#last i really let myself free w that was 2020 i actually shared what i wrote n uhh last year with ffxiv.

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Ask Answers: August 8th

Well, doing big posts all together worked for a while but lately I’ve been putting it off because it takes a long time to get them done. I think I’m gonna try switching back to answering asks whenever I can fit it in and posting them one at a time instead of waiting until I’ve filled out one of these major collections.

But for now, here’s more ask answers! Thank you for the questions and for all the kind words along with them ^^.

Hello!! I'm here to ask if its possible to get  the game and its dlcs on steam and play it on android?

I’m afraid not. Steam doesn’t have Android builds on their own site and Steam is not cool with keys for other sites being given out for Steam purchases, so you don’t get the Itch version from buying on Steam.

Hello! Sorry to bother you but, I had a question, if we buy the Game on itchio do we get steam keys or would we need to purchase it twice? 

You would have to buy it twice if you want it in both places, I’m sorry. To repeat myself a little, Steam doesn’t like the key trading thing. Itch may support giving keys for another site, but the reverse isn’t doable with Steam and Steam doesn’t even really want you to get a Steam key for buying somewhere else either. So we just don’t mess around with that.

hey, sorry if this is frequently asked, but is step 4 free dlc or paid for? some of your sources are contradicting each other. 

It’s free! There’s a paid wedding DLC, but Step 4 itself is entirely unpaid.

Hello! I just had a quick question, for the Baxter and Derek DLC's will we be able to confess our feelings to them or let them confess to MC? or will it only be one way? (they confess to MC)

Both type of options will be available!

Hey there! I wanted to ask whether or not the Derek DLC is still on track to be released in August since on the steam discussion board it says it will be released mid 2021. I totally understand if it isn't, I'm just really looking forward to it! If you answer then ty! And keep up the amazing work :D 

It’s not, aha. Unfortunately, 2021 wasn’t easier than 2020 as we hoped so things are still slower than planned. It’ll come out late 2021 or early 2022.

Hi! Firstly I just want to say that I LOVE Our Life. I have played a bit of similar games but this one instantly wins for the best one! Everything about it is amazing! I just wanted to ask if Derek would ever lose feelings for MC, like if they make the deal and then MC gets with Cove would he move on? and even if you don't, after "losing contact" would his feeling fade or would he still like MC? 

If you don’t really keep in touch with him and clearly move on with your life, Derek will too and he’ll be over it. But if you are still close as best as you can be, he’ll still think the MC is special. Though, he’ll always support your relationship with someone else if that’s what’ll make you happy.

Hello! Sorry if you've answered this before but: 'How's Lee related to us? Though which momma? And does she share our player-chosen last names? Also, do you know if Noelani took Pam's last name or did it happen the other way round? 

She’s related to Pamela and Pamela’s last name is the one they use, so the MC has the same last name as Lee.

Will we be able to choose which (they or he) we tend to call Qiu by more often, or will it randomly change depending on the moment? 

Qiu knows which pronoun they’re comfortable with at a time and you’ll call them what they’re happy with. And it doesn’t change between lines, it takes multiple scenes or even full Steps for it to switch. So for extended periods Qiu will be totally a guy or fully agender.

Will Step 4 of OL2 have moments?

It’ll be an epilogue like it is in OL1, so it won’t have a bunch of different Moments.

Hello! Just a quick question, is Sunset bird from OL1 based on a real location? If so what's it called? I wanna visit it +_+

ps i love your games so much <3

It isn’t based on one specific town you can go to, but there are a lot of little coastal towns in Cali that have a similar vibe!

Heyaaa ( I hope you're all well ), umm… it might seem kinda stupid to ask but did Patreon members can have a key for the dlc's ( all the steps-released dlc ) even if they became a member this month or later ? (me? saying this cuz it's my case? maybe ;-;), and once again thanks for absolutely all the amazing works on all the games ! u-u 

You wouldn’t get the DLCs for backing there. The Patreon is for extra bonus content/early access, rather than being a storefront to purchase the normal DLCs. Rarely we give them out as a side gift, but it hardly happens and if what you want is the DLCs it’s best to ignore the Patreon and  buy keys for those directly from Itch or Steam. I’m sorry for the confusion.

Hey y'all, love what youre doing w/Terry. Trans rep outside of player customization is so rare and important to see more of so thank you so much. I do have a question and its that does he have a canon sexuality? I know Miranda was said to be straight ace but I dont believe anything was stated for Terry probably because he wasnt revealed to be a guy which changes things. Im also curious if well get answers on how long hes liked Miranda since he may have liked her in step 3 before she liked him 

Terry likes women and Randy likes men! And he did like Miranda back in Step 3.

Will the Wedding Dlc release at the same time as Step 4? 

They’ll come out separately with Step 4 releasing first.

I really love Our Life so much! I've spent over 20hours playing it even though I only got it a week ago! I was wondering if I could make a fangame for Our Life with a different love interest but same plot. Next-door neighbors romance, multiple steps, etc? I'll probably make it on Google Slides though- 

Sure! I hope you have fun with it and I’m glad you love the game.

How does Cove feel about poly relationships? 

He’s got nothing against them for the people they work for, but he’s 100% monogamous and would only be comfortable with a partner who was willing to be monogamous with him.

Idk if this has been answered before but will Step 4 include the option to advance your feelings towards Cove? 

Yep, you’ll be able to determine your feelings and what your relationship is.

In step 4 will there be a chosen to say we live with Cove even as just friends? 

Yeah, you can choose to live with Cove and that can be done when you’re friends.

I just played the game with the MC and Cove being best friends and omg it’s still so damn cute like the wholesomeness of it all is too much for my heart I swear ^.^  Now with that all said I was wondering can we still marry Cove? if we only love him as a friend like let’s say we’ve made deal with him similar to the one we can make with Derek because let’s real no one could compete with what the MC and Cove have even if they aren’t in love. 

It’s great to hear you enjoyed the friendship story! You can live with Cove, but you can’t marry him platonically. Cove has familial affection for the MC if they’re best-est friends. He wouldn’t think to marry someone he loves like family and even grew up with as though they truly were siblings.

Are you still going to be making a DLC for XOBD? :] 

Yes! We’re slowing adding voiced lines and fixing errors.

It makes me laugh that Shiloh's last name is Fields because that's what I put as my last name! So in Our Life when he talked about "Ms. Fields" picking him up I was extremely confused, lol. That dude mimics personalities so much that he stole my surname!

Oh, wow, that’s a very funny coincidence, haha.

hi !! i cant seem to be able to get the scene where mc is able to propose to cove despite being at the 'love' stage and telling him i'd want to get married, are there any other details that im missing out on? the options just dont appear at the end... 

Maybe you missed telling Cove you were in love with him even if you mentioned wanting to get married or you might’ve accidentally said earlier in the game that you don’t want to progress your relationship further with Cove. We haven’t removed them, so you can get the scene again. It’s just kind of easy to miss since there’s multiple requirements. You can read a little guide in the FAQ.

wait what di you need to do to be able to propose to cove? I've been trying but haven't had much luck 

You can check out the FAQ linked above!

does cove only develop a crush on the mc if the mc is also at crush/in love with him? 

Technically, yes. We treat the non-romantic relationship options as truly non-romantic since we don’t want to bait and switch people. But there’s nothing wrong with headcanoning that Cove does have feelings developing for the MC even before the MC has.

Is there a way to make/allow Lee and Baxter to date?

No, they just don’t have enough time together.

We also got a group of asks related to Tamarack in OL2, but I’m afraid the way they talked about people with larger bodies made me not want to post their words, even if the person didn’t say they’re trying to be hurtful. I will separate out the core question and answer it though, so people can know that info.

Does Tamarack lose weight in later Steps?

No, she doesn’t. As for the other questions included, to be honest, I don’t have to explain/defend having romance options of different sizes. I’m sorry if you’re dealing with unhappiness that’s connected to body image, if that’s where the negative emotions are coming from, but even so I can’t meet you on that level and pretend it’s a problem that needs an answer. A girl who simply isn’t thin being a main love interest is just not an unreasonable concept. Also, Tamarack isn’t a lesbian. Yes, she can date a female MC, but that doesn’t undo her actual sexuality, so I’m not sure where that one part at the end was coming from.

I wonder... can we "fight" with Qiu over leader status? 👀

Not really, haha. No matter how cool your MC is, they’re never gonna replace Qiu for the other kids around. So you can either partner up with him, follow him too, or not be a part of all that group politics stuff.

So when I play the game, sometimes I mentally call Cove “Covie/Covey” and that made me wonder, how does Cove feel about being nicknamed? Not like Romeo/Space Cadet/etc. but like pet names relating to his actual name

It’d depend on his age, personality, and your relationship with him! When he’s younger he’d probably be embarrassed, when he was grown he’d probably be more casual or happy about it.

will you be able to date baxter in step 3 while at crush with cove (but not dating him ofc) sorry if this has been asked already. i really love baxters step 4 design btw!! 

Yeah, you can be crushing on Cove and date Baxter if you weren’t already dating Cove. You just can’t be truly in love with Cove and then switch to Baxter.

I just got my friend into our life, and they adore shiloh and derek sooo will there be more of them in the second game? 

I’m afraid not. But you can see plenty more of Shiloh in XOXO Droplets/XOXO Blood Droplets, haha.

I see you haven't gotten any xoxo droplets asks recently but I'm still obsessed with these boys!! I was just wondering if Nate would curse under any circumstance? 

Yeah, Nate does use certain swear words (damn, hell, bastard) on very rare occasions.

Hi there! I have a question about the wedding dlc. Will we be able to plan a honeymoon during the planning stages of it or would it be something that Cove and the mc would rather plan later on? Thank you! Absolutly love the game by the way, definitely one of my favorite games! 

The focus will be on the wedding day itself. The topic of the honeymoon might come up a bit, but there won’t be any choosing of the exact location and such.

Hi! I have two questions and it's completely understandable if you only answer one/neither and I'm sorry if you've already answered either before! First, is there a set year in which OL:B&A takes place (ex: Step 1 being set in 2010 & Step 2 being set in 2016, etc.) or is it simply up to interpretation? Second, have you guys thought about doing a coming-of-age game where the MC has a tough home life or upbringing? (like one of their parents is an addict, a parent being transphobic whilst the player has the option to be trans, or having friends that are influencing them to do drugs, etc.) That's all! Thanks for making beautiful games. <3 

There is a set timeline!

Step 1: 2006 Step 2: 2011 Step 3: 2016 Step 4: 2021 

And we don’t currently plan on making a game like that. The Our Life series exists to be a safer environment for people to play around in and if we did do a brand new series that was harsher edged it’d be something more fantastical and/or plot-driven instead of a different type of modern day slice-of-life growing up story. I’m sorry.

i don’t know if you’ve already answered this, but do you have a guess on when phase 4 will come out? as well as ol2? i’m so excited for both of them, the inclusivity in this game is amazing, you guys should be really proud of it! 

Step 4 will be coming out very soon! OL2 is gonna take until 2023 to be anywhere near completion. But we might episodically release the Steps one at a time as they get done instead of waiting for three to be finished before launch like we did with the first game.

Hello, I was curious if there was an official or unofficial discord server for the game? 

We do have a discord! You can join by clicking this link HERE.

how long do you plan to keep ol's patreon running? 

Hopefully for at least a few more years.

Are you considering ever making merch? 

Yeah, but I don’t know when it’ll happen or what exactly we’ll make, aha. It’s something we want do, just nothing is set.

hi! i just found out about your game a couple of days ago on tiktok (so sorry if you’ve already answered this question) and i was wondering if y’all are ever planning to release it on iOS? 

