#giving myself a few days for her to age up & hopefully get some more stats before i king her

[pumaskulls]

Made an icon of my heir on Lioden since I've started playing again :3

My baby girl baby 🥺❤️

[aquarianlights]

What do you want for your birthday?

Tbh, the answer is too expensive to ask for fr fr. 🥺

But uh. Instead of asking for that...

If anyone wants to give me anything for my birthday, my bday is 🎉 🎂 February 11th 🎂 🎉. And I could really use money more than tangible items tbh. 😥 There's not much I want anyways, other than to move Echo & myself back to NOLA.

Venmo: @kqroswell

Cashapp: $kqroswell

Paypal: @kqroswell or thekilliancode@yahoo.com

But uhhhm.....regarding the expensive thing I wanted........

Ig I'm just gonna say it. Ahhh. 😵‍💫

✨️ I really want an Embark with the health test on it. 🥺 ✨️

[Ranting and tangents ahead. Don't feel obligated to read past this point. If you know me, you know this is going to a) be ridiculous and b) go on forever. And it's not proofread. Godspeed if you decide to read lol.]

I have wanted an Embark for most of Echo's life but now that he is getting older and he is officially an "old man" and has some grey furs, I don't want to miss the opportunity to find out EXACTLY what his breed or breed mix is. It would also be super helpful to have the health thing to guide me as he ages into his final years with any preexisting conditions and whatnot. I'd also LOVE to be able to find any siblings of his... especially if they are close, physically. I'd love to get in touch and ask the owner how their dog turned out; If they had any psych issues, ever got skin cancer, grew to an abnormally large size, etc. I'd love to find his breeder again and tell her how Echo is... especially since her and her husband were so adamant about not selling him and I had to really fight to get them to let me buy him.

And yes, I know Embark only goes back 3 or 4 generations so if it were to come back purebred pomeranian, his lines could still be diluted further back.

I just have this massive suspicion that he is a Mittelspitz or Kleinspitz in the German Spitz family and not a Pomeranian. OR that he is a mutt with Pom and German Spitz (Mittelspitz) being the main breeds or only breeds. Or just that Mittelspitz diluted the line far back and his size and certain tempraments got thrown into the genetics of this litter.

Which... I would usually not mind for him to be something else and I have nothing against Mittelspitzes. ...but they seem to have a significantly shorter lifespan than pomeranians (probably due to their size)... so in this case, I am hoping against all odds that Echo is either a purebred pomeranian or he only has mittelspitz in him from his lines being diluted so far back that Embark can't even detect it. I think if the dilution is far enough back then the genetics are okay in terms of lifespan and he will lean more towards a pomeranian lifespan, but I could be wrong. I need to find someone to ask about that. 😐

Him being a pom vs him being mittelspitz could mean the difference of having 5-8 more years with him. I *need* those years.

Him being mittelspitz means that I need to get another dog to have time to bond with it *right the fuck now* or I will just straight up unalive the day that I have to put Echo to sleep (hopefully for old age) or the day Echo dies naturally (REALLY hoping for this option coz I have SO many fears and scenarios in my head surrounding putting him to sleep that fuck me up).

Mittelspitz lifespans seem to be anywhere from 13-15 years. Idk if owners have experienced differences in this. This is a statistic I got from google. I only know 2 mittelspitz owners so I don't have a lot of data to pull from.

Pomeranian lifespans, according to google's stats, are 12-16 years, but from being around pomeranians for most of my teenage and adult life, having friends and lovers with poms, being in breed-specific groups for pomeranian owners and being on dogbook on facebook where I am mostly around people who appreciate purebreds in all manners, including educationally, I can say that it is more on the rare side that a pom would live to be 12. Poms generally live to be in the 15-17 range. I have seen quite a few live to 18, even. I have seen a handful live to 19... and a lot of these older poms are still running around in the yard playing like a pup. I think the oldest pom was 21 years old?

The point is MOST poms I see are around 16 or 17 years old for a "senior" age and because of that, I have gotten hopes HIGH that Echo will live to at least 15, if not 16. So seeing the stats that Mittelspitz live from 13-15... I keep seeing 13 and thinking "wow that's only 4 years from now" and then it's immediately "I only have 4 years left with Echo... and I'll never truly get to know what he was because I'm 99% sure you can't do a buccal swab after death."

I think finding out your dogs breeds is important because the genetics of the breed play an important role in how your dog behaves. You can get to know your dog and how they act better. You'll be able to understand them better if you understand basic canine ethology and understand their breed makeup (if you don't, maybe it's time to discover a cool new breed and delve into the research about that breed. You'll get to see your dog all over that research! I just think that's so cool. 🥺). You'll be able to get in tune with them better and training will be easier... understanding WHY they're doing what they do. It also alerts you to any pre-existing conditions those breeds might be prone to. And if you have a mutt, you can also see if any behaviours/temperaments in your dogs genetics clash and maybe come up with a way to help them out in that area if you have seen it manifest in your life. 🙂

This also helps tell you the conformation you should be looking for if your dog is purebred. Obviously, it doesn't help much for mutts since there is no correct conformation for dogs that come out different every single time and don't have a standard... 😅 But. Uh. I think Embark does help with appropriate weight/size of your dog even if your dog is a mutt, which is SUPER important in today's climate where people force their dogs to obesity and these poor dogs can't even be dogs anymore. And their owners joke about how "chonky" they are and they genuinely think these dogs are happy as long as they are getting fed, while literally every video and picture they post is just... pure misery and abuse. It breaks my absolute heart. Albeit I haven't used embark, I THINK it tells you where your dogs weight "should be" even if your dog is a mutt, but I could be wrong about that. 😳 If I ever get one, I'll update this with an answer via screenshot lol. Also not sure if the "should be" is accurate. I'm sure it isn't all the time, espec for mutts, but I bet it's a good guideline to use... espec for something like my dog who is apparently a purebred "pomeranian" but is perfect pet weight in the 19-21 lb range, which happens to be more mittelspitz weight. Just odd that ALL his siblings AND PARENTS were normal, tiny pomeranian size and he, at the same age as his siblings when I went to buy the puppy I had originally picked out (which didn't work out) was maybe twice their size already and about to be bigger than his parents. I had never seen anything like it. 🙃 (God, just imagine if I had come home with the intended dog! Imagine if I had bought the one I originally discussed with the breeder and it had been a smooth transaction and I hadn't have needed to see the rest of the litter at all and I had been out the door with that other puppy before Echo even got time to break out of the back room. 😧 I do imagine this sometimes and I cannot even fucking fathom how different my life would be just by buying the puppy I had originally intended to buy holy christ. 😵‍💫)

Anyways...

All of these things are reasons why I have been obsessed with getting an Embark done for Echo over the years. Now that he is up there in age and Idk whether or not the Mittelspitz lifespan is accurate or not on google, I am kinda panicking to get it. And I do not want to settle for another brand. And since Echo has had cancer, I'm really wanting the health portion of it.

But honestly... it's just far too expensive for me. Even with the holiday discounts. 🥲 And my priorities are keeping Echo's quality of life up, moving us both back to NOLA sooner than asap and being able to afford a well-bred, purebred second dog (including all his basic, predictable medical needs from puppyhood to old age and, ofc, all his needs so he won't steal from his brother [Echo]... beds, toys, smart toys, raised bowls, finding a food he likes, dental additives for water, treats he likes, training treats he likes, collar, unique custom tag, cute tags, harness, leash, grooming supplies, clothes coz this next dog WILL WEAR CLOTHES DAMNIT lol, puppy pads for puppy phase, diamond dremel, rabies registration with the city, registration of his microchip on all the sites I have Echo's active (the really good ones that have country-wide or global reach and can access cameras in most US street areas and have volunteers placed throughout at all times cost a yearly membership fee & I am 200% willing to pay & keep my address, his pic, details, etc updated so that if Echo ever goes missing, I can immediately put out an alert there and then go to fb immediately after; adding another dog is free, I think, though... and his microchip is active registered on several other different sites, too), a new mesh kennel (was wanting an Impact Crate for echo but new dog comes first now so I don't unalive lol), kennel bed, traffic lead, new crash tested seatbelt OR, my dream, a sleepypod harness for the car, several permanently placed baby gates with human doors on them that don't have those stupid slats in them where a small dog could slip through and a dog with no braincells could get his big alien head stuck between them 🙃, detangling spray if necessary (depending on breed I get), puppy shampoo and conditioner, later will need adult shampoo and conditioner, tooth brush (puppy and adult), tooth paste (flavour he likes), I can use the same paw balm that I use on Echo for this dogs paws and nose thankfully and I can use the same eye wipes... and finally all the unique and weird stuff... (ie: Echo's thing is burrowing and "digging" into soft surfaces like carpets and soft furniture, so he likes burrow beds and snuffle matts and he gets them... new dog will obvi have weirdo quirks like this that I will be getting him special things for that cost a lil more than normal). I'm sure I'm missing SO much lmao. Obvi all his puppy shots, boosters, etc... all covered.

Also, ALL of this will be colour coordinated. Echo's colour seems to be purple/blue. He owns and wears a p equal set of blue and purple things. So I'll have to figure out what this new dog's colour will be and colour coordinate EVERYTHING. 🥰

Ofc this is all, uh...... in my mind as an ideal world where I have the ability to financially provide for this second dog after having the money to afford the dog itself.. 😥 If I could financially provide for a second dog, trust me, I would have it already. 😅

But I just went off on a RIDICULOUS tangent there, sorry LOL. My bad.

Uh. The POINT was...

Embark comes after ALL of that in financial priorities for me. ...meaning it will never happen sigh. 🥲 So I'm gonna start asking for it starting next christmas or something coz idk how else to get it tbh... idk. Coz I want it so badly. I want to be closer to my boy. 🥺 And I feel embark can provide that.

Okay okay I know that was a LOT for such a simple question. I'm sorry... 😅 I'll shut up now, I promise. Lmao. 🤐

Sorry. 😣

[twilight-alchemist]

Racing Along the Event Horizon

Ao3

Chapter 2- Before

Fic summary: The roar of the arena should have been deafening, but instead it sounds far away as if underwater. Shiro’s heartbeat flutters loudly in his ears as adrenaline burns through him like acid. Every time back in this godforsaken place feels just as maddening as the first time. The beast under him senses his distress and shudders, dancing sideways and shaking her head. Her name is Singularity, and she’s as terrifying as she is beautiful. They have to win this race together or they face certain death.

or

This is not your usual a-boy-and-his-dog story

6 months previous

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It was becoming a pattern. The handlers came to get him and he’d be thrown into the arena. He’d fight, and he’d win. He always won. It never felt like a victory. It just felt like staying alive. He tried not to kill whenever he could. Maiming instead of killing never felt like much of a favor. Either way, it always ended in blood.

When the dust settled he’d be thrown into a healing pod. They’d pull him out and hose him off with water hot enough to scald before tossing him back in his cell.  He never thought he’d miss the crowded prisoner’s quarters, but the silence here is suffocating. The cell was small, just enough room for him to stretch next to the cot. There was a little room the size of a broom closet with a toilet and a faucet at the back end of the cell. The water faucet had some kind of timer on it, but there was enough to drink and wash up if he was fast. The water was always shockingly cold and jolted him back to his body.

He’s sitting now with his head under the tap. The water used to bring him back to himself, but now it just feels cold. He’s shivering and he barely feels it. The water times out and Shiro knows it won’t turn back on for a while. He climbs onto his cot and folds his bedroll until he can hug it. He pulls the blanket over his shoulders and huddles down. If he drifts enough, it can almost feel like he’s holding someone. In the moments before sleep, he can pretend he isn’t alone.

Shiro startles awake late into the night cycle. The cell is pitch black. Shiro’s gotten as used to it as he is ever going to get, which isn't much. There’s no sound but the constant hum of the ship, and if he strains enough, the faint footfalls of guards and sentries. But Shiro swears he can hear something else. He stays completely still. There’s a flicker of movement in the corner and Shiro stiffens.

“Shiro?” It’s Keith. Oh god it’s Keith. Terror and hope at once rise in his chest to strangle him.

“Keith!” Shiro shouts. He jumps from the cot, grasping in the darkness for Keith’s familiar form. He only finds the wall.

“Shiro!” Keith calls to him again, and Shiro whips around.

“I’m here, Keith where are you!? You have to get out of here! It’s not safe!” He finds another wall. Where is Keith?  "Keith we have to get home, where are you?!"

Shiro can't hear him anymore.  “Keith?” he asks. His entire body is shaking. “Keith?”

The cell is silent.

“Keith?” Shiro tries one last time, his voice small.

There’s nothing.

Shiro screams. He has to get out of here. He has to escape he has to get home Keith is back home all alone and they’re turning him into a monster here he’s going to die alone raving mad and covered in blood that isn’t his. He yells and bangs on the cell door until his lungs burn and his body aches. He bloodies his knuckles on the bars and bruises his shoulder throwing himself at it but he barely feels it. He has to get through the bars and then past the cell door and into the hallway and to the hangers and into a ship if he can just get to a ship he could get home he’s a pilot he could get home.

His shrieks eventually attract the attention of a guard. The guard cracks open the solid outer door and as soon as the light appears Shiro throws himself at the bars with a snarl. The guard curses and jumps back, nearly slamming Shiro’s arm in the door as they shut it. No no no they have to come back he has to get out of here.

“Let me out!” he wails, shaking the bars. “Let me out!!” Eventually his voice gives out and he sinks to the floor. He can’t get his breathing to slow down and lays on the ground gasping and sobbing.

He can't get home.

Shiro wakes up on the floor. He’s cold, and when he sits up he aches. There’s dried blood dark on his knuckles. The purple lights around the top of the cell are glowing dimly. It’s day, his day off, and then tomorrow he’ll have to fight and kill for blood sport. He’s on a Galra ship incredibly far from earth, and he’s probably going to die here, alone and losing his mind, or slaughtered in the arena.

He crawls into his bed. The hallucinations are getting stronger. He’s losing touch with himself. Everything inside the cell is suffocating and everything outside of it is crushing in its intensity. He enters the arena keyed up, panicked, and enraged. It makes him stupid, and it’s going to get him killed. Eventually he warms up enough to stop shivering. At some point today they’ll bring him to a room to train against the droids. He wishes they would let him train with other fighters just for the company. If he’s lucky he’ll catch a glimpse and a few words while passing the other cells.

The outer door slides open and Shiro startles so badly he almost falls off the cot. God, his nerves are fried. He tries to look as intimidating as he can while wrapped in a blanket. Shiro doesn’t recognize the galra standing in front of his cell. He’s slim and short furred, so dark purple he’s nearly black. He has unusual ears for a galra and sharp features. He was eyeing Shiro with the kind of critical gaze that one would usually reserve for an overpriced piece of fruit at the supermarket.

“I guess you were right.” He says, to someone beyond Shiro's line of sight. “He doesn’t look like much even considering he’s a favorite right now, but his size is perfect.” He smiles, and Shiro finds it unpleasantly toothy. Shiro isn’t sure what this galra is talking about, but he already doesn’t like it.

“I’m Lieutenant Haxus.” Shiro’s stomach sinks- he’s never had a higher up come talk to him before. It can’t mean anything good. Another Galra comes into view, and he’s big enough to block the light from the hallway. Shiro recognizes the massive prosthetic arm and the glowing red eye; it’s commander Sendak himself.

He presses himself back against the wall; not that it does him any good. A sentry opens the door and drags Shiro up, securing his arms together with cuffs and clipping the muzzle behind his head. It’s uncomfortable. He really shouldn’t have bitten that handler. He can’t find it in himself to regret it though. It had felt like a brief moment of control, before the blood and the screaming, before the shock that made him black out.

A rough shoves pulls him out of his thoughts and out of his cell into the brightly lit hallway. The bright purple light never fails to give him a headache. Haxus leads the way down the corridors in the direction arena, talking easily with Sendak. Shiro wishes he wasn’t so happy just to be listening to conversation. He hasn’t heard so many words strung together in long time. But he doesn’t understand what is happening, and that makes him nervous. He was just supposed to train today. Normally the sentries bring him there and back. Maybe they want to watch him train? They walk past the training complex and Shiro frowns.

His heart rate spikes as they near the arena foyer; he shouldn’t have to fight today, he just fought yesterday. He can hear the muffled roar of the crowd and the shill voice of the announcer. Haxus takes a sudden left and Shiro stumbles to follow, the sentry shoving him forward. Sendak keeps smiling at Haxus as they talk like he isn’t there. They’re going under the arena, Shiro realizes. He doesn’t like this break in routine, because that always means something painful is going to happen.

They arrive at a huge door and Shiro gawks. It’s big enough to be for an airplane hangar. His heart beats fast when he realizes maybe it is a hanger, and there will be ships inside.  Haxus presses his hand to the scanner and the door opens, warm air rushing out. Warm air that smells like manure.  So much for ships.  Shiro scowls and steps back, not wanting to go into that dim stinky place, but the sentry jabs him forward again. Sendak lingers by the door, scowling just as much a Shiro.

“The smell’s going to get into my coat.” He says.  He looks almost petulant.

“We didn’t come all the way here for you to get fussy about your fur.” Haxus says.

Sendak sighs and steps past the entryway, the massive doors sliding closed behind him. He makes clear his disgust of the place as they pass rows of large cells. Shiro thinks it seems just as clean and sterile as the rest of the ship, besides the smell. There’s a flicker of movement in one of the cells and Shiro pauses. He wishes it was brighter so he could see what was in there. The pause earns him another jab from the sentry. He looks around at all the cells. This must be where they keep the arena animals. That doesn’t help him understand why he’s here.

Haxus stops in front of a cell that look just like all the others. It has the same kind of door as Shiro’s, internal barred door and solid outer door with a viewing window, just much bigger. Haxus is grinning as he looks in the window with Sendak. “Isn’t she beautiful? She’s got amazing stats, a protégé in her age class. I selected her myself after reviewing all the available data and doing my own calculations.”

Sendak huffs, and Shiro gets the distinct feeling he’s not an animal guy. “That pelt color will be... very impressive in the arena, if nothing else," he says.  Haxus is still looking at him expectantly and he sighs.  "She certainly looks stronger than last years. Hopefully she’ll be worth all the GAC. It’s such a waste otherwise.”

“Well that’s why we are getting more involved this time, we can’t have a disgrace like that happen again just because we left it in someone else’s incapable hands.” Haxus says. He eyes Shiro curiously, like he forgot he was there. “You know, Sendak insisted you ride her. I wasn’t for it, because the guards say you have a mental instability.” Shiro bristles, but Haxus continues on. “But now that I see you, you’re so small that she’ll hardly be slowed down at all even at her top speed.” Haxus says. “It’ll give you an excellent edge over the competition."

Haxus moves away from the stall and gets the attention of a stable hand. Shiro notices she's not in military uniform, but a civilian level worker like the handlers.  She looks nervous to have been called upon by a higher up.  All her violet fur is puffed up like she stuck her claws in a socket.

“Has #6701 eaten yet today?”

“Yes sir.” She says, posture stiff.

“So she’s not hungry?” Haxus asks.

“She shouldn’t be, sir.”

“Excellent.”

Shiro did not like that little exchange at all. He wonders if he could dart around the sentry to escape, but the door out is closed, and Haxus and Sendak didn’t get their ranks by lazing around on their backsides. He inches forward to see what he’s dealing with. He has to stand on his tip toes to see through the window.  He stares at what appears to be a large and empty dimly lit stall. What were they looking at before? Are they messing with him?

Suddenly the door lifts open and a rough hand at his back pushes Shiro in. He backs up against the door immediately, feeling for an escape. All he finds is the familiar grid of bars. “Oh relax, she’s been well fed.” Haxus laughs from the other side. “It’s unlikely she’ll rip your arms off. And you better not hurt her, she’s worth far more than you. Riders are easily replaceable.”

Something moves in the back of the stall and Shiro’s breath catches. Four white eyes are watching him, and Shiro can see the dark shape of a body against the shadows. She’s so dark it’s hard for Shiro to understand what he’s seeing. Instead he has to find the edges of her against the dim light of the stall and trace her outline. She’s big, even taller than Sendak.

“You get to name her.” Sendak says. “It’s tradition that the rider chooses the name. It’s meant to bond you together.”

Shiro’s not so sure about bonding as he watches the shadow moves closer. Her eyes are a blank inexpressive white, but he can feel that she’s watching him closely. Shiro looks into the eyes of the sentient black hole before him and realizes with certainty that there is no escaping her. He’s going to have to let her pull him in.

