago. So 125 bucks. It’s worth it, guys. But he showed me in that training, how to go buy the domain through Google domains through a G Suite account or Google workspace account. And then if you buy that domain, like that, you’re going to be cold email prospecting with buying the domain through Google workspaces. And through Google domains logged into a Google account. And guess you don’t have to be logged into a Google workspace account. You could probably do it from your primary Google account if it’s just a regular Google account. But go to Google domains is when I’m saying purchase the domain that you’re going to be using for cold email. If you’ve already done it, don’t worry about it. It’s not a big deal. I’m just saying going forward or get another extension of.org or.co extension that you can redirect to your money site. And again, I’ll cover some of this in the updating training for vpls or the video Legion system. But if you buy the domain through Google domains, it’s like three bucks more than it is at name cheap. But it will automatically set up your you there’s a checkbox during the checkout process for purchasing a domain through Google domains that will allow that will automatically set Google workspaces up for that domain and it will set up the SPF records the DK i M Records and all these things that you need to ensure the highest deliverability for your emails. So it’s great it was a great little hack for me it was worth 125 bucks alone for the cost of that course was just to learn that because it sets everything up and it’s it’s right out of the gate. It’s an initial validation signal to Google that you know you’re a valid business and not just a spammer. One other thing that I want to cover just very briefly and again this is because I’m doing so much of this stuff right now guys, but there’s this great service and I’ll cover this in the update when I do that for the video lead gen system. Lem list calm. This is a cold emailing platform. I’m not using it for that I’m using it for one Barrett because I’m using high level for my prospecting platform. And I’m using high level it’s fabulous Semantic Mastery comm slash high level, you can get a 14-day free trial. That is my it’s great. I’m using that for my automation platform and all the stuff that I’m doing. But why I brought up Lem list was because if you want to build a domain reputation of a new domain for cold emailing, they have this service in here. And if you go to their blog, they’ve got a great article about it. In fact, I’m just going to pull up the article because that would be better.

Warm up, email, and I’m going to put them list.com get right there how to warm up your email account. And that’s on blog dot Lem list calm so just go to Lem go to Google and search for warm-up email endless calm and it’s the very first organic listing right there, boom, read this article. It’s fabulous. When I came across this I was like, Man, that’s uh, it’s brilliant. They have this. And you can join Lem list for I think it’s 30 bucks a month, just to use the lead warm feature. And that’s what I do. So once I have, you know, my domain, set up all the records in place and everything, then I add that Google workspace account, to Lem list through the to the LEM warm feature. And what it does is it starts to send and receive and reply to emails from that brand new domain email address to other Lem Lem list users and it’s all done. It’s all automated it gets it’s done in the background. But what it does is it starts to build the domain reputation so that when you are ready to start cold, like I would give it 30 days, at the very minimum at least 21 days for the LEM warm system to warm the email up and build a domain reputation before you start cold prospecting emailing with it. But I want to tell you like I said, I just set this up for the domain that I just started prospecting with about three weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago really. And I only let that it run on that for two weeks. And I just tested I did a MX tools, you know, email reputation tests you for where you can send an email in and it will analyze the email and tell you what like the spam score is. And I got a 9.4 out of 10 yesterday when I literally just tested it yesterday because about once a week I like to go in and check to see if my domain reputation is dropping and I got a 9.4 out of 10. And I’m sending cold emails with a video email, just like I talked about a video lead gen system I’m using send spark.com or send spark whatever it’s an app Sumo deal that creates the video, email gifts, and all that. And that’s what I’m using and I inject put that right into Gmail, send that out for cold emailing and I’m still getting a 9.4 out of a 10 you know, domain reputation score. So I would highly recommend that you check out Lem lists for their lead warm feature. And then also check out, you know, purchasing domains through Google domains that you’re going to be doing for and set Google workspace upon it is what I’m saying. So hopefully that makes sense. As far as CloudFlare go back and just go to YouTube. Cloudflare has got help files but you can also go to YouTube and search and I’m sure you’ll find a tutorial on how to do what you need to do.

Do Different Stacks Interlink When Mirroring The Site Into The Drive Stack?

Looks like Jason, Jason Oh my god. Game says hello there when mirroring so we’re almost out of time guys. three more minutes. Hello there. When mirroring the site into the drive stack do the different stacks interlink. So for example, do dogs from the widgets folder point to the green widgets folder docs?

As far as I know, well, no, no, I and Marco would be better to answer this one. But if you’re siloing, your drive stack using the ArcGIS expansions. Like we teach the No.

And again, I don’t build them anymore. So I’m not sure if they I don’t think they interlink because the silos inside the drive stack or the internal links are the links from the files within the drive stack within the silo in the drive stack should be only pointing to the target URLs on your money site. Right? The same silos?

Not interlinking between them, if that makes sense.

Yeah, and I can’t mark it would be better to answer that one. I’m sorry. I just can’t give you a proper answer on that one. Because I’d have to go in and actually analyze one of my drive stacks. I haven’t built one of those in so many years. To be honest with you, I’m not sure how, through the expansion service, how they interlink those, I think they interlink all the files and folders within the same silo. They interlink those two to each other, right, that makes sense, but no cross linking to other silos. And I’d have to confess I’d have to go look at it to confirm it, or Marco could confirm it, but he’s not here. So.

All right, one more Jason says

Just kidding I’m really here for this week’s SEO with BB also just getting these talking about BB too many questions BB just giving you a little crap and seeing if you can crack Bradley up. Yeah thanks, Jason

all right last one well this is good cold email mastery There you go, we need to get an affiliate link for that for real because I keep touting how good that course is. It really is a good course.

Does All Of The MGYB Services Work For Non-English Sites?

Last question, guys Conrad says Hey guys, are some or all of the MGYB services for non-English sites as well what would be different or good to take into account when ordering the project and other languages it’s non-English you can’t we don’t we only provide our done for you services in English.

Hernan, if you’re still available, maybe you can, I don’t do anything outside of the US. But from what I understand you can apply the SEO shield that built-in English and still apply it to a non-English target. And it will still benefit it. But I don’t do that. So I don’t know if Hernan still with us or not? Apparently not. From what again, from what I understand it doesn’t you can have all English stuff on the SEO shield pointing to a non-English site and still benefit from it. But I can’t really answer that because I’ve never done anything outside SEO wise outside of the US. Post this question in the Facebook group and I’m sure that Rob or Marco could jump in and give you the correct answer.

Okay.

All right. Well, thanks, guys. Thanks, Adam. For hanging out, guys.

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if you understand what I’m saying, Give me a one. You can give me a tool, or you can give me another kind of one. Now, when I’m, at least I’m not. I’ll admit it. I’m the worst marketer in the world. I know how to rank shit. But I suck at marketing. At any rate, welcome to Wednesday’s Hump Day Hangouts. Your reason to like Wednesdays, that’s why you’re here. Let me just go from left to right, as I see you, and introduce my partners, and see what they have to say her name. What’s up?

What’s up, dude, so I’m good. I’m excited to be here. You know, it’s always good. It’s always good to be on Hump Day Hangout, it’s always good to hang out with you guys. And to, you know, give back a little bit to the community that gives us so much so really excited to be here.

Cool, Chris, what’s up, man? Good here.

Doing something really exciting at the moment building my own ghetto gym. because well, Corona is like all the restrictions, everything is still shut down. And like, I don’t know, like currently, it’s like the fifth of April or something like that, then I bet it’s gonna be till May or something like that. So I’m not waiting any longer. So like, I’m looking forward to squatting again, proper bench press, and stuff. So super excited. Cool. Bradley. What’s up, man? What’s up, man? Busy as all hell. But it’s, um, it’s exciting. Got a lot of things cooking. So glad to be here. It’s good to be busy. And as you can see, guys, it’s Groundhog Day in Costa Rica. For over a year I’ve been showing away.

I don’t want I won’t give you too much light. Because I don’t want you to think that Mark was heading off into the light. But you guys can see it. It’s beautiful. It’s sunny. What can I say? It’s the price I paid for the life I live. Guys, it takes work to do this shit.

Is that easy, and it’s not free. But once you get the process in place, then the process takes care of everything. So you can step away and enjoy some of this. You go off to the beach, you go off to the mountains, you go and explore the jungles and the volcanoes and everything that this beautiful country has to offer. And anyway, if you want to know more about how it is that we do the do, then head on over to MGYB.co. That’s our store that I’ve done for you store. I just literally got done ordering link building package from MGYB about an hour ago. So it’s exactly what we use. It’s in the process is everything that we give you. And we give it to you for free. We tell you what the process is. We’re not going to show you how. But we tell you why. It’s not that it’s something nobody else will do. Nobody will tell you why we tell you why. We’re directly affecting the algorithms in a positive manner rather than in a negative manner. That’s what we’re doing, how we do it. It’s MGYB to but if you want the secret sauce, we’re not going to give you that how to cope with it. No, we’ll put it together for you. If you want the training then you have to come to semantic mastery comm our mastermind or you join the heavy hitter club or you join us if you’re not joined, but order our done for you services. And please if you’re listening to this, it’s like Caroline said we want to give back to the community. The whole purpose for this from day one was to give back to the SEO community that has given us so much. And so that this is it. So head on over to YouTube, help us grow, and help us stay free. Click that like button hit on that bell so you get a reminder whenever we’re coming on. Please do that. Help us out? Right. We help you so please help us and without further ado, let’s Oh wait, wait, wait a minute. I got a teaser. I got a teaser. And the end of the month. end of the month. Betty we just talked about it yesterday. You want to steal the thunder.

end of the month. And oh because of oh I’m sorry. I was thinking you were the end of February that just occurred. I didn’t realize you were talking about the end of March. So yeah, we’re uh there’s Adam. He’s coming now. He must get his hamsters running fast enough on the net. Don’t let it man just keep him waiting. Yeah, I’m sorry. I understand what you’re saying now. So yeah, the end of this month Syndication Academy relaunch or, I mean, let’s just lay it out there is it they completely 100% updated for 2021 and with a unique kind of presentation twist that we haven’t done in the past and should be good. I’m really looking forward to it is a kind of a new way for us to present training material and I hope it will be received well we’ll find out but um, it’s going to be awesome because we’ve we put a lot of additional methods and techniques and such into Syndication Academy this time. So we presented her already, right in Hump Day Hangouts. We just want people to know it’s launching we’re actually going to do it will first be done internally before goes public take advantage of the internal launch because that’s always a better price point that it will be when it goes public. The person doing the training she was brought in, because she was an outsider, because we wanted someone who had never seen the training, didn’t know what Semantic Mastery What didn’t know what SEO was, we wanted her and we wanted her going through the training, and updating, updating the training while she was going through it. Why? Because we want her available on Facebook, and she is going to be available in the group. So that when people come up with problems, she will know in detail how to deal with the problem. And she will be there to help people get through the problems. We have over 300 websites, I believe, I believe it is as webinar updates guys, we have over 300 websites that she will be going into and showing them how they can manipulate it, how can they how they can be manipulated and added to your internet profile to broaden the entity. And that’s what this is all about. The name of the game now is who has the best entity in the web. That’s the name of the game. The person who builds the strongest, most powerful entity rounded out in the way that Google expects is the one who wins. And one of the foundational principles of our method is Syndication Academy. It’s a must, it’s me, that’s why we put it into the SEO shield, you have to have it, you have to present a proper entity to Google that can be trusted, and that can become authoritative over time. That’s what this is all about. Don’t expect to rank for gold.

Or DUI, DUI attorney Toronto, three posts and one syndication network Not gonna happen. Don’t expect to rank, like plumber in dc, dc plumber. That took a lot of work. It was it’s what we call now the SEO power shield, and then embed runs precedences if you remember Rob was doing presently, like daily. Yeah, hammering it with link building. But it became the entity for the keyword DC plumber, the keyword and DC plumber, the company is inextricable right now. Right, the relationship that was created is so great. So this is one of the things that you can do with Syndication Academy is build that entity. It’s coming. Se is wonderful. She’s great at communicating. It’s just different. And we hope that people can really benefit from having her available like every day. She’ll be in there and she can spend an hour in there or however long it takes to answer questions then there will be monthly or I don’t know how often. It’ll be up. It’ll be updated. We will figure it out guys, but it’s coming. I’m really excited about this. Get on the Syndication Academy train.

Adam, anything you’d like to add to now? I couldn’t help myself. That’s it, man. Yeah, I’ve been having some weird internet issues are doing construction around our place. And just like three minutes before, posted a video on Facebook inviting people to come into Hump Day Hangouts and then tried to do anything else is dead. So happy to be here. I think you guys covered it. I’m pumped about Syndication Academy. There’s a lot, a lot of good stuff in there that people are gonna want to go over, and then with the continuous updates, it’s just gonna be badass. So that’s all I got for today.

Cool, but without further ado, and nobody else has objections. Let’s move on to the questions. All right, let me grab a screen. Oops, wrong button.

You guys are seeing it now. Correct. Looks good.

I don’t know why it stopped with your damn. I don’t know which ones are which anymore.

Can You Offset Average Reviews And Get Into The 3-Pack By Targeting Optimized Listings With Press Release, Backlinks, Drive Stacks From MGYB?

I think it’s a setting but let me take a look because I had to go in and you can do something but Oh, so it was you that changed some shit around. I didn’t do shit. No, Gordon. Gordon is is the last one. The last one. Hey, guys, I need your help with two podcasts. Yeah. All right. So hey, guys, I need your help with two quick questions. Number one, I’m presuming that having lots of four and five-star reviews still has a significant effect on getting a GMB listing into the three-pack. But if the business has just average quantity and quality reviews compared to their competitors, can you offset that deficiency and still get a new three-pack by targeting the optimized listing with press releases backlinks ROI is Google Drive stack, etc from MGYB. Yeah, I mean, I think reviews are a small part of ranking in the three-pack.

But I don’t know how. Like how much of a part of it is I don’t think it’s a huge part of it might Marko might have more insight on that than I do. Where I find reviews mostly beneficial, is not necessary. I mean, it’s great for social proof. There’s no question right? It helps to improve the click-through rate if they got good. A good number of reviews and obviously a high rating in those reviews. It helps to entice the click right it helps to cause visiter a Google user to want to click through to that, which is a great SEO signal in itself, right? That engagement signal, but as far as the reviews themselves having an effect on the SEO, it’s I don’t know how much of an effect the reviews actually have on the GMB. But where I find the most benefit is by going in and replying to those reviews and working keywords in and location names into the review. reply, if that makes sense. Because it’s a way to inject additional relevancy, either geographic or topical relevancy into the reviews themselves that typically, if you know, if you read a lot of reviews, a lot of times the keywords aren’t mentioned or the locations aren’t mentioned. And so you can work those in it’s just another opportunity to squeeze keywords and location terms into the GMB. So that’s how I find it. But I don’t know about how much maybe Marco Can you answer? Do you have any idea how much reviews affect GMB ranking?

Not rankings, but they do become link building targets? Right? Yeah.

And, and so that’s a great place to start, that’s a great way to use them is as link building target. That’s how I use them. They’re great for press release targets also for press releases, which is also link building.

And so you can think of them that way. Now, the quality of the reviews only matters, like when you’re seeing a lot of forum five stars when people are looking. I talked about this the other day I believe in in a webinar, you know, my daughter really pays attention to that. And she really looks at the reviews when she’s trying to buy something like an Amazon. Like how many good reviews does it have? How many bad reviews have Why are they getting bad reviews? Or why are they getting such good reviews? Or are they just generic reviews that these people are getting?

And so that’s when it matters, and then that CTR is like it’s not a cause and effect. It could be correlational. In other words, if you have a lot of quality reviews, then as you said people are likely to click on it. But as far as ranking, like, I’ve seen people with no reviews rank over people with 300 something reviews. Yeah, no problem.

Yeah, yeah, I see that too. And that’s why I mentioned I don’t know how much the reviews. Now, again, by being able to use those reviews as an opportunity for link building. I didn’t mention that. But yeah, that’s true. And that’s a lot of times, by the way, like Press Advantage will write press releases and actually quote, a review that they pulled from the GMB anyways for that company. So that’s a great opportunity to link to the share URL for that review. But also, as I said, there’s work you know, replying in replying to reviews gives you that opportunity to add additional keywords and location, relevancy. So I think that that helps as well. That’s a habit that we do for my clients.

Does Daily Posting In GMB Help In Ranking The Listing Higher?

So the second question was, I’m presuming that daily GMB posts are allowed. Yes, and I recently read that posting daily on GMB will significantly help the listing to rank higher and that optimizing the posts for your targeted search terms will also significantly help with ranking or either or both of these those true and if so, how much of an impact will either have. Gordon, I would suggest that you take low to join the Local GMB Pro course that we put out because it’s all specifically about GMB and how to get I mean, just absolutely crush a GMB location.

You know, doing nothing but the stuff inside of GMB. I mean, as you can forget about even if it has a self-hosted website and everything but what I’m saying is local GMB Pro is all about how to optimize and get results from the GMB and the assets that Google provides as part of the Google My Business profile. So I would encourage you to check that out if because it sounds like you’ve got some GMB work on your hands. So, Marco, what do you want to say about the post?

I’m like, Can I say outside of local GMB Pro people have paid really good money for that course. Right? And how much are we willing to give away for free?

Yeah, I mean, you have to look at what your competitors are doing to see what it is that you have to do to compete in the space.

Check to see if that like what frequency of posting you should have. There’s so much information that you can gather from a GMB and from insights. It’s ridiculous.

Yeah, I mean, I can’t really say much more with it without just giving away too much. How we do the post not it’s not just a matter of posting but how we post how each one is done, how we approach the entity. The press releases everything. Everything goes hand in hand.

Yeah.

Should You Create A GMB For A Business Aiming To Get Monthly Membership Signups Even If It’s Not A Local Service Type?

Okay, well, thank you for that. Dan says, Hey gents, so I bought an SEO shield for a business that is looking to generate monthly membership signups. It isn’t a local business. Really, though. I am wondering if I should order a postcard and set up a GMB even though it really isn’t a local service type of business, my SEO shield is already in a queue without an address or phone number. Any advice is appreciated. Um, I mean, there’s a lot of benefits to having a GMB associated with a brand period. Even if it’s not a typical local business, I’m gonna pass this one over to Marco because he, he, he uses GM B’s for, you know, even national or global type projects. So market What do you say? What can you suggest to him? But it’s the entity right looks good. I’m sorry, Dan. We recently did charity webinars I suggest that you go and make a donation, send an email to the email that’s provided up I’ll write it later.

And really focus on what it is that we’re talking about because I talked about how to use a GMB a little bit. Not only to solidify the entity but in the entire process and why you should do this and why even if you don’t have a local company, you should have a GMB why you should have a listing why it’s important for Google to have a list and why is it important in your schema for your organization when you’re presenting everything to Google and why you’d be out doing everybody else?

There we go. And that’s so just to clarify Dan if you what I would suggest if you plan on getting a GMB is to contact MGYB support and find out you know how far they’ve gone with your order. Because if it hasn’t been really started yet or anything, I got an again, just a suggestion depending on where they are with the progress of your stack your drive stack, you may be able to ask them to pause it and wait until you get the GMB that way. It’s worked into the GMB. Now, if it’s already been started or completed or whatever, then that may, you know, unfortunately, that it may be too late. But it would be worth at least a support request to find out if it’s possible if you know where it is in it, you know and how far along it is. And if it can be paused until you get to GMB. If that’s what you plan on doing that would be a suggestion.

I would tell him Yes. I mean, we would totally pause it, we would give them 30 days actually, right 30 days to submit the information. If you haven’t submitted it in 30 days, then then you will get refunded. And you have to start again. But just so you know we can hold it. It’s not as if that no, we can’t just write to resale just right to resist. He’s fantastic. And support man. Yeah, supported MGYB.co.

Should You Buy An MGYB Link Package To Hit The RYS Stack After Purchasing A Depth Keyword Research?

Okay, next would be I also purchased in-depth keyword research, and I’m assuming that the next thing to buy would be a link package to hit dry stack with any suggestions on what else I could be doing. Fortunately, I have a monthly budget to spend on MGYB Yeah, that’s great, Dan. And that’s what we’ve, I can’t tell you how many times when we talk about, you know, the SEO shield, the power shield, you know, and everything that we talked about entity based SEO that you should have a budget from your client’s retainer every single month that’s dedicated towards link building and embeds and that kind of stuff, press releases, whatever. So it’s good that you have that because, you know, that’s, that’s the way to get results is to use that. So you just work that right into your proposal. Initially, whenever you’re signing a client, which it sounds like you did, so that’s great.

You know, I would go through either the SEOshield.com if you haven’t already gone through that, it’s free, it’s like a four-day training, Rob put that together, that will tell you like the best practices and how to get the most use out of it. And that kind of stuff. The other one would be semanticmastery.com/process which’s behind an opt-in now.

So you still have to exchange your email for it. But I did a training on that specifically, again, it’s high level, but I specifically talk about how to, you know how I cycle through link building and embeds and things like that and, you know, choose different target URLs different us, you know, groups of URLs to hit at different times and that kind of stuff. And I talked about that and kind of a high level through the process training, the entity based SEO process training, which again, you can find that at semantic mastery.com slash process. I believe that redirects to an opt-in page now but you can get access to it just by opting in. And I would recommend you go through that because it’ll give you some kind of link building schedule, like link building and embed, like off-page SEO schedule. It’s and it’s just a mock schedule, you can modify it to you know, your specific needs or to the project’s needs, but it’ll just give you some ideas on how to cycle through and constantly be planning applying pressure to your entity assets. And that’s the way that we suggest doing it any any comments guys. Yeah, I suggest go to the seoshield.com, I posted it on the page, it tells you why we’re not going to tell you how. But it tells you why.

And everything that you build off-page away from your money site becomes like a target for your link building. And for your press releases or for everything you do so that it powers up into your money site. So it’s just a fantastic way. But don’t just take that one link building run, it depends on the competition, it depends on the keyword that you’re doing. It depends on the niche, it may take a steady diet of this every month until you’re getting the results that you want. And then you want to let the natural traffic and the natural link building take over. If anything starts to slip, you just start over again. With more press releases more link building more embed runs, and more link building. I mean, it’s exactly the way that we do it.

Yeah.

What Software Can You Recommend To Automate LinkedIn Lead Generation?

Next question. This is a question for me for sure. So he says, Hey, guys, wondering if you know of any good LinkedIn automation lead generation software systems to help get more clients for agencies and clients? That’s a great question. In fact, I have just started, I just signed up last week and am in the process of working on, you know, developing my own LinkedIn strategy. Because I just launched my new agency less than three weeks ago. And I’m going to attempt to give a real attempt this time on LinkedIn, two to four prospecting.

Over the years, I’ve not done a whole lot of LinkedIn stuff. Number one, I just never had a desire to do it. It’s just like Facebook, I’m not a big fan.

But in the past, I’ve made some half-assed attempts to do prospecting on LinkedIn, and I never stuck with it long enough to get any results to fine-tune my pitch my messaging, you know, all that kind of stuff. So this time, I’m going to, I’m going to give it a full-hearted effort and stick with it long enough to try to get some results or prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it just isn’t going to work in the industry that I’m in, which is tree care contractors, although I just from some very, very basic stuff that I’ve done over the past week. I’ve seen some promise already. So I’m going to stick with it. That said, I would suggest a couple of things, I came across a really, really, really good resource. It’s called the LinkedIn Bible.

Ba mF CEO, I think is the name of the Yeah, right there. Ba mF CEO. And it’s called the LinkedIn Bible. There’s a collection of five books, but he’s got a, you know, free plus shipping funnel, essentially, I’m sure you’re aware of that.

There’s anyways, just go check it out. It’s called the LinkedIn Bible, it’s a series of books that you can get, I think the first one for free, but then you got to pay for the others. It’s, it’s really good. There’s a shit ton of information in there about how to optimize your profile.

How to start growing your network for your specific industry, you know, chosen industry or how to do that for clients, that kind of stuff. So there’s just a lot of real I mean, guys, it’s massive. The book itself is, I don’t know, 400 pages or something. It’s ridiculous. There’s I mean, but a lot of that screenshots and things like that anyway, it’s really good. I just started going through that just a few days ago, or, yeah, it was over the weekend, I think that I started, it’s all a blur. I’m working 14 hours a day right now, but it’s really good. As far as that, you know, that’s just going to give you some strategies. Now he recommends some tools and stuff in there, the tool that I decided to go with is called octopus crm.io. That’s this one. And I want with this one, just because it’s got all the features that I need, I’m using high level is my agency, marketing automation platform. And so you know, I didn’t really need like another full-on CRM and everything else. But octopus CRM actually has a set of one of the better monthly pricing options. A lot of the other ones are 100 bucks a month, this one’s $49 a month. And just a quick tip, if you sign up for the free trial, you will get an email and then a couple of days with a 5% off coupon that’s 5% off the monthly. So if you go with the monthly at 4999. And you get that 5% off coupon, it’s I mean, it’s only a couple bucks off, but just letting you know where you can go annual one, it’s like 25 bucks per month, but you have to pay for the whole year. So anyway, I would try that. There are a few other ones out there too, that I’ve looked at. But this is the one that I decided to go with. I haven’t really started any serious prospecting on LinkedIn yet because I’m still kind of in the learning the platform phase as long as well as optimizing, optimizing my profile, and developing my messaging sequence which I’m already testing that using email and SMS and cold voice drops through high levels. So once I have that kind of down in a bit of that message, I’m going to apply that to LinkedIn.

I obviously might have to tweak it a bit for the LinkedIn platform. But I think that’s what I’m going to be doing. So I will have more information as far as experience with LinkedIn and this CRM and or automation app in particular, but it’s going to be a few weeks. This is not you know, this, LinkedIn is another prospecting Avenue. For me, it’s not my primary source, if that makes sense. So anyway, anybody else has any suggestions for that? They give you a free pro trial, every once in a while. Yeah. And it worked out really well for me. So well, in fact, that I did pay a couple of extra months.

I mean, what I wanted to see is how good it was for prospecting, right. And I did it in the Virginia area got a bunch of people from Virginia, DC.

So I’d be there’s just a lot of SEO leads and related, like marketing, there’s a lot of things in marketing that you can do. And then like, I don’t know how much to give away, I’ll give it away, what I’ll do is I’ll just change the city that I’m in, I’ll change the phone number because then that’s the leads that you’ll get leads from there. So if you’d like if you’re around New York, and you can meet with people or Chicago, LA, whatever, I mean, it’s just a really good venue to get in front of people, you will have to like outbid others, I never send in.

I don’t want to get too technical. I never said send in the bids. I say to people, let’s get on a call. Let’s talk and they will see what it is that you want that you need. Because I can’t tell you exactly. I can’t charge you like $15,000 and not know what it is that you need. And so you get them on the phone. And they get to know you they get to know who you are they’ve already done their research on what it is that you do. And the closing rate is phenomenal. When you get in front of these people. You were talking about LinkedIn Pro Finder, though, right? Yes, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I actually bought a course from

Josh Harris about that called LinkedIn Pro Finder profits over a year ago now. But the niches in there, I mean, unless you’re just looking like, you know, as an SEO agency, or excuse me, a marketing agency, you can get, you know, you can go you can find people that have submitted proposal requests for SEO or marketing services. Specifically, I’m in you know, looking for trees, tree contractor clients, and there are no Pro Finderoptions for that. So, so I never ended up doing anything with it. But it looks like you could get quite a, you know, there’s not a whole lot of people competing on this, at least there wasn’t a year ago when I joined that program. It didn’t really fit my model. So I really never did anything with it. But you ought to check into that. As far as just doing flat-out outreach. And I think I said when I was talking about this earlier, $49 a month, it’s only $39 a month, which is and that’s on the monthly. That’s why part of the reason I joined this one, as opposed to some of the other ones was that it was so much less expensive. And with the unlimited account, it gives you Zapier, you know, connect, it will allow you to connect to Zapier, which will push the data from this app to a high level, which is really where I want it because the high level is what I’m using for my CRM and pipeline and all that kind of stuff. So that’s specifically why I went with the unlimited was so that I could connect it to a high level via Zapier. But yeah, pro finder, as far as I know, there’s from what I hear there was quite a bit of work that can be had from LinkedIn, like to get clients from and you can even sell if you get good on with LinkedIn pro finder, you can actually provide that as a service for, you know, businesses that provide that are looking for people that are asking for looking for clients, essentially, you can manage pro finder stuff for clients is what I’m saying. And that’s kind of pro finder profits course was from Josh Harris was all about, you know, doing that managing that for others. Again, it just didn’t fit any of my chosen industries. So I didn’t do it. But you might want to look into that as well. How it works is you get a notification anytime that there’s a lead available in your area. And you just go in and you write an email to that person, get that person to contact you be really good at getting in front of people and having them you know, get them on that on that phone. And then if you get on the phone, you can close them. Yeah. Yeah.

So yeah, it’s a great question. By the way, I’m just like I said, just starting to get into LinkedIn now.

I think it’s promising. So I’m gonna give it a real effort. I’ll share what I know when I know.

Any Advice On How To Optimize An Online Vehicle Dealership Web Platform In Facebook Marketplace & Other Sites?

Okay, so this was a question posted by Marco but it was from another group or something from Nicole Campbell and Facebook. I’m creating a web platform that will allow dealers to sell their vehicles online. However, regarding the marketing, I would like for their cars to be marketed through the Facebook marketplace and a ton of other platforms. I’m not sure how to go about doing this. Do I automate my platform or do I automate each featured vehicle that is uploaded on the platform, automate each vehicle that has a multi-tier syndication or a single-tier?

Yeah, that’s kind of a tough question, because I’m not sure I fully understand what she’s asking to do. Marco, do you want to take this one? Since you were aware of it? Well, first, you need a website.

And it’s not a cheap website that Nicole is needing, because this website is going to need to do a few things, for example, the vehicles that she’s that she wants to sell. Let me go back and look at this question again because that’s what it is so so she wants to show the vehicles online, but she also wants them in the Facebook marketplace. So you want to wait to automate going into the Facebook marketplace. I don’t know if there’s any way outside of the Facebook API to go into the Facebook marketplace. I don’t even don’t think that IFTTT, Zapier, but you’d have to look. So here’s the thing, though. And this is why I got into this. Our support both MGYB and Semantic Mastery are not there to give you SEO advice, which this or marketing for that matter or anything having to do with how to build your website and how to hook all this up. What they’re they’re there to do is to create a done-for-you syndication network. But it can’t be customized in this way. We have a set number of profiles that we do this with the Facebook marketplace is not one of them. So you’re talking about something that’s outside of what we do outside the specs or the spectrum of what it is that we do. So she wants to know, do I automate your platform? Yeah, you would automate your website to hook into the Facebook marketplace. If that’s even possible. Again, API, there has to be some kind of way that you can hook into the marketplace so that you can display your vehicles into the marketplace and then also syndicate out into your syndication network.

All right. Now, is this a multi-tier syndication? No, it’s a single tier, because we’re still talking about building the entity and pushing whatever it is that you’re doing your product service, or whatever it is, out into your entity, you’re not even at the multi-tier syndication level. At that point, it might require a multi-tier syndication network, depending on the automobiles are they use? Are they new? What kind of are wheels? Is it local? Is it global? What are you doing? And I can tell you that if you don’t already have the website, and you’re gonna you’re looking to develop, it’s not done on pennies. This is an expensive website that you’re talking about is one type of thing. I mean, you can look to adjust the template to do what you need it to do. I wanted to answer this For this reason, because there’s no way that our support can be expected to give you an answer for any of these questions. Since they simply don’t know, I don’t even know I’m just giving you what I would look to do with it, I would create my own custom theme, my own custom template, my own structure like we did with MGYB. To do the things that I wanted to do hiring a developer to do that is going to cost you if you’ve already done it. Now your job is to go and look to see how you can hook into the Facebook marketplace. Because it’s not one of the places that we go into. Yeah. And then from there, once you get once you have your SEO shield in place, look and how to incorporate whatever it is that you’re doing into that. That would be my answer for her.