I have no idea. It’s hard for a small group to get Apple approval and I honestly can’t say if it’ll ever happen or not. Maybe someday, though!

Hi, I love the art style of Our life and I would like to know if the artist has a Twitter? Also, could it be possible to fund more CGs for the game from him/her? So many times, I wish there was one like when the cutscene of the sunshower. 

That’s nice of you to offer. He doesn’t have a Twitter, at least not one that’s public enough to be shared with me. And I’m afraid not. The issue is that the CGs take huge amounts of time rather than there not being a budget for it. He’s gotta make CGs for Step 4, the DLCs, and new character sprites, too. There isn’t space in the schedule for even more. Sorry for that.

Hi, how are you?!

Are you planning on accepting new writers or is it always the same people who write your stories??

Thanks!!

Our Life: Beginnings & Always won’t be getting new writers, but we will be hiring a new team of writers for Our Life: Now & Forever eventually!

perhaps this counts as nsfw and I'm sure it has been answered before but what does Cove prefer, chests/boobs or butts? or perhaps both :3c thank you for this wonderful game (and the patreon bonus moment, it was worth all the waiting and more ♥) 

He’s a “chests of all shapes and sizes” kind of guy, haha.

i was wondering- did any of the writers actually grow up by the beach? as someone who's lived in a beach town all their life it really did feel nostalgic to play through our life 1 

I was born and raised in Cali! Though, not right by the beach. We still had to make trips out, but the setting is based on my own childhood memories of small beach towns we went through.

In Derek’s upcoming DLC, will we be able to reference the pact we made as teens? (love olba and xod/xobd so much btw you’re literally amazing) 

Yep, you will be able to talk about that!

Oh, sorry about the Cole being secretly L ask, then!

If you wanted context: Death Note is about this one guy who finds a notebook that kills anyone who you write the name of in there. The guy eventually develops a God Complex and starts mass killing criminals and stuff. L is the one trying to find out who is killing all these people.

Me and my sister first joked about it because I couldn't remember how to translate a word about the way Cove was sitting, so I just did the pose, and it looked a lot like how L himself sits! Then we just snowballed from there, with more and more nonsense connections.

That’s okay! Thanks for explaining. I’m sorry I didn’t know what you meant.

[jamesnorrington]

Rules: Answer the questions and then tag 10+ other creators to answer the questions! I was tagged by the amazing @oswiins​! Thank you, Neve, and Happy New Year! <3

First creation and most recent creation of 2020: I deleted all my old blogs and restarted everything this year. These Kiki’s Delivery Service GIF headers were some of the first things I made. And my most recent one is this Pride and Prejudice set.

One of your favorite creations from 2020: This Hoist the Colours lyrics set. Frankly, I wasn’t sure the color scheme or the concept of GIFs inside letters would work, but I really like how it turned out.

A creation you’re really proud of: This Black Pearl set. It’s part of an ongoing series about ships in POTC but the Pearl is special so I wanted to make it really special.

A new style you tried this year and a GIF set that uses it: I tried as many things as I could this year (and thank you so much to all the creators who made tutorials! I owe you so much!), but the overlay transition style is something that’s become a big part of my recent stuff. This Team Cap set was one of the first things I used it on.

Your favorite coloring: Norrington’s death scene. I actually made this set out of spite (LMAO) because I couldn’t stand the scene’s original coloring, which was a combination of sickly shades of yellow and cyan. I wanted to do better than that. I think I did?

A creation that took you forever: Norrington as Odysseus. This took me so long because it has some sensitive imagery and I basically let the set stew a bit after finishing each individual GIF to give myself time to think “Is this actually a good idea?”

Your creation from 2020 that received the most notes: This Pintel and Ragetti set, and I’m so glad that even in 2020 a lot of people still love them!

A creation you think deserved more notes: The ASOIAF book fandom is pretty small, so I think it did well all things considered. But this manip of Ben Barnes as Theon Greyjoy. (Alfie was amazing in the role, yes! But Ben fits the book description, so I wanted to make a fancast set.)

A creation with a favorite scene/quote: I really love the lighting of the beacons and the lines “Gondor calls for aid” / “And Rohan will answer,” so this LOTR set.

A new fandom you joined and a creation you made for it: I’d been watching Studio Ghibli films since I was a kid, but I only really joined the fandom this year. I made a set for Ocean Waves, one of their lesser known films and which I’d only watched this year!

A creation you made that breaks your heart: Norrington / Davy Jones parallels. It fits, ya know? And it hurts. And if my heart breaks, I’m breaking my followers’ hearts along with it because pain should be shared. LOL

A “simple” creation that you really love: This La Haine set. I learned a lot about color grading B&W while working on this one.

A creation that was inspired by another one (add both your creation and the one that inspired it!): So much of what I make was inspired by other people’s awesome work! But I learned a ton from Sarah’s poster tutorial (she mentioned techniques in there that I keep in mind for everything I do now, like sharpening methods, etc.), so this Curse of the Black Pearl poster edit. And it was inspired by everything under this tag!

A favorite creation created by someone else: This is literally the hardest to answer. There are so many amazing creations that came out this year alone. The size limit increased to 10MB, which meant everyone was free to experiment with huge GIF sizes, loads and loads of colors, and techniques using multiple GIFs combined into one. I’m sorry I can’t mention every single one I’ve adored, but here are some of my absolute faves. This Witcher set by @yenvengerberg (what even is this TALENT? This set is pure genius). This Wondertrev set by @timothyolyphant (everything is PERFECT: the coloring, the color scheme, the frames, the fonts!). This Old Guard set and this Sam Wilson set by @momentofmemory (I am not exaggerating when I say that these are some of my fave GIF sets of all time). And of course by the insanely talented person who tagged me @oswiins and whose sets make me make pterodactyl noises: this Doctor Who poster (I stared at it for an overly long time, such BEAUTY!) and this Julie and the Phantoms set (so many layers to it! This isn’t something you just look at, it’s something you stare at and study and think “Holy shit, these people are doing all this immense work for free and I am so lucky to be able to see it”).

Some of your favorite content creators from the year: Again, there are too many to mention! But I met so many talented people via the Creatorhub server and I am always thrilled to see their work on my dash: @harknessjack @magnusedom @eleanorguthrie @sonsofeorl @tennant @sonyarebecchi @amarakaran @pedros-pascal @juliesmolina @amirwilson @ansonmount @rhodee @erinsdoherty @antoniosbanderas @feativen.

And for good measure, another couple more creations of yours that you love: This Bande de filles set because I love this movie. This Three Caps set. This postcard. And this wanted poster. The last three because they were so much fun to make!

Pretty sure everyone has done this already by now, but if you haven’t, please do it if you like! So glad I met you all, and I wish every one of us a much better 2021. <3 Thank you again, Neve!!

[be-dazzled]

FT Rare Pairs Week 2020 Day 6

DAY 6: Fantasy Pairing: Rogue Cheney x Minerva Orland Part 1: Longing

Writer’s Corner: I really let go of myself with this one. I just loooove Roguerva. Took me a long time but the important thing is that yes, I made it. Hahaha. Last would be my Day 7 Entry, which is Navia. Please, look forward to it!

Masterlist

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05:30 P.M.

Rogue could feel the rise of the embarrassment up his head. Everyone was looking at them, all those eyes trained at the little family coming into the front of the temple for a photo memorabilia. He wasn’t used to that kind of attention. He was a shadow, a cast hiding behind the darkness. No one ever paid attention to the shadow.

“Papa?”

Rogue’s down-casted eyes shifted to the little voice that called up to him – Raina, in her traditional kimono, a spitting image of the woman holding her hand; the other slender hand she offered to him. Rogue took it without hesitation, sheathing her small hands within his much larger ones. The thin line on her worried face broke into a wider grin. It was so contagious that Rogue caught himself also smiling.

“Next family please!”

Familiar with the surroundings, it was Kaname who led the faux family to their spots, arranging them under a decorated arc filled with colorful flowers and lanterns.

“Please stand in the middle.” The person behind the image-taker gestured towards the center, adjusting the figures to fit them into his monitor. “Just a little closer.” His gestures wanted the three to squeeze closer. The distance was translating into his lens and he didn’t mean it in the literal sense. The honey-haired young man scratched the back of his head, unsure how to say there was a lack of warmth he expected from a family. “A little bit closer.” Now, he was feeling uncomfortable as the ‘mom’ and ‘dad’ shot his way a menacing glare.

It was very tempting to just strike down the man with his dragon force. Has he any idea what he was asking of Rogue? Forcing the man to invade Ojuo’s personal space? No one even dared, not even the Guild Master, coming close to the woman. Then, suddenly, his internal one-sided battle was disrupted. He withdrew the menacing glare from the poor guy and glanced at Minerva who was now standing close next to him; so close that their shoulders brushed.

“Let’s not waste any more time.” She wasn’t looking at him but Rogue was sure she was talking to the dragon slayer.

“Y-yes, Ojuo.”

But brushing shoulders wasn’t enough.

“They are so shy.” The middle aged ladies giggled behind Kaname, prompting the caretaker to suggest that Rogue put his arm around his ‘wife’. The man was hesitant but Minerva was surprisingly reassuring that she wasn’t going to cut his arm off. So, freely, albeit nervously, Rogue put his arm around Minerva’s waist.

Then, flash. The white light nearly blinded the dragon slayer.

“Alright! Another one.” Because the kid was the only one smiling in the monitor. “I-if the couple w-wouldn’t mind.” He had to rethink that suggestion as an identical dark, murderous aura enveloped the “couple”.

“Yey! Another!” All thanks to the little ball of sunshine bouncing in excitement, the dark aura and the matching dagger looks quickly dissipated. “Mama and Papa should kiss now?”

“K-kiss?!” Rogue and Minerva had a shared expression on their faces: utter shock on the former; a slight mortification on the latter, to which Rogue took an offense. He wouldn’t dare do it but would it really hurt if Sabertooth’s ace didn’t act like kissing him was the grossest thing she was ever to do? Sure, it wasn’t the best idea but…

“Great idea, Miss Raina!” Kaname clapped her hands together, egging the young miss about her bright – crazy – idea.

“WHAT?!”

“Fro thinks so too!”

“Don’t encourage her, Frosch.” Rogue whisper-yelled at his Exceed.

“Don’t parents usually kiss?” The so called ‘parents’ looked down at the small dictator staring up at them, eyes rounded in that awfully cute pleading look. But both parents knew better. Her evil expression was telling, ‘I got you both falling in my trap.’

So evil!

Rogue wasn’t going to bite. He wasn’t born yesterday. Minerva, on the other hand… she wasn’t the kind of woman who would easily give in to pressure.

“They’re just probably shy around people.” One middle-aged woman suggested, making some excuse on their behalf.

“But they were so bold earlier in the changing room.”

Rogue was forced to recall that shameful, yet oddly titillating, experience in the family dressing room.

“But kissing is natural between married couples.”

The shadow dragon slayer wasn’t actually listening to the murmurs running around that middle-aged circle. He was too busy pushing the memory down the back of his mind to actually care. It had a weird way of raising the temperature and thinning the air around him. And he did not need any of those weird things messing up with his brain – and his innocent body.s

“We must… commit to our roles.”

Rogue hadn’t had the time – or the mental presence – to even decipher that code when suddenly Minerva had her slender fingers gripped at the collar of his own kimono, pulling him by it and crashing her lips against his.

