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modestlyabsurd · 6 years ago

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Broke Down (Loki x Reader)

Shake, rattle, and very little roll.

You know you're in trouble when that happens.

The steering wheel jerked and pulled to the shoulder of the road, the truck protesting going any further. You'd try to hit the gas, and nothing but sputters and black smoke puffed from the exhaust pipe. You saw the cloud in your rearview mirror, then glanced down at the gas hand as profanities flooded from your mouth.

The truck slowed down to a stop. You hit the steering wheel as if it were to blame, then remorsefully rested your forehead against it. Just what you need. An empty gas tank in the middle of nowhere.

Your eyes squint tight, recalling the silent debate you had with yourself while on the interstate just a few miles back, when you'd decided against getting gas. So many stations were available. But the covert destination where the Avengers are staying is just a few miles off the highway! Tony Stark's voice in your mind had convinced you that you could make it.

Well, he was wrong.

Your sense of direction was pretty sharp, especially thanks to Google Maps, so you also knew you weren't far from the location; and that certainly didn't help your current mentality.

"Ahem, I thought you knew how to operate these kinds of ships."

Loki's voice elevated every emotion you were feeling.

"I do know how! I just," you took a deep breath in preparing for the worst of reactions, "we're out of gas."

"You'll need to enlighten me."

He's not belittling you - not yet, at least - but you still can't bear to look at him out of embarrassment from your stupid, completely avoidable mistake. You had just exited off the highway where there were so many stations...

You swallowed. "Cars and trucks are fueled by gas. It - it powers all of the components, and, without it nothing works," you spoke slowly, choosing your words to remain composed. "That's what all those little blue signs off the side of the interstate were saying; places to get gas so you don't run out."

"Hm. Why didn't you stop at any of them?" Loki asks.

"Because I thought we could make it! I - I fucked up! I didn't mean to!" You rake your hands over your face before looking back up at the road ahead. Not a car one has come from either direction since you exited and turned onto it. No houses, no businesses, just a little road in the middle of open fields. In any other circumstance, you'd be in awe at the beauty of this place. Right now it was the last place on Earth you wanted to be.

You grabbed your phone from between you and Loki to try and contact Tony - even though he had specifically told you not to, as to not ping off of any cellular towers and give their location away.

"Oh my God," you desperately whispered. Five long rings.

No answer.

This is just great. Tony's gonna be sure and promote you from intern soon. You had one job today, and that was to safely transport Loki close enough to this covert location that someone could retrieve him for the upcoming mission. Tony, Natasha, Steve and Thor had decided to bring him along at the very last minute for reasons you weren't privy to. Probably because they don't trust him to be at the tower with no one but Clint and Pepper there, you'd thought earlier.

They won't trust me either, you thought now.

"He'll call back. He'll call back," you repeated.

Loki shifted beside of you and grunted. You finally looked over at him despite the shame and noticed his eyes were closed tightly. He twisted around so that his cheek lay against the window, which left his knees a bit more scrunched and nowhere to place his arms. He breathed deeply through his mouth.

It wasn't until you saw the dusting of pink across his cheeks that the increasing temperature hit you. Enough time had passed that any residual coolness from the truck's air conditioner had faded away, leaving your face and back damp with sweat.

Normally Loki voiced his discomfort without hesitation. He wasn't talking.

"Loki? Hey, talk to me, are you okay?" you placed a hand on his arm that lay awkwardly in his lap.

He blinked rapidly as his head bobbed and his jaw clenched. He shook you off. "I'm fine. It's just a bit warmer than I'm used to."

"Right, frost giant and all," you said out loud, not really meaning to. "Here, drink this." You held out your bottle of water from the cup holder. It still had most of the water left.

Loki eyed the bottle, not at all believing it would help. He could feel himself overheating, however, and his body became needing of any relief possible. He took the water with a clammy hand and downed it in two gulps.

"Damn dude," you laughed. A dirty joke came to mind, but you chose not to say it.

The water hadn't helped much. He was still breathing heavily from parted lips and not managing to keep his eyes open.

You suggested that he take off his maroon jacket, seeing as it wasn't exactly hoodie conditions, and after giving you another long suspicious look, he complied.

"Why are you wearing two layers of long sleeves in the middle of summertime?"

"I do what I want, that's why."

"Look where it's gotten you. Doing what you want."

"I was fine until a few moments ago." He looks at you from the corner of his eye.

A flood of anxiety washes over you from that comment. He's right. Everything was fine while the truck had gas in it.

"I know. I'm sorry."

Loki softens and doesn't say anything else. While he is very annoyed at the dilemma he's in that was caused by a mortal's foolishness, he won't become angry. It will get him nowhere. After all, he doesn't know the location either, nor does he know the first thing about motor vehicles or driving. And, you've grown on him a little.

When he first saw you after the voyage to Midgard following the fall of Asgard, you were the young, nervous new Stark Industries intern from out of state that you are now. He would only watch you from afar in the beginning. Needless to say, catching glimpses of this tall, darkly dressed long-haired guy in the common area staring at you from above the pages of his book was less than comforting at first.

So what do you do? You charge into the face of uncertainty head first. Which was quite out of character, looking back.

You asked him simply if he wanted something from Starbucks, since you were running over to grab the Avengers their various requested coffee and frappe drinks. He, taken aback that you'd acknowledged his existence unlike the rest of the team with the exception of Thor, was dumbfounded.

"What is Starbucks?"

You laughed and laughed and laughed.

Back then, Loki had wanted to kill something he was so embarrassed. Now he thinks of that day back a few months earlier with a certain amount of fondness, because that was the first hot chocolate he ever had, and the first time he spoke to you.

But that feeling he remembers of humiliation is what keeps him from becoming frustrated with you. He knows what it's like to make little mistakes and never live it down, such as choosing less than clever words, dropping a stack of paperwork all over the elevator floor, and apparently running out of gas.

"They're expecting us at twelve o'clock," you say.

"Well, it looks like your Avengers will be forced to wait."

"No they won't, you idiot. That's my point; they'll get worried when we don't show up on time and come looking for us. And it's -" you check your phone, "eleven forty-six right now. Tony will know pretty soon because I'm always on time."

Loki scoffs, and you look over at his slumped figure only to find a smirk on his face. "'Always on time'. Give or take twenty minutes."

"Hey! I've never been twenty minutes late!"

"Ten minutes on any given day."

"Have you memorized my schedule or something?"

"Of course not," he lies, "but I have heard Stark reprimand you for 'ten minutes!' nearly every day this week."

He'd heard that?

You're suddenly on the defense, all sense of lighthearted banter gone. "You should mind your own business. My punctuality or lack there of is none of your concern, Odinson."

"Hey, relax, it was merely a jest."

"Jokes are supposed to be funny." Venom was still dripping from your not-so-hurtful words. Loki raises his hands in surrender, clearly not wanting to further upset you. You instantly regret your tone. "Look, I'm sorry. I'm just, I'm frustrated with myself because we're gonna be late and I'm worried because we're stranded and we don't have any food or water and the sun's about to beat down on us in this black truck and you, you can't take much more heat and, and," you run out of breath. Your throat constricts and the backs of your eyes sting.

Everything just floods over you all at once like a cold rain. You cry. You cry more than the matter at hand calls for; you're crying pent up tears. Pent up for who knows how long, and the flow is uncontrollable.

"Norns, where is this coming from?" Loki asks softly.

Raising up from the steering wheel, a curved red mark now pressed into your forehead, you lean back into your seat and look up at the truck roof, counting scratches in the upholstery from years of wear and tear.

"I'm sorry," you suck up the tears. Upon seeing Loki through your blurred vision, it occurs to you that you've never cried in front of many people at all, besides immediate family. At this, you laugh a dry, humorless laugh, to conceal your vulnerability.

"Why don't we step out for a moment? Perhaps take in the scenery, breathe some fresh air?" Loki asks.

You sniffle, and give him a suspicious look similar to the one he loves to give you. "Why are you being so nice?"

"Maybe because you're my only way out of this mess."

"That makes sense."

The two of you slide out of the stuffy truck cab and stretch, unflattering cracks and pops coming from your stiff joints, before climbing into the bed of the truck. The sun is thankfully shadowed by a few perfect, fluffy white clouds. The sky is vibrant and blue. Nothing but fields of raw open land surround you, for far enough that the air is silent. Not a buzzing of a light, not a hum of cars. You let the unexpected serenity sink in.

You and Loki are shoulder to shoulder against the glass cab window. Your knees are up to your chest, while Loki is manspreading like hell after being cramped for so long. The fresh air has done him a great deal of good. He's stopped running his hands through his hair trying to cool off, which left it looking almost wind blown. He looked out into the distance as well, thankful for the clouds and small breeze cooling his skin.

"I now understand that 'running out of gas' as you put it, is not fun at all. It calls for panic and hopelessness."

You find yourself looking up at him, your eyes level with his jaw, your face stretching with damp tear stains. "Yeah. It does. I'm sorry."

"Stop apologizing, you've done me no wrong. I wasn't finished," he eyes you without moving his head. You almost apologize again but refrain. "Being stranded is a bit scary, yes, but it's never made me cry."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying," he rolls his eyes, "that something else caused the drastic reaction you had to our circumstance."

He nudges your knee with his elbow. You look across the truck bed at his shoes.

All black converse. They looked nice on him.

You didn't know what to say. You felt attacked, even though he wasn't being rude about his curiosity. You felt attacked because he was right. Why does he care? What difference does it make? you ask yourself. Wondering if he'll use your answer against you in the future.

It doesn't feel like he would. "I don't know," you begin. "I, uh, I guess it's because people I've cared about, suddenly don't care about me when I fuck up, if that makes sense. I mean, what happened today is pretty bad, right? I've had people threaten to leave me over less than this. And I don't do that to them. They fuck up too, but I'm not willing to just throw away everything because of a small mistake. Over time, it just makes you feel like you can't do anything right. You're afraid of losing everything if you mess up."

Your voice is dry because you're done crying. You let your heart speak freely for the first time in a while.

Loki stays quiet, thinking about what you've said. You can't bring yourself to look at him now.

The next thing you say flows out before you can stop. "How do you keep on? Living, that is."

He inhales. He wasn't prepared to be asked such a question. He chooses to be honest. "I didn't want to. For a very long time."

There was a long pause, with only the sound of your residual sniffling.

"But then...here you come."

What?

Me?

Loki laughs; a rare, wonderful sound.

You hadn't meant to say that out loud.

"Yes, you fool. You."

"I just, I figured you hated me. Figured you just tolerated my presence."

He craned his neck to look at you incredulously. His brows furrowed, his eyes squinted from the sunlight and, while they were green, appeared clear blue with whatever emotion you'd invoked. You noticed a couple of freckles and raised scars slashed his face, the ever so slight dryness of his lips, and a blood mark on the bottom lip where he must've bitten it.

"You think that I hate you?"

You suddenly realized how close the two of you were, and cast your gaze down.

"I mean, maybe hate is a strong word."

My, if only you knew, Loki thought.

"How could I hate the person who introduced me to the celestial wonder that is Midgardian hot chocolate?"

That made you laugh. A good, full laugh.

"I don't think you could possibly make me hate you."

"Is that a challenge?"

"Don't push your luck."

Suddenly the sound of tires rolling on pavement caught your attention. You twist around to look in front of the truck. A damn silver Porsche comes blaring down the desolate road. They beep the horn twice. It comes to a stop beside you, and the driver rolls down a tinted window. "Tony! I swear, I don't think I've ever been happier to see you!"

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rosarkahamill · 7 years ago

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***TRAVELTIPS*** I've had a ridiculously busy year of travelling, and on my various trips I've had a lot of different experiences. I'm currently in the last leg of planning my biggest adventure yet: a 12 day solo-trip to Cuba, happening in 6 weeks time! As a part of this I figured I could share some tips I've gathered through my trips and experiences. Hopefully at least some of them will be useful for others, and maybe even get someone to take a trip they otherwise wouldn't have dared to go on? Who knows! 1: GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND You can save yourself from a lot of hazzle with some basic searches on google. "Best area to stay in [name of place]" for instance will often lead you to reviews, travelblogs, yahoo answers etc. These are great for travel to places you haven't visited before, because you'll get a much bigger and more honest overview of a place than just reading reviews (which should be your next step, but more specified to hotels/accommodation in the area you found from using this tip). Often people who actually live in the area will tell answer these type posts and give honest feedback on where to stay and which places to avoid. When I was in Lithuania last year, a guy who lived parts of the year in Vilnius told me on the bus to town that the hotel I had picked was in the worst area of the city because of drugs and prostitution. I wasn't rattled though, and even though I stayed out late at night I was perfectly fine, but, I could probably have gotten a hotel in a nicer area for a similar price if I'd done my research first. Speaking of which… 2: RESEARCH AND READ REVIEWS So the "R" word might sound boring, but, it's one of the most essential tips I can give you. Also, if you go about it with the right attitude, researching for a trip can actually be a lot of fun! When you're looking for a place to stay, whether it's a hotel or private accommodation, take your time to read reviews. Specifically, I look at a few of the reviews that give top marks, and more of the ones that give bottom marks. Most places will have a bit of both, and some of the bottom reviews are completely unreasonable. Generally, you want to weed out the places that have many bottom reviews with similar complaints. This would've saved me from a hotel in Brussels, Belgium, where several people had written about rude/unhelpful staff, poor cleaning/maintenance, and theft from the rooms. Unfortunately, I only thought to check the worst reviews when I signed in to tripadvisor to leave my own 1* review… 3: PRIORITIZE Another "boring word", but a great tip for your wallet. Think about what you want from the trip, and what you're willing to sacrifice. If you plan on spending a lot of time shopping, at museums, exploring the city, lounging on the beach etc, then you're probably not gonna do much other than sleep at your hotel. So does the hotel need to be 4*? Not really. Get a cheaper hotel and spend the money saved on shopping instead. Or is your aim to just relax and get a good nights rest, reading a book with a cuppa and use whatever luxury is available at the hotel? Then yes, a good hotel will be worth your while. When in New Orleans with my mum, we stayed at an old historic hotel in the French Quarter. The room was tiny, smelled of damp, and to use my mums words: "the balcony was so slanted it was like a shipwreck". BUT, we pretty much only used the room for sleep, showers, and a few beers in the sun on the sinking balcony. The hotel was in walking distance from everything we wanted to check out, and because we got a cheaper deal we had more cash for beers, shopping, and excursions. (AN: despite the less luxurious feel of the place I'd actually recommend it, just for the location and customer service alone!) 4: STOCK UP ON TRAVEL APPS Do yourself a huge favour and download the travel apps you need before you go. Apps like Tripadvisor can be a major help in finding places to go out for a meal, pubs, sights etc. Downloading these off WiFi at hotels in eastern Europe can be… a major pain. You'll save yourself from a lot of "rage" by just having them ready before you go. Also, when you find something, take screenshots! You never know when the app might glitch, and suddenly that nice pub with local food and a name consisting solely of consonants (I'm looking at you Poland) is long gone. Same goes for maps and directions. Because I'm from Norway I can only really recommend the apps that I myself have used, but I don't know if these will apply/be as useful for everyone. My main recommendations, for what it's worth, are: Tripadvisor, Momondo, Hotels, ETaksi (specifically for use in Lithuania. It's pretty much the same as Uber, and is used by everyone. Unless you're a millionaire or fluent in Lithuanian I think this one is a must-have. Some of the local taxis charge extortionate prices, and the level of English varies a lot), AirBnB, Uber. 5: CHAT IT UP This one might seem a bit scary, but it's so rewarding once you give it a go! If you're in a shop having a browse or buying something, chances are the person at the till is somewhat local. Try out a little smalltalk first. It doesn't have to be good enough to win you a date with Tom Hiddleston, just everyday pleasantries is enough. This is just to get a feel of the person, if they speak English and if they seem like the friendly and helpful type. If they do, this is a perfect opportunity to find some hidden gems. When I was in Israel I discovered a bar I would NEVER have found otherwise. This was just from asking a lovely lady working at a bookshop (!) for tips, and she gave us the name and address. The place is enough to fill a Tumblr post in itself but that's a story for another time. But asking the locals can really give you some unique experiences. 6: USE YOUR HANDLUGGAGE WISELY So you've arrived in Oslo, but your luggage hasn't. You're wearing skinny jeans, a tee, and a thin jumper. It's -11 degrees Celsius outside, and you have to scrape the ice off the windows of your car that's been left in freezing temperatures for two weeks, while shivering like a penguin and swearing like a sailor. That was me and my mum when we returned from New Orleans and were told that one of our bags got left behind at Atlanta, with all our winter clothes in it… A good story now, not so much at the time. After this frosty mishap, I learned to make better use of my handluggage than just magazines and empty space. Now I always pack the following in my handluggage (I use a mini suitcase that is cabin approved): - Toiletries (just the bare essentials, i.e toothbrush, mini toothpaste, mouthwash tabs from Lush, wetwipes, hairties and of course tampons etc) - Underwear and socks (if I'm going to a "summer destination" I also put a swimsuit in my handluggage) - 2 sets of clean clothes that can be combined (for instance two tanktops, a pair of jeans, and a skirt. This is in case I get stuck with no luggage for more than 1 day and I don't have time to "waste" on needless shopping or I don't want to. I'll then have something nice for everyday and something "dressy" for evening or at worst just a clean set of clothes in case I spill something etc). - A pair of shoes that can be worn with anything (worn for everyday or dressed up) - Chargers for my phone (with adapters!) - Printed receipts of plane tickets, payment for accommodation, and addresses 7: USE LOCAL TOUR OPERATORS Using the tour operator you know from home can seem convenient and easy, but in my experience you can make some really big misfires with this tactic. When I was younger we always used a big tour operator in Norway to book our little daytrips on holiday. Some were decent, others were either wilfully misadvertised or just plain bad. We booked a day trip to see Knossos (ancient city ruins) in Greece once, with the promise of a Norwegian guide to show us around the site and the museum. The "guide" was a "yolo-girl" in her late teens/early twenties who read robotically off a sheet she had printed off Wikipedia, and subsequently couldn't answer any questions we had other than questions about the schedule. Unfortunately, this is often how the big tour operators work. They can rest on their laurels because of their big brand name, and don't need to care about good service. Also, the teens that they use as "guides" are often extremely overworked and get zero training. I'd advise you to give the locals a go instead. They can take a bit more effort to seek out, but in my experience and opinion they're worth the work. They are more dependent on quality and positive word of mouth to survive, and weed out the tours that offer experiences like the one I had above. 8: AVOID THE SAFE This tip might seem a bit weird, but as someone who meets crooks at work pretty much every day of the week, take my advice on this one. Most people and travelblogs will tell you to use the hotel safe. This is just a candybox for "unfaithful servants" at your hotel. For emergencies/mishaps they'll have a spare universal key. So, when you leave your passport and mastercard there and the maid "takes you to the cleaners", you'll have no defense. There's no log anywhere of what you actually put in your safe, so when you complain the shady a** hotel you booked by accident will just give a standard apology and tell you that they'll "look into it". What I normally do is to hide my passport folder in my suitcase among my laundry/undies or under the suitcase lining (under the undies). I also spread my valuables so that they're not all in the exact same place. Chances are even if you get unlucky and they get to your valuables, they'll stop and take what they have found and not keep on ransacking you for the rest. 9: STAY COOL No, I don't mean in the #fashionista sense, I mean more in the "keep calm" way. Even if you feel a little nervous, try to give off the vibe that you're a local who knows your way around. Don't look like my mum at the London Tube, clutching her handbag for dear life and glancing nervously from side to side like a startled guineapig. If there ever is a look that screams "lost tourist with cash", it's that look. I walked down the streets of both Vilnius, Lithuania and Riga, Latvia, by myself, at night, in a mini skirt, and never did I feel unsafe. I dressed "like the locals", walked at a normal, calm pace, and carried my handbag normally. You'll draw a lot less unnecessary attention to yourself, and avoid making yourself an obvious target. 10: USE COMMON SENSE Common sense isn't as common as you'd think, and we all do things that later make us go "what the ¤#&£ was I thinking?" and sometimes even "I'm lucky that didn't turn dangerous for me". If something seems iffy and too good to be true, there's usually a reason for it. Check your governments general advice for the particular country you're travelling to. Avoid getting drunk as a lord (especially if you travel alone). Check the news and stay alert. If there's a mass demonstration about to happen, LEAVE. Don't take insane risks and generally, think of what advice you'd give your best friend. Would you tell them to get in that unmarked cab with a driver with a thirsty eye? I hope not, so don't do that yourself! 11: GO OUT THERE AND HAVE FUN! :)