Yeah, I mean, you could always go to something like Upwork and look for, you know, Facebook developers, for example, or Facebook app developers, like I don’t know, I don’t do shit on Facebook. So it’s, but I’m sure you can find somebody on Upwork that to let you know whether that’s even possible, you could probably even do some research on your own and figure out, I don’t know, I sell real estate that I flip, you know, land vacant land on Facebook marketplace, but we post those manually. We don’t do a lot of you know, a shit ton of volume. So there’s really no reason for us to automate that. But I don’t know, I don’t think I’ve seen in any of our automation apps, the ability to automate a Facebook marketplace post to profiles and post to groups and that kind of pages. Yes, but I’ve never I don’t think I’ve ever seen that option anywhere. And all the automation apps that I’ve used, not saying it can’t be done. It may be possible. I just never seen that. So I don’t think it’s common. So again, I would recommend that you just do some research first to see if you can automate Facebook posts, Facebook marketplace posts, excuse me. First and if you can’t determine whether that’s possible or not, then you know, again, go to like Upwork or something and post a job describing what it is you’re trying to accomplish? And you’ll start getting some replies back from people that, you know, depending on how you post your job and Facebook up work, excuse me, I usually do by invitation only. So I literally go look for people that say something in their profile that would, you know, lead me to believe that they’re able to help. And then I send them the invitation to review my job, the job posting, specifically, and that way I don’t get like 8000 replies that I have to sift and sort through, I’m only getting replies from people that I have selected. But that might be a good opportunity for you to find out. Just have some conversations with some people that understand Facebook development stuff, and they’d be able to steer you in the right direction. And then you might even find somebody to be able to develop what you need, right there on the upward platform. Any comments?

Can You Use The SEO Power Shield To A Website That Already Had A Google Drive & IFTTT Setup By Another Vendor?

No, that’s perfect. Okay. driven to rank. Alright, he says, I just purchased the power shield. Can I use it on a website that already had a Google Drive and IFTTT set up from another vendor? Or should I use it only on a site that doesn’t have those things set up? No, you know, you can use it for the same site.

It’s probably done a hell of a lot better too.

Since we did it not probably I’m sure it is. But um, yeah, no, as far as I’ll let Marco take this one. But yeah, you can apply it to the same site. What do you say, Marco?

Yeah.

Does that it?

I mean, they ask these questions, and you can never be really sure, right. Yeah, that’s true. It’s, uh,

I’m not sure what it is that we’re doing. Or can I use it on the website that already had a Google jet? Yes. Because we will use that Google Drive and we will get the IFTTT login. So what you’re missing is the G site. And if I’m reading this correctly, the ad ID but don’t use it on anything else. Unless I miss reading this.

While he’s saying that he had a website that already had a drive stack that was built by some other vendor as well as an IFTTT setup. Yeah, so he wants to apply the new SEO power shield that he bought from us and all of its components to the same website. And I’ve done that in the past guys, not I haven’t bought from other vendors. Because Because I’ve been building them myself or trained a team out of building them since 2011. So I’ve never bought a syndication network or a drive stack from another vendor. That said, I have had some, you know, networks that were older that weren’t set up correctly, or, you know, things have changed or whatever. And so, and for example, I’ve got a Tree Service.

One of my Tree Service locations that I built this drive stack for way back in probably 2015. When I learned how to do that, from Marco, before we had even launched our ys Academy. And I had built one in fact, it was the training that I did, I remember specifically it was for called pepper Tree Service. And it was because I had built that for the training that I did for ArcGIS Academy, because Gary, Dr. Gary did the training originally, but then people said they wanted me to do the training. So I went in and built a drive stack for call pepper Tree Service. And long story short, that was never that was built to those standards at that time. Well, things have changed a lot. You know, as far as like, how we build them. Now the way they look, the interlinking has gotten a lot better, everything else. And so about a year ago, I had, I had MGYB build another drive stack specifically for that brand that that that particular brand got brought in underneath another brand. But I had a new drive stack built for that I didn’t get rid of the old drive stack, it’s still out there, it’s still in fact, for you know, certain keyword searches, you can still see on page one some of those files and folders and such. But I just had a new one built to kind of replace that one but I just didn’t deindex the other one or set it to private or anything because there was really no perhaps except for the name being changed because I brought that other underneath another brand, the all the other NAEP data was the exact same and call pepper Tree Service is actually also a keyword instead of just a brand right that makes sense. So really didn’t am disambiguate or ambiguity ate my brand when I changed the brand name because all the other NAP data stayed the same. So my answer is I would just go ahead and apply the power shield to the project even if you had the other stuff. You can decide whether or not the other stuff was toxic and you want to eliminate it or set it to nonpublic or whatever. That’s up to you. You know we can’t tell you that without looking at anyways but I can tell you if it was built by somebody else you probably wouldn’t do right.

So yeah, we hit was responsible for what somebody else did. My main concern starting here would be, dude, don’t create ambiguity. If you create ambiguity, it’s going to kill whatever it is that you’re doing. And it’s really hard to disambiguate. Once you’ve done so.

Have You Tried Using 301 Redirect A Domain With Single Backlink From Authoritative Site To A Money Site?

So BB’s up with a list of questions, many of which are hypothetical as always, No, I’m kidding. BB, what’s up? He says, Hey, guys, have you ever tried a 301? redirect a domain with a single backlink from an authoritative site to the money site? What were the results? If not, then what should be there? Well, yes, I’ve done that. In fact, I found a really good it was domain that had was expired domain, but it had one backlink from Wikipedia. That was it. It was one backlink. But it was from Wikipedia, as a real backlink from Wikipedia. And it happened. It happened to be for a landmark or something, some historical landmark that had a website at one time, but apparently, they let the domain expire. And it was in a particular it was in the Charlottesville, Virginia area. And I had a limo service company at the time, that was a client of mine, that was a limo service in Charlottesville. And so I found that expired domain with the one backlink that was on a page for a historical landmark in the city of Charlottesville. And so it was it just seemed like a great backlink. So I did what I purchased. But if I remember, I can’t remember if I just did a 301 redirect, or if I set up I think I set up an HTML page with the Wayback informing the original page content from the Wayback Machine archive.org. Right. And I think I set that up on an HTML, Amazon s3 hosted, you know, bucket hosted HTML page with so a recreation of what the Wayback Machine archive.org had as the content on there. But I stripped all the links out and everything else to where the only error was one backlink from that HTML page to my money site. And I saw like a seven-position jump in a matter of a week, which was really crazy. It was one keyword that I was targeting, in particular with that test. And I saw a significant jump.

So as far as I don’t know if I’ve done any just 301 redirects, but it will pass the PageRank, you know, through the redirect to your destination, if it is, you know, a little bit as lost through a 301 redirect, but not much. So yes, it will pass. You want to comment on that one, Marco. Yeah, watching Be careful, like how long the domain has been expired? And how much has been spammed? Because it could be that that that da will disappear real quick. Yeah. And not only that, the PageRank. So it depends on how much you’re going to spend on that domain, what you’re using it for. But if it has those really good link metrics, then yes, I wrote, I built one up to like 70 domain authority once. And then once I got that far, Google for some reason came in and just smack the shit out of me. And it got D indexed. Well, of course, it was just total spam, because domain authority is a third-party metric. And like the only thing that you should be caring about, like, is it relevant to whatever it is that you’re doing? And does it have good links, so that those links are relevant to whatever it is that you’re doing? So if you can find a website that’s actually relevant, and the links are relevant to whatever you’re doing, it doesn’t have to have direct relevance. But some relevance according to whatever it is that Google considers relevant. Not Moz. Not majestic. Not a truss, nothing but Google. And then yes, yes, it will have fantastic results, Wikipedia, any Wikipedia links that are especially related, will have fantastic results, that 301 will have an effect. And then what you can do is boost that expired domain, because it’s 301. So you’re actually adding a layer of protection. Be careful, though, because a penalty can pass through that 301 to wherever it’s directed. So never directed to your money site. Of course. That’s why I mentioned the HTML page on an s3 bucket. Yep. Yeah. And that was, that was my preferred method. I don’t like to 301 I like to create those buffer pages. And there’s like, in my opinion, there’s no better place to do it than an S3 HTML page. So that’s, that’s I did a lot of that where I would buy expired domains and readjust build a single HTML page with the content that you can scrape directly from archive.org. And it’s just one page. It’s just the root domain, whatever was on the root domain, you can recreate that and then strip out any navigation menu links and everything else to where there’s one backlink on that page pointed when it can be an anchor text link, or however, you know, you have to determine how you want to handle that. But that one link now, especially if it’s anchor text, and it’s embedded within content that adds relevancy. It can be incredibly powerful and in that HTML page becomes another target that you can just hammer with additional backlinks as well for, you know, to power that up even further. So there’s a good question.

Why Does Google Rank A Site With Higher Quality Backlinks Than A Long Form Content?

The next one is why? And this question, I’ve read it like six times now trying to decipher it. So not 100% Sure, I can fully understand the question, but I’m going to attempt it. I think what he’s asking is why will Google rank content that has maybe less content, but higher quality, higher quality backlinks than long-form content? That might be considered like, you know, you know, a really in-depth article about this topic, but fewer backlinks, why will Google out? And he says, isn’t Google’s purpose to give the best results? Yes, and no. I mean, yes, Google intends to give the best results. But one of the algorithms also determines through backlinks, backlinks, a big still a huge part of the algorithm on how things are, end up the ranking, right, and how they perform in search, I should say, backlinks are still a huge part of that this is definitely a good question for Marco. But you know, just having, you know, just having good content, or even the best content about a particular topic does not mean that you’re going to rank for it. Because if you don’t, again, if you don’t know how to structure the content properly, if you don’t know how to do internal linking properly, if you don’t do any external stuff, except for Jeffrey Smith, who is incredible at Jeff’s building PageRank through internal link structure and how he stacks content, properly through semantic, you know, through what he knows through how good he is, Jeffrey Smith, SEO boot camps, the only one that I’ve ever seen, that can outrank you know, sites with very little to no external backlinks at all because of how he structures and he builds all his PageRank through internal linking. So again, if you know how to do all that shit, then having really good quality content, you can rank well for it, but just having the best content on a particular subject or topic. If you don’t know, like, if none of the other metrics are there signals are there, then it’s not you know, chances are, it’ll never get found. So I don’t know, Marco, how do you want to expand on that?

You mentioned the metric word PageRank, which is the doorway into what Google is building, which is a ranking score. This is a good way to understand that no matter how much content you write if you don’t build back backlinks, you’re fucked until Google figures out what it is that you’re trying to do.

Perfect example, because you can write a whole bunch of content that nobody sees is what I tell people like they want a million-dollar website that nobody is ever going to see. So there’d be a whole bunch of money. Nobody sees the website, and you have some garbage from 2000. Right, that type of website that, you know, it’s crazy, but it’s converting, like nuts. And you wonder, Well, why? Why? Because all you’re concentrating on is a pretty website that nobody will see, instead of focusing on converting the people that are coming to the website, activity, relevance, trust, and authority, which builds PageRank. It builds ranking short, he’s hitting it with backlinks which create more PageRank more ranking scores. That’s what we focus on the entity, the activity relevance, trust, and authority building PageRank building ranking score.

How Come Google Ranks Pages With Blocked To Membership Content?

Sweet, thank you. How come Google ranks pages with blocked membership content? Um, I don’t know. I don’t know. I mean, if it’s you know, if it’s a particular word, like a brand name, or you know, a training course name or something like that, and there’s not a lot of competition for it, then it can rank even if it’s a block membership page unless it’s set to no index. And I’ve even seen Google ignore that no index directive before. So I don’t know, I can’t answer that. Can you Marco, you’re not gonna have it? What do you mean by block to membership? That doesn’t mean that Google can’t crawl the page and can’t index the page and can’t rank it as long as the content is relevant. Or if you built a whole bunch of length we just talked about it backlinks to it. Then it has activity relevance, trust, and authority because people are coming to the website.

I think something like this right.

So like a blank membership registration page or something, you know what I mean? I think that’s what he’s asking about but he’s getting activity. Yeah.

Okay, so Joey says Where do I sign up for Syndication Academy jelly well syndication.academy just go to syndication dot Academy that will take you to the sales page if you want to join prior to the relaunch but if you just want to wait till the relaunch it looks like Adam already got you.

Looks like we already have an early access landing page. Look at that. I hadn’t thought of everything yet. No, I did in the background during Hump Day Hangouts. Ah, the truth comes out.

I thought you were you had some foresight. I mean, yeah, that’s what I meant to say I had a couple of things there. Awesome. Well, look at that. See asking you shall receive. There you go. Muscle slug. Nice. Not sure what a muscle slug is, but

How To Properly Set The CloudFare Settings To Point To the Website?

okay, I recently purchased the video mail prospecting system that Bradley had done, which is awesome, by the way. Yeah, wait. Soon, soon, I’m going to be adding an additional module to that guy. And then we’ll probably relaunch it. And not, you know, we don’t do big launches anyways. But we’ll probably reintroduce it to you guys, our audience again, once I do, because I’ve got I’m doing I just launched a new agency less than three weeks ago, and I’m doing serious prospecting. More so than I’ve ever done, like industrial strength. That’s awesome. And it’s working well. And I’ve got a really nice little system that’s working well for starting a conversation, using video emails and all kinds of anyways, I’ll cover that I’m going to do an update to that training. And then we’re going to go into reintroducing it to you guys when it’s ready. So anyway, if you’ve already got it, you’ll get the update when it when I add it. Okay.

Back to the question. I have a technical question. In reference to this. Bradley had mentioned during your training to set up a website for the personalized name domain to help with email delivery. Yes, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to set the Cloudflare settings up to point to the website to work right. Normally, you set the name servers on the domain, to point to the hosting to work. I hope this makes sense on what I’m asking any suggestions on this? It’s probably a simple thing that I’m messing with that with this. Thanks, James. Yeah, James, it’s really simple. So you have if you are if you’re buying a domain, and you’re going to build a website, you’re and you’re going through Cloudflare, you just need to figure out what the IP addresses for your server, your host, right, and then you set the record in Cloudflare. So you set an A record, put the @ sign in CloudFlare as you know, subdomain or whatever, that just means it’s going to read it, it’s the root essentially. And then you put the IP address of your web server in you know, value field, and you hit it, you know, you add, you add that record, then you can also add a C name record for www dot and then put the same value your domain name in the value field, that’s a C name record. And that will so that the website will resolve on both the root domain and the www version of it. If that makes sense. Cloudflare has helped files for that if, if those are confusing, you can always go to YouTube, and say how to set up a domain on Cloudflare. And, you know, I’m sure there’s a shit ton of YouTube videos out there that will show you how to do that. It’s very simple. Once you learn how to do it, it’s super, super simple. And I use Cloudflare for just about everything. The only thing here’s something else. And I mentioned this, and I’ll give this away because I thought it was brilliant. I took a great email prospecting course from this is called cold email mastery. And it’s on gumroad.com. I don’t even know the trait, the guy’s name, who did the training, it was fabulous, really, really good. cold email prospecting course, I just took it like two weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago. So 125 bucks. It’s worth it, guys. But he showed me in that training, how to go buy the domain through Google domains through a G Suite account or Google workspace account. And then if you buy that domain, like that, you’re going to be cold email prospecting with buying the domain through Google workspaces. And through Google domains logged into a Google account. And guess you don’t have to be logged into a Google workspace account. You could probably do it from your primary Google account if it’s just a regular Google account. But go to Google domains is when I’m saying purchase the domain that you’re going to be using for cold email. If you’ve already done it, don’t worry about it. It’s not a big deal. I’m just saying going forward or get another extension of.org or.co extension that you can redirect to your money site. And again, I’ll cover some of this in the updating training for vpls or the video Legion system. But if you buy the domain through Google domains, it’s like three bucks more than it is at name cheap. But it will automatically set up your you there’s a checkbox during the checkout process for purchasing a domain through Google domains that will allow that will automatically set Google workspaces up for that domain and it will set up the SPF records the DK i M Records and all these things that you need to ensure the highest deliverability for your emails. So it’s great it was a great little hack for me it was worth 125 bucks alone for the cost of that course was just to learn that because it sets everything up and it’s it’s right out of the gate. It’s an initial validation signal to Google that you know you’re a valid business and not just a spammer. One other thing that I want to cover just very briefly and again this is because I’m doing so much of this stuff right now guys, but there’s this great service and I’ll cover this in the update when I do that for the video lead gen system. Lem list calm. This is a cold emailing platform. I’m not using it for that I’m using it for one Barrett because I’m using high level for my prospecting platform. And I’m using high level it’s fabulous Semantic Mastery comm slash high level, you can get a 14-day free trial. That is my it’s great. I’m using that for my automation platform and all the stuff that I’m doing. But why I brought up Lem list was because if you want to build a domain reputation of a new domain for cold emailing, they have this service in here. And if you go to their blog, they’ve got a great article about it. In fact, I’m just going to pull up the article because that would be better.

Warm up, email, and I’m going to put them list.com get right there how to warm up your email account. And that’s on blog dot Lem list calm so just go to Lem go to Google and search for warm-up email endless calm and it’s the very first organic listing right there, boom, read this article. It’s fabulous. When I came across this I was like, Man, that’s uh, it’s brilliant. They have this. And you can join Lem list for I think it’s 30 bucks a month, just to use the lead warm feature. And that’s what I do. So once I have, you know, my domain, set up all the records in place and everything, then I add that Google workspace account, to Lem list through the to the LEM warm feature. And what it does is it starts to send and receive and reply to emails from that brand new domain email address to other Lem Lem list users and it’s all done. It’s all automated it gets it’s done in the background. But what it does is it starts to build the domain reputation so that when you are ready to start cold, like I would give it 30 days, at the very minimum at least 21 days for the LEM warm system to warm the email up and build a domain reputation before you start cold prospecting emailing with it. But I want to tell you like I said, I just set this up for the domain that I just started prospecting with about three weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago really. And I only let that it run on that for two weeks. And I just tested I did a MX tools, you know, email reputation tests you for where you can send an email in and it will analyze the email and tell you what like the spam score is. And I got a 9.4 out of 10 yesterday when I literally just tested it yesterday because about once a week I like to go in and check to see if my domain reputation is dropping and I got a 9.4 out of 10. And I’m sending cold emails with a video email, just like I talked about a video lead gen system I’m using send spark.com or send spark whatever it’s an app Sumo deal that creates the video, email gifts, and all that. And that’s what I’m using and I inject put that right into Gmail, send that out for cold emailing and I’m still getting a 9.4 out of a 10 you know, domain reputation score. So I would highly recommend that you check out Lem lists for their lead warm feature. And then also check out, you know, purchasing domains through Google domains that you’re going to be doing for and set Google workspace upon it is what I’m saying. So hopefully that makes sense. As far as CloudFlare go back and just go to YouTube. Cloudflare has got help files but you can also go to YouTube and search and I’m sure you’ll find a tutorial on how to do what you need to do.

Do Different Stacks Interlink When Mirroring The Site Into The Drive Stack?

Looks like Jason, Jason Oh my god. Game says hello there when mirroring so we’re almost out of time guys. three more minutes. Hello there. When mirroring the site into the drive stack do the different stacks interlink. So for example, do dogs from the widgets folder point to the green widgets folder docs?

As far as I know, well, no, no, I and Marco would be better to answer this one. But if you’re siloing, your drive stack using the ArcGIS expansions. Like we teach the No.

And again, I don’t build them anymore. So I’m not sure if they I don’t think they interlink because the silos inside the drive stack or the internal links are the links from the files within the drive stack within the silo in the drive stack should be only pointing to the target URLs on your money site. Right? The same silos?

Not interlinking between them, if that makes sense.

Yeah, and I can’t mark it would be better to answer that one. I’m sorry. I just can’t give you a proper answer on that one. Because I’d have to go in and actually analyze one of my drive stacks. I haven’t built one of those in so many years. To be honest with you, I’m not sure how, through the expansion service, how they interlink those, I think they interlink all the files and folders within the same silo. They interlink those two to each other, right, that makes sense, but no cross linking to other silos. And I’d have to confess I’d have to go look at it to confirm it, or Marco could confirm it, but he’s not here. So.

All right, one more Jason says

Just kidding I’m really here for this week’s SEO with BB also just getting these talking about BB too many questions BB just giving you a little crap and seeing if you can crack Bradley up. Yeah thanks, Jason

all right last one well this is good cold email mastery There you go, we need to get an affiliate link for that for real because I keep touting how good that course is. It really is a good course.

Does All Of The MGYB Services Work For Non-English Sites?

Last question, guys Conrad says Hey guys, are some or all of the MGYB services for non-English sites as well what would be different or good to take into account when ordering the project and other languages it’s non-English you can’t we don’t we only provide our done for you services in English.

Hernan, if you’re still available, maybe you can, I don’t do anything outside of the US. But from what I understand you can apply the SEO shield that built-in English and still apply it to a non-English target. And it will still benefit it. But I don’t do that. So I don’t know if Hernan still with us or not? Apparently not. From what again, from what I understand it doesn’t you can have all English stuff on the SEO shield pointing to a non-English site and still benefit from it. But I can’t really answer that because I’ve never done anything outside SEO wise outside of the US. Post this question in the Facebook group and I’m sure that Rob or Marco could jump in and give you the correct answer.

Okay.

All right. Well, thanks, guys. Thanks, Adam. For hanging out, guys.

Source: Semantic Mastery Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 329 published first on your-t1-blog-url

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Match Made in Heaven

I had a full-on black mirror length episode dream last night. I want to submit it as an episode because its so wild. We just watched all of Black Mirror last week so.... If you don’t know what it is, its a British show that’s on Netflix now where each season is just a collection of single stand alone story episodes that are twilight zone esque but are based around technology and its ramifications in the future. So here we go 

To paint the picture, I have no name. I have a 20-something tall lanky boy. I have a mess of dark hair that falls into my face annoyingly and dark circles under my eyes from lack of sleep. The lack of sleep is a combination of being caused by my rowdy group of friends that I have no idea why they keep me around and my own anxiety (see sentence one). I am painfully shy but I think they find my jokes hilarious which is why they force me out of my room all the time to go out with them. Whenever I need to be calmed down I throw myself into YouTube cooking channels. Something about someone talking to a blurry camera they have set up while cooking or the top down tasty view really relaxes me. 

I am about to start back my last year of college. This could be match year for me and I am extremely nervous about it.  In my world everything is run by The System™. It’s an advanced computer software that takes the guessing out of living life. It is constantly monitoring your progress through life and how you interact with other people and even with yourself when you are alone. It takes all this analysis and then uses it to make a schedule for it. Everyone follows the schedule without question because it genuinely makes them happy. You don’t know what you want to be when you grow up? The system is constantly analyzing what you are best at and what you enjoy so it can accurately select a job for you that you would be best at. It took into account that while I love cooking and wanted to be a chef when I was younger, as I got older and more full of anxiety the thought of having to be stuck in a kitchen for 10 hours a day maybe more to cook for people with their whole meal plan happiness riding on me caused me multiple sleepless nights. It took this and my interest in cooking videos into account and found that when I graduate from college I will start my own cooking show as a director/producer. I will be given a star as a puppet to cook my recipes stress free. You might think, but doesn’t this not sound appealing to you, you aren’t the real star? The truth is I don’t want to be. I hear about people who enjoy cooking and eating my food. I don’t even want to be the one who makes it. I just want to be the person that gives them the option of that enjoyment. I am getting off track though,  The System™...  The System™ will select my job, it selected my class schedule every school year since I was born. It selects my dinner plans when I want to go out, it schedules and gets me tickets for events I want to go to.  The System™ is flawless. The best part about it is there is choice. If you are tired of going going going  The System™ doesn’t schedule anything and goes idle allowing you free time to do anything. My friends come around drunk at 2 am asking me to go play tennis in the courts even though they are off limits? We can go do that. We might get in trouble by the campus police if they catch us, but that’s the thrill of it. I want to stay up until 4 am even though I have an 8 am class the next day watching drunken kitchen? I get that enjoyment and the misery the next day. I even get the choice to whether I can muster through class or sleep blissfully for another few hours.  The System™ allows choice, it even allows consequence. It just makes the hardest choices for you and you are free to widle away your free time however you want. It uses this time to gather data anyway to make future choices so where is the harm in that. 

Match year: In your final semester of college  The System™ is advertised to know enough about your life that it can start matching you with your loved one. As  The System™ is so flexible you get a year of interaction with said significant other before it determines if you should marry.  The System™ allows for multiple romances, my grandmother, rest her soul, was married twice in her life. She was with her first husband for 25 years from Age 22-47. In the later years his and her interests changed and no longer aligned for their retirement at 65.  The System™ announced they were already divorced and already had new places to live. My grandmother was remarried 5 years later to the man she was with until she died at 85. She was blissfully happy even when she passed. You begin to have your matching option in your last year of college (if the typical four year college route was chosen for you). Not everyone gets matched this year but the option is now available if you are ready and I feel like I am ready.  I’ve dreamed and have counted down the days to my final year of college so I can have a chance at romance. With all this desire how could  The System™ not find me a match? 

It’s 11:56pm. The systems updated events come out at midnight on Saturday. Mostly people check their events when they awake in the morning but the thought of waiting to see this semesters schedule is driving me up a wall. When the clock rolls over I will know if I was matched. It along with my housing situation and my class schedule for this semester will be revealed. I am in agony for 4 long minutes. A small set of party balloons float down my phones screen and pop with the words update available. The cute surprise does not faze me and I smash my thumb into the words to get the update. The screen loads instantly but even that seems like an eternity. When the words appear it takes me a moment to process them fully. ‘Congratulations you have been matched!’ lists across the top of my screen. I am already laying down in the dark of my room but I feel like I could fall back further and let the phone fall down onto my chest. The phone is clear so this does little to stop the light it produces but the sentiment is clear. I open my eyes not realizing I have squeezes them shut and scream yes at the top of my lungs. I neighbors dog barks out scared. I laugh to myself and throw my arm over my face before realizing I should read the rest of my message to get the rest of my schedule. 

Fast forward to move-in day. I will be living in a shared quarters with another match couple. We share a living room kitchen area with their room and a small bathroom on one side and our room and a small bathroom on the other. I arrive before my match and wait to unpack. I’d rather us do it together. She arrives like a ray of sunshine. She looks like  Allison Williams and she is a delight, her name is Marnie (just like in Girls) and she is a tour de force. She is strong, outspoken, and determined. I can tell I am constantly surprising her but she refuses to completely let on. For example she arrives with her parents to help her unpack. She greets me with a wide smile and asks if I have been here long. I tell her only a few hours and she glances behind me at my stacked boxes. She cocks her head and says ‘ you haven’t unpacked in that time?’ I tell her I was waiting for her and she has this microsecond where she visibly glancing inward with a small smile. The microsecond passes and she is back on like a bright light, wisking me up in her enthusiasm as she takes the lead on how we should unpack everything. She takes such charge and is so successful in doing so that even her parents fall into her direction. We quickly unpack everything that day. Not to be presumptuous we shower separately but join each other in the same bed that night. We lay facing each other but I can tell she has an air of caution. I tell her not to worry, let’s let things progress naturally. She evaluates my statement and finds it to be truthful and visibly relaxes. She tells me that she is secretly glad I am the way I am. She confesses that she thought she might be paired with some macho guy to ‘knock her down a peg’. She said she was afraid because she likes to lead and not be weighted down by anything. She said she feels free with me like I am an extension of her. I tell her it feels like I have been waiting for her. She laughs and says I better be ready, she hates cooking. I tell her the career path I’m on and she falls back into her pillow laughing. She praises   he System™ and for the first night in awhile I am able to sleep soundly. 

The next week passes comfortably. We get to know each other in a slow pace and we enjoy each others company. We never rush or show much affection in the beginning and I find that to be a relief. It really feels like there is no pressure. I go to my classes and make new friends. West is in my computer editing class and he is a riot. For some reason he is like Dewie from Malcom in the middle and I often find him outside of class sitting at the dinner table. Our hall director is Hal from Malcom in the Middle, he is good natured if not sometimes bumbling. I meet with West everyday for lunch and we fall into a steady rhythm.  He shows me this insane code he has been working on. Its a type of virus that lets you hack other peoples System’s and gather some of their prerecorded data. I tell him that sounds dangerous. He laughs me off saying he’s been using it to make memes of his other three roommates. They are all similar natured to him and they find it to be a hoot. I tell him I am glad The System™ paired him with like minded individuals and that I would be wary myself. He laughs me off and says that is why we don’t live together but I might not be so lucky if I lose to him at another game night. I chuckle but I have a nagging nervousness that he is telling the truth as a veiled joke. 

My hall is the single floor of a four story building. We are at the top. Each room houses 4 people and there are many ‘dorms’ on my hall.  Each day passes comfortably until about 3 months have passed. Everyday I am grateful to the match with Marnie. Everything is so perfect I can’t believe I ever lived my life any other way. We are required to make progress reports weekly after the first month. It’s  The System™ ‘s way of tracking how its match went. I sit down on the night that Marnie has a study group to record this week’s entry. I am overwhelmed by my happiness. I set my System in its port on my desk and it projects as a large monitor. I select face-cam in my weekly reports menu and record the following;

“I am unthinkably happy. I never thought I could feel this kind of happiness’ I look away for a moment and cover my mouth. A single tear runs down my check and I am quiet. I turn back to the screen and whip it away saying “its all thanks to  The System™ “ 

What I don’t notice is the screen flickering during my recording. The playback starts and the video is played back to me: 

“I am un-” the video skips. “happy. I never thought I could feel this kind of-” another skip “-sness”  I look away for a moment and cover my mouth. A single tear runs down my check and I am quiet.

The video ends there and the only option is submit. I stare in horror, my body wound tight. The end of happiness sounds like a weak sadness. The whole video has taken on a new tone. While you can clearly see the video appears badly edited I am not sure if  The System™ can tell. I nervous put my hand down on the table as if I were holding a mouse.  The System™ responds as if I am and I move the cursor wildly around the screen. I know that  The System™ does not allow you to change your reports to keep 100% honesty. You have to be prepared to record. I move my hand off the table and look defeated. The system starts to count down to submit, most people record and then walk away letting The System™ submit for them. I scream in frustration and push my way out of my chair knocking it over. It falls to the floor and I turn away. I heat the soft submission noise and turn back to bang my hands on the table. I calm myself and think there is no way that  The System™ can’t tell its messed up right? I feel a bit better with a small egg of nervousness in my gullet. 