It wasn’t as he expected. Not like he’d ever expected having to kiss Minerva. That thought never crossed his mind. But here he was now, his lips pressing against the woman’s – warm, soft, tender lips. He’d never given it any thought but kissing surprisingly felt really nice. He didn’t know what it was – a really good feeling, a sensation that made his head all fuzzy but also so focused on the woman right in front of him – that pushed him to dare, to step out of his comfort zone and shamelessly moved his lips over hers.

“T-t-that’s enough, Rogue.”

Minerva shoved him away, pulling him back to his senses. It got Rogue apologizing for what he tried to do; a little guilty and ashamed of himself for overstepping. But a part of him, that smallest part that was a bit more freeing, convinced Rogue he shouldn’t be sorry. But that part he’d always push at the back burner.

Rogue honestly didn’t know what came over him but that unexplainable feeling had him seeing things too, like the light blush that powdered Minerva’s cheeks rosy.

06:00 PM

No one spoke between them. They just continued weaving the Festival, led by the ever enthusiastic little dictator as she bounced amongst the crowd, holding a photo in her hands.

“Lady Raina sure looks energetic.”

“Yes.” Both Rogue and Minerva answered in unison, glancing at each other when they realized the sudden synchrony. Strange. Then, both swiftly looked away trying not to get caught. Minerva, however, was quicker to recover as compared to Rogue, who was still fighting the strange feeling warming his cheeks.

As they continue on foot, something caught the little lady’s attention, pulling her to a sudden halt. Her caretaker walked up beside, both palms planted on her knees as she read the announcement for her mistress’ sake.

“Look, Miss Raina, they’re having fireworks later tonight.”

Rogue wasn’t even that older than the young caretaker but she was acting more like the young miss as they both had a shared sparkle in their eyes, not the identical amused stares off the sign.

“Raina wants to see the fireworks!”

“Kaname too!”

“Fro three!”

Minerva, the voice of reason, quickly interrupted. “It’s a little late, Lady Raina. We need to return to your home as Rogue and I need to travel back by train.”

“Actually,” Kaname answered, her heart eyes glued to every word on the announcement, “the last train has left around four p.m.”

“What?!” Minerva’s dark green eyes uncharacteristically widened in shock and the coming trouble. “Why didn’t you inform us earlier?” It quite bothered her more than it should and it was showing. An expression no one would ever put next to the name Minerva – freaking out.

So, while Minerva was dealing with the surge of thoughts overloading her brain, the little devil seized the opportunity to make her move.

“Papa?”

Raina knew exactly how to play this and which parent to flash the expression no adult ever said ‘no’ to.

“Let’s see the fireworks together.”

“S-s-sure.”

07:59 PM

“You shouldn’t let a child dictate you, Rogue. You are the adult.”

Rogue respected the woman, he did. He really respected Minerva. He was somewhat the same as she was – reserved, rational and very sensible. But there were days when he wished that Minerva would loosen up a little. Like today.

“But, Ojuo–”

“–We shouldn’t answer nor tolerate a child’s every whim and capricious. They need discipline.” She continued lecturing the dragon slayer.

To Minerva, it was seizing an opportunity to call out her subordinates and correct their misconducts, well, misconduct in Minerva’s eyes. To the rest who didn’t know them, it was a picture of a wife lecturing her husband how to raise their child. It looked like the mistress was winning.

“If you let them take advantage of you like this, you can never demand from these wolves in sheep’s clothing.” She continued to a half-listening dragon slayer.

The reason for his scolding interrupted, unknowing of the position she put her father in.

“Look! They’re about to start.” She exclaimed, grabbing on the two adults and pulling the startled couple towards the gathering of people. The five of them grouped behind the protective railing and waited for the sparklers to light the evening sky.

“Maybe we should learn from these kids, Ojuo. There’s absolutely nothing wrong about stopping to smell the roses.”

Or in their case, watch some fireworks.

Minerva opened her mouth to shot back at the insolent dragon slayer, who took advantage of the brief silence to shame her. But the sound of the first cracker exploding into the dark sky stunned her briefly, transfixing her on the spot as all she could do was watch the magical shadow of the fireworks dance on the side of Rogue’s face. For a moment and for some unknown reason, Minerva could hear her own heartbeat, feeling the hard thump against her chest. Something else pulled her attention and her eyes magnetically drifted to the figure carried in the dragon slayer’s arms, reaching out to the spectacle in the sky as if she could catch them in her small hands. Catching herself staring and remembering it was rude, Minerva averted her eyes towards the heavens and, along with the rest of the village, watched as magic light up the darkened sky. It was beautiful but that lit-up sky paled next to the warm scene beside her, to that warmth Minerva had always been longing for – her father’s love.

9:00 PM

“It doesn’t make any sense.”

Minerva wasn’t too loud but might be enough to surprise the sleeping little miss, as she spat the words with much condemnation. She was confused and mad about being all confused.

“Ojuo, I think we should keep our voice down.” Rogue tried not to sound too indignant as he slowly and carefully lowered the sleeping figure on the large mattress. He wondered why Lady Minerva has been staring at him since after the fireworks show, twitching her face like she was grappling an internal battle. And losing it. “We do not wish to wake up the princess.” Rogue pulled the cover over Raina’s small figure sprawled on the bed, her chin was sticking out. He didn’t want his daughter to catch a cold.

And with every second that passed watching Rogue take care of the young lady, Minerva was getting pretty annoyed.

“Doesn’t make sense at all.” She obeyed the dragon slayer: less loud, but more confused.

“What does?” Kaname appeared out of nowhere but it didn’t seem to bother the spatial mage whose disbelieving eyes were still trained at the scene playing before her.

“This.” She said, brows meeting in the middle, nodding towards Rogue.

“I don’t see anything unusual about it.” Kaname was standing close to her now, which Minerva seemed to mind. She walked a few steps away from the helper, who had that a crazy smile on her face and an even crazier glint in her eyes.

“You and Mr. Rogue would have to share a room, Ms. Minerva.”

“What?!”

Rogue slapped his own mouth for reacting too loud. Good thing his daughter… good thing the kid was so wiped out that she only stirred to the side and resumed snoring like a drill.

“W-w-what do you mean… share a room? An unmarried man and woman i-is not allowed to share t-t-the same bed!”

His eyes darted back and forth from the woman who shamelessly suggested – pushed – the ridiculous notion and the lady who appeared to welcome it. Wait, what? Lady Minerva wasn’t opposed to…

“Let’s not overstay our welcome, Rogue.” She said, and stopped at the door frame without looking back. “Point us to the room, Kaname.”

And that little incident in the changing room flashed back Rogue’s very eyes.

Rogue? Sleeping with Lady Minerva? Even his heart couldn’t keep up with the idea. Then, he remembered the softness of her lips and Rogue’s heart had a whole new reason to marathon.

“Let’s go, Rogue.”

“Y-y-yes... Ojuo.”

“Are you running out of breath?”

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7:00 AM

Rogue rubbed the backside of his shoulders. Maybe it was a bad idea refusing Lady Minerva’s offer to just sleep on the bed next to her. In his defense, it wasn’t right to share a mattress with a maiden and he was regretting it now. Sometimes, he wished he was just as clueless and shameless as Sting and sometimes, he wished Lady Minerva would get some clue. Did she just offer to sleep with anyone? Well, not ‘sleep with’ in the common context… was she okay kissing anyone, too? All this thinking about Lady Minerva was driving him off the wall. It shouldn’t. As a matter of fact, he shouldn’t be thinking about Lady Minerva, at all.

But how could he not when she boldly pulled him against her and claimed his first kiss? No! He shouldn’t be thinking about the kiss. Lady Minerva had probably kissed a lot of men.

“You seem dissatisfied with me, Rogue.”

Rogue shuddered at the voice. He only realized now that he was glaring at the woman sitting opposite him in the train.

“I-I’m sorry, Ojuo. I didn’t mean to... stare.” He wasn’t going to admit he looked ready to strangle the woman thinking she had kissed a hundred men. “Please excuse me, Ojuo. I need to use the washroom.” Rogue slid out from his booth, carefully lifting and moving his Exceed peacefully sleeping on his lap. Oh, how he wished he could get the same peace.

7:10 AM

Minerva watched him leave until he disappeared behind the door to the public toilet. She wasn’t quite sure why he looked mad at her. Yesterday, she wouldn’t even care. But now, every little thing Rogue did, she took notice. And every slightest thing about him bothered her.

“It doesn’t make sense.” The Lady barked, ladnding a fist on the leather she sat on, getting so mad not understanding herself, and waking up poor Frosch.

“Lady Minerva?” he sleepily asked, rubbing both eyes with his little fists.

“I apologize, Frosch.”

She was only answered by two confused half-closing eyes and little ‘hmmm’ before Frosch returned to snoring again.

Minerva couldn’t help chuckle. She always found Frosch cute. Actually, it wasn’t only Frosch that she thought was cute and that was the notion she’d been grappling with ever since… ever since… since when?! Since when had she been thinking that no non-sense shadow dragon was cute?

Minerva refused to answer that. Then, she decided she needed to splash her face with water; that ought to clear her mind. She slid out of her train couch, careful not to wake up Frosch, and headed to the toilet. Rogue was done using it, just stepping out of the door. He shifted on the side to make room for Minerva.

“Thank you, Rogue.”

Rogue nodded in response but unlike how he’d usually act around the Lady, he bravely met her forest eyes. That same feeling hit him again, one that got his mind hazy but focused at the same time, the one that pushed Rogue to dare. He stopped the sliding door with his bare hand, getting squeezed between the edge and the frame.

“Ojou…”

“What are you–mmm”

The dragon slayer pushed Minerva into the washroom, slammed the sliding door behind him and captured the rest of her words in his mouth. She wanted to push him and tell him off but her body refused to listen. All reasons abandoned, Minerva’s slender fingers grasped on his coat, clutching the garment in her fists and pushing herself up against him, wanting Rogue’s presence all around her.

“Ojuo…” He moaned against her lips, making Minerva cling to him desperately. “Ojuo…”

“Ojuo!”

The concern in Rogue’s voice quickly dragged Minerva out of her reverie. She wasn’t in the train’s washroom anymore. She wasn’t clinging to the dragon slayer. Minerva was now back at her own couch and stared into the eyes of a confused and worried Shadow Dragon Slayer.

“Your knuckles are turning white, Ojuo. Are you alright?”

The spatial mage looked down at her fist resting on the leather, drained of color. She released her fingers immediately, realizing that she was already hurting herself.

“Yes.” She only spared Rogue a glance, masking her embarrassment with her usual indifference, then, turned away from him completely to do something more safe than fantasizing about the unwitting dragon slayer. Minerva propped her hand under her chin and watch the green pasture pass by the train window. She internally thanked the dragon slayer for not prying into the real reason because the spatial mage herself could not offer the man an answer.

Because even to Minerva, “it doesn’t make sense,” what she was starting to feel towards Rogue Cheney.

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Bonus Chapter 6.5:

Minerva was just looking at the request board, deciding which S-Class job to take next, a mission her and Yukino could work on together. She needed sometime to be away from the other half of Sabertooth’s Twin Dragons – the shadow half. She hadn’t come to terms about this strong feeling she started to harbor ever since that one job she did with Rogue.

“Minerva-sama?”

“A moment, Yukino. I haven’t decided on the request yet.” She answered without even looking at the owner of the voice.

“You have a visitor.”

Curiosity made her pull away from staring at the request board and towards Sabertooth’s resident Celestial Mage.

“Visitor?”

“Mama!”

The child appeared from behind the Celestial Mage, raced towards Minerva and threw her arms around her legs, her height only reaching the Spatial Mage’s belly.