#travel tips #solotravel #stay safe #ssdgm #globetrotter #international #traveler #travel #solo female #explore #goexplore #journey

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masked-disciple · 7 years ago

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What is the technology level of the "duct-tape realms" in Ilya Serina? (steampunk, high fantasy/LOTR-esque, more advanced than earth, etc?)

This is gonna be a long answer, mainly because in order to answer this, I have to explain how the Serin works. For the record, this is based off of how it works in Fall of Ilya Serina- I don’t know what’ll happen in Starlight so let’s work off the timeline I know.

The Serin is a world of pure creation. (Long ago, it was based off of Minecraft. Five or six or maybe even eight years ago. It also has a nod to CS Lewis’ Wood Between the Worlds- he should’ve done more with that and he didn’t so I’m taking the idea and fucking running with it.)

Nothing stays in the same place. You see mountains on the horizon, by the time you get there, it’s a fucking forest. Fuck you, fuck your “cartography”. Shit moves around and it’s the portals to the other realms that don’t. There are specific locations, of course, they just move the fuck around.

It’s like- you make a puzzle with a map image on it. But the puzzle pieces are squares. They can fit anywhere, in any combination. There are little lights, though, on the board that will glow through the puzzle no matter what piece is on top of it. There are locations on the pieces- civilization, certain mountain ranges, forests, lowlands- but the pieces themselves just fuckin move around.

In Fall, it is canon that locations wander in large, wobbly, looping paths in the daytime and move towards the centre of the Serin at night. The Serin itself is kind of shaped like a donut- the sun sets and rises in the center, and the moon circles the outskirts. For these reasons, eclipses are quite common.

It is also canon in Fall that the Serin is largely conscious, if not sentient. It is aware of its inhabitants and how they are different from world-travellers who are passing through. If there is something in the Serin that it doesn’t like, you will know. Because it will take the problem and put it in your way. As many times as it takes for you to fix it. (That actually happened in Fall, too- Lusmos, Jules, Kinefira, Ophi, and Tarathiel were getting to Ilya Katayona and it put a mountain in their way three times before they went and fixed the problem, which was Lillith was stealing all the dragons meant to protect that area of the Serin.)

The Serin is however, lazy as fuck. It will sometimes mess with you and shove a forest in your way every now and then. But it won’t shove a whole lot of objects, like a city, in your way more than once. It doesn’t like moving more than one thing at a time to fuck with just one person or group. If you see the same thing twice and you’ve already passed it once, it’s because the Serin wants you to check it out.

Hence, maps are virtually useless. But then, Pale, why the fuck does anyone live there, and how? Well, they make do. In the many languages of the many species found in the Serin, in Jules’ words, you are less likely to come across a word that means ‘tower’ than you are to find one that means roughly ‘tall thin structure’.

Because the Serin, on top of moving shit around and fucking with people and being awful to deal with, looks differently to different people. What one person sees as a crack-like ravine full of trees just in front of them will appear as a river to someone else. What one person views as using large crystal spires to walk across is what another might see as walkways between old buildings made out of steel and large wires.

Jules explained this neatly to Tarathiel like this: It’s like 3D modeling. The models themselves don’t change, but the painted textures sure do.

So maps and most directions of any sort are nigh impossible to make. In Fall, Jules found the formula the Serin uses to move things and used that, plus a general location network and a few other things and actually made a smartphone app that can work as a navigational tool for the Serin. Tarathiel uses this app to get herself to Ilya Taranisi to go rescue Lusmos in Fall, which befits the following cut from the novel:

I pulled out my phone and opened up Jules’ map app, to see what it wanted me to do. Firstly it started searching for a signal. The tip below the searching icon said “Tip: Get somewhere high. It’s easier to catch a signal.” Well, I was up high, so there wasn’t much of an issue there. After about thirty seconds of a cheerful “Searching for signal...”, it displayed a quick “Signal found!” followed by a “Connecting to signal...” A few seconds after that, it told me that it had found a signal, and then the popup went away, followed by a very Google-Maps like display. I noticed a search icon, and just to see if I could, searched for Ilya Taranisi. Jules’ app would probably save my life, so going after his god first seemed like a good idea. The only search result was for Ilya Taranisi, with two options: About and Get Directions. Hell, let’s get directions to Ilya Taranisi.

(Tarathiel is somewhat tech savvy, being from Ilya Tirana and having some adventures in Ilya Karina, homeworld to Maria Leuite and the solarpunk-style theme of pure science.)

And that’s how the Serin works. That all being known now, what sort of tech do the different civilizations in the Serin have?

There is no good way to answer this- different civilizations will have different resources and abilities. I’d like to say nobody in the Serin has anything like steampower or higher, since if they did they’d know better than to stay there in the duct tape realm that quite literally makes a game out of trying to kill you.

Most of the Serin’s civilizations have few trade routes if any at all, so they’re largely isolated from each other. Nomadic species are very likely to get wiped out with little trace of having ever existed. The ones that survive, like Kinefira’s changeling hive and the Maybo, learned to do so by clinging to their roots and not moving very far from their headquarters and capitals.

Those two are actually two of the few documented civilizations- I haven’t stuck my protagonists in the Serin much, and those two are the only ones that have cropped up except for the occasional village that has accepted their fate and relies mainly on trade and worship to survive. (The Serin is nicer to those who worship the gods, if only because getting the faithful killed isn’t usually wise.)

Kinefira’s changelings are largely militaristic, and have figured out metalworking and some agriculture, though they largely gather considering their area is generally a forest to people, and always bears edible things. Winter does not strike the area too often because of how deep the forest is. (It’s like a lake, but replace water with trees. Elk as big as whales and entire civilizations in certain divisions like the oceanic ones- like the bathypelagic division from 700-1000m deep in the ocean. Forests do this in our world to a point, with different lifeforms appearing at different depths of the forest depending on the height of the trees, but the Changeling Forest takes it to an extreme.) They live at the bottom centre of the forest at the deepest point, so it’s very humid and very hot and their metalworking underground, below their fortress, makes it no more bearable.

The Maybo, on the other hand, are a friendly bunch who don’t really disturb anyone and generally just harass each other when they feel like it. This is the description I wrote for them in Fall, and if you want to draw it, be my guest because I sure as hell can’t.

The city grew closer, and soon, I stopped at its edge, in awe of the movie-elf-like craftsmanship in everything. And then I caught sight of what must’ve been a Maybo: they were odd little creatures, actually. They were about as tall as most halflings and some gnomes, but incredibly thin and short-limbed. They were covered in fur for the most part: their forearms, heels, and around their eyes seemed to be scaled. Their fur was far longer on their back, giving off an interesting look when combined with long, faun-like ears. This Maybo’s longer fur was kept tied in what looked like a ponytail, just below their tailbone. They had an angelic looking tail, but with fur instead of feathers at the end. It was impossible to tell if they had a male-female system like humans, but they, like most ‘fantasy’ races, weren’t almost naked.

(Though I should mention that immediately after this, the Maybo in question grabs Tarathiel, takes her to the elder of the city to get a spell so she can understand their language, which I very cleverly named Meyh’ktaio and did not include a guide on how to pronounce. Then they ask her about the outside world and she just fuckin shows them her phone and Jules’ app and her selfies with all her friends. They are mystified and I had so much fun writing that scene.)

The Maybo are among some of my favourite to write for: they have absolutely no basis in anything except maybe a slight nod to RuneScape’s Naragi in appearance. I made them and their entire culture and language up on the fly. In Fall, after Tarathiel returns to them after freeing Lusmos and heading to Ilya Katayona, Lusmos’ gifts to them for helping him and his group out are a silver elk that calls to whoever is worthy that can call it, and turning their God of the Waterfall into a person again so they can act as a spiritual leader for their people. The Maybe don’t really work with the Aethelian gods, as they’ve got their waterfall guy, but the waterfall itself is made of Tomian magic and they do generally follow his creeds, so they are regarded as Tomian.

I really like the Maybo. I don’t know where they might crop up next, as they don’t generally leave their area, but I like to think there’s a few out there who might be more personable and in the spotlight than Renmi, Nmenra, and Aushla, our two background character Maybo. (I have no idea what the gender culture is like for the Maybo, but I like to think Renmi’s a trans guy. Aushla’s the elder so she’s just Old Sage Woman, but Renmi’s definitely a trans guy.)

So, all in all, it really depends on the civilization, but with limited resources and the lack of reliable trading routes for anyone, don’t expect too much in the way of advanced technology. Kinefira’s changelings are about the most high-tech you’ll be seeing for a while, if and when we ever take a thirty-thousand-word trip through the Serin again.

(I like to keep the Serin as far from coherent as possible- the less rules I put on it, the more I can stuff in there. It has some young gods in there too, but it doesn’t need to have any real requirements.)

Though I feel I should mention that Ilya Serina is the real base of the whole project- not Ilya Aethela or Haridor or even Tarathiel: the Serin is what ties the whole project together, just as it ties the realms together. No novel I have written concerning the project at all hasn’t had at least a brief trip through it. It’s my pride and joy.

And yes, at one point I really did call it Afiroja. What was wrong with past me.

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Organic Leads for your Roofing Business (Get Free Customers)

Organic leads. What are they? Do they grow on trees? Are they edible? What do they even mean for your roofing business? Stay tuned and I'll answer all of those questions in this video. For the best advice on generating roofing leads online, be sure to subscribe to my channel and hit that notification bell so that you get notified every single time I drop a new video, every Wednesday.

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So just like with organic leads, there are some things out here that are just made to seem a lot more complicated than they are. And so with organic leads, you might have heard "S.E.O.", Search Engine Optimization, all of these terms mean the same thing. And so I want to take the time to explain to you what these mean, what they mean for your roofing business, and how they can help you generate more sales and more revenue this year.

So for those of you that don't know me, my name is Mats Moy, and I've been working in the roofing industry for the last 10 years. And for the last five, I've been helping roofing companies across North America, helping them generate leads specifically online.

So in this video, I'm going to share with you what organic leads are, and how to get them so that you're able to capitalize on this thing we call the internet and generate more organic leads to increase those sales every single month. Side note: I have a few spots open for that one-on-one call with myself about my Roofing Lead Generation Training Program. So if you're interested in that, stick around to the very end, and I'll talk a little bit more about details.

What are organic roofing leads and how to generate them?

So let's dive right in. Organic leads. What is it, anyways? Organic is just a simple, or not a simple-- It's a fancy way of simply saying "free." It can also be referred to as "S.E.O." or Search Engine Optimization. It all means the same thing: "organic", "free", "S.E.O.", "Search Engine Optimization". These are just fancier ways of just saying "free."

So what does that mean to you as a roofing business owner? These are simply leads that you do not have to pay for. They are the result of your hard work that your website has put in to make sure that you're visible. Visible to who? To the homeowners that are actively looking for the services that your company provides locally.

So, for example, if I'm a homeowner, and I happen to see a leak coming into my ceiling here, I'm gonna head over to the internet, start looking up local roofing companies near me. And if I just so happen to find your company online, I'm gonna go ahead, click on that website, head over to the place where I can contact you. Hopefully, that's made easy for the homeowner with a big button that says your phone number, or a "Contact Us" button where I can put in my own information and send it over to you. That lead that then comes in, either by phone or by form submission by email, is what you would consider "organic." It is free. You do not have to pay for that lead. You did not have to give any money to anyone for that lead to go from the homeowner to you. So that's what it simply means by "organic."

Now, for example, if somebody went to the internet and you happened to be using something like Google Guaranteed or using something like Google Ads and they happen to click on those ads, and you as a result had to pay for that specific click, then that is not organic. That's not the result of your organic efforts. That is the result of you being visible from your paid efforts. So paid efforts, otherwise known as "P.P.C", Pay Per Click, is different from organic. So you got organic, being free and paid, P.P.C., being paid.So if you were super confused about what organic roofing leads were, just let me know in the comment, that I clarified this for you. Let me know in the comments.

So, S.E.O., Search Engine Optimization, what is that? That is just the process. It's a fancy way of saying, a way for your to show up on the search engines. Search engine being Google or Bing or Yahoo! Those are all search engines. A place where someone like yourself or a homeowner will go to to search for a specific product, service, information, whatever it is that they're looking for. They're going to the search engine to search for whatever it is. So that is what S.E.O. is. S.E.O. is the process of optimizing, tweaking, improving your website so that it is now visible online. So, we're optimizing your website so that it's optimally showing up locally in front of homeowners, business owners, who are looking for the services that you provide. So that is what S.E.O. is.