The next day my fears are confirmed. When I return from my classes Marnie is sitting on the bed looking shell shocked. I stare at her openly and she looks up saying our match has been terminated. She wanders around the room pacing trying to work out why it’s happened. I am completely frozen. I want to tell her what happened but I can’t move. How could this happen?  The System™ is so perfect. The next few days are a bit of a blur. Marnie becomes distant. She believes in the system too much and thinks it must be true. Its like she shifts her brain into this new setting and boom is fine with the decision. She treats me like nothing more than a roommate at this point and I cannot shake the numb that has overtaken me. At the end of one week it is announced that she will be moved to a new room and I will get a new roommate. Finally my numbness breaks and I am furious. I storm from class to class seething. The teachers must take notice because i am summoned to the dean’s office. He is a man of about 55. He clearly cares a lot about appearances and is fit, drinking a green concoction from a personal ninja that he keeps on a desk side bar table. No glass scotch container in sight.  His hair is expertly coiffed to the point where it might be a wig but I cannot tell for sure. His eyes are a piercing blue and he has a leathery tanned skin that is excellently moisturized giving him an almost shiny plastic appearance. He makes big sweeping gestures and tries to make a big speech about how  The System™ knows best and while this may be painful now it will pass as only  The System™ can know the true results. I listen carefully to him almost zoning out but not quite. I enter a zen like zone where I am catching all his micro movements but hearing none of his words. I notice that every 20 or so words he side glances for a millisecond at his projected System. I take in for the first time that his screen is not transparent glass like the rest of us. Instead it is solid like models from the early 2000s. I try to make sure I am looking straight at his face but instead look behind him at the glass. I can see a faint reflection of his screen in the window. It’s daytime so its very hard to make out but its an internet window I have never seen before. I cannot determine the site but I am sure I have never seen it. There are only a handful of websites so I am surprised that he is on one I have never seen. I ponder if educators getting access to specific portals when he stands abruptly. I gather quickly that his speech is over and shake his hand. I don’t thank him and simply nod when he asks if I understand everything now. That satisfies him and he pats himself on the back for a job well done and asks his receptionist to usher me out of his office. 

That night I go to the clubhouse. My rowdy group of friends have taken tenancy in an abandoned building toward the northern side of campus. A decrepit old political science building of three stories. It was condemned at some point in the past. Some past class then petitioned for it to not be torn down and somehow won the building a historical site award. The university instead of putting forth money to preserve the building and turn it into some sort of museum instead chose to rope the eyesore off. One of my past seniors had taken a few of his engineering buddies and acquired a blue print of the property. Much to many past students dismay the second floor seemingly had no bathrooms and they had to either go up or down a flight of stairs if the necessary feelings came on. According to the blue print however these rooms were constructed but then walled off for some reason. My senior then snuck out with his friends every night for many months until they were able to construct a secret bookcase entrance to said room. They were then renovated into a spacious college hangout for only those christened important. The bookcase door had a very secret code that was changed every semester to keep old alumni from coming back to relive their glory days. My current group of friends had passed this knowledge on to me. I shifted the books on the shelf to reveal a keypad which I then punched a specific code into. The door swung open and I slipped inside. A few of my friends were there and they greeted me by throwing a soda can directly at my head. I was use to this motion and caught it awkwardly. I immediately slumped into a chair and explained the entire situation. My friends were very attentive. I had never asked much of them and they were happy to oblige. After my tale had rung they chipped in their opinions but one of my friends was pensive. I specifically chimed out his name and my other friends went silent. He said he heard once that there was more outside of the system. We asked what he meant. He said he could not be sure and that this might not make sense but he feels like he might have once known more. Something about how there are choices now, but they are nothing compared to what once was. I mentioned the teachers portal and one of my friends said that his System has him set to be an educator but not once have they ever mentioned their own website. Their conversations and theories carried on but I started to hatch a plan. 

Friday came quickly, Marnie’s move-out date. I watched sadly as she packed all her things and prepared to leave. She was excited because the filing did not say who her new roommate was. It dawned on me for the first time that she could have been matched with someone else and i grew sick from jealousy. I offered to help her move but she dismissed me. Stress consumed me, after she moved out with the help of one of her friends I paced around my half empty room. I had to find an excuse to find out who her new roommate would be. I finally decided I could make up an excuse on the fly and ran down the hall peeking in every open door to determine which was hers. I kicked myself for not asking her in the first place where she was moving but I decided to calm myself by convincing myself that she would not have told me anyway. After two hall turns I found her door, it was slightly ajar as they moved boxes in. I was relieved to see her new roommate was one of my computer editing classes mates and a female. I drew solace from this and suddenly was overcome with a feeling of stupidity. I realized I was being obsessive and turned to snap myself out of it. I marched back to my room to finish preparing. 

Several days later it was time for my plan to go into action. I had placed an anonymous tip to the campus police about our clubhouse. I made no mention of my group but instead hinted heavily that it was a single rogue student jaded with  The System™ trying to hack it and dismantle it. The dean as I thought took this threat very seriously and he himself hemmed the project of trying to open the clubhouse door. I avoided my friends at all cost so as not to hear their laments. It was a necessary cost if what I believed to be occurring was.  I let night fall and nervously tried to busy myself with YouTube videos. No amount of cooking videos could quell my anxiety at this point. When 7:45pm rolled around, I dressed in all black and set out for the clubhouse. As expected the day workers had left and all that was left was the dean. I sneaked expertly around the building I had wandered around dozens of times. He stood puzzled. They had ascertained where the clubhouse door sat and had set up flood lights pointing directly at the bookshelf. They must have been trying all day to guess the code to open the door. I had assumed correctly that they could do not damage to the building with its historical status. I moved pass this room to the adjacent corner classroom in which the dean had set up a pseudo command center. Again my guess had been correct that they would need a command central. I assumed the office would normally be locked but the dean’s dedication to protecting The System™ kept him later than most. I searched the room for a place to hide. This is the one part of the plan that I could not guess accurately. I had hoped there would be a desk to hide behind but there was no such luck. I grew stressed and heard the dean yawn from the other room. I knew I had to run and spun around to leave. Out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of a sheet. I walked over to what must have once been a teachers supply closet and opened it. I pile of white sheets cascaded out. I instantly knew this must have been the sheets that protected the tables now being used in this command center. I jumped into them in a last ditch effort figuring this would be my only chance to find anything out. This move proved fruitful as the dean entered the room not even a moment later. He seemed non perturbed by the pile of sheets now residing in front of the open cabinet. I peeked between the folds of the sheet watching him head over to a blueprint of the building. 

At this point he sighed and plopped down at an old teachers desk positioned at the front of the room. A stack of four books sat to the right side of the desk. I thought of the catalog of books available to all. There were only a 100 books on the list but I could instantly tell that these four were not. Only one new book was introduced a year, the selection process was marked as being rigorous. I wondered if the Dean was somehow on the selection committee. The dean moved to select the top copy and place it in front of him. He reached into the top drawer of the desk and pulled out a white out stick. He then proceeded to open and read over the book while simultaneously marking out lines on almost every single page. I narrowed my eyes. This was definitely not a selection process. He was censoring the literature. I tried to think of a million reasons why this could be when someone knocked on the door.

A redheaded woman stepped in and I recognized her to be a district superintendent. I grew nervous as she looked over the room with a wary eye. She told the dean that he needed to wrap this up, he must know how sensitive any information about  The System™ getting out would be. He nervously walked up to her and tried to cover up his nerves with flourishing gestures. The intended affect was different than he had hoped as the superintendent stepped back in disgust clearly not wanting to be touched by him. I wondered the ramifications of such a gesture but decided that was another story. She straightened herself and glanced straight at my sheet pile. She sneered. The jig is up I thought and squeezed my eyes shut for reveal. Nothing came however and she just spit out a dagger of ‘and clean this place up’ before leaving. The dean deflated and followed to see her out. Now was my chance. I grabbed my backpack and unzipped it to reveal its only contents. A small racket ball racket and a tennis ball. I looked out just on the other side of the parking lot surrounding this building and eyed the tennis courts. The glowed brightly flooded with artificial light and buzzing with students taking a night beginners class. I grinned and lifted the ancient window until it was jolted open. I then used my small racket to smack a tennis ball directly into the wind shield of the dean’s car. The alarm instantly started blaring and I pushed the window shut as quickly as I could. I ducked down in the process so no one would catch me in the window. I peaked just enough however to see the Dean run from his place beside the superintendent outside to his car and start screaming a stream of profanities. I continued to grin and felt I could do so until the end of time and moved over to the table of blue prints. On the desk sat a copy of the desktop port for his System. Into it I snapped into place the greatest part of my plan. A copy of the virus that West has created to hack into someones System. A copy of his screen ported in and the virus went to work decrypting. It only took a few minutes and I was in. What was revealed I was unprepared for. There were not just a handful of websites as I had always been lead to believe. Instead there were thousands if not millions. Just a short search revealed endless possibilities. All the choices we thought we had were instead a watered down set of predetermined choices just like the books that the dean was editing. I sat back knowing that I must leak all this information. I might never get to be with Marnie again but I knew that in the long run this would hopefully benefit her and the world more. 

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My RWBY Review (part 1)

Hello ! As I have a time and I just finished rewatching the 4 volumes of RWBY, I thought it was the right time to write a review of the serie and to share with you my impressions of the characters and the scenario development before the Volume 5 premiere. I also make this article for a friend of mine who is an anime noob and to whom I want to make discover RWBY. In this first part I will cover only the three first volume, I will make a second post for my impressions of the volume 4. Knowing me, the review may be a bit long, so if the syntax of some sentence seems strange to you, I apologize in advance, English is not my native language. Thank you and Enjoy !

What is RWBY ?

RWBY, pronounced as "Ruby", is an animated show created in the United States by Rooster Teeth. It currently has four seasons, a number of variable episodes, each of which may also be of variable duration. I would say that it is equivalent to four seasons of twelve episodes of a little fifteen minutes. Yes, it is rather short but rather dense. All the episodes are freely available on Youtube or directly on the site of Rooster Teeth then for once it's not in the illegality, so let us enjoy it !

Americanime ?

I consider without that RWBY is an anime but a polemic exists on the subject. In elements against its inclusion in the large ''ANIME'' community, there is the fact that it's not Japanese and that graphically it doesn't really look like an anime. We should invent a term, "Americanime'' (Copyrighted), to designate such things. It's certain that the visual aspect, both graphics and animation, is at the very opposite of what is commonly made by Japanese animation studios but there are very rarely exceptions that try to think outside the box - for the worst and the best - (Aku no Hana, Berserk / Knight of Sidonia, Ajin). It should also be pointed out that the first three volumes was doubled in Japanese. The Japanese voices are really good. The problem with the original voices is that Rooster Teeth's employees take care of it, and for some characters (I think especially Ruby, Pyrrha and Weiss), there is a tremor in the lines and less control of the tone of the voice. Clearly, the great advantage of the Japanese version is that they have Saori Hayami for Ruby. I also loved the voices of Shimamura Yuu for Blake (she voiced Annie Leonhart from SnK) and Koshimizu Ami for Yang (she voiced Kallen Kozuki from Code Geass & Ryuko from Kill la Kill). Otherwise, despite fairly marked differences (and this is understandable), I find that both versions are perfectly equal. I particularly like the English voices of Yang and Blake. Honorable mentions also for Ozpin, Qrow, Winter and Ironwood. Anyway, it's well worth watching both versions, more RWBY is always good !

Here is also the link of the first episode of RWBY in Japanese dub :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUTUMlAdfmM

Are we talking about the reproduction of sea urchins in supercritical fluid ?

No, I continue on the graphic aspect. It's important to me because it may repulse quite a few. The first season undoubtedly had a smaller budget and possibly a less established technique had some flaws in animation (The wiki lists all the bad fittings and others in the episodes) and economised on modelling fairly basic stuff; thus, all the characters who pass through the streets are just black silhouettes (Shadow People). Animation has constantly improved over time, but we still feel the artificiality in the movements of the characters, in the way in the arms and legs move (or not ...). But this animation that seems excessively fluid and therefore unnatural in basic movements can prove to be a major asset during the fight scene. Nothing is perfect even in fight, the encounter of weapons (like "without weight") or the quality of special effects ("Semblances") can progress further. On the other hand, there is a real dynamism, it moves everywhere, it strikes everywhere and all this lasts a long time : Full episodes are devoted almost exclusively to fight ! What is not surprising in something like Dragon Ball Z is significantly more in a series as short as RWBY.

The famous shadow people of volume 1 !

Finally, more than the animation, which despite progress, can do better, it's especially the fight choreography that impresses. I leave you a small piece of Pyrrha's fight scene against Cardin's team (Volume 2 Episode 5). It's just a little episode that spoils absolutely nothing.

https://sendvid.com/kqez7eyj

It must also be admitted that the designs of the weapons are incredible. Pyrrha's rifle/javelin/sword or Ruby's gun/scythe gives an even greater dynamism into the fights. And I almost forgot to mention it but the designs of the characters are also very good ! Jaune is a knight in jeans, Pyrrha is a Greek warrior in a miniskirt defying the laws of gravity, Nora has a heart-shaped "cleavage" ! Yes, team JNPR are the funniest ...

And... what's it about ? No spoils please.

RWBY is the story of Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang. But it's also the story of Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha and Ren (JNPR / Juniper). There are others characters too, of less importance. All of these are students at the Beacon Academy, an elite academy that trains Huntsmen. The Huntsmen are the guardians of humanity against their enemies, monsters called Grimm. Men have always been the prey of the Grimm, living constantly in fear. The discovery of a mysterious powder, the Dust, consecrates the birth of a human civilization, free to develop under the protection of the Huntsmen. The Dust underpins the totality of human civilization, it protects us, allows us to move, and still remains today full of mysteries. Its extraction is laborious but the Dust is irreplaceable. An increase in prices or worse, a shortage, would not only have economic consequences but would announce the dawn of humanity. The exploitation of a semi-human race, the Faunus, is justified and necessary to prevent such a catastrophe. Or is it really ?

The world of RWBY is divided into four great kingdoms, havens of stability that were able to withstand the waves of Grimm. Each can rely on a consistent military power, both conventional troops and Hunters. In a universe where the Grimm are inexorably attracted by negative emotions, fear, anxiety, hatred, the Hunters makes dream. The teams RWBY and JNPR  must juggle friendship, cooperation, love, team spirit, courses, student life, the dangers inherent in the Hunters profession ... A well-loaded program for young adults. In a world so inspired by fairy tales, mythical and hostile creatures, one would almost forget that ''man is wolf to man''…

The show currently has four seasons, with a fifth that will begin the 14 October 2017. RWBY handles as well the fight scenes, numerous and almost all long, that the comic, the mood, the slice of life aspect of the show. A relatively high number of secondary characters are introduced throughout the seasons, but we can clearly divide all important characters into three groups: our student heroes (team RWBY and team JNPR), professors / mentors, and villains. The plot grew steadily, going from the small criminal Roman Torchwick to enemies much more menacing. But the student life aspect remains more or less present. The immaturity of the characters is definitely something that is felt but participates more in the atmosphere and the likelihood that it doesn't hinder. For me, the best comparison that can be made is with Harry Potter, with however more humor and less emphasis on the courses. It seems necessary to warn those who haven't seen the show that his tone changes abruptly during the third season. The show become significantly more serious, darker but I think a large majority appreciated this change.

Close your eyes to the 3D animation (not literally huh) and let yourself be carried by the characters. Because the strength of RWBY lies in his characters. I appreciate all the characters in RWBY, even the bad guys. Or in any case, I want to see more of all the main characters, and that's not an easy thing to do.

Think a little about the readers who haven't seen RWBY and would like to read something without spoiler! What if I talk about the music ?

But this is an excellent suggestion ! So it seems useless to say it but as it's music, it's a spoiler-free section. However, (almost?) all the songs in RWBY are related to specific moments in the show - normal - and contain lyrics that sometimes says a lot.

The RWBY OST, Volume 1, Volume 2 , Volume 3 and Volume 4 are absolutely fantastic. There must be a good third of the entire soundtrack, which is really excellent, and I can listen to it all day. Several songs are very solid, quite rhythmic in their ensemble. I don't want - and I would have a hard time - to sort and reduce this number so I give you all my favorites. We start with the three OPs. Musically, the first two OPs are at the same level; the OP3 corresponds to me much less well but seems strangely more intense and more in phase with what happens in volume 3. It's probably purely subjective since I discovered RWBY while the broadcast of the volume 3 was in progress.

Besides, I put my selection of the ones I prefer.

Mirror Mirror

I May Fall

Red Like Rose Pt2

Wings

Burn

Die

Caffeine

I'm the one

Cold

BMBLB

Bad Luck Charm

I admit to prefer the more dynamic songs, those accompanying the fights (I'm the one, Caffeine, Burn, Bad Luck Charm...) to the slower, more emotional songs. Even so, I conceive more RWBY as a initiatic journey than as a struggle against evil. Indulge yourself, the soundtracks are beautiful and even more magnificent when you know what they say.

Spoilers from now on ! Go to the end of the article for the conclusion if you haven’t seen the show yet.

Let's talk about team RWBY now !

But of course I'll talk about the team RWBY ! So it may not be very simple to treat the team as a whole, the bilateral ties that unite the members are numerous and solid enough. By pair already: Ruby and Weiss (White Rose), and Blake and Yang (Bumblebee). The inimity between Weiss and Blake (Monochrome), the first as a daughter of the Schnee family exploiting the Faunus and Blake as a former member of White Fang. The blood relations of course between Ruby and Yang (Enabler). On the six possibilities (the number of 2-combinations in a 4-element set {R, W, B, Y}), Ruby/Blake (Ladybug) and Weiss/Yang (Freezerburn) linked. This translates therefore much larger links of team RWBY compared to team JNPR. And yet, team RWBY is much more dysfunctional than team JNPR. Not really in terms of combat performance but simply in terms of cooperation. The mixture is explosive because each has a heavy past and isn't easily revealed. Not understanding the motives and the past lived of their teammates, it's engulfer in misunderstandings. Even for us spectators, strict background story has never, to my knowledge, made reference to Weiss's sense of solitude. We do learn that through a song and it gives depth to the character.

I cannot help feeling a slight feeling of injustice. Because team RWBY, in spite of obstacles and difficulties, will find, re-solve and emerge stronger than ever (unless ... Ho, ho ...) while team JNPR is fragmented forever. Yes, yes I will talking about JNPR later.

Ruby is the one who is the least developed in the group and the one who is generally had what she wanted of her time in Beacon. Kind of prodigy that arrives two years in advance to Beacon, her initial fear is to be marginalized which hasn't happened at all. In the same team as her sister and having made a quick friend of Jaune, and a friend a little less fast Yang, she finally arrives to make consensus within her team. She enjoys, enjoys herself, the Grimm fight, attends courts where she falls asleep; in short, a basic life of apprentice Huntress, sufficiently exciting not to complain. Like many things, everything changed with volume 3. Her most important relationship is undoubtedly the one she weaves with Penny. There was such innocence in this relationship but also a common learning. And Ruby's calm after Penny was killed by Pyrrha is quite impressive. There is a maturity that develops and Ruby has never lacked determination. Ruby is open to everyone but it's Weiss and Blake who refuse to talk.

Yang has a solid appearance but is clearly very fragile inside. It's less the lack of communication that bothers as for Ruby but the lack of understanding. Yang doesn't understand why her mother Raven abandoned her and also doesn't understand why Blake abandoned her. To what is considered a double betrayal is added the physical trauma of losing one of her arms because of Adam. In addition, a mistrust rose against her, manipulated in such a way as to attack Mercury. Nothing goes well for Yang, it's total depression. Just look at her chara-design for volume 4 to realize it :

Yang - Volume 4

I take this opportunity to put the links of the chara-designs of Ruby, Weiss and Blake.

For Blake, Beacon had to be a fresh start, a way to draw a line on her past in the White Fang. The fact is that it failed miserably. Even after she is revealed to others that she was a Faunus - which wasn't a problem of course - the type of events we think will solve the situation, well, is set. No doubt she made a clear division between her friends at Beacon and her past with Adam in the White Fang. Blake is surely a character that I have a hard time understanding. On the one hand, Blake is calm, posed, almost apathetic. On the other hand, she shows a remarkable stubbornness, a volatile temperament and a virulent passion. She fled the White Fang and now she thinks she can flee team RWBY (and Yang). All this is tempered by a hesitation, an uncertainty which totally imprints her person. I interpret her relationship with Sun as a need to maintain contact with another Faunus, and a Faunus who isn't with the White Fang. Because I've seen critics say that their relationship (which at the moment is not very advanced by any other way) makes no sense and that their only common point is to be both Faunus. I will talk more about Bumbleby & BlackSun in another article, we'll see...

And we have the Ice Queen... Weiss is the little princess of the group. Education, elegance and competence combine with pretension, arrogance and dirty-putance. No, I'm joking. Surprisingly, despite her status as Ruby's partner, she plays a relatively smaller role than Blake or even Yang. Her initial conflict with Ruby is resolved quickly. Her position with regard to the Faunus can make her appear a little harsh; she is doubtless not on the "good side" of the moral in her discussion with Blake. Her more severe, serious and strict personality contrasts with Ruby's and Yang's, but also with Blake's (who is very satisfied to stay in her corner). Weiss certainly has an appearance of superficiality, whether in her interactions with Pyrrha, from the second episode, or with Neptune. She is much more interesting in her relationship with her family, first with Winter. There is a mix of formality, willingness to be up to her but also of great tenderness, coming from one or the other. The ease with which Weiss decides to give her trust to Ruby is full of meaning. This is certainly a character more flexible than we thinks !

A little more about JNPR ?

But of course ! Excellent question, I just wanted to say more JNPR ! I say right away that I prefer team JNPR. Anyway, volume 2 episode 7, the dance so JNPR> RWBY. So yes I'm a girl like that. I admit however that team JNPR is reduced pretty quickly to the JP tandem because there aren't masses to say about Ren and that Nora.... until volume 4. Yes, I was a shipper from Arkos. No, I'm still an Arkos shipper ! Arkos forever !!!! End of review.

And you can imagine my reaction during the last episode of volume 3... I will make a section on the highlights of the series further. So it seems obvious to me that Jaune and Pyrrha (especially Jaune in fact) are at the center of JNPR (at the same time, half of the team...) and at the center of its dynamics. Jaune, the big dullard, a little lost and not a big fighter, and Pyrrha, the triple champion, the incarnate excellence. The Jaune/Pyrrha relationship is the only one that is explicitly romantic. Yes, my dear shippers, the others Ruby/Weiss, Yang/Blake, Blake/Weiss, Blake/Sun, Weiss/Neptune, Nora/Ren (and any other combination. The only true official pairing is Arkos ! Since it only lasted five minutes before being brutally and cruelly destroyed (burnt?), It's perhaps not worse than there are no other couples... So the simple fact that there is a real will on the part of Pyrrha to be a someone more important to Jaune is unique in RWBY. For someone accustomed to Japanese anime romance, it's also relatively interesting to watch how their relationship develops, even if it's more like what is seen in American films.

It's desperate to see Jaune completely overlook Pyrrha's attempts to get closer to him, although it's not necessarily always evident on his side. By adding the fact that at the beginning, Jaune love rather Weiss and that Pyrrha is very little enterprising, we're easily frustrated. The student life aspect (and everything that goes with it) is at its peak in volume 2 and we reach more or less the maximum of the relationship following the Dance Party (still a great classic among Americans show).

I think it's quite clear that the viewers are supposed to identify themself with the character of Jaune, the one who doesn't really know how to fight, who hasn’t unlocked his Aura, who is the leader of his team and the one who has to learn. On the contrary to the majority (all?) of his comrades,   Jaune didn't go by a combat school before entering Beacon, he has neither the skills nor the confidence to become a Huntsman and even less a team leader. But it's above all that no one has given him the opportunity to become a leader, to make decisions and to flourish. Pyrrha has all the skills, she is the ideal Huntress, in terms of skills but also of mentality (the choice of making her the Fall Maiden proves it). If she has to take responsibility, she will take them and she will do her job well. But that's not what she wants. Her character main theme is freedom or destiny (depending on the angle). She certainly has an ambiguous relationship with the concept of destiny. I would say that under the increasing pressure that people give to her, she seeks to escape what seems to be her destiny : Pyrrha the star, the ideal Huntress, the leader. This is what attracts her to Jaune, who becomes leader in her place. We know that Pyrrha is the first support of Jaune in the first volume, that she helps him to assert himself, to train. Because she is kind and devoted, because Jaune is in her team, because she loves (likes) Jaune but perhaps also because in helping Jaune, she is also feel herself free.

The love (or perhaps the crush) of Pyrrha would occupy an interesting and contrasting position in this ensemble. Does she consider Jaune as a soul mate, a red thread woven into her destiny, or as a free choice of her heart ? The question is purely speculative and I doubt that the current canon gives us a concrete answer. To this is added the tragic aspect of Pyrrha's character, tragic in so many things and here in the way she is ready to suffer to leave the path between Jaune and Weiss. In any case, the situation changes completely with the revelation of the Maidens - RWBY as a whole embraces fully the dark aspect that was seen in volume 1, placed in the closet in volume 2, and exploding in the middle of your tears of pain in volume 3 ... The theme of destiny that seemed to have left us for a while, comes back stronger. The powers and responsibility of the Fall Maiden sound like a sentence for Pyrrha; it’s what she has sought to avoid since her arrival at Beacon. Like all the others, Ozpin chose her for her image of excellent Huntress, which is certainly truthful, but which doesn't constitute her whole person. Pyrrha's brilliant performance can be emphasized when she’s summoned by Ozpin and his group (the "Ozluminatti"), in his office and in the elevator, she’s feeling herself  small, shriveled, almost crushed by the weight of this inexorable destiny.

In volume 1, it was Jaune who needed Pyrrha the most. In volume 3, it's Pyrrha who needs Jaune. I would finally argue that Pyrrha from the beginning always needed Jaune.

Even in the spoiler area, avoid spoilers images.

In this famous episode 8 of volume 3, so well named "Destiny", we find a clarification of this theme of destiny, accompanied also by the first appearance of the sentence "Do you believe in destiny ?". In this episode, Pyrrha explicitly says that destiny for her isn’t something inexorable, something that cannot be escaped but rather a final goal, the great objective of her life, something that everyone wants and sought. To make it clear, Pyrrha has a conception of destiny as a goal that she wants to achieve: Becoming a great Huntress, defend and protect humanity. This is what she did before her arrival in Beacon but as a unbeaten "warrior", a leader. She continues to work towards this objective in Beacon but more as a "support" for Jaune. The possibility of becoming the Fall Maiden changes everything. Already, she understands that this can represent an incredible opportunity. Her destiny would be accomplished much more quickly and possibly even more effectively. Would it be worth knowing that she could lose her own identity ? And yet, it's already adopting the optimistic view. The pessimistic view is that being the Fall Maiden is just an obstacle to achieving her destiny. How will receiving unbelievable powers interfere with Pyrrha's will to protect others ? Personally I have a little trouble understanding that. I will defend another thesis by playing on the polysemy of the word "destiny". Thus, Pyrrha sees the powers of the Fall Maiden as an obstacle to her destiny, seen as a desired goal and for which she must make efforts, and as her destiny, in the usual sense of something imposed and inevitable. By her question, she asks mostly to Jaune what understanding of destiny he has. Obviously, Jaune is completely lost - and we cannot really blame him - and answers something generic, rather sensible and supposed to support Pyrrha: "I believe in you, you can do it." I don't have the impression that his answer decides in favor of either conception, but the way it's said makes Pyrrha understand (rightly or wrongly) that it's now time for her to submit to her destiny and accept the burden of the role of the Fall Maiden.

Between this moment and the last episode of volume 3, the destiny for Pyrrha takes on a totally different meaning from that which it had given her before. Once the attempt at transfer of powers was interrupted by Cinder, I think the situation becomes a little more complicated. It must be said that the scene between Jaune and Pyrrha was quite long, with a relatively clear explication on the part of Pyrrha and that it's not really the case with Cinder... My interpretation is that the path of becoming the Fall Maiden being now closed, Pyrrha only has the path of the classic Huntress. We know that Pyrrha will fight Cinder, knowing very well that she will lose. The question that persists is whether it was a choice on her part. You're going to tell me that obviously it's a choice, nobody forced her to go there and you're right. I mean simply, for Pyrrha, was going to the battle is her inexorable destiny or her intended destiny ? It would be a little easier to justify the second option. Pyrrha just told herself that she was there, that she could save lives by slowing down even a few minutes Cinder. In retrospect, her act had far more consequences than she could have imagined since she was the trigger of the Silver Eyes of Ruby. So more or less directly, she protected and rescued a lot of civilians and Huntsmen. But that, she absolutely couldn't know ! On the other hand, she had to know that fleeing with others and contributing to resistance, counter-attack would no doubt have been more useful over the medium and long term. Beacon no longer exists, the teachers scattered, and Pyrrha is one of the most competent warrior. Simple miscalculation ? Maybe she thought she could triumph over Cinder, who would have been weakened after her fight against Ozpin ? It's a little bit wobbly.

Good bye my love, my friends...

I'm not sure unfortunately that the explanation in terms of inexorable destiny is much more solid or convincing but let's try it anyway ! In this case, Pyrrha never returns to her conception of destiny as a desired objective and finally takes the Fall Maiden path. Mentally, she is the Fall Maiden and the arrival of Cinder represents an interruption, an obstacle to her destiny. In doing so, the "choice" is simple; everything must be done to bring down the obstacle and recover the powers of the Fall Maiden. Nothing in the canon indicates that Pyrrha is still trying to become the Fall Maiden at this moment, it's purely a theory. But the advantage of this theory is that in this case, Pyrrha doesn't want to fight Cinder, that she knows she will probably lose, that she will die, that her sacrifice will not serve much, that she is really sorry to part with Jaune. Finally, she doesn't want any of this, she hates it but she'll still do it because it's her destiny. In addition, the horrible irony of the fate is that her act coincides perfectly with her vision of destiny as an objective : She succeeded in freeing Ruby's powers and thus saving everything that was safer, she did that as an Huntress without facility, against such a powerful enemy, she fought like never before. Pyrrha believes that she fulfills her destiny and fulfills her destiny without knowing it.

What meaning is given to Pyrrha's last words ? What meaning to give to Cinder's scathing response ? If the preceding theories were based more or less on facts, I believe that we enter more into speculation than anything else. I don't think that Pyrrha tried to convey a message or that it would have been an act of defiance. Because that's how I understood it the first time or at least that's the impression I got. Like : "What I do there isn’t stupid, isn’t useless, isn’t suicidal ; I believe in my destiny and fulfill it (or I believe in your destiny and your destiny will be to be defeated)." Now I am not so sure. It's as if Pyrrha really wanted to know the opinion of another person about destiny; a real curiosity seems to animate her question (which is different from when she asked the same question to Jaune). Perhaps at the end of her life Pyrrha wanted to know if her conception of things was the right one.

And as if it wasn’t complicated enough, Cinder answers "Yes." Frankly, I think it's Cinder's answer that is most interesting in this short exchange. Unfortunately, I really don't know what to do with her answer. Nothing says that the vision of Cinder enters comfortably into the duality established by Pyrrha. Finally ... Cinder is still alive... so... I don’t know...

GOOD. I'm done with Pyrrha. A little word about Jaune now ?

Jaune is the leader, Jaune is the general, Jaune is the partner, Jaune is the incompetent, Jaune is the dork and especially Jaune is the misguided.