“Did you grow taller?” She asked, patting the top of Raina’s head, who looked up at her, stretching her mouth into that bright smile Minerva really missed. “Only this much!” Raina answered animatedly, flatting her palm on top of her head to say, “I’ve only grown this much!”

Minerva chuckled. She acknowledged Kaname’s presence and returned to her conversation with Raina, telling her that she had learned spatial magic too, just like Minerva’s. She had that radiant smile, all the while, telling Raina she’d train her if she liked. Her unprecedented warmth towards the child confused the hell out of her guild-mates who were just standing by the side, watching the scene unfold, wrapping their little heads around the idea that some little kid – who had the same dango buns as Lady Minerva – just called Sabertooth’s Ace mama.

“Oh my!” Yukino grew red realizing that Minerva-sama had been intimate with a man and conceived a child they all didn’t know. Being the only one brave enough to dare, the Celestial Mage asked the question everyone had in mind. “M-m-minerva-sama… who… w-who is the f-father?”

“Raina?” Came the voice from behind the flustered Sabertooth mage.

“Papa!” She abandoned her mother and ran into the open arms of the Shadow Dragon Slayer. He picked her up and carried the little miss, asking, “How have you been, Princess?”

“Elexent! (Excellent!)” She beamed at him, her plum orbs disappearing.

And the rest of Sabertooth witnessed, for the very first time, how Rogue Cheney radiated with a brightness that rivaled Sting’s White Dragon Slayer Magic. After recovering from the brief shock, Yukino and the rest of Team Sabertooth demanded some answers, throwing the family questions like…

“What the hell is this commotion about?” Sabertooth’s Guild Master appeared annoyed, probably just coming out from filing all the paper works when he heard the noise. “Whose kid is that?” He asked the Dragon Slayer carrying the child.

And almost choked on his own saliva when the little kid introduced herself.

“I’m Raina and they are my parents, Papa Rogue and Mama Minerva.”

“P-papa Rogue a-a-and O-ojuo’s daughter?”

Sting Eucliffe turned white and not because of his White Dragon Slayer magic. A lot of question were probably running in his head, disbelieving his own ears when the kid claimed Sabertooth’s Ace and his own partner as his parents.

“Yup!”

But worse of all, how come Rogue never told him he was harboring a secret child with Lady Minerva?!

“In that case, hi. I’m Uncle Sting.” He extended his hand to shake Raina’s little one and showed her a toothy grin that mirrored Rogue’s secret child.

“Hello, Uncle Sting!”

Rogue would have a lot of time to explain later and he better start with how, when and where did that affair started and how come he never told him. For now, he’d like to welcome this little princess into his family.

tags: @ftguildevents @fairytail-rarepairs

[nehawriter16]

2018, THE YEAR THAT BROKE ME

I’m currently sitting on the floor of my bedroom. It’s been a day of avoiding real work and responsibilities, but then again, escapism is kind of the theme of this year, so it’s only accurate that I’m here writing this.

Everybody is asleep, except me. And the men I like who live overseas, but they’ve been ignoring me, so I have no desire to ring them up despite the general despair and loneliness I feel. But let’s not begin our round up with boys, because although they rank high on my list of important life lessons/disappointments this year, I don’t want also want to give them the satisfaction of first place.

In the last 365 days, a lot about my life changed. I’m going to try to sum it up as best as I can.

1) In the beginning of December, I quit an internship that anybody else would have killed for. The work and constant travelling and being yelled at by crude seniors broke the delicate petal that I am. I’d landed that job at 19, and I loved that I was thrown into the adult world so early because it taught me a lot, but two years of showing up every day to do something I don’t love killed something inside of my brain. And so, I decided to take a month off and then move to a smaller firm, not realising that my job at EY would help to keep my sanity by keeping me occupied.

The first few weeks were bliss. After twelve hour work days, I suddenly had a lot of free time and I indulged in attending fun trainings and catching up with old friends. For a short second, life was filled with hope, up until my birthday in mid Jan.

2) Since I now had the luxury of lesser work hours, I decided to pursue one of my biggest dreams – writing a book. I already had the story in mind, and I thought that despite the emotional turmoil that revisiting some of the memories would bring, the bigger picture would be worth it. It’s almost the end of December now, and I’m still sure it is.

But the truth is – my relationship with A blossomed in 2016, and died a premature death in mid 2017. And I’ve been dragging it through the ground for longer than I should be. Sometimes I wonder if I’m solely responsible for squeezing it for the story. Or maybe it was the kind of love you can’t forget. Well, I can’t. I’m sure he has.

But one of the hardest things about writing this has been taking myself back to when we were falling for each other. I’ve been reading emails about hopes and dreams and forever after it has already ended. And how do you write about happiness when you know there isn’t going to be any? All this is important for the narrative, yes, but it fucks with my mental health so badly. 2016 me was naive and trusting. 2018 me is bitter, and not too thrilled about revisiting those moments mostly because of how much they hurt just to think about, forget turning them into an interesting cliff hanger filled story.    

I have almost finished writing it though, and that’s what’s the more important thing. I don’t know what kind of nightmares publishing and finding an agent and royalties is going to bring, but at least I will have created something tangible and coherent instead of this faraway thing that I’ve dreamt of since I was 13.

3) I tanked my CA Final – and this was the biggest disappointment, no surprises there. More than the gallons of self loathing it brought on me, it was about the burden I created for my parents. Yesterday my mother, in a burst of anger, said, “If you don’t pass in May, you can’t live under our roof anymore.” She doesn’t know this, and she probably never will, but I cried myself to sleep because that thought terrifies me.

I feel like I am already just swimming through a rubble of guilt. Most people my age have already gotten well paying jobs and have been living out of home for years now. They are financing themselves and starting businesses and I don’t even read the newspaper on a daily basis. I lack the self control I used to have in school, or maybe my mother’s constant nagging and being up my ass was the only way I stayed successful when I was younger.

Of course, this career choice was a MASSIVE bad decision, and I’ve always felt out of place in it. I will never be the best, but I really do need to pass and finish. If I can’t pass it again, I will literally sink into unconquerable depression that no amount of therapy and medicines will be able to pull me out of.

I’m supposed to start studying from the 1st, and I hope that it doesn’t drive me FUCKING INSANE like the last time it did, because this time, the pressure is higher and time, lesser.

I still have some grit left in me though. The last two months of this year have been difficult, but creatively fulfilling, and I am okay with having to go back to analytical subjects again. I feel sane enough to drop into the mental battlefield that is the CA Final syllabus.  

 4) I’m 23 in a fortnight, and at least 5 of my friends got engaged this year. I was the oldest in school in my batch so they’re all younger than me. This whole finding a boy thing is stressing me the fuck out, because as per my calculations, it would take a year of courting for me to so much as like somebody seriously. After that, it would take two years for me to try every possible method to drive him away, and torture him with all my hamartias, and THEN if he doesn’t leave, and when he proposes, I’ll be like, “Okay fine. Maybe we can be engaged.” This whole process takes 3 years. I want to be married at 26, so I only have those many. The problem is that in this time period, it will not only be difficult to find an emotionally available boy with a pretty face – WAIT, for him to find me, because women don’t do the chasing – who is also sexy and charming and reads poetry and has a sensible head on his shoulders. No, in this time period I will also be taking solely career-oriented decisions as one must, and love will always take the backseat. I want to move abroad in 2020 and he may live somewhere else, and it’s clear from my several failed attempts that I can’t do long distance. Also to be noted that you cannot try this experiment with different men simultaneously. It’s sort of a one lab rat at a time type of test.

So what, then? Fuck feelings, and only be serious with hook ups? I think I’ve filled my 2018 with at least a two dozen of those hot but dumb types (tall, abs, rolling in money, half a brain, bonus if they’re good kissers, but you can never date them seriously) and to be honest I’m getting tired of them. First of all, they’re all pussies about the poetry, it literally frightens them which I find kind of hilarious, but it’s also annoying. Sure, we can roll a joint and make out on my terrace, and they’ll just pull up when I find myself getting even the least bit lonely, but the ones I really like – the fuckboys who I see have real turning into boyfriend potential – they live abroad. It’s so cliché, I might vomit, but they literally live in London and New York. London Boy is only here for a month and then he’s gone. New York one may stay back, but he always wants to meet after midnight and there’s no fucking way my parents are allowing that.

And let’s face it, I’m a relationship girl. Sure, I’ve picked up some skills with hooking up and if we’re being honest I don’t really have to make an effort, just pick a half-interesting loser from the hundred DM’s sitting in my Instagram, and it’s done. He does the work and buys the drinks. I put out. I ghost. It’s practically a system.

But I’m bored now. I need somebody entertaining. But no matter what, one of the most important lessons I’ve learnt this year is to never settle for less than what I deserve. (At least for my heart. My body gets it when she likes it, and thats enough.) So I say no to…well, everybody. True love has literally been evading me, and may for a while, I think until this CA shit is done, because it’s more important anyway.

Until then, I literally have a broadcast list called, “FWB.”

4) Do I even need to write about fake friends? Girls are so fucking FAKE NICE, it irritates me. And I have a great group of these girls in my life, who want nothing more than to use you as a stool to get to where they want. I have very few real friends and I’m so grateful for them (okay, her) because everybody else is just about the temporary bullshit. I am always afraid of judgement with them, and everything I say comes with a “what will they think of me?” filter. I don’t think real friendships should be like that at all. No, in a true friendship, you should be able to take both – your make up and fake bitch mask off and sit around in sweats, drinking and complaining about everything that’s wrong with your life.

Is this really how adults act? Will I always have to worry about the ulterior motives of everybody new I meet? And even scarier, if I spend enough time around them, will I also turn into a self centered asshole with no backbone? Will I forget who I am and start adapting to the social settings into which I’ve been thrust?

Because I hope not. Despite everything that’s happened this year, and despite almost losing my mind to mental health (yes! A thing I am still not ready to talk about! But someday will be!) I actually like my brain and what its capable of, once it starts trying. I like the stuff I come up with, the way my thoughts come out as sentences. I am actually a fan of the voice in my head, who – let’s face it – has been a real ass friend to me also. Even though she kind of went crazy with the depression, but I think the recovery has begun.

2018 was a fucking shithole, and god, I fell deep. I know 2019 is going to be even harder but I hope it is filled with more genuine happiness because it’s been a long time since I felt “happiness” as a permanent, internal feeling. It’s just been more of a fleeting and momentary thing for a few hours before the sadness envelopes me and takes lead.

So I hope that when I speak to you in – and over – the next 365 day period that’s about to begin, I am able to share some more hope and joy with you. I hope the motherfucker I’m going to marry stops sitting around on his ass and finds me, because I’m ready for my heart to be won over again. I have mourned enough, and fucked half the high spirits crowd. But most of all… I hope this book I’ve written does well. Not just because it’s a brilliant piece of shit, and a beautiful fucking story (if I may say so myself) but mostly because I really like clothes and I could use the money.

Also it would be great to stop feeling so mediocre all the time, so yeah. That would be nice. Will keep you updated Tumblr!

Love,

NC

[wineanddinosaur]

Next Round: Knead Wine’s Pricing Structure Is Creating Loyal Customers

Airing between regular episodes of the VinePair Podcast, “Next Round” explores the ideas and innovations that are helping drinks businesses adapt in a time of unprecedented change. As the coronavirus crisis continues and new challenges arise, VP Pro is in your corner, supporting the drinks community for all the rounds to come. If you have a story or perspective to share, email us at podcast@vinepair.com.