How to make your roofing business stand out from a very competitive market?

So now that you know what organic leads are, what S.E.O. is, how do we go about generating organic leads for your roofing company? Now you might have heard, from many different people, "Oh, it takes time, it takes time." It absolutely does take time. And it's all dependent on a number of factors. One of the primary things that it depends on, really, is the level of competition. How saturated is your market with many different companies that are doing exactly what you're doing? That is a huge indication. If you were to go to the internet and type in your city name plus "roofing", or "roofing companies" or "roofing contractors", and just take a look to see what kind of competition's out there. If you see many companies with a lot of reviews normally, than that is a pretty good indication that you've got a pretty good run for your money here.

Okay, so you definitely want to go about it a different way. If you haven't already, be sure to check out my other video that I'm gonna post right here, so that you're able to see a different approach that I like to take, instead of going after those super-saturated areas.

So, let's say you're not in a super-saturated area. And there's not that much competition online. What can we then do to generate and start being more visible online? The number one thing that you should be doing with your website, if you're not already doing it, is creating fresh content. What does that mean for you? You need to add words to your site. Publish new pages, publish new posts, right? A blog is a very good idea for your website to be used as fresh content, because Google will recognize this, all right? So don't ever think to yourself that once you create a website, that's all that there is to it, it's just gonna magically create leads for you. Right?

And if you have no intentions on blogging or adding fresh content to your website, then I highly recommend you check out this video that will show you how to utilize your Google My Business listing instead to be able to generate traffic to your Google My Business listing and generate leads overall.

Now fresh content doesn't always just have to come in the form of written content. You could also create videos just like the one that I'm creating here, educating homeowners with typical issues that you might come across on your everyday basis whether it be with the roof, with the gutters, with the siding, with the attic. Whatever it is. Create videos just like the one that I'm making here, the one that you're watching here, to get in front of local homeowners and you can publish this YouTube video on your website so that you add fresh content to it. And that will be considered fresh content for Google and will help you generate more organic leads.

Where to get more organic roofing leads if the population is low?

One more method that will generate more organic leads for you is to expand your reach. Now what do I mean by that? Let's say you are in a very small area, of say, less than 10,000 people in population. How do you then go about reaching the neighboring areas, maybe five miles away, that has a larger population. It still is not very, very competitive, but has the volume that you would need to generate the amount of leads that your company needs to achieve its goals.

You would create a location page on your website. Create that location page to target the specific homeowners from that particular area. It's not enough to just put on your website that "We service X, Y, and Z." You need to create those specific location pages on your website that speaks directly to those homeowners. Right? So when they go to the internet, and they're actively searching for roofing companies like yourself, that does quality work, and need a roofing company to come out and give them an estimate because they have a problem, they can now find you. Because you now set on your website, you have a whole page dedicated to that specific area. Right? And that's what you want to do.

Again, it's not enough for you to just say, "Yeah, we service this place and this place and this place." It's not enough. You need to create that location page. And if you want to go the extra mile, set up a Google My Business listing for that specific area. And that way you can really start to shine, right?

For the areas that struggle with the smaller population sizes, it's very difficult. Unfortunately, that's just how the internet works. And so, for you to be able to show up within those areas, create that location page so you can show up in the search engine, and then create that Google My Business listing so that you can show up in the Local 3-Pack on the Maps when somebody's searching for your roofing company. Or roofing services.

So, now you know what organic leads are, how they work, how to generate them, and how to bring in more leads for your roofing company. So, quick side note again, as mentioned earlier on in the beginning of this video, I have a few spots open for that one-on-one consult with myself about your roofing company. And if you're looking to get in my training program specifically for roofers that will help you generate more local roof leads, then I have a calendar link down below. If you want to get on a call with me, let's go ahead and do that so we can talk about your company and how we can really help it start driving more local roof leads that are coming from your online presence.

So if you're a roofing company owner who's dissatisfied with the current state of your online advertising, your online presence, or you don't even have an overall marketing plan, whatsoever, then this is definitely for you. So hit that link in the description down below, let's get on a call and let's make something happen.

Also, if you want to join a community of roofers just like yourself, that are learning about this forever-changing space, there's a link in the description down below to my Facebook Mastermind Group, where I'm sharing strategies that are working and helping them generate more online roofing leads.

And lastly, if you like this video, be sure to "like" it, subscribe and hit that notification bell so that you get notified every single time I drop a new video, every Wednesday. With that being said, that's the end of this one, and I will see you next week. Peace!

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 189

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 189 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

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Adam: Hey, everybody. We’re live. Welcome to Hump Day Hangout. This is episode 189. We’re getting closer and closer to 200. Actually, we’re just having a discussion about, actually, 208 is kind of being like the … I think we’ll probably have two fun episodes, right? I’m just gonna say … Yeah, at 200, that’s a cool number, but 208, because technically, 52 weeks in a year, multiply that by four. I think we’ll definitely have something fun on 200 and 208.

Anyways, before I get carried away with the numbers here, let’s say hi to everybody. Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Good.

Adam: I like your shirt, by the way.

Chris: Yeah. I can send you one.

Adam: Really?

Chris: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Did you get the new, one?

Chris: Yeah. All Mastermind members got it.

Adam: Nice, nice. Yeah. We got to share some pictures. We’ll talk to the Mastermind members and see if they can show their pride they’re at the Mastermind show, off their T-shirts. But I’m not, so I’m gonna keep my logo covered because I’m not wearing my Mastermind shirt. Hernan, how are you doing?

Hernan: I’m doing great. Look at this.

Bradley: Damn, the new one.

Hernan: Yeah, there you go. I’m doing great. I’m super excited for today. I’m super excited for what’s coming. I’m super pumped for the event that we’re gonna be holding. So, yeah, things are looking really good.

Adam: Nice, nice. Marco, how are you doing?

Hernan: Marco is always wearing the polo, like 24/7. Yeah.

Bradley: That’s his profile photo, Hernan.

Hernan: Yeah. Oh.

Marco:That’s all. I got to change that. I got to go back to my thinking spot and change that image.

Adam: Well, lack of anything else going on, how’s the weather down there?

Bradley: Oh, shit.

Marco:It’s warm. It’s about to rain. It’s always warm, like, can I say Groundhog Day? Only thing that changes is whether it’s wet or it’s dry.

Adam: Fair enough. Well, Bradley, you didn’t get washed away in the thunderstorms yesterday, did you?

Bradley: No. But it’s raining right now actually again. So more storms. If I lose power, guys-

Adam: Yeah. Hump Day goes away, you guys know what happened, it’s the storm, not us.

Bradley: If I lose power, I’m going for a beer so.

Adam: I’m gonna get into it then. Real quick, I wanted to tell everybody, today is obviously Wednesday, on Monday, this coming Monday, the 25th, we’re gonna have a quick overview webinar. Bradley’s gonna be running the show on that talking about Leads Recon. So if you’re not familiar with this, this is a really good product by Ted Chen, same guy who developed Power Suggest Pro, which is obviously probably one of our go-to keyword research tools. This is also like his other tools. It’s a great tool. It does exactly what you needed to do. It’s simple to use and it’s effective.

We’re gonna be going over a little bit more details on how to do that. Ted was really nice to hook us up with a special offer that we’re gonna be able to pass along to you guys. I highly suggest that you register, come check it out. I don’t know, I’m not gonna make everyone say, but I know between the five of us, there’s multiple licenses. So I know at least a few of us use this.

Bradley: I was in there playing with it today. I mean, I’ll be 100% transparent, my main lead scraping tool is Lead Kahuna. I’ve been using that forever. It’s slow though, and so I had to hire a VA to do it. What I like about Leads Recon is it’s very much like Power Suggest Pro and that it spits out leads very, very quickly. It doesn’t give near as much data. But really how much of that data do you really use. That’s what really slows Lead Kahuna down is because it pulls in so much data and it takes so long.

Leads Recon, it’s very simple. It pulls up listings both from Facebook and from Google My Business, Maps, basically. What I found is really great about it, again, I’m gonna demo all this on Monday for you guys, but you, excuse me, the Facebook scraping that it does it, extracts like Gmail addresses, Yahoo addresses, because these are the business owners that created their own Facebook page and just used their own Facebook, or excuse me, their main profile, main Gmail, or excuse me, email account as their Facebook email. So that’s what ends up being extracted from Facebook so you get a really good email address from the Facebook scraping especially.

Again, I’ll demo all this stuff on Monday guys. But if you don’t already have a lead scraping tool that you’re using, I know many of our Mastermind members, because we’ve been talking so much about prospecting and stuff lately, have been asking about how to get access to a lead scraping tool. Again, if you don’t have the money for Lead Kahuna or you don’t need all that data, which many of you probably don’t, it’s probably better to go with something like Leads Recon. I’m excited to share that with you guys on Monday.

Adam: Go to know. All right. After that, we got something special coming up over the 4th of July, but we’re gonna keep the lid on that for a little bit and we’ll be letting everyone know about that soon. Like Hernan mentioned though, we got the live event, we set the date, like we told everyone last week, live event is gonna be the weekend of October 20th this year. We’re starting to finalize a lot of the topics. It’s really getting good.

We meant what we said last week, if you contacted us, we’re gonna have a special deal for you to get a ticket to go there. We’re finalizing guest speakers as well. Jeffery Smith is gonna be joining us, which is gonna be freaking awesome. We’ve got a couple other people we’re talking to and we don’t want to say anything till we get their thumbs up when we know that they’re on board. But we’ve got a lot of topics that we’re gonna be covering. Again, we’re finalizing that as well. I’m looking forward to, one, being there and then, two, sharing some information. It should be good.

Bradley: Awesome.

Adam: All right. On my end, that’s everything. You guys got anything else we need to cover?

Bradley: Okay. [Crosstalk 00:05:52] all at once.

Adam: Let’s do this.

Bradley: All right. Cool. Let’s get into it.

Chris: Cool.

Are You Using A Multisite Plugin Like MainWP Or The Normal WordPress Multisite Installation When Installing Multiple Subdomains For Local SEO Sites?

Bradley: All right. First up, is Da B. “Hey Bros, got a question. Bradley, when you use multiple subdomains for your local SEO sites, are you using some sort of multisite plugin like MainWP or do you use the normal WordPress multisite installation? Which one do you prefer or recommend?”

Well, yes and no. For some of my multi-location sites, that depends on how many locations, I probably should have MainWP for each one of them, but I don’t. Some of them are just three sites or two sites or something like that. So I don’t have a like a MainWP. We just go in and manually, and most my curators handle updating WordPress sites and plugins and stuff like that. For some of my service providers or whatever where I’ve got multi-locations or even clients for that matter, then, yeah, I’ll use MainWP.

So just on the root domain, because you guys have probably have heard me say many times that I use the root domain and then we build out subdomain sites for the individual location, so the root domain is really just used as like a corporate brochure, if that makes sense. A lot of times we’ll use the blog from the root domain too to syndicate to a branded network and until and unless we need a specific location-based syndication network for a particular location that might not be responding as well to the blog on the root. That’s a good place actually to add the MainWP if you’re gonna use that. And that just because I just streamlines being able to update the plugins and WordPress installation and themes and stuff like that. So yeah, I would use main WP.

I’ve never done a WordPress multisite. I’ve never, never once have I ever worked on a WordPress multisite anything. I don’t really ever have any desire, I never had a desire to do it either. I’ve heard a lot of weird things that happen with that and all that. I don’t know anything about it. I just knew to stay away from it. So as far as WordPress multisite, no; but MainWP, yes.

Again, for clients that have multiple locations, but if it’s just one or two or maybe three locations, a lot of times I don’t even bother with that. It’s a good question, though.

Hernan: Yeah. If I can add a real quick, some of the plugins, not all of them, but some of the plugins that we use or that we used to use weren’t compatible with WPMU. That’s why we weren’t using it. Yeah, MainWP, you can even put that on a subdomain for managing stuff; it’s amazing. Yeah, that would be my take on it. I always managed individual WordPress installations with MainWP, if anything.

What Are The Most Effective Tools In Indexing Thousands Of Unique And HTML-Based Webpages In Search Engines?

Bradley: Yep. Same thing I do. J. Bowen is up. He says, “Hi, hello. I need to find the best and most effective method for getting many thousands of unique and HTML based web pages indexed in the search engines.” He’s doing a mass page builder stuff. That’s the churn and burn strategy. “What is the most effective tool for this? What about money robot and ghost indexer?”

All of the stuff that I used to talk about for indexing, I don’t know if it’s still as effective, because I know within the last month or two, probably two months now, a lot of the indexing services, like Google is just like indexing slower now. So maybe one of the other guys on here can give you some pretty good suggestions.

I know from some other people that are also building mass page sites that, if you hit the sitemaps with some links those tend to work fairly well because you’ve got, obviously the sitemaps are just a list of URLs from the site, so spamming those apparently works fairly well. But again, I don’t really do any mass page stuff at all anymore, so I’m not up to speed on what’s really working for that. Two years ago I could have told you exactly what to do.

Any suggestion, guys?

Adam: I haven’t been doing it myself. I know there’s a lot of other methods when you’re dealing with mass page builds, but I will say not just go to SerpSpace and do it, but go to SerpSpace, contact support and take a look at the different packages there, because I know the indexing rate was insane. But again, they may want to know exactly what you’re doing so that they can tell you if it’s gonna be a good fit or not. I would suggest doing that as one option.

Hernan: Yeah. I do agree with Adam. I used to do it where, I think it was Lead Gadget and MPC, Mass Page creator, which will create, I don’t know, a couple million websites. It was nuts. But people started using the Google Indexer URL so much that Google caught up to it. So, yeah, I would definitely go with indexing on SerpSpace and any type of backlinks, like sometimes tweeting the sitemap and whatnot, it will help, but have in mind that since it’s mostly duplicate content within the website and the pages add little value unless you have a really complex template, then that’s something that you need to have in mind. It’s been harder and harder and harder to index these type of websites because of that.

Bradley: Yep. I mean, think about it guys, I did training for Lead Gadget for quite some time and there was a reason, because it worked really well. I’m not saying it doesn’t still work, but I’m saying it’s been years now, right? It’s been three years since I really did a whole lot of stuff with Lead Gadget, and before that it was Serp Shaker, right? Google’s had plenty of time to catch up to these mass spam things. Again, I’m not saying it doesn’t work. But I would recommend, Jay, besides contacting Serp Space, because we do have Dedia who’s our link building manager. He handles the indexing services, and he does all our spam stuff, so he knows what works and what doesn’t. He could probably point you in the right direction.

I would also suggest that whatever mass page generator it is that you’re using, that you contact the support over there and ask them what they’re doing. Maybe they’ve got a Facebook group, something like that. Because the people that are in the trenches using those tools all the time are going to know best and all I can do is just give you theory at this point because I don’t do that sort of work anymore. Okay.

Marco: Dediahad run into this very problem. He wasn’t getting indexing, it was garbage, and so he started looking around. We spoke right when this started happening. When Google throttled the URL submitter, which everyone was using, that’s when the indexing took a dump. However, I know that Dedia has been able to achieve over 40% indexing with whatever he’s done. I’m not gonna give away what he’s doing or what he’s using, because that’s proprietary how he does it. If he wants to reveal it at some point it’s up to him, it’s not up to me. But I know that’s ridiculous right now. If you can get over 40, I mean, you’re doing a great job.

How Do You Connect Self Hosted WordPress Blog To IFTTT?

Bradley: That’s right. Yeah. Definitely check it out, Jay. Again, I’m sure whatever mass page generator you’re using, there are people that can help you and provide some guidance. Ralph Peterson’s up. He says, “Hey guys, I’ve been having issues connecting my self-hosted WordPress blog to IFTTT. I also have one other hosted site that will just not connect, or that just will not connect, excuse me, they both were at one time connected but the connection was somehow broken and I’ve tried to and tried and tried to reconnect but it just will not. One site, I even deleted the original IFTTT and signed up for a new account and still will not connect. Any direction would be sincerely appreciated.”

Okay. I’ve had that happened on a few occasions and usually it’s one of two things, it’s either a plug-in or theme conflict. There’s some plugin or theme that is causing a problem. Some of the plugins that I know can cause problems with connecting a self-hosted WordPress blog to IFTTT or any of the bot blocker plugins like Spyder Spanker. There’s a number of them out there now. Any of those bot blocking plugins. Because the IFTTT bot is on the blacklist, essentially.