The fact is that Jaune is unique among all the others students and maybe even among all the main characters. To refer to recent works (Reagan, Mitchell, Kiley et al., The Emotional Arcs of Stories are dominated by six basic shapes, 2016), all books would be correctly classified and enter a simple typology: Ascension, Decline, Ascension- Decline, Decline-Ascension, Ascension-Decline-Ascension and Decline-Ascension-Decline. As RWBY is far from being over (Monty Oum, the creator of the show, had said he had enough ideas for 10 seasons), we cannot predict on the general form that this is going to have. So here I extend this framework of analysis to the course of a single character, which is more for an incomplete story. This being said, it seems quite clear that Jaune is of the Ascension type. Progress in relational terms (with his team members who support him), and in terms of skills. He also wins in maturity, I think about the discussion he has with Neptune, there again volume 2 episode 7.

He perfectly assumes his silly and naive side while showing great sagacity in rather amazing fields. Because yes, we can expect a great loyalty from Jaune (as in the episode of Forever Fall when Jaune refuses to obey Cardin) but much less than he gives advice on "love'' to Neptune, especially as it concerns Weiss. This character is definitely full of surprises and I cannot wait to see his evolution. We saw an immense despair, an immense helplessness, and, to tell the truth, a man just as broken as Yang. For Jaune, everything is destroyed and some things cannot be rebuilt. So this is far from being something specific to Jaune: Team RWBY is broken and each of its members has lost a lot, Yang more than the others. But Rooster Teeth was clear enough to let me see the outcome on the side of the team RWBY. Sooner or later, Team RWBY will be reunited. On the other hand I am in total uncertainty concerning the fate of Jaune. I just find that Jaune was ejected from the center. The four members of team RWBY are united by such solid bonds, they bend but don't break and inexorably, they will come together. It doesn't seem to me that such a link has been formed within team JNPR. Especially since there is no more team JNPR.

You know, a character that we know, that we have learned to know, that we appreciate, who is a good person, but who changes, perhaps for the worst, but whose change is perfectly comprehensible ? A bottomless descent motivated by all the good reasons of the world. A dazzling fall, that's what I want to see !

I just want to see Jaune suffer !

It's time to finish the first part of this review. As a concluding remark, I would say that RWBY is a story of potential - a potential that has already been developed. Despite its numerous defects, ranging from the very stereotyped actions of characters too clichés to somewhat wobbly intrigues, RWBY is a show that evolves, which improves, which progresses at the same rhythm as its characters. I reserve a note to the community, to the fandom of RWBY which is very active, especially in the fanarts and small comics around the universe of RWBY. Because sometimes, it also counts to watch what the fans do in addition to the show per se. It's particularly difficult for me to give a note to RWBY. Thanks for reading this first part of my review ! See you in part 2 for my review of Volume 4 !

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Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 324

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Announcement

We’re live. Oh, there we go. I see it now. So regardless, we’re live. Welcome to Hump Day Hangouts. Today’s the 27th of January 2021. And we’ve got some good stuff for you guys today. As usual, we got a few quick announcements and then we’re gonna jump into answering your questions. But real quick, just want to say hi, looks like we got most of the guys here today. Let’s see. I’m gonna start with her Nan today. How are you doing, man?

Dude, I’m good. I’m good.

I’m just melting down here. It’s really hot and humid, but it’s okay, man.

We’re supposed to have rain tomorrow. So gonna cool off. Happy to be here.

Nice. what’s the temperature there in Celsius?

And Celsius is like 36. I think so. 36. See, it’s pretty warm. Yeah.

Yeah, that’s 96 points, 97.

All right, that’s getting up. Yeah, that’s on like, maximum temperature scale. So I know you’re a hardware guy. But yeah, some rain on top of that. That sounds nice and humid. So you enjoy that. Yeah. Awesome. Marco. How are you doing today?

Um, I mean, what can I say? Groundhog Day. If you guys understand how it is that you can take $1 and change it into a million dollars. Give me one. Give me a hill. Yeah, let me see. Fuck. I hate those cheesy markers, man. Look, hard work. You gotta work. You gotta do the dude, you got to pay your dues. It’s very people who hit on that one idea with absolutely nothing. But sweat equity. Turn it into a billion-dollar idea. The rest of Us to get to anyone, whatever. I gotta work. I don’t just sit here and do nothing. I yeah, it’s beautiful. It’s a great place to work. I step outside. It’s sunny. It’s warm. It’s beautiful. Got the sun? Got him. Got this. When did my hair look, man? Come on, man. Very few things require no work as most people tell you to should is hard work. And it’s not easy. It’s not easy, but it’s not complicated. It can’t be simplified, which is what we’ve done for you. Alright. So if you want to know how, and you want to know why we’re in the middle of our charity webinars, Bradley killed it on Monday. With his ads for branding. And entity Monday, I’m gonna call it what it is entity manipulation. It was fantastic. A lot of great ideas, a lot of information that literally I’m telling you on Monday would have cost 1000s of dollars anywhere else. You got it for free. Next Monday. What’s the Dixon Jones, internet legend Dixon Jones is coming to show you how to do entities and content. And so this is going to be a recurring theme entities entities entities, brand new entities brand. I wonder why I wonder what’s working in SEO, what has been working, what’s working out what will be working. Anyway, I don’t want to take too much time. Thank you to those of you who donated if you haven’t, then I posted a how-to on the page. I know the information is there. Again, I don’t want to take too much time. And even if you did and you did not register, you won’t be able to access that page. Now. Because that page is gone. We moved it, you can still contact the email that I’ve set on there and you will get access. If you’re given the note no donation, you will get access to the replay. And if you haven’t donated, send proof of the other donation to the email and get access guys’ information. I’m telling you, you would end up paying I know barely one time paid nearly 20 K. And the information was nowhere near as good as the shit that we give away for the price of a donation. I can guarantee it. He told us what the information that he got not that it was useless. But the information that we’re giving away for a charitable donation. I’d be dead. There’s no comparison anywhere. Guaranteed.

Outstanding Marco, something you said at the beginning. I’m just gonna ask you and for those of you watching, I didn’t ask Marco this earlier or anything. But the something you said kind of tickled something in my head. I was wondering Have you read the book The Art of contrary thinking?

Of course.

Okay. I had never heard of it until a couple of weeks ago. And I just picked it up and started going through it. And anyway, I was like, You know what, I bet this is a book Marco would recommend. And just this is a total tangent, but would you recommend people to read it because I’m like 10 pages in and I’m like, I can tell this is gonna be a big one.

I mean, I recommend that you read period, right?

Yeah, read it.

And not just that it’s not just reading that one book but this other but Well, when everybody thinks, Oh, here we go, let me see if I get the quote, right. When everybody thinks the same when everybody thinks alike, everybody is likely to be wrong. Think about that. Think about that. All right. So the art of contrary thinking, Humphrey, was a Yo, yo,

yeah, Neil.

Yeah. Yeah, guys, read the book, read the book. Go read the art of war. Mandatory, mandatory. And then read the commentaries on the art of war. Don’t just read it. Try to figure it out while you’re like trying to read the Bible without the commentaries, right? Without going into the original text. But yeah, definitely, if you can, like a book a week, by all means, for those who can’t just listen to it, listen, listen to books, all the audiobooks are everywhere. But yeah, absolutely recommended.

Awesome. All right. The library tickled something else too. I just put the link down for anyone interested. We should probably we could update this year. We’ve got a recommended reading list which I don’t think the art of country thinking is on my add that on, but I just put it at semantic mastery comm slash books. So go check that out if you’re watching and interested in some of these we’re mentioning so. Okay, sorry, a little bit of a tangent there. But last but not least, Bradley, how are you doing today?

Doing great. Busy as all hell as usual, but doing well. Glad to be here.

Sounds good. All right. Well, I got a little thing to get through here. I wanted to let people know because we do have new people watching every week people coming in on YouTube are catching the replay. So first of all, thank you for watching. You’re in the right place.

Hold on a minute. Did we forget Chris, didn’t we?

Is Chris here. Chris is here. Oh, man. I’m sorry. Well,

I can go again as well. If you don’t like me here today. Chris snuck in the back door when Adam wasn’t looking.

That’s good. I feel bad because we got the little strip up at the top and zoom. So Chris, how are you doing? Man? My bad.

Yeah, doing well here. I didn’t know.

I was wondering because now I wish the most.

Sorry, what are you saying?

I don’t know. I’m shorting the markets, especially on the SEO niche. Not having anything else. Alright, well stay away from GameStop. So that’s already? Yeah. All right, well, let’s get into it. So like I was saying, if you’re here and you’re watching live, let us know how you’re doing. Even if you don’t have a comment, just say hello, get let us know where you’re at, or how you’re doing. And if you’re new to semantic mastery, you’re new to MGYB you’re new to heavy hitters club, the best place for you to start find out how to shield your sites don’t have to worry about algorithm updates again, and it’s a free training that’s available at the SEOshield.com. That’s the word, the SEOshield.com. And you’ll hear us talking about all the stuff that’s involved in that. So if you’re not familiar with words, like SEO shield, that’s a great place for you to get started. From there, definitely recommend picking up the Battle Plan. Alright, that’s step by step processes. So you can get SEO results. And it’s how we do things and the tools we use and the services we use. And you can get that at Battle Plan dot semantic mastery.com the next one after that we also get questions about right as consultants like myself, agency owners like Bradley, people who are, you know, wanting to get more clients who want to grow the revenue, they want to scale the team, they’re still you know, grow at still in growth mode. It’s hard to get that one out of the mouth. And you know, before they’re big enough, they’re thinking, How can I do this? How do I do these three really important things so Bradley and Hernan a little bit, they’ve put together this training last year, that is just amazing? It’s called 2xyouragency, 2xyouragency.com. Just head over there and you can find out more. And for those of you who are serious about growing your digital marketing business or the digital marketing side of your business, and you want to be part of the experienced community, then the mastermind is definitely for you. And that you can find out more at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And now I mentioned MGYB if you’re not familiar with it, it’s mgyb.co. Alright, that’s done for you services, things like the SEO shield that I mentioned, syndication networks, link building press releases, and a ton more. I believe we’ve got an update coming soon. Right Marco we’ve got a kind of an overhaul on the system coming down the pipeline, right.

We have a complete overhaul of the system. But I mean, Bradley’s in there. So you can tell. He can tell me but I mean, we’re doing several things right. So it’s not just that syndication Academy. Right, that’s coming guys, that’d be an overhaul. And then, of course, we’re gonna have updates and is going to be a new person who just wants to be friendly more time, honestly, than what he could then want to get dedicated to it. It needs more time. So It can work the way that it should. Bradley couldn’t dedicate the time to it. So we just brought someone in. She learned the way. And she was here. I mean, you guys met her, you guys met SC, she’s the one that that’s redoing, syndication Academy, she was doing updates, she’s going to be going into a whole bunch of new profiles and websites that we can use to manipulate the entity. Remember, entity-based, worthless SEO. That’s what this is about the charity webinars are about that, how we’re winning today’s we’re manipulating the entity and showing Google what we want. And we’re getting Google to do what we want Google to do. That’s how we do the dope.

Outstanding. Well, like Marco was saying earlier, if you haven’t yet, you can still get access to the charity webinars highly recommend you do that that is on the page. If for some reason you’re watching this, you can’t find the link, you’re not sure what’s going on. But you know that you want to get in on that you can just send an email to support at semantic mastery comm we’ll get you sorted out and gets taken care of. So with that said, Guys, anything else before we dive into it?

All right, we’re good.

Right, grab the screen.

There it is. Alright,

so it looks like the first one is from mini min. Rob. Hey, guys, I’ve received my order from MGYB. But I don’t know how it works. Well, which order? Is he? Which order? Is he talking about? SEO SEO. But I don’t know.

Rob, if you’re here mini broad. I’m just gonna call it mini Rob. Sorry, man. This may be your actual name. But it makes me think of like a little tiny version of Rob. Yeah. If that’s the case, we need to know more information, right? We can’t tell you what’s going on. We don’t know if you ordered a press release or a link building order or keyword research. So we’re kind of stuck here. So if you let us know, we could probably help you. And then I would also say you probably want to talk to us first and come to Hump Day Hangouts. And if you’re like, maybe I should use this SEO shield thing or the press release thing. If you ask that first, we could definitely explain it. But since you’ve got it now, let us know exactly what you’re doing. And then that’s how we can help you I guess.

That’s good. Okay. All right. So yeah, we can try to answer a few. I’m sorry, I just got was looking at an email that just came in what’s the next question is what’s the best way before? Before you go to the next question, the SEO shield comm if you got an SEO shield, right, the seo.com is the place to go for the training. It’s free. And at the end of that, we even throw in a coupon for you to order whatever it is that you need.

How Do You Push The Link Juice To Power All PDFs In The Entire Amazon S3 Folders?

Beautiful. Okay, so the next one is what’s the best way to push link juice through entire Amazon s3 folders to power up all PDFs within? Also, is it possible, like Google Drive to embed folders to show all files inside the bucket? Thank you, um, the best way to power up an s3 folder? I’m not sure if you can power up a full folder. I’ve never tried that. Usually, I just extract the URLs from within the folder and then just hit those with backlinks. If there are URLs that I want to do that to Marco Do you know, can you make a public folder itself public? Like? I don’t know if the folder has its own URL or what?

Alright, guys, I have no idea. If the s3 folder itself, we know that the HTML documents that we place in their images or whatever it is that we placed in there can be made public. But I’ll tell you what, give me about I’m gonna say three months because we’re about to do some nasty stuff in s3, I was just talking about it with my team, or I shouldn’t call it my team partners. Just the SEO crew that I’m with where we’re going to go and just really look into s3 and how much power there actually is in there. So if you come back, I mean, if not just go in and do it yourself and see if it’ll if it can go public and then the best way to push power to that. The Darya Nuff said an embed gig or a link building gig or both from dedhia to that will push all the power you need. I’m not sure about the folder, but I can guarantee that in about three months. I’ll have all the answers you want about s3.

Is There A Way To Get More Branded GMBs In Different Locations To Boost The Footprint Of A Real Business With No Fixed Address?

Sweet. Next question. Is there a way to get more branded GMBs in different locations to boost the footprint of a real service business that doesn’t have a fixed address and works remotely? Yeah, I mean, if you can, I mean, there’s a couple of ways you can buy GMBs from places that will sell you verified GM bees we used to and MGYB. But I don’t think that’s available anymore. There are still some places that will do it. I even found somewhere that I placed an order but it was way back in November and it still hasn’t been delivered. So you know, I think it’s getting harder to do it. But there I know there are still some vendors out there that will sell verified GM B’s. I’m just not going to recommend any of them because again, the one that I just attempted to use in November, I still haven’t had one delivered yet. So I don’t recommend any of I don’t have any to recommend is what I’m saying but there are GMB verified. You know, you can purchase verified GMB, there are vendors out there that do sell them. The other way is the way that I’ve before people started selling them, I used to always just use Pio boxes, you can go to post offices, one thing you want to do is don’t you don’t want to get to GMBs too close to each other. Right. So if you’re going to do a service area business, which I understand doing that makes total sense, I would have them at least 15 or 20 miles apart. Depending on what your service area is, it could be even bigger, larger, you know further distance between locations. But what you can do is find a post office. And then you fill out a form, it’s free, but it’s to use the street address option. So in other words, like if you go you can do all this online, too, by the way, you can register a PO Box online. And they’ll give you they won’t issue you the box number and till you go to the post office like you have to physically go to the post office and show your IDs and sign the paperwork at the post office. But you can reserve it online and pay for it and everything else. But you do have to physically go to the post office to sign the paperwork and then they’ll assign you the box number at that point. So let’s just say it’s a box one on one. If if the post office is at 123, Main Street, whatever town right, then you can fill out an additional form, it’s free to do it doesn’t cost anything else. But you fill out an additional form to use the street address option. And then you would end up using the address for the GMB listing 123 Main Street number sign like the pound sign 101 right, and that that will work. You can’t add a p o box to GMB as the physical address. But you can do a street address with you know, basically a box number a suite number, but it’s just the pound sign and the post office is very particular about you only using the number sign the pound sign before the box number not sweet. Not box, none of that it’s just the number sign. And again, they’re very particular about that. But that’s the way that I had always done it prior to people selling GMB’s.

And it still works, you know. So that’s another alternative way to do it. And in fact, I actually still prefer that method after but over buying them except for the fact that you have to physically go to the post office that sucks. Because you know, especially if it’s far away, but if it’s within reason and you can drive to it, then I recommend going that route over purchasing GMB listings from vendors. And the reason I say that is because it’s still tied to a real physical address this way. And I feel like those are safer than using the spammed ones because of some of the spammed GMB listings that I have. They don’t have any physical location even referenced or tied to them, which I don’t even know how happens. But like there’s no physical address actually connected with it, and it causes problems with the proximity filter. So and what I’m saying is, even for service area business guys, you understand you have to clear the address like you’re not supposed to per Google’s Terms of Service, you’re not supposed to publish the street address for a service area business. Right. So in other words, if it’s a service area business where the customer or excuse me, the business serves the customer at the customer’s location, then you’re supposed to delete them or clear the physical location when you set your service areas then you’re supposed to clear the physical location from showing and when it does, it literally clears it from the GMB dashboard and it will not any longer show the physical address, the street address in the maps listing or anything. But what I’m saying is, some of the GMB is that I had purchased. They don’t have any street address associated with them at all and I don’t know how they even did it. But it causes issues to where it doesn’t show for like near me searches and stuff like that because there’s no physical location associated with it. And again, I don’t know how they do it because even when you register a new GMB, let’s say It’s a legit business and your service area business and it has a legit physical location where the office or you know the business owner lives or whatever, you have to add that address. When you set when you go to claim or create the GMB listing, you have to add the physical address and then wait for a postcard or a card to be delivered via us a mail to that location that has a pin number in it so that you can verify that that physical location that the business really resides at that physical location. So even when you clear the address to make sure that it’s not published, there is still a physical location associated with that GMB and you don’t see that on the GMB dashboard. But for example, I just recently started using local Viking to manage GMB posts and stuff because it integrates with some of my CRM and stuff. So anyway, I’m using that and when you import GMB listings into local Viking, it shows the street address, even if it’s an unpublished street address, and I’ve got a few listings in there that just no street address appears at all, there’s no physical location associated with it. And those are the ones that I’m having trouble getting to appear for proximity searches such as, like near me, keyword phrases, or search queries. And so again, I would recommend it, the spam listings, they can still work, but there are some drawbacks in them that I don’t like about them. Were the P o box way to get one with an actual physical address tends to work. Still, it still works. And I like that one better, except for the fact that you have to physically go to the post office. Does anybody want to comment on that?

Not me. Okay, moving on then.

But yeah, absolutely. That’s I mean, that’s a great way to do it for large, especially business with large service areas, if you can get multiple maps listings, that’s best. Another way to do it, by the way, just quickly, is you can go to Craigslist and post an ad for that I’ve done that I’ve been successful in the past where I’ve posted an ad and in the, you know, in the area that I want, and say, you know, tell them that I’ll pay him 50 bucks to receive a Google postcard. And, you know, tell me when they when they’ve received it and and and and, you know, call me or text me with the pin number inside the card. Most of the time what happens is you’ll find renters that do that instead of people that own homes because they don’t care if somebody registers a business to a rental property like the renters don’t care. The landlord might, but the renters don’t. So I found that I’ve done that in the past several times when it when they when I was trying to get a GMB in an area that I couldn’t that I just wasn’t you know, it wasn’t feasible to drive to and get a PO Box, then I will use Craigslist. So that’s another way to do it. Okay. Moving on.

Is It Possible To Get Wiki Links To An SEO Agency That Offers Other Services And Has A Blog On Non-Marketing Tech Resources?

Next question, given Wikipedia is a negative view of SEO, is it possible to get links from Wikipedia or wiki data to an SEO agency that also offers other services and has a blog with lots of non-marketing tech resources? Sure, but you can also purchase wiki links. Just like we were talking about spam, GMB listings you can buy. We sell them@mgyb.co, our store. And they work I mean, occasionally something will get edited out like, but I’ve actually had one recently that was edited out. And then I just submitted a support request, and I got it restored on another Wikipedia page. So you know, you can buy links, say is it possible? Yeah, cuz you can buy them. I don’t know how to do the edits myself, because I’m not a moderator for Wikipedia. But, you know, that’s one way you could do it is to hire, you know, a Wikipedia editor or moderator, I should say, those are generally really, really expensive. So the other way is just to find a service, like what we have in MGYB, where you can buy them there. I don’t know of any other way to get them to you, Marco.

I mean, there are other ways, but you got to pay for them, or you got to get yourself a Wikipedia page. And you have to be eligible, you have to be able to provide all the documentation that Wikipedia requires. That’s the best thing. The best thing is to get yourself a page on Wikipedia. And Dixon Jones is going to explain on Monday, that’s the most important Wikipedia link that you could possibly get that mentioned in Wikipedia. And then from that, I mean, the next best thing is getting a link on the top page and then getting a link on a page referring to another page as long as it’s relevant. Right. You got to maintain that relevance. But yeah, I mean, just go to MGYB to look for it. We offer it.

What Is A Good Way To Get Lots Of Footer Links Without Having Lots Of Clients?

Sweet Suraj is up he says what’s a good way to get lots of footer links without having lots of clients trying to rank in a competitive area for web design and all other competitors dominate with footer links someone’s exact text. So I’m assuming he means exact anchor text exact match anchor text was hacked footers. Yes. stuff I ever saw.

Yeah. Yeah, that’s funny. Do you say that? Because I, when I read this question earlier and asked what I was gonna suggest, was the only other way that I would know how to do it is the safe network. A lot of those links are hacked footer links, and that when I’m What I mean is like, they literally hack other people’s websites, put links in there for you. It’s so blackhat. But um, you know, it can work. I used to use a lot of safe links years ago when I was doing a lot more blackhat stuff. And I guess there’s really no hats. But when I was doing a lot of really spammy, like, you know, dark alley ship, I used a lot of safe links. I don’t do that anymore. But that’s one way to do it. I don’t recommend it. But that is one way to do it. Anyway, you got any suggestions, Margo?

For further length, Now, why? Alright, so here’s the deal. Um, and I’m gonna say this again. And we explained that I’m going to keep referring back to the webinars on Monday, we explain why we do things, the way that we do, why we create the entity, the way we the way that we do, I’m not gonna go through it here. But we become master mimics. We look at the big dogs. We do what the big dogs do, at the part level, at the algorithmic level, at the patent level, that’s how we do it. All right, if you want to learn how, and why make a donation. Go see our footer links the only way to compete or is there something more powerful than I am missing? Yeah, I mean, I, I don’t think I would go out use that strategy. I’m not I don’t think I know I would use that strategy. I would do other things. So the SEO shield? Yeah. Start there. And then there.

How Can You Run Ads For A Client If You Don’t Have Access To Their Website?

Fitz is up. He says, Hey, guys, hope everyone is well. How can you run ads for a client if you don’t have access to their website? Thanks. You don’t need access to some you can run ads to any URL. The problem is conversion tracking and remarketing and all that other stuff, you know, but you can run ads to any URL that you know. I mean, as far as I know, I don’t think if you have if, if you have a URL, you can run ads to it. The question is why, like if you don’t have access to their website, then you’re not going to be able to install, like the conversion link or code conversion tracking. You know, Google Tag Manager remarketing. You know the remarketing tag all of those things that you would need, but you don’t need them. But I would hate to piss money away on Google ads, or ads period if I couldn’t track conversions. And if I couldn’t build a remarketing list from anybody that visited the page or the site,

so I don’t know why you would want to do it without having access to the site. Go ahead.

Yeah, I’m just wondering if maybe it’s one of those where he’s saying he doesn’t have, edit access. But if somebody can, or if you can talk to the client be like, hey, you just need to take these two steps. You need to copy this code, you need to install it, tell them where to do it. Because Yeah, if you’re in that situation, where for whatever reason, you don’t have access, you need to maybe impress upon them the importance of, hey, you need to get this code on there. Otherwise, you’re gonna be losing money. You know, because you can’t retarget you’re not building retargeting lists, you won’t know about conversions.

Yeah, if you have, if you have, you know, if there’s a webmaster or somebody that is maintaining this site that you just don’t have access to yourself, then you can absolutely still do everything because what I would suggest you do at that point would be to set up Tag Manager. And then just contact, whoever’s managing the site. So the webmaster or the business owner, whoever’s managing the site, contact them and send them the container code for Tag Manager, one goes into the header, one goes into the footer, or right before the closing body tag, either one. And it’s just two snippets of code to get added to the site globally, right, so it’s site-wide code, and then you can add and subtract all the tags that you need inside of Tag Manager which you would have access to meaning you can add tags and triggers and all that stuff and then deploy it all through Tag Manager and will automatically update the website from a remote from tag managed from the Tag Manager dashboard. Once the container code is there, you can add or remove tags, remarketing tags, a conversion tracking all of that stuff. Jason, you can add structured data schema.org All kinds of stuff that you can use Tag Manager for. If you don’t have access to managing the site, the webmaster can install Tag Manager and you can use that.

Any other comments?

No, that’s fine. Okay,

Does It Make A Difference If You Already Added The Supporting Documents Prior To Getting The SEO Location Shield?

so the next one is from Landry. Now I get it, I couldn’t figure out how to pronounce your name. So I appreciate you spelling it out phonetically because Hooked on Phonics works for me. So thank you for that. So Lanre says, Hey, Bradley, I noticed you had problems pronouncing my name. It’s pronounced Landry as an rio. So I’ve got it this time. Now, my question is this, I bought my keyword research from you guys. I built my site, I added three categories with content, and five supporting articles per category, I now need to order my SEO location shield to establish my brand. Okay, I’m not sure that you want to order locations, you know, maybe you do, I don’t have the full context of your project. But let’s just assume that the SEO location showed us what you want to order? Does it make any difference? If I already added the supporting documents prior to getting the SEO location showed? I don’t quite understand the question. Does it matter that you’ve started to build out your site with categories and adding depth to the silos? No, it doesn’t matter at all. Because again, I don’t know that the location, I don’t have the full context, I don’t know what you’re doing. But just from this little bit of detail that I have. I don’t know that the location shield is really what you want and the SEO power shield should be for the brand. And then typically, for top-level silos, you want to do the are the expansion stack, right? Dry S Drive expansion, or drive stack expansion, excuse me? Not necessarily location shield. So if you go take a look at the SEO shield, and you take a look at the three different versions, what does it locate starter shield locations to power shield, right? Power shield is going to be for the brand, that’s what we recommend. But then our wireless expansions, which is a separate product in the store, it’s not on the SEO shield page, cry is drive stack expansion. Go in there. That’s what I would recommend that you buy an expansion for each top-level silo. Does that make sense? Does anybody want to comment on this Marco, do you?

Yeah, I mean, don’t look at it like that. Landry. Don’t look at it like that. You’re done with the website, you can continue working with the website. Yeah, you can have dummy content on the website, you shouldn’t. But you at least need that RSS feed. So yeah, you do need some supporting articles or posts. You have that already. Go in order and SEO shall not a location shield. Because you don’t want to pigeonhole yourself into a geographic location. All right, not if your branding, not if your branding, you can do you can take care of the locations through location-driven pages. On the inner part of the G site, in the beginning, you’re just trying to create I’m not gonna say the keyword, yet but it is its brand plus a keyword, relationships, how your brand relates to the keywords in whatever niche It is, it is that you’re in, especially the top-level keywords, we add it, we intersperse it, we go through all of the documents, everything gets filled with keywords, especially if you order our deep keyword research gig, which this is perfect for, it’s perfect for giving you all of the relevance necessary to really carry out a proper the proper content structure of your website will give you suggestions, you know your project better than we could ever hope to know it. So you have to follow what you know, with what our suggestions are. Once you have all that and once you get the SEO show delivered back, especially the G site that the following that as the ad ID and ordering an expansion won’t interfere with the ad ID. So what you see is okay, now I have a top-level category. So I’m going after gold. Now I want to do gold bars. Well, gold bars go on the inside. So let’s say you’re saying you’re in a city already, and you want the adjoining city. So gold bars add joining the city, however, it is that you choose to pursue that well, we build that for you we can build you an interface so that you don’t have to, and an intersect. So you’re expanding the power of your original branded stack, and G site. And the whole point of this is to keep expanding. So you’re adding depth and breadth to that T site and dry stack the same way that you’re doing it on your website as you find categories. And as you use supporting posts to boost that top-level category that you’re trying to rank eventually you should be pushing so much power. And I see this time and again, that even an empty folder is added. This is when true power will you push it to power and you’re building up that PageRank and ranking score. An empty folder will rank for the keyword that you’re assigning it. And it’s incredible when when when this thing happens, or you’ll pop in and like a new location, and a brand new GMB and you see all kinds of action in the GMB. And you’re wondering why? Well, it’s because you iframe it on the G site or you iframe that on your website, or it’s part of a really deep and wide drive second site. And that’s when the power really comes into play. That’s why I tell people, it’s hard work, you cannot expect to rank with one page for gold. It’s not gonna happen, you can’t ever hope to outrank Amazon with one page, and a couple of supporting posts. Not gonna happen. That’s, that’s a trillion-dollar company that you’re going after you can’t do it for a buck 50. All right, so all of this power and all of these things need to continue taking place, you need to do your press releases, you need to do the link building, you need to do the embeds plus link building. And you need to continue broadening your profile throughout the web, making that footprint bigger, wider, relating more profiles one to the other. This is what the big boys do. You see Apple everywhere you see Amazon, everywhere. So that’s what you have to do. And one of the ways that we do it is exactly the way I just described. Now that takes a lot of work. The way that I like to put this is it like people see it. And it’s really simple. I ordered the SEO shield, and then I just produce content. And magic happens. No, it doesn’t. I’ve been online for 18 years. This is 18 years in the making. Bradley has about a decade and I know her Nana’s around there. Chris has so many years and Adam, I think Well, I know. I’ve known him for six, seven years. So he has at least that long online. So you’re getting decade’s worth of thinking of strategizing of putting everything together into what you see as the SEO shoot. But that’s what it’s for. And that’s what you should order not the location shield, but the branded SEO power shield. Yeah.

Yeah, that’s why I just pulled up the pages on the store, just to demonstrate what Marco was talking about. The SEO power shield is what we recommend for the brand. For the main brand, right, and then from that, because it gives you the syndication network, the drive stack with the G site, and then the IDX page. So that’s for the main entity, right the brand itself, and then from there, you go from the store, go click into the Google RYS expansion stacks. And these are the expansion stacks of each top-level silo. Right? So each silo on the site. So top-level category, top-level keyword, you should have an RBS expansion stack. If you’re doing a local business and you’re you have location-based silos, however, you do that, I do it using the tag structure inside of WordPress, then I also order a separate expansion stack for each location, if that makes sense, but I don’t want to confuse you. As I said, if you’re doing it on just topical stuff, then you’d want a separate expansion stack for each one of your top-level silos. You don’t need additional ID pages and then additional g sites, which is what happens when you order location shield. So in fact, I would we would recommend against that.

Okay, so hopefully that clarifies that.

All right, moving on.

Does it make a difference in priority? No, no, it doesn’t, you can just as long as you have, all that you need is you need the web, the URLs, when that you’re going to push, you know uses your main target URL for your drive stack. And then for each one of your expansion stacks you’re going to get, you’re going to have a field that you have to submit your main target URL, it’s going to be one primary target URL per expansion. As long as those URLs are available, like on your site, that’s fine. It doesn’t matter whether there’s content there or anything, to begin with, you can order it with just the URL. The only thing that has to have content is the RSS feed for the SEO power shield order because the syndication network, if it’s an RSS driven syndication network as opposed to YouTube, then it needs the RSS feed has to have so the RSS Feed URL has to contain at least one item it can be the Hello World post for that matter, it doesn’t matter. As long as it has one item in the RSS feed, then they can set up the applets inside IFTTT but that’s it though the rest of the site doesn’t need to look at content on it. If it just has the URLs available in. That’s it. And for anybody watching this at this point watching the replay, enlarge the video so you can get the information about donating to the charity and accessing the webinar.