In this episode of Next Round, Zach sits down with Allie Nault and Jarad Slipp, accomplished sommeliers and new business owners. Their venture, Knead Wine, doubles as a retail wine shop and a takeout artisanal pizzeria.

Knead Wine is based in the quaint getaway town of Middleburg, Va., just an hour outside Washington D.C. The wine store is a microcosm of escape in its own way, offering a wall of unique wines from all over the world curated by Nault and Slipp, as well as a wall of $20 wines, and a wall of $45 wines. Despite their extensive knowledge and accolades, the duo strives to make buying wine an anxiety- and judgment-free process.

Throughout the episode, Nault and Slipp explain how the Knead Wine was conceptualized at the start of Covid, and how they’ve make their business model work in trying times. As it turns out, pizza and alcohol aren’t the worst things to invest in during a pandemic.

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Zach: From Seattle, Washington I’m Zach Geballe, this is a VinePair podcast Next Round conversation. We’re bringing you these conversations in between our regular podcast episodes so that we can focus on a range of issues and stories in the drinks world.

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Allie Nault and Jarad Slipp of Knead Wine. Thank you both for being here.

Allie: Thank you for having us.

Jarad: Super happy to be here.

Z: Excellent. So let’s start with the basics: What is knead wine? For those of you who are just listening to this and somehow didn’t read the headline on your podcast app, that’s k-n-e-a-d. So there’s a little bit more of a story here than just the obvious, which is that, yes, we all need wine.

J: Knead Wine was birthed in the middle of the Covid pandemic. We actually opened on August 1st. My background has been in restaurants for most of my life, and then I ran RdV Vineyards in Delaplane in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains for six years. When I left, I could have gone all over the place, in lots of different directions. But I really, really love where I live […] on the top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere. I can’t see my neighbors in any direction. We have a pet bear that comes around on occasion, and it’s fantastic. I wanted to carve something out right here in my own backyard — easier said than done in the middle of Covid. So unwittingly, we found a space, and we did gourmet takeout pizza and retail wine. And again, unwittingly, looking back, the only thing in the restaurant world that is actually ahead of the game right now is takeout pizza. I think the worse the world gets, the more people drink. So it was kind of the one-two punch. It wasn’t planned, but it was certainly welcome.

Z: Gotcha. Allie, maybe a little bit about your background as well?

A: Of course. So I am kind of a restaurant orphan. I’ve worked in Providence, Rhode Island, New York City, at the top of the One World Trade Center, down to Commander’s Palace in New Orleans, and most recently at The Inn at Little Washington as their sommelier. In March 2020 restaurants closed, and Jarad and I were just sitting at home saying: “What’s next? Is the inn going to reopen? Will I even have a job?” Jarad just departed from RdV, and it was perfect timing at the perfect place. A spot opened up right in downtown Middleburg on the main street in this beautiful old building that needed a lot of TLC. But we were just so excited. A little bit more about the concept: when we say restaurant, we serve food and we can do intimate private events for up to 10 people by state law right now. But when you walk in, it actually looks like you’re at a retail wine shop, and then all of a sudden you start smelling pizza and these famous cookies we started making. Then you’re like, “Wait, what else is going on here?” Then that’s when the pizza comes in as well — it’s a whole entire sensual experience. Even with your mask on, you’re able to still smell Jarad’s incredible pizza as you walk in. They don’t let me back there in the kitchen.

Z: Fair enough. So let’s start with just a little bit more about Middleburg, because those people who are not in Virginia or nearby, like me, [might be asking] “Well, OK, it’s on the map, but what kind of community is it?” What has the reception been?”

J: It is a very interesting little microcosm. Middleburg is probably the wealthiest town in the wealthiest county in America — Loudoun County — which is to say it’s on the same par as Palo Alto and Jupiter, Florida, and so on and so forth. We have our fair share of multimillionaires and billionaires that stroll in on the daily. But that said, the median income is something like $56,000 a year. For every person that has a 1,000 acre horse farm, there’s probably 20 or 30 or 40, 50 people that they employ there. So we get all walks of life. It is this super cute, quaint hamlet in the middle of horse country. We’re exactly an hour outside of Washington, D.C., so it’s a nice little getaway. Jackie Onassis used to come quite a bit when she was younger. But particularly with the current state of the pandemic, it’s been a nice getaway for people in the city to sneak away to, even if it’s just for an afternoon.

Z: I would love for you to explain a little bit more about what you’re doing: when it comes to wine, you have a very straightforward, very simple pricing structure; can you explain what that is, and why you went that route?

J: I honestly can’t remember what the genesis of it was, but part of what we’re supposed to do as sommeliers is demystify wine, and I wanted to keep it real streamlined and simple for anyone that came into the shop. Basically, you walk in the door and everything on the left-hand side is $20 and everything on the right-hand side is $45. It’s really that simple. We have some bubbles and some stickers that are priced as marked, and we have a small wall that rotates. It was originally intended to be our favorite wines from our wine travels, but there’s not a whole lot of traveling going on right now. It started out with Willamette Valley, which is the last trip that we took. Currently it’s our favorite dozen Pinots from around the world. Come spring, that will probably turn into our favorite local Virginia wines, so it’s always moving. So the large preponderance of the wines is either $20 or $45, but you can get wines up to 300 bucks.

Z: Do people vibe with that pricing? Does that make sense to people right away? I will say, I’ve seen a few restaurants do something similar, where everything is either one price or in one bucket, [but] I don’t think I’ve seen retail shops do that. I’m obviously not familiar with every last retail shop, but it seems like it’s the kind of thing that if done well, as I imagine it is, that people really appreciate. They don’t have to think about price tags on wines next to each other to decide which one to buy. They know they’re on the left or the right wall, so they know what the price is going to be.

J: Allie can probably speak to it better than I can, because I’m often in the kitchen. But the reception has been amazing — people adore the idea. And again, it keeps things easy for them: they have their two price points, and they can gravitate from one side to the other. Oftentimes people will get mixed cases with both price points. It makes things interesting and challenging for us in a good way in that it’s very, very curated. We very much have to stay in our lanes price-wise, and be able to find wines that fit those two price points. So you can’t deviate too far, one way or another. You have to give great value. But you also can’t bring in a wine that costs $19.95 and sell it for 20 bucks.

A: When talking about wine with guests, I feel like one of the hardest things to always break down is asking the tough question of: “How much do you want to spend tonight?” This makes it very easy. We have two price ranges: $20 or $45. Some people (very, very few) will be like, “Uh, I guess 20?” It’s perfect — there’s a time and a place for the $20 wall, and for the $45, even for Jared and myself, who love wine, and have tasted a lot of incredible things. Twenty dollars is such a great price range to find new and exciting things, but also at such a high qualitative standpoint. So it makes it exciting. We will blind taste to find the best Cabernet Sauvignon for the $20 price range. So when someone comes in, [they know] it’s the best thing that we could find right now on the market for a $20 Cabernet Sauvignon. People will come in and they’ll see it will rotate in like a month depending on stocks and inventory, and with what distributors are bringing in. They get super excited to see what the next Cabernet Sauvignon is on the wall a month later. Seeing that excitement over a $20 bottle of wine is something that I find so fulfilling. Having spent so much time with Wine Spectator’s grand award-winning wine list, I get more pleasure out of providing something that is affordable, a daily driver that makes people thrilled when they go home with their pizzas. It’s really rewarding.

Z: I’ve sometimes thought that with wine programs and things like that, constraints sometimes do more to breed creativity than having an unlimited budget and going for a Wine Spectator grand award, and being able to buy whatever you want. Does that ring true?

J: Oh, absolutely. If you give me a big enough check, I can give you a grand award. It’s just a matter of going out and finding all those blue chip wines, whereas here it’s small, it’s curated, and nothing goes on the wall that isn’t vetted by us. If we don’t like it, it doesn’t make the cut. So when people come in, it’s pretty funny. They’re like, “Oh, what are your two favorite wines?” I’m like: “All of them. They’re all here for a different reason.”

Z: You mentioned at the beginning that you opened in August. When the beginning parts of the planning for this started, was the intention to be [like this], was it done in the knowledge of Covid, or did you have a somewhat different idea that had to evolve because the world changed pretty dramatically?

J: I think with the restaurant world, there is no going back to normal. There will be a new normal for us. This is all we know, because we got the keys to the building last April 1st (which is scary, it’s almost coming up on a year.) We opened on August 1st, and I did 90 percent of all the build-out in construction. We knew what we were opening into, or we thought we knew what we were opening into. So this strange paradigm is our normal, and it’s worked and it’s been great. We do have the ability to have some tables in there if we wanted to. Right now, we choose not to. It’s takeout only. We have done a couple of private events, like on New Year’s Eve and so on and so forth, which are super fun. But as far as navigating the current landscape, we kind of planned and built for it for that, in fact. So that makes sense.

A: Yeah, I love the way it’s set up. It’s a really great creative outlet for the two of us to figure out a way to do takeout hospitality. People come in for a split second to grab their pizza and grab a bottle of wine, or maybe they come in for 45 minutes. Will they grab a case of wine? They want to hear all about everything. But being able to give a very special experience through takeout has been a really intriguing challenge for us to come up with. I think for all restaurants especially. I’ve personally enjoyed it. I don’t know if Jarad’s enjoyed it as much as I have. We haven’t really talked about it.

Z: This whole time? That seems like, you know, maybe a conversation you should have.

A: I guess he likes it. We’re still doing it.

Z: Yeah. There you go. That’s some proof for sure. So I would think just in the abstract, that a wine shop/restaurant opened by two incredibly accomplished sommeliers would be potentially intimidating for a lot of people. We experience this issue as wine professionals where people want our expertise but are also afraid of it. Some of the things you’ve talked about — the focusing on pizza, which is, for most people, a pretty damn approachable food; having very clear prices (I think some of the fear is about getting talked into a more expensive wine than they’re comfortable with) — do those structural elements help people get over that fear factor? Or do you just not think that people are intimidated?

A: Well, I think when people walk in and they see me in the front of the shop, they think I’m probably like a college student just answering the phone. I look very young. I sound very young. They probably never in a million years thought that I knew anything about wine. That’s something that I’ve always had to break down the barrier with, at any place I work. If anyone’s ever intimidated by me, then there’s a real problem, because I’m not at all intimidating. I know you can’t see me — I’m a tiny 5’3, 100 lb girl. I don’t think that they’re intimidated when they come into the shop. I think that they become at ease when they hear about the price ranges. I mean, Jarad can be a little intimidating, I’ll say that.

Z: That’s why you keep him in the kitchen, right?

A: But I think once you’ve once you start talking to him, you’re like, “Oh.” It’s just like your friend next door, or someone that’s going to become your best friend because he’s just so warm and welcoming.

J: I’m the guy that’s in the kitchen that yells: “What you want is the second one on the left, the Pinot Grigio.”

A: We have fun.

Z: As Jarad mentioned at the beginning, pizza is one of the things, more than anything else, that people have been consistently going with during the pandemic (not that they didn’t eat a lot of pizza before) What are three or so of your favorite current pairings of wine with your pizzas? Feel free to explain the pizzas too, because I am sure they’re not all just Hawaiian.