I used to be able to, I used to use those bot blocker plugins a lot because I used to run PPNs and stuff like that. I don’t anymore. I don’t use those plugins at all anymore because I don’t run PBNs, but I know that there used to be a way to Google the IFTTT bot name so that you could add it to the whitelist, and that would work. I used to use Spyder Spanker and self-hosted WordPress sites would not connect to IFTTT as long as Spyder Spanker was installed. Until I had added the IFTTT bot name to the whitelist and then it would connect.

Chances are that could be it, Ralph. I don’t know if you’re using any of those plugins, but if you are, that’s likely the culprit. Disable the plugin and try connecting again, if that’s the case. Also, you could try disabling all plugins and trying to connect and see if it will connect. If it does, then you can disconnect and start re-enabling one at a time until you figure out which one it is that’s causing the conflict. If that’s the problem. It could also be a theme issue. It’s less likely to be a theme, but it is still possible.

Other than that, I would say … I think that should be it. Now the only other thing I would perhaps take a look at is if you’re using Cloudflare or something like that, which mass your DNS. That may create an issue, but I’m not 100% sure on that either. If you’ve got other self-hosted WordPress sites that are connected, see if there’s any difference in plugins or setup on the server side or anything like that. But that’s typically how I would do it.

Do you guys have any instruction on that? Okay. No. It’s a no.

Adam: Yeah, I’m gonna go with no.

Bradley: Yeah. I mean, again, try that. I know we had a question in the Facebook group, the Syndication Academy Facebook group. I think it was Carol and Priscilla. Anyways, This was just covered on the last Syndication Academy update webinar. I think it was the last one. It might have been the one previous to that. It was within the last two Syndication Academy update webinars where I was specifically, because that this was brought up in the Facebook group, a couple other people were saying they were having issues too. I went through some of the known causes of problems and also how to resolve and all that’s in the updated webinar. Ralph, I would go check the archives for the updates and see, like I said, either it was last month of the month prior to that and you should be able to find a little bit more information on there.

But I know for sure they do still connect. It’s likely a plug-in or a theme issue. Also, it could be a host, by the way. If they’re both on the same host there could be something in the host blocking it. So that might be something else you would want to troubleshoot.

By the way, I think we’re going to have a Syndication Academy update webinar next Tuesday afternoon at 5 p.m. I haven’t scheduled it yet, but I think I’m going to in the next 24 hours or so. So you guys that are in Syndication Academy you’ll get the Facebook event notification.

Do You Recommend Doing Paid Ads To Get Local Leads In GMB?

Okay. I’m not even gonna attempt that name, excuse me. “In GMB, do you recommend doing the paid ads to get local leads?” Yes and no. Okay. If you’re in local GMB Pro, I actually literally just addressed this yesterday, I added three additional training videos for how to use YouTube to drive traffic in the local GMB posts, or just the ecosystem, period. One of the things that I talked about in that … I’m not revealing too much, Marco, so don’t worry. I know Marco is already starting to sweat.

One of the things is that in the GMB dashboard you see how they keep pushing Adwords. Google keeps pushing an Adwords coupon for 100 bucks, right? I think that’s pretty much common across all GMB dashboards right now. If you have not set up an Adwords account yet, they’ll promote it until you do. They’ll give you $100 of free AdWords credit if you spend 50 bucks, which is fine. That’s great. Use it.

But when you click that button, it’s going to automatically set you up with a Adwords Express account. Now I don’t have any experience with Adwords Express in the last two years, but I know two years ago, it was shit. It was junk. It was for people that didn’t know or had no desire or competency in in learning how to run Adwords campaigns. So Adwords Express was a very quick and easy way to set up an ad, but that gives you virtually no control over it other than geographic targeting really and so. You can adjust the headline and stuff like that, but there was very little control. Again, this was two years ago.

I started to go through that process yesterday when I was recording the training for Local GME Pro and a lot has changed in Adwords Express since the last time I went through an entire setup. So I have not tested it recently to know if Adwords Express is a viable option or not, but I know from the past that I would always rather manually run my campaigns through the regular AdWords dashboard.

What I’m suggesting for GMB is maybe do some testing if you want to try Adwords Express. But what I’m doing specifically is running traffic into the ecosystem from YouTube with Adwords. It works really well, guys, especially if you’re in a market in industry or if the business is in an industry that is listed in the in-market audience targeting inside of YouTube. That is incredibly powerful because those people are already in market in the market for that product or service.

For example, roofing services is one of the in-market audiences. I know I’ve got a couple of roofing clients and we’re running what’s just really branding campaigns for them. We’ve taken one of their videos, added them as in-stream ads, and set up the geographic targeting for their service area, so it might be 30 mile radius, or 40 mile radius, whatever, from where their business location is, and then choose the proper audience targeting such as, in this case, in-market audiences for roofing services.

So anybody in that area that’s in that Google bucket of people in the market for roofing services, anytime they’re surfing YouTube, on YouTube watching any videos, our video has the chance to play in front as an in-stream ad or a pre-roll ad. Right? So if they’re already in the market for that, whether they click on the video or engage in the video or not, now it’s that name of that roofing company getting in front of them and Google says that they’re in-market for roofing services.

What happens with those type of ads, guys, is if you do get clicks, IP click from a known Google user that is in-market for that service, do you think that click. that engagement signal is weighted more than other types of random engagement signals? Of course, because Google knows where that person was, where they came from, what they’ve been interested in, what their recent search history is, and their locality where they’re located. Right?

So when they click-thru, that’s a huge engagement signal. But even if they don’t click-thru, now you’re getting your name in front of them and in what happens is, it’s called a view-thru conversion. If they’ve been exposed to your ad, but they don’t take action, they don’t click through actually from the ad to whatever the target URL is typically a landing page or whatever, but let’s say that they got exposed to your brand name because of that ad and then later on that day, the next day, whatever, they do a brand name search and then click-thru the organic listing or the maps listing to that brand, well, Google’s tracked that and that’s called a view-thru conversion. It’s not a direct conversion, but it’s called a view-thru conversion.

That’s where I found the most success with using in-market audiences for local video ads. Set it up as a branding campaign. You don’t promise any leads. You just tell the business what it’s for. Guys, I’m doing this with a $1 a day budget. It’s $30 a month and you can even reduce it. I can’t share the strategy here, guys. In the Mastermind, I share it. But there’s a strategy where you can reduce your maximum cost per view bid all the way down to 2 cents and still get just as much engagement as if you had it at 35 cents. Just as much exposure, excuse me, as if you had it at 35 cents per view.

If that’s what you’re willing to pay per view all the way down to 2 cents and still get every bit as much exposure. So then you can actually reduce your ad spend down to 50 cents a day. That’s $15 a month, guys, and get results and. Again, the results that I’m seeing, if you can use in-market audiences, is setting it up as a branding campaign and then start watching over time, you’ll see the view-thru conversions start creeping up. Those are leads that come thru they were exposed to the brand but didn’t do a direct click at that moment. They came back at a later time and did it. Most likely because they were exposed to that brand through that, if that makes sense. It’s a great strategy guys.

Again, this was just covered in Local GMB Pro and we also cover it in the Mastermind. Anybody want to comment on that or add to it?

Marco:Nope. I like it.

Bradley: Very good.

Hernan: Yeah, me too.

Do You Have A Follow Up Sequence To The Leads That Come Through Your Lead Gen Forms?

Bradley: Okay, very good. All right. Jennia is up. What’s up, Jennia? He says, “Good day to you all. Make it a great one. Quick question. With local Lead gen, do you have a follow-up sequence to the leads that come through your lead gen forms? Do you generate a list – money is in the list, right? – and market to them other home products or services or does this not apply to local home repair lead gen? Can it be applied somehow?”

Yes, it absolutely can, Jennia. Do I do it? No. I’ve set that up for, in fact, one of my roofing clients. We were just talking about roofing clients. One of my roofing clients, I set all that stuff up for him. Well, shit, he’s been a client for five years now. So I set it all up for him five years ago. Before I was wise enough to realize that I should have owned all of it, that asset, but I built it all out for him instead.

Think about this guys. Jennia, I’ll completely answer your question in a minute, but think about the opportunity, guys, that this presents. For example, a roofing lead, think about this, when a roof leaks it causes a lot more damage than just the roof. You need more contractors than just a roofing contractor. You’re gonna need a drywall contractor to repair wet drywall on the ceilings. You’re gonna need a painting contractor. You’re likely gonna need a carpet cleaner and/or a new carpet. New carpet installation, right? You’re gonna need, maybe, depending on how bad the leak was for a roof leak, you might end up needing water damage restoration company to come in and suck the water out and bring in those big fans to dry shit and all that. You guys get the point.

What I’m saying is, with a roofing lead, I set all this up for one of my clients years ago, he takes the leads that come in and then sells the same roofing lead, the contact information, to a painting company, a drywall company, carpet cleaning company, and a water damage restoration company. He sells the same freakin’ lead to all four of them. So he monetizes it by bidding on the job himself and then he sells that lead to four contractors. I’m pretty sure he’s got exclusive contractors for those.

But the point is, whether he gets the job or not, he makes money from the lead. Does that make sense? So that’s a smart idea. Now I haven’t set that up. I tried setting that kind of structure up for tree service leads, but there’s not really a whole lot of tangent services for tree services. Other than perhaps landscaping, which a lot of the tree service companies actually do landscaping work.

As far as can you build a list, yeah, you can. I typically do not for that kind of stuff; I probably should. The reason why I don’t is because I’m not getting expressed permission from the leads when they submit a contact request form for a contractor to call them to schedule an estimate or whatever. I’m not getting expressed permission. I could probably squeeze it in somehow on the opt-in form or something. But asking them if I could mail them related offers and stuff like that, I typically don’t. I’m probably leaving money on the table, Jennia. It’s something you could pursue and I would recommend that you do. But it’s not something I’ve done, building an actual list anyways.

I mean, think about it guys, because you could do that, build a list and an email. I’d be real careful about being too spammy, though. But you could email out offers like discount offers, coupon offers, CPA offers, things like that for home improvement related stuff. Just assuming that the leads you’re collecting are for home improvement services, right? That’s very possible. It’s a good idea. Absolutely, it can be applied. I just haven’t done it any time recently.

Do you guys wanna comment on that as well? That’s a great question, Jennia.

Hernan: Yeah. I do agree with you, Bradley. If you have that, if you have the ability, because the people are interested in a topic, that’s what you’re building, after all. You’re building a platform of people and a group of people and a list of people interested around a particular topic. So, yeah, you could monetize it. As long as you have permission you can monetize it in several different ways. Yeah. That’s thinking creatively.

Bradley: I’m doing more remarketing stuff now so that’s how I do it because once you build the remarketing list, if they’ve engaged with your, or even landed on your landing page, then you got them on a remarketing list and now I can remarket any sort of ads to them that I want. It doesn’t have to be specifically about the service from the landing page, right? If they land on a roofing landing page, then it’s very likely, or I could very well remarket ads to them for pay-per-call services, like for carpet cleaning and drywall and painting crews and things, if I wanted. Or I could probably just remarket, like have other contractors in place that are buying leads from me and then remarket to them where a click sends them to a landing page for a painting contractor, for example. Right?

So they came in on a roofing landing page because they need roofing services but now they’re on a remarketing list and they’re getting banner ads that following them around the web that’s saying, “Hey, you just had a leak. You probably need a painting contractor. Click here,” and it takes them to my painting contractor. Does that make sense? I mean, that just stirred up a whole lot of ideas that I could be doing with remarketing stuff, Jennia. That’s something I would do because then it doesn’t even require email.

Email is still very effective, guys. Don’t get me wrong. But what I like about remarketing is it’s so simple. I’m sure Hernan could agree with me on that.

Hernan: Oh, yeah, 100%, because if you think about it, you’ve already done the heavy lifting right at that point. People are interested, they click on a list and they click on an ad, they visit something. So I think that remarketing for any kind of purposes for any kind of businesses is usually the highest ROI campaign that you could possibly have. Right?

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Because of that fact that you’re working with those folks that they already shown interest in an offer or whatever that is.

Does Yelp, Yellow Pages, And Other Local Citation Sites Allow Fake Addresses And Phone Numbers For Local Lead Gen Pages?

Bradley: Awesome. Gordon’s up. What’s up, Gordon? He says, “Hey, guys. Thank you very much for your Hump Days help. It is greatly appreciated.” Well, thank you, Gordon. He says, “I think you said in the past that if you were trying to make a lead gen sites pages for different city locations you should have separate GMB profiles as well, a separate directory profiles with different fake addresses and phone numbers for each city, talking about the GMB 3-Pack ranking, just search engine ranking, fake addresses and phone numbers for each city. Is this correct, and if so, will sites like Yelp, Yellow pages, et cetera, allow you to have multiple profiles for the same business brand name or do they need to be linked in some manner?”

Okay. I’m not 100% sure on the question, Gordon. I mean, I know you got fake in quotes, so I’m not sure what you mean by fake. Guys, when I say spam addresses, I’m talking about using post office boxes to set up GMB listings. That’s what I mean. They’re not fake. They’re real addresses, but they’re PO boxes, which is not … Technically, it’s against Terms of Service, but I still do it anyways, and it works. So that’s what I’m talking about.

Now again, I don’t use fake phone numbers either. I use virtual phone numbers that are forwarding phone numbers. Again, I’m talking about setting up GMB stuff. I don’t really try to rank for organic stuff for multiple cities that much anymore. I do have some clients where that still … Because it covers such a large service area.

In fact, the two roofing clients I was talking about are clients that cover a large service area. But what I’ve been able to accomplish for them is quite amazing by getting them to rank in so many of their service areas in the 3-pack, at least the ones that are all adjacent to wherever their business is physically located. That means if they’ve got a large service area, I’m actually been very fortunate and a lot of these listings will rank in the maps for all the adjacent localities too, the ones that are directly adjacent to where their physical location is, if that makes sense.

A lot of that has to do with the geo posts and the GMB stuff that we’re doing now, as well as the press releases that really helps a lot, the drive stacks really helps a lot, also having the syndication network and blogging about it, like I just mentioned, the geo post that’s all stuff that really helps. Again, I’m still trying to rank in Maps.

As far as organic stuff, I’m not sure because I’m not sure what you mean by fake stuff. But when it comes to Yelp and Yellow Pages. Yelp, for example … First, guys, I want to preface this with, Yelp can be a good source of leads in traffic, there’s no doubt, but be aware that if you sign a business up for Yelp that that business is going to be hammered with solicitation calls. I mean, they are absolutely relentless, guys. You will get called three, four, five times a week from multiple representatives from Yelp and they all give the same bullshit pitch, which is, “I’m your new rep from Yelp. I’m taking over your listing and I just wanted to talk to you about all the ways that we can generate more traffic and leads for your business.” You’ll get the same damn pitch from every single one of them and you’ll hear from five different Yelp reps in the same week. How could your listing be transferred to five different Yelp reps in one week? It’s not. It’s just bullshit. It’s their sales tactic and they’re relentless.

If you have multiple locations, Gordon, yes, you can connect them all to Yelp under the business owner account. That’s technically how you should do it, anyways. But the problem then becomes that you end up getting called for each one of the listings. How do I know? Because I’ve got one in particular for one of my tree service sites it’s got about 12 locations within the same business owner account and I literally get called maybe 10 to 15 times per week because of that one stupid listing, because of that one company in Yelp. Fortunately, I have a call center that screens all the calls. But I pay for every one of those damn calls. For every call that comes in, every minute that’s spent with the call center, and we get a shit ton of Yelp calls that go through my call center when the message still gets sent out. Like, yeah, another Yelp rep called.

My point is, yeah, a lot of the big directories will allow businesses that have multiple locations set up a brand account. One business account and then they manage all the location listings within the one account. It’s a much more efficient way to do it, but just keep in mind that you’re opening yourself up to solicitation for advertising services from those platforms and you need to make sure that the company that you’re doing it for, obviously, providing agency services or whatever, you need to make sure that the company is aware that if you’re going to set up a Yelp listing for them, let them know that they’re gonna get hammered with sales calls, make them aware of that. Okay?

Guys, I’ve gotten to the point with Yelp where I don’t even wanna create a listing on Yelp anymore, even though I know there’s a lot of traffic and leads to come from Yelp. Honestly, to me, it’s more of a headache than it’s worth.

Okay. Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful. Jordan says, “Hi. Sigh. Hernan and Marco and Chris, what does it feel like to have a team in the World Cup?” Okay, no comment.

Hernan: It feels good, man. What can I say?

Bradley: I guess Jordan is a soccer fan. I’m not much of a one.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Ronald Reyes-

Marco:I’m not much of a soccer fan either. I’m into baseball and football.