Do You Have Any Tips In Using Linktree Other Than Hammering It With Backlinks?

Okay, sweet. Let’s keep moving. Jim’s up. What’s up, Jim? He says, Hey, gang, I was curious if you guys have any tips or tricks to apply to link tree? That’s a good site. I just started playing with that a little bit more actually. Other than the usual hammer the shit out of it with backlinks. You can embed it. So yeah, it’s pretty much the same thing that we would always recommend hammer with backlinks. You can also embed link tree itself, the link tree page, which is just a collection of links, right. So that’s just you can also do embeds and backlinks to the embeds. Anything else?

Scorched earth Seo? hammer? I don’t know any other strategy. I don’t understand anything else other than if it can stand it, give it more. And if it takes that much, then try some more. Well, you know what it is man? Just go do the do.

How Would You Silo Structure A Website With Multiple Topics?

Alright, baby, what’s up, man? He says, Hey, guys, a better example for last weekend’s question how Google treat pages that are not related topically to the site, say you are a site about marketing. The silo is about software. Let’s say all the marketing software goes here. But what if we add non-marketing software pages to the silo to that silo-like employment software, or betting software, etc. So the new silo be opened to nonrelated marketing software? No. And in a case like that, BB, I would have subcategories. So I would use a complex silo structure for that type of site because the software would be the parent category, the top-level category, but then you would create subcategories for the different types of software marketing software is a subcategory. What were some of the other one’s employment software being another sub sub category, and then betting software or investing software? Right. forex software, like there’s a, you know, productivity software, like every one of those could be sub-categories. And then you would add supporting articles, which could be reviews of those types of different software in their appropriate subcategory. So in a situation like what you’re describing this time, in which you provided more context, this time than you usually do. So thank you for that, by the way, then then, yeah, I would use a complex silo structure for something like that. And I would add subcategories and appropriately place the articles and supporting articles and such within the correct cat subcategories. That is something that you could do.

Comments?

yeah, treated as a directory for marketing? And how would you build that directory then for marketing related categories and subcategories, and maybe some not so specific categories that do relate to marketing, but not in a direct manner, you could totally do that. Just be careful how far in the weeds you go, because you could end up somewhere totally not relevant to whatever it is that you’re doing. And then in that case, it’s not as if you’d be penalized or anything, it’s just that you’re not going to get any, well, you shouldn’t get any action, because the AI will know that there’s absolutely no relationship between that uncategorized or irrelevant category, and everything else that you’re doing, with the caveat that if you’re pushing enough power, it will rack it just takes monster power to do it.

Yeah. Yeah, and, and actually, you know, that’s, I, I prefer using simple silos as much as possible. But in the situation that you’re describing here, that’s perfect for a complex silo. And you can push a shit ton of power with the complex silo guys if you know how to how to set up your internal linking correctly. Complex silos can push a ton of power to the top-level keyword. So again, you know, you got to map that out before ever starting a complex silo site, spend some time mapping it out, like not just the immediate need, but your future needs as well, because that’s part of the problem with a complex silo structure is it’s real easy to get started and think that you have an idea of what you want your silo structure to look like when you’re starting off and you have, you know, a finite or a limited amount of content and ideas. But as the project grows, you’re probably going to figure like, Oh shit, I should have figured it. I should have structured the site in this way instead. And that’s part of the problem with complex silo structures is their complex just like the name? Just like, that’s why it’s in the name, excuse me. But if you do it correctly, if you map it out, right, then you can I mean, it’s just amazing. And how much power you can push with those. But again, it’s like I remember, that’s part of the reason I like to do those anymore at all is that I would spend literally hours upon hours a day to, you know, a day or two on just mapping out the site before starting the build. And even then even after doing all of that mapping work and trying to decide on how I was going to structure the site, a lot of the times, at some point in the future, I would end up kicking myself for structuring it that way, because I should have done something else, you know what I mean? So I prefer not to do that if needed. But if so, I mean, if that’s the route, that you’re going to go spend some time on the front end, you’ll, you’ll be glad that you did. And yeah, you can push a lot of power that way, for sure.

Well, that’s if you’re building a directory, this complexity in building a directory to start with. So try to keep it simple. And don’t spend hours trying to map out the site, just get to work on it, and try to work it out conceptually, as you go, you’re still gonna run into problems and having to 301 and having to redo your URL structure. But that’s a lot better, man.

Do Semantic Mastery’s Methods Only Work On Google Search Engines?

So the next question is, do your methods work only on Google search engines and YouTube? Or should they should it also work on search engines like Facebook or Pinterest search, etc. I mean, we optimize for Google? Because you know, that’s what 70 or 80% of all search traffic. I can’t speak for Facebook or Pinterest, those algorithms are totally different. But oftentimes, when we optimize for Google, then we end up ranking in Bing and Yahoo because many and Yahoo are one and the same anymore. But it’s only I think, they’ve got a little bit more market share than they used to, but it’s somewhere around 30%, I think. But I don’t optimize for Bing, or, I mean, I just optimize for Google. Because that’s, you know, that’s where the bulk of all traffic comes from. And usually, we end up ranking in Yahoo, and Bing also, comments on that?

Yeah, I mean, we want Google search. That’s what we’re after. In some places in some countries some areas, over 90% of the search market, is in Google. So if you have something that’s search-based, which is totally local business, or whatever, then it just stands to reason that you’re going to focus on Google. Now, if you’re going to go and work on the Pinterest algorithm that you have to learn the Pinterest algorithm. And some of the methods that we teach might not work in Pinterest, but I’m not gonna get into how Pinterest works here works differently. The same thing with Facebook, the Facebook algorithm works differently. It just does. They’re similar. So as the Bing algorithm, they’re all based on the same thing, right, trying to see how they rank for a certain query. At the end of the day, that’s what you’re trying to do. But you have to learn the requirements. So you mentioned Pinterest, and, and Facebook, you’d have to try those people want Amazon, we have to go in and figure that one out. Then Bing, Yahoo. Why when we can get 80 to 90%. In Google, and then the other ones, we can just run ads and get results. Yep,

I agree.

Have You Ever Ranked Something Using Citations Only?

All right. Ah, next question. Have you ever ranked something with citations only and without links? Let’s, let’s say you have a non-local site, say e-commerce does brand citations without backlinks. Will that work? First of all, I don’t know because all I do is local stuff. I’ve ranked local stuff with just citations like a local business directory or business directory citations like structured citations. Sometimes they’ll contain links, oftentimes, they’ll contain links. It’s been a long time since I’ve tried to rank any local business project with just citations. It’s probably possible still, but citations are just a part of an overall picture. Now that’s talking about, like, structured citations like business directory listings for local type business sites. I think what you’re talking about is like co-citation, right? where somebody is talking or a citation, I guess, in a broader sense, can be just a brand mention, right?

I’ve never tried that. I don’t know why you would mean, I’ve never tried it. So I can’t answer that. Can you know, because the citation is a backlink? So I don’t get it. I don’t get the question to start with. And let’s, let’s see, let’s say you have a non-local site. That’s e-commerce does do brand citations without backlinks work, or will they work? I have no clue because that’s not how we do. We actually use citations as part of the entity. It’s all part of entity-based. worry less SEO, especially local, like the broader you go The less necessary they can put your branded citations if you can get them in the big ones in the data aggregators, as a matter of fact, work really well because they’re links. They’re places where Google goes to see the data to pull data, but it. Alright, so this question I’m not gonna pick on you, I’m just saying is missing the point of the ranking score and PageRank algorithm, and of every other algorithm, because Google has to go through a link somewhere to get to the server, wherever this branded or number, enter the citation or wherever this other thing is, without that link, there’s absolutely no way that Google can go from one server to the other, it’s not magic, Google cannot teleport, it can’t jump into another server, right? It’s a, it’s HTTP or HTTPS. That’s the protocol. As well, there has to be something that connects them that connect, now you what you’re talking about. And, again, I’m gonna go back to our webinar Monday, it was killer, you have two nodes, is what you’re talking about. One is your brand, whatever. And you have another note somewhere that mentioned your brand, Google has to get that get to that, each of those and relate them some way. And the way it does that is through links. So the more links that are connected to your e-commerce site, and to wherever that brand citation is, right, the more power it will have, because that Google can start creating the relationship for the distance graph algorithm with again, I’m not going to get into any of that. What I’m just saying is, you need to start conceiving in this another way, because the things that you’re asking are a little bit conceptually off on this. I’m reading this incorrectly, in which case I’d like you to explain what it is that you mean, you did a really good job on the other one of explaining what it was. Yeah.

Yeah, I agree. So I said I was more contents context in that last question than what we’re used to from BB. So. Okay, so the next question is from is not really a question, as Jim says, He says, but rather a wiki experience, I have a site that has six wikilinks pointing to it from different or two different articles. I didn’t pay for them, they were added in a natural manner. So organic links. That’s awesome.

Those quotes, I’d like to know what those natural means is it’s in quotes. Well, that’s true. That’s true. But I think he means that it’s just he’s got good content, and somebody, you know, linked to it naturally from an article. That’s how I interpreted but you’re right, since it’s in quotes, it might be. Anyway, those links are very powerful. And I highly recommend trying to get one through whatever means necessary pro tip have the best, most thorough, most documented article on a subject and then cross your fingers. You know, that’s a great point, Jim, because here’s the thing. You can purchase wiki links, right? Like, we just talked about that from, or links from Wikipedia or links, you can get a link on Wikipedia by buying it from our service. But don’t just link to like something that, you know, if I recommend that you are linking to something that has some well-written content, not just like, you know, a spammy page or something like that on the site. I mean, you can try to get away with that. But the problem with that is it it’s likely going to get moderated out at some time. Like even if your link gets placed. At some point, somebody’s probably going to discover that it’s linking to something if it’s not linking to something that is resourceful, right? That is a resource that is relevant to the page that the Wikipedia that Wikipedia is linking from, then it’s going to end up being moderated out at some point, it’s almost guaranteed it’s just a matter of time. So I recommend that if you are going to buy Wikipedia links that you do link to a piece of content on the site that you’re linking to that is relevant, and has some useful information on there. Right. So that it’s less likely to get moderated out at some later date by some other Wikipedia moderator. Okay.

Comments, good?

No, no, I mean, fantastic if you can get them and I saw that later on. He said, organic. That’s fantastic. You can get organic links if you can become the source or a source for that Wikipedia page. That’s fantastic. Because now that now you have a relationship to that seed site. I’m going to talk seed sites and seed sets are I don’t want to confuse all y'all up. But that’s what happened. You related to trust to trusted and authoritative sources. Thereby you become a trusted and authoritative source. Which is why it’s working so well.

Adam, you on, you turn your camera on. So I’m assuming you got something to say?

Unknown Speaker 55:08 No, it was let’s say I’m going to reach out to Jim, I want to ask him a question because he’s had some interesting comments over the last couple of weeks. So talking about AI stuff. And then now with organic Wikipedia links, so Jim, I’m gonna track you down, are you if you can find me, so shoot me a message. But yeah, I just actually had a note on the kind of the last, or sorry, the last question of the day here.

Thoughts On The AWS Email About Allowing Public Access

Okay, cool. So, Jay says Amazon AWS sent out an email warning about allowing public access to an s3 bucket. Yeah, I’ve gotten dozens of those emails. Yeah, the wording was such that it sounds like they’re removing public access. And if you are in disagreement with that, I don’t think that’s the case. That’s not the way I read it. Yeah. And

I just pulled it up to double-check just did a quick read through. And they don’t say that they just say that. You should have some buckets configured that way, that may not be what you intended. So we suggest you fix it. And then, you know, talk to us if you have a question, but it doesn’t say that we’re gonna change it or anything like that.

Yeah. Thank you, Adam. Because that’s when I read his question. Or when I read this question, I thought about that. I was like, you know, I better go back and reread, because I mean, I’ve gotten dozens and dozens of those emails. And I’ve read through them a couple of times. And the way that I interpreted it was what Adam just said was, like, it’s telling you like, Hey, you probably didn’t mean for the bucket to have public access. But if you did, it’s not recommended. But I didn’t see anywhere where it said they were going to revert them to protect. A lot of problems.

Yeah, the only thing is one line. If you have a business need to maintain some level of public access, please see an overview of managing access, and they give references for more in-depth instructions on managing just to make sure you’ve done the correct level of access. Yeah.

Yeah, when I set up my buckets, I set them up to where objects can be public. But the folder itself, or the bucket itself isn’t entirely public, it just allows for individual items to be made public. That’s the way that I set up all my buckets so that I can pick and choose whether I want them to be public at the time that I upload the files. So hopefully, that makes sense. we’re about out of time, Jim says sorry, natural and organic. Yeah, we saw that. Thank you. Jim, by the way, reached out to Adam BB says I mean, so this is a guest clarification for his previous question. He says, I mean, you have an e-commerce site for dog food named SM doggy will a mentioned citation that way mentioned or a citation of that, and other sites will promote the site without a backlink? Again, I don’t know. I mean, for local businesses, having the name, address, and phone number published online, even without a backlink count as a citation, which is like a vote of confidence, right? It’s just because what is it doing? It’s just validating entity information. Does that make sense? That’s why it’s so important to have a name, address and phone number always published exactly the same. Because even having punctuation different or using the ampersand sign instead of A and D, or something like that, right are sometimes having IMC or LLC at the end. And other times not all of them. If you have variations of the name, address, and phone number published even with no backlink, then that can start to ambiguous. The data, right and that’s why local businesses have published mention of the name, address, and phone number, even without a backlink does count as a citation and can help to rank now, can it be can you purely rank on that? I don’t know. I’ve never tried it. But when you’re talking about that type of citation for a nonlocal site like an e-commerce site? I have zero experience with any of that whatsoever. I can’t imagine that it would but I can’t say whether it does or not. Because I’ve never done anything like that. comments.

It creates co-occurrence. It is a no co-citation or a citation. If it’s the full local citation, right? Name, Address phone number, the NA p other than that I don’t know I’d like depends on the competition. If there’s no competition, I see where it just mentioned, of your site on powerful sites would make a difference. But if like, like most places, that the competition is fierce, then no, you’re not going to get away with something like that.

Yeah, and I think it’s kind of interesting to backing this up a level away from purely the SEO benefit and saying, Well, if your name let’s say the SM dog food brand is mentioned on Huffington Post, like yeah, you know what, I bet Our website is gonna see some increased traffic and it’s not a direct link, right. It’s just by getting out there and building the brand. You know, that’s kind of what’s happening there as to how I see it without getting into the technical side.

Yeah. And you know, actually, just to follow up, Adam, that’s a really good point. And I know this to be true, because when I started my land investment, my land flipping business, I experienced it firsthand. And that is if you can get a name published online, right, and somebody but it’s not a backlink, but somebody reads the name and they’re curious, they’ll go Google that. And then it pulls up the brand. And then they click through that’s a navigational or brand search query, that then a click through. So that’s a huge SEO signal, when somebody reads a name, brand name somewhere and then goes in Google searches and then clicks through that’s a fantastic SEO signal. And I experienced that with alpha land Realty, my business, my real estate business because when I first started, I was just running ads, I didn’t do any SEO at all, nothing, I just have a single and it’s still to this day, just have a single landing page on click funnels. For you know, for that business, basically. And all I started I was sending I was running Google ads to that but no SEO and then I started sending a direct mail out to property owners with my brand name Alfa land realty on it. And what happened was I started seeing alpha land realty ranked number one for even like, my keywords like sell land fast Virginia and things like that. And I couldn’t figure out why because I hadn’t done any SEO work whatsoever. And then I started digging into it. And I realized that people were doing navigational search queries because they would get letters from me direct mail letters from me that would state you know, hey, alpha land realty wants to buy your property, if you’re interested, go here, blah, blah, blah. And they would go to Google and search alpha land Realty and then click through and because of that, I started to rank in a matter of like three weeks with zero SEO work. And it was because of those brand searches, which is why we talked about engagement signals are absolutely critical, are super powerful. You want to comment on that, guys before we wrap it up?

Yeah, I think that’s good.

Okay, thanks, everybody for being here. We’ll see you guys next week. See ya.

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We’re live. Oh, there we go. I see it now. So regardless, we’re live. Welcome to Hump Day Hangouts. Today’s the 27th of January 2021. And we’ve got some good stuff for you guys today. As usual, we got a few quick announcements and then we’re gonna jump into answering your questions. But real quick, just want to say hi, looks like we got most of the guys here today. Let’s see. I’m gonna start with her Nan today. How are you doing, man?

Dude, I’m good. I’m good.

I’m just melting down here. It’s really hot and humid, but it’s okay, man.

We’re supposed to have rain tomorrow. So gonna cool off. Happy to be here.

Nice. what’s the temperature there in Celsius?

And Celsius is like 36. I think so. 36. See, it’s pretty warm. Yeah.

Yeah, that’s 96 points, 97.

All right, that’s getting up. Yeah, that’s on like, maximum temperature scale. So I know you’re a hardware guy. But yeah, some rain on top of that. That sounds nice and humid. So you enjoy that. Yeah. Awesome. Marco. How are you doing today?

Um, I mean, what can I say? Groundhog Day. If you guys understand how it is that you can take $1 and change it into a million dollars. Give me one. Give me a hill. Yeah, let me see. Fuck. I hate those cheesy markers, man. Look, hard work. You gotta work. You gotta do the dude, you got to pay your dues. It’s very people who hit on that one idea with absolutely nothing. But sweat equity. Turn it into a billion-dollar idea. The rest of Us to get to anyone, whatever. I gotta work. I don’t just sit here and do nothing. I yeah, it’s beautiful. It’s a great place to work. I step outside. It’s sunny. It’s warm. It’s beautiful. Got the sun? Got him. Got this. When did my hair look, man? Come on, man. Very few things require no work as most people tell you to should is hard work. And it’s not easy. It’s not easy, but it’s not complicated. It can’t be simplified, which is what we’ve done for you. Alright. So if you want to know how, and you want to know why we’re in the middle of our charity webinars, Bradley killed it on Monday. With his ads for branding. And entity Monday, I’m gonna call it what it is entity manipulation. It was fantastic. A lot of great ideas, a lot of information that literally I’m telling you on Monday would have cost 1000s of dollars anywhere else. You got it for free. Next Monday. What’s the Dixon Jones, internet legend Dixon Jones is coming to show you how to do entities and content. And so this is going to be a recurring theme entities entities entities, brand new entities brand. I wonder why I wonder what’s working in SEO, what has been working, what’s working out what will be working. Anyway, I don’t want to take too much time. Thank you to those of you who donated if you haven’t, then I posted a how-to on the page. I know the information is there. Again, I don’t want to take too much time. And even if you did and you did not register, you won’t be able to access that page. Now. Because that page is gone. We moved it, you can still contact the email that I’ve set on there and you will get access. If you’re given the note no donation, you will get access to the replay. And if you haven’t donated, send proof of the other donation to the email and get access guys’ information. I’m telling you, you would end up paying I know barely one time paid nearly 20 K. And the information was nowhere near as good as the shit that we give away for the price of a donation. I can guarantee it. He told us what the information that he got not that it was useless. But the information that we’re giving away for a charitable donation. I’d be dead. There’s no comparison anywhere. Guaranteed.

Outstanding Marco, something you said at the beginning. I’m just gonna ask you and for those of you watching, I didn’t ask Marco this earlier or anything. But the something you said kind of tickled something in my head. I was wondering Have you read the book The Art of contrary thinking?

Of course.

Okay. I had never heard of it until a couple of weeks ago. And I just picked it up and started going through it. And anyway, I was like, You know what, I bet this is a book Marco would recommend. And just this is a total tangent, but would you recommend people to read it because I’m like 10 pages in and I’m like, I can tell this is gonna be a big one.

I mean, I recommend that you read period, right?

Yeah, read it.

And not just that it’s not just reading that one book but this other but Well, when everybody thinks, Oh, here we go, let me see if I get the quote, right. When everybody thinks the same when everybody thinks alike, everybody is likely to be wrong. Think about that. Think about that. All right. So the art of contrary thinking, Humphrey, was a Yo, yo,

yeah, Neil.

Yeah. Yeah, guys, read the book, read the book. Go read the art of war. Mandatory, mandatory. And then read the commentaries on the art of war. Don’t just read it. Try to figure it out while you’re like trying to read the Bible without the commentaries, right? Without going into the original text. But yeah, definitely, if you can, like a book a week, by all means, for those who can’t just listen to it, listen, listen to books, all the audiobooks are everywhere. But yeah, absolutely recommended.

Awesome. All right. The library tickled something else too. I just put the link down for anyone interested. We should probably we could update this year. We’ve got a recommended reading list which I don’t think the art of country thinking is on my add that on, but I just put it at semantic mastery comm slash books. So go check that out if you’re watching and interested in some of these we’re mentioning so. Okay, sorry, a little bit of a tangent there. But last but not least, Bradley, how are you doing today?

Doing great. Busy as all hell as usual, but doing well. Glad to be here.

Sounds good. All right. Well, I got a little thing to get through here. I wanted to let people know because we do have new people watching every week people coming in on YouTube are catching the replay. So first of all, thank you for watching. You’re in the right place.

Hold on a minute. Did we forget Chris, didn’t we?

Is Chris here. Chris is here. Oh, man. I’m sorry. Well,

I can go again as well. If you don’t like me here today. Chris snuck in the back door when Adam wasn’t looking.

That’s good. I feel bad because we got the little strip up at the top and zoom. So Chris, how are you doing? Man? My bad.

Yeah, doing well here. I didn’t know.

I was wondering because now I wish the most.

Sorry, what are you saying?

I don’t know. I’m shorting the markets, especially on the SEO niche. Not having anything else. Alright, well stay away from GameStop. So that’s already? Yeah. All right, well, let’s get into it. So like I was saying, if you’re here and you’re watching live, let us know how you’re doing. Even if you don’t have a comment, just say hello, get let us know where you’re at, or how you’re doing. And if you’re new to semantic mastery, you’re new to MGYB you’re new to heavy hitters club, the best place for you to start find out how to shield your sites don’t have to worry about algorithm updates again, and it’s a free training that’s available at the SEOshield.com. That’s the word, the SEOshield.com. And you’ll hear us talking about all the stuff that’s involved in that. So if you’re not familiar with words, like SEO shield, that’s a great place for you to get started. From there, definitely recommend picking up the Battle Plan. Alright, that’s step by step processes. So you can get SEO results. And it’s how we do things and the tools we use and the services we use. And you can get that at Battle Plan dot semantic mastery.com the next one after that we also get questions about right as consultants like myself, agency owners like Bradley, people who are, you know, wanting to get more clients who want to grow the revenue, they want to scale the team, they’re still you know, grow at still in growth mode. It’s hard to get that one out of the mouth. And you know, before they’re big enough, they’re thinking, How can I do this? How do I do these three really important things so Bradley and Hernan a little bit, they’ve put together this training last year, that is just amazing? It’s called 2xyouragency, 2xyouragency.com. Just head over there and you can find out more. And for those of you who are serious about growing your digital marketing business or the digital marketing side of your business, and you want to be part of the experienced community, then the mastermind is definitely for you. And that you can find out more at mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And now I mentioned MGYB if you’re not familiar with it, it’s mgyb.co. Alright, that’s done for you services, things like the SEO shield that I mentioned, syndication networks, link building press releases, and a ton more. I believe we’ve got an update coming soon. Right Marco we’ve got a kind of an overhaul on the system coming down the pipeline, right.

We have a complete overhaul of the system. But I mean, Bradley’s in there. So you can tell. He can tell me but I mean, we’re doing several things right. So it’s not just that syndication Academy. Right, that’s coming guys, that’d be an overhaul. And then, of course, we’re gonna have updates and is going to be a new person who just wants to be friendly more time, honestly, than what he could then want to get dedicated to it. It needs more time. So It can work the way that it should. Bradley couldn’t dedicate the time to it. So we just brought someone in. She learned the way. And she was here. I mean, you guys met her, you guys met SC, she’s the one that that’s redoing, syndication Academy, she was doing updates, she’s going to be going into a whole bunch of new profiles and websites that we can use to manipulate the entity. Remember, entity-based, worthless SEO. That’s what this is about the charity webinars are about that, how we’re winning today’s we’re manipulating the entity and showing Google what we want. And we’re getting Google to do what we want Google to do. That’s how we do the dope.

Outstanding. Well, like Marco was saying earlier, if you haven’t yet, you can still get access to the charity webinars highly recommend you do that that is on the page. If for some reason you’re watching this, you can’t find the link, you’re not sure what’s going on. But you know that you want to get in on that you can just send an email to support at semantic mastery comm we’ll get you sorted out and gets taken care of. So with that said, Guys, anything else before we dive into it?

All right, we’re good.

Right, grab the screen.

There it is. Alright,

so it looks like the first one is from mini min. Rob. Hey, guys, I’ve received my order from MGYB. But I don’t know how it works. Well, which order? Is he? Which order? Is he talking about? SEO SEO. But I don’t know.

Rob, if you’re here mini broad. I’m just gonna call it mini Rob. Sorry, man. This may be your actual name. But it makes me think of like a little tiny version of Rob. Yeah. If that’s the case, we need to know more information, right? We can’t tell you what’s going on. We don’t know if you ordered a press release or a link building order or keyword research. So we’re kind of stuck here. So if you let us know, we could probably help you. And then I would also say you probably want to talk to us first and come to Hump Day Hangouts. And if you’re like, maybe I should use this SEO shield thing or the press release thing. If you ask that first, we could definitely explain it. But since you’ve got it now, let us know exactly what you’re doing. And then that’s how we can help you I guess.

That’s good. Okay. All right. So yeah, we can try to answer a few. I’m sorry, I just got was looking at an email that just came in what’s the next question is what’s the best way before? Before you go to the next question, the SEO shield comm if you got an SEO shield, right, the seo.com is the place to go for the training. It’s free. And at the end of that, we even throw in a coupon for you to order whatever it is that you need.

How Do You Push The Link Juice To Power All PDFs In The Entire Amazon S3 Folders?

Beautiful. Okay, so the next one is what’s the best way to push link juice through entire Amazon s3 folders to power up all PDFs within? Also, is it possible, like Google Drive to embed folders to show all files inside the bucket? Thank you, um, the best way to power up an s3 folder? I’m not sure if you can power up a full folder. I’ve never tried that. Usually, I just extract the URLs from within the folder and then just hit those with backlinks. If there are URLs that I want to do that to Marco Do you know, can you make a public folder itself public? Like? I don’t know if the folder has its own URL or what?

Alright, guys, I have no idea. If the s3 folder itself, we know that the HTML documents that we place in their images or whatever it is that we placed in there can be made public. But I’ll tell you what, give me about I’m gonna say three months because we’re about to do some nasty stuff in s3, I was just talking about it with my team, or I shouldn’t call it my team partners. Just the SEO crew that I’m with where we’re going to go and just really look into s3 and how much power there actually is in there. So if you come back, I mean, if not just go in and do it yourself and see if it’ll if it can go public and then the best way to push power to that. The Darya Nuff said an embed gig or a link building gig or both from dedhia to that will push all the power you need. I’m not sure about the folder, but I can guarantee that in about three months. I’ll have all the answers you want about s3.

Is There A Way To Get More Branded GMBs In Different Locations To Boost The Footprint Of A Real Business With No Fixed Address?

Sweet. Next question. Is there a way to get more branded GMBs in different locations to boost the footprint of a real service business that doesn’t have a fixed address and works remotely? Yeah, I mean, if you can, I mean, there’s a couple of ways you can buy GMBs from places that will sell you verified GM bees we used to and MGYB. But I don’t think that’s available anymore. There are still some places that will do it. I even found somewhere that I placed an order but it was way back in November and it still hasn’t been delivered. So you know, I think it’s getting harder to do it. But there I know there are still some vendors out there that will sell verified GM B’s. I’m just not going to recommend any of them because again, the one that I just attempted to use in November, I still haven’t had one delivered yet. So I don’t recommend any of I don’t have any to recommend is what I’m saying but there are GMB verified. You know, you can purchase verified GMB, there are vendors out there that do sell them. The other way is the way that I’ve before people started selling them, I used to always just use Pio boxes, you can go to post offices, one thing you want to do is don’t you don’t want to get to GMBs too close to each other. Right. So if you’re going to do a service area business, which I understand doing that makes total sense, I would have them at least 15 or 20 miles apart. Depending on what your service area is, it could be even bigger, larger, you know further distance between locations. But what you can do is find a post office. And then you fill out a form, it’s free, but it’s to use the street address option. So in other words, like if you go you can do all this online, too, by the way, you can register a PO Box online. And they’ll give you they won’t issue you the box number and till you go to the post office like you have to physically go to the post office and show your IDs and sign the paperwork at the post office. But you can reserve it online and pay for it and everything else. But you do have to physically go to the post office to sign the paperwork and then they’ll assign you the box number at that point. So let’s just say it’s a box one on one. If if the post office is at 123, Main Street, whatever town right, then you can fill out an additional form, it’s free to do it doesn’t cost anything else. But you fill out an additional form to use the street address option. And then you would end up using the address for the GMB listing 123 Main Street number sign like the pound sign 101 right, and that that will work. You can’t add a p o box to GMB as the physical address. But you can do a street address with you know, basically a box number a suite number, but it’s just the pound sign and the post office is very particular about you only using the number sign the pound sign before the box number not sweet. Not box, none of that it’s just the number sign. And again, they’re very particular about that. But that’s the way that I had always done it prior to people selling GMB’s.

And it still works, you know. So that’s another alternative way to do it. And in fact, I actually still prefer that method after but over buying them except for the fact that you have to physically go to the post office that sucks. Because you know, especially if it’s far away, but if it’s within reason and you can drive to it, then I recommend going that route over purchasing GMB listings from vendors. And the reason I say that is because it’s still tied to a real physical address this way. And I feel like those are safer than using the spammed ones because of some of the spammed GMB listings that I have. They don’t have any physical location even referenced or tied to them, which I don’t even know how happens. But like there’s no physical address actually connected with it, and it causes problems with the proximity filter. So and what I’m saying is, even for service area business guys, you understand you have to clear the address like you’re not supposed to per Google’s Terms of Service, you’re not supposed to publish the street address for a service area business. Right. So in other words, if it’s a service area business where the customer or excuse me, the business serves the customer at the customer’s location, then you’re supposed to delete them or clear the physical location when you set your service areas then you’re supposed to clear the physical location from showing and when it does, it literally clears it from the GMB dashboard and it will not any longer show the physical address, the street address in the maps listing or anything. But what I’m saying is, some of the GMB is that I had purchased. They don’t have any street address associated with them at all and I don’t know how they even did it. But it causes issues to where it doesn’t show for like near me searches and stuff like that because there’s no physical location associated with it. And again, I don’t know how they do it because even when you register a new GMB, let’s say It’s a legit business and your service area business and it has a legit physical location where the office or you know the business owner lives or whatever, you have to add that address. When you set when you go to claim or create the GMB listing, you have to add the physical address and then wait for a postcard or a card to be delivered via us a mail to that location that has a pin number in it so that you can verify that that physical location that the business really resides at that physical location. So even when you clear the address to make sure that it’s not published, there is still a physical location associated with that GMB and you don’t see that on the GMB dashboard. But for example, I just recently started using local Viking to manage GMB posts and stuff because it integrates with some of my CRM and stuff. So anyway, I’m using that and when you import GMB listings into local Viking, it shows the street address, even if it’s an unpublished street address, and I’ve got a few listings in there that just no street address appears at all, there’s no physical location associated with it. And those are the ones that I’m having trouble getting to appear for proximity searches such as, like near me, keyword phrases, or search queries. And so again, I would recommend it, the spam listings, they can still work, but there are some drawbacks in them that I don’t like about them. Were the P o box way to get one with an actual physical address tends to work. Still, it still works. And I like that one better, except for the fact that you have to physically go to the post office. Does anybody want to comment on that?