J: I have two hard and fast rules: No pineapples and no green peppers, ever. Barring that, if you buy it at the grocery store across the street and bring it over, I’ll slap it on your pizza. But I refuse [those] two things. The pizzas are kind of rooted in Neapolitan style, but Neapolitan pizzas are really meant to be eaten immediately out of the oven with a fork and a knife. They’re kind of floppy. Being takeout, we need a little more stability, and being in America, we use American flour. I think it actually tastes better. We sneak a little Italian flour in there for some silky texture, but American flour tastes better. We’ll do a pepperoni pizza, no problem. But we have more exciting things as well. Tomorrow we’re putting on a pizza with Bosc pear, crispy speck, gorgonzola dolce, and Korean chili flake, and we’ll pair that with pear cider. I hate when people — when I say people, I mean guys because it’s always guys — try to match up every little nuance of the dish to every little nuance of the wine. At some point, you just get analysis paralysis, and it’s just not fun anymore. So if you get a red pizza and you get a bottle of red Italian wine, you’re in the ballpark. Whether it’s Chianti, or it’s Dolcetto, or it’s Barbera, it’s really a stylistic preference. But it’s not like I say, “No, you have to get this wine with this pizza.” That’s just silly. Rule number one is eat what you want, and drink what you want.

Z: That’s very reassuring. That was always my rule as a sommelier. But one that, as you said, is not always shared by colleagues. Allie: I know asking what your favorite wines are is really hard, but do you have a couple of things that you’ve put in that you’ve been excited to see the clientele really vibe with, wines that might have been a little more out there?

A: Yeah. I think when we started the shop, our regulars who joined us in the area (because we obviously have a lot of transient foot traffic as well) were huge on Pinot Grigio or Chardonnay— more of the classic options as a wine buyer, which is fantastic. I love people who know what they want. But as we’ve been open longer, they’ve wanted to venture out and try new things, which has been really exciting. So we actually brought in Guardians Saperavi from the country of Georgia. It’s a woman-made wine. Saperavi is the grape variety, and it has this crunchy and dried red fruit character, a touch of florality to it. It’s a very intriguing red wine that has pretty nice acidity, so it also goes well with pizza, but it’s delicious to just chug on its own. I had this whole entire shift of, “I like Pinot Noir. I’ll try Saperavi. Oh, I love Saperavi. That’s now my new favorite wine.” Then when we were able to order more, because it was out of stock, I had a list of phone numbers to call when it came back in stock. So that’s something that’s been really exciting, and for $20.

I feel like people are really excited to take a chance, and maybe $20 was the peak of what they’ve spent on a bottle of wine before. But once they see how incredible the world of wine is, for Thanksgiving, they ventured over to the $45 wall, which is really also exciting — to show the entire world of wine at both price ranges to them.

So that’s probably been the most exciting part for me, with all of this, is just watching the transition of the community and their wine preferences. But when it comes to pairings, I always just say: “What grows together goes together.” So sticking with the Italian wine that Jarad was talking about. But whenever someone comes into the shop, it’s not like in a restaurant where you commit to like three ounces, and if it wasn’t your favorite wine, you just chug it and move on. It’s a whole bottle. So I always ask first: “What do you typically enjoy?” Then I find something along the lines of what they enjoy that will also go with the pizza, because I’d hate to send someone home with a Zinfandel if they like Old World Bordeaux. It’s not going to go well for them at the end of the night.

J: I think when we opened, we wanted to make sure that we had all of our bases covered, and all of the classics represented. Now as we’re seeing the clientele’[s] bandwidth is, we’re beginning to push the boundaries a little bit and say, “OK, let’s try some Greek wine, OK, Greek Chardonnay. OK, that worked. Let’s do Assyrtiko. OK, that worked. Let’s do a retsina. Retsina’s a tough sell, but you push up until the line, and then you draw back a little bit.

Z: Yeah. Then you drink retsina for a few weeks if that’s where you end up.

J: Oh it’s lights out, by far-and-away the best retsina out there. But it’s still an acquired taste.

Z: Well I want to thank you both so much for your time, I really appreciate it. It sounds like a really cool project. It makes me sad that at the moment, I am very far away and can’t come visit. But one of these days I will make it out there. I’m sure we’ve got some listeners in the Virginia area who, if they haven’t been in already, are looking forward to it. I can almost taste the pizza, and I’m very glad to know I won’t have to ever get pineapple. Thanks again, and best of luck going forward.

J: That’s very kind. Thank you so much.

A: Thank you, Zach. We look forward to welcoming you at some point.

Adam Teeter: Thanks so much for listening to the VinePair podcast. If you love this show as much as we love making it, please give us a rating or review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or whatever it is you get. It really helps everyone else discover the show. Now for the credits: VinePair is produced and recorded in New York City in Seattle, Washington, by myself and Zach Geballe, who does all the editing, and loves to get the credit.

Also, I would love to give a special shout out to my VinePair co-founder, Josh Malin, for helping make all this possible, and also to keep Keith Beavers, VinePair’s tastings director, who is additionally a producer on the show. I also want to, of course, thank every other member of the VinePair team who are instrumental in all of the ideas that go into making the show every week. Thanks so much for listening, and we’ll see you again.

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Get To Know Chicago Based House and Techno Artist Ōsé | EDM Identity

Ōsé has helped make an impression on the Chicago home as well as techno scene along with his excellent manufacturings and also opening sets before Jauz and also Richie Hawtin.Attendees at Jauz's North Coastline afterparty or even Richie Hawtin's current excursion quit in Chicago might possess left behind inquiring themselves a question: who is Ōsé? The latest grad of Los Angeles-based development school Icon Collective has gone back to Chicago and made a label for themself in the local area scene along with various position slots at Protocol Music Hall.With a creation style that draws inspiration from numerous designs of property and also techno, Ōsé has struck the ground running

in 2019 and also is actually a musician to watch on in 2020 and also beyond. He is actually launched many EPs including 5150, Provider, and also Electrical Power Move, all packed with his darker and danceable manufacturing style.With lots of original popular music out now and a lot more on the technique, Ōsé has taped an exclusive all-original mix for our team all to indulge our ears on. Take a listen closely to his visitor mix below as well as read on to read more about this inspiring promising artist.Stream EDMID Guest Mix 188|| Ōsé on SoundCloud: Greetings Ōsé, many thanks for chatting along with our company today. Allow's boot things off along with a consider you as an artist, when did you first decide to dive right into the planet of dancing songs and

w hat's the tale behind your name?My first visibility to dance music was when dubstep was actually 1st making its own method into the

States.It was actually thus fresh and also unlike everything I had actually listened to previously. I had constantly been actually making popular music and also audio yet I couldn't craft how the hell they were making this weird songs, as well as Iknew I needed to think it out so I believed I 'd open up

up GarageBand as well as be on my means ... child, was I incorrect. After a little even more research I very soon recognized that I was battling a really rigorous uphill war trying to use GarageBand as well as it certainly received my ended up item. I very soon bought Maschine(components & software) along with hopes that it will boost my creation efforts and although it carried out, I was certainly not satisfied with the workflow. With some additional excavating,

I discovered that a bunch of these musicians whose songs I was so surprised by were utilizing Ableton Live so I chose to get a copy. Right now I have all the resources that they were actually making use of ... I only required to place in my 10,000 hours(which I am still focusing on). When it comes to my name: In particular folklores, Ōsé is actually a fallen angel and also some of the presidents of hell. He shows guy the

benevolent scientific researches and provides straightforward response to inquiries of the divine in addition to possessing the power to drive a man crazy. It is actually all cooperative with my advertising that hinges on various kinds of thoughts control.After developing up in the areas of Chicago, you just recently attended Image Collective

Songs Creation College. Tell our team a little bit of bit about your course and just how you found yourself going to there.I was undergoing a definitely rough spot in my life as well as I knew that I must bring in an adjustment or I definitely would not manage to take it much longer. I was actually so nourished up with nearby pubs and the exact same saddening skins every weekend that it was actually driving me outrageous. I had started creating the previous year and

discovered some solace in my personal computer screen however struck a large wall surface in my manufacturing skills and also came across Symbol Collective's web site at an ideal time. After a little research study, I

obtained the hell of it as well as to my unpleasant surprise, I was actually accepted with lower than a week to leave all my things and head to Los Angeles. Being actually the worrier I am I was doubtful if I would certainly have the ability to make it function yet I knew that if I kept in Illinois I will be actually embeded the same gloomy comments loophole without any lighting in the end of the passage. I merely needed something to transform, yet nothing ever before carries out unless you are actually the stimulant, so I stuffed my bags and also rented a U-Haul to move to Los Angeles and start at Icon.What are actually a few of the absolute most beneficial items of understanding that you got during the course of your opportunity at Icon?The very most important item of know-how I acquired from my opportunity at Icon

was actually undoubtedly using the Art of Circulation course. It showed me how to develop with no strands attached as well as simply be myself because that is regularly the very best version of you, as well as a model that no person can easily emulate.You have actually burst onto the Chicago setting in the final month along with opening up slots for Jauz as well as Richie Hawtin at Pact Popular Music Hall. Explain what looked at your scalp thŌsé evenings.

What was that encounter like?I have actually been creating and also executing popular music for pretty much my whole lifestyle yet my shows would certainly

commonly be to an unfilled room or even if I was fortunate, a loaded cellar of one hundred people maximum. To participate in to clŌsé to 1,000 individuals as well as feature all my effort was actually an outright dream, as well as it was a lot more special to share the phase along with a fellow Image grad. I don't bear in mind a lot of being on phaseas I sort of passed out from the adrenaline, yet I do don't forget instantly stepping off the phase and bursting into tears as I provided my dad a huge caress who has actually consistently been my some of my most significant enthusiasts and also advocates together with my mom and also sis.

As for the Richie Hawtin program, which was even harder for me to procedure. He is just one of the major advocates that has enabled electronic songs to be extra largely allowed as well as is a trailblazer for the category of techno and also electronic music generally. Atop the only thing that, he is among my most significant impacts. To share show business along with someone of his quality was only an aspiration happened, and also it was actually the best option to feature the darker edge of Ōsé.What sticks out regarding your music is that it is actually permitted you to open for 2 astonishingly various acts. What sort of atmosphere perform you select in your sets and perform you move toward prep work for them differently?Although a DJ is actually suppŌséd to be actually a crowd-pleaser, I think the absolute most

vital part of DJing is actually participating in popular music that resonates with you on every degree feasible. If you are actually having fun and playing the music you enjoy, I really feel that it is actually fairly challenging for the group to possess a bad opportunity unless they involved the gig along with the inappropriate mindset from the beginning. From a spectator point ofview, the best momentous opportunities at a series are actually always unreleased songs that you have actually never heard, and might certainly never hear again, so I attempt to participate in as a lot of my unreleased songs

as achievable to offer the concert-goers the same feeling of ecstasy that I really feel when I hear a song that I won't have the capacity to listen to once again, or at least for yet another married couple months till released. You have actually possessed no scarcity of brand new songs releases in 2019, with several self-released EPs. Just how have you been actually capable to crank out a great deal in therefore little bit of opportunity and also what's your creation flow like?The finest way to possess a higher outcome, in my viewpoint, is actually to certainly never let your own self cease making. I believe that at times our experts might think that our creativity is actually sieved or even broken when it may really merely be our vanity not being actually felt free to along with what our experts are developing. That being actually claimed, I assume

it is actually always essential to keep in mind why you're developing: certainly not due to the fact that you intend to create a"banger"however due to the passion of developing from the beginning. Thus when your monitor isn't simply what you desire it to become, you can remain based as well as always keep improving. It is actually regularly vital to know your restrictions and when you need to step out of your workshop for a breather, however equally as essential to understand when you need to resolve the problems that you are actuallyexperiencing. When you resolve thŌsé complications you become a much better developer as well as even a far better individual with every hurdle you jump over.You Full Command EP is arranged to find out on November 1.