Bradley: There you go.

Marco:It makes no difference to me, Jordan, where the Costa Rica is. I mean, I’d like Costa Rica to win a couple of games, but it makes no difference.

Hernan: Yeah. I know that Jordan is a big soccer fan. So, yeah, man. Here, literally, the country, Argentina literally stops functioning the minute the World Cup starts, and even further when Argentina plays. It’s crazy. Yeah. Tomorrow, we have a game, so it’s gonna be two hours of dead productivity for the country.

Bradley: Dead silence more of.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Nothing productive gets done during the game.

Hernan: No, no, no. It’s nuts.

When Will The GMB DFY Service Be Available?

Bradley: It’s awesome. All right. Ronald Reyes is up. He says, “Is the GMB Done-For-You service ready yet?” Not yet, but we’re working on it, Ronald. I know you’re kind of excited. We all are. Yeah, I am too. It’s not ready yet. Do we have an ETA on that yet, Marco?

Marco:Well, as you know, we had a hiccup with the two VAs that I was training. One got sick and the other one just couldn’t handle the hours.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco:So I had to go and hire another one and I’m actually looking for one more so we can really get this going. The girl that I have now, she’s great. She’s almost finished with the training and then what she has with me is just going over everything and make sure that she can do it the way that we expect it to be done, and then that’ll be done this week. Next week, we go into how to do posts and she’s gonna learn how to do the auto-posting service. So we’re even going to offer that where she can go in and schedule posts for a month at a time for you. Then, we just have to figure out what kind of price we’re gonna be offering for that.

Will You Be Implementing A Traffic Source Like CrowdSearch.me?

Bradley: Yeah. Well I’m excited about it, too. Scott apparently is as well, “Looking forward to GMB Done-For-You. Question, will you be implementing a traffic source like crowdsearch.me?” No. Certainly not that one. A lot of those apps are really just not useful so much for, I don’t know, if it would be useful for GMB stuff. We haven’t tested it, but I wouldn’t recommend it for money site traffic anymore. For YouTube and social traffic referral traffic, yeah, it still has its place. But I wouldn’t want to drive traffic direct to a money site for using those kind of apps anymore. A lot of that stuff has been flagged or it’s just flat-out not counted even though it might show an analytic side.

We know because we’ve done a lot of testing in this, guys. We tried to build our own and spent more money than I care to admit, and we failed. We were never able to get it to work the way that we knew it needed to work and that’s why we never launched it, and we’re out of shit ton of money over it. But it is what it is, we try and so that’s why again we certainly aren’t gonna recommend. I stopped using those services guys. There’s a reason for it, right?

No. We’re not gonna be implementing sources like crowdsearch.me. We’ve got some other stuff we’re working on that we may be able to at some later date talk more about. But right now what I recommend doing is just … Again, you’re in local GMB Pro, Scott. I just posted about this in the training yesterday, like if you want to drive traffic into it, you can do it very cheaply with YouTube ads. Right? Very cheap.

Marco: Scott is also a beta tester. He has access to both the YouTube views. Scott, those are real people so if you could try getting people to YouTube video that directs them to the GMB, find out more about the company, or however it is that you want to direct those people. You just have to put quality videos.

Guys, I keep telling y'all that. It’s not just you, Scott, because I don’t want it to seem like I’m picking on you. You have to put quality videos in front of these people. These are real people. If you give them garbage they’re going to trash your video and it’s going to have the opposite effect that you expected. People are not going to click on your video just because it’s number one. People are not going to react well if you give them garbage, right? We’re in a visual age. So give them a good video, give them good CTAs, get them over to your TMB, and that’s going to work much better than feeding them garbage or feeding them bot traffic or whatever else it is that you’re thinking about.

Reach out to me in the beta testing group and we’ll see what we can do about setting something up. That’s what the beta testing group is about: we set up tests. So we’ll set up a test and see how well that works out.

Bradley: Yeah. I jumped off Screenshare for a minute because I’m trying to load a case study, YouTube channel for the Local GMB Pro just because I want to show something here. Stand by for a minute, guys, and I’ll be able to grab the screen again. But this is just to reinforce what Marco was just saying about the YouTube views service, that’s still in beta only, right? Marco?

Marco:I mean, it’s ready to go live anytime we want.

Bradley: Okay.

Marco:We just have to set up pricing, how it’s all … Yeah, I’m just waiting for benefits, how to use it, what you can expect, a bunch of things that need to go on that landing page where people go, and so that they can get the most benefit from it.

Bradley: This is what I wanted to share. This is the video. I know it’s small. Guys, let me zoom in a little bit. All right. This is a video that I just set up, the training that I’m talking about that I updated Local GMB Pro with on how to set up YouTube ads to run traffic into the GMB Pro ecosystem. This is the ad that I set up. This was just within the last 24 hours, guys.

Wait a minute. No. That’s not it. Excuse me. I’ve got that on another video. This video is showing the traffic that’s come to it from our YouTube views tool. Excuse me. The one that we’re talking about that’s in beta currently. I mean, it’s ready. We just got to get everything set up.

Look at what it’s showing from analytics, it’s coming from YouTube advertising. So these are real people. I don’t know how, I don’t even understand how we’re doing it because I don’t get involved in the backend of the software and stuff. But that’s freaking amazing. I don’t know, because, Marco, I don’t remember you telling me that before. When I was taking a look at analytics yesterday and I was seeing this, I was like, wow, that’s pretty impressive, because the views that have come through, they’re being shown as YouTube advertising views, and that’s from that service, our service. Does that makes sense? Comment, no comment.

Marco:No, no.

Hernan: That is pretty cool, actually. Yeah. I wanna start testing it, too.

Bradley: Yeah. The traffic is 94% from the United States, guys. That’s what I wanted. I selected the United States. A little bit trickles in from some other areas, but that would be natural, right? It would be unnatural to have all traffic coming … Well, I don’t know about unnatural, but this seems to me logical that some traffic will trickle in from some other areas because that’s typically what you’ll see.

Marco:There will be bleeding and it’s natural. You have to look at your analytics. Everyone, you have to look at your analytics and you have to understand traffic. The great thing about this is that … You can’t simulate the analytics, the user agents that these people use, the devices that these people use where it’s mostly mobile, because that’s what we want and you can only get that from real people. That’s what I want people to understand about this service that we’re going to be providing. Yes, it looks like YouTube ads traffic.

Bradley: Yeah.

Marco:As a matter of fact, you cannot run ads to that video while you’re running our views because it’ll show a conflict. Well, how can you run ads from one place and get ads from another. That’s explained in the video that that’s posted in there. It’s a little tutorial video where I talk about do not run ads while you’re running YouTube views to the video that you’re looking to rank or whatever.

We’re getting fantastic results. Someone was telling us they’re number one in YouTube search for a really competitive term. Other people have managed to hit top five, top three. For other, less competitive, but still when you’re dealing in these spaces where it’s services and you’re talking about plumbing, you’re talking about HVAC, you’re talking of a whole lot of things that are competitive, no matter how small or big the city is, there’s still a lot of competitiveness. To be able to outrank people just from these views, it just goes to show that it works. Getting people to look at your videos and react the way that real people do is the way to go.

How To Setup Call-Only Ads In Google Adwords?

Bradley: Great. Okay. I see the next question from Bob McAllister. He says, “Do you guys use Adwords? I’m having issues getting a call-only ads set up. If you can give me some quick advice, like how to find it?” It’s really actually simple. I mean, I can’t go into AdWords and set it up right now. We don’t really have the time for that, Bob, and that’s typically not something we would do want to Hump Day Hangouts anyways. But it should be fairly simple. I’m not criticizing you at all, but call-only ads are typically a lot easier than even having …

Because really all you need is a domain, a landing page that has basically the keyword on it and contact information. You don’t even send people to a landing page, but you have to have a URL to set up a call-only ad and it’s just I guess to confirm or verify that the business exists. I’m not quite sure why, but they require that.

The call-only ad, it’s fairly easy to set up. I would just use Google Adwords help files to go through the process. Seriously, it’s very simple. I mean, again, to me, it’s simple to set up. Now setting up call ads and call conversion tracking from landing pages, that’s a bit geekier because you have to add code, like JavaScript code that will automatically change the phone numbers displayed, the number that’s displayed on the website so that Google can track, click thru it like conversions from somebody that click-thru from an ad but then made a phone call once they landed on your site. That’s called a call conversion or call conversion tracking. So that kind of stuffs a bit geekier.

A call-only ad is just literally an ad that displays the headline, the headline one, headline two, and upon click, it’s a phone call because it’s a mobile app. Right? Does that make sense? So those are typically really easy to set up. So I would just go through the Adwords help files. Also, go to YouTube and just search how to set up a call-only ad. I guarantee you’re gonna find multiple videos there that have a walk through of how to set that up. Okay.

Marco:Bob, when you’re ready what I would suggest and if you’re looking to grow your business, which I’m sure you are, just come join our Mastermind because these are questions that we would deal with in-depth. In the Mastermind, you’d have an answer usually within 24 hours, unless it’s the weekend, of course. Then you could always ask the question during a Mastermind webinar and we cover it and we’d actually go in and show you how to do it.

So that’s one of the benefits of being in the Mastermind. Or you could just pay one of us our consultation fee and get us one-on-one and we show you how to do it, which I leave for the price of the Mastermind you’d get that from us included in that membership fee. So I highly suggest Mastermind is the way to go for all of these things that you’re having trouble with.

Hernan: Yeah, absolutely agree.

Bradley: Bob’s been following us for quite some time, I know that for years, because I’ve seen Bob’s image for years. Plus, he was in another group before Semantic Mastery even was a thing.

Does Inconsistent NAP Cause Issues With GMB?

Jordan, “Using Bright Local and I saw I needed citations that had come through Expressupdate.com, submitted nothing, and then called. We have a GMB through a post office that got verified on GMB and Bing. But Express Updates lady said, ‘Oh, we can, I guess use this as a PO box, so we’re going to list use that crap.’ Will that hurt me too much or cause problems?” Yeah, I can do it. The problem with having inconsistent data published on an aggregator is that over time many other directories will auto create listings from that data.

So what I would do is I would contact Express Update again and even if you have to buy a year’s worth of, you pay for like a year to have a listing there. They’ll give you free listings. But what I’m saying is I would contact them and saying, “No. This is unacceptable. This is going to hurt. We have a street address option for this business. Yes, it’s a PO box but our NAP is the street address, we want it corrected, even if we have to pay for the listing for the year separately for just Express Update. It would be worth it in my opinion because it could very well cause NAP issues down the road. So I would absolutely try to square that away.

I would tell Express Update that’s bullshit. I would. I would just be like, “Look, we have our listed verified address as such. It is this. Check it out on the GMB profile, if it’s a listed address not a hidden address.” Maybe you have to provide something to that that’s the actual listed address of the business, whatever the case may be, I would try to jump through those hoops to make it happen.

Again, I would even offer up, if needed, to pay for the listing because I know they have upgraded listing services or whatever, but in that case, like I said, it could cause problems, it could come back and bite you in the ass down the road. Probably not immediately, but months down the road, as more and more listings get created from data scrapers that scrape those aggregate sites, you’re gonna end up having NAP issues. I would get ahead of the problem now is what I’m saying. It sucks, Jordan. That kind of stuff happens.

“Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed and sold if we cannot make it?” Oh, you mean the live event [inaudible 00:49:36] live? Yep. I think we talked about doing something like that. Adam, do you have anything you can-

Adam: I missed the very beginning of that. Can you repeat that?

[00:49:51] Bradley: Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed be sold if we cannot make it

Adam: Most likely, in some way shape or form, our biggest goal just being transparent is to provide the best experience for the people who are there and since this is our first one that’s where focus is gonna be we would obviously love to record it and if quality comes through, yeah, we’ll definitely look at doing that. But they’re probably gonna be some stuff that’s for them only for the people there and then again our focus is just to make it there and then we’re not gonna try to hire someone to come in and do it. But yeah. The short answer is our goal is, but stay tuned it’s our goal is to put on the live event, make it great for the people that are there, and then we’ll see if we can get good recordings for everyone else.

Bradley: Yeah. My thoughts on this are there may be portions of it that we make available. But there’s gonna be obviously a lot of stuff that we cover in the live event that will be exclusive and only covered in a live event, not even in Mastermind because that’s what live events are, right? You come to join the network and also to get some knowledge that you can’t see or hear anywhere else. That’s so that there will be some of that as well. But yeah, I mean, likely there will be something that we will also produce out of the live event. But again, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

What Is A Good Amount Of Calls Or Leads Using GMB?

Dan says, “What is a good amount of calls leads using GMB? I was getting over 2,600 people finding a customer’s business, 47 phone calls and 35 asked for directions before doing any posts. Curious what results have been for the test in GMB.”

Well, to be honest, the case study that I’m doing is not producing calls nearly as much as some of the other like my contractor type clients. Remember, this is a newer industry. It’s a brand new industry for me. The taxicab service, I’ve never done any work in that. It’s interesting to not see so many calls coming through GMB as what I’m seeing in some of my contractor type sites, but still not bad considering it’s new and I haven’t done really any traditional SEO stuff, other than a couple PRs. But remember, there’s not even a companion website yet. I’m just using the GMB website.

It really depends. It’s probably going to vary, Dan, from business to business or industry to industry really, because I know like, for example, the preschool, which is kind of interesting to me, the preschool that I’ve got a client that has two locations. He owns two schools in two different locations and, man, it’s crazy how much engagement he gets. It’ll show the number of impressions the Maps has given his listing and in like fool like 40% and of the 40% of the number of impressions given resulted in some sort of action, whether it’s phone call, click through to the website, or request driving directions. That’s a huge percentage 40% of the number of impressions have engaged with the listing and I found that to be incredibly high.

However, I mean like even my roofing clients, for example, I’m only doing the GMB pros method on for one of those clients and he gets some ungodly amount of impressions per month and something like last month I think he had 147 phone calls. I mean, it’s just insane so I think it’s gonna vary, Dan. Maybe Marco has a better benchmark, but I think it’s gonna vary by industry or a per industry.

Marco: Definitely. It depends on the amount of phone calls. Like if a high price item you can’t expect 500 calls because one call or two calls is all you’re gonna need to be profitable for the month. And so with Mario, we are finding that there are issues. But I think a lot of it has to do with Mario not providing us images from the area that are geotagged. But we solved that problem with the last webinar update that I did. I showed people how to get unlimited local images and it’s that simple. I’m surprised nobody thought of it before. I’m not the smartest guy in the world. It’s just I like to tinker and I like to solve problems.

When I see a problem I look for solutions, I don’t focus on the problem. I just focus on a way around it and how I can give people a solution, right? Something simple. Something effective. I found it and I’m actually going to do a follow-up to that when I do a follow-up in a couple of weeks. I’m gonna make the replay of the original webinar available. I’m announcing it now, I’ll announce it in the groups. But I’ve had enough people ask me, I’m gonna see that again or I missed it. Damn, I really wanted to see it.

So it’s gonna be a two-for-one. I’m gonna do a little bit more, go in-depth on how you can get even more, not only images, but actually local videos. Just a whole bunch of things that you could do to add local relevance to everything that you’re doing. To me, that’s what really works when you add all of that local relevance when you have an active owner that’s going all around town and taking pictures and actually helping you because it’s their business. I mean, you need to make that a like it has to be in the contract or whatever. You say, “You have to give me content and this is the content. If you don’t then I’m washing my hands and I can’t help you because no content means that you don’t get shit.

Bradley: Yeah. I agree with that. That’s why I’ve been working with my VAs to try to develop implement ways for us to create the content that and that will still work and provide the same level or similar benefits as if we had original photos taken on location from a mobile device, with the geo tags. Because, honestly, I’ve got a handful of clients now that are I’m doing the service for and not a sync. Well, one of them has started to trickle in some images and some videos from their tech, it’s a pest control company, mosquito control company, so they do like mosquito and tick control they spray out outside.

So, fortunately, I’m getting a few videos and images from them but out of the several clients that I’ve got signed up now. Other than them nobody has provided me with any images and even though that was when I made the proposal for the service that was part of it was I’m gonna need images. I set up Google Photos folders for each one of them and nobody’s given me any damn images.

And so I’m certainly not going to cancel the contract in, well, I don’t do contracts, but I canceled the service and say nevermind I don’t need your money because they’re not providing me images. So fortunately, Marco came up with some ideas or some methods for how to do that and we’re trying to get our VAs to implement as much as possible.