Not me. Okay, moving on then.

But yeah, absolutely. That’s I mean, that’s a great way to do it for large, especially business with large service areas, if you can get multiple maps listings, that’s best. Another way to do it, by the way, just quickly, is you can go to Craigslist and post an ad for that I’ve done that I’ve been successful in the past where I’ve posted an ad and in the, you know, in the area that I want, and say, you know, tell them that I’ll pay him 50 bucks to receive a Google postcard. And, you know, tell me when they when they’ve received it and and and and, you know, call me or text me with the pin number inside the card. Most of the time what happens is you’ll find renters that do that instead of people that own homes because they don’t care if somebody registers a business to a rental property like the renters don’t care. The landlord might, but the renters don’t. So I found that I’ve done that in the past several times when it when they when I was trying to get a GMB in an area that I couldn’t that I just wasn’t you know, it wasn’t feasible to drive to and get a PO Box, then I will use Craigslist. So that’s another way to do it. Okay. Moving on.

Is It Possible To Get Wiki Links To An SEO Agency That Offers Other Services And Has A Blog On Non-Marketing Tech Resources?

Next question, given Wikipedia is a negative view of SEO, is it possible to get links from Wikipedia or wiki data to an SEO agency that also offers other services and has a blog with lots of non-marketing tech resources? Sure, but you can also purchase wiki links. Just like we were talking about spam, GMB listings you can buy. We sell them@mgyb.co, our store. And they work I mean, occasionally something will get edited out like, but I’ve actually had one recently that was edited out. And then I just submitted a support request, and I got it restored on another Wikipedia page. So you know, you can buy links, say is it possible? Yeah, cuz you can buy them. I don’t know how to do the edits myself, because I’m not a moderator for Wikipedia. But, you know, that’s one way you could do it is to hire, you know, a Wikipedia editor or moderator, I should say, those are generally really, really expensive. So the other way is just to find a service, like what we have in MGYB, where you can buy them there. I don’t know of any other way to get them to you, Marco.

I mean, there are other ways, but you got to pay for them, or you got to get yourself a Wikipedia page. And you have to be eligible, you have to be able to provide all the documentation that Wikipedia requires. That’s the best thing. The best thing is to get yourself a page on Wikipedia. And Dixon Jones is going to explain on Monday, that’s the most important Wikipedia link that you could possibly get that mentioned in Wikipedia. And then from that, I mean, the next best thing is getting a link on the top page and then getting a link on a page referring to another page as long as it’s relevant. Right. You got to maintain that relevance. But yeah, I mean, just go to MGYB to look for it. We offer it.

What Is A Good Way To Get Lots Of Footer Links Without Having Lots Of Clients?

Sweet Suraj is up he says what’s a good way to get lots of footer links without having lots of clients trying to rank in a competitive area for web design and all other competitors dominate with footer links someone’s exact text. So I’m assuming he means exact anchor text exact match anchor text was hacked footers. Yes. stuff I ever saw.

Yeah. Yeah, that’s funny. Do you say that? Because I, when I read this question earlier and asked what I was gonna suggest, was the only other way that I would know how to do it is the safe network. A lot of those links are hacked footer links, and that when I’m What I mean is like, they literally hack other people’s websites, put links in there for you. It’s so blackhat. But um, you know, it can work. I used to use a lot of safe links years ago when I was doing a lot more blackhat stuff. And I guess there’s really no hats. But when I was doing a lot of really spammy, like, you know, dark alley ship, I used a lot of safe links. I don’t do that anymore. But that’s one way to do it. I don’t recommend it. But that is one way to do it. Anyway, you got any suggestions, Margo?

For further length, Now, why? Alright, so here’s the deal. Um, and I’m gonna say this again. And we explained that I’m going to keep referring back to the webinars on Monday, we explain why we do things, the way that we do, why we create the entity, the way we the way that we do, I’m not gonna go through it here. But we become master mimics. We look at the big dogs. We do what the big dogs do, at the part level, at the algorithmic level, at the patent level, that’s how we do it. All right, if you want to learn how, and why make a donation. Go see our footer links the only way to compete or is there something more powerful than I am missing? Yeah, I mean, I, I don’t think I would go out use that strategy. I’m not I don’t think I know I would use that strategy. I would do other things. So the SEO shield? Yeah. Start there. And then there.

How Can You Run Ads For A Client If You Don’t Have Access To Their Website?

Fitz is up. He says, Hey, guys, hope everyone is well. How can you run ads for a client if you don’t have access to their website? Thanks. You don’t need access to some you can run ads to any URL. The problem is conversion tracking and remarketing and all that other stuff, you know, but you can run ads to any URL that you know. I mean, as far as I know, I don’t think if you have if, if you have a URL, you can run ads to it. The question is why, like if you don’t have access to their website, then you’re not going to be able to install, like the conversion link or code conversion tracking. You know, Google Tag Manager remarketing. You know the remarketing tag all of those things that you would need, but you don’t need them. But I would hate to piss money away on Google ads, or ads period if I couldn’t track conversions. And if I couldn’t build a remarketing list from anybody that visited the page or the site,

so I don’t know why you would want to do it without having access to the site. Go ahead.

Yeah, I’m just wondering if maybe it’s one of those where he’s saying he doesn’t have, edit access. But if somebody can, or if you can talk to the client be like, hey, you just need to take these two steps. You need to copy this code, you need to install it, tell them where to do it. Because Yeah, if you’re in that situation, where for whatever reason, you don’t have access, you need to maybe impress upon them the importance of, hey, you need to get this code on there. Otherwise, you’re gonna be losing money. You know, because you can’t retarget you’re not building retargeting lists, you won’t know about conversions.

Yeah, if you have, if you have, you know, if there’s a webmaster or somebody that is maintaining this site that you just don’t have access to yourself, then you can absolutely still do everything because what I would suggest you do at that point would be to set up Tag Manager. And then just contact, whoever’s managing the site. So the webmaster or the business owner, whoever’s managing the site, contact them and send them the container code for Tag Manager, one goes into the header, one goes into the footer, or right before the closing body tag, either one. And it’s just two snippets of code to get added to the site globally, right, so it’s site-wide code, and then you can add and subtract all the tags that you need inside of Tag Manager which you would have access to meaning you can add tags and triggers and all that stuff and then deploy it all through Tag Manager and will automatically update the website from a remote from tag managed from the Tag Manager dashboard. Once the container code is there, you can add or remove tags, remarketing tags, a conversion tracking all of that stuff. Jason, you can add structured data schema.org All kinds of stuff that you can use Tag Manager for. If you don’t have access to managing the site, the webmaster can install Tag Manager and you can use that.

Any other comments?

No, that’s fine. Okay,

Does It Make A Difference If You Already Added The Supporting Documents Prior To Getting The SEO Location Shield?

so the next one is from Landry. Now I get it, I couldn’t figure out how to pronounce your name. So I appreciate you spelling it out phonetically because Hooked on Phonics works for me. So thank you for that. So Lanre says, Hey, Bradley, I noticed you had problems pronouncing my name. It’s pronounced Landry as an rio. So I’ve got it this time. Now, my question is this, I bought my keyword research from you guys. I built my site, I added three categories with content, and five supporting articles per category, I now need to order my SEO location shield to establish my brand. Okay, I’m not sure that you want to order locations, you know, maybe you do, I don’t have the full context of your project. But let’s just assume that the SEO location showed us what you want to order? Does it make any difference? If I already added the supporting documents prior to getting the SEO location showed? I don’t quite understand the question. Does it matter that you’ve started to build out your site with categories and adding depth to the silos? No, it doesn’t matter at all. Because again, I don’t know that the location, I don’t have the full context, I don’t know what you’re doing. But just from this little bit of detail that I have. I don’t know that the location shield is really what you want and the SEO power shield should be for the brand. And then typically, for top-level silos, you want to do the are the expansion stack, right? Dry S Drive expansion, or drive stack expansion, excuse me? Not necessarily location shield. So if you go take a look at the SEO shield, and you take a look at the three different versions, what does it locate starter shield locations to power shield, right? Power shield is going to be for the brand, that’s what we recommend. But then our wireless expansions, which is a separate product in the store, it’s not on the SEO shield page, cry is drive stack expansion. Go in there. That’s what I would recommend that you buy an expansion for each top-level silo. Does that make sense? Does anybody want to comment on this Marco, do you?

Yeah, I mean, don’t look at it like that. Landry. Don’t look at it like that. You’re done with the website, you can continue working with the website. Yeah, you can have dummy content on the website, you shouldn’t. But you at least need that RSS feed. So yeah, you do need some supporting articles or posts. You have that already. Go in order and SEO shall not a location shield. Because you don’t want to pigeonhole yourself into a geographic location. All right, not if your branding, not if your branding, you can do you can take care of the locations through location-driven pages. On the inner part of the G site, in the beginning, you’re just trying to create I’m not gonna say the keyword, yet but it is its brand plus a keyword, relationships, how your brand relates to the keywords in whatever niche It is, it is that you’re in, especially the top-level keywords, we add it, we intersperse it, we go through all of the documents, everything gets filled with keywords, especially if you order our deep keyword research gig, which this is perfect for, it’s perfect for giving you all of the relevance necessary to really carry out a proper the proper content structure of your website will give you suggestions, you know your project better than we could ever hope to know it. So you have to follow what you know, with what our suggestions are. Once you have all that and once you get the SEO show delivered back, especially the G site that the following that as the ad ID and ordering an expansion won’t interfere with the ad ID. So what you see is okay, now I have a top-level category. So I’m going after gold. Now I want to do gold bars. Well, gold bars go on the inside. So let’s say you’re saying you’re in a city already, and you want the adjoining city. So gold bars add joining the city, however, it is that you choose to pursue that well, we build that for you we can build you an interface so that you don’t have to, and an intersect. So you’re expanding the power of your original branded stack, and G site. And the whole point of this is to keep expanding. So you’re adding depth and breadth to that T site and dry stack the same way that you’re doing it on your website as you find categories. And as you use supporting posts to boost that top-level category that you’re trying to rank eventually you should be pushing so much power. And I see this time and again, that even an empty folder is added. This is when true power will you push it to power and you’re building up that PageRank and ranking score. An empty folder will rank for the keyword that you’re assigning it. And it’s incredible when when when this thing happens, or you’ll pop in and like a new location, and a brand new GMB and you see all kinds of action in the GMB. And you’re wondering why? Well, it’s because you iframe it on the G site or you iframe that on your website, or it’s part of a really deep and wide drive second site. And that’s when the power really comes into play. That’s why I tell people, it’s hard work, you cannot expect to rank with one page for gold. It’s not gonna happen, you can’t ever hope to outrank Amazon with one page, and a couple of supporting posts. Not gonna happen. That’s, that’s a trillion-dollar company that you’re going after you can’t do it for a buck 50. All right, so all of this power and all of these things need to continue taking place, you need to do your press releases, you need to do the link building, you need to do the embeds plus link building. And you need to continue broadening your profile throughout the web, making that footprint bigger, wider, relating more profiles one to the other. This is what the big boys do. You see Apple everywhere you see Amazon, everywhere. So that’s what you have to do. And one of the ways that we do it is exactly the way I just described. Now that takes a lot of work. The way that I like to put this is it like people see it. And it’s really simple. I ordered the SEO shield, and then I just produce content. And magic happens. No, it doesn’t. I’ve been online for 18 years. This is 18 years in the making. Bradley has about a decade and I know her Nana’s around there. Chris has so many years and Adam, I think Well, I know. I’ve known him for six, seven years. So he has at least that long online. So you’re getting decade’s worth of thinking of strategizing of putting everything together into what you see as the SEO shoot. But that’s what it’s for. And that’s what you should order not the location shield, but the branded SEO power shield. Yeah.

Yeah, that’s why I just pulled up the pages on the store, just to demonstrate what Marco was talking about. The SEO power shield is what we recommend for the brand. For the main brand, right, and then from that, because it gives you the syndication network, the drive stack with the G site, and then the IDX page. So that’s for the main entity, right the brand itself, and then from there, you go from the store, go click into the Google RYS expansion stacks. And these are the expansion stacks of each top-level silo. Right? So each silo on the site. So top-level category, top-level keyword, you should have an RBS expansion stack. If you’re doing a local business and you’re you have location-based silos, however, you do that, I do it using the tag structure inside of WordPress, then I also order a separate expansion stack for each location, if that makes sense, but I don’t want to confuse you. As I said, if you’re doing it on just topical stuff, then you’d want a separate expansion stack for each one of your top-level silos. You don’t need additional ID pages and then additional g sites, which is what happens when you order location shield. So in fact, I would we would recommend against that.

Okay, so hopefully that clarifies that.

All right, moving on.

Does it make a difference in priority? No, no, it doesn’t, you can just as long as you have, all that you need is you need the web, the URLs, when that you’re going to push, you know uses your main target URL for your drive stack. And then for each one of your expansion stacks you’re going to get, you’re going to have a field that you have to submit your main target URL, it’s going to be one primary target URL per expansion. As long as those URLs are available, like on your site, that’s fine. It doesn’t matter whether there’s content there or anything, to begin with, you can order it with just the URL. The only thing that has to have content is the RSS feed for the SEO power shield order because the syndication network, if it’s an RSS driven syndication network as opposed to YouTube, then it needs the RSS feed has to have so the RSS Feed URL has to contain at least one item it can be the Hello World post for that matter, it doesn’t matter. As long as it has one item in the RSS feed, then they can set up the applets inside IFTTT but that’s it though the rest of the site doesn’t need to look at content on it. If it just has the URLs available in. That’s it. And for anybody watching this at this point watching the replay, enlarge the video so you can get the information about donating to the charity and accessing the webinar.

Do You Have Any Tips In Using Linktree Other Than Hammering It With Backlinks?

Okay, sweet. Let’s keep moving. Jim’s up. What’s up, Jim? He says, Hey, gang, I was curious if you guys have any tips or tricks to apply to link tree? That’s a good site. I just started playing with that a little bit more actually. Other than the usual hammer the shit out of it with backlinks. You can embed it. So yeah, it’s pretty much the same thing that we would always recommend hammer with backlinks. You can also embed link tree itself, the link tree page, which is just a collection of links, right. So that’s just you can also do embeds and backlinks to the embeds. Anything else?

Scorched earth Seo? hammer? I don’t know any other strategy. I don’t understand anything else other than if it can stand it, give it more. And if it takes that much, then try some more. Well, you know what it is man? Just go do the do.

How Would You Silo Structure A Website With Multiple Topics?

Alright, baby, what’s up, man? He says, Hey, guys, a better example for last weekend’s question how Google treat pages that are not related topically to the site, say you are a site about marketing. The silo is about software. Let’s say all the marketing software goes here. But what if we add non-marketing software pages to the silo to that silo-like employment software, or betting software, etc. So the new silo be opened to nonrelated marketing software? No. And in a case like that, BB, I would have subcategories. So I would use a complex silo structure for that type of site because the software would be the parent category, the top-level category, but then you would create subcategories for the different types of software marketing software is a subcategory. What were some of the other one’s employment software being another sub sub category, and then betting software or investing software? Right. forex software, like there’s a, you know, productivity software, like every one of those could be sub-categories. And then you would add supporting articles, which could be reviews of those types of different software in their appropriate subcategory. So in a situation like what you’re describing this time, in which you provided more context, this time than you usually do. So thank you for that, by the way, then then, yeah, I would use a complex silo structure for something like that. And I would add subcategories and appropriately place the articles and supporting articles and such within the correct cat subcategories. That is something that you could do.

Comments?

yeah, treated as a directory for marketing? And how would you build that directory then for marketing related categories and subcategories, and maybe some not so specific categories that do relate to marketing, but not in a direct manner, you could totally do that. Just be careful how far in the weeds you go, because you could end up somewhere totally not relevant to whatever it is that you’re doing. And then in that case, it’s not as if you’d be penalized or anything, it’s just that you’re not going to get any, well, you shouldn’t get any action, because the AI will know that there’s absolutely no relationship between that uncategorized or irrelevant category, and everything else that you’re doing, with the caveat that if you’re pushing enough power, it will rack it just takes monster power to do it.

Yeah. Yeah, and, and actually, you know, that’s, I, I prefer using simple silos as much as possible. But in the situation that you’re describing here, that’s perfect for a complex silo. And you can push a shit ton of power with the complex silo guys if you know how to how to set up your internal linking correctly. Complex silos can push a ton of power to the top-level keyword. So again, you know, you got to map that out before ever starting a complex silo site, spend some time mapping it out, like not just the immediate need, but your future needs as well, because that’s part of the problem with a complex silo structure is it’s real easy to get started and think that you have an idea of what you want your silo structure to look like when you’re starting off and you have, you know, a finite or a limited amount of content and ideas. But as the project grows, you’re probably going to figure like, Oh shit, I should have figured it. I should have structured the site in this way instead. And that’s part of the problem with complex silo structures is their complex just like the name? Just like, that’s why it’s in the name, excuse me. But if you do it correctly, if you map it out, right, then you can I mean, it’s just amazing. And how much power you can push with those. But again, it’s like I remember, that’s part of the reason I like to do those anymore at all is that I would spend literally hours upon hours a day to, you know, a day or two on just mapping out the site before starting the build. And even then even after doing all of that mapping work and trying to decide on how I was going to structure the site, a lot of the times, at some point in the future, I would end up kicking myself for structuring it that way, because I should have done something else, you know what I mean? So I prefer not to do that if needed. But if so, I mean, if that’s the route, that you’re going to go spend some time on the front end, you’ll, you’ll be glad that you did. And yeah, you can push a lot of power that way, for sure.

Well, that’s if you’re building a directory, this complexity in building a directory to start with. So try to keep it simple. And don’t spend hours trying to map out the site, just get to work on it, and try to work it out conceptually, as you go, you’re still gonna run into problems and having to 301 and having to redo your URL structure. But that’s a lot better, man.

Do Semantic Mastery’s Methods Only Work On Google Search Engines?

So the next question is, do your methods work only on Google search engines and YouTube? Or should they should it also work on search engines like Facebook or Pinterest search, etc. I mean, we optimize for Google? Because you know, that’s what 70 or 80% of all search traffic. I can’t speak for Facebook or Pinterest, those algorithms are totally different. But oftentimes, when we optimize for Google, then we end up ranking in Bing and Yahoo because many and Yahoo are one and the same anymore. But it’s only I think, they’ve got a little bit more market share than they used to, but it’s somewhere around 30%, I think. But I don’t optimize for Bing, or, I mean, I just optimize for Google. Because that’s, you know, that’s where the bulk of all traffic comes from. And usually, we end up ranking in Yahoo, and Bing also, comments on that?

Yeah, I mean, we want Google search. That’s what we’re after. In some places in some countries some areas, over 90% of the search market, is in Google. So if you have something that’s search-based, which is totally local business, or whatever, then it just stands to reason that you’re going to focus on Google. Now, if you’re going to go and work on the Pinterest algorithm that you have to learn the Pinterest algorithm. And some of the methods that we teach might not work in Pinterest, but I’m not gonna get into how Pinterest works here works differently. The same thing with Facebook, the Facebook algorithm works differently. It just does. They’re similar. So as the Bing algorithm, they’re all based on the same thing, right, trying to see how they rank for a certain query. At the end of the day, that’s what you’re trying to do. But you have to learn the requirements. So you mentioned Pinterest, and, and Facebook, you’d have to try those people want Amazon, we have to go in and figure that one out. Then Bing, Yahoo. Why when we can get 80 to 90%. In Google, and then the other ones, we can just run ads and get results. Yep,

I agree.

Have You Ever Ranked Something Using Citations Only?

All right. Ah, next question. Have you ever ranked something with citations only and without links? Let’s, let’s say you have a non-local site, say e-commerce does brand citations without backlinks. Will that work? First of all, I don’t know because all I do is local stuff. I’ve ranked local stuff with just citations like a local business directory or business directory citations like structured citations. Sometimes they’ll contain links, oftentimes, they’ll contain links. It’s been a long time since I’ve tried to rank any local business project with just citations. It’s probably possible still, but citations are just a part of an overall picture. Now that’s talking about, like, structured citations like business directory listings for local type business sites. I think what you’re talking about is like co-citation, right? where somebody is talking or a citation, I guess, in a broader sense, can be just a brand mention, right?

I’ve never tried that. I don’t know why you would mean, I’ve never tried it. So I can’t answer that. Can you know, because the citation is a backlink? So I don’t get it. I don’t get the question to start with. And let’s, let’s see, let’s say you have a non-local site. That’s e-commerce does do brand citations without backlinks work, or will they work? I have no clue because that’s not how we do. We actually use citations as part of the entity. It’s all part of entity-based. worry less SEO, especially local, like the broader you go The less necessary they can put your branded citations if you can get them in the big ones in the data aggregators, as a matter of fact, work really well because they’re links. They’re places where Google goes to see the data to pull data, but it. Alright, so this question I’m not gonna pick on you, I’m just saying is missing the point of the ranking score and PageRank algorithm, and of every other algorithm, because Google has to go through a link somewhere to get to the server, wherever this branded or number, enter the citation or wherever this other thing is, without that link, there’s absolutely no way that Google can go from one server to the other, it’s not magic, Google cannot teleport, it can’t jump into another server, right? It’s a, it’s HTTP or HTTPS. That’s the protocol. As well, there has to be something that connects them that connect, now you what you’re talking about. And, again, I’m gonna go back to our webinar Monday, it was killer, you have two nodes, is what you’re talking about. One is your brand, whatever. And you have another note somewhere that mentioned your brand, Google has to get that get to that, each of those and relate them some way. And the way it does that is through links. So the more links that are connected to your e-commerce site, and to wherever that brand citation is, right, the more power it will have, because that Google can start creating the relationship for the distance graph algorithm with again, I’m not going to get into any of that. What I’m just saying is, you need to start conceiving in this another way, because the things that you’re asking are a little bit conceptually off on this. I’m reading this incorrectly, in which case I’d like you to explain what it is that you mean, you did a really good job on the other one of explaining what it was. Yeah.

Yeah, I agree. So I said I was more contents context in that last question than what we’re used to from BB. So. Okay, so the next question is from is not really a question, as Jim says, He says, but rather a wiki experience, I have a site that has six wikilinks pointing to it from different or two different articles. I didn’t pay for them, they were added in a natural manner. So organic links. That’s awesome.

Those quotes, I’d like to know what those natural means is it’s in quotes. Well, that’s true. That’s true. But I think he means that it’s just he’s got good content, and somebody, you know, linked to it naturally from an article. That’s how I interpreted but you’re right, since it’s in quotes, it might be. Anyway, those links are very powerful. And I highly recommend trying to get one through whatever means necessary pro tip have the best, most thorough, most documented article on a subject and then cross your fingers. You know, that’s a great point, Jim, because here’s the thing. You can purchase wiki links, right? Like, we just talked about that from, or links from Wikipedia or links, you can get a link on Wikipedia by buying it from our service. But don’t just link to like something that, you know, if I recommend that you are linking to something that has some well-written content, not just like, you know, a spammy page or something like that on the site. I mean, you can try to get away with that. But the problem with that is it it’s likely going to get moderated out at some time. Like even if your link gets placed. At some point, somebody’s probably going to discover that it’s linking to something if it’s not linking to something that is resourceful, right? That is a resource that is relevant to the page that the Wikipedia that Wikipedia is linking from, then it’s going to end up being moderated out at some point, it’s almost guaranteed it’s just a matter of time. So I recommend that if you are going to buy Wikipedia links that you do link to a piece of content on the site that you’re linking to that is relevant, and has some useful information on there. Right. So that it’s less likely to get moderated out at some later date by some other Wikipedia moderator. Okay.

Comments, good?

No, no, I mean, fantastic if you can get them and I saw that later on. He said, organic. That’s fantastic. You can get organic links if you can become the source or a source for that Wikipedia page. That’s fantastic. Because now that now you have a relationship to that seed site. I’m going to talk seed sites and seed sets are I don’t want to confuse all y'all up. But that’s what happened. You related to trust to trusted and authoritative sources. Thereby you become a trusted and authoritative source. Which is why it’s working so well.

Adam, you on, you turn your camera on. So I’m assuming you got something to say?

Unknown Speaker 55:08 No, it was let’s say I’m going to reach out to Jim, I want to ask him a question because he’s had some interesting comments over the last couple of weeks. So talking about AI stuff. And then now with organic Wikipedia links, so Jim, I’m gonna track you down, are you if you can find me, so shoot me a message. But yeah, I just actually had a note on the kind of the last, or sorry, the last question of the day here.

Thoughts On The AWS Email About Allowing Public Access

Okay, cool. So, Jay says Amazon AWS sent out an email warning about allowing public access to an s3 bucket. Yeah, I’ve gotten dozens of those emails. Yeah, the wording was such that it sounds like they’re removing public access. And if you are in disagreement with that, I don’t think that’s the case. That’s not the way I read it. Yeah. And

I just pulled it up to double-check just did a quick read through. And they don’t say that they just say that. You should have some buckets configured that way, that may not be what you intended. So we suggest you fix it. And then, you know, talk to us if you have a question, but it doesn’t say that we’re gonna change it or anything like that.

Yeah. Thank you, Adam. Because that’s when I read his question. Or when I read this question, I thought about that. I was like, you know, I better go back and reread, because I mean, I’ve gotten dozens and dozens of those emails. And I’ve read through them a couple of times. And the way that I interpreted it was what Adam just said was, like, it’s telling you like, Hey, you probably didn’t mean for the bucket to have public access. But if you did, it’s not recommended. But I didn’t see anywhere where it said they were going to revert them to protect. A lot of problems.

Yeah, the only thing is one line. If you have a business need to maintain some level of public access, please see an overview of managing access, and they give references for more in-depth instructions on managing just to make sure you’ve done the correct level of access. Yeah.

Yeah, when I set up my buckets, I set them up to where objects can be public. But the folder itself, or the bucket itself isn’t entirely public, it just allows for individual items to be made public. That’s the way that I set up all my buckets so that I can pick and choose whether I want them to be public at the time that I upload the files. So hopefully, that makes sense. we’re about out of time, Jim says sorry, natural and organic. Yeah, we saw that. Thank you. Jim, by the way, reached out to Adam BB says I mean, so this is a guest clarification for his previous question. He says, I mean, you have an e-commerce site for dog food named SM doggy will a mentioned citation that way mentioned or a citation of that, and other sites will promote the site without a backlink? Again, I don’t know. I mean, for local businesses, having the name, address, and phone number published online, even without a backlink count as a citation, which is like a vote of confidence, right? It’s just because what is it doing? It’s just validating entity information. Does that make sense? That’s why it’s so important to have a name, address and phone number always published exactly the same. Because even having punctuation different or using the ampersand sign instead of A and D, or something like that, right are sometimes having IMC or LLC at the end. And other times not all of them. If you have variations of the name, address, and phone number published even with no backlink, then that can start to ambiguous. The data, right and that’s why local businesses have published mention of the name, address, and phone number, even without a backlink does count as a citation and can help to rank now, can it be can you purely rank on that? I don’t know. I’ve never tried it. But when you’re talking about that type of citation for a nonlocal site like an e-commerce site? I have zero experience with any of that whatsoever. I can’t imagine that it would but I can’t say whether it does or not. Because I’ve never done anything like that. comments.

It creates co-occurrence. It is a no co-citation or a citation. If it’s the full local citation, right? Name, Address phone number, the NA p other than that I don’t know I’d like depends on the competition. If there’s no competition, I see where it just mentioned, of your site on powerful sites would make a difference. But if like, like most places, that the competition is fierce, then no, you’re not going to get away with something like that.

Yeah, and I think it’s kind of interesting to backing this up a level away from purely the SEO benefit and saying, Well, if your name let’s say the SM dog food brand is mentioned on Huffington Post, like yeah, you know what, I bet Our website is gonna see some increased traffic and it’s not a direct link, right. It’s just by getting out there and building the brand. You know, that’s kind of what’s happening there as to how I see it without getting into the technical side.

Yeah. And you know, actually, just to follow up, Adam, that’s a really good point. And I know this to be true, because when I started my land investment, my land flipping business, I experienced it firsthand. And that is if you can get a name published online, right, and somebody but it’s not a backlink, but somebody reads the name and they’re curious, they’ll go Google that. And then it pulls up the brand. And then they click through that’s a navigational or brand search query, that then a click through. So that’s a huge SEO signal, when somebody reads a name, brand name somewhere and then goes in Google searches and then clicks through that’s a fantastic SEO signal. And I experienced that with alpha land Realty, my business, my real estate business because when I first started, I was just running ads, I didn’t do any SEO at all, nothing, I just have a single and it’s still to this day, just have a single landing page on click funnels. For you know, for that business, basically. And all I started I was sending I was running Google ads to that but no SEO and then I started sending a direct mail out to property owners with my brand name Alfa land realty on it. And what happened was I started seeing alpha land realty ranked number one for even like, my keywords like sell land fast Virginia and things like that. And I couldn’t figure out why because I hadn’t done any SEO work whatsoever. And then I started digging into it. And I realized that people were doing navigational search queries because they would get letters from me direct mail letters from me that would state you know, hey, alpha land realty wants to buy your property, if you’re interested, go here, blah, blah, blah. And they would go to Google and search alpha land Realty and then click through and because of that, I started to rank in a matter of like three weeks with zero SEO work. And it was because of those brand searches, which is why we talked about engagement signals are absolutely critical, are super powerful. You want to comment on that, guys before we wrap it up?

Yeah, I think that’s good.

Okay, thanks, everybody for being here. We’ll see you guys next week. See ya.

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Translation Script of Eureka Seven AO Final Episode: One More Time - Lord Don't Slow Me Down

After some 4 years, and almost pretty much out of nowhere, they decided to make a Pachinko Game for Eureka 7 AO. To promote this, they created this new final episode, which was split into 5 ~5 Minutes ONAs released over the span of 3 month, before being followed up by the announcement of the Hi-Evolution movies.

Despite being a promotion for the pachinko game it really has nothing to do with it at all. Instead, it's the full version of the last two minutes of Episode 24 of the TV series, with some details being retconned. As such, you either ought remember a good deal of the show or have to rewatch it. 

It’s legally and freely avaible to watch on the Pachinko Game Sammy Cooperation’s Channel on Youtube. They actually made some effort to have all on screen writings in both Japanese and English, but no subs are available. 

I kind of really enjoyed this episode. Nobody has bothered making a translation as far as I can see, so here is mine.   (Although chances are high most E7 lovers who don’t really like the AO Season probably don’t care anyway I suppose...) 

[] indicates the one frigging name of some Kyrie equiment. I haven’t really been able to properly discern from the audio, so it’s just my best guess. I even had a rewatch, but either it wasn’t there or I missed it.