The alien moves forward, large face emerging out of the darkness. Her head is as big as Shiro’s entire torso. Her clawed feet are the size of dinner plates.  He fights the urge to bolt and tries to remain still, trying to force himself to relax. She’s pricked her tall ears forward, curious, and she moves closer. Slowly, Shiro lifts his bound hands. He hopes that huge alien creatures aren’t too different then dogs. He hopes she’s not about to bite his hands off. She leans her head down to breathe a hot puff of air onto his outstretched palms.

Shiro touches a palm to her soft muzzle and holds his breath when she doesn’t flinch away. She presses back. Shiro smiles, and it’s been so long that the sensation feels foreign on his face. He never thought he’d feel a friendly touch again.

“Singularity.” Shiro says. “Her name is Singularity.”

[angelagiles18]

Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 264

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Adam: should be going live right? Welcome, everybody to the day before Thanksgiving 2019. It’s Episode 264 of Hump Day Hangouts. We are all here. And I will put in a quick suggestion. You’re watching this live put a question on the page. I think everyone’s already headed out for the travel plans. We got a few questions. But we’re going to go through those and then we all are heading out to do our things too. So you got a question? By all means, get it on the page. So we can help you out today. Before we head out and do our Thanksgiving stuff. So real quick, though, let’s take a minute and say hello to everybody. We got everyone here. So Bradley, what I guess one How are you doing into what are you doing for Thanksgiving?

Bradley: First, I’m doing very well. Second, let me mention real quick. Yes, what Adam just said is true, guys. We’re happy to cut out early today on Hump Day Hangouts. But we are here as always, so you know if you’ve got questions, post them otherwise, soon as we run out of questions, we’re out. So, but I’m doing quite well. You know, by the way, if anybody missed out on the Google Ads branding course, wow. It’s turned out really good. And now it’s been edited the three-hour-long webinars now been edited into like 15 lessons for that’s just session one. We’re going to do the next session on December 9th. So I don’t think you can get the early bird special anymore, but we might have something on Friday, maybe. We’ll see what happens on Friday right. Lastly, as far as for Thanksgiving I got my daughter for five days actually just got back from picking her up. She’s downstairs so she didn’t have to listen to me talk about marketing for the next hour. But it’s good because I’ve got our for five days and we’ve got two different Thanksgiving dinners planned one tomorrow, one on Saturday. And just looking forward to taking a few days off and spending it with my daughter. How about you? What are you doing?

Adam: I’m headed out to pick the unfortunate time to head to the beach. We’re going to Big Sur if anyone’s familiar with that. It’s a lot of forests. A lot of really scenic areas right on the beach there on highway one California. It’s probably a couple like an hour, hour and a half southwest of Santa Cruz. But we got a massive storm coming on the west coast of the US has been dumping rain. So I’m going to cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Bradley: Oh man. Good timing, huh?

Adam: Yeah, we might be doing. I don’t know a turkey on Coleman stove.

Chris: What? camping outside?

Adam: Well, we got a little cabin, but it’s just kind of more of a structure than a like full-on cabin. So we’ll see how it goes. I may have a story for you guys next week. If I make it back live. So Hernan, how about you, man? What’s, uh, what are you doing for a living in Buenos Aires?

Hernan: We don’t do that. I’m happy to see you guys eating turkey and all that stuff. So I’m excited. I’m really excited to be here. And I have my friend humpy wood here. What’s he saying? You’re a kinky MF. Oh, yeah. If you go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday there’s going to be some good stuff coming up daily deals. Don’t miss it including that stuff that Bradley did he always over-delivers like a crazy person. And you know it’s really really good stuff so go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday to get your stuff and invest in your business and instead of like getting a new TV that you don’t even need.

Adam: definitely and I was gonna say you Hernan we’ve had I’m looking right now I just hopped in to look at the stats event 262 people go so far you can go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday right now. And we’ve got three free training videos that haven’t been seen one of them is brand spanking new that nobody has ever seen. So we’ve got that up, but that’s coming down at midnight tomorrow. So if you haven’t gone over there, by all means, head over there. If you’re watching this after the fact after Friday, that’s too late. That’s all right. You got two days to get over there and check it out. Let’s see

Bradley: Chris, what the hell are you doing over there, man?

Adam: Yeah. Chris How you doing and how’s your microphone

Chris: I wanted some attention you know like you taking too long guys. So yeah, like I’m pretty good here. happy that I don’t have to eat boatloads of foods. I enjoyed Thanksgiving last year while I was on a cut and it pretty much destroyed me. Let’s call it that way through me back two weeks so I’m happy that I can pass on that experience this year. And yeah, enjoy the cold weather in Austria like I’m super excited because it’s snowing.

Adam: Wow. Ooh, nice. Hopefully, don’t get any sound here. I’m trying to bring up something all right. Marco. I guess yeah, let’s get the Costa Rica weather update and what are you going to be up to for the next few days?

Marco: No Thanksgiving in Costa Rica. We don’t celebrate it. But I mean to all of you who celebrated hope you have a great time. I hope your table is full and that you have lots of blessings on the table. Not just for Thanksgiving, but for the rest of the year. So yeah, by all means, enjoy it now. I’m working on my charity webinars. Every year, which I do something for charity. And last year went over really well. I did four webinars. And we just had a ton of people attend. And, you know, I’m known when it’s about the kids. I’m known to give away a lot of knowledge that maybe shouldn’t go out, but I don’t care. It’s for the kids. And if you donate, you can come to the webinars, I’ll drop the donation link on the page. And anyone who wants to donate, go there and make a donation or go find me to one of the Semantic Mastery of the free group. Go to my page, right Marco Benavides. I’m on Facebook and all of the instructions are there on what you need to do to it. Turn the live webinar. Things are a good man. So when things are good, it’s good to give

Adam: most definitely most definitely yeah and be doing a little bit of that it’s good to just a general I do try to do some reflection around this time of year and think about you know, hey I’m joking about going out and being cold in the rain but it’s my choice to do it. I’m glad you know for the things I’ve got and for having not only you guys as partners, but also you know, being able to converse with people help other people out on Hump Day Hangout, so we’ll talk about this more at Christmas we got some good stuff coming up too. But we’ll concentrate on this week we got some cool Black Friday stuff coming up so like said in her non did go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday, and then that will automatically roll over training goes away midnight tomorrow, but then we’re going to have some just killer deals coming up at 12:01 am starting Friday. I’m pumped. I’m getting excited.

So we’re real quick. I want to say though if you’re new to semantic mastery, you’re in the right place. We’re going to get to some questions here shortly. You can come here every week, just go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, and you can ask your questions ahead of time, which we highly encourage just keep it to one question. I know it’s tough sometimes but people start writing paragraphs and we have to skip if there are too many questions because we want to make sure we’re fair and get to all the questions. But then the next step would be grabbing the battle plan if you want step by step processes for getting results, things like your age domain or you got a new website you’re putting up or a YouTube channel or whatever it is you want to do go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com pick it up, it’s a steal, we put in a ton of awesome bonuses is a value bomb. And after that, if you’ve got clients and you’re wanting to grow your digital marketing agency or business, then come join us in the mastermind go to mastermind.semanticmastery.com and for everyone that likes saving time, that’s me, right and if you want to not only save time to get things done very very well the first time go to mgyb.co originally this stuff started out as are done for you services and things like syndication networks are always drives tech stuff we had we had certainly taught about and you could still buy the courses if you want to understand the real nuts and bolts and maybe have someone do it for you. But if you want it done quickly, and you want it done professionally had the mgyb.co, you can check it out. And we’ve added on link building, press releases, all sorts of awesome stuff, which there might be some Black Friday stuff going on. But we’ll hold off on that until Friday. So other than that, guys, do we have anything else that we want to cover?

Bradley: I don’t think so. I’m ready to answer some questions. Get the hell out.

Adam: All right. humpy says yes.

Hernan: Humpy’s cursing since today’s gonna mute myself and that Bradley dude thing.

Bradley: All right, let’s do it. All right, let me grab the screen. Sweet You guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct?

Adam: Correct. Alright.

Can You Delete A Subdomain And Redirect It To The Root Without Passing A Penalty?

So it looks like Dustin Bay was the first one up. He says if I get a penalty on the www. domain, so is the subdomain with www as the subdomain, can I delete the subdomain and redirect it to the root without passing the penalty? No, not if you’re just doing a straight redirect, you can’t do that it will pass the penalty. So, or is it better to just delete www without redirecting it and installing the site on the root? Yeah, you can I mean, you could do that because essentially, well, I think about that. Marco, what say you because I know with www a lot of the times will be. It’s still treated as a subdomain but just installing it on the root because some people will have maybe linked to you whatever’s causing a penalty, let’s see, I’ve got to admit or not there is whatever is causing the penalty could also cause it. Remember, people, if they linked to the root domain version of it, if you had your domain setup on www and they were canonicalized to each other, or they auto redirected from your root domain to the www dot version or whatever, then it if people built links to it without www in the domain, then it’s still going to be pointing links back to the root domain, even if you remove that, you know, reinstall the site on the root domain, if that makes sense. So I know if you just did a redirect from the www subdomain to the root domain and then kind of pushed the installation of the site onto the root and lost the www it would still pass the penalty. So what’s the best way to go about that Marco?

Marco: Yeah, you know, I was thinking about this question really hard and think Okay, so how, how would I do this because I’ve just lost my dub dub. And if I did any, as you said, any link building to it, because you still going to have, it depends on the penalty, right? But you’re still going to have a ton of links coming to the dub dub dub, especially the way we teach it. Because we use all variations of the URL right? When we link building, so you’re going to lose that you’re going to lose anyone who’s still and there are people who still type out www. and then the address, right, there are still people who do that. Now, you are going to pass a penalty be 301? Yes, no question. Now, what if? What if, right, so I’m just thinking like, this is theory, guys? I don’t I hardly ever do this unless I tested but this is theory. And this is something you could try. What have you said that that subdomain to no index nofollow and then have Google crawl it? I’d go into Search Console, have Google recrawl and see what it said to no index, no five And then three or one it to the non dub dub dub version or even HTTPS version right to the non www and then everything is redirected again to the HTTPS, you might lose the penalty with with with a couple of jumps and with that with a no-index nofollow on the subdomain that’s causing the problem.

Now, what’s the problem? I mean, how did they get a penalty? How do you know that it was kind of like, was it a manual? Because a manual, if you remove whatever it is that offending Google, you can request for reconsideration. So it all depends on what kind of penalty. Like why not it’s even hard to get a link penalty. Right? Because Google just doesn’t pay attention to links that aren’t relevant. Or if you’re really talented, then you send millions of links, then you get and you do get an unnatural link, you could get that. But it’s usually manuals that you get. So trying to think it through, you may, you may not pass a penalty if you do a double hop, or it might, it might take time for it to catch back up. So you’re going to have to test on this and see, but by all means, move it to the non-www. And remember that any links going to that you lose that once you remove that www, if it doesn’t get redirected, so you’re going to have to read redo all of those links, especially if you had some really powerful links coming through there. That’s what I would recommend trying again, theory. I haven’t done this. I haven’t ever tried it. But in theory, if Google sees that it’s knowing that’s nofollow, then there’s no reason for that website to be penalized anymore.

Hernan: Yeah, right. Can you real quick? This is more like a question. Can you read direct? I guess you could, like you could read direct a subdomain outside of the route and then back into the route, you could like, yeah, you know, like, so as to clean it up.

Bradley: I was gonna, I was going to suggest, you know, something that would be a little bit more elaborate because I’ve done something similar in the past, where not specifically what I’ve done it to an external domain and then redirected the external domain back to the domain that had the penalty, but just on a different subdomain or you know, a different subdomain entirely. But here’s what I was thinking might also work. Again, this is theory, but it would be putting inserting Google in the middle of it, which could absolutely reduce or, you know, eliminate any negative, you know, link equity from point coming back through, something you might consider would be like creating a G site mirrored to what the original site was. So you have the same page structure and all of that, linked from the subdomain, redirect all of that on a page by page basis to the G site and then from the G site, you can have the pages that are built with the link linking back to your root domain, right? It’s a mirror of the site anyways. Or you can even iframe those pages into the G site pages if that makes sense. So that you’re pointing any negative link equity that’s come through that. That might be why you’ve got a penalty to the G site, which we already know, the G site will clean that up and won’t penalize itself. So you’d actually be passing page rank to your money site pages on the new domain, whether its root, the root domain or whatever, different subdomain, whatever, but it would be filtering through the G site. I don’t know. I’ve never actually said I’ve done that with an external domain before but not with a G site. What do you think Marco about that?

Marco: You know, I’m really liking that, especially if you can map out your custom domain, right? The www version over to Google so that stays but you still have the G site underneath, right? Right. And that that’ll filter out any other. Yes, this is guaranteed that’ll filter out any penalty that could have. Which, but if we’d have to see what the penalties you guys, you don’t tell us what the penalty is that we can’t really give you the advice, or the answer that you need. But yeah, I mean, again, in theory, you get three on one that penalize subdomain that www, which is a subdomain, to a G site, which links over to the root where the new site was built, and it can all be the same content and Google won’t give a shit.

Bradley: That’s it, right? I mean, that’s, that’s what I would do. Because again, you’re putting an SEO shield between the penalty in your domain, right? I mean, that’s what we’re talking that’s what we talked about the SEO shield. Go check it out on MGYB and you’ll if you don’t already know what we’re talking about, and now you’re basically doing that you’re inserting part of that shield in between the penalty and the domain. So check it out and try.

What Is The Best Way To Add A YouTube Video To A Website And Maintain Site Speed?

Greg’s Up next, he says, Is there a preferred way to add a video from our YouTube channel to our website page and maintain site speed my site pages load in around one second. And I don’t want that to slow to two or three seconds as a result of adding videos. My goals are to increase time on my site, have specific videos, keep visitors on specific pages, increase views on the videos and improved website ranking by adding videos but not slow down page load times. Any suggestions? Yeah, they have lazy load plugins. You can also I know there’s some way to code that into but I know there’s if it’s a WordPress site, they have lazy load plugins that will lazy load images. And they also I’m pretty sure will lazy load iframes or whatever. So videos I’m pretty sure that you can also lazy load those which means it will allow the page to render entirely before it will start to load the images or the external iframe such as a YouTube video. Any other subject The only other I mean obviously if you use a CDN, but a CDN, I’m not sure I don’t think a CDN affects the loading speed of iframes. Because those are external sites, right? It’s just a tunnel to an external site. But CDN a content delivery network would still allow your page itself to load incredibly quick. The iframe would still be would load as slowly as you don’t have control over that the speed at which the iframe loads, that makes sense. Mark, do you have any suggestions for that

Marco: lazy load suggestions is perfect. I would say don’t be too anal about paint speed, because it’s one of over 200 factors. And we don’t know how much of a factor it is. Everything else considered. And since we teach PageSpeed, doesn’t really matter. Nothing, nothing matters. This is the three pillars, that it’s foundational principles, what we teach activity, relevance, trust and authority and how we build that up. So if you go from one second to 2.2 seconds or whatever, doesn’t matter, it’s not going to matter to anybody, especially Someone coming and they see the video, you have it in a prominent place where the person can watch the video, they’re going to wait for that video because they want to watch the video. You’ve driven them to your pace. Now if it’s taking a ton of time to render, that that might cause a big deal, but you can just do it lazy load and and have it render after the page loads and and you’re good to go.

Hernan: Yeah, There’s never like there’s there’s not a good reason why you shouldn’t be using a CDN anyways. CloudFlare being free, you know, or something like that. So you should be using it anyways. So,

Bradley: yeah, yeah, I mean, it’ll help to load the page quicker and also will load the page from multiple servers or, you know, from multiple locations. So, and also helps in case something happens where your site goes down. For whatever reason, people can still view the pages that kind of because they’re cached. So there’s a lot of good reasons to have a CDN. It’s good for security. There’s a lot of reasons for that. But it will help the page itself to load quicker. Again, it’s not going to help the iframes to load any faster because those are external sites. It’s just a tunnel to an external site within your web page, right? So you don’t have any control over that. But you can control at which point does that load so that you can tell that like, again, with a lazy load plugin, you’re basically telling the page to render before it will start to load any external iframes essentially embeds so okay. Try it and see.

Oh, let’s see. Tom says Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks, Tom. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Fitz. What’s up Fitz? He says on Marcus charity. Is he going to give a 30 minute call if they donate a certain amount to his charity this year?

Marco: No, this year I’ve decided to match donations dollar for dollar.

Bradley: Very cool. Okay. So there you go. Fitz. Adams got the black friday special there and we’re almost out of questions guys, which were only 20

Hernan: Sorry, sorry, Bradley. But I think Adam I’m not sure if he’s here because he needed to start driving but I think that we have a deal in the Black Friday deal that we’re doing that if you spent x you get you get some consultant time would meet with us like now with me but without

Adam: Hernan’s going to come to your house and have Thanksgiving dinner.

Hernan: Okay, give Yeah, I’m gonna cook the turkey.

Adam: And it was about say we should make it the other way. We could be like, yeah, you get an hour with Hernan you just got to go to him. So right,

Hernan: she need to fly down here. And then I yeah, we do that from Monday 3pm to 4pm and then you go back, you know, fly up another nine hours or whatever.

Adam: But um, but yeah, I wonder like a deal that we’ve got both for Semantic Mastery and mg y b, depending on you know, if you’re spending your money in both places, that’s great. And we can certainly work something out but we’ve got I don’t want to give it away but I will Go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday on Friday or over the weekend. And yeah, you’ll be able to see what you can do there. MGYB also gonna have a great promo and depending on how much you spend you can get consulting time with the team for free as a bonus Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, So bottom line, go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday update that daily because the deals galore going to be there and one of them will include some consulting time with Bradley one on one. And you’d like to get like, I know. You know what I’m saying?

Bradley: Yeah. You’re all over and kiss your wife and then roll over the other way and kiss me. Well, it says pumpkin or become pie for Thanksgiving which will benefit my SEO the most well, I don’t know which will benefit the SEO but both pumpkin and pecan pie for God’s sakes, it’s Thanksgiving.

Hernan: So right when choose.

Bradley: That’s right. Lastly, Greg says it looks like we’re going to run out of questions. Which means we’re all going to get the hell out of here and go enjoy it with their families. Greg says thanks, guys will check out the lazy low plugin I do I do own and use SEO ultimate plugin from Jeffrey Smith. Good choice, Greg, by the way that’s coming very, very soon. The Pro version is coming out if you’re in the mastermind, you get access to that a hell of a lot sooner I can tell you that. But I’m really looking forward to that being launched guys. And if you are a member, I think of the ultimate plus version that you get grandfathered in at least a some licenses. I’m not sure how that works. But it’s a good choice. Neither either way, Greg, and it’s going to get better. I promise you that. There might even be a way to make them work together. Well, yeah, possibly. And that looks like it guys. So unless you got something else you want to talk about. Let’s wrap it up.

Marco: You know, if they have conflicting plugins, which we did, then all you have to do is let us know with the new version coming out, and we turn it over to the developer and the developer will take care of I mean, this is going to be fully supported that’s that’s why it’s a paid version of the plugin there is a programmer that’s behind this a developer with it. There’s a whole team behind the pro version of the plugin Plus we’re in the middle of all this too and we always take care of the people who use our products and services.

Bradley: Yeah Thanksgiving. Go Yeah, very happy Thanksgiving.

Hernan: Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I’m really I just want to say I’m really thankful for you guys for coming in asking questions. And you know, joining the group, the free the paid, really thankful for all of the support throughout this year. I’m really thankful for my partners here. So yeah, Happy Thanksgiving.

Adam: Before we go, sorry, one that I started to stomp on that Hernan and I feel the same way obviously, but I want to say something. I had three different calls yesterday. Three different people potential clients in and all of them had no firm plans for Black Friday. If you run a business where you have some sort of contacts with your potential clients or clients, do yourself a favor, write an email, send people out. If nothing else, you can always send them out a good faith or goodwill email saying, Hey, here’s all the cool deals in the industry that I found, you know, help them out. If you’ve got things you could do, or you have for sale, maybe it’s a product I service that you could offer a discount on, you know, send it, it’s not just about Oh, you’re just raking in the money. But you know, people are expecting it. I’m looking, you know, we create offers, but I’m also looking for deals over the Black Friday weekend. So, you know, don’t don’t think just because you don’t own like a physical goods store or something that you can’t get in on this. There’s a lot of cool stuff you can do. And create some goodwill, you know, amongst your network. So do it. Very cool.

Bradley: Very cool. All right. Let’s wrap it up then guys. We will see you all next week. Happy Thanksgiving once again.