Do You Recommend Easyblognetworks For PBN Hosting?

Okay. We’re almost out of time guys. Cool, we’re almost done too. Greg. Thanks, Greg. We can’t go one Hump Day Hangout without a meme. We’d have to have a meme on every Hump Day. Tommy says, “Do you recommend easy blog networks for PBN hosting?” I don’t recommend. Tommy, I don’t mean to be a jerk. I don’t know. I can’t tell you. I don’t do PBN stuff. I haven’t for two years now, at least. I really don’t know what to tell you and I apologize for that. It’s just PBN stuff isn’t stuff I deal with anymore. I really can’t tell you what’s best practice now. I’m sorry, I can’t give you any more information on that.

The problem with PBNs, guys, is the footprints are so easily detectable now. It’s so difficult. I mean you have to be really, really good. We had a webinar for the Mastermind members with Roman Barnes. He did a really in-depth webinar about all the footprint stuff that Google checks for now. It’s all done algorithmically like it’s done automatically and in a fraction, a fraction of a second, it can determine and identify footprints through so many different data points now that it’s to me it’s just overwhelming to try to hide that footprint, to make PBNs even worth the while. I know there’s a lot of people still getting a lot of good success from it guys. I’m just telling you, for me, I found other ways that don’t require near as much setup and or don’t require near as much work.

Marco:Greg.

Bradley: Go ahead.

What Are Some Examples Of Good Video Versus Bad Video?

Marco: Greg Drebert has a really good question he wants an example of a good video versus a bad video.

Bradley: I totally missed that question. I’m sorry, Greg.

Marco:The answer is actually dead simple, Greg. You go in and you type in YouTube, search the general keywords that you want to drive traffic from the ones that get traffic, you look at the videos that people are doing, the ones that get really a ton of views with a ton of comments good comments. You see the subscribers if they’re getting subscribers and they’re always. I always tell people you do what the big guys are doing, but you always try to do one better. So whatever they do, plus one. It’s really that simple.

Bradley: Yup. I can tell you what doesn’t work or the stupid slideshow videos with music now. Like that were used to work five years ago, those don’t work anymore no. They’re not compelling enough. I mean you gotta have a voice track you know stuff like that guys. People will expect more now so those stupid slideshow videos from all those spam tools where there’s just a music track with various images and a text overlay with a call-to-action, that shit. I mean, it very rarely works anymore. It’s not even worth the time. So, yes, thanks, Greg. I totally skipped over your question, so I deserve that.

Okay. “What’s the link for live event?” We don’t have one yet, Paul, you’ll know when we do if you’re interested in-

Hernan: Yeah. If I may add, Paul, just contact support at SemanticMastery.com and the guys will give you details on the actual super special discount that we’re doing just for you know as an early bird ass until we have our our landing page up, if that makes sense.

So just contact support.

Bradley: Yep. That’s what I was gonna say was if you’re interested in the early bird that we talked about just contact support. We don’t have a link for yet but contact support will get your name on the list and make sure that you get that.

How Do You Get Videos To Link TO GMB?

Brian, “How do you get videos to link to GMB?” Just link to them. Just link to them. Link to the full URL though, guys, can’t shorten it. You got to use the full URL. That’s how you do it. It works trust me. I just did it yesterday again. See? “I wasn’t able to get on the webby where you talked about unlimited.” Yes, that’s what I just said, Dan. You’ll get access to the webby from Monday during Marco’s next webinar.

Okay. All right, guys, 5:01. So I just went one minute over today. Thanks everybody for being here.

Marco: Perfect. Thanks everyone.

Hernan: Thank you, guys. See you.

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

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

Announcement

Anyways, before I get carried away with the numbers here, let’s say hi to everybody. Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Good.

Adam: I like your shirt, by the way.

Chris: Yeah. I can send you one.

Adam: Really?

Chris: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Did you get the new, one?

Chris: Yeah. All Mastermind members got it.

Hernan: I’m doing great. Look at this.

Bradley: Damn, the new one.

Adam: Nice, nice. Marco, how are you doing?

Hernan: Marco is always wearing the polo, like 24/7. Yeah.

Bradley: That’s his profile photo, Hernan.

Hernan: Yeah. Oh.

Marco:That’s all. I got to change that. I got to go back to my thinking spot and change that image.

Adam: Well, lack of anything else going on, how’s the weather down there?

Bradley: Oh, shit.

Marco:It’s warm. It’s about to rain. It’s always warm, like, can I say Groundhog Day? Only thing that changes is whether it’s wet or it’s dry.

Adam: Fair enough. Well, Bradley, you didn’t get washed away in the thunderstorms yesterday, did you?

Bradley: No. But it’s raining right now actually again. So more storms. If I lose power, guys-

Adam: Yeah. Hump Day goes away, you guys know what happened, it’s the storm, not us.

Bradley: If I lose power, I’m going for a beer so.

Bradley: Awesome.

Adam: All right. On my end, that’s everything. You guys got anything else we need to cover?

Bradley: Okay. [Crosstalk 00:05:52] all at once.

Adam: Let’s do this.

Bradley: All right. Cool. Let’s get into it.

Chris: Cool.

Are You Using A Multisite Plugin Like MainWP Or The Normal WordPress Multisite Installation When Installing Multiple Subdomains For Local SEO Sites?

Again, for clients that have multiple locations, but if it’s just one or two or maybe three locations, a lot of times I don’t even bother with that. It’s a good question, though.

What Are The Most Effective Tools In Indexing Thousands Of Unique And HTML-Based Webpages In Search Engines?

Any suggestion, guys?

How Do You Connect Self Hosted WordPress Blog To IFTTT?

Do you guys have any instruction on that? Okay. No. It’s a no.

Adam: Yeah, I’m gonna go with no.

Do You Recommend Doing Paid Ads To Get Local Leads In GMB?

Again, this was just covered in Local GMB Pro and we also cover it in the Mastermind. Anybody want to comment on that or add to it?

Marco:Nope. I like it.

Bradley: Very good.

Hernan: Yeah, me too.

Do You Have A Follow Up Sequence To The Leads That Come Through Your Lead Gen Forms?

Do you guys wanna comment on that as well? That’s a great question, Jennia.

Email is still very effective, guys. Don’t get me wrong. But what I like about remarketing is it’s so simple. I’m sure Hernan could agree with me on that.

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Because of that fact that you’re working with those folks that they already shown interest in an offer or whatever that is.

Does Yelp, Yellow Pages, And Other Local Citation Sites Allow Fake Addresses And Phone Numbers For Local Lead Gen Pages?

Okay. Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful. Jordan says, “Hi. Sigh. Hernan and Marco and Chris, what does it feel like to have a team in the World Cup?” Okay, no comment.

Hernan: It feels good, man. What can I say?

Bradley: I guess Jordan is a soccer fan. I’m not much of a one.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Ronald Reyes-

Marco:I’m not much of a soccer fan either. I’m into baseball and football.

Bradley: There you go.

Marco:It makes no difference to me, Jordan, where the Costa Rica is. I mean, I’d like Costa Rica to win a couple of games, but it makes no difference.

Bradley: Dead silence more of.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Nothing productive gets done during the game.

Hernan: No, no, no. It’s nuts.

When Will The GMB DFY Service Be Available?

Marco:Well, as you know, we had a hiccup with the two VAs that I was training. One got sick and the other one just couldn’t handle the hours.

Bradley: Yeah.

Will You Be Implementing A Traffic Source Like CrowdSearch.me?

Marco:I mean, it’s ready to go live anytime we want.

Bradley: Okay.

Marco:No, no.

Hernan: That is pretty cool, actually. Yeah. I wanna start testing it, too.

Bradley: Yeah.

How To Setup Call-Only Ads In Google Adwords?

Hernan: Yeah, absolutely agree.

Bradley: Bob’s been following us for quite some time, I know that for years, because I’ve seen Bob’s image for years. Plus, he was in another group before Semantic Mastery even was a thing.

Does Inconsistent NAP Cause Issues With GMB?

Adam: I missed the very beginning of that. Can you repeat that?

[00:49:51] Bradley: Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed be sold if we cannot make it

What Is A Good Amount Of Calls Or Leads Using GMB?

Do You Recommend Easyblognetworks For PBN Hosting?

Marco:Greg.

Bradley: Go ahead.

What Are Some Examples Of Good Video Versus Bad Video?

Marco: Greg Drebert has a really good question he wants an example of a good video versus a bad video.

Bradley: I totally missed that question. I’m sorry, Greg.

Okay. “What’s the link for live event?” We don’t have one yet, Paul, you’ll know when we do if you’re interested in-

So just contact support.

How Do You Get Videos To Link TO GMB?

Okay. All right, guys, 5:01. So I just went one minute over today. Thanks everybody for being here.

Marco: Perfect. Thanks everyone.

Hernan: Thank you, guys. See you.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 189

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 189 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Anyways, before I get carried away with the numbers here, let’s say hi to everybody. Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Good.

Adam: I like your shirt, by the way.

Chris: Yeah. I can send you one.

Adam: Really?

Chris: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Did you get the new, one?

Chris: Yeah. All Mastermind members got it.

Hernan: I’m doing great. Look at this.

Bradley: Damn, the new one.

Adam: Nice, nice. Marco, how are you doing?

Hernan: Marco is always wearing the polo, like 24/7. Yeah.

Bradley: That’s his profile photo, Hernan.

Hernan: Yeah. Oh.

Marco:That’s all. I got to change that. I got to go back to my thinking spot and change that image.

Adam: Well, lack of anything else going on, how’s the weather down there?

Bradley: Oh, shit.

Marco:It’s warm. It’s about to rain. It’s always warm, like, can I say Groundhog Day? Only thing that changes is whether it’s wet or it’s dry.

Adam: Fair enough. Well, Bradley, you didn’t get washed away in the thunderstorms yesterday, did you?

Bradley: No. But it’s raining right now actually again. So more storms. If I lose power, guys-

Adam: Yeah. Hump Day goes away, you guys know what happened, it’s the storm, not us.

Bradley: If I lose power, I’m going for a beer so.

Bradley: Awesome.

Adam: All right. On my end, that’s everything. You guys got anything else we need to cover?

Bradley: Okay. [Crosstalk 00:05:52] all at once.

Adam: Let’s do this.

Bradley: All right. Cool. Let’s get into it.

Chris: Cool.

Are You Using A Multisite Plugin Like MainWP Or The Normal WordPress Multisite Installation When Installing Multiple Subdomains For Local SEO Sites?

Again, for clients that have multiple locations, but if it’s just one or two or maybe three locations, a lot of times I don’t even bother with that. It’s a good question, though.

What Are The Most Effective Tools In Indexing Thousands Of Unique And HTML-Based Webpages In Search Engines?

Any suggestion, guys?

How Do You Connect Self Hosted WordPress Blog To IFTTT?

Do you guys have any instruction on that? Okay. No. It’s a no.

Adam: Yeah, I’m gonna go with no.

Do You Recommend Doing Paid Ads To Get Local Leads In GMB?

Again, this was just covered in Local GMB Pro and we also cover it in the Mastermind. Anybody want to comment on that or add to it?

Marco:Nope. I like it.

Bradley: Very good.

Hernan: Yeah, me too.

Do You Have A Follow Up Sequence To The Leads That Come Through Your Lead Gen Forms?

Do you guys wanna comment on that as well? That’s a great question, Jennia.

Email is still very effective, guys. Don’t get me wrong. But what I like about remarketing is it’s so simple. I’m sure Hernan could agree with me on that.

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Because of that fact that you’re working with those folks that they already shown interest in an offer or whatever that is.

Does Yelp, Yellow Pages, And Other Local Citation Sites Allow Fake Addresses And Phone Numbers For Local Lead Gen Pages?

Okay. Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful. Jordan says, “Hi. Sigh. Hernan and Marco and Chris, what does it feel like to have a team in the World Cup?” Okay, no comment.

Hernan: It feels good, man. What can I say?

Bradley: I guess Jordan is a soccer fan. I’m not much of a one.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Ronald Reyes-

Marco:I’m not much of a soccer fan either. I’m into baseball and football.

Bradley: There you go.

Marco:It makes no difference to me, Jordan, where the Costa Rica is. I mean, I’d like Costa Rica to win a couple of games, but it makes no difference.

Bradley: Dead silence more of.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Nothing productive gets done during the game.

Hernan: No, no, no. It’s nuts.

When Will The GMB DFY Service Be Available?

Marco:Well, as you know, we had a hiccup with the two VAs that I was training. One got sick and the other one just couldn’t handle the hours.

Bradley: Yeah.

Will You Be Implementing A Traffic Source Like CrowdSearch.me?

Marco:I mean, it’s ready to go live anytime we want.

Bradley: Okay.

Marco:No, no.

Hernan: That is pretty cool, actually. Yeah. I wanna start testing it, too.

Bradley: Yeah.

How To Setup Call-Only Ads In Google Adwords?

Hernan: Yeah, absolutely agree.

Bradley: Bob’s been following us for quite some time, I know that for years, because I’ve seen Bob’s image for years. Plus, he was in another group before Semantic Mastery even was a thing.

Does Inconsistent NAP Cause Issues With GMB?

Adam: I missed the very beginning of that. Can you repeat that?

[00:49:51] Bradley: Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed be sold if we cannot make it

What Is A Good Amount Of Calls Or Leads Using GMB?

Do You Recommend Easyblognetworks For PBN Hosting?

Marco:Greg.

Bradley: Go ahead.

What Are Some Examples Of Good Video Versus Bad Video?

Marco: Greg Drebert has a really good question he wants an example of a good video versus a bad video.

Bradley: I totally missed that question. I’m sorry, Greg.

Okay. “What’s the link for live event?” We don’t have one yet, Paul, you’ll know when we do if you’re interested in-

So just contact support.

How Do You Get Videos To Link TO GMB?

Okay. All right, guys, 5:01. So I just went one minute over today. Thanks everybody for being here.

Marco: Perfect. Thanks everyone.

Hernan: Thank you, guys. See you.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 189

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 189 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Anyways, before I get carried away with the numbers here, let’s say hi to everybody. Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Good.

Adam: I like your shirt, by the way.

Chris: Yeah. I can send you one.

Adam: Really?

Chris: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Did you get the new, one?

Chris: Yeah. All Mastermind members got it.

Hernan: I’m doing great. Look at this.

Bradley: Damn, the new one.

Adam: Nice, nice. Marco, how are you doing?

Hernan: Marco is always wearing the polo, like 24/7. Yeah.

Bradley: That’s his profile photo, Hernan.

Hernan: Yeah. Oh.

Marco:That’s all. I got to change that. I got to go back to my thinking spot and change that image.

Adam: Well, lack of anything else going on, how’s the weather down there?

Bradley: Oh, shit.

Marco:It’s warm. It’s about to rain. It’s always warm, like, can I say Groundhog Day? Only thing that changes is whether it’s wet or it’s dry.

Adam: Fair enough. Well, Bradley, you didn’t get washed away in the thunderstorms yesterday, did you?

Bradley: No. But it’s raining right now actually again. So more storms. If I lose power, guys-

Adam: Yeah. Hump Day goes away, you guys know what happened, it’s the storm, not us.

Bradley: If I lose power, I’m going for a beer so.

Bradley: Awesome.

Adam: All right. On my end, that’s everything. You guys got anything else we need to cover?

Bradley: Okay. [Crosstalk 00:05:52] all at once.

Adam: Let’s do this.

Bradley: All right. Cool. Let’s get into it.

Chris: Cool.

Are You Using A Multisite Plugin Like MainWP Or The Normal WordPress Multisite Installation When Installing Multiple Subdomains For Local SEO Sites?

Again, for clients that have multiple locations, but if it’s just one or two or maybe three locations, a lot of times I don’t even bother with that. It’s a good question, though.

What Are The Most Effective Tools In Indexing Thousands Of Unique And HTML-Based Webpages In Search Engines?

Any suggestion, guys?

How Do You Connect Self Hosted WordPress Blog To IFTTT?

Do you guys have any instruction on that? Okay. No. It’s a no.

Adam: Yeah, I’m gonna go with no.

Do You Recommend Doing Paid Ads To Get Local Leads In GMB?

Again, this was just covered in Local GMB Pro and we also cover it in the Mastermind. Anybody want to comment on that or add to it?

Marco:Nope. I like it.

Bradley: Very good.

Hernan: Yeah, me too.

Do You Have A Follow Up Sequence To The Leads That Come Through Your Lead Gen Forms?

Do you guys wanna comment on that as well? That’s a great question, Jennia.