A Part:

Ao: Where are we going to now, Truth?

Truth: We have destroyed the walls of the world with the Quartz Gun. Due to that we have been exposed to a large quantity of quartz and in consequence became entities to roam though time.

Ao: ... I know that. It's the same with mother. In other words. We don't know where we will end up at.

Ao: Mother from then would give birth to my sister and no matter how often she overwrote the world she couldn't return at all. Is that it?

Truth: I’d like you not to give up as much.

Ao: It can't be helped, can it? I can only stay here, until he get to somewhere.

Truth: That is the first Scub Coral, that arrived here.

Ao: 10 thousand years further into the future, right?

Truth: In a defense mechanism the world has given emmergence to the Secrets. And then the Scubs escaped in to the distant past of your era.

Ao: Yes. But I will say this: Welcome to the new world, Scubs. Let's get along!

Breathe with all your might. Naru. You have to get along with the Scubs inside of you. If you do that, they will also answer your. You are... We all will breath along, grow up and live with the Scubs.

Naru: Hmmm...

Truth: So Ao. Where do we go next?

B Part:

Truth: Looks like the Carribean Sea. Assuming from the shape of the ship, it's probably the year 1981.

Ao: Year 1981... The Carribean Sea... Oh! Right!

Truth: I don't know, what you intend to do, but if you get outside of me, you will become an undefined existence.

Ao: I know that! I'd be a ghost, right?

Truth: No, you wouldn't. You would overlap inside of time and just not exist.

Ellen: It's fine. Even now, an angel will come to help me. See?

Ao: Elena... ah wrong... Right I haven't asked your real name.

Ellen: Hey! Do something already!

Ao: Ah. That part was without a doubt Elena. Sorry. That's how it is. But. I can at least cheer you up!

Ellen: Cheer me up? In this situation? Just cheering me up?

Ao: S-Sorry. But. Do you best.

Ellen: Even without you telling me that There is nothing else I can do, is there?

Finally got into the mood to help me?

Ao: Er, no... If I can, I'd like to make a request.

Ellen: What?

Elena Peoples?

Elena: Y-Yes.

Ellen: Don't get spoiled. Use your own hands to come up.

Elena: Y-Yes! Thank you... very much.

Ellen: A green angel has told me a long time ago. That another scub burst would occur after 40 years. And that among the victims there would a girl called Elena Peoples.

Elena: How did that person know about me?

Ellen: I don't know. Ao he called himself... I think? But next time, it's probably your turn.

Elena: *nod*

Ellen: We have been pereparing for this day all this time. Me and Christoph. Now all that's left is you, Ao.

C Part

Maeve:  Ah, sorry, we aren't open today.

Maggie: Are you from there?

Maeve: Yes! Are you Korean?

Maggie: I'm here in Bellforest until today.

Tommorow I'll head to the North Pole Light. Do you know Hong Kong?

Maeve: Hmmm. Ah! It's in Asia, right?!

Sorry.

Maeve: You know...

Maggie: Are you alright?

Maeve: Thanks. Aaah. Will it be fine?!

Maggie: Eh?

Maeve: My little sister will be born soon! I want to be an elder sister to her, so I spent my pocket money and finally got it.

Maggie: It's not dirtied anywhere. It's fine.

Maeve: Really? Thank god!

Maggie: Bruno... Ah, somehow, I just thought about that name...

Maeve: That! Me too!

Maggie: Eh?

Maeve: Me too! Ever since I saw this one, I always thought that Bruno would be fine!

Maggie: Eeh?!

Maeve: It's strange somehow, right, Bruno?

Maggie: She's born?

Maeve: Uwaah. What should I do?!

Maggie: You have to quickly bring Bruno over.

Maeve: Ah. Right. Thanks!

Woman: Maggie! We should get going!

What's wrong?

Maggie: I'm coming!

That boy right now... I think I know him from somewhere...

D Part:

Hannah: Yeah, yeah, yeah, just a moment... Hm? That's...

Maggie: That's Hannah Mamma for you. She acts fast. Do that's  the target place.

Rebecka: President! President!!

Advertising: We, Generation Blue, observe and use Trapars securely...

Rebecka: Where's the president?!

Reception woman: Which one?

Rebecka: Both!

As said before, Poseidon has already begun. The satelites have started moving. In several minutes the formation will be complete. You will dispatch right away, president.

Fleur: Erm, erm. What's this about? I don't understand a thing!

Christoph: Everything goes according to plan.

Fleur: Papa!

Rebecka: President! Oh, I'm sorry. Former President!

Fleur: Really, just stay in bed already!

Christoph: What, these injuries are nothing.

Getting along with the union and holding fast onto the Quartz, getting transfered to the Japanese main office. - It was all for this today!

Fleur: Look. I am the president now, so say it in a way I can understand!

The Quartz accident from 2016? Do you still remember him? The green haired boy?

Oh? Didn't she get red? Didn't she?

Fleur: What about that?!

Christoph: His name is Ao. Right, Elena?

Fleur: Huh?

Elena: Yes. I did mention it before, did I? That I have two mothers. My real mother and a second mother... who saved me at the Scub Burst.

This second mother has told me that the green haired boy has told her to save me.

Fleur: What's this about?

Rebecka: It's not just you or Elena. There are records of the green haired boy named Ao throughout the world.

Fleur: Even though there are articles from long ago, Isn't he always looking like a child?

Christoph: I've also heard something from Chief Ivica. He has once meet a woman called Eureka. She has told him that a boy with the same green hair as hers exists. That boy would definitely come back. And more than anything does she wants us to save him. We have looked for a boy called Ao. But he didn't exist anywhere in this world. We have waited. For him to come.

Fleur: I have met him after all!

Rebecka: Quartz posesses the property to go back in time. If he has been influences by the Quartz and is drifting though time, then...

Fleur: Then what? Then what are you going to do?

Christoph: Isn't it obvious? If he is drifting, we, his amis will just save him. [”amis” is french for “friends”]

Fleur: Uwah. Papa!

Christoph: So. Let's begin! Operation Astral Ocean will start!

E Part:

Hannah: Trapar concentration confirmed. The weak response is here. Start transcripting the Quartz Gun!

Ao: What's that? What has happened?

Truth: I don't know. It seems as if something has pulled me out. Ao. I've investigated it, but... We are currently over Ikinawa in the year 2027.

Rebecka: Secrets will detonate upon contact with Quartz. To make practical use of this, we will cause a Scub Burst at the target machine and cleanse them from the Quartz.

Christoph: We only have one chance. Understand, Fleur. Generation Blue exists for this moment.

Fleur: What does that mean?

Christoph: He hasn't just saved you long ago. I don't understand the circumstances, but I think he has saved the world. That's why we have made preparations. To bring him back. If this mission fails, you will also be dragged into the Scub Burst. But...

Fleur: I understand. I'll try it. Papa.

Elena: Let's go Fleur.

Fleur: Yes!

Ao: The Alleluia? Kyrie? Do they want to attack me?

Truth: This world isn't the world you know anymore. Fukai Ao might not exist anymore. Therefore, nobody will remember you.

Fleur: H-hey! Don't run away!

Ao: They're following! Do they really want to bring me down?

Elena: Target Scope open Manning the [Seiphiro]

Ao: What? What's this?! Uwaah...

Truth: These are... Secrets!

Ao: What's this? What ha...ppened?

Truth: The Quartz that we took in... has been extinguished.

Ao: Eh? Then? We don't have to wander around anymore?

Truth: But this is not the world where you've been. It's harsh, but this is a world where "Ao" doesn't exist.

Ao: So what? Even if nobody knows me. I have... I.. have returned! What will you do, Truth?

Truth: To me this is just a place I droped by accidentially. This is goodbye. Well then.

Perhaps I was mistaken. If this wasn't a world without Ao, but everything was Ao's world, then...

Elena: You are Ao... right?

Fleur: I remember you. I'm Fleur. I have been saved by you!

Diffrences to the original 2 minutes epilogue of TV Series episode 24:

- The original epilogue was just a 2 Minute run down of just Ao and Truth arriving in the new alternate 2027 and briefly talking over what happened to them after they shot the Quartz Gun and saved Eureka.

- This episodes shows how the loneliness gnaws at Ao's psyche and just how much of a salvation coming back is to him. Ao in the original epilogue looks way more mentally healthy and resolved and doesn’t even really care all that much even if nobody remembers him. 

- In the original Truth stays all battered up, in the final episode he gets a facelift at the end.

- In the original epilogue Ao and Truth bidding farewell has a bit more dialogue. Truth says, he wanted to see more of the world and continues to move through time. In the Final episode, he says, he’s just an accidential visitor passing by until eventually he also moves through time. (Only very briefly shown through the three circles of a scub burst.) Ao also just bids farewell without expressing a hope for them to meet again.

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What fandom can do to get The 100 a season 5 and beyond.

 There are so many things The 100 fandom can do to make sure we get another season. Most of these things only take a few seconds but they will make a big difference when the CW is deciding which shows to keep. People talk about live tv ratings all the time but live ratings are not that important these days. Social media, dvr viewing, cw app viewing….all these things matter! Mark Pedowitz himself said they don’t care much about live ratings here. 

Here are some of the things those of us without a Nielsen box can do.

First and most importantly….TAG YOUR TWEETS AND FACEBOOK POSTS FOLKS!! Tag all of your tweets/posts about the show with #The100. Heck, I do it sometimes even when it isn’t what I’m talking about because it still counts. If you are a shipper add your ship’s tag too. Even if you are too lazy to do it all the time at least make sure you do it 3 hours before the episode starts, during the episodes, and 3 hours past when the episode ends in your area. Link to the full Nielsen article here.

We know the tag is very important but Nielsen is finally catching up with people who don’t use it. They are now tracking names of characters, show names, and other (ship names, nicknames) program-related phrases. Make sure you are using them in your tweets. Don’t use intitials and make it clear that you are talking about the show if you aren’t going to use the tag. Nielsen is also tracking official accounts rts, likes and the number of times someone responds to them. Turn on your notifications for the CW, CWthe100, the writers, producers, actors, and like, rt, respond immediately. Even better if we can fill their mentions with positivity before the antis get there to bash them. These things are being tracked and counted by Nielsen all the time but our main goal is to make it on the Nielsen Daily Top Five every week we have a live episode. Here is a long article about Nielsen tracking engagement. 

Now let’s talk about actually watching the show. 

Even if you watch the episodes live make sure to play them on the CW’s website here or on the app the next day. If you don’t actually want to rewatch it go to the website, mute your computer, and let it play in the background. The CW looks at these numbers. 

Live +7 numbers are also important to the CW. That means DVR ratings matter. Record the show even if you watch live and play that thing multiple times during the week. Starting the day the episode airs and for 7 days after play the episode and DON’T skip the commercials. We want those Live+7 numbers high every single week. 

Watching on Netflix. The CW and Netflix made a deal starting this season. 8 days after the finale all the episodes will be available to watch. As soon as s4 up we need to start watching and before it's up continue to watch s1-3. MP just metioned again at TCA's they pay attention to which shows are being binged. Netflix knows how many people are watching their shows. They don’t release the numbers to the public but they know. 

Finally, for people who want to spend money. Buy the episodes on Itunes and Amazon. Every season I buy the season pass on Amazon as soon as it’s available. Of course not everyone can afford to do that but if you can and you are going to buy the DVD anyway preordering the dvd or buying a season pass is always a good thing. 

Some smaller things we can do that don’t seem like they matter but they really do.

1. Watch ALL trailers (every single trailer they post throughout the whole season) on the CW’s offical Youtube channel and give them a thumbs up and a positive comment. I know people love to download the videos and tweet them but posting the link to Youtube is so much better so the CW knows how many people are watching. 

2. When any media outlet posts articles, interviews, screencaps, etc. about the show make sure you rt the original tweet from the media outlet (Not just a link from a show source account, although you can rt those too), like the tweet, respond to the tweet, click the link, keep the article open for at least 40 seconds, and comment on the article itself. 

Speaking of articles and interviews. I have been guilty of this too but if you are going to tweet or post a screenshot of an article try not to post the whole thing. SS a small part and include the link. If no one clicks on articles about the show or the ships people will stop writing them. If people stop writing articles about that means less buzz for the show. That’s bad. 

3. Spoiler TV is especially important because it keeps track of all show activity and puts out a list for the top shows weekly, monthly, and yearly. The 100 can and should be very high on those lists if we do these things. The site has a tag for every show so it’s pretty simple to go through The100 section every week and take a few minutes to comment on articles/vote in polls.

4. TUMBLR- This one is so easy. We are all on here talking about the show anyway. Please, please, please, tag the show. Tag the actors. Tag your ships. Tag the character names. We talk about Bob and Bellamy all the time but Bob didn’t even make the list for the most talked about actors in 2016. He should have but he’s not getting tagged. If we are talking about Bellamy tag Bob Morley, if we are talking about Clarke tag Eliza Taylor. I am really bad about this one but this year I am going to do better. Same for the show and the ships. Bellarke made the list but they can be higher in 2017. @thefandometrics does weekly and yearly updates so let’s try to get on there every week. 

5. Rate every new episode on IMDB here and Rotton Tomatoes here if you haven’t done it yet go give all the old episodes high ratings. Do the same on Netflix, Amazon, and anywhere else you you can upvote/rate the show. 

6. Follow or subscribe to the The 100 and The CW official accounts on instagram, YouTube, twitter, Facebook. I know I already mentioned this some but like and comment on every single new thing they post and if you have time go through the older stuff too.

7. This one seems silly but if you are planning on getting the official funko pops preorder them when they become available. We want them to sell out so they make a second wave.

One last thing- Let’s talk about promoting ships

This is probably going to be unpopular but if you go to cons it’s ok to talk about your ship. If you pay money to go you are free to ask what you want. Not only is it ok but it’s important to let the actors know what you watch for. Producers and writers pay attention to the questions, the fans, and the panels at these cons. This is one of the easiest ways to tell them what you care about. If you don’t care about ships that’s fine…talk about the characters you love. If you only watch for ships that’s fine too…you can tell them what ships keep you invested. Shipping and talking about ships is a HUGE part of the CW and they know it. I have been to numerous conventions and The 100 and Bellarke fandom are the only ones I’ve ever been involved in where people tell you not to talk about your ship. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT! YELL ABOUT IT! LET EVERYONE KNOW WE LOVE *BELLARKE! *or whatever ship it is that you love

Shipping is not a bad thing. Talking about and tagging your ship promote the show. Keep talking, keep tagging, fangirl all over the place. It’s not only ok it’s promoting the show.

Please, if anyone has something to add that I haven’t posted here message me or reblog and add it. Also @infobellarke and @bcrevolution posted something like this a while back with some of the same points and some additional points (things about trending and writing letters to the producers) that I didn’t  go over again since they already did. You can read it here.

I know some of this feels like a lot of work that we don’t get paid for but most of it takes just a few seconds and it really does make a difference. If we work together and promote the things we’re passionate about we can get a s5,s6,s7,s8…I don’t know however many we think the characters can survive through.

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Weekly SEO Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 308

Click on the video above to watch Episode 308 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

Full timestamps with topics and times can be found at the link above.

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

Announcement

Humpday Hangouts Episode 308. Sadly, I missed out last week. But I’m very happy to be here and I’m realizing that my camera has zoomed out you can see boxes and crap. So don’t pay attention to that pay attention to this. So let’s say hi to everybody and but then we’ll get into the questions. We got a couple quick announcements. So we’ll start in the southern hemisphere and work our way up. So Hernan, how are you doing? Are you talking about are you talking about? gun everybody? Good man. I’m rocking the mastermind t shirt today. I’m really excited to be here. super pumped about about POFU still, you know, I’m having the the aftershocks now but you know, in all reality, I’ve been talking to two people that attend the POFU Live and they they’re static, you know, tons of notes, tons of good stuff. So be on the lookout because the recordings are going to be out soon. So I’m excited about that.

Definitely, well, Marco, how about you, man? How you doing today? It looks like is it brighter, sunny, or what’s going on there? It’s ridiculous. Rod day. I keep telling all you people.

This is what I get 365 I’m not gonna say 24 seven, of course, because we get 1212 acts of daylight.

So other than that, other than a little variation, because we’re not actually on the equator, it’s 1212. It does vary a little bit. But what can I say I’m showing it. I’m going to show it for a year, I told you I would show it every Wednesday for you. Here you go. Come get the one way, the one real way to get to where you want to go is the pole full path. We had it a weekend before last POFU Live 2020 it was. It blew my mind because I wasn’t really expecting joining to go that deep. I actually thought he was gonna do his lucid process. But that’s what we had talked about, which is how he leads his his client all the way through what’s going to happen step by step so that they’re they’re entirely aware of the whole process. And it costs a whole lot of money. I mean, excuse me, because I know that he charges. If I’m low balling you join but 10 to 15 K, just for the process. So guys think about it just for that without even going into the monthly recurring or any of the SEO and just to take you through the process of what’s going to happen. And of course, the higher ticket the client, the more the lucid process is going to cost because there’s more that goes into play. So I thought that that was going to be it which would have been fantastic. show people how to get money from their clients before their clients. Fantastic. And then he comes with, well, what was left to the liver?

And that you know, I don’t know he hasn’t been hidden liver, but you feel you have to take a neat, it’s kind of a few seconds and on home man. That was so looking good. Why are people not getting this? What what’s good and people from our own mastermind who should have been there? We need to make it mandatory to attend. I’m serious is this how much money to think about, how much money are you going to make with just pieces of what he gave away? Just pieces up, you don’t have to implement the whole thing. I’m already hiring a VA guys, just so you know. And I’m starting her on that process, starting her on the journey so she can make me money. That’s how you’re supposed to do. And then let me start with I just keep going on and on.

From what we did on info for life. That’s not including ads, by her now. And how to get clients by Bradley, how to keep them in your front on the schema by Rob as the software that’s coming from Jeremy and everything else. All I did was touch sit. That’s it.

But the rest of these I think just came to this one right after the other one right after the other. It was awesome. The recordings, most of them will be made available. Hope you guys enjoyed them.

Outstanding. Yeah, knock it out on that hopefully live was great. And if you missed it, and but you want to be on the early access to the recordings, just head to POFULive.com. It’s going to redirect you. We got a little opt in form there so you can be on the first to know and there might even be a little bit of a special offer but that would head over there and get signed up if you’re interested in that. So with that said, Chris, how you doing today man? Looks like you got a new headset going on there still seem it’s doing good here. Just splitting out the noise here. It’s crazy at the moment but yeah. And yeah, surprisingly very super good. Wine harvest season is in full force. So anybody who is into most or store more like fresh new wine and stuff. That’s the season right.

Good stuff. Bradley, how you doing, man? Oh, I’m happy to be here. We have a little bit of a change start up for these Hump Day hangouts because YouTube now you can’t use the classic live stream functionality. So every every week, guys, we’re gonna have to start about two minutes early. So in case some of you jumped in, and we’re like, Well, wait a minute, like you guys are already three to three minutes in now you know why? So it’s just a slightly different setup in the beginning. So, just wanted to make you guys aware of that. But yeah, I second everything Marco said, we live was awesome. My head’s still spinning. From that, that the weekend really, and all the information that was conveyed, or, was that was shared, I guess, with all of us. So, and unfortunately, there is definitely some presentations that are going to be omitted from the recordings unless you except for those that were actually at the live event. But that does make it more exclusive. And gives you guys an incentive next year to make sure that you’re there live. So yeah, but other than that, happy to be here ready to answer some questions. Standing? Well, yeah, I just want to say again, pofulive.com, you can find out at the fastest way to get the recordings there. And we had several people join the mastermind via POFU Live so that was exciting to bring them in while they were starting or while we were all part of POFU Live. And so that was great. And if you’re interested in the mastermind, whether you know you’ve got a retail business, whether you’re doing SEO for yourself, maybe you’re doing it with an agency or you’re starting or growing your agency, you know, this might be the place for you to be if you’re looking to grow that not only to find out some of the details but to build a business and if that’s what you’re interested in, head over to mastermind.semanticmastery.com find out more there. So with that said, Guys, any more announcements before we dive into this, Yeah, what’s up, I don’t know how many people we want in but we currently have our deep keyword research open again MGYB.co.

And, guys, if you’re looking for market research, that’s the one that’s what I personally trained the VA on how to go get the keys, how to get it out of go get all that relevant, how to categorize how to set up the silos and of course, if you want to suggest silo, barking dogs.

If you guys want us to just assign more than welcome, we give you suggestions, we give you everything that we can to make sure that you successfully go out and if you’re on the email list, you’ve got an email about that there’s a special going on right now if you’re not on the email list where you’re watching this if you’re watching live head down below get on the email list if you’re watching on YouTube, if you’re watching the replay, click on one of the links in description head over to either mg y b.co or semantic mastery comm get on the email list. That’s where people get the best offers. So and if you’re watching live have got it right here. It’s mg y b.co slash store slash keyword dash research. And much easier than trying to remember that and spell it just click on the link I put below and go check that out.

Sweet so are we good?

Yeah, let’s do it. Let’s do it. I see we got a bunch of questions. So Oh, yeah. And last week we got we were shut down at 40 minutes. Because zoom just hiccuped. That’s what it was it was just a hiccup because the very next day I hosted my mastermind webinar and it and it went an hour and a half. So anyways, hopefully we don’t have that problem this week. I don’t think we will. So we should be good all the way until 5pm.

All right. Lots of questions.

How Does Semantic Mastery’s Syndication Networks Affected By IFTTT’s Recent Updates?

get right into it starting with Who’s it? Are your syndication networks still powered by IFTTT? Yes. How have the changes to their model affected what you do? Well, they haven’t changed affected anything yet, because the final change doesn’t go into effect until tonight, or tonight at midnight or tomorrow, tomorrow at 1201 or whatever. So today’s the last day.

But as from what I understand, and I actually had a call with an IFTTT representative, like a zoom call about this specifically, and it’s not gonna affect anything that we do, because we purchased a pro account so that we can create applets still and publish them so that we can do that. And mgib for syndication network orders as well as for syndication Academy, which by the way, that is in the process of being updated now, guys, we’re going to be relaunching that again, but updated, so just be on the lookout for that. But as far as you guys are concerned, and I see there’s a bunch of questions about that in here. And I understand. So we’re going to cover this again today. And it may change because once everything goes into effect tonight or whenever today’s being the last day under the old IFTTT system, then you know by next Wednesday, if any changes have occurred, that I’m incorrect about

We will know by next Wednesday, we can cover it again next Wednesday, but just very, very briefly, I’m going to walk you through how, from what I understand and from what the IFTTT representative told me, it’s not going to change anything, you just won’t be able to create more than three applets in your account. Period. That’s it, you can still turn on unlimited amount of applets. So even with the free account, but you can only create three applets Okay, so I logged into my IFTTT account here, I’m just going to show you if you go to the Explore tab, so click the Explore button when you’re logged in to IFTTT, and you just do a search. All of ours are very simply titled, and it’s been that way since I created them way back in 2012. But like for example, if I say RSS to WordPress, for example, and we just scroll down, you’ll start remember RSS to WordPress, RSS triggers always going to be an orange color. But you could just scroll through here and find some of them and any one of them that are made labeled. Robert are Mills. Now I know I said WordPress, so I might need to actually type out WordPress. But anything that says Robert r Mills, those are ones that I created applets that I created with the original Syndication Academy. Actually, it might have been version two, it probably was version two. But you can see this has been downloaded 19th or used, excuse me 19,300 times. And this is RSS to Twitter. And that’s Robert r Mills, you can see a stack of them here. You might have like I said, look for WordPress, or whatever. But just click into it. Add your, uh, you know, go to settings, which is over here covered up by the zoom thing.

And in fact, I’m not connected to Twitter. That’s why this but if I was connected to Twitter, then there’d be a settings button, you just click Settings, and then you can add your RSS feed in there. Does that make sense? Or Same thing with if we back up go to explore again and we say like YouTube, let’s just look at YouTube to Twitter and see if it comes up that way.

We just scroll down and like YouTube to Twitter right there. vernonia done. Yeah. Okay, so Bernie Dunn was from the second version of if syndication Academy, Robert r Mills was from the first version. Okay, so again, YouTube, like to Twitter, that’s one of them there, YouTube, the Digg Diigo.

Another one YouTube to OneNote. So you just got to find them guys, it’s very, very simple, just all the the applet titles or they originally they were called recipes, but then they switched to applets. They were all titled similarly, like this. And Robert r Mills, or Vernon II done, d u n, are the two sets of applets that I created, both in the original syndication Academy and in syndication Academy version two. And so any one of those should work, you just got to go select one of it, and then make sure your service is connected. So like Twitter, WordPress, all that, and then just go into settings and put in your own RSS feed. Or if it’s YouTube, make sure that your YouTube channels connected. And that should be it. That’s my understanding, okay, if any of those that are already created are available is there going to disable any of this, you’re going to be able to connect these that are available. I mean, I don’t understand what the problem is why people don’t understand what’s happening. It’s the creation, if you want to create your own, if you want to do your own connection, let’s say you come up with something different, and you want to create what used to be called a recipe, you’re not gonna be able to do that it has to exist already in there. If not, and you need to pay more than three, then you’re going to have to pay for it. That’s all. That’s the only thing as far as I understand. And I’ve also chatted with these people. That’s all that’s changed, there’s nothing different. And just in case, we did go ahead and get a protocol, so that our people can go in and work and create them. Because right with the new syndication Academy, we might come up with or we’re going to try to come up with new stuff, new outlets, new ways to get into all these different things, especially since our syndication Academy, VA is exploring a bunch of different new websites, and how we can go in and manipulate all of the different ones. So she has a list to go in and manipulate. And so we might be we might need to create them, but then those will be available to you also. Because once they’re created, they’re there to be connected. That’s right. I don’t understand why people are having such a problem with this. why there’s such misinformation out there, or misinformation because there was a webinar where they were saying just the opposite is gonna disappear. The sky is falling. They’re probably trying to show you some other bullshit. Don’t go for it. Just wait.

Yeah, you should make contingency plans. But we already if you’re getting that from us from MTV, we’ve already made the contingency plans. We’re already there, guys. That’s what that’s what we’re there for. That’s why you’re doing this. Because you’re having to make this thing keep on happening. And that’s what we’re going to do. And it’s really that simple. I don’t understand what the big issue is.

No, nothing really changed.

Yeah, I mean, I can see a lot in here that I created like YouTube, the Tumblr video pro post is Bradley Benner. Look at that another Vernon he done. Here’s contractor H O, which stands for Hangouts, YouTube to Facebook page. So I mean, there’s a bunch of them in here that I created that are already that I published, either through my own account or some of my, you know, persona accounts. And they’re all in here, guys. So all you got to do is just select them, and then add your, your details. That’s it. Okay.

All right. So we’ll cover it again next week. Because after the changes go through tonight, this being the last day, then if there’s anything that isn’t working correctly, we will know about it.

What’s The Difference Between The Pro And Plus Version Of SEO Ultimate?

Next, is there a pro and a plus version?

But they lead to the same checkout? Is there a difference SEO ultimate plus versus SEO ultimate pro? Yeah, go with SEO ultimate Pro, if they lead to the same checkout? It’s probably just because he hasn’t been supporting SEO ultimate plus, because he was SEO ultimate pro was in development. And that is the plugin that is supported now SEO ultimate pro? Um, do we have any way to contact support for him? specifically?

For Jeffrey, Marco, you muted. Sorry about we can talk to him directly, I can talk to him and let him know what’s going on. But maybe that’s just the way they want to know, just just, I mean, I can see why they would want to support just one. But trust me, it’s well worth it. And as a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, listen to this, if you go and get the ultimate SEO at the boot camp. Adam, can you drop that link? Because you usually get 10 licenses with with that. But if you go through through our link, you’re going to get 20 licenses. So if you have multiple websites that you need more than those 10 licenses, the way to get 20 included in that SEO ultimate boot camp five is to go through our link.

Yeah, no. Seo ultimate boot camp is freaking fabulous, guys. It’s one of the it’s probably the best on page course I’ve ever been through. So on page SEO course. So I would highly recommend you check out SEO ultimate or SEO boot camp. And you’ll get 20 license of that plugin, the pro SEO ultimate pro plugin. I tell people that the only reason why we’ve never created an on page SEO course, is because Jeff he already did it. That’s right. And if the best is already out there, why would we even try to go and mess with it? We just recommend his stuff. And you guys go there? Because he I mean, we’re not gonna do any better than he already did.

Yeah. And he’s been a guest speaker at POFU Live now because of the fact that he’s freaking out. He’s awesome.

He’s a badass man. Yeah, so I would highly recommend you check that out.

When Is The Availability Of The Auto Blog Plugin That Was Mentioned In POFU Live?

Next question about the auto blog creating plugin that you said was previewed on POFU? Do you have a link for us to subscribe when it’s available? No, it’s not a plugin. It’s a full on system. It is not a plugin. So it has like a login and all that stuff. It’s not a plugin. It’s not WordPress. I mean, trust me it’s it’s it’s it’s super powerful. But it’s not a plugin. It’s better way better than a plugin. But do we have any? I don’t think so. Cuz it’s in beta right now. So I don’t think we have anything anywhere to send up for that. But you guys maybe we should probably have a little opt in page that we can send people to for when Jeremy launches that. Yeah, probably my beer. I’ll be back in nine minutes.

Okay, sweet. And, Jeremy, if you’re listening, which you often do, I want my fucking logins. Yeah, me too, man. I’m waiting for my log. Don’t do this to me. Don’t do this to me. He’s teasing. He’s just got it. I don’t care if it’s only half assed ready. Just give it to me. I’ll make it work.

Yeah, guys, well, we’ll get an opt-in up or something for so that we can start getting people on kind of like a pre pre launch list or something for when it does. It’s in beta right now, guys, so it’s only like, you know, Marco and I and a few of the POFU Live attendees that have access to it. And we were still waiting for access, to be honest. But um, once as soon as we get it out of beta, you know, we’re going to be definitely promoting it, it would be a really good product. So we’ll let you guys know, hopefully we’ll have opt-in form next week for you.

Is It Too Risky To Use A Single Phone Number To Verify Multiple GMBs?

Okay, Connor is up next. For those starting an agency and dealing with multiple GMBs for clients and internal sites. What would you recommend for maintaining multiple phone numbers for verification? Is it too risky using a single phone number? Uh, well for verification, I don’t know because i don’t i don’t verify any my own GMB anymore other than unless it’s a client that we have a postcard mailed to their actual physical address or the last time I’ve actually verified any of my own it was using post-peel boxes with the street address option.

So I don’t know verifying by phone. I’ve just never done that. Um, my the call the call service that I use primarily for multiple lead gen assets as well as for just having a bunch of different phone numbers for like my real estate business, I use call rail. And I really like call rail. Um, so you know, call rail is great, there’s a lot of really cool features in it, it’s inexpensive. It’ll connect directly with Google Analytics, with Google Ads with all kinds of stuff. So you know, I highly recommend you check out call rail. As far as the numbers for verification purposes, I don’t know that the work and the only reason I say that is because every now and then if I have to provide a phone number to gain access to a Google account that I have, like, say, for example, somehow cash got cleared on the browser, for example, and I have to log back in and it triggers a phone verification, I know the call real numbers, most of those virtual phone numbers, extensions don’t, you know, applications don’t work anymore for verifying to get access to an account anymore. And I know that because I’ve tested a bunch of them. And they just they’re not working anymore, like call fire call rail burner burner app for your like mobile device, like a lot of those phones just aren’t working anymore, for trying to regain access to a locked Google account, like you just won’t read even receive the text anymore, or the phone call. If you opt for the phone call. It just won’t even go through. So I think Google knows that it’s a virtual number, and it just won’t push it through. So I don’t know about being able to verify gmv with those types of numbers, because it’s not a strategy or a method that I’ve ever that I’ve used. Perhaps one of you guys know, Marco, do you?