Bye, guys. Yeah, run. Bye everyone. Bye bye

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Announcement

Adam: should be going live right? Welcome, everybody to the day before Thanksgiving 2019. It’s Episode 264 of Hump Day Hangouts. We are all here. And I will put in a quick suggestion. You’re watching this live put a question on the page. I think everyone’s already headed out for the travel plans. We got a few questions. But we’re going to go through those and then we all are heading out to do our things too. So you got a question? By all means, get it on the page. So we can help you out today. Before we head out and do our Thanksgiving stuff. So real quick, though, let’s take a minute and say hello to everybody. We got everyone here. So Bradley, what I guess one How are you doing into what are you doing for Thanksgiving?

Bradley: First, I’m doing very well. Second, let me mention real quick. Yes, what Adam just said is true, guys. We’re happy to cut out early today on Hump Day Hangouts. But we are here as always, so you know if you’ve got questions, post them otherwise, soon as we run out of questions, we’re out. So, but I’m doing quite well. You know, by the way, if anybody missed out on the Google Ads branding course, wow. It’s turned out really good. And now it’s been edited the three-hour-long webinars now been edited into like 15 lessons for that’s just session one. We’re going to do the next session on December 9th. So I don’t think you can get the early bird special anymore, but we might have something on Friday, maybe. We’ll see what happens on Friday right. Lastly, as far as for Thanksgiving I got my daughter for five days actually just got back from picking her up. She’s downstairs so she didn’t have to listen to me talk about marketing for the next hour. But it’s good because I’ve got our for five days and we’ve got two different Thanksgiving dinners planned one tomorrow, one on Saturday. And just looking forward to taking a few days off and spending it with my daughter. How about you? What are you doing?

Adam: I’m headed out to pick the unfortunate time to head to the beach. We’re going to Big Sur if anyone’s familiar with that. It’s a lot of forests. A lot of really scenic areas right on the beach there on highway one California. It’s probably a couple like an hour, hour and a half southwest of Santa Cruz. But we got a massive storm coming on the west coast of the US has been dumping rain. So I’m going to cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Bradley: Oh man. Good timing, huh?

Adam: Yeah, we might be doing. I don’t know a turkey on Coleman stove.

Chris: What? camping outside?

Adam: Well, we got a little cabin, but it’s just kind of more of a structure than a like full-on cabin. So we’ll see how it goes. I may have a story for you guys next week. If I make it back live. So Hernan, how about you, man? What’s, uh, what are you doing for a living in Buenos Aires?

Hernan: We don’t do that. I’m happy to see you guys eating turkey and all that stuff. So I’m excited. I’m really excited to be here. And I have my friend humpy wood here. What’s he saying? You’re a kinky MF. Oh, yeah. If you go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday there’s going to be some good stuff coming up daily deals. Don’t miss it including that stuff that Bradley did he always over-delivers like a crazy person. And you know it’s really really good stuff so go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday to get your stuff and invest in your business and instead of like getting a new TV that you don’t even need.

Adam: definitely and I was gonna say you Hernan we’ve had I’m looking right now I just hopped in to look at the stats event 262 people go so far you can go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday right now. And we’ve got three free training videos that haven’t been seen one of them is brand spanking new that nobody has ever seen. So we’ve got that up, but that’s coming down at midnight tomorrow. So if you haven’t gone over there, by all means, head over there. If you’re watching this after the fact after Friday, that’s too late. That’s all right. You got two days to get over there and check it out. Let’s see

Bradley: Chris, what the hell are you doing over there, man?

Adam: Yeah. Chris How you doing and how’s your microphone

Chris: I wanted some attention you know like you taking too long guys. So yeah, like I’m pretty good here. happy that I don’t have to eat boatloads of foods. I enjoyed Thanksgiving last year while I was on a cut and it pretty much destroyed me. Let’s call it that way through me back two weeks so I’m happy that I can pass on that experience this year. And yeah, enjoy the cold weather in Austria like I’m super excited because it’s snowing.

Adam: Wow. Ooh, nice. Hopefully, don’t get any sound here. I’m trying to bring up something all right. Marco. I guess yeah, let’s get the Costa Rica weather update and what are you going to be up to for the next few days?

Marco: No Thanksgiving in Costa Rica. We don’t celebrate it. But I mean to all of you who celebrated hope you have a great time. I hope your table is full and that you have lots of blessings on the table. Not just for Thanksgiving, but for the rest of the year. So yeah, by all means, enjoy it now. I’m working on my charity webinars. Every year, which I do something for charity. And last year went over really well. I did four webinars. And we just had a ton of people attend. And, you know, I’m known when it’s about the kids. I’m known to give away a lot of knowledge that maybe shouldn’t go out, but I don’t care. It’s for the kids. And if you donate, you can come to the webinars, I’ll drop the donation link on the page. And anyone who wants to donate, go there and make a donation or go find me to one of the Semantic Mastery of the free group. Go to my page, right Marco Benavides. I’m on Facebook and all of the instructions are there on what you need to do to it. Turn the live webinar. Things are a good man. So when things are good, it’s good to give

Adam: most definitely most definitely yeah and be doing a little bit of that it’s good to just a general I do try to do some reflection around this time of year and think about you know, hey I’m joking about going out and being cold in the rain but it’s my choice to do it. I’m glad you know for the things I’ve got and for having not only you guys as partners, but also you know, being able to converse with people help other people out on Hump Day Hangout, so we’ll talk about this more at Christmas we got some good stuff coming up too. But we’ll concentrate on this week we got some cool Black Friday stuff coming up so like said in her non did go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday, and then that will automatically roll over training goes away midnight tomorrow, but then we’re going to have some just killer deals coming up at 12:01 am starting Friday. I’m pumped. I’m getting excited.

So we’re real quick. I want to say though if you’re new to semantic mastery, you’re in the right place. We’re going to get to some questions here shortly. You can come here every week, just go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, and you can ask your questions ahead of time, which we highly encourage just keep it to one question. I know it’s tough sometimes but people start writing paragraphs and we have to skip if there are too many questions because we want to make sure we’re fair and get to all the questions. But then the next step would be grabbing the battle plan if you want step by step processes for getting results, things like your age domain or you got a new website you’re putting up or a YouTube channel or whatever it is you want to do go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com pick it up, it’s a steal, we put in a ton of awesome bonuses is a value bomb. And after that, if you’ve got clients and you’re wanting to grow your digital marketing agency or business, then come join us in the mastermind go to mastermind.semanticmastery.com and for everyone that likes saving time, that’s me, right and if you want to not only save time to get things done very very well the first time go to mgyb.co originally this stuff started out as are done for you services and things like syndication networks are always drives tech stuff we had we had certainly taught about and you could still buy the courses if you want to understand the real nuts and bolts and maybe have someone do it for you. But if you want it done quickly, and you want it done professionally had the mgyb.co, you can check it out. And we’ve added on link building, press releases, all sorts of awesome stuff, which there might be some Black Friday stuff going on. But we’ll hold off on that until Friday. So other than that, guys, do we have anything else that we want to cover?

Bradley: I don’t think so. I’m ready to answer some questions. Get the hell out.

Adam: All right. humpy says yes.

Hernan: Humpy’s cursing since today’s gonna mute myself and that Bradley dude thing.

Bradley: All right, let’s do it. All right, let me grab the screen. Sweet You guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct?

Adam: Correct. Alright.

Can You Delete A Subdomain And Redirect It To The Root Without Passing A Penalty?

So it looks like Dustin Bay was the first one up. He says if I get a penalty on the www. domain, so is the subdomain with www as the subdomain, can I delete the subdomain and redirect it to the root without passing the penalty? No, not if you’re just doing a straight redirect, you can’t do that it will pass the penalty. So, or is it better to just delete www without redirecting it and installing the site on the root? Yeah, you can I mean, you could do that because essentially, well, I think about that. Marco, what say you because I know with www a lot of the times will be. It’s still treated as a subdomain but just installing it on the root because some people will have maybe linked to you whatever’s causing a penalty, let’s see, I’ve got to admit or not there is whatever is causing the penalty could also cause it. Remember, people, if they linked to the root domain version of it, if you had your domain setup on www and they were canonicalized to each other, or they auto redirected from your root domain to the www dot version or whatever, then it if people built links to it without www in the domain, then it’s still going to be pointing links back to the root domain, even if you remove that, you know, reinstall the site on the root domain, if that makes sense. So I know if you just did a redirect from the www subdomain to the root domain and then kind of pushed the installation of the site onto the root and lost the www it would still pass the penalty. So what’s the best way to go about that Marco?

Marco: Yeah, you know, I was thinking about this question really hard and think Okay, so how, how would I do this because I’ve just lost my dub dub. And if I did any, as you said, any link building to it, because you still going to have, it depends on the penalty, right? But you’re still going to have a ton of links coming to the dub dub dub, especially the way we teach it. Because we use all variations of the URL right? When we link building, so you’re going to lose that you’re going to lose anyone who’s still and there are people who still type out www. and then the address, right, there are still people who do that. Now, you are going to pass a penalty be 301? Yes, no question. Now, what if? What if, right, so I’m just thinking like, this is theory, guys? I don’t I hardly ever do this unless I tested but this is theory. And this is something you could try. What have you said that that subdomain to no index nofollow and then have Google crawl it? I’d go into Search Console, have Google recrawl and see what it said to no index, no five And then three or one it to the non dub dub dub version or even HTTPS version right to the non www and then everything is redirected again to the HTTPS, you might lose the penalty with with with a couple of jumps and with that with a no-index nofollow on the subdomain that’s causing the problem.

Now, what’s the problem? I mean, how did they get a penalty? How do you know that it was kind of like, was it a manual? Because a manual, if you remove whatever it is that offending Google, you can request for reconsideration. So it all depends on what kind of penalty. Like why not it’s even hard to get a link penalty. Right? Because Google just doesn’t pay attention to links that aren’t relevant. Or if you’re really talented, then you send millions of links, then you get and you do get an unnatural link, you could get that. But it’s usually manuals that you get. So trying to think it through, you may, you may not pass a penalty if you do a double hop, or it might, it might take time for it to catch back up. So you’re going to have to test on this and see, but by all means, move it to the non-www. And remember that any links going to that you lose that once you remove that www, if it doesn’t get redirected, so you’re going to have to read redo all of those links, especially if you had some really powerful links coming through there. That’s what I would recommend trying again, theory. I haven’t done this. I haven’t ever tried it. But in theory, if Google sees that it’s knowing that’s nofollow, then there’s no reason for that website to be penalized anymore.

Hernan: Yeah, right. Can you real quick? This is more like a question. Can you read direct? I guess you could, like you could read direct a subdomain outside of the route and then back into the route, you could like, yeah, you know, like, so as to clean it up.

Bradley: I was gonna, I was going to suggest, you know, something that would be a little bit more elaborate because I’ve done something similar in the past, where not specifically what I’ve done it to an external domain and then redirected the external domain back to the domain that had the penalty, but just on a different subdomain or you know, a different subdomain entirely. But here’s what I was thinking might also work. Again, this is theory, but it would be putting inserting Google in the middle of it, which could absolutely reduce or, you know, eliminate any negative, you know, link equity from point coming back through, something you might consider would be like creating a G site mirrored to what the original site was. So you have the same page structure and all of that, linked from the subdomain, redirect all of that on a page by page basis to the G site and then from the G site, you can have the pages that are built with the link linking back to your root domain, right? It’s a mirror of the site anyways. Or you can even iframe those pages into the G site pages if that makes sense. So that you’re pointing any negative link equity that’s come through that. That might be why you’ve got a penalty to the G site, which we already know, the G site will clean that up and won’t penalize itself. So you’d actually be passing page rank to your money site pages on the new domain, whether its root, the root domain or whatever, different subdomain, whatever, but it would be filtering through the G site. I don’t know. I’ve never actually said I’ve done that with an external domain before but not with a G site. What do you think Marco about that?

Marco: You know, I’m really liking that, especially if you can map out your custom domain, right? The www version over to Google so that stays but you still have the G site underneath, right? Right. And that that’ll filter out any other. Yes, this is guaranteed that’ll filter out any penalty that could have. Which, but if we’d have to see what the penalties you guys, you don’t tell us what the penalty is that we can’t really give you the advice, or the answer that you need. But yeah, I mean, again, in theory, you get three on one that penalize subdomain that www, which is a subdomain, to a G site, which links over to the root where the new site was built, and it can all be the same content and Google won’t give a shit.

Bradley: That’s it, right? I mean, that’s, that’s what I would do. Because again, you’re putting an SEO shield between the penalty in your domain, right? I mean, that’s what we’re talking that’s what we talked about the SEO shield. Go check it out on MGYB and you’ll if you don’t already know what we’re talking about, and now you’re basically doing that you’re inserting part of that shield in between the penalty and the domain. So check it out and try.

What Is The Best Way To Add A YouTube Video To A Website And Maintain Site Speed?

Greg’s Up next, he says, Is there a preferred way to add a video from our YouTube channel to our website page and maintain site speed my site pages load in around one second. And I don’t want that to slow to two or three seconds as a result of adding videos. My goals are to increase time on my site, have specific videos, keep visitors on specific pages, increase views on the videos and improved website ranking by adding videos but not slow down page load times. Any suggestions? Yeah, they have lazy load plugins. You can also I know there’s some way to code that into but I know there’s if it’s a WordPress site, they have lazy load plugins that will lazy load images. And they also I’m pretty sure will lazy load iframes or whatever. So videos I’m pretty sure that you can also lazy load those which means it will allow the page to render entirely before it will start to load the images or the external iframe such as a YouTube video. Any other subject The only other I mean obviously if you use a CDN, but a CDN, I’m not sure I don’t think a CDN affects the loading speed of iframes. Because those are external sites, right? It’s just a tunnel to an external site. But CDN a content delivery network would still allow your page itself to load incredibly quick. The iframe would still be would load as slowly as you don’t have control over that the speed at which the iframe loads, that makes sense. Mark, do you have any suggestions for that

Marco: lazy load suggestions is perfect. I would say don’t be too anal about paint speed, because it’s one of over 200 factors. And we don’t know how much of a factor it is. Everything else considered. And since we teach PageSpeed, doesn’t really matter. Nothing, nothing matters. This is the three pillars, that it’s foundational principles, what we teach activity, relevance, trust and authority and how we build that up. So if you go from one second to 2.2 seconds or whatever, doesn’t matter, it’s not going to matter to anybody, especially Someone coming and they see the video, you have it in a prominent place where the person can watch the video, they’re going to wait for that video because they want to watch the video. You’ve driven them to your pace. Now if it’s taking a ton of time to render, that that might cause a big deal, but you can just do it lazy load and and have it render after the page loads and and you’re good to go.

Hernan: Yeah, There’s never like there’s there’s not a good reason why you shouldn’t be using a CDN anyways. CloudFlare being free, you know, or something like that. So you should be using it anyways. So,

Bradley: yeah, yeah, I mean, it’ll help to load the page quicker and also will load the page from multiple servers or, you know, from multiple locations. So, and also helps in case something happens where your site goes down. For whatever reason, people can still view the pages that kind of because they’re cached. So there’s a lot of good reasons to have a CDN. It’s good for security. There’s a lot of reasons for that. But it will help the page itself to load quicker. Again, it’s not going to help the iframes to load any faster because those are external sites. It’s just a tunnel to an external site within your web page, right? So you don’t have any control over that. But you can control at which point does that load so that you can tell that like, again, with a lazy load plugin, you’re basically telling the page to render before it will start to load any external iframes essentially embeds so okay. Try it and see.

Oh, let’s see. Tom says Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks, Tom. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Fitz. What’s up Fitz? He says on Marcus charity. Is he going to give a 30 minute call if they donate a certain amount to his charity this year?

Marco: No, this year I’ve decided to match donations dollar for dollar.

Bradley: Very cool. Okay. So there you go. Fitz. Adams got the black friday special there and we’re almost out of questions guys, which were only 20

Hernan: Sorry, sorry, Bradley. But I think Adam I’m not sure if he’s here because he needed to start driving but I think that we have a deal in the Black Friday deal that we’re doing that if you spent x you get you get some consultant time would meet with us like now with me but without

Adam: Hernan’s going to come to your house and have Thanksgiving dinner.

Hernan: Okay, give Yeah, I’m gonna cook the turkey.

Adam: And it was about say we should make it the other way. We could be like, yeah, you get an hour with Hernan you just got to go to him. So right,

Hernan: she need to fly down here. And then I yeah, we do that from Monday 3pm to 4pm and then you go back, you know, fly up another nine hours or whatever.

Adam: But um, but yeah, I wonder like a deal that we’ve got both for Semantic Mastery and mg y b, depending on you know, if you’re spending your money in both places, that’s great. And we can certainly work something out but we’ve got I don’t want to give it away but I will Go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday on Friday or over the weekend. And yeah, you’ll be able to see what you can do there. MGYB also gonna have a great promo and depending on how much you spend you can get consulting time with the team for free as a bonus Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, So bottom line, go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday update that daily because the deals galore going to be there and one of them will include some consulting time with Bradley one on one. And you’d like to get like, I know. You know what I’m saying?

Bradley: Yeah. You’re all over and kiss your wife and then roll over the other way and kiss me. Well, it says pumpkin or become pie for Thanksgiving which will benefit my SEO the most well, I don’t know which will benefit the SEO but both pumpkin and pecan pie for God’s sakes, it’s Thanksgiving.

Hernan: So right when choose.

Bradley: That’s right. Lastly, Greg says it looks like we’re going to run out of questions. Which means we’re all going to get the hell out of here and go enjoy it with their families. Greg says thanks, guys will check out the lazy low plugin I do I do own and use SEO ultimate plugin from Jeffrey Smith. Good choice, Greg, by the way that’s coming very, very soon. The Pro version is coming out if you’re in the mastermind, you get access to that a hell of a lot sooner I can tell you that. But I’m really looking forward to that being launched guys. And if you are a member, I think of the ultimate plus version that you get grandfathered in at least a some licenses. I’m not sure how that works. But it’s a good choice. Neither either way, Greg, and it’s going to get better. I promise you that. There might even be a way to make them work together. Well, yeah, possibly. And that looks like it guys. So unless you got something else you want to talk about. Let’s wrap it up.

Marco: You know, if they have conflicting plugins, which we did, then all you have to do is let us know with the new version coming out, and we turn it over to the developer and the developer will take care of I mean, this is going to be fully supported that’s that’s why it’s a paid version of the plugin there is a programmer that’s behind this a developer with it. There’s a whole team behind the pro version of the plugin Plus we’re in the middle of all this too and we always take care of the people who use our products and services.

Bradley: Yeah Thanksgiving. Go Yeah, very happy Thanksgiving.

Hernan: Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I’m really I just want to say I’m really thankful for you guys for coming in asking questions. And you know, joining the group, the free the paid, really thankful for all of the support throughout this year. I’m really thankful for my partners here. So yeah, Happy Thanksgiving.

Adam: Before we go, sorry, one that I started to stomp on that Hernan and I feel the same way obviously, but I want to say something. I had three different calls yesterday. Three different people potential clients in and all of them had no firm plans for Black Friday. If you run a business where you have some sort of contacts with your potential clients or clients, do yourself a favor, write an email, send people out. If nothing else, you can always send them out a good faith or goodwill email saying, Hey, here’s all the cool deals in the industry that I found, you know, help them out. If you’ve got things you could do, or you have for sale, maybe it’s a product I service that you could offer a discount on, you know, send it, it’s not just about Oh, you’re just raking in the money. But you know, people are expecting it. I’m looking, you know, we create offers, but I’m also looking for deals over the Black Friday weekend. So, you know, don’t don’t think just because you don’t own like a physical goods store or something that you can’t get in on this. There’s a lot of cool stuff you can do. And create some goodwill, you know, amongst your network. So do it. Very cool.

Bradley: Very cool. All right. Let’s wrap it up then guys. We will see you all next week. Happy Thanksgiving once again.

Bye, guys. Yeah, run. Bye everyone. Bye bye

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Adam: should be going live right? Welcome, everybody to the day before Thanksgiving 2019. It’s Episode 264 of Hump Day Hangouts. We are all here. And I will put in a quick suggestion. You’re watching this live put a question on the page. I think everyone’s already headed out for the travel plans. We got a few questions. But we’re going to go through those and then we all are heading out to do our things too. So you got a question? By all means, get it on the page. So we can help you out today. Before we head out and do our Thanksgiving stuff. So real quick, though, let’s take a minute and say hello to everybody. We got everyone here. So Bradley, what I guess one How are you doing into what are you doing for Thanksgiving?