Email is still very effective, guys. Don’t get me wrong. But what I like about remarketing is it’s so simple. I’m sure Hernan could agree with me on that.

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Because of that fact that you’re working with those folks that they already shown interest in an offer or whatever that is.

Does Yelp, Yellow Pages, And Other Local Citation Sites Allow Fake Addresses And Phone Numbers For Local Lead Gen Pages?

Okay. Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful. Jordan says, “Hi. Sigh. Hernan and Marco and Chris, what does it feel like to have a team in the World Cup?” Okay, no comment.

Hernan: It feels good, man. What can I say?

Bradley: I guess Jordan is a soccer fan. I’m not much of a one.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Ronald Reyes-

Marco:I’m not much of a soccer fan either. I’m into baseball and football.

Bradley: There you go.

Marco:It makes no difference to me, Jordan, where the Costa Rica is. I mean, I’d like Costa Rica to win a couple of games, but it makes no difference.

Bradley: Dead silence more of.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Nothing productive gets done during the game.

Hernan: No, no, no. It’s nuts.

When Will The GMB DFY Service Be Available?

Marco:Well, as you know, we had a hiccup with the two VAs that I was training. One got sick and the other one just couldn’t handle the hours.

Bradley: Yeah.

Will You Be Implementing A Traffic Source Like CrowdSearch.me?

Marco:I mean, it’s ready to go live anytime we want.

Bradley: Okay.

Marco:No, no.

Hernan: That is pretty cool, actually. Yeah. I wanna start testing it, too.

Bradley: Yeah.

How To Setup Call-Only Ads In Google Adwords?

Hernan: Yeah, absolutely agree.

Bradley: Bob’s been following us for quite some time, I know that for years, because I’ve seen Bob’s image for years. Plus, he was in another group before Semantic Mastery even was a thing.

Does Inconsistent NAP Cause Issues With GMB?

Adam: I missed the very beginning of that. Can you repeat that?

[00:49:51] Bradley: Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed be sold if we cannot make it

What Is A Good Amount Of Calls Or Leads Using GMB?

Do You Recommend Easyblognetworks For PBN Hosting?

Marco:Greg.

Bradley: Go ahead.

What Are Some Examples Of Good Video Versus Bad Video?

Marco: Greg Drebert has a really good question he wants an example of a good video versus a bad video.

Bradley: I totally missed that question. I’m sorry, Greg.

Okay. “What’s the link for live event?” We don’t have one yet, Paul, you’ll know when we do if you’re interested in-

So just contact support.

How Do You Get Videos To Link TO GMB?

Okay. All right, guys, 5:01. So I just went one minute over today. Thanks everybody for being here.

Marco: Perfect. Thanks everyone.

Hernan: Thank you, guys. See you.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 189

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 189 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Anyways, before I get carried away with the numbers here, let’s say hi to everybody. Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Good.

Adam: I like your shirt, by the way.

Chris: Yeah. I can send you one.

Adam: Really?

Chris: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Did you get the new, one?

Chris: Yeah. All Mastermind members got it.

Hernan: I’m doing great. Look at this.

Bradley: Damn, the new one.

Adam: Nice, nice. Marco, how are you doing?

Hernan: Marco is always wearing the polo, like 24/7. Yeah.

Bradley: That’s his profile photo, Hernan.

Hernan: Yeah. Oh.

Marco:That’s all. I got to change that. I got to go back to my thinking spot and change that image.

Adam: Well, lack of anything else going on, how’s the weather down there?

Bradley: Oh, shit.

Marco:It’s warm. It’s about to rain. It’s always warm, like, can I say Groundhog Day? Only thing that changes is whether it’s wet or it’s dry.

Adam: Fair enough. Well, Bradley, you didn’t get washed away in the thunderstorms yesterday, did you?

Bradley: No. But it’s raining right now actually again. So more storms. If I lose power, guys-

Adam: Yeah. Hump Day goes away, you guys know what happened, it’s the storm, not us.

Bradley: If I lose power, I’m going for a beer so.

Bradley: Awesome.

Adam: All right. On my end, that’s everything. You guys got anything else we need to cover?

Bradley: Okay. [Crosstalk 00:05:52] all at once.

Adam: Let’s do this.

Bradley: All right. Cool. Let’s get into it.

Chris: Cool.

Are You Using A Multisite Plugin Like MainWP Or The Normal WordPress Multisite Installation When Installing Multiple Subdomains For Local SEO Sites?

Again, for clients that have multiple locations, but if it’s just one or two or maybe three locations, a lot of times I don’t even bother with that. It’s a good question, though.

What Are The Most Effective Tools In Indexing Thousands Of Unique And HTML-Based Webpages In Search Engines?

Any suggestion, guys?

How Do You Connect Self Hosted WordPress Blog To IFTTT?

Do you guys have any instruction on that? Okay. No. It’s a no.

Adam: Yeah, I’m gonna go with no.

Do You Recommend Doing Paid Ads To Get Local Leads In GMB?

Again, this was just covered in Local GMB Pro and we also cover it in the Mastermind. Anybody want to comment on that or add to it?

Marco:Nope. I like it.

Bradley: Very good.

Hernan: Yeah, me too.

Do You Have A Follow Up Sequence To The Leads That Come Through Your Lead Gen Forms?

Do you guys wanna comment on that as well? That’s a great question, Jennia.

Email is still very effective, guys. Don’t get me wrong. But what I like about remarketing is it’s so simple. I’m sure Hernan could agree with me on that.

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Because of that fact that you’re working with those folks that they already shown interest in an offer or whatever that is.

Does Yelp, Yellow Pages, And Other Local Citation Sites Allow Fake Addresses And Phone Numbers For Local Lead Gen Pages?

Okay. Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful. Jordan says, “Hi. Sigh. Hernan and Marco and Chris, what does it feel like to have a team in the World Cup?” Okay, no comment.

Hernan: It feels good, man. What can I say?

Bradley: I guess Jordan is a soccer fan. I’m not much of a one.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Ronald Reyes-

Marco:I’m not much of a soccer fan either. I’m into baseball and football.

Bradley: There you go.

Marco:It makes no difference to me, Jordan, where the Costa Rica is. I mean, I’d like Costa Rica to win a couple of games, but it makes no difference.

Bradley: Dead silence more of.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Nothing productive gets done during the game.

Hernan: No, no, no. It’s nuts.

When Will The GMB DFY Service Be Available?

Marco:Well, as you know, we had a hiccup with the two VAs that I was training. One got sick and the other one just couldn’t handle the hours.

Bradley: Yeah.

Will You Be Implementing A Traffic Source Like CrowdSearch.me?

Marco:I mean, it’s ready to go live anytime we want.

Bradley: Okay.

Marco:No, no.

Hernan: That is pretty cool, actually. Yeah. I wanna start testing it, too.

Bradley: Yeah.

How To Setup Call-Only Ads In Google Adwords?

Hernan: Yeah, absolutely agree.

Bradley: Bob’s been following us for quite some time, I know that for years, because I’ve seen Bob’s image for years. Plus, he was in another group before Semantic Mastery even was a thing.

Does Inconsistent NAP Cause Issues With GMB?

Adam: I missed the very beginning of that. Can you repeat that?

[00:49:51] Bradley: Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed be sold if we cannot make it

What Is A Good Amount Of Calls Or Leads Using GMB?

Do You Recommend Easyblognetworks For PBN Hosting?

Marco:Greg.

Bradley: Go ahead.

What Are Some Examples Of Good Video Versus Bad Video?

Marco: Greg Drebert has a really good question he wants an example of a good video versus a bad video.

Bradley: I totally missed that question. I’m sorry, Greg.

Okay. “What’s the link for live event?” We don’t have one yet, Paul, you’ll know when we do if you’re interested in-

So just contact support.

How Do You Get Videos To Link TO GMB?

Okay. All right, guys, 5:01. So I just went one minute over today. Thanks everybody for being here.

Marco: Perfect. Thanks everyone.

Hernan: Thank you, guys. See you.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 189

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 189 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Anyways, before I get carried away with the numbers here, let’s say hi to everybody. Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Good.

Adam: I like your shirt, by the way.

Chris: Yeah. I can send you one.

Adam: Really?

Chris: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Did you get the new, one?

Chris: Yeah. All Mastermind members got it.

Hernan: I’m doing great. Look at this.

Bradley: Damn, the new one.

Adam: Nice, nice. Marco, how are you doing?

Hernan: Marco is always wearing the polo, like 24/7. Yeah.

Bradley: That’s his profile photo, Hernan.

Hernan: Yeah. Oh.

Marco:That’s all. I got to change that. I got to go back to my thinking spot and change that image.

Adam: Well, lack of anything else going on, how’s the weather down there?

Bradley: Oh, shit.

Marco:It’s warm. It’s about to rain. It’s always warm, like, can I say Groundhog Day? Only thing that changes is whether it’s wet or it’s dry.

Adam: Fair enough. Well, Bradley, you didn’t get washed away in the thunderstorms yesterday, did you?

Bradley: No. But it’s raining right now actually again. So more storms. If I lose power, guys-

Adam: Yeah. Hump Day goes away, you guys know what happened, it’s the storm, not us.

Bradley: If I lose power, I’m going for a beer so.

Bradley: Awesome.

Adam: All right. On my end, that’s everything. You guys got anything else we need to cover?

Bradley: Okay. [Crosstalk 00:05:52] all at once.

Adam: Let’s do this.

Bradley: All right. Cool. Let’s get into it.

Chris: Cool.

Are You Using A Multisite Plugin Like MainWP Or The Normal WordPress Multisite Installation When Installing Multiple Subdomains For Local SEO Sites?

Again, for clients that have multiple locations, but if it’s just one or two or maybe three locations, a lot of times I don’t even bother with that. It’s a good question, though.

What Are The Most Effective Tools In Indexing Thousands Of Unique And HTML-Based Webpages In Search Engines?

Any suggestion, guys?

How Do You Connect Self Hosted WordPress Blog To IFTTT?

Do you guys have any instruction on that? Okay. No. It’s a no.

Adam: Yeah, I’m gonna go with no.

Do You Recommend Doing Paid Ads To Get Local Leads In GMB?

Again, this was just covered in Local GMB Pro and we also cover it in the Mastermind. Anybody want to comment on that or add to it?

Marco:Nope. I like it.

Bradley: Very good.

Hernan: Yeah, me too.

Do You Have A Follow Up Sequence To The Leads That Come Through Your Lead Gen Forms?

Do you guys wanna comment on that as well? That’s a great question, Jennia.

Email is still very effective, guys. Don’t get me wrong. But what I like about remarketing is it’s so simple. I’m sure Hernan could agree with me on that.

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Because of that fact that you’re working with those folks that they already shown interest in an offer or whatever that is.

Does Yelp, Yellow Pages, And Other Local Citation Sites Allow Fake Addresses And Phone Numbers For Local Lead Gen Pages?

Okay. Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful. Jordan says, “Hi. Sigh. Hernan and Marco and Chris, what does it feel like to have a team in the World Cup?” Okay, no comment.

Hernan: It feels good, man. What can I say?

Bradley: I guess Jordan is a soccer fan. I’m not much of a one.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Ronald Reyes-

Marco:I’m not much of a soccer fan either. I’m into baseball and football.

Bradley: There you go.

Marco:It makes no difference to me, Jordan, where the Costa Rica is. I mean, I’d like Costa Rica to win a couple of games, but it makes no difference.

Bradley: Dead silence more of.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Nothing productive gets done during the game.

Hernan: No, no, no. It’s nuts.

When Will The GMB DFY Service Be Available?

Marco:Well, as you know, we had a hiccup with the two VAs that I was training. One got sick and the other one just couldn’t handle the hours.

Bradley: Yeah.

Will You Be Implementing A Traffic Source Like CrowdSearch.me?

Marco:I mean, it’s ready to go live anytime we want.

Bradley: Okay.

Marco:No, no.

Hernan: That is pretty cool, actually. Yeah. I wanna start testing it, too.

Bradley: Yeah.

How To Setup Call-Only Ads In Google Adwords?

Hernan: Yeah, absolutely agree.

Bradley: Bob’s been following us for quite some time, I know that for years, because I’ve seen Bob’s image for years. Plus, he was in another group before Semantic Mastery even was a thing.

Does Inconsistent NAP Cause Issues With GMB?

Adam: I missed the very beginning of that. Can you repeat that?

[00:49:51] Bradley: Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed be sold if we cannot make it

What Is A Good Amount Of Calls Or Leads Using GMB?

Do You Recommend Easyblognetworks For PBN Hosting?

Marco:Greg.

Bradley: Go ahead.

What Are Some Examples Of Good Video Versus Bad Video?

Marco: Greg Drebert has a really good question he wants an example of a good video versus a bad video.

Bradley: I totally missed that question. I’m sorry, Greg.

Okay. “What’s the link for live event?” We don’t have one yet, Paul, you’ll know when we do if you’re interested in-

So just contact support.

How Do You Get Videos To Link TO GMB?

Okay. All right, guys, 5:01. So I just went one minute over today. Thanks everybody for being here.

Marco: Perfect. Thanks everyone.

Hernan: Thank you, guys. See you.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 189

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 189 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Anyways, before I get carried away with the numbers here, let’s say hi to everybody. Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Good.

Adam: I like your shirt, by the way.

Chris: Yeah. I can send you one.

Adam: Really?

Chris: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Did you get the new, one?

Chris: Yeah. All Mastermind members got it.

Hernan: I’m doing great. Look at this.

Bradley: Damn, the new one.

Adam: Nice, nice. Marco, how are you doing?

Hernan: Marco is always wearing the polo, like 24/7. Yeah.

Bradley: That’s his profile photo, Hernan.

Hernan: Yeah. Oh.

Marco:That’s all. I got to change that. I got to go back to my thinking spot and change that image.

Adam: Well, lack of anything else going on, how’s the weather down there?

Bradley: Oh, shit.

Marco:It’s warm. It’s about to rain. It’s always warm, like, can I say Groundhog Day? Only thing that changes is whether it’s wet or it’s dry.

Adam: Fair enough. Well, Bradley, you didn’t get washed away in the thunderstorms yesterday, did you?

Bradley: No. But it’s raining right now actually again. So more storms. If I lose power, guys-

Adam: Yeah. Hump Day goes away, you guys know what happened, it’s the storm, not us.

Bradley: If I lose power, I’m going for a beer so.

Bradley: Awesome.

Adam: All right. On my end, that’s everything. You guys got anything else we need to cover?

Bradley: Okay. [Crosstalk 00:05:52] all at once.

Adam: Let’s do this.

Bradley: All right. Cool. Let’s get into it.

Chris: Cool.

Are You Using A Multisite Plugin Like MainWP Or The Normal WordPress Multisite Installation When Installing Multiple Subdomains For Local SEO Sites?

Again, for clients that have multiple locations, but if it’s just one or two or maybe three locations, a lot of times I don’t even bother with that. It’s a good question, though.

What Are The Most Effective Tools In Indexing Thousands Of Unique And HTML-Based Webpages In Search Engines?

Any suggestion, guys?

How Do You Connect Self Hosted WordPress Blog To IFTTT?

Do you guys have any instruction on that? Okay. No. It’s a no.

Adam: Yeah, I’m gonna go with no.

Do You Recommend Doing Paid Ads To Get Local Leads In GMB?

Again, this was just covered in Local GMB Pro and we also cover it in the Mastermind. Anybody want to comment on that or add to it?

Marco:Nope. I like it.

Bradley: Very good.

Hernan: Yeah, me too.

Do You Have A Follow Up Sequence To The Leads That Come Through Your Lead Gen Forms?

Do you guys wanna comment on that as well? That’s a great question, Jennia.

Email is still very effective, guys. Don’t get me wrong. But what I like about remarketing is it’s so simple. I’m sure Hernan could agree with me on that.

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Because of that fact that you’re working with those folks that they already shown interest in an offer or whatever that is.

Does Yelp, Yellow Pages, And Other Local Citation Sites Allow Fake Addresses And Phone Numbers For Local Lead Gen Pages?

Okay. Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful. Jordan says, “Hi. Sigh. Hernan and Marco and Chris, what does it feel like to have a team in the World Cup?” Okay, no comment.

Hernan: It feels good, man. What can I say?

Bradley: I guess Jordan is a soccer fan. I’m not much of a one.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Ronald Reyes-

Marco:I’m not much of a soccer fan either. I’m into baseball and football.

Bradley: There you go.

Marco:It makes no difference to me, Jordan, where the Costa Rica is. I mean, I’d like Costa Rica to win a couple of games, but it makes no difference.