What can audiences expect on Total Management!.?. !? You can easily count on a little bit of a darker side on this EP. The topic is a little grimmer than my normal tunes as I desire to drop some lighting on a number of the concerns that I experience our company are actually all being actually dealt with at this moment while still being a little bit tongue in cheek. Music has regularly been a technique for me to presume additional as well as grow my mindset and also I wish to attempt as well as aid other individuals discover their ideas and consciousness along with my music.Looking in the direction of the future, what are some traits you wish to obtain both temporary and also long-lasting? I am actually

bewitched due to the wealthy background of electronic popular music as well as rave society so apart from participating in considerable amounts of jobs as well as discharging as much popular music as I can, I am operating on receiving associated with putting on shows for Chicago that showcase the abrasive Do It Yourself attribute of where raving absolutely stemmed from. Nothing at all fancy; Just a grimy stockroom, excellent individuals, and loud songs.

Most definitely keep an eye out for 5150 top quality events around Chicago in 2020 plus whole lots of Ōsé launches on my label 5150. As for the long-lasting,

I would like to start an after college program that offers just about anything a younger kid might need to have or desire to look into in addition to a few of the many things that our learning body seems to fail to remember ... I intend to provide every thing from development & audio lessons, sports, financing, religion, and also mental wellness and also wellness training courses and also every thing in between! I have actually constantly been honored along with a terrific household and also a roof over my head however a whole lot of little ones aren't that blessed as well as I desire to supply thŌsé children a safe house to obtain away from their stress, even though it is actually simply for a couple of hrs a time. Popular music has consistently been my safe house to leave my thoughts so I wish to utilize my personal music to deliver the very same trait for others.Finally, what's your beloved component about the vivid music setting here in Chicago?I assume the best attractive as well as exclusive aspect of Chicago is actually exactly how a lot everyone desires it ... regardless of what that" it"may be. The Midwest hustle is certainly a hustle that may certainly not be actually defeated and also I believe that is actually why our team possess several of the greatest craft and songs the world needs to deliver; without a self-pride fastened many of the time. Everybody puts their

scalp down and functions, and also when it's time to select it up and also observe the fruits of their work, it's very easy to observe how challenging they benefited it. Chicago is absolutely one of the very most special spots in the world.Follow Ōsé on Social Media:

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New Look Sabres: 2019-2020 Schedule

Reviewing next season’s Buffalo Sabres Schedule was the first blog of New Look Sabres last year. It was full of mediocre to hardly passing jokes and double entendres. I wasn’t necessarily new to blogging, but I knew I was committing to a very regular blog and had some jitters about it. I’m not saying my writing has grown enormously since then, but I’ve figured out some stuff. Looking back on how I looked at this past season’s schedule is both delightful and disappointing. It’s delightful thinking we all were in for the thrill of the ten-game winning streak and we didn’t even know it. I had a little angry tangent about the Pittsburgh Penguins in last year’s schedule analysis and not only did we get a fun win off of those guys during the win streak, we beat them in their house in a barnburner. What fun that was! On the other hand every time I speculated about the playoffs it sorta burns in retrospect. I looked at the last seven games of the season as the opportunity for a fun, grade-A F1 duel for a playoff spot against mostly teams that didn’t qualify for the playoffs the prior season. Little did I know that those last games would be hard to watch waiting for a Head Coach firing. Enough reminiscing! The grass is always greener on the other side! What does the future hold? How does the 2019-2020 NHL Schedule set the table for the Buffalo Sabres 50th season?

To begin with: the Global Series. Playing regular season games on another continent is a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because it’s fun to have your team get that kind of attention for however short a window on top of the general fun of watching your favorite players travel to a foreign country. It’s a curse because that’s a lot of extra travel and exhaustion for games that matter the same but are more difficult unnecessarily. I’m all for growing the game, particularly in a place like Stockholm, Sweden where, if this league ever does ever expand to Europe, will certainly be a target market. However it would be nice if those games either didn’t matter in the standings and or were in the preseason. The Buffalo Sabres will take on the Tampa Bay Lightning in two games November 8th and 9th. Rasmus Dahlin’s Instagram will be very fun I’m sure but for a team who has struggled to get good starts to their season a lot this decade, playing two games on another continent in November isn’t ideal. Two out of four games against a high-powered divisional rival will be absolute wild cards. That said, they’re going through it too and crazy as it may sound, Tampa wasn’t the hardest divisional opponent this past season. So that’s something. The Global Series isn’t the only different thing on the schedule. Since the day the Draft started actually we’ve known the first two games of the season. Buffalo starts on the road at Pittsburgh before returning for a home opener against the newly PK Subban-ized New Jersey Devils on October 3rd and 5th respectively. That’s a fun Saturday night not just because of Subban but the Devils also have this year’s first overall pick in Jack Hughes. Hopefully there are some equally fun Sabres players to talk about at that point, but this many months out the visitors are the more interesting part. Neither of those teams will be cakewalks to start the season but neither are impossible. This is the first season in a while neither of the first two games of the season involved a hated divisional rival. Speaking of divisional rivals: games against the seven other teams in the Atlantic Division are remarkably evenly spread out. Excluding eight division bouts in November each month has four or less excluding April of course. That high concentration gives me an interesting idea of focusing all the divisional trash talk into one month: Atlantic Division Hate Month! It’s a working title.

I mentioned briefly off the top this is the Sabres’ 50th anniversary season. Surely more promotional nights will be announced after I post this but already we’ve got a couple fun oddities listed. The home opener will feature a pregame ceremony featuring past Sabres Captains. If that shit doesn’t look like a fucking illuminati induction then it ain’t doing enough. Also potentially cult-like: “Founders Night” December 2nd against the Devils… why are the promotions with big cult potential both against the Devils… hmm, I’d bring a crucifix to both if I were you. How about we chase that with some normal stuff: there’s a California road trip in October, there’s a potentially weak stretch of teams down the last ten games of the season that we’ll waste the opportunity and be long out of the playoffs by. I don’t know how you feel about the San Jose Sharks but there’s a rare home and home series in late October against them. If you’re the kind that likes to have a Sabres game at the epicenter of a day getting trashed there are a couple real gems in the schedule. For drunks who I’m going to insist travel safely there is a home and home back-to-back with the Toronto Maple Leafs Black Friday and the Saturday following Thanksgiving. I’m imagining a big drunk family enjoying that, just enjoy safely. You don’t want to be hungover on a Saturday evening watching that second game. New Year’s eve features a game against Tampa and January features a road game in Nashville on a Saturday night that would be tempting for even the most sober among us. If you’re more the lawful type like myself and prefer your non-alcoholic juice beverages in the afternoon you’ll be disappointed to hear there are only 3 Saturday games at 1pm. One of those is a game in Stockholm and the other two are on otherwise uneventful nights in the dead of winter. Take that how you will. Before we get to the strategy of the schedule its worth noting that at the posting of this article we have been royally teased. The team twitter account posted the 50th Anniversary patch in the current navy with navy OG logo after a row of that same logo in royal blue, red and black with the goat-head, and navy with buffaslug. There’s no real explanation for those except “Journey through the decades.” Sabres twitter immediately responded with the wounded optimism our team may actually do something cool. It’s hard to say exactly what that means. My heart tells me decade-themed nights where they wear the jerseys from those decades, but my head tells me tribute videos and special guests with some pricey auctions. We’ll see what it actually means. Here’s to hoping I guess.

So does the schedule help or hurt the Sabres prime goal of Lord Stanley’s Cup? Yeah, I know the best teams win no matter how tough their schedule is but let’s all be honest here: these guys need as much help as they can get to break the playoff drought. I’d say this season’s schedule is the most favorable to help the club as it’s been in years. It starts with October in which your toughest opponent is… the Sharks? The Habs? Ok, so there is a challenging opponent by last season’s standards sprinkled in, but the thirteen games of the season’s first month look to be a great early barometer for where the team is at. It’s not crazy to imagine our boys in blue and gold getting nine, ten, maybe even eleven wins in October. That would be the best start to the season in many years. There’s a lot of time off in November because of the Global Series so even if it’s not a flaming start they have time to figure their new coach out early. We’ll see a lot of our division’s elite that month: Tampa, Boston and Toronto. Getting wins against them will go a long way to building confidence if Ralph Krueger is the motivator we’ve been led to believe he is. December will be decisive per usual with the Western Canadian road trip preceding the trip to the Stanley Cup Champion St. Louis Blues. With some luck the two matchups against Boston after Christmas will provide an opportunity to solidify genuine hope before the halfway mark at Game 41 the last day of the calendar year. Most of the Sabres’ toughest matchups and series of matchups come after the bye-week next season. That bye-week will be the third week in January. If the Sabres are still in close contention for a playoff spot by the time they take on the Leafs at home Sunday, February 16th then hopefully we won’t be singing the same sad tune come April. That’s my optimistic strategic view of it, the wheels are still apt to come off pending a lot of stuff happening between now and then. I want to insist I’m being optimistic not unrealistic. I’m trying to see opportunities and the challenges. It’s easy to be pessimistic, especially with so little of the promised “roster surgery” occurring right now but this blog is a fan blog, not another raincloud engine like much of Sabres Fandom right now. Come here for your optimistic takes, you know the drill.

So there it is: our look at another Sabres campaign, the 50th one in fact. Recent history tells us otherwise, but the time is right for this club to finally take off. The post on Free Agency will come out late next week or the week after; maybe by then we have some more of the birds we need to actually take off. Before we see any W’s or L’s on this schedule we’ll need to go through what will hopefully be another busy offseason. If not, we will have a very interesting Offseason Retrospective at the end of August… one way or another. Hey, if this season sucks yet again we at least have the powerful drug of nostalgia and special promotions to distract us! Dear God, I hope its not another shite season but no matter what, come here for your fan reaction content on the Sabres. Like, comment and share this blog with your friends and family. Think of it this way: New Look Sabres is what you feel being a Sabres fan, not necessarily the smartest thing you think. For those of you who are new to this, I do try to sprinkle in some intelligent takes, but this blog is really about the beating of Sabres fan’s hearts. I hope we can beat together this season! Let’s go Buffalo!

Thanks for reading.

P.S. Development Camp is going on now at Harbor Center and I could emphasize all the draft picks new and old who are there but instead I’m going to show my Niagara University Purple Eagles pride and point out Niagara winger Eric Cooley! This will also be the extent of my coverage of Development Camp unless something monumental happens.