Bradley: First, I’m doing very well. Second, let me mention real quick. Yes, what Adam just said is true, guys. We’re happy to cut out early today on Hump Day Hangouts. But we are here as always, so you know if you’ve got questions, post them otherwise, soon as we run out of questions, we’re out. So, but I’m doing quite well. You know, by the way, if anybody missed out on the Google Ads branding course, wow. It’s turned out really good. And now it’s been edited the three-hour-long webinars now been edited into like 15 lessons for that’s just session one. We’re going to do the next session on December 9th. So I don’t think you can get the early bird special anymore, but we might have something on Friday, maybe. We’ll see what happens on Friday right. Lastly, as far as for Thanksgiving I got my daughter for five days actually just got back from picking her up. She’s downstairs so she didn’t have to listen to me talk about marketing for the next hour. But it’s good because I’ve got our for five days and we’ve got two different Thanksgiving dinners planned one tomorrow, one on Saturday. And just looking forward to taking a few days off and spending it with my daughter. How about you? What are you doing?

Adam: I’m headed out to pick the unfortunate time to head to the beach. We’re going to Big Sur if anyone’s familiar with that. It’s a lot of forests. A lot of really scenic areas right on the beach there on highway one California. It’s probably a couple like an hour, hour and a half southwest of Santa Cruz. But we got a massive storm coming on the west coast of the US has been dumping rain. So I’m going to cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Bradley: Oh man. Good timing, huh?

Adam: Yeah, we might be doing. I don’t know a turkey on Coleman stove.

Chris: What? camping outside?

Adam: Well, we got a little cabin, but it’s just kind of more of a structure than a like full-on cabin. So we’ll see how it goes. I may have a story for you guys next week. If I make it back live. So Hernan, how about you, man? What’s, uh, what are you doing for a living in Buenos Aires?

Hernan: We don’t do that. I’m happy to see you guys eating turkey and all that stuff. So I’m excited. I’m really excited to be here. And I have my friend humpy wood here. What’s he saying? You’re a kinky MF. Oh, yeah. If you go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday there’s going to be some good stuff coming up daily deals. Don’t miss it including that stuff that Bradley did he always over-delivers like a crazy person. And you know it’s really really good stuff so go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday to get your stuff and invest in your business and instead of like getting a new TV that you don’t even need.

Adam: definitely and I was gonna say you Hernan we’ve had I’m looking right now I just hopped in to look at the stats event 262 people go so far you can go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday right now. And we’ve got three free training videos that haven’t been seen one of them is brand spanking new that nobody has ever seen. So we’ve got that up, but that’s coming down at midnight tomorrow. So if you haven’t gone over there, by all means, head over there. If you’re watching this after the fact after Friday, that’s too late. That’s all right. You got two days to get over there and check it out. Let’s see

Bradley: Chris, what the hell are you doing over there, man?

Adam: Yeah. Chris How you doing and how’s your microphone

Chris: I wanted some attention you know like you taking too long guys. So yeah, like I’m pretty good here. happy that I don’t have to eat boatloads of foods. I enjoyed Thanksgiving last year while I was on a cut and it pretty much destroyed me. Let’s call it that way through me back two weeks so I’m happy that I can pass on that experience this year. And yeah, enjoy the cold weather in Austria like I’m super excited because it’s snowing.

Adam: Wow. Ooh, nice. Hopefully, don’t get any sound here. I’m trying to bring up something all right. Marco. I guess yeah, let’s get the Costa Rica weather update and what are you going to be up to for the next few days?

Marco: No Thanksgiving in Costa Rica. We don’t celebrate it. But I mean to all of you who celebrated hope you have a great time. I hope your table is full and that you have lots of blessings on the table. Not just for Thanksgiving, but for the rest of the year. So yeah, by all means, enjoy it now. I’m working on my charity webinars. Every year, which I do something for charity. And last year went over really well. I did four webinars. And we just had a ton of people attend. And, you know, I’m known when it’s about the kids. I’m known to give away a lot of knowledge that maybe shouldn’t go out, but I don’t care. It’s for the kids. And if you donate, you can come to the webinars, I’ll drop the donation link on the page. And anyone who wants to donate, go there and make a donation or go find me to one of the Semantic Mastery of the free group. Go to my page, right Marco Benavides. I’m on Facebook and all of the instructions are there on what you need to do to it. Turn the live webinar. Things are a good man. So when things are good, it’s good to give

Adam: most definitely most definitely yeah and be doing a little bit of that it’s good to just a general I do try to do some reflection around this time of year and think about you know, hey I’m joking about going out and being cold in the rain but it’s my choice to do it. I’m glad you know for the things I’ve got and for having not only you guys as partners, but also you know, being able to converse with people help other people out on Hump Day Hangout, so we’ll talk about this more at Christmas we got some good stuff coming up too. But we’ll concentrate on this week we got some cool Black Friday stuff coming up so like said in her non did go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday, and then that will automatically roll over training goes away midnight tomorrow, but then we’re going to have some just killer deals coming up at 12:01 am starting Friday. I’m pumped. I’m getting excited.

So we’re real quick. I want to say though if you’re new to semantic mastery, you’re in the right place. We’re going to get to some questions here shortly. You can come here every week, just go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, and you can ask your questions ahead of time, which we highly encourage just keep it to one question. I know it’s tough sometimes but people start writing paragraphs and we have to skip if there are too many questions because we want to make sure we’re fair and get to all the questions. But then the next step would be grabbing the battle plan if you want step by step processes for getting results, things like your age domain or you got a new website you’re putting up or a YouTube channel or whatever it is you want to do go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com pick it up, it’s a steal, we put in a ton of awesome bonuses is a value bomb. And after that, if you’ve got clients and you’re wanting to grow your digital marketing agency or business, then come join us in the mastermind go to mastermind.semanticmastery.com and for everyone that likes saving time, that’s me, right and if you want to not only save time to get things done very very well the first time go to mgyb.co originally this stuff started out as are done for you services and things like syndication networks are always drives tech stuff we had we had certainly taught about and you could still buy the courses if you want to understand the real nuts and bolts and maybe have someone do it for you. But if you want it done quickly, and you want it done professionally had the mgyb.co, you can check it out. And we’ve added on link building, press releases, all sorts of awesome stuff, which there might be some Black Friday stuff going on. But we’ll hold off on that until Friday. So other than that, guys, do we have anything else that we want to cover?

Bradley: I don’t think so. I’m ready to answer some questions. Get the hell out.

Adam: All right. humpy says yes.

Hernan: Humpy’s cursing since today’s gonna mute myself and that Bradley dude thing.

Bradley: All right, let’s do it. All right, let me grab the screen. Sweet You guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct?

Adam: Correct. Alright.

Can You Delete A Subdomain And Redirect It To The Root Without Passing A Penalty?

So it looks like Dustin Bay was the first one up. He says if I get a penalty on the www. domain, so is the subdomain with www as the subdomain, can I delete the subdomain and redirect it to the root without passing the penalty? No, not if you’re just doing a straight redirect, you can’t do that it will pass the penalty. So, or is it better to just delete www without redirecting it and installing the site on the root? Yeah, you can I mean, you could do that because essentially, well, I think about that. Marco, what say you because I know with www a lot of the times will be. It’s still treated as a subdomain but just installing it on the root because some people will have maybe linked to you whatever’s causing a penalty, let’s see, I’ve got to admit or not there is whatever is causing the penalty could also cause it. Remember, people, if they linked to the root domain version of it, if you had your domain setup on www and they were canonicalized to each other, or they auto redirected from your root domain to the www dot version or whatever, then it if people built links to it without www in the domain, then it’s still going to be pointing links back to the root domain, even if you remove that, you know, reinstall the site on the root domain, if that makes sense. So I know if you just did a redirect from the www subdomain to the root domain and then kind of pushed the installation of the site onto the root and lost the www it would still pass the penalty. So what’s the best way to go about that Marco?

Marco: Yeah, you know, I was thinking about this question really hard and think Okay, so how, how would I do this because I’ve just lost my dub dub. And if I did any, as you said, any link building to it, because you still going to have, it depends on the penalty, right? But you’re still going to have a ton of links coming to the dub dub dub, especially the way we teach it. Because we use all variations of the URL right? When we link building, so you’re going to lose that you’re going to lose anyone who’s still and there are people who still type out www. and then the address, right, there are still people who do that. Now, you are going to pass a penalty be 301? Yes, no question. Now, what if? What if, right, so I’m just thinking like, this is theory, guys? I don’t I hardly ever do this unless I tested but this is theory. And this is something you could try. What have you said that that subdomain to no index nofollow and then have Google crawl it? I’d go into Search Console, have Google recrawl and see what it said to no index, no five And then three or one it to the non dub dub dub version or even HTTPS version right to the non www and then everything is redirected again to the HTTPS, you might lose the penalty with with with a couple of jumps and with that with a no-index nofollow on the subdomain that’s causing the problem.

Now, what’s the problem? I mean, how did they get a penalty? How do you know that it was kind of like, was it a manual? Because a manual, if you remove whatever it is that offending Google, you can request for reconsideration. So it all depends on what kind of penalty. Like why not it’s even hard to get a link penalty. Right? Because Google just doesn’t pay attention to links that aren’t relevant. Or if you’re really talented, then you send millions of links, then you get and you do get an unnatural link, you could get that. But it’s usually manuals that you get. So trying to think it through, you may, you may not pass a penalty if you do a double hop, or it might, it might take time for it to catch back up. So you’re going to have to test on this and see, but by all means, move it to the non-www. And remember that any links going to that you lose that once you remove that www, if it doesn’t get redirected, so you’re going to have to read redo all of those links, especially if you had some really powerful links coming through there. That’s what I would recommend trying again, theory. I haven’t done this. I haven’t ever tried it. But in theory, if Google sees that it’s knowing that’s nofollow, then there’s no reason for that website to be penalized anymore.

Hernan: Yeah, right. Can you real quick? This is more like a question. Can you read direct? I guess you could, like you could read direct a subdomain outside of the route and then back into the route, you could like, yeah, you know, like, so as to clean it up.

Bradley: I was gonna, I was going to suggest, you know, something that would be a little bit more elaborate because I’ve done something similar in the past, where not specifically what I’ve done it to an external domain and then redirected the external domain back to the domain that had the penalty, but just on a different subdomain or you know, a different subdomain entirely. But here’s what I was thinking might also work. Again, this is theory, but it would be putting inserting Google in the middle of it, which could absolutely reduce or, you know, eliminate any negative, you know, link equity from point coming back through, something you might consider would be like creating a G site mirrored to what the original site was. So you have the same page structure and all of that, linked from the subdomain, redirect all of that on a page by page basis to the G site and then from the G site, you can have the pages that are built with the link linking back to your root domain, right? It’s a mirror of the site anyways. Or you can even iframe those pages into the G site pages if that makes sense. So that you’re pointing any negative link equity that’s come through that. That might be why you’ve got a penalty to the G site, which we already know, the G site will clean that up and won’t penalize itself. So you’d actually be passing page rank to your money site pages on the new domain, whether its root, the root domain or whatever, different subdomain, whatever, but it would be filtering through the G site. I don’t know. I’ve never actually said I’ve done that with an external domain before but not with a G site. What do you think Marco about that?

Marco: You know, I’m really liking that, especially if you can map out your custom domain, right? The www version over to Google so that stays but you still have the G site underneath, right? Right. And that that’ll filter out any other. Yes, this is guaranteed that’ll filter out any penalty that could have. Which, but if we’d have to see what the penalties you guys, you don’t tell us what the penalty is that we can’t really give you the advice, or the answer that you need. But yeah, I mean, again, in theory, you get three on one that penalize subdomain that www, which is a subdomain, to a G site, which links over to the root where the new site was built, and it can all be the same content and Google won’t give a shit.

Bradley: That’s it, right? I mean, that’s, that’s what I would do. Because again, you’re putting an SEO shield between the penalty in your domain, right? I mean, that’s what we’re talking that’s what we talked about the SEO shield. Go check it out on MGYB and you’ll if you don’t already know what we’re talking about, and now you’re basically doing that you’re inserting part of that shield in between the penalty and the domain. So check it out and try.

What Is The Best Way To Add A YouTube Video To A Website And Maintain Site Speed?

Greg’s Up next, he says, Is there a preferred way to add a video from our YouTube channel to our website page and maintain site speed my site pages load in around one second. And I don’t want that to slow to two or three seconds as a result of adding videos. My goals are to increase time on my site, have specific videos, keep visitors on specific pages, increase views on the videos and improved website ranking by adding videos but not slow down page load times. Any suggestions? Yeah, they have lazy load plugins. You can also I know there’s some way to code that into but I know there’s if it’s a WordPress site, they have lazy load plugins that will lazy load images. And they also I’m pretty sure will lazy load iframes or whatever. So videos I’m pretty sure that you can also lazy load those which means it will allow the page to render entirely before it will start to load the images or the external iframe such as a YouTube video. Any other subject The only other I mean obviously if you use a CDN, but a CDN, I’m not sure I don’t think a CDN affects the loading speed of iframes. Because those are external sites, right? It’s just a tunnel to an external site. But CDN a content delivery network would still allow your page itself to load incredibly quick. The iframe would still be would load as slowly as you don’t have control over that the speed at which the iframe loads, that makes sense. Mark, do you have any suggestions for that

Marco: lazy load suggestions is perfect. I would say don’t be too anal about paint speed, because it’s one of over 200 factors. And we don’t know how much of a factor it is. Everything else considered. And since we teach PageSpeed, doesn’t really matter. Nothing, nothing matters. This is the three pillars, that it’s foundational principles, what we teach activity, relevance, trust and authority and how we build that up. So if you go from one second to 2.2 seconds or whatever, doesn’t matter, it’s not going to matter to anybody, especially Someone coming and they see the video, you have it in a prominent place where the person can watch the video, they’re going to wait for that video because they want to watch the video. You’ve driven them to your pace. Now if it’s taking a ton of time to render, that that might cause a big deal, but you can just do it lazy load and and have it render after the page loads and and you’re good to go.

Hernan: Yeah, There’s never like there’s there’s not a good reason why you shouldn’t be using a CDN anyways. CloudFlare being free, you know, or something like that. So you should be using it anyways. So,

Bradley: yeah, yeah, I mean, it’ll help to load the page quicker and also will load the page from multiple servers or, you know, from multiple locations. So, and also helps in case something happens where your site goes down. For whatever reason, people can still view the pages that kind of because they’re cached. So there’s a lot of good reasons to have a CDN. It’s good for security. There’s a lot of reasons for that. But it will help the page itself to load quicker. Again, it’s not going to help the iframes to load any faster because those are external sites. It’s just a tunnel to an external site within your web page, right? So you don’t have any control over that. But you can control at which point does that load so that you can tell that like, again, with a lazy load plugin, you’re basically telling the page to render before it will start to load any external iframes essentially embeds so okay. Try it and see.

Oh, let’s see. Tom says Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks, Tom. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Fitz. What’s up Fitz? He says on Marcus charity. Is he going to give a 30 minute call if they donate a certain amount to his charity this year?

Marco: No, this year I’ve decided to match donations dollar for dollar.

Bradley: Very cool. Okay. So there you go. Fitz. Adams got the black friday special there and we’re almost out of questions guys, which were only 20

Hernan: Sorry, sorry, Bradley. But I think Adam I’m not sure if he’s here because he needed to start driving but I think that we have a deal in the Black Friday deal that we’re doing that if you spent x you get you get some consultant time would meet with us like now with me but without

Adam: Hernan’s going to come to your house and have Thanksgiving dinner.

Hernan: Okay, give Yeah, I’m gonna cook the turkey.

Adam: And it was about say we should make it the other way. We could be like, yeah, you get an hour with Hernan you just got to go to him. So right,

Hernan: she need to fly down here. And then I yeah, we do that from Monday 3pm to 4pm and then you go back, you know, fly up another nine hours or whatever.

Adam: But um, but yeah, I wonder like a deal that we’ve got both for Semantic Mastery and mg y b, depending on you know, if you’re spending your money in both places, that’s great. And we can certainly work something out but we’ve got I don’t want to give it away but I will Go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday on Friday or over the weekend. And yeah, you’ll be able to see what you can do there. MGYB also gonna have a great promo and depending on how much you spend you can get consulting time with the team for free as a bonus Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, So bottom line, go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday update that daily because the deals galore going to be there and one of them will include some consulting time with Bradley one on one. And you’d like to get like, I know. You know what I’m saying?

Bradley: Yeah. You’re all over and kiss your wife and then roll over the other way and kiss me. Well, it says pumpkin or become pie for Thanksgiving which will benefit my SEO the most well, I don’t know which will benefit the SEO but both pumpkin and pecan pie for God’s sakes, it’s Thanksgiving.

Hernan: So right when choose.

Bradley: That’s right. Lastly, Greg says it looks like we’re going to run out of questions. Which means we’re all going to get the hell out of here and go enjoy it with their families. Greg says thanks, guys will check out the lazy low plugin I do I do own and use SEO ultimate plugin from Jeffrey Smith. Good choice, Greg, by the way that’s coming very, very soon. The Pro version is coming out if you’re in the mastermind, you get access to that a hell of a lot sooner I can tell you that. But I’m really looking forward to that being launched guys. And if you are a member, I think of the ultimate plus version that you get grandfathered in at least a some licenses. I’m not sure how that works. But it’s a good choice. Neither either way, Greg, and it’s going to get better. I promise you that. There might even be a way to make them work together. Well, yeah, possibly. And that looks like it guys. So unless you got something else you want to talk about. Let’s wrap it up.

Marco: You know, if they have conflicting plugins, which we did, then all you have to do is let us know with the new version coming out, and we turn it over to the developer and the developer will take care of I mean, this is going to be fully supported that’s that’s why it’s a paid version of the plugin there is a programmer that’s behind this a developer with it. There’s a whole team behind the pro version of the plugin Plus we’re in the middle of all this too and we always take care of the people who use our products and services.

Bradley: Yeah Thanksgiving. Go Yeah, very happy Thanksgiving.

Hernan: Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I’m really I just want to say I’m really thankful for you guys for coming in asking questions. And you know, joining the group, the free the paid, really thankful for all of the support throughout this year. I’m really thankful for my partners here. So yeah, Happy Thanksgiving.

Adam: Before we go, sorry, one that I started to stomp on that Hernan and I feel the same way obviously, but I want to say something. I had three different calls yesterday. Three different people potential clients in and all of them had no firm plans for Black Friday. If you run a business where you have some sort of contacts with your potential clients or clients, do yourself a favor, write an email, send people out. If nothing else, you can always send them out a good faith or goodwill email saying, Hey, here’s all the cool deals in the industry that I found, you know, help them out. If you’ve got things you could do, or you have for sale, maybe it’s a product I service that you could offer a discount on, you know, send it, it’s not just about Oh, you’re just raking in the money. But you know, people are expecting it. I’m looking, you know, we create offers, but I’m also looking for deals over the Black Friday weekend. So, you know, don’t don’t think just because you don’t own like a physical goods store or something that you can’t get in on this. There’s a lot of cool stuff you can do. And create some goodwill, you know, amongst your network. So do it. Very cool.

Bradley: Very cool. All right. Let’s wrap it up then guys. We will see you all next week. Happy Thanksgiving once again.

Bye, guys. Yeah, run. Bye everyone. Bye bye

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 264

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Adam: should be going live right? Welcome, everybody to the day before Thanksgiving 2019. It’s Episode 264 of Hump Day Hangouts. We are all here. And I will put in a quick suggestion. You’re watching this live put a question on the page. I think everyone’s already headed out for the travel plans. We got a few questions. But we’re going to go through those and then we all are heading out to do our things too. So you got a question? By all means, get it on the page. So we can help you out today. Before we head out and do our Thanksgiving stuff. So real quick, though, let’s take a minute and say hello to everybody. We got everyone here. So Bradley, what I guess one How are you doing into what are you doing for Thanksgiving?

Bradley: First, I’m doing very well. Second, let me mention real quick. Yes, what Adam just said is true, guys. We’re happy to cut out early today on Hump Day Hangouts. But we are here as always, so you know if you’ve got questions, post them otherwise, soon as we run out of questions, we’re out. So, but I’m doing quite well. You know, by the way, if anybody missed out on the Google Ads branding course, wow. It’s turned out really good. And now it’s been edited the three-hour-long webinars now been edited into like 15 lessons for that’s just session one. We’re going to do the next session on December 9th. So I don’t think you can get the early bird special anymore, but we might have something on Friday, maybe. We’ll see what happens on Friday right. Lastly, as far as for Thanksgiving I got my daughter for five days actually just got back from picking her up. She’s downstairs so she didn’t have to listen to me talk about marketing for the next hour. But it’s good because I’ve got our for five days and we’ve got two different Thanksgiving dinners planned one tomorrow, one on Saturday. And just looking forward to taking a few days off and spending it with my daughter. How about you? What are you doing?