Bradley: Dead silence more of.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Nothing productive gets done during the game.

Hernan: No, no, no. It’s nuts.

When Will The GMB DFY Service Be Available?

Marco:Well, as you know, we had a hiccup with the two VAs that I was training. One got sick and the other one just couldn’t handle the hours.

Bradley: Yeah.

Will You Be Implementing A Traffic Source Like CrowdSearch.me?

Marco:I mean, it’s ready to go live anytime we want.

Bradley: Okay.

Marco:No, no.

Hernan: That is pretty cool, actually. Yeah. I wanna start testing it, too.

Bradley: Yeah.

How To Setup Call-Only Ads In Google Adwords?

Hernan: Yeah, absolutely agree.

Bradley: Bob’s been following us for quite some time, I know that for years, because I’ve seen Bob’s image for years. Plus, he was in another group before Semantic Mastery even was a thing.

Does Inconsistent NAP Cause Issues With GMB?

Adam: I missed the very beginning of that. Can you repeat that?

[00:49:51] Bradley: Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed be sold if we cannot make it

What Is A Good Amount Of Calls Or Leads Using GMB?

Do You Recommend Easyblognetworks For PBN Hosting?

Marco:Greg.

Bradley: Go ahead.

What Are Some Examples Of Good Video Versus Bad Video?

Marco: Greg Drebert has a really good question he wants an example of a good video versus a bad video.

Bradley: I totally missed that question. I’m sorry, Greg.

Okay. “What’s the link for live event?” We don’t have one yet, Paul, you’ll know when we do if you’re interested in-

So just contact support.

How Do You Get Videos To Link TO GMB?

Okay. All right, guys, 5:01. So I just went one minute over today. Thanks everybody for being here.

Marco: Perfect. Thanks everyone.

Hernan: Thank you, guys. See you.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 189

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 189 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Anyways, before I get carried away with the numbers here, let’s say hi to everybody. Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Good.

Adam: I like your shirt, by the way.

Chris: Yeah. I can send you one.

Adam: Really?

Chris: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Did you get the new, one?

Chris: Yeah. All Mastermind members got it.

Hernan: I’m doing great. Look at this.

Bradley: Damn, the new one.

Adam: Nice, nice. Marco, how are you doing?

Hernan: Marco is always wearing the polo, like 24/7. Yeah.

Bradley: That’s his profile photo, Hernan.

Hernan: Yeah. Oh.

Marco:That’s all. I got to change that. I got to go back to my thinking spot and change that image.

Adam: Well, lack of anything else going on, how’s the weather down there?

Bradley: Oh, shit.

Marco:It’s warm. It’s about to rain. It’s always warm, like, can I say Groundhog Day? Only thing that changes is whether it’s wet or it’s dry.

Adam: Fair enough. Well, Bradley, you didn’t get washed away in the thunderstorms yesterday, did you?

Bradley: No. But it’s raining right now actually again. So more storms. If I lose power, guys-

Adam: Yeah. Hump Day goes away, you guys know what happened, it’s the storm, not us.

Bradley: If I lose power, I’m going for a beer so.

Bradley: Awesome.

Adam: All right. On my end, that’s everything. You guys got anything else we need to cover?

Bradley: Okay. [Crosstalk 00:05:52] all at once.

Adam: Let’s do this.

Bradley: All right. Cool. Let’s get into it.

Chris: Cool.

Are You Using A Multisite Plugin Like MainWP Or The Normal WordPress Multisite Installation When Installing Multiple Subdomains For Local SEO Sites?

Again, for clients that have multiple locations, but if it’s just one or two or maybe three locations, a lot of times I don’t even bother with that. It’s a good question, though.

What Are The Most Effective Tools In Indexing Thousands Of Unique And HTML-Based Webpages In Search Engines?

Any suggestion, guys?

How Do You Connect Self Hosted WordPress Blog To IFTTT?

Do you guys have any instruction on that? Okay. No. It’s a no.

Adam: Yeah, I’m gonna go with no.

Do You Recommend Doing Paid Ads To Get Local Leads In GMB?

Again, this was just covered in Local GMB Pro and we also cover it in the Mastermind. Anybody want to comment on that or add to it?

Marco:Nope. I like it.

Bradley: Very good.

Hernan: Yeah, me too.

Do You Have A Follow Up Sequence To The Leads That Come Through Your Lead Gen Forms?

Do you guys wanna comment on that as well? That’s a great question, Jennia.

Email is still very effective, guys. Don’t get me wrong. But what I like about remarketing is it’s so simple. I’m sure Hernan could agree with me on that.

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Because of that fact that you’re working with those folks that they already shown interest in an offer or whatever that is.

Does Yelp, Yellow Pages, And Other Local Citation Sites Allow Fake Addresses And Phone Numbers For Local Lead Gen Pages?

Okay. Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful. Jordan says, “Hi. Sigh. Hernan and Marco and Chris, what does it feel like to have a team in the World Cup?” Okay, no comment.

Hernan: It feels good, man. What can I say?

Bradley: I guess Jordan is a soccer fan. I’m not much of a one.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Ronald Reyes-

Marco:I’m not much of a soccer fan either. I’m into baseball and football.

Bradley: There you go.

Marco:It makes no difference to me, Jordan, where the Costa Rica is. I mean, I’d like Costa Rica to win a couple of games, but it makes no difference.

Bradley: Dead silence more of.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Nothing productive gets done during the game.

Hernan: No, no, no. It’s nuts.

When Will The GMB DFY Service Be Available?

Marco:Well, as you know, we had a hiccup with the two VAs that I was training. One got sick and the other one just couldn’t handle the hours.

Bradley: Yeah.

Will You Be Implementing A Traffic Source Like CrowdSearch.me?

Marco:I mean, it’s ready to go live anytime we want.

Bradley: Okay.

Marco:No, no.

Hernan: That is pretty cool, actually. Yeah. I wanna start testing it, too.

Bradley: Yeah.

How To Setup Call-Only Ads In Google Adwords?

Hernan: Yeah, absolutely agree.

Bradley: Bob’s been following us for quite some time, I know that for years, because I’ve seen Bob’s image for years. Plus, he was in another group before Semantic Mastery even was a thing.

Does Inconsistent NAP Cause Issues With GMB?

Adam: I missed the very beginning of that. Can you repeat that?

[00:49:51] Bradley: Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed be sold if we cannot make it

What Is A Good Amount Of Calls Or Leads Using GMB?

Do You Recommend Easyblognetworks For PBN Hosting?

Marco:Greg.

Bradley: Go ahead.

What Are Some Examples Of Good Video Versus Bad Video?

Marco: Greg Drebert has a really good question he wants an example of a good video versus a bad video.

Bradley: I totally missed that question. I’m sorry, Greg.

Okay. “What’s the link for live event?” We don’t have one yet, Paul, you’ll know when we do if you’re interested in-

So just contact support.

How Do You Get Videos To Link TO GMB?

Okay. All right, guys, 5:01. So I just went one minute over today. Thanks everybody for being here.

Marco: Perfect. Thanks everyone.

Hernan: Thank you, guys. See you.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 189

youtube

Click on the video above to watch Episode 189 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Anyways, before I get carried away with the numbers here, let’s say hi to everybody. Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Good.

Adam: I like your shirt, by the way.

Chris: Yeah. I can send you one.

Adam: Really?

Chris: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Did you get the new, one?

Chris: Yeah. All Mastermind members got it.

Hernan: I’m doing great. Look at this.

Bradley: Damn, the new one.

Adam: Nice, nice. Marco, how are you doing?

Hernan: Marco is always wearing the polo, like 24/7. Yeah.

Bradley: That’s his profile photo, Hernan.

Hernan: Yeah. Oh.

Marco:That’s all. I got to change that. I got to go back to my thinking spot and change that image.

Adam: Well, lack of anything else going on, how’s the weather down there?

Bradley: Oh, shit.

Marco:It’s warm. It’s about to rain. It’s always warm, like, can I say Groundhog Day? Only thing that changes is whether it’s wet or it’s dry.

Adam: Fair enough. Well, Bradley, you didn’t get washed away in the thunderstorms yesterday, did you?

Bradley: No. But it’s raining right now actually again. So more storms. If I lose power, guys-

Adam: Yeah. Hump Day goes away, you guys know what happened, it’s the storm, not us.

Bradley: If I lose power, I’m going for a beer so.

Bradley: Awesome.

Adam: All right. On my end, that’s everything. You guys got anything else we need to cover?

Bradley: Okay. [Crosstalk 00:05:52] all at once.

Adam: Let’s do this.

Bradley: All right. Cool. Let’s get into it.

Chris: Cool.

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Any suggestion, guys?

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Do you guys have any instruction on that? Okay. No. It’s a no.

Adam: Yeah, I’m gonna go with no.

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Again, this was just covered in Local GMB Pro and we also cover it in the Mastermind. Anybody want to comment on that or add to it?

Marco:Nope. I like it.

Bradley: Very good.

Hernan: Yeah, me too.

Do You Have A Follow Up Sequence To The Leads That Come Through Your Lead Gen Forms?

Do you guys wanna comment on that as well? That’s a great question, Jennia.

Email is still very effective, guys. Don’t get me wrong. But what I like about remarketing is it’s so simple. I’m sure Hernan could agree with me on that.

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Because of that fact that you’re working with those folks that they already shown interest in an offer or whatever that is.

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Okay. Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful. Jordan says, “Hi. Sigh. Hernan and Marco and Chris, what does it feel like to have a team in the World Cup?” Okay, no comment.

Hernan: It feels good, man. What can I say?

Bradley: I guess Jordan is a soccer fan. I’m not much of a one.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Ronald Reyes-

Marco:I’m not much of a soccer fan either. I’m into baseball and football.

Bradley: There you go.

Marco:It makes no difference to me, Jordan, where the Costa Rica is. I mean, I’d like Costa Rica to win a couple of games, but it makes no difference.

Bradley: Dead silence more of.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Nothing productive gets done during the game.

Hernan: No, no, no. It’s nuts.

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Marco:Well, as you know, we had a hiccup with the two VAs that I was training. One got sick and the other one just couldn’t handle the hours.

Bradley: Yeah.

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Marco:I mean, it’s ready to go live anytime we want.

Bradley: Okay.

Marco:No, no.

Hernan: That is pretty cool, actually. Yeah. I wanna start testing it, too.

Bradley: Yeah.

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Hernan: Yeah, absolutely agree.

Bradley: Bob’s been following us for quite some time, I know that for years, because I’ve seen Bob’s image for years. Plus, he was in another group before Semantic Mastery even was a thing.

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Adam: I missed the very beginning of that. Can you repeat that?

[00:49:51] Bradley: Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed be sold if we cannot make it

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Marco:Greg.

Bradley: Go ahead.

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Marco: Greg Drebert has a really good question he wants an example of a good video versus a bad video.

Bradley: I totally missed that question. I’m sorry, Greg.

Okay. “What’s the link for live event?” We don’t have one yet, Paul, you’ll know when we do if you’re interested in-

So just contact support.

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Okay. All right, guys, 5:01. So I just went one minute over today. Thanks everybody for being here.

Marco: Perfect. Thanks everyone.

Hernan: Thank you, guys. See you.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 189

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 189 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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

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

Announcement

Anyways, before I get carried away with the numbers here, let’s say hi to everybody. Chris, how are you doing, man?

Chris: Good.

Adam: I like your shirt, by the way.

Chris: Yeah. I can send you one.

Adam: Really?

Chris: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Adam: Did you get the new, one?

Chris: Yeah. All Mastermind members got it.

Hernan: I’m doing great. Look at this.

Bradley: Damn, the new one.

Adam: Nice, nice. Marco, how are you doing?

Hernan: Marco is always wearing the polo, like 24/7. Yeah.

Bradley: That’s his profile photo, Hernan.

Hernan: Yeah. Oh.

Marco:That’s all. I got to change that. I got to go back to my thinking spot and change that image.

Adam: Well, lack of anything else going on, how’s the weather down there?

Bradley: Oh, shit.

Marco:It’s warm. It’s about to rain. It’s always warm, like, can I say Groundhog Day? Only thing that changes is whether it’s wet or it’s dry.

Adam: Fair enough. Well, Bradley, you didn’t get washed away in the thunderstorms yesterday, did you?

Bradley: No. But it’s raining right now actually again. So more storms. If I lose power, guys-

Adam: Yeah. Hump Day goes away, you guys know what happened, it’s the storm, not us.

Bradley: If I lose power, I’m going for a beer so.

Bradley: Awesome.

Adam: All right. On my end, that’s everything. You guys got anything else we need to cover?

Bradley: Okay. [Crosstalk 00:05:52] all at once.

Adam: Let’s do this.

Bradley: All right. Cool. Let’s get into it.

Chris: Cool.

Are You Using A Multisite Plugin Like MainWP Or The Normal WordPress Multisite Installation When Installing Multiple Subdomains For Local SEO Sites?

Again, for clients that have multiple locations, but if it’s just one or two or maybe three locations, a lot of times I don’t even bother with that. It’s a good question, though.

What Are The Most Effective Tools In Indexing Thousands Of Unique And HTML-Based Webpages In Search Engines?

Any suggestion, guys?

How Do You Connect Self Hosted WordPress Blog To IFTTT?

Do you guys have any instruction on that? Okay. No. It’s a no.

Adam: Yeah, I’m gonna go with no.

Do You Recommend Doing Paid Ads To Get Local Leads In GMB?

Again, this was just covered in Local GMB Pro and we also cover it in the Mastermind. Anybody want to comment on that or add to it?

Marco:Nope. I like it.

Bradley: Very good.

Hernan: Yeah, me too.

Do You Have A Follow Up Sequence To The Leads That Come Through Your Lead Gen Forms?

Do you guys wanna comment on that as well? That’s a great question, Jennia.

Email is still very effective, guys. Don’t get me wrong. But what I like about remarketing is it’s so simple. I’m sure Hernan could agree with me on that.

Bradley: Yeah.

Hernan: Because of that fact that you’re working with those folks that they already shown interest in an offer or whatever that is.

Does Yelp, Yellow Pages, And Other Local Citation Sites Allow Fake Addresses And Phone Numbers For Local Lead Gen Pages?

Okay. Anyways, hopefully, that was helpful. Jordan says, “Hi. Sigh. Hernan and Marco and Chris, what does it feel like to have a team in the World Cup?” Okay, no comment.

Hernan: It feels good, man. What can I say?

Bradley: I guess Jordan is a soccer fan. I’m not much of a one.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Ronald Reyes-

Marco:I’m not much of a soccer fan either. I’m into baseball and football.

Bradley: There you go.

Marco:It makes no difference to me, Jordan, where the Costa Rica is. I mean, I’d like Costa Rica to win a couple of games, but it makes no difference.

Bradley: Dead silence more of.

Hernan: Yeah.

Bradley: Nothing productive gets done during the game.

Hernan: No, no, no. It’s nuts.

When Will The GMB DFY Service Be Available?

Marco:Well, as you know, we had a hiccup with the two VAs that I was training. One got sick and the other one just couldn’t handle the hours.

Bradley: Yeah.

Will You Be Implementing A Traffic Source Like CrowdSearch.me?

Marco:I mean, it’s ready to go live anytime we want.

Bradley: Okay.

Marco:No, no.

Hernan: That is pretty cool, actually. Yeah. I wanna start testing it, too.

Bradley: Yeah.

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Hernan: Yeah, absolutely agree.

Bradley: Bob’s been following us for quite some time, I know that for years, because I’ve seen Bob’s image for years. Plus, he was in another group before Semantic Mastery even was a thing.

Does Inconsistent NAP Cause Issues With GMB?

Adam: I missed the very beginning of that. Can you repeat that?

[00:49:51] Bradley: Will the event keynotes be recorded and accessed be sold if we cannot make it

What Is A Good Amount Of Calls Or Leads Using GMB?

Do You Recommend Easyblognetworks For PBN Hosting?

Marco:Greg.

Bradley: Go ahead.

What Are Some Examples Of Good Video Versus Bad Video?

Marco: Greg Drebert has a really good question he wants an example of a good video versus a bad video.

Bradley: I totally missed that question. I’m sorry, Greg.

Okay. “What’s the link for live event?” We don’t have one yet, Paul, you’ll know when we do if you’re interested in-

So just contact support.

How Do You Get Videos To Link TO GMB?

Okay. All right, guys, 5:01. So I just went one minute over today. Thanks everybody for being here.

Marco: Perfect. Thanks everyone.

Hernan: Thank you, guys. See you.

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