Ah, not anything that I care to give away? Not here. But for this question. I don’t know why he would want a single phone number. I mean, that’s so easy to pick off and so risky. Yeah. To verify everything with one single phone number. I don’t know why you’d be doing clients with a single phone number, they would have their own phone for verification. So I’m not really understanding that question. If you want to get a little bit more specific, I’ll gladly go into but if you if you deal with multiple phone numbers that you control, have the more ring through to a single number. Yes. With caller ID that’s that simplifies everything right. But then, you know, where the where the call is coming from? But if not, no, no, I wouldn’t use a single phone number for verification. Not anymore. I mean, it’s something that I would have done a few years ago, not now the way things are now. Yeah. And it’s my understanding that when every now and then I’ve, you know, in my entire career for about 10 years now doing local SEO, and god hundreds of GMB accounts No kidding. I’ve only gotten the phone verification option. Like I swear to God, I counted on two hands like like under 10 times in 10 years have I’ve been able to have I gotten the phone verification option, the ability to verify phone verified GMB and every time that it has occurred, it’s always been whatever the phone number was that was associated with that GMB already because it was like a published but unverified GMB, and so I was able to verify it through the phone number that was published in the GMB listing as long as I had access to it. So I don’t know how you would trigger a phone verification with where you input the phone number to verify it, because I’ve never I’ve never experienced that. So yeah, I totally agree. I would use multiple phone a unique phone number for each location. There’s no question. And I’m not sure how you’re gonna accomplish doing that anyways, because I haven’t seen phone verifications work in quite some time. So

Is There A Limit To The Number Of Links We Can Push To The Gsite Or Stack?

follow up question. Is there a limit to how many links we can push to the G site or stack? No.

Am I wrong in that, Marco? I haven’t found the limit. And let me see.

We did the original 1 million link test took him like a chap. We know someone in our s Academy who ran a million million GSA from from Fiverr. So think about that, and got great results. I ran a million recently, a couple of months ago to a client.

The last solutions that we’re just fixing to get 10 million. And I know Rob is currently running 10 million to another project. Yeah. GSA, by the way, GSA five years, but please, when you hear me say, yeah, five, GSA fibrogen said, Don’t do it. Don’t do that to yourself. Because it’s probably something that you care about. We push it to test the boundaries of what if, and if Listen to me, if it takes the 10 million that I’m going to throw at the test that I’m running on that solutions, then I’m going to try 100 million, and so on and so on, and I want to find the limit. I can do that because I don’t care. If it’s something that you care about. If it’s something that matters to you, whether it’s a client, something that’s making you money, something that you want to make money, it’s not something that you want to burn. So you don’t want to you don’t want to do this. Because you have to know what you do, you have to know what you’re doing, really have to know what you’re doing. If you go to fiber, you probably don’t know what you’re doing, or the person that’s going to be doing this doesn’t know what he or she is doing. So be really careful about trying to push the boundaries. Instead cut focus on quality, which is why we have a dedhia at MGYB. That’s why the link builder and the link indexer. The gates are done by dedhia. The one and only because he has been with us for years. And he knows exactly how to push power into the staff. And so quality, not quantity,

will I still rules or wins the game, which is why it’s tiered, then you can run links into those tiers for to help indexing. But when you starting out, just keep just keep shooting 70 510 k 15 k links into the different parts of your stack into the different tier-one never to the money site. Don’t do that.

Press Releases link building. Don’t forget in bedrooms, you guys are forgetting and bedrooms, don’t forget, go to Dahlia, he’s the master. He’s there for a reason. When you’re looking to test me looking to have some fun and seeing how much trouble you can get into with Google. That’s when you go order those 10 million and hundred million. Lincoln’s I think I can get 100 million links for 500 bucks. So that’s my, my next stop is 100 million guys, just so you know.

That will be a feat, for sure.

What Is Your Alternative Solution For Syndicating Websites That Don’t Have Native RSS Feed?

All right, moving on. Mohammed, what’s up, Muhamad? And he said, Hey, guys, what would you do if your clients website didn’t support A native or RSS feed like WordPress provides? How would you get one, I would install WordPress on a subdomain or a subdirectory subfolder of the domain. That’s what I would do. And I would use WordPress in either a subdomain or subdirectory of the root domain to run all of my content distribution. So essentially, that would be my content distribution engine. It would just be WordPress, and I would use it specifically for that reason. Anybody else? No, I totally agree. It says we’re no longer spamming post subdomains. There’s no reason why you can’t install it in a folder. That’s right, and get it get a little bit more power. That’s right.

That’s right. So if you have access to the host, where you can do that and create a subdirectory in root domain for forms, it could be, you know, public HTML, slash domain slash blog, right. And then you put it where install WordPress into that. I agree with Marco I used to always use subdomains for that kind of stuff. But we’ve been so long, so many years now, since the last time we really spammed like we’re doing spammy type stuff, to anything to get anywhere near the money site, because we use the SEO shield, that it’s really unnecessary to put it on a subdomain for that extra level of protection, you can put it in a subdirectory. Now if you’re sticking to our methods, because we you know, we really treat the money site very, we keep it very clean because of the SEO shield. So

Does AMP And PWA Have Advantages In Strengthening Entity And Authority Of Money Sites?

moving on. Question from Marco from Leonard, he says, Do you see any advantages in using AMP or PWA for money sites to further strengthen entity and authority? What is PWA? I’m not even sure because I haven’t even looked into it. But yeah, we use it. And especially it’s really good and WooCommerce on E inside e-commerce for products, because you can use ama with products. But I mean, I’ll have to look up TWA, because that’s what I really use that focus, I really thought that Google was going to take a look at a website’s speed as as a metric in and of itself, and that it would really be an important factor. Which is why we really started looking at apps since Google is caching the app paid and it’s delivering from a Google server. But then everything that we’ve seen says that once the person is on the website, like it doesn’t, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter, the PHP code becomes obsolete. Because what what Google is looking at is what that person does, on your website, saw a brand new website when you’re first starting to get in. When you first start starting to get ranked when you first starting to get people it might be really important. But what’s even more important is the signals, right? The art, the art of our activity, relevance, trust and authority. You’re going to have the relevance, you’re going to have the trust and authority, but what’s going to send you to the activity. And that person finds that link, whatever link is going to lead them into your website. Or if they come to you like directly, right? It’s through through the brand. What that person does on the website. When they land on that homepage or whatever page they land on. Do they finish what they came to look what they came looking for. What’s the ctr, what’s your conversion rate your car Oh, You should optimize for that you should optimize for the people taking the action that you want, whether it’s watching video, whether it’s filling the contact form, whether it’s giving you their phone number, whether it’s making that call, whatever it is, you want that person to do downloading something, maybe a PDF, when then you’re going to have to get it getting on your on your list. That’s the final signal that who’s looking for. And that’s worth way more than any page speed could it could ever be worth because Google is looking at the entire transaction looking for that finish, no finish, it doesn’t matter. That’s what that’s when you get hurt. That’s when when other factors come into play. And I’ve always told people the art of art, activity, relevance, trust and authority, Trumps anything up, you get that in place, and you get everything right. Nothing else matters.

That’s right.

How Do You Silo Structure A Multi-Location Lead Gen Site With Pages As Local Landing Page For Each Location?

Just one second. I’m following up to the question I saw earlier. All right. Next, okay, so he says, if not, what are some other ways we can improve mobile versions? Okay, I think you’ve already covered that. So the next question is kind of, it’s a whole bunch of questions in here talking about pretty advanced silo structure stuff. I’m not going to read all this because it’s a lot. So a to this question here about setting up a multilocation lead gen site, he’s talking about 20 different locations, essentially, and having a separate location page on each and he’s running into some silo, kind of, you know, issues with how to how to structure that correctly. So it’s kind of a more advanced question, I can talk about this. On a conceptual level, briefly, I’m going to point you to a resource where I go into how I structure lead gen sites, especially multi-location sites. Well, either one, it doesn’t matter whether they’re multi-location or not how I structure all local sites now for service area businesses. And what I do is I set up location silos using WordPress tags, right. So I have the topical or service categories, right, which is the topical categories on the on the site using traditional silo structure with categories, right, WordPress categories, subcategories, if you’re going to go with a complex silo, over a simple silo, I don’t recommend that I try to always stick with simple silos now. But categories are your topical silos. And then I use WordPress tags to create location-based silos. And I show exactly how to do that, or at least on a conceptual level, if you guys want. If you want the nitty-gritty and go deep dive into this stuff. That’s what the mastermind is for a heavy-hitter club. But this is a strategy that I specifically that I use, and I talk about that in the mastermind, and often And so again, you have to join the mastermind, if you want to get you know, hands-on essentially training for that. But here’s a resource that I put together several weeks ago, go to semanticmastery.com/process, it’s a process street process doc, I’m going to go to it now. And I’m going to show you where the training is for that. Where I teach, or I talk about in the website section right there. Okay, if you scroll through, I’ve got several training videos, 32 minutes, for the simple silo structure video, 14 and almost 15 minutes for the complex silo structure. And I talked about tag silos right here. And then I talked about theme mirroring here. Okay, and I’ve even got some examples here of what tag silos look like and how to structure them. So I would highly recommend that you go through this that auto-answer your questions about how to structure it correctly.

Something else that I do is just kind of answer your question, as far as talking about writing 20 different articles. Yeah, I understand writing 20 different articles about the same topic is difficult to do. And I get that. So the way that I do it is I create for on the topical silo page, right? So you know, let’s say Plumbing Repair, I don’t know if that’s even a proper silo page, whatever. But let’s just say plumbing services, right? Let’s say it was a plumbing services, a plumber site, and we were talking about plumbing services, and we got 20 different locations. Well, I would have like a 2000 or 2500 word article about plumbing services, that’s the top of silo for plumbing services, it’s a topical category to use it, you create a category page for that as well. And then I would have on that like super long-form copy that covers all of the different services and supporting keywords and everything else that plumbing services would put, you know, certain would cover right. And then from there, you can always link out to your individual location pages with like a table or something at the bottom, you know, somewhere on the page. And so from what I have my blogger do is create geo posts. So in other words ship, my blogger will go in and she’ll take all the so let’s say the 20 different locations, and then she’ll create posts where we target a specific keyword place that low one location right to the post is optimized for one of the supporting keywords, we might even start with plumbing services the top of silo keyword, right as and but the blog post itself will be optimized for, say Plumbing Services plus one of those locations. So, you know, plus city so to speak. And then that blog post becomes kind of like the landing page for that specific keyword plus city. And then from there, any supporting posts would go would link internally just to that, that post that would be placed within the plumbing services category. And you could set up tag silos to actually push relevancy in both topical relevancy but also location-based relevancy into the tag pages which are like, you know, index pages or blog role pages right there, archive pages, tag archive pages, and again, I cover all this in this training here. So I know it’s difficult to talk about conceptually without showing it to you guys with visual you know, AIDS and that kind of stuff. But that’s why I’ve got this here at the process, semanticmastery.com/process you can go in and review the training here. Yeah, follow up questions about that. You can certainly ask him Hump Day hangouts guys. But again, this is a way more advanced question. And something we would like to cover in a free setting. And that’s what that’s what the mastermind is for or heavy hitter club. So, for questions like that, where you want to get into the nitty-gritty and the How to and how to structure stuff like that, you’re going to have to come into one of our paid groups for that. But hopefully, guys, I’ve produced this whole process street process temp template here specifically to give you guys kind of a foundation to use to be able to structure you know, to figure out what to do and in what sequence or what order and I’ve covered everything in here okay? So again, anything for exact step by step how to you got to join in the heavy hitter club where the mastermind and that’s just the way that it is.

Anybody want to follow up on that. Oh, that’s perfect. Membership has its privileges. That’s correct.

How Do You Deal With The Three App Limit In IFTTT?

Tom’s question is another IFTTT question for you. I purchased your very first IFTTT training and it built several networks myself since then, however, with three custom applet limit, this covers syndication to the three blog properties, but not the drives, etc. And since IFTTT no longer allows shared links and finding applets set up to your specifications is proving frustrating. Just wondering if you have any links to known working applets Yeah, again, I just showed how to do that at the beginning, Tom. So just go back in IFTTT, go to the Explore tab.

So that’s at the very top, go to explore. It’s going to take you to this page just type in you know y y t to Twitter or RSS to Twitter or RSS to Tumblr. And just scroll through there and as I mentioned before, you’ll see vernonia done is one of the personas that I used for syndication Academy version two when I set up all the applets for that was Vernon he done the original or, or vice versa. And then the other one was Robert are Mel’s plus, you’ll find a lot of mine in here like Bradley Benner how to SEO contractor H O, which stood for Hangouts, like there’s just a number of them in here that were all titled similarly, and just go through and select one and and turn it on. And that’s that’s all you have to do. Okay. So like, again, YouTube, the Diigo right there, that is an applet that I created. Right. So and that’s vernonia done so you can make sure your services connected. Click Connect, once you click it, in fact, I’ll just turn it on now. And then it says right there, you can save it. And in this case, it’s a YouTube applet so it’s connected when I connected my YouTube channel to this account, but for RSS, you just you click on the app button and click the Settings button and it will give you the field where you can add your own RSS feed. Okay, that’s it very simple.

And again, guys after tonight, tomorrow, the IFTTT platform will be like under its new rules or whatever. So if there’s anything that isn’t working correctly, we will figure that out between now and next Wednesday. Okay, moving on, you can turn by the way pop time you can turn on as many applets as you want you can you’re limited to only creating three but as long as you use that explore tab you should be able to turn on as many as you need.

Can You Kitchen Sink Spam Immediately After Creating The SEO Shield?

Here’s bb with a lot of questions again. I wouldn’t expect anything less from BB it looks like we probably going to have enough time to get through these so we’ll go through

first question Can you can you kitchen sink spam right after you have created the shield? Yes. Marco, but why?

Hmm, you said yes I said But why? Yeah.

But why? Me You don’t need to but you could. So if you want to test like what Marco is doing you could one dot one do you kitchen sink spam right after you have created the shield, or do you wait to see the results, I guess, meaning 21 days? Well, no, because I don’t kitchen sink spam them anyways, just like Marco said, Why I don’t do that I buy links from MGYB  from our dedhia, who’s our link building manager and I buy his packages which were developed specifically for our methods. And so it’s not kitchen sink spam. It’s, you know, web two dot o links, usually two layers of web two dot o links, contextual web 2.0 links. And then if I want to kitchen sink, spam anything, I will hit my second tier of web 2.0 contextual links with kitchen sink spam, but not directly to the SEO shield. Well, first so just to clarify, I don’t kitchen sink spam directly in the SEO shield at all ever. I just don’t do it. I don’t need to because I’ve got link building through dedhia, which is developed specifically for our methods. But second of all, I do I wait no, I don’t wait I usually as soon as I get the SEO shield fully delivered. And a lot of times I don’t even wait for the full SEO show to get delivered. So for example, when you order the SEO, SEO, you get the syndication networks gets gets delivered to you first. So I usually hit my syndication network profile URLs, as well as like the GMB assets. For example, in my first link building gig while I’m waiting for the additional two weeks or whatever for the SEO shield, so the drive stack g site and the idx page to be delivered to me. So I usually just hit my syndication network properties and perhaps like the GMB assets, like I just mentioned, immediately with link building packages, once I get the syndication network delivered, but then for the RYS stack the drive g site and the idx page, then usually when I get those delivered a few weeks later, then that’s when that’ll go into the second link building gig that I purchased for that project.

Any comments on that? Yeah, I’m still wondering why these questions because we’ve covered them multiple times. And we’ll be especially go ahead and set up your own GSA com, hit it with 100 million links, if you want. What’s the point? What’s the point that you’re trying to accomplish? Because without that this is all meaningless.

Right, there has to be a purpose. Or if I could just hit it with a dead end, and get results. That’s all I need. That’s all I need for that. Now, if I’m testing, or testing to see the limits of what Google or what what RYS drive stack will take what he said 40 Well, that’s where you go, we’ve gone a million, we’re going 10 million, that we’re going 100 million, and then I’ll probably go a billion.

But by the time I do that, I’m gonna be about six K, out of pocket. Now, here’s my point, I’m testing. And so I know that my return on investment is going to be there. Because then I can go and share the results and say, This is the test. And this this, this is what came up and you probably see this is going to be last Lucius network. But why?

Why would you go and spend five, six k, on on links, when you could probably spend a couple of hundred bucks in MGYB? Plus, what 10,20,30,40 bucks on link indexing, and get results for whatever it is that you’re doing. And you’re going to need the data anyway. And let me do the first round of link building, you run an embed gig, press releases, whatever, and then you don’t hammer it again, you don’t keep kitchen sink spamming again, you need the data. What did that original link building? Do? What What did that embed game? Do? What was the effect? Yeah, where is it sitting now? Is it making money? How much money is it making? Do I need to do more? Am I getting phone calls? If the what’s the point of what you’re doing?

If you’re not seeing the money from your investment, then you go and look. So I go in, I immediately go into Search Console. And I go into Analytics. And I’ll start looking at Okay, so this page and this keyword are really in tune. But I need to hit it I need to get the results that I want. I need to get a top three, for example.

I don’t. So I’ll go hit in top three, and then see if the return is there. Because if it isn’t, then my page is sick. Maybe people aren’t aren’t clicking on that. Click the call button when I need hacia or any other kind of heat map to see why people are going to that page and I’m not getting results. Link Building isn’t going to fix that. I could I could do a trillion links. And it’s not going to fix what sick on that page. I gotta go and find out what sick on that. Once I’ve determined that, then I’m going to see what the people are doing. So we’re all in time limits here, right, four weeks up, then I gotta see what people do. takes up takes two to three weeks.

To get a nice definition of a heat map, depending on how many people are coming to the page, you need that information without data, you’re just flying blind, you have to throw money up against the wall, you might as well just go in and gamble it away a bit on the horses, because you’re doing basically the same thing. You’re just throwing money at it. Yeah.

Yeah, and what I’ve experienced a lot, I haven’t seen it, and I’m just giving some insight as to some local, more recent projects of mine is that, you know, I started hitting everything with links that the SEO showed in strategically because I’ll build out like expansion or bias expansion stack for another location, for example. And I hit them with links, but it’s, I mean, you know, the link building gig is done within, you know, three weeks or so usually. And, but I usually don’t see the results from that link building gig for 60 days. It’s, it’s odd I it but I do see it’s like, without question, I see it, for example, there was a, I did a test with a specific SEO, what is the what is the version of the location shield, I’m sorry, that’s what it’s called the location shield. So I bought a location, shield, and MGYBfor a test that I was doing for a multi-location project. And so I had a separate g site created for specifically for one location, and that one location was orphaned from the rest of the project, because I wanted to test something specifically. So I had a separate g site created for it, which is what the location shield does, I’d rather use an RYS expansion stack for multi-location for the same brand. But that’s that’s another another discussion. But anyway, I did that specifically for a test. And so I hammered that one g site, which was optimized for specifically one location with us, I don’t know two, maybe three link building gigs over the course of about two months. And then I left it alone, I didn’t touch a damn thing. haven’t done anything to it since. And it’s been about 60 days. But now that son of a bitch.

Now, for the main brand term, that kind of orphaned g site is actually ranking for the main brand term, specifically, even though like I said, it wasn’t really connected the way that we teach to the rest of the entity, but I just hammered the shit out of it with links, and then I didn’t touch it. And it like literally, I didn’t really track it all that much. But all of a sudden, about 60 days later, now it is just it’s like unmovable on page one, four, for the brand search, which I thought was interesting. So there’s there’s no question that you’re going to see results from it. But sometimes it would drive stacks. I’ve noticed at least that’s just my experience, that it takes some time. And I don’t know why that is maybe it’s maybe Marco can shed some insight on that. But I think probably a lot of it has to do with the backlinks themselves that we’re hitting the SEO showed with take a long time to get indexed and found before they start providing any value. Do you have any insight into that Marco?

Well, we know that Google is taking longer to index links anyway. Right? Yeah, we know it’s taking quite a bit longer, which is why we say once you run that first game, that that tiered link building game, then it’s it is like a good strategy to hit that with some GSA strictly for indexing even after you’ve run that indexing game, which you know, they do get some good results anyway. But Google is going you have to remember that if even if you get really good indexing 20 50%, which means that 50% of the links are still out there for Google define. But since everything is attached to everything, once you get Google in there, right, crawling, everything is going to be finding new links, that you knew were already there that should have already been fumble, but weren’t found for whatever reason. So those will keep coming through those. Your IFTTT syndication network might take a minute for it for everything to index if everything does and sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it takes a little bit longer. Even when you associate everything through schema, it takes longer, or it might show it depends on how everything comes in, which is why I really like to have that schema in place. And to have that same as in place to have that entity loop in place and to run that branding campaign. Right from the start. I mean, that really helps like getting Google to recognize the brand. Know the associations create your own notes throughout the webpage. Rob spoke about during powerful life. We can, however, how all of those associations are at what actually trigger the bug. If if some some of that isn’t in place, then what’s going to happen is it’s just going to stretch out the time period. But as long as it’s all linked, Google recognizes them. It might be that they were crawled but not indexed. That happens also, and then it’ll be crawled again and get indexed. As all of these links coming through yet, it’ll kick it but then, as you said, once it finally happened, I mean look at so Virginia, the SEO Virginia example. It took five is for it to move out of first place. Yeah. And I haven’t been hitting that with links. That’s the whole point.

Yeah, I mean, I did one press release to push it back. And I thought it was going to take more than it took one to push it back. I did look at it just I don’t yesterday or two days ago. And it’s dropped again, a couple spots. But one press release pushed it back to number one for like, three months.

Will Multiple Articles From The Same Domain With Backlinks To Different Pages Give Any Value?

So that’s insane. Anyways, we’re going to move on baby. The next question was, will multiple articles from the same domain that have backlinks to different pages will give any value and the diminishing returns does not affect for backlinking to multiple different pages? No, it does. There’s there’s always a diminishing return. I don’t know what the threshold is, though. And it probably varies depending on the source.

In other words, where the backlinks are coming from, I would think a higher authority type of site would probably have a higher threshold before the number of links from that from the source to the target domain with a you know, have a diminishing return or stop stop being counted or being counted less. So I and I don’t know that to be true. But I’m assuming I imagine it’s logical that higher authority sites would have a higher threshold than lower authority sites. But there is absolutely a diminishing return. But again, the the threat there’s a threshold, I don’t know what that is, and the threshold varies. So uh, and you, you’ve asked this type of question every week now for several weeks in a row. What I want to know BB is what the hell are you doing, where you keep asking these questions about getting a ton of domain or a ton of backlinks from one single source, try to diversify some. And that’s again, the SEO shield gives you that ability using Google properties and some of the other entity assets that we set up to backlink directly to your money site. But then you can smash that with a bunch of links from a bunch of different sites using, you know, Getty is link building, which we recommend or like you said, kitchen sink spam. So then you’re getting diversification, I domain diversity, IP diversity, subnet, diversity, all of those things that you’re going to need in order to get you know, because again, you keep asking these questions about how many links can you get from one domain before it has a diminishing return? And I can’t give you a solid answer. Because I don’t know what that is. But I know there is without question, there’s a diminishing return at some point. And from each domain from each source, I believe it varies from each source Marga, do you want to comment on that? Well, the comment is, at some point, you’re gonna have to start testing. Because these are all test type questions where you’re going to have to go and do it yourself and see the results that you get. I mean, you keep asking this, and we’ve tried all sorts of different way. And we get all sorts of different results. And then what we end up with is what we offer you guys, which is SEO, link building, and bed runs, press releases, link building to the recipes, and better your UI frame, the press releases, hammer those, hammer everything, until you get the results one, not all at once. But as you know, however much it takes, or however little it takes, the process for us remains the same that like none of this is going to matter. Because we’re not going to use one website with a whole bunch of different articles with backlinks. On those pages. I mean, with 100 links on that page would be useless. All right, because of this link attribute, the way that the link is placed on every page, each one would have a different value is that as if your PR one and you have links, and then each one of them will have a PR one? No, that’s not how PageRank works.

And so I’m not I’m not sure what you’re asking. And and not only that interesting thing is that even niches within the same general category, let’s say will react differently.

So we know that the algorithm that like the different sections of the algorithm that treat different things differently, depending on what it is that you’re doing really interesting. But then again, that’s what the heavy hitter club is for. That’s what the semantic mastery mastermind is for. That’s the place where you go and ask these questions. And you either get access to this when we go and test it and bring back Yes.

Unknown Speaker 54:16 So the last question is, why is it better to do a backlink with a link shortener instead of a backlink to the money page or money site itself? Well, it’s I don’t know that it’s, it’s necessarily better. But the reason that we do that with MGYB, like the mgyb.co shortener for drive stacks is because it gives you two separate link targets for the same destination. But it gives you two separate link targets. So just add some diversification. And because we have been using the MGYB.co shortener for drive stack URLs and everything, we build it right into your SEO shields, guys and your drive stacks and all that. You’ll see like the Google Drive folders and file URLs that are you know, the actual share URLs and then there’s the MGYB.

I’d be shortened URLs in the next column over. And the reason we do that is because, you know, with all the link building that gets done to the SEO shields, and to the MGYB.co shortener links, and all that kind of stuff, it’s really powered that up and it’s crazy. But you’ll see mg b dot SEO, short URLs rank in Google Search over top, the Google URL, which is like, like, instead of, in lieu of the Google URL, the mgyb.co our URL will show up. And in Google search results, which just goes to show you how powerful that can be, but I don’t know that it’s any better. It’s just that you can siphon some authority from the link shortener service, which oftentimes has a high level of domain authority, which again, that’s a third party metric, that doesn’t really mean a whole lot. But a lot of times, they do have a lot of domain authority built into them, because people have used them, and it’s just had so much inbound link building done to those over time. Any comments on that? Yeah, of course, it’s better, because of the power that that we have in that short, it’s built into that shorten everything that do that we do happen. To do that short number, we were using Google properties for the most part, or as high, as you said, domain authority and page authority, domains, high trust, AI.

Whatever the vanity metric you want you wanna name is, we have a very powerful domain, on our end, we’re using it and it just provides a boost, it needs to get out of the Google URL, sure, would guess. When they took that away, we decided to create our own and accomplish the same thing, which is basically what we’ve done.

SEO Ultimate Pro Plugin Problem

So John’s up, he says, Hey, guys, just reposting my question from last week as the SEO ultimate Pro Plugin working okay for you. Yes, it’s working fine for me. Two weeks ago, the license stopped working and all the settings disappeared. My sites are now missing all the metadata schema settings, etc. Even testing on a fresh WordPress installs the same support ticket, excuse me support, tickets still go unanswered, even after two weeks, and I don’t know what to do. Okay, so can I recommend another plugin? No, because I use SEO ultimate Pro. And just, john, I tagged you down here. But have you have you tried contacting Jeffrey in the SEO ultimate pro Facebook group? Because I know he’s responsive in there. Um, and and again, like, you know, then I don’t know, maybe you don’t have I don’t know if you’ve got the newest update or version, it should auto prompt you to update in WordPress anyways. But there, there’s got to be an issue that I’m sure Jeffrey can resolve for you. So I’d recommend that you join the SEO ultimate pro Facebook group, and tag, you know, tag Jeffrey and Nancy, tell them exactly what you just put repost your question here to him directly in the Facebook group. Okay. And he should answer it for you. Yeah.

Okay, moving on. And yes, Jeffrey is okay. By the way. He was just a presenter, a guest speaker, or presenter at POFU Live two weeks ago. We can half ago, I guess. So yes, he’s okay. He’s doing well. I would contact him in there.

Okay, just a couple of comments here. And then we’re gonna wrap it up, which is good. I don’t think I missed anything. Did I know.

Unknown Speaker Okay, uh, you why or whatever it is. Hi, guys. From cookbook from Bulgaria, you rock. The reason for the delayed result is a patent from Google related to delayed results from such link building. It is 21 days in the patent. That’s interesting. I didn’t know there was a patent for the link building. I know there was one for the Google dance. It’s the Google does. And it’s actually 2020 days. But when I did the original blog post, I called it 21 days so that people wouldn’t like build on a 20th day. So people would go and build a build on the 20th day, which is the last day of the Google data when I wrote that. I wrote that in 2015. December 2015. I wrote about the Google nest, which is what he’s talking about, yes, it’s a delayed result. It’s just simply that it’ll dance. But what we were talking about is why you know why in sometimes things for long, simply be able to when you clear the Google dance, which is at the 21 day point, you might still see dance, but that’s because there’s links that Google is still finding, which will trigger the deaths, right? Well, my it’s a definitive has already been brought. It shouldn’t be triggered the dance. So there’s a whole lot of factors in place, not not just the Google dance path.

Yeah, and I’ve noticed like using sem rush for rank tracking, for stuff that I’m doing on just on organic ranking basis, instead of local for local, I use bright local to, you know, for rank tracking for GMB’s and stuff, but for just organic ranking. You know, I use sem rush often and it’s interesting, but the Google dance is very, very real. I know you all know that. But it’s, it’s it’s interesting when you’re, if I go in and I like let’s for a week, I go on sem rush every day and look at a particular project I’ll see, like location pages that were somewhat newly published on that site that will like one day, they’ll be, you know, on page two, like position, you know, 15, or whatever, next day, they’re gone. They’re not in the SERPs at all. Then the next day have come back and it’s position 25, then the next day, it’s gone. Then the next day, it’s position nine. And it’s really interesting to watch. Like, I knew that Google dance was there before, but I don’t typically SERP watch, but I’ve started using sem rush a lot more. And so I’ll go in there often and just kind of look at the, you know, the keyword rank reporting. And I’ll see that that you know, it’s a very volatile dance, because it jumps sometimes it’ll drop 30 positions, other times, it’ll disappear from the index altogether, then it comes back 24 hours later, in a better position than it was previously. Like, it’s just really interesting to see how much dancing it really is occurring with Google Now. And I think it’s become more pronounced in recent years than it has than it was previously. So any follow up comments on that Martin’s gonna wrap it up? No, no, I mean, if the desk is real, it’s been real since Google publishes the patent. Our post was put post about two months after Google published that that particular path.

Alright, fellas, well, thanks, everybody for being here. Thanks, guys for joining and we will see you guys next week. At the free hang up let’s put that on the page. When I posted in slack we got a funnel if people want to opt in to find out when Jeremy’s tools available. Let me grab that URL.

And I’m gonna jump back to the main page and post that and so this is for Jeremy’s

What are we calling this? I know he’s got a name for it. I forgot the name, but we’ll just call it you want to really at scale leverage syndicated content on autopilot. This is going to be a pretty awesome tool. I think. I don’t know if you guys want to describe it more than that. syndicated auto blog app.

Print, I’m going to call it the pre launch. Or launch I scrolled per launch. So I know you guys can’t see me. But anyways, yeah, I’ll have this on the page in just a minute, guys. We’ll see you all next week. All right, guys, everybody. Bye, everybody.

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