Adam: I’m headed out to pick the unfortunate time to head to the beach. We’re going to Big Sur if anyone’s familiar with that. It’s a lot of forests. A lot of really scenic areas right on the beach there on highway one California. It’s probably a couple like an hour, hour and a half southwest of Santa Cruz. But we got a massive storm coming on the west coast of the US has been dumping rain. So I’m going to cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Bradley: Oh man. Good timing, huh?

Adam: Yeah, we might be doing. I don’t know a turkey on Coleman stove.

Chris: What? camping outside?

Adam: Well, we got a little cabin, but it’s just kind of more of a structure than a like full-on cabin. So we’ll see how it goes. I may have a story for you guys next week. If I make it back live. So Hernan, how about you, man? What’s, uh, what are you doing for a living in Buenos Aires?

Hernan: We don’t do that. I’m happy to see you guys eating turkey and all that stuff. So I’m excited. I’m really excited to be here. And I have my friend humpy wood here. What’s he saying? You’re a kinky MF. Oh, yeah. If you go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday there’s going to be some good stuff coming up daily deals. Don’t miss it including that stuff that Bradley did he always over-delivers like a crazy person. And you know it’s really really good stuff so go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday to get your stuff and invest in your business and instead of like getting a new TV that you don’t even need.

Adam: definitely and I was gonna say you Hernan we’ve had I’m looking right now I just hopped in to look at the stats event 262 people go so far you can go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday right now. And we’ve got three free training videos that haven’t been seen one of them is brand spanking new that nobody has ever seen. So we’ve got that up, but that’s coming down at midnight tomorrow. So if you haven’t gone over there, by all means, head over there. If you’re watching this after the fact after Friday, that’s too late. That’s all right. You got two days to get over there and check it out. Let’s see

Bradley: Chris, what the hell are you doing over there, man?

Adam: Yeah. Chris How you doing and how’s your microphone

Chris: I wanted some attention you know like you taking too long guys. So yeah, like I’m pretty good here. happy that I don’t have to eat boatloads of foods. I enjoyed Thanksgiving last year while I was on a cut and it pretty much destroyed me. Let’s call it that way through me back two weeks so I’m happy that I can pass on that experience this year. And yeah, enjoy the cold weather in Austria like I’m super excited because it’s snowing.

Adam: Wow. Ooh, nice. Hopefully, don’t get any sound here. I’m trying to bring up something all right. Marco. I guess yeah, let’s get the Costa Rica weather update and what are you going to be up to for the next few days?

Marco: No Thanksgiving in Costa Rica. We don’t celebrate it. But I mean to all of you who celebrated hope you have a great time. I hope your table is full and that you have lots of blessings on the table. Not just for Thanksgiving, but for the rest of the year. So yeah, by all means, enjoy it now. I’m working on my charity webinars. Every year, which I do something for charity. And last year went over really well. I did four webinars. And we just had a ton of people attend. And, you know, I’m known when it’s about the kids. I’m known to give away a lot of knowledge that maybe shouldn’t go out, but I don’t care. It’s for the kids. And if you donate, you can come to the webinars, I’ll drop the donation link on the page. And anyone who wants to donate, go there and make a donation or go find me to one of the Semantic Mastery of the free group. Go to my page, right Marco Benavides. I’m on Facebook and all of the instructions are there on what you need to do to it. Turn the live webinar. Things are a good man. So when things are good, it’s good to give

Adam: most definitely most definitely yeah and be doing a little bit of that it’s good to just a general I do try to do some reflection around this time of year and think about you know, hey I’m joking about going out and being cold in the rain but it’s my choice to do it. I’m glad you know for the things I’ve got and for having not only you guys as partners, but also you know, being able to converse with people help other people out on Hump Day Hangout, so we’ll talk about this more at Christmas we got some good stuff coming up too. But we’ll concentrate on this week we got some cool Black Friday stuff coming up so like said in her non did go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday, and then that will automatically roll over training goes away midnight tomorrow, but then we’re going to have some just killer deals coming up at 12:01 am starting Friday. I’m pumped. I’m getting excited.

So we’re real quick. I want to say though if you’re new to semantic mastery, you’re in the right place. We’re going to get to some questions here shortly. You can come here every week, just go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, and you can ask your questions ahead of time, which we highly encourage just keep it to one question. I know it’s tough sometimes but people start writing paragraphs and we have to skip if there are too many questions because we want to make sure we’re fair and get to all the questions. But then the next step would be grabbing the battle plan if you want step by step processes for getting results, things like your age domain or you got a new website you’re putting up or a YouTube channel or whatever it is you want to do go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com pick it up, it’s a steal, we put in a ton of awesome bonuses is a value bomb. And after that, if you’ve got clients and you’re wanting to grow your digital marketing agency or business, then come join us in the mastermind go to mastermind.semanticmastery.com and for everyone that likes saving time, that’s me, right and if you want to not only save time to get things done very very well the first time go to mgyb.co originally this stuff started out as are done for you services and things like syndication networks are always drives tech stuff we had we had certainly taught about and you could still buy the courses if you want to understand the real nuts and bolts and maybe have someone do it for you. But if you want it done quickly, and you want it done professionally had the mgyb.co, you can check it out. And we’ve added on link building, press releases, all sorts of awesome stuff, which there might be some Black Friday stuff going on. But we’ll hold off on that until Friday. So other than that, guys, do we have anything else that we want to cover?

Bradley: I don’t think so. I’m ready to answer some questions. Get the hell out.

Adam: All right. humpy says yes.

Hernan: Humpy’s cursing since today’s gonna mute myself and that Bradley dude thing.

Bradley: All right, let’s do it. All right, let me grab the screen. Sweet You guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct?

Adam: Correct. Alright.

Can You Delete A Subdomain And Redirect It To The Root Without Passing A Penalty?

So it looks like Dustin Bay was the first one up. He says if I get a penalty on the www. domain, so is the subdomain with www as the subdomain, can I delete the subdomain and redirect it to the root without passing the penalty? No, not if you’re just doing a straight redirect, you can’t do that it will pass the penalty. So, or is it better to just delete www without redirecting it and installing the site on the root? Yeah, you can I mean, you could do that because essentially, well, I think about that. Marco, what say you because I know with www a lot of the times will be. It’s still treated as a subdomain but just installing it on the root because some people will have maybe linked to you whatever’s causing a penalty, let’s see, I’ve got to admit or not there is whatever is causing the penalty could also cause it. Remember, people, if they linked to the root domain version of it, if you had your domain setup on www and they were canonicalized to each other, or they auto redirected from your root domain to the www dot version or whatever, then it if people built links to it without www in the domain, then it’s still going to be pointing links back to the root domain, even if you remove that, you know, reinstall the site on the root domain, if that makes sense. So I know if you just did a redirect from the www subdomain to the root domain and then kind of pushed the installation of the site onto the root and lost the www it would still pass the penalty. So what’s the best way to go about that Marco?

Marco: Yeah, you know, I was thinking about this question really hard and think Okay, so how, how would I do this because I’ve just lost my dub dub. And if I did any, as you said, any link building to it, because you still going to have, it depends on the penalty, right? But you’re still going to have a ton of links coming to the dub dub dub, especially the way we teach it. Because we use all variations of the URL right? When we link building, so you’re going to lose that you’re going to lose anyone who’s still and there are people who still type out www. and then the address, right, there are still people who do that. Now, you are going to pass a penalty be 301? Yes, no question. Now, what if? What if, right, so I’m just thinking like, this is theory, guys? I don’t I hardly ever do this unless I tested but this is theory. And this is something you could try. What have you said that that subdomain to no index nofollow and then have Google crawl it? I’d go into Search Console, have Google recrawl and see what it said to no index, no five And then three or one it to the non dub dub dub version or even HTTPS version right to the non www and then everything is redirected again to the HTTPS, you might lose the penalty with with with a couple of jumps and with that with a no-index nofollow on the subdomain that’s causing the problem.

Now, what’s the problem? I mean, how did they get a penalty? How do you know that it was kind of like, was it a manual? Because a manual, if you remove whatever it is that offending Google, you can request for reconsideration. So it all depends on what kind of penalty. Like why not it’s even hard to get a link penalty. Right? Because Google just doesn’t pay attention to links that aren’t relevant. Or if you’re really talented, then you send millions of links, then you get and you do get an unnatural link, you could get that. But it’s usually manuals that you get. So trying to think it through, you may, you may not pass a penalty if you do a double hop, or it might, it might take time for it to catch back up. So you’re going to have to test on this and see, but by all means, move it to the non-www. And remember that any links going to that you lose that once you remove that www, if it doesn’t get redirected, so you’re going to have to read redo all of those links, especially if you had some really powerful links coming through there. That’s what I would recommend trying again, theory. I haven’t done this. I haven’t ever tried it. But in theory, if Google sees that it’s knowing that’s nofollow, then there’s no reason for that website to be penalized anymore.

Hernan: Yeah, right. Can you real quick? This is more like a question. Can you read direct? I guess you could, like you could read direct a subdomain outside of the route and then back into the route, you could like, yeah, you know, like, so as to clean it up.

Bradley: I was gonna, I was going to suggest, you know, something that would be a little bit more elaborate because I’ve done something similar in the past, where not specifically what I’ve done it to an external domain and then redirected the external domain back to the domain that had the penalty, but just on a different subdomain or you know, a different subdomain entirely. But here’s what I was thinking might also work. Again, this is theory, but it would be putting inserting Google in the middle of it, which could absolutely reduce or, you know, eliminate any negative, you know, link equity from point coming back through, something you might consider would be like creating a G site mirrored to what the original site was. So you have the same page structure and all of that, linked from the subdomain, redirect all of that on a page by page basis to the G site and then from the G site, you can have the pages that are built with the link linking back to your root domain, right? It’s a mirror of the site anyways. Or you can even iframe those pages into the G site pages if that makes sense. So that you’re pointing any negative link equity that’s come through that. That might be why you’ve got a penalty to the G site, which we already know, the G site will clean that up and won’t penalize itself. So you’d actually be passing page rank to your money site pages on the new domain, whether its root, the root domain or whatever, different subdomain, whatever, but it would be filtering through the G site. I don’t know. I’ve never actually said I’ve done that with an external domain before but not with a G site. What do you think Marco about that?

Marco: You know, I’m really liking that, especially if you can map out your custom domain, right? The www version over to Google so that stays but you still have the G site underneath, right? Right. And that that’ll filter out any other. Yes, this is guaranteed that’ll filter out any penalty that could have. Which, but if we’d have to see what the penalties you guys, you don’t tell us what the penalty is that we can’t really give you the advice, or the answer that you need. But yeah, I mean, again, in theory, you get three on one that penalize subdomain that www, which is a subdomain, to a G site, which links over to the root where the new site was built, and it can all be the same content and Google won’t give a shit.

Bradley: That’s it, right? I mean, that’s, that’s what I would do. Because again, you’re putting an SEO shield between the penalty in your domain, right? I mean, that’s what we’re talking that’s what we talked about the SEO shield. Go check it out on MGYB and you’ll if you don’t already know what we’re talking about, and now you’re basically doing that you’re inserting part of that shield in between the penalty and the domain. So check it out and try.

What Is The Best Way To Add A YouTube Video To A Website And Maintain Site Speed?

Greg’s Up next, he says, Is there a preferred way to add a video from our YouTube channel to our website page and maintain site speed my site pages load in around one second. And I don’t want that to slow to two or three seconds as a result of adding videos. My goals are to increase time on my site, have specific videos, keep visitors on specific pages, increase views on the videos and improved website ranking by adding videos but not slow down page load times. Any suggestions? Yeah, they have lazy load plugins. You can also I know there’s some way to code that into but I know there’s if it’s a WordPress site, they have lazy load plugins that will lazy load images. And they also I’m pretty sure will lazy load iframes or whatever. So videos I’m pretty sure that you can also lazy load those which means it will allow the page to render entirely before it will start to load the images or the external iframe such as a YouTube video. Any other subject The only other I mean obviously if you use a CDN, but a CDN, I’m not sure I don’t think a CDN affects the loading speed of iframes. Because those are external sites, right? It’s just a tunnel to an external site. But CDN a content delivery network would still allow your page itself to load incredibly quick. The iframe would still be would load as slowly as you don’t have control over that the speed at which the iframe loads, that makes sense. Mark, do you have any suggestions for that

Marco: lazy load suggestions is perfect. I would say don’t be too anal about paint speed, because it’s one of over 200 factors. And we don’t know how much of a factor it is. Everything else considered. And since we teach PageSpeed, doesn’t really matter. Nothing, nothing matters. This is the three pillars, that it’s foundational principles, what we teach activity, relevance, trust and authority and how we build that up. So if you go from one second to 2.2 seconds or whatever, doesn’t matter, it’s not going to matter to anybody, especially Someone coming and they see the video, you have it in a prominent place where the person can watch the video, they’re going to wait for that video because they want to watch the video. You’ve driven them to your pace. Now if it’s taking a ton of time to render, that that might cause a big deal, but you can just do it lazy load and and have it render after the page loads and and you’re good to go.

Hernan: Yeah, There’s never like there’s there’s not a good reason why you shouldn’t be using a CDN anyways. CloudFlare being free, you know, or something like that. So you should be using it anyways. So,

Bradley: yeah, yeah, I mean, it’ll help to load the page quicker and also will load the page from multiple servers or, you know, from multiple locations. So, and also helps in case something happens where your site goes down. For whatever reason, people can still view the pages that kind of because they’re cached. So there’s a lot of good reasons to have a CDN. It’s good for security. There’s a lot of reasons for that. But it will help the page itself to load quicker. Again, it’s not going to help the iframes to load any faster because those are external sites. It’s just a tunnel to an external site within your web page, right? So you don’t have any control over that. But you can control at which point does that load so that you can tell that like, again, with a lazy load plugin, you’re basically telling the page to render before it will start to load any external iframes essentially embeds so okay. Try it and see.

Oh, let’s see. Tom says Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks, Tom. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Fitz. What’s up Fitz? He says on Marcus charity. Is he going to give a 30 minute call if they donate a certain amount to his charity this year?

Marco: No, this year I’ve decided to match donations dollar for dollar.

Bradley: Very cool. Okay. So there you go. Fitz. Adams got the black friday special there and we’re almost out of questions guys, which were only 20

Hernan: Sorry, sorry, Bradley. But I think Adam I’m not sure if he’s here because he needed to start driving but I think that we have a deal in the Black Friday deal that we’re doing that if you spent x you get you get some consultant time would meet with us like now with me but without

Adam: Hernan’s going to come to your house and have Thanksgiving dinner.

Hernan: Okay, give Yeah, I’m gonna cook the turkey.

Adam: And it was about say we should make it the other way. We could be like, yeah, you get an hour with Hernan you just got to go to him. So right,

Hernan: she need to fly down here. And then I yeah, we do that from Monday 3pm to 4pm and then you go back, you know, fly up another nine hours or whatever.

Adam: But um, but yeah, I wonder like a deal that we’ve got both for Semantic Mastery and mg y b, depending on you know, if you’re spending your money in both places, that’s great. And we can certainly work something out but we’ve got I don’t want to give it away but I will Go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday on Friday or over the weekend. And yeah, you’ll be able to see what you can do there. MGYB also gonna have a great promo and depending on how much you spend you can get consulting time with the team for free as a bonus Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, So bottom line, go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday update that daily because the deals galore going to be there and one of them will include some consulting time with Bradley one on one. And you’d like to get like, I know. You know what I’m saying?

Bradley: Yeah. You’re all over and kiss your wife and then roll over the other way and kiss me. Well, it says pumpkin or become pie for Thanksgiving which will benefit my SEO the most well, I don’t know which will benefit the SEO but both pumpkin and pecan pie for God’s sakes, it’s Thanksgiving.

Hernan: So right when choose.

Bradley: That’s right. Lastly, Greg says it looks like we’re going to run out of questions. Which means we’re all going to get the hell out of here and go enjoy it with their families. Greg says thanks, guys will check out the lazy low plugin I do I do own and use SEO ultimate plugin from Jeffrey Smith. Good choice, Greg, by the way that’s coming very, very soon. The Pro version is coming out if you’re in the mastermind, you get access to that a hell of a lot sooner I can tell you that. But I’m really looking forward to that being launched guys. And if you are a member, I think of the ultimate plus version that you get grandfathered in at least a some licenses. I’m not sure how that works. But it’s a good choice. Neither either way, Greg, and it’s going to get better. I promise you that. There might even be a way to make them work together. Well, yeah, possibly. And that looks like it guys. So unless you got something else you want to talk about. Let’s wrap it up.

Marco: You know, if they have conflicting plugins, which we did, then all you have to do is let us know with the new version coming out, and we turn it over to the developer and the developer will take care of I mean, this is going to be fully supported that’s that’s why it’s a paid version of the plugin there is a programmer that’s behind this a developer with it. There’s a whole team behind the pro version of the plugin Plus we’re in the middle of all this too and we always take care of the people who use our products and services.

Bradley: Yeah Thanksgiving. Go Yeah, very happy Thanksgiving.

Hernan: Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I’m really I just want to say I’m really thankful for you guys for coming in asking questions. And you know, joining the group, the free the paid, really thankful for all of the support throughout this year. I’m really thankful for my partners here. So yeah, Happy Thanksgiving.

Adam: Before we go, sorry, one that I started to stomp on that Hernan and I feel the same way obviously, but I want to say something. I had three different calls yesterday. Three different people potential clients in and all of them had no firm plans for Black Friday. If you run a business where you have some sort of contacts with your potential clients or clients, do yourself a favor, write an email, send people out. If nothing else, you can always send them out a good faith or goodwill email saying, Hey, here’s all the cool deals in the industry that I found, you know, help them out. If you’ve got things you could do, or you have for sale, maybe it’s a product I service that you could offer a discount on, you know, send it, it’s not just about Oh, you’re just raking in the money. But you know, people are expecting it. I’m looking, you know, we create offers, but I’m also looking for deals over the Black Friday weekend. So, you know, don’t don’t think just because you don’t own like a physical goods store or something that you can’t get in on this. There’s a lot of cool stuff you can do. And create some goodwill, you know, amongst your network. So do it. Very cool.

Bradley: Very cool. All right. Let’s wrap it up then guys. We will see you all next week. Happy Thanksgiving once again.

Bye, guys. Yeah, run. Bye everyone. Bye bye

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 264 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

Announcement

Adam: should be going live right? Welcome, everybody to the day before Thanksgiving 2019. It’s Episode 264 of Hump Day Hangouts. We are all here. And I will put in a quick suggestion. You’re watching this live put a question on the page. I think everyone’s already headed out for the travel plans. We got a few questions. But we’re going to go through those and then we all are heading out to do our things too. So you got a question? By all means, get it on the page. So we can help you out today. Before we head out and do our Thanksgiving stuff. So real quick, though, let’s take a minute and say hello to everybody. We got everyone here. So Bradley, what I guess one How are you doing into what are you doing for Thanksgiving?

Bradley: First, I’m doing very well. Second, let me mention real quick. Yes, what Adam just said is true, guys. We’re happy to cut out early today on Hump Day Hangouts. But we are here as always, so you know if you’ve got questions, post them otherwise, soon as we run out of questions, we’re out. So, but I’m doing quite well. You know, by the way, if anybody missed out on the Google Ads branding course, wow. It’s turned out really good. And now it’s been edited the three-hour-long webinars now been edited into like 15 lessons for that’s just session one. We’re going to do the next session on December 9th. So I don’t think you can get the early bird special anymore, but we might have something on Friday, maybe. We’ll see what happens on Friday right. Lastly, as far as for Thanksgiving I got my daughter for five days actually just got back from picking her up. She’s downstairs so she didn’t have to listen to me talk about marketing for the next hour. But it’s good because I’ve got our for five days and we’ve got two different Thanksgiving dinners planned one tomorrow, one on Saturday. And just looking forward to taking a few days off and spending it with my daughter. How about you? What are you doing?

Adam: I’m headed out to pick the unfortunate time to head to the beach. We’re going to Big Sur if anyone’s familiar with that. It’s a lot of forests. A lot of really scenic areas right on the beach there on highway one California. It’s probably a couple like an hour, hour and a half southwest of Santa Cruz. But we got a massive storm coming on the west coast of the US has been dumping rain. So I’m going to cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Bradley: Oh man. Good timing, huh?

Adam: Yeah, we might be doing. I don’t know a turkey on Coleman stove.

Chris: What? camping outside?

Adam: Well, we got a little cabin, but it’s just kind of more of a structure than a like full-on cabin. So we’ll see how it goes. I may have a story for you guys next week. If I make it back live. So Hernan, how about you, man? What’s, uh, what are you doing for a living in Buenos Aires?

Hernan: We don’t do that. I’m happy to see you guys eating turkey and all that stuff. So I’m excited. I’m really excited to be here. And I have my friend humpy wood here. What’s he saying? You’re a kinky MF. Oh, yeah. If you go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday there’s going to be some good stuff coming up daily deals. Don’t miss it including that stuff that Bradley did he always over-delivers like a crazy person. And you know it’s really really good stuff so go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday to get your stuff and invest in your business and instead of like getting a new TV that you don’t even need.

Adam: definitely and I was gonna say you Hernan we’ve had I’m looking right now I just hopped in to look at the stats event 262 people go so far you can go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday right now. And we’ve got three free training videos that haven’t been seen one of them is brand spanking new that nobody has ever seen. So we’ve got that up, but that’s coming down at midnight tomorrow. So if you haven’t gone over there, by all means, head over there. If you’re watching this after the fact after Friday, that’s too late. That’s all right. You got two days to get over there and check it out. Let’s see

Bradley: Chris, what the hell are you doing over there, man?

Adam: Yeah. Chris How you doing and how’s your microphone

Chris: I wanted some attention you know like you taking too long guys. So yeah, like I’m pretty good here. happy that I don’t have to eat boatloads of foods. I enjoyed Thanksgiving last year while I was on a cut and it pretty much destroyed me. Let’s call it that way through me back two weeks so I’m happy that I can pass on that experience this year. And yeah, enjoy the cold weather in Austria like I’m super excited because it’s snowing.

Adam: Wow. Ooh, nice. Hopefully, don’t get any sound here. I’m trying to bring up something all right. Marco. I guess yeah, let’s get the Costa Rica weather update and what are you going to be up to for the next few days?

Marco: No Thanksgiving in Costa Rica. We don’t celebrate it. But I mean to all of you who celebrated hope you have a great time. I hope your table is full and that you have lots of blessings on the table. Not just for Thanksgiving, but for the rest of the year. So yeah, by all means, enjoy it now. I’m working on my charity webinars. Every year, which I do something for charity. And last year went over really well. I did four webinars. And we just had a ton of people attend. And, you know, I’m known when it’s about the kids. I’m known to give away a lot of knowledge that maybe shouldn’t go out, but I don’t care. It’s for the kids. And if you donate, you can come to the webinars, I’ll drop the donation link on the page. And anyone who wants to donate, go there and make a donation or go find me to one of the Semantic Mastery of the free group. Go to my page, right Marco Benavides. I’m on Facebook and all of the instructions are there on what you need to do to it. Turn the live webinar. Things are a good man. So when things are good, it’s good to give

Adam: most definitely most definitely yeah and be doing a little bit of that it’s good to just a general I do try to do some reflection around this time of year and think about you know, hey I’m joking about going out and being cold in the rain but it’s my choice to do it. I’m glad you know for the things I’ve got and for having not only you guys as partners, but also you know, being able to converse with people help other people out on Hump Day Hangout, so we’ll talk about this more at Christmas we got some good stuff coming up too. But we’ll concentrate on this week we got some cool Black Friday stuff coming up so like said in her non did go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday, and then that will automatically roll over training goes away midnight tomorrow, but then we’re going to have some just killer deals coming up at 12:01 am starting Friday. I’m pumped. I’m getting excited.

So we’re real quick. I want to say though if you’re new to semantic mastery, you’re in the right place. We’re going to get to some questions here shortly. You can come here every week, just go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, and you can ask your questions ahead of time, which we highly encourage just keep it to one question. I know it’s tough sometimes but people start writing paragraphs and we have to skip if there are too many questions because we want to make sure we’re fair and get to all the questions. But then the next step would be grabbing the battle plan if you want step by step processes for getting results, things like your age domain or you got a new website you’re putting up or a YouTube channel or whatever it is you want to do go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com pick it up, it’s a steal, we put in a ton of awesome bonuses is a value bomb. And after that, if you’ve got clients and you’re wanting to grow your digital marketing agency or business, then come join us in the mastermind go to mastermind.semanticmastery.com and for everyone that likes saving time, that’s me, right and if you want to not only save time to get things done very very well the first time go to mgyb.co originally this stuff started out as are done for you services and things like syndication networks are always drives tech stuff we had we had certainly taught about and you could still buy the courses if you want to understand the real nuts and bolts and maybe have someone do it for you. But if you want it done quickly, and you want it done professionally had the mgyb.co, you can check it out. And we’ve added on link building, press releases, all sorts of awesome stuff, which there might be some Black Friday stuff going on. But we’ll hold off on that until Friday. So other than that, guys, do we have anything else that we want to cover?

Bradley: I don’t think so. I’m ready to answer some questions. Get the hell out.

Adam: All right. humpy says yes.

Hernan: Humpy’s cursing since today’s gonna mute myself and that Bradley dude thing.

Bradley: All right, let’s do it. All right, let me grab the screen. Sweet You guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct?

Adam: Correct. Alright.

Can You Delete A Subdomain And Redirect It To The Root Without Passing A Penalty?

So it looks like Dustin Bay was the first one up. He says if I get a penalty on the www. domain, so is the subdomain with www as the subdomain, can I delete the subdomain and redirect it to the root without passing the penalty? No, not if you’re just doing a straight redirect, you can’t do that it will pass the penalty. So, or is it better to just delete www without redirecting it and installing the site on the root? Yeah, you can I mean, you could do that because essentially, well, I think about that. Marco, what say you because I know with www a lot of the times will be. It’s still treated as a subdomain but just installing it on the root because some people will have maybe linked to you whatever’s causing a penalty, let’s see, I’ve got to admit or not there is whatever is causing the penalty could also cause it. Remember, people, if they linked to the root domain version of it, if you had your domain setup on www and they were canonicalized to each other, or they auto redirected from your root domain to the www dot version or whatever, then it if people built links to it without www in the domain, then it’s still going to be pointing links back to the root domain, even if you remove that, you know, reinstall the site on the root domain, if that makes sense. So I know if you just did a redirect from the www subdomain to the root domain and then kind of pushed the installation of the site onto the root and lost the www it would still pass the penalty. So what’s the best way to go about that Marco?

Marco: Yeah, you know, I was thinking about this question really hard and think Okay, so how, how would I do this because I’ve just lost my dub dub. And if I did any, as you said, any link building to it, because you still going to have, it depends on the penalty, right? But you’re still going to have a ton of links coming to the dub dub dub, especially the way we teach it. Because we use all variations of the URL right? When we link building, so you’re going to lose that you’re going to lose anyone who’s still and there are people who still type out www. and then the address, right, there are still people who do that. Now, you are going to pass a penalty be 301? Yes, no question. Now, what if? What if, right, so I’m just thinking like, this is theory, guys? I don’t I hardly ever do this unless I tested but this is theory. And this is something you could try. What have you said that that subdomain to no index nofollow and then have Google crawl it? I’d go into Search Console, have Google recrawl and see what it said to no index, no five And then three or one it to the non dub dub dub version or even HTTPS version right to the non www and then everything is redirected again to the HTTPS, you might lose the penalty with with with a couple of jumps and with that with a no-index nofollow on the subdomain that’s causing the problem.

Now, what’s the problem? I mean, how did they get a penalty? How do you know that it was kind of like, was it a manual? Because a manual, if you remove whatever it is that offending Google, you can request for reconsideration. So it all depends on what kind of penalty. Like why not it’s even hard to get a link penalty. Right? Because Google just doesn’t pay attention to links that aren’t relevant. Or if you’re really talented, then you send millions of links, then you get and you do get an unnatural link, you could get that. But it’s usually manuals that you get. So trying to think it through, you may, you may not pass a penalty if you do a double hop, or it might, it might take time for it to catch back up. So you’re going to have to test on this and see, but by all means, move it to the non-www. And remember that any links going to that you lose that once you remove that www, if it doesn’t get redirected, so you’re going to have to read redo all of those links, especially if you had some really powerful links coming through there. That’s what I would recommend trying again, theory. I haven’t done this. I haven’t ever tried it. But in theory, if Google sees that it’s knowing that’s nofollow, then there’s no reason for that website to be penalized anymore.

Hernan: Yeah, right. Can you real quick? This is more like a question. Can you read direct? I guess you could, like you could read direct a subdomain outside of the route and then back into the route, you could like, yeah, you know, like, so as to clean it up.

Bradley: I was gonna, I was going to suggest, you know, something that would be a little bit more elaborate because I’ve done something similar in the past, where not specifically what I’ve done it to an external domain and then redirected the external domain back to the domain that had the penalty, but just on a different subdomain or you know, a different subdomain entirely. But here’s what I was thinking might also work. Again, this is theory, but it would be putting inserting Google in the middle of it, which could absolutely reduce or, you know, eliminate any negative, you know, link equity from point coming back through, something you might consider would be like creating a G site mirrored to what the original site was. So you have the same page structure and all of that, linked from the subdomain, redirect all of that on a page by page basis to the G site and then from the G site, you can have the pages that are built with the link linking back to your root domain, right? It’s a mirror of the site anyways. Or you can even iframe those pages into the G site pages if that makes sense. So that you’re pointing any negative link equity that’s come through that. That might be why you’ve got a penalty to the G site, which we already know, the G site will clean that up and won’t penalize itself. So you’d actually be passing page rank to your money site pages on the new domain, whether its root, the root domain or whatever, different subdomain, whatever, but it would be filtering through the G site. I don’t know. I’ve never actually said I’ve done that with an external domain before but not with a G site. What do you think Marco about that?

Marco: You know, I’m really liking that, especially if you can map out your custom domain, right? The www version over to Google so that stays but you still have the G site underneath, right? Right. And that that’ll filter out any other. Yes, this is guaranteed that’ll filter out any penalty that could have. Which, but if we’d have to see what the penalties you guys, you don’t tell us what the penalty is that we can’t really give you the advice, or the answer that you need. But yeah, I mean, again, in theory, you get three on one that penalize subdomain that www, which is a subdomain, to a G site, which links over to the root where the new site was built, and it can all be the same content and Google won’t give a shit.

Bradley: That’s it, right? I mean, that’s, that’s what I would do. Because again, you’re putting an SEO shield between the penalty in your domain, right? I mean, that’s what we’re talking that’s what we talked about the SEO shield. Go check it out on MGYB and you’ll if you don’t already know what we’re talking about, and now you’re basically doing that you’re inserting part of that shield in between the penalty and the domain. So check it out and try.

What Is The Best Way To Add A YouTube Video To A Website And Maintain Site Speed?

Greg’s Up next, he says, Is there a preferred way to add a video from our YouTube channel to our website page and maintain site speed my site pages load in around one second. And I don’t want that to slow to two or three seconds as a result of adding videos. My goals are to increase time on my site, have specific videos, keep visitors on specific pages, increase views on the videos and improved website ranking by adding videos but not slow down page load times. Any suggestions? Yeah, they have lazy load plugins. You can also I know there’s some way to code that into but I know there’s if it’s a WordPress site, they have lazy load plugins that will lazy load images. And they also I’m pretty sure will lazy load iframes or whatever. So videos I’m pretty sure that you can also lazy load those which means it will allow the page to render entirely before it will start to load the images or the external iframe such as a YouTube video. Any other subject The only other I mean obviously if you use a CDN, but a CDN, I’m not sure I don’t think a CDN affects the loading speed of iframes. Because those are external sites, right? It’s just a tunnel to an external site. But CDN a content delivery network would still allow your page itself to load incredibly quick. The iframe would still be would load as slowly as you don’t have control over that the speed at which the iframe loads, that makes sense. Mark, do you have any suggestions for that

Marco: lazy load suggestions is perfect. I would say don’t be too anal about paint speed, because it’s one of over 200 factors. And we don’t know how much of a factor it is. Everything else considered. And since we teach PageSpeed, doesn’t really matter. Nothing, nothing matters. This is the three pillars, that it’s foundational principles, what we teach activity, relevance, trust and authority and how we build that up. So if you go from one second to 2.2 seconds or whatever, doesn’t matter, it’s not going to matter to anybody, especially Someone coming and they see the video, you have it in a prominent place where the person can watch the video, they’re going to wait for that video because they want to watch the video. You’ve driven them to your pace. Now if it’s taking a ton of time to render, that that might cause a big deal, but you can just do it lazy load and and have it render after the page loads and and you’re good to go.

Hernan: Yeah, There’s never like there’s there’s not a good reason why you shouldn’t be using a CDN anyways. CloudFlare being free, you know, or something like that. So you should be using it anyways. So,

Bradley: yeah, yeah, I mean, it’ll help to load the page quicker and also will load the page from multiple servers or, you know, from multiple locations. So, and also helps in case something happens where your site goes down. For whatever reason, people can still view the pages that kind of because they’re cached. So there’s a lot of good reasons to have a CDN. It’s good for security. There’s a lot of reasons for that. But it will help the page itself to load quicker. Again, it’s not going to help the iframes to load any faster because those are external sites. It’s just a tunnel to an external site within your web page, right? So you don’t have any control over that. But you can control at which point does that load so that you can tell that like, again, with a lazy load plugin, you’re basically telling the page to render before it will start to load any external iframes essentially embeds so okay. Try it and see.

Oh, let’s see. Tom says Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks, Tom. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Fitz. What’s up Fitz? He says on Marcus charity. Is he going to give a 30 minute call if they donate a certain amount to his charity this year?

Marco: No, this year I’ve decided to match donations dollar for dollar.

Bradley: Very cool. Okay. So there you go. Fitz. Adams got the black friday special there and we’re almost out of questions guys, which were only 20

Hernan: Sorry, sorry, Bradley. But I think Adam I’m not sure if he’s here because he needed to start driving but I think that we have a deal in the Black Friday deal that we’re doing that if you spent x you get you get some consultant time would meet with us like now with me but without

Adam: Hernan’s going to come to your house and have Thanksgiving dinner.

Hernan: Okay, give Yeah, I’m gonna cook the turkey.

Adam: And it was about say we should make it the other way. We could be like, yeah, you get an hour with Hernan you just got to go to him. So right,

Hernan: she need to fly down here. And then I yeah, we do that from Monday 3pm to 4pm and then you go back, you know, fly up another nine hours or whatever.

Adam: But um, but yeah, I wonder like a deal that we’ve got both for Semantic Mastery and mg y b, depending on you know, if you’re spending your money in both places, that’s great. And we can certainly work something out but we’ve got I don’t want to give it away but I will Go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday on Friday or over the weekend. And yeah, you’ll be able to see what you can do there. MGYB also gonna have a great promo and depending on how much you spend you can get consulting time with the team for free as a bonus Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, So bottom line, go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday update that daily because the deals galore going to be there and one of them will include some consulting time with Bradley one on one. And you’d like to get like, I know. You know what I’m saying?

Bradley: Yeah. You’re all over and kiss your wife and then roll over the other way and kiss me. Well, it says pumpkin or become pie for Thanksgiving which will benefit my SEO the most well, I don’t know which will benefit the SEO but both pumpkin and pecan pie for God’s sakes, it’s Thanksgiving.

Hernan: So right when choose.

Bradley: That’s right. Lastly, Greg says it looks like we’re going to run out of questions. Which means we’re all going to get the hell out of here and go enjoy it with their families. Greg says thanks, guys will check out the lazy low plugin I do I do own and use SEO ultimate plugin from Jeffrey Smith. Good choice, Greg, by the way that’s coming very, very soon. The Pro version is coming out if you’re in the mastermind, you get access to that a hell of a lot sooner I can tell you that. But I’m really looking forward to that being launched guys. And if you are a member, I think of the ultimate plus version that you get grandfathered in at least a some licenses. I’m not sure how that works. But it’s a good choice. Neither either way, Greg, and it’s going to get better. I promise you that. There might even be a way to make them work together. Well, yeah, possibly. And that looks like it guys. So unless you got something else you want to talk about. Let’s wrap it up.

Marco: You know, if they have conflicting plugins, which we did, then all you have to do is let us know with the new version coming out, and we turn it over to the developer and the developer will take care of I mean, this is going to be fully supported that’s that’s why it’s a paid version of the plugin there is a programmer that’s behind this a developer with it. There’s a whole team behind the pro version of the plugin Plus we’re in the middle of all this too and we always take care of the people who use our products and services.

Bradley: Yeah Thanksgiving. Go Yeah, very happy Thanksgiving.

Hernan: Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I’m really I just want to say I’m really thankful for you guys for coming in asking questions. And you know, joining the group, the free the paid, really thankful for all of the support throughout this year. I’m really thankful for my partners here. So yeah, Happy Thanksgiving.

Adam: Before we go, sorry, one that I started to stomp on that Hernan and I feel the same way obviously, but I want to say something. I had three different calls yesterday. Three different people potential clients in and all of them had no firm plans for Black Friday. If you run a business where you have some sort of contacts with your potential clients or clients, do yourself a favor, write an email, send people out. If nothing else, you can always send them out a good faith or goodwill email saying, Hey, here’s all the cool deals in the industry that I found, you know, help them out. If you’ve got things you could do, or you have for sale, maybe it’s a product I service that you could offer a discount on, you know, send it, it’s not just about Oh, you’re just raking in the money. But you know, people are expecting it. I’m looking, you know, we create offers, but I’m also looking for deals over the Black Friday weekend. So, you know, don’t don’t think just because you don’t own like a physical goods store or something that you can’t get in on this. There’s a lot of cool stuff you can do. And create some goodwill, you know, amongst your network. So do it. Very cool.

Bradley: Very cool. All right. Let’s wrap it up then guys. We will see you all next week. Happy Thanksgiving once again.

Bye, guys. Yeah, run. Bye everyone. Bye bye

Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 264 published first on your-t1-blog-url

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 264

Click on the video above to watch Episode 264 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

  Announcement

Adam: should be going live right? Welcome, everybody to the day before Thanksgiving 2019. It's Episode 264 of Hump Day Hangouts. We are all here. And I will put in a quick suggestion. You're watching this live put a question on the page. I think everyone's already headed out for the travel plans. We got a few questions. But we're going to go through those and then we all are heading out to do our things too. So you got a question? By all means, get it on the page. So we can help you out today. Before we head out and do our Thanksgiving stuff. So real quick, though, let's take a minute and say hello to everybody. We got everyone here. So Bradley, what I guess one How are you doing into what are you doing for Thanksgiving?

Bradley: First, I'm doing very well. Second, let me mention real quick. Yes, what Adam just said is true, guys. We're happy to cut out early today on Hump Day Hangouts. But we are here as always, so you know if you've got questions, post them otherwise, soon as we run out of questions, we're out. So, but I'm doing quite well. You know, by the way, if anybody missed out on the Google Ads branding course, wow. It's turned out really good. And now it's been edited the three-hour-long webinars now been edited into like 15 lessons for that's just session one. We're going to do the next session on December 9th. So I don't think you can get the early bird special anymore, but we might have something on Friday, maybe. We'll see what happens on Friday right. Lastly, as far as for Thanksgiving I got my daughter for five days actually just got back from picking her up. She's downstairs so she didn't have to listen to me talk about marketing for the next hour. But it's good because I've got our for five days and we've got two different Thanksgiving dinners planned one tomorrow, one on Saturday. And just looking forward to taking a few days off and spending it with my daughter. How about you? What are you doing?

Adam: I'm headed out to pick the unfortunate time to head to the beach. We're going to Big Sur if anyone's familiar with that. It's a lot of forests. A lot of really scenic areas right on the beach there on highway one California. It's probably a couple like an hour, hour and a half southwest of Santa Cruz. But we got a massive storm coming on the west coast of the US has been dumping rain. So I'm going to cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Bradley: Oh man. Good timing, huh?

Adam: Yeah, we might be doing. I don't know a turkey on Coleman stove.

Chris: What? camping outside?

Adam: Well, we got a little cabin, but it's just kind of more of a structure than a like full-on cabin. So we'll see how it goes. I may have a story for you guys next week. If I make it back live. So Hernan, how about you, man? What's, uh, what are you doing for a living in Buenos Aires?

Hernan: We don't do that. I'm happy to see you guys eating turkey and all that stuff. So I'm excited. I'm really excited to be here. And I have my friend humpy wood here. What's he saying? You're a kinky MF. Oh, yeah. If you go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday there's going to be some good stuff coming up daily deals. Don't miss it including that stuff that Bradley did he always over-delivers like a crazy person. And you know it's really really good stuff so go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday to get your stuff and invest in your business and instead of like getting a new TV that you don't even need.

Adam: definitely and I was gonna say you Hernan we've had I'm looking right now I just hopped in to look at the stats event 262 people go so far you can go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday right now. And we've got three free training videos that haven't been seen one of them is brand spanking new that nobody has ever seen. So we've got that up, but that's coming down at midnight tomorrow. So if you haven't gone over there, by all means, head over there. If you're watching this after the fact after Friday, that's too late. That's all right. You got two days to get over there and check it out. Let's see

Bradley: Chris, what the hell are you doing over there, man?

Adam: Yeah. Chris How you doing and how's your microphone

Chris: I wanted some attention you know like you taking too long guys. So yeah, like I'm pretty good here. happy that I don't have to eat boatloads of foods. I enjoyed Thanksgiving last year while I was on a cut and it pretty much destroyed me. Let's call it that way through me back two weeks so I'm happy that I can pass on that experience this year. And yeah, enjoy the cold weather in Austria like I'm super excited because it's snowing.

Adam: Wow. Ooh, nice. Hopefully, don't get any sound here. I'm trying to bring up something all right. Marco. I guess yeah, let's get the Costa Rica weather update and what are you going to be up to for the next few days?

Marco: No Thanksgiving in Costa Rica. We don't celebrate it. But I mean to all of you who celebrated hope you have a great time. I hope your table is full and that you have lots of blessings on the table. Not just for Thanksgiving, but for the rest of the year. So yeah, by all means, enjoy it now. I'm working on my charity webinars. Every year, which I do something for charity. And last year went over really well. I did four webinars. And we just had a ton of people attend. And, you know, I'm known when it's about the kids. I'm known to give away a lot of knowledge that maybe shouldn't go out, but I don't care. It's for the kids. And if you donate, you can come to the webinars, I'll drop the donation link on the page. And anyone who wants to donate, go there and make a donation or go find me to one of the Semantic Mastery of the free group. Go to my page, right Marco Benavides. I'm on Facebook and all of the instructions are there on what you need to do to it. Turn the live webinar. Things are a good man. So when things are good, it's good to give

Adam: most definitely most definitely yeah and be doing a little bit of that it's good to just a general I do try to do some reflection around this time of year and think about you know, hey I'm joking about going out and being cold in the rain but it's my choice to do it. I'm glad you know for the things I've got and for having not only you guys as partners, but also you know, being able to converse with people help other people out on Hump Day Hangout, so we'll talk about this more at Christmas we got some good stuff coming up too. But we'll concentrate on this week we got some cool Black Friday stuff coming up so like said in her non did go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday, and then that will automatically roll over training goes away midnight tomorrow, but then we're going to have some just killer deals coming up at 12:01 am starting Friday. I'm pumped. I'm getting excited.

So we're real quick. I want to say though if you're new to semantic mastery, you're in the right place. We're going to get to some questions here shortly. You can come here every week, just go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, and you can ask your questions ahead of time, which we highly encourage just keep it to one question. I know it's tough sometimes but people start writing paragraphs and we have to skip if there are too many questions because we want to make sure we're fair and get to all the questions. But then the next step would be grabbing the battle plan if you want step by step processes for getting results, things like your age domain or you got a new website you're putting up or a YouTube channel or whatever it is you want to do go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com pick it up, it's a steal, we put in a ton of awesome bonuses is a value bomb. And after that, if you've got clients and you're wanting to grow your digital marketing agency or business, then come join us in the mastermind go to mastermind.semanticmastery.com and for everyone that likes saving time, that's me, right and if you want to not only save time to get things done very very well the first time go to mgyb.co originally this stuff started out as are done for you services and things like syndication networks are always drives tech stuff we had we had certainly taught about and you could still buy the courses if you want to understand the real nuts and bolts and maybe have someone do it for you. But if you want it done quickly, and you want it done professionally had the mgyb.co, you can check it out. And we've added on link building, press releases, all sorts of awesome stuff, which there might be some Black Friday stuff going on. But we'll hold off on that until Friday. So other than that, guys, do we have anything else that we want to cover?

Bradley: I don't think so. I'm ready to answer some questions. Get the hell out.

Adam: All right. humpy says yes.

Hernan: Humpy's cursing since today's gonna mute myself and that Bradley dude thing.

Bradley: All right, let's do it. All right, let me grab the screen. Sweet You guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct?

Adam: Correct. Alright.

Can You Delete A Subdomain And Redirect It To The Root Without Passing A Penalty?

So it looks like Dustin Bay was the first one up. He says if I get a penalty on the www. domain, so is the subdomain with www as the subdomain, can I delete the subdomain and redirect it to the root without passing the penalty? No, not if you're just doing a straight redirect, you can't do that it will pass the penalty. So, or is it better to just delete www without redirecting it and installing the site on the root? Yeah, you can I mean, you could do that because essentially, well, I think about that. Marco, what say you because I know with www a lot of the times will be. It's still treated as a subdomain but just installing it on the root because some people will have maybe linked to you whatever's causing a penalty, let's see, I've got to admit or not there is whatever is causing the penalty could also cause it. Remember, people, if they linked to the root domain version of it, if you had your domain setup on www and they were canonicalized to each other, or they auto redirected from your root domain to the www dot version or whatever, then it if people built links to it without www in the domain, then it's still going to be pointing links back to the root domain, even if you remove that, you know, reinstall the site on the root domain, if that makes sense. So I know if you just did a redirect from the www subdomain to the root domain and then kind of pushed the installation of the site onto the root and lost the www it would still pass the penalty. So what's the best way to go about that Marco?

Marco: Yeah, you know, I was thinking about this question really hard and think Okay, so how, how would I do this because I've just lost my dub dub. And if I did any, as you said, any link building to it, because you still going to have, it depends on the penalty, right? But you're still going to have a ton of links coming to the dub dub dub, especially the way we teach it. Because we use all variations of the URL right? When we link building, so you're going to lose that you're going to lose anyone who's still and there are people who still type out www. and then the address, right, there are still people who do that. Now, you are going to pass a penalty be 301? Yes, no question. Now, what if? What if, right, so I'm just thinking like, this is theory, guys? I don't I hardly ever do this unless I tested but this is theory. And this is something you could try. What have you said that that subdomain to no index nofollow and then have Google crawl it? I'd go into Search Console, have Google recrawl and see what it said to no index, no five And then three or one it to the non dub dub dub version or even HTTPS version right to the non www and then everything is redirected again to the HTTPS, you might lose the penalty with with with a couple of jumps and with that with a no-index nofollow on the subdomain that's causing the problem.

Now, what's the problem? I mean, how did they get a penalty? How do you know that it was kind of like, was it a manual? Because a manual, if you remove whatever it is that offending Google, you can request for reconsideration. So it all depends on what kind of penalty. Like why not it's even hard to get a link penalty. Right? Because Google just doesn't pay attention to links that aren't relevant. Or if you're really talented, then you send millions of links, then you get and you do get an unnatural link, you could get that. But it's usually manuals that you get. So trying to think it through, you may, you may not pass a penalty if you do a double hop, or it might, it might take time for it to catch back up. So you're going to have to test on this and see, but by all means, move it to the non-www. And remember that any links going to that you lose that once you remove that www, if it doesn't get redirected, so you're going to have to read redo all of those links, especially if you had some really powerful links coming through there. That's what I would recommend trying again, theory. I haven't done this. I haven't ever tried it. But in theory, if Google sees that it's knowing that's nofollow, then there's no reason for that website to be penalized anymore.

Hernan: Yeah, right. Can you real quick? This is more like a question. Can you read direct? I guess you could, like you could read direct a subdomain outside of the route and then back into the route, you could like, yeah, you know, like, so as to clean it up.

Bradley: I was gonna, I was going to suggest, you know, something that would be a little bit more elaborate because I've done something similar in the past, where not specifically what I've done it to an external domain and then redirected the external domain back to the domain that had the penalty, but just on a different subdomain or you know, a different subdomain entirely. But here's what I was thinking might also work. Again, this is theory, but it would be putting inserting Google in the middle of it, which could absolutely reduce or, you know, eliminate any negative, you know, link equity from point coming back through, something you might consider would be like creating a G site mirrored to what the original site was. So you have the same page structure and all of that, linked from the subdomain, redirect all of that on a page by page basis to the G site and then from the G site, you can have the pages that are built with the link linking back to your root domain, right? It's a mirror of the site anyways. Or you can even iframe those pages into the G site pages if that makes sense. So that you're pointing any negative link equity that's come through that. That might be why you've got a penalty to the G site, which we already know, the G site will clean that up and won't penalize itself. So you'd actually be passing page rank to your money site pages on the new domain, whether its root, the root domain or whatever, different subdomain, whatever, but it would be filtering through the G site. I don't know. I've never actually said I've done that with an external domain before but not with a G site. What do you think Marco about that?

Marco: You know, I'm really liking that, especially if you can map out your custom domain, right? The www version over to Google so that stays but you still have the G site underneath, right? Right. And that that'll filter out any other. Yes, this is guaranteed that'll filter out any penalty that could have. Which, but if we'd have to see what the penalties you guys, you don't tell us what the penalty is that we can't really give you the advice, or the answer that you need. But yeah, I mean, again, in theory, you get three on one that penalize subdomain that www, which is a subdomain, to a G site, which links over to the root where the new site was built, and it can all be the same content and Google won't give a shit.

Bradley: That's it, right? I mean, that's, that's what I would do. Because again, you're putting an SEO shield between the penalty in your domain, right? I mean, that's what we're talking that's what we talked about the SEO shield. Go check it out on MGYB and you'll if you don't already know what we're talking about, and now you're basically doing that you're inserting part of that shield in between the penalty and the domain. So check it out and try.

What Is The Best Way To Add A YouTube Video To A Website And Maintain Site Speed?

Greg's Up next, he says, Is there a preferred way to add a video from our YouTube channel to our website page and maintain site speed my site pages load in around one second. And I don't want that to slow to two or three seconds as a result of adding videos. My goals are to increase time on my site, have specific videos, keep visitors on specific pages, increase views on the videos and improved website ranking by adding videos but not slow down page load times. Any suggestions? Yeah, they have lazy load plugins. You can also I know there's some way to code that into but I know there's if it's a WordPress site, they have lazy load plugins that will lazy load images. And they also I'm pretty sure will lazy load iframes or whatever. So videos I'm pretty sure that you can also lazy load those which means it will allow the page to render entirely before it will start to load the images or the external iframe such as a YouTube video. Any other subject The only other I mean obviously if you use a CDN, but a CDN, I'm not sure I don't think a CDN affects the loading speed of iframes. Because those are external sites, right? It's just a tunnel to an external site. But CDN a content delivery network would still allow your page itself to load incredibly quick. The iframe would still be would load as slowly as you don't have control over that the speed at which the iframe loads, that makes sense. Mark, do you have any suggestions for that

Marco: lazy load suggestions is perfect. I would say don't be too anal about paint speed, because it's one of over 200 factors. And we don't know how much of a factor it is. Everything else considered. And since we teach PageSpeed, doesn't really matter. Nothing, nothing matters. This is the three pillars, that it's foundational principles, what we teach activity, relevance, trust and authority and how we build that up. So if you go from one second to 2.2 seconds or whatever, doesn't matter, it's not going to matter to anybody, especially Someone coming and they see the video, you have it in a prominent place where the person can watch the video, they're going to wait for that video because they want to watch the video. You've driven them to your pace. Now if it's taking a ton of time to render, that that might cause a big deal, but you can just do it lazy load and and have it render after the page loads and and you're good to go.

Hernan: Yeah, There's never like there's there's not a good reason why you shouldn't be using a CDN anyways. CloudFlare being free, you know, or something like that. So you should be using it anyways. So,

Bradley: yeah, yeah, I mean, it'll help to load the page quicker and also will load the page from multiple servers or, you know, from multiple locations. So, and also helps in case something happens where your site goes down. For whatever reason, people can still view the pages that kind of because they're cached. So there's a lot of good reasons to have a CDN. It's good for security. There's a lot of reasons for that. But it will help the page itself to load quicker. Again, it's not going to help the iframes to load any faster because those are external sites. It's just a tunnel to an external site within your web page, right? So you don't have any control over that. But you can control at which point does that load so that you can tell that like, again, with a lazy load plugin, you're basically telling the page to render before it will start to load any external iframes essentially embeds so okay. Try it and see.

Oh, let's see. Tom says Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks, Tom. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Fitz. What's up Fitz? He says on Marcus charity. Is he going to give a 30 minute call if they donate a certain amount to his charity this year?

Marco: No, this year I've decided to match donations dollar for dollar.

Bradley: Very cool. Okay. So there you go. Fitz. Adams got the black friday special there and we're almost out of questions guys, which were only 20

Hernan: Sorry, sorry, Bradley. But I think Adam I'm not sure if he's here because he needed to start driving but I think that we have a deal in the Black Friday deal that we're doing that if you spent x you get you get some consultant time would meet with us like now with me but without

Adam: Hernan's going to come to your house and have Thanksgiving dinner.

Hernan: Okay, give Yeah, I'm gonna cook the turkey.

Adam: And it was about say we should make it the other way. We could be like, yeah, you get an hour with Hernan you just got to go to him. So right,

Hernan: she need to fly down here. And then I yeah, we do that from Monday 3pm to 4pm and then you go back, you know, fly up another nine hours or whatever.

Adam: But um, but yeah, I wonder like a deal that we've got both for Semantic Mastery and mg y b, depending on you know, if you're spending your money in both places, that's great. And we can certainly work something out but we've got I don't want to give it away but I will Go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday on Friday or over the weekend. And yeah, you'll be able to see what you can do there. MGYB also gonna have a great promo and depending on how much you spend you can get consulting time with the team for free as a bonus Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, So bottom line, go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday update that daily because the deals galore going to be there and one of them will include some consulting time with Bradley one on one. And you'd like to get like, I know. You know what I'm saying?

Bradley: Yeah. You're all over and kiss your wife and then roll over the other way and kiss me. Well, it says pumpkin or become pie for Thanksgiving which will benefit my SEO the most well, I don't know which will benefit the SEO but both pumpkin and pecan pie for God's sakes, it's Thanksgiving.

Hernan: So right when choose.

Bradley: That's right. Lastly, Greg says it looks like we're going to run out of questions. Which means we're all going to get the hell out of here and go enjoy it with their families. Greg says thanks, guys will check out the lazy low plugin I do I do own and use SEO ultimate plugin from Jeffrey Smith. Good choice, Greg, by the way that's coming very, very soon. The Pro version is coming out if you're in the mastermind, you get access to that a hell of a lot sooner I can tell you that. But I'm really looking forward to that being launched guys. And if you are a member, I think of the ultimate plus version that you get grandfathered in at least a some licenses. I'm not sure how that works. But it's a good choice. Neither either way, Greg, and it's going to get better. I promise you that. There might even be a way to make them work together. Well, yeah, possibly. And that looks like it guys. So unless you got something else you want to talk about. Let's wrap it up.

Marco: You know, if they have conflicting plugins, which we did, then all you have to do is let us know with the new version coming out, and we turn it over to the developer and the developer will take care of I mean, this is going to be fully supported that's that's why it's a paid version of the plugin there is a programmer that's behind this a developer with it. There's a whole team behind the pro version of the plugin Plus we're in the middle of all this too and we always take care of the people who use our products and services.

Bradley: Yeah Thanksgiving. Go Yeah, very happy Thanksgiving.

Hernan: Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I'm really I just want to say I'm really thankful for you guys for coming in asking questions. And you know, joining the group, the free the paid, really thankful for all of the support throughout this year. I'm really thankful for my partners here. So yeah, Happy Thanksgiving.

Adam: Before we go, sorry, one that I started to stomp on that Hernan and I feel the same way obviously, but I want to say something. I had three different calls yesterday. Three different people potential clients in and all of them had no firm plans for Black Friday. If you run a business where you have some sort of contacts with your potential clients or clients, do yourself a favor, write an email, send people out. If nothing else, you can always send them out a good faith or goodwill email saying, Hey, here's all the cool deals in the industry that I found, you know, help them out. If you've got things you could do, or you have for sale, maybe it's a product I service that you could offer a discount on, you know, send it, it's not just about Oh, you're just raking in the money. But you know, people are expecting it. I'm looking, you know, we create offers, but I'm also looking for deals over the Black Friday weekend. So, you know, don't don't think just because you don't own like a physical goods store or something that you can't get in on this. There's a lot of cool stuff you can do. And create some goodwill, you know, amongst your network. So do it. Very cool.

Bradley: Very cool. All right. Let's wrap it up then guys. We will see you all next week. Happy Thanksgiving once again.

Bye, guys. Yeah, run. Bye everyone. Bye bye

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Adam: should be going live right? Welcome, everybody to the day before Thanksgiving 2019. It's Episode 264 of Hump Day Hangouts. We are all here. And I will put in a quick suggestion. You're watching this live put a question on the page. I think everyone's already headed out for the travel plans. We got a few questions. But we're going to go through those and then we all are heading out to do our things too. So you got a question? By all means, get it on the page. So we can help you out today. Before we head out and do our Thanksgiving stuff. So real quick, though, let's take a minute and say hello to everybody. We got everyone here. So Bradley, what I guess one How are you doing into what are you doing for Thanksgiving?

Bradley: First, I'm doing very well. Second, let me mention real quick. Yes, what Adam just said is true, guys. We're happy to cut out early today on Hump Day Hangouts. But we are here as always, so you know if you've got questions, post them otherwise, soon as we run out of questions, we're out. So, but I'm doing quite well. You know, by the way, if anybody missed out on the Google Ads branding course, wow. It's turned out really good. And now it's been edited the three-hour-long webinars now been edited into like 15 lessons for that's just session one. We're going to do the next session on December 9th. So I don't think you can get the early bird special anymore, but we might have something on Friday, maybe. We'll see what happens on Friday right. Lastly, as far as for Thanksgiving I got my daughter for five days actually just got back from picking her up. She's downstairs so she didn't have to listen to me talk about marketing for the next hour. But it's good because I've got our for five days and we've got two different Thanksgiving dinners planned one tomorrow, one on Saturday. And just looking forward to taking a few days off and spending it with my daughter. How about you? What are you doing?

Adam: I'm headed out to pick the unfortunate time to head to the beach. We're going to Big Sur if anyone's familiar with that. It's a lot of forests. A lot of really scenic areas right on the beach there on highway one California. It's probably a couple like an hour, hour and a half southwest of Santa Cruz. But we got a massive storm coming on the west coast of the US has been dumping rain. So I'm going to cross my fingers and hope for the best.

Bradley: Oh man. Good timing, huh?

Adam: Yeah, we might be doing. I don't know a turkey on Coleman stove.

Chris: What? camping outside?

Adam: Well, we got a little cabin, but it's just kind of more of a structure than a like full-on cabin. So we'll see how it goes. I may have a story for you guys next week. If I make it back live. So Hernan, how about you, man? What's, uh, what are you doing for a living in Buenos Aires?

Hernan: We don't do that. I'm happy to see you guys eating turkey and all that stuff. So I'm excited. I'm really excited to be here. And I have my friend humpy wood here. What's he saying? You're a kinky MF. Oh, yeah. If you go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday there's going to be some good stuff coming up daily deals. Don't miss it including that stuff that Bradley did he always over-delivers like a crazy person. And you know it's really really good stuff so go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday to get your stuff and invest in your business and instead of like getting a new TV that you don't even need.

Adam: definitely and I was gonna say you Hernan we've had I'm looking right now I just hopped in to look at the stats event 262 people go so far you can go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday right now. And we've got three free training videos that haven't been seen one of them is brand spanking new that nobody has ever seen. So we've got that up, but that's coming down at midnight tomorrow. So if you haven't gone over there, by all means, head over there. If you're watching this after the fact after Friday, that's too late. That's all right. You got two days to get over there and check it out. Let's see

Bradley: Chris, what the hell are you doing over there, man?

Adam: Yeah. Chris How you doing and how's your microphone

Chris: I wanted some attention you know like you taking too long guys. So yeah, like I'm pretty good here. happy that I don't have to eat boatloads of foods. I enjoyed Thanksgiving last year while I was on a cut and it pretty much destroyed me. Let's call it that way through me back two weeks so I'm happy that I can pass on that experience this year. And yeah, enjoy the cold weather in Austria like I'm super excited because it's snowing.

Adam: Wow. Ooh, nice. Hopefully, don't get any sound here. I'm trying to bring up something all right. Marco. I guess yeah, let's get the Costa Rica weather update and what are you going to be up to for the next few days?

Marco: No Thanksgiving in Costa Rica. We don't celebrate it. But I mean to all of you who celebrated hope you have a great time. I hope your table is full and that you have lots of blessings on the table. Not just for Thanksgiving, but for the rest of the year. So yeah, by all means, enjoy it now. I'm working on my charity webinars. Every year, which I do something for charity. And last year went over really well. I did four webinars. And we just had a ton of people attend. And, you know, I'm known when it's about the kids. I'm known to give away a lot of knowledge that maybe shouldn't go out, but I don't care. It's for the kids. And if you donate, you can come to the webinars, I'll drop the donation link on the page. And anyone who wants to donate, go there and make a donation or go find me to one of the Semantic Mastery of the free group. Go to my page, right Marco Benavides. I'm on Facebook and all of the instructions are there on what you need to do to it. Turn the live webinar. Things are a good man. So when things are good, it's good to give

Adam: most definitely most definitely yeah and be doing a little bit of that it's good to just a general I do try to do some reflection around this time of year and think about you know, hey I'm joking about going out and being cold in the rain but it's my choice to do it. I'm glad you know for the things I've got and for having not only you guys as partners, but also you know, being able to converse with people help other people out on Hump Day Hangout, so we'll talk about this more at Christmas we got some good stuff coming up too. But we'll concentrate on this week we got some cool Black Friday stuff coming up so like said in her non did go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday, and then that will automatically roll over training goes away midnight tomorrow, but then we're going to have some just killer deals coming up at 12:01 am starting Friday. I'm pumped. I'm getting excited.

So we're real quick. I want to say though if you're new to semantic mastery, you're in the right place. We're going to get to some questions here shortly. You can come here every week, just go to semanticmastery.com/hdquestions, and you can ask your questions ahead of time, which we highly encourage just keep it to one question. I know it's tough sometimes but people start writing paragraphs and we have to skip if there are too many questions because we want to make sure we're fair and get to all the questions. But then the next step would be grabbing the battle plan if you want step by step processes for getting results, things like your age domain or you got a new website you're putting up or a YouTube channel or whatever it is you want to do go to battleplan.semanticmastery.com pick it up, it's a steal, we put in a ton of awesome bonuses is a value bomb. And after that, if you've got clients and you're wanting to grow your digital marketing agency or business, then come join us in the mastermind go to mastermind.semanticmastery.com and for everyone that likes saving time, that's me, right and if you want to not only save time to get things done very very well the first time go to mgyb.co originally this stuff started out as are done for you services and things like syndication networks are always drives tech stuff we had we had certainly taught about and you could still buy the courses if you want to understand the real nuts and bolts and maybe have someone do it for you. But if you want it done quickly, and you want it done professionally had the mgyb.co, you can check it out. And we've added on link building, press releases, all sorts of awesome stuff, which there might be some Black Friday stuff going on. But we'll hold off on that until Friday. So other than that, guys, do we have anything else that we want to cover?

Bradley: I don't think so. I'm ready to answer some questions. Get the hell out.

Adam: All right. humpy says yes.

Hernan: Humpy's cursing since today's gonna mute myself and that Bradley dude thing.

Bradley: All right, let's do it. All right, let me grab the screen. Sweet You guys should be seeing my screen now. Correct?

Adam: Correct. Alright.

Can You Delete A Subdomain And Redirect It To The Root Without Passing A Penalty?

So it looks like Dustin Bay was the first one up. He says if I get a penalty on the www. domain, so is the subdomain with www as the subdomain, can I delete the subdomain and redirect it to the root without passing the penalty? No, not if you're just doing a straight redirect, you can't do that it will pass the penalty. So, or is it better to just delete www without redirecting it and installing the site on the root? Yeah, you can I mean, you could do that because essentially, well, I think about that. Marco, what say you because I know with www a lot of the times will be. It's still treated as a subdomain but just installing it on the root because some people will have maybe linked to you whatever's causing a penalty, let's see, I've got to admit or not there is whatever is causing the penalty could also cause it. Remember, people, if they linked to the root domain version of it, if you had your domain setup on www and they were canonicalized to each other, or they auto redirected from your root domain to the www dot version or whatever, then it if people built links to it without www in the domain, then it's still going to be pointing links back to the root domain, even if you remove that, you know, reinstall the site on the root domain, if that makes sense. So I know if you just did a redirect from the www subdomain to the root domain and then kind of pushed the installation of the site onto the root and lost the www it would still pass the penalty. So what's the best way to go about that Marco?

Marco: Yeah, you know, I was thinking about this question really hard and think Okay, so how, how would I do this because I've just lost my dub dub. And if I did any, as you said, any link building to it, because you still going to have, it depends on the penalty, right? But you're still going to have a ton of links coming to the dub dub dub, especially the way we teach it. Because we use all variations of the URL right? When we link building, so you're going to lose that you're going to lose anyone who's still and there are people who still type out www. and then the address, right, there are still people who do that. Now, you are going to pass a penalty be 301? Yes, no question. Now, what if? What if, right, so I'm just thinking like, this is theory, guys? I don't I hardly ever do this unless I tested but this is theory. And this is something you could try. What have you said that that subdomain to no index nofollow and then have Google crawl it? I'd go into Search Console, have Google recrawl and see what it said to no index, no five And then three or one it to the non dub dub dub version or even HTTPS version right to the non www and then everything is redirected again to the HTTPS, you might lose the penalty with with with a couple of jumps and with that with a no-index nofollow on the subdomain that's causing the problem.

Now, what's the problem? I mean, how did they get a penalty? How do you know that it was kind of like, was it a manual? Because a manual, if you remove whatever it is that offending Google, you can request for reconsideration. So it all depends on what kind of penalty. Like why not it's even hard to get a link penalty. Right? Because Google just doesn't pay attention to links that aren't relevant. Or if you're really talented, then you send millions of links, then you get and you do get an unnatural link, you could get that. But it's usually manuals that you get. So trying to think it through, you may, you may not pass a penalty if you do a double hop, or it might, it might take time for it to catch back up. So you're going to have to test on this and see, but by all means, move it to the non-www. And remember that any links going to that you lose that once you remove that www, if it doesn't get redirected, so you're going to have to read redo all of those links, especially if you had some really powerful links coming through there. That's what I would recommend trying again, theory. I haven't done this. I haven't ever tried it. But in theory, if Google sees that it's knowing that's nofollow, then there's no reason for that website to be penalized anymore.

Hernan: Yeah, right. Can you real quick? This is more like a question. Can you read direct? I guess you could, like you could read direct a subdomain outside of the route and then back into the route, you could like, yeah, you know, like, so as to clean it up.

Bradley: I was gonna, I was going to suggest, you know, something that would be a little bit more elaborate because I've done something similar in the past, where not specifically what I've done it to an external domain and then redirected the external domain back to the domain that had the penalty, but just on a different subdomain or you know, a different subdomain entirely. But here's what I was thinking might also work. Again, this is theory, but it would be putting inserting Google in the middle of it, which could absolutely reduce or, you know, eliminate any negative, you know, link equity from point coming back through, something you might consider would be like creating a G site mirrored to what the original site was. So you have the same page structure and all of that, linked from the subdomain, redirect all of that on a page by page basis to the G site and then from the G site, you can have the pages that are built with the link linking back to your root domain, right? It's a mirror of the site anyways. Or you can even iframe those pages into the G site pages if that makes sense. So that you're pointing any negative link equity that's come through that. That might be why you've got a penalty to the G site, which we already know, the G site will clean that up and won't penalize itself. So you'd actually be passing page rank to your money site pages on the new domain, whether its root, the root domain or whatever, different subdomain, whatever, but it would be filtering through the G site. I don't know. I've never actually said I've done that with an external domain before but not with a G site. What do you think Marco about that?

Marco: You know, I'm really liking that, especially if you can map out your custom domain, right? The www version over to Google so that stays but you still have the G site underneath, right? Right. And that that'll filter out any other. Yes, this is guaranteed that'll filter out any penalty that could have. Which, but if we'd have to see what the penalties you guys, you don't tell us what the penalty is that we can't really give you the advice, or the answer that you need. But yeah, I mean, again, in theory, you get three on one that penalize subdomain that www, which is a subdomain, to a G site, which links over to the root where the new site was built, and it can all be the same content and Google won't give a shit.

Bradley: That's it, right? I mean, that's, that's what I would do. Because again, you're putting an SEO shield between the penalty in your domain, right? I mean, that's what we're talking that's what we talked about the SEO shield. Go check it out on MGYB and you'll if you don't already know what we're talking about, and now you're basically doing that you're inserting part of that shield in between the penalty and the domain. So check it out and try.

What Is The Best Way To Add A YouTube Video To A Website And Maintain Site Speed?

Greg's Up next, he says, Is there a preferred way to add a video from our YouTube channel to our website page and maintain site speed my site pages load in around one second. And I don't want that to slow to two or three seconds as a result of adding videos. My goals are to increase time on my site, have specific videos, keep visitors on specific pages, increase views on the videos and improved website ranking by adding videos but not slow down page load times. Any suggestions? Yeah, they have lazy load plugins. You can also I know there's some way to code that into but I know there's if it's a WordPress site, they have lazy load plugins that will lazy load images. And they also I'm pretty sure will lazy load iframes or whatever. So videos I'm pretty sure that you can also lazy load those which means it will allow the page to render entirely before it will start to load the images or the external iframe such as a YouTube video. Any other subject The only other I mean obviously if you use a CDN, but a CDN, I'm not sure I don't think a CDN affects the loading speed of iframes. Because those are external sites, right? It's just a tunnel to an external site. But CDN a content delivery network would still allow your page itself to load incredibly quick. The iframe would still be would load as slowly as you don't have control over that the speed at which the iframe loads, that makes sense. Mark, do you have any suggestions for that

Marco: lazy load suggestions is perfect. I would say don't be too anal about paint speed, because it's one of over 200 factors. And we don't know how much of a factor it is. Everything else considered. And since we teach PageSpeed, doesn't really matter. Nothing, nothing matters. This is the three pillars, that it's foundational principles, what we teach activity, relevance, trust and authority and how we build that up. So if you go from one second to 2.2 seconds or whatever, doesn't matter, it's not going to matter to anybody, especially Someone coming and they see the video, you have it in a prominent place where the person can watch the video, they're going to wait for that video because they want to watch the video. You've driven them to your pace. Now if it's taking a ton of time to render, that that might cause a big deal, but you can just do it lazy load and and have it render after the page loads and and you're good to go.

Hernan: Yeah, There's never like there's there's not a good reason why you shouldn't be using a CDN anyways. CloudFlare being free, you know, or something like that. So you should be using it anyways. So,

Bradley: yeah, yeah, I mean, it'll help to load the page quicker and also will load the page from multiple servers or, you know, from multiple locations. So, and also helps in case something happens where your site goes down. For whatever reason, people can still view the pages that kind of because they're cached. So there's a lot of good reasons to have a CDN. It's good for security. There's a lot of reasons for that. But it will help the page itself to load quicker. Again, it's not going to help the iframes to load any faster because those are external sites. It's just a tunnel to an external site within your web page, right? So you don't have any control over that. But you can control at which point does that load so that you can tell that like, again, with a lazy load plugin, you're basically telling the page to render before it will start to load any external iframes essentially embeds so okay. Try it and see.

Oh, let's see. Tom says Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks, Tom. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well. Fitz. What's up Fitz? He says on Marcus charity. Is he going to give a 30 minute call if they donate a certain amount to his charity this year?

Marco: No, this year I've decided to match donations dollar for dollar.

Bradley: Very cool. Okay. So there you go. Fitz. Adams got the black friday special there and we're almost out of questions guys, which were only 20

Hernan: Sorry, sorry, Bradley. But I think Adam I'm not sure if he's here because he needed to start driving but I think that we have a deal in the Black Friday deal that we're doing that if you spent x you get you get some consultant time would meet with us like now with me but without

Adam: Hernan's going to come to your house and have Thanksgiving dinner.

Hernan: Okay, give Yeah, I'm gonna cook the turkey.

Adam: And it was about say we should make it the other way. We could be like, yeah, you get an hour with Hernan you just got to go to him. So right,

Hernan: she need to fly down here. And then I yeah, we do that from Monday 3pm to 4pm and then you go back, you know, fly up another nine hours or whatever.

Adam: But um, but yeah, I wonder like a deal that we've got both for Semantic Mastery and mg y b, depending on you know, if you're spending your money in both places, that's great. And we can certainly work something out but we've got I don't want to give it away but I will Go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday on Friday or over the weekend. And yeah, you'll be able to see what you can do there. MGYB also gonna have a great promo and depending on how much you spend you can get consulting time with the team for free as a bonus Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, So bottom line, go to semanticmastery.com/blackfriday update that daily because the deals galore going to be there and one of them will include some consulting time with Bradley one on one. And you'd like to get like, I know. You know what I'm saying?

Bradley: Yeah. You're all over and kiss your wife and then roll over the other way and kiss me. Well, it says pumpkin or become pie for Thanksgiving which will benefit my SEO the most well, I don't know which will benefit the SEO but both pumpkin and pecan pie for God's sakes, it's Thanksgiving.

Hernan: So right when choose.

Bradley: That's right. Lastly, Greg says it looks like we're going to run out of questions. Which means we're all going to get the hell out of here and go enjoy it with their families. Greg says thanks, guys will check out the lazy low plugin I do I do own and use SEO ultimate plugin from Jeffrey Smith. Good choice, Greg, by the way that's coming very, very soon. The Pro version is coming out if you're in the mastermind, you get access to that a hell of a lot sooner I can tell you that. But I'm really looking forward to that being launched guys. And if you are a member, I think of the ultimate plus version that you get grandfathered in at least a some licenses. I'm not sure how that works. But it's a good choice. Neither either way, Greg, and it's going to get better. I promise you that. There might even be a way to make them work together. Well, yeah, possibly. And that looks like it guys. So unless you got something else you want to talk about. Let's wrap it up.

Marco: You know, if they have conflicting plugins, which we did, then all you have to do is let us know with the new version coming out, and we turn it over to the developer and the developer will take care of I mean, this is going to be fully supported that's that's why it's a paid version of the plugin there is a programmer that's behind this a developer with it. There's a whole team behind the pro version of the plugin Plus we're in the middle of all this too and we always take care of the people who use our products and services.

Bradley: Yeah Thanksgiving. Go Yeah, very happy Thanksgiving.

Hernan: Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I'm really I just want to say I'm really thankful for you guys for coming in asking questions. And you know, joining the group, the free the paid, really thankful for all of the support throughout this year. I'm really thankful for my partners here. So yeah, Happy Thanksgiving.

Adam: Before we go, sorry, one that I started to stomp on that Hernan and I feel the same way obviously, but I want to say something. I had three different calls yesterday. Three different people potential clients in and all of them had no firm plans for Black Friday. If you run a business where you have some sort of contacts with your potential clients or clients, do yourself a favor, write an email, send people out. If nothing else, you can always send them out a good faith or goodwill email saying, Hey, here's all the cool deals in the industry that I found, you know, help them out. If you've got things you could do, or you have for sale, maybe it's a product I service that you could offer a discount on, you know, send it, it's not just about Oh, you're just raking in the money. But you know, people are expecting it. I'm looking, you know, we create offers, but I'm also looking for deals over the Black Friday weekend. So, you know, don't don't think just because you don't own like a physical goods store or something that you can't get in on this. There's a lot of cool stuff you can do. And create some goodwill, you know, amongst your network. So do it. Very cool.

Bradley: Very cool. All right. Let's wrap it up then guys. We will see you all next week. Happy Thanksgiving once again.

Bye, guys. Yeah, run. Bye everyone. Bye bye

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The other day I was helping Shiloh get ready for the day. She picked out her dress, and we chose a matching bow. I went to set her feet on the ground, and told her to go show daddy her outfit for the day, like we do almost daily. She instantly pulled her feet up, making it impossible to set her down, and started crying.

This is very unusual for her, so I set her back up on the changing table and asked her what was wrong. She very clearly said, “I not pretty.” My heart just about broke.

She didn’t feel beautiful, and therefore didn’t want to go show her dad what she was wearing. But how does a 2 year old even have this feeling already, much less understand it?   I quickly began talking to her about how beauty isn’t appearances, it’s who you are as a person. Your heart, your soul. She then went out and Josiah gave her a similar talk.

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While he was talking to her I began to realize that this self deprecating talk had to have come from me. It had to have been modeled by me, because I am the only one in our family that even remotely says things like that. I don’t sit around criticizing myself in the mirror all day, and I definitely try not to say anything in front of her. However, I don’t think we all realize how often we are putting ourselves down throughout the day without even meaning to. It’s just in our vocabulary.

I feel so fat today

I hate this outfit

Nothing looks good on me

I don’t look pretty today 

I am looking rough

The list could go on and on.

Self-deprecation is the act of reprimanding oneself by belittling, undervaluing, or disparaging oneself,[1] or being excessively modest.[2][3] It can be used in humor and tension release.[4]

In reality, these things we say are not always due to low self esteem, but more because of self deprecation. We see the need to diminish our value for one reason or another, and none of them being good. The problem with this kind of talk, is that even if you don’t really believe it at first, it will start to mean something to you. And the people around you, like our daughters, will begin to think that same way too.

If girls are seeing and hearing their mothers talking bad about themselves, their appearances, their bodies, they are going to believe those things about themselves. I think it’s safe to say that a lot of girls, especially when they are so young and impressionable, really look up to their mother. She is the most beautiful woman in the world, and when she says she isn’t, their daughter instantly thinks, well if mom isn’t beautiful, I certainly am not either.

Once you have children, you are constantly being watched. They see what we do and say, and they copy. Sometimes this is sweet and cute, but other times it is disappointing. Sometimes it shows us how we truly act. Instead of being so disheartened by this, hopefully we can use instances like this to better ourselves. Find ways to improve in our weakest areas. If not for us, them for them. Our sweet children.

I recently read an article written by the NYC Girl’s Project that talks about girl’s self-esteem, and how it is becoming an issue at a younger and younger age every year. Take a look at these stats:

Over 80 percent of 10-year-old girls are afraid of being fat.

By middle school, 40-70 percent of girls are dissatisfied with two or more parts of their body, and body satisfaction hits rock bottom between the ages of 12 and 15.

Just let those sit with you for a moment. 10 year olds are in 4th grade. 80% of 4th graders are afraid of being fat. Why is this? What is this culture that we have created where so many little girls are spending their time in fear of a physical feature instead of playing?

The other day my mother in law and I were talking about how ignorance is bliss. I told her that that must be why children are so happy. But are they really anymore? They are not ignorant. They are very aware of the beauty and body expectations. They are truly scared of gaining a few pounds. That does not sound like bliss to me.

These are very real issues that young girls are facing, some of you, your daughters. If you’re a girl, we’ve all been there, we understand the expectations and pressures. But the sad thing is that this is starting earlier and earlier with girls, and I hate to say this, but I think some of this is attributed to mothers. This self deprecating talk that we grew up hearing, and maybe using, has now worked its way into our adult lives. Even if it doesn’t have the same power over us as it used to, it now is putting that weight on our daughters. We can’t do this anymore. For their life, their health, and their good, we have to see ourselves and tell ourselves we are beautiful.

In a book by Brene Brown, called Daring Greatly, she talks about how we cannot expect our children to be more than we are for them. For example, if you are trying to teach your son the importance of having a clean room, and give him the best pep talk of your life, but then turn around and never clean your room, your actions are going to speak a lot louder than your words. What we do affects them so much more than what we say to them.

If we are telling our daughters to love themselves, but don’t model that for them, then our efforts are out the window. We have to be more for them. We have to be more for our daughters. We have to be beautiful and comfortable in our own skin for our daughters. 

This is something that I don’t think will come easy. The intentions are good, but the follow through is hard. Like I said earlier, I think so much of it is just in our vocabulary. But this is such an important issue, and I want to help however I can.

Think of the places in your home that you are most likely to say degrading things. Maybe the bathroom or in front of your closet mirror? I have attached an image below with a quote. “Be beautiful for you, and all those after you.” I think we have to remember that we are speaking truth into more than just our lives when we are seeing the beauty in ourselves. For every spot that you may have those thoughts,  I want you to print out one of these as a reminder that you are beautiful. And if you don’t believe it for yourself yet, believe it for that little hand holding onto your leg, copying your every move. 

We can beat this. One day at a time, one affirmation at a time.

  My 2 Year Old Doesn’t Think She’s Beautiful and It’s My Fault The other day I was helping Shiloh get ready for the day. She picked out her dress, and we chose a matching bow.