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By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor I don’t follow comic books, but I do consider myself a “Blerd” (Black Nerd). I’m all about superhero movies, Sci-Fi Flicks, Game of Thrones, totally love Fantasy, so I see every MCU & D.C. movie that comes out, but the excitement for BLACK PANTHER starring Chadwick Boseman was palpable, building since Captain America: Civil War. Whenever I’d get depressed about something, I'd console myself by saying, but Black Panther is coming out soon! I took a day off from work to see the press screening, I bought a T-shirt, I even bought a comic book during the @AmalgamPhilly Black Panther panel discussion and party! It’s a major event to have Disney & Marvel provide an A-List Hollywood marketing roll out for a movie starring a mainly black cast, written and directed by a black man (Ryan Coogler) who I got to interview way back in 2013 when his first film came out Fruitvale Station and I’m ashamed to say it, but he seemed so uncomfortable with the attention that movie was receiving at the time, that I didn’t think he’d amount to anything. So I was blown away when he wrote & directed the Rocky movie Creed, but this… Wow, he’s really arrived. And the black community came out to support him. Of course you can’t talk about Black Panther without talking about the strength of the female characters – Tech Genius. Warrior General. Activist Spy. Queen Mother. None of them are fighting over a guy, being catty or needing to be saved. They are fierce, proud, intelligent and capable. How are you not gonna love the all bald female warrior army “the Dora Milage”. Can’t help but wonder who would win in a fight between them and the Amazon’s of Themyscira? It might be the Dora Milage because when Gen Okoya (Danai Gurira) stops that charging armor plated Rhino in its tracks, just by her mere presence, I mean that’s cool! Not to mention, a female Production designer, Hannah Beachler and Costume designer Ruth E. Carter and Oscar nominated (Mudbound) Rachel Morrison as cinematographer. I’ve seen Letitia Wright (Shuri) in that famous episode of Black Mirror with the Black Museum, but didn’t pay the actress as much attention as the show. But she’s got my attention now as the “Q” of Wakanda. I've added to my Netflix queue the movie Urban Hymn (2015) which she starred in about a troubled girl in the system who’s encouraged by a social worker to find herself through singing. From the trailer it looks like Letitia has a great voice too. And Oscar winner (12 Years a Slave) and fashion icon Lupita Nyong'o (Nakia) gets to be the object of affection and desire, while at the same time being all about her mission, which T’Challa totally respects despite obviously wanting her to be his queen. To be fair, I was also excited last year with Hidden Figures portrayal of super intelligent black females at NASA. That movie took pride in encouraging women to enter the STEM fields of (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and now these women in "Black Panther" have taken it all to a new level. As a black woman, my heart almost burst with pride and excitement. Thank you Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole for writing this story and thank you MCU for allowing them the freedom. These guys understand the tropes of good storytelling. They borrow themes we’re familiar with like from James Bond & The Lion King but use them effectively, so as not to feel copied, but a shorthand. I’m also not taking anything away from Anthony Mackie as The Falcon or Don Cheadle in Iron Man, but of course we all know they are sidekicks and really would never warrant their own movie. What I like about Chadwick Boseman’s portrayal of Black Panther is his lack of ego. He’s really there to be King first, Black Panther second and accepts the fact that it literally takes a village to protect Wakanda and their way of life.

After the screening a whole mess of Black Tribbles stayed to tape an episode of SPOILED TRIBBLES which you can listen to below:

which will also get embedded here soon as it posts. And my 2.20.18 live segment on That's Show Biz w/ Chuck Darrow (WWDB-Talk-869) will feature Black Panther, which I'll link to podcast. Which brings us to the simplistic yet inspired storyline of Wakanda itself, which is a wonderfully expressed dilemma; a big part of me feels like a sure fire way of turning a Utopia into a Dystopia is to let in outsiders. On the other hand, if your way of life, technology, funds can help the rest of the world, do you have a duty to share? Coogler says he based aspects of his version of Wakanda on Lesotho, which were able to resist both the Zulus and the Boers, and was only lightly colonized by the British. Which reminds me - love when Shuri calls Martin Freeman’s character “Colonizer” this term for the white race, kinda makes me think of "Muggles" in Harry Potter - those without magic.

I also guested on THE LAMBcast BLACK PANTHER Podcast

On this week's @lambcast we're talking Black Panther with @TryingToBeDJV @jeanette_y_ward @SmallMind @tinseltine & @LifeVsFilm: https://t.co/cozrvUEp51 #BlackPanther #MCU #killmongerdidnothingwrong #Killmonger #FrasierDreams

— The LAMB (@LambThe)

February 23, 2018

Totally didn’t see two villains coming in this movie. I assumed Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) would be a henchman to Klaue/Klaw (Andy Serkis) who is great fun; however, I feel we don’t really get the full sense of his long standing villainy with Wakanda, they talk about never having captured him before, but he doesn’t seem to possess as much power as I understand Klaw does in the comics. I think they down played him a bit because you also have Killmonger, with a great backstory, who truly at times is hard to see as a villain, except when he demands they burn all the purple flowers which gives the Black Panther his power. Which makes me wonder, why don’t they all just drink of the flower and become super human? It takes a lot of loyalty for the people to refrain and agree it’s only for the Black Panther/King to drink.

The first challenger M’Baku (Winston Duke) the leader of the White Gorilla tribe, who have lived separately from the rest of Wakandian society, is also a well-written side character. I understand in the comics he’s called Man-Ape and this is why this movie had to be written and directed by a person of color, because otherwise he might still be referred to as such in the movie, and that would have created a bad backlash. M'Baku is fierce and sexy, but also provides a couple of very humorous moments, telling Ross (Martin Freeman) to be quiet or they’ll eat him, cracks himself up, and then admits they're vegetarians! Gorgeous world building, love the opening sequence explaining the Vibranium meteor that hit this part of Africa and how that created their way of life. I was expecting a slightly more pronounced visual opening of the city. When T’Challa, Nakia and Okoya first fly into Wakanda, we go from seeing the treetops to just being inside the Capital City. However, the Virtual Reality car chase and flight battle - leading-edge! When the Wakandans aren't speaking English they're actually speaking Xhosa, a language spoken by the Bantu in South Africa. South African actor John Kani, who plays T’Challa’s father, T’Chaka, suggested using it while filming Captain America: Civil War and taught it to Chadwick Boseman. Now I just wonder with the success of Black Panther is the D.C. Movie Universe going to move up the Cyborg movie with Ray Fisher which isn’t scheduled until April of 2020.

2.20.18 T&T Weekly Movie Segment on THAT'S SHOW BIZ WITH CHUCK DARROW also featured Black Panther start at 45:40

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 291

Click on the video above to watch Episode 291 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.

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Announcement

Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. Today is the 10th of June 2020. got everybody here, we’re gonna say hi real quick and get the introductions out of the way and then start answering your questions because we got a lot of questions on what the deal was this week everybody brought their the good stuff. So we’re gonna get into it today. So, Bradley, we’ll start with you man. How are you doing today?

Good happy to be here been working on process development for the last two days straight to entire days and feel like my eyes are crossed, but I’ve gotten a lot of it done. So I’m so close to having all my onboarding stuff for a client you know, new clients and entity asset setup, and all that the process is almost a hundred percent complete. I’ve put it off for years. But I’ve been working on it for like the last six or seven weeks and it’s almost done. So super excited about that. I’ll be sharing this with the mastermind members tomorrow too. So just let you guys know that we are going to be there. In other words, otherwise happy to be here. Good stuff right Marco How about you man?

I’m good, man. still warm and sunny in Costa Rica nothing changes Groundhog Day you seeing it everywhere you see the exact same thing I think might be a What do you call it a screen a white screen that I put behind me right with all that light and this is fake this is really a mink coat right with Fern lining and it’s all fake none of this is really good shit.

Just a green screen but you made white and sunny Yeah, yeah.

Well, Hey, how you doing man? Are you nice and warm? Are you freezing? Now actually today was it was a pretty good day. The last week or so was rainy and foggy and shitty, but you know, today’s it’s pretty good. I’m excited to be here also working on processes, you know, trying to build you know, getting to build another agency. as well, so you know, working on processes training people, and working on that. So I feel I feel you, Bradley. But you know, it is what it is like you do once you put in the work and then you get somebody repeating it over and over and over again. So that’s why you put in the work so that you can multiply that. So it’s been it’s good, man. It’s good. Everything’s good, man. Yeah. All right. Last but not least, Chris, how you doing today, man? Doing well here. And yeah, it’s raining here for a change.

I think it’s like, I don’t know. Well, it almost feels like it’s the first time it’s a very long time. And it’s actually probably raining here.

But yeah, since it goes here. Nice, nice. Well, before we get into it, I wanted to let everyone know, we’re going to be releasing some more information about POFU live 2020. It’s still going to be the last weekend of September and it is going to be virtual. We’ll be having some updates shortly towards the end of the month, I believe and we’ll be able to answer all the questions. You’ll be able to grab your tickets. To that, we’re going to be reaching out. We had a few people last year who just hopped on right away. We’ll be reaching out to you to get with you about that. So, the other thing I wanted to touch on, we’ve had a few more people joining to x your agency. And for those of you who don’t know about this, if you’re an agency owner or consultant, if you want to get more clients want to grow your revenue, you want to scale your team. If you want to do that than 2xyouragency is really the place for you to go just go over there, check it out, I’m not gonna bore you to death. You’re all capable of reading and watching the video on the page. But there is a ton of training Bradley did the bulk of that training. I know Hernan did some and I may be leaving people out. But it’s just an incredible amount of content following the three pillars as far as what you can do to do exactly that and get more clients for your revenue and scale your team. And also, version four of the battle plan came out not too long ago if you somehow missed out on that. You can go grab that battleplan.semanticmastery.com and certainly not least is the mastermind Bradley mentioned that real quick that he’s going to be sharing all this with the mastermind if you want to find out more about that just head over to mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And I’m gonna sneeze my brains oh man has the worst trying to talk and then having to sneeze all of a sudden. Alright, got that passed. So let’s get into it. I wanted to tell people to real quick before we do that, sorry. If you haven’t been over to mgyb.co yet, head over there for your done for you services. I was reminded because we were talking today about creating some more training, talking to people about worrying less SEO about you know, not caring what the algorithm is doing. If you head over there, there are best practice webinars which are great. I think most of them were created in the last few months. Go over there. If you have questions or you just want to find out more about you know, how does this stuff work? What should I do? be doing with it, things like that, just go over to mgyb.co. And there’s a lot of great free training over there as well as the dumper Youth Services. Cool. All right, guys, anything else we need to cover before we dive into it?

Yes, I’ve got something I want to cover about syndication network applets and RSS attribution links. So it’s cool if you guys want to go ahead and grab the screen get into that.

Go for it.

Okay, standby.

Alright, I don’t know if it was a support ticket or what but it was brought to my attention that I guess some done for you syndication network buyers didn’t if you’re not using an RSS plugin that creates an attribution link whenever you syndicate content. So in other words, if you’re using an RSS trigger to trigger your syndication networks in our training, and we’ve always talked about how we use our an RSS attribution that’s coated in through a plugin. Originally, it was using the Yoast plugin, which we no longer recommend. Marco calls it the toast plugin. So we haven’t recommended that for many years because it’s full of bloated code and they update it. It’s just a mess. We don’t ever recommend using Yoast. We developed our own. Well, Chris did our crispy or developed our own RSS plugin. There’s a free version that goes with Syndication Academy, you guys can get it if you’re part of any one of our groups. There’s also a pro version that is free as long as you’re in the mastermind that does have a whole lot of other functionality to it besides just the attribution. But I guess some people hadn’t didn’t realize that if you’re not using a plugin to insert an attribution link into the feed items. So for those of you that don’t know what the hell I’m even talking about, what is an attribution like okay, well, let me show you an example. This is a blog post on blogger for myself. Land realty project. And you can see that down here at the bottom it says see we buy land and Bluefield, VA post originally published on the alpha land realty blog. Well, this was a post that was published to this blogger blog via an RSS feed through IFTTT. Okay. So if we were to go take a look at the actual RSS feed Well, in this case, I haven’t hardcoded into an applet which is what I’m going to talk about today with you guys. Because I’m not using our own RSS plugin for this and I don’t use Yoast, Marco. Also, you mentioned there was a plugin what’s it called?

Simple attribution. It’s really good really light and works fantastically well. Right here.

Okay. I haven’t used this but Marco pointed this out. So there are a couple of things that I want to point out here guys and attribution. Like what that is is whenever you are republishing content, you’re supposed to cite the source give out attribution to the original publisher to the original author, right. And so that’s just best practice. And so when we’re syndicating content, our own content to our own branded network, one of the ways that you get a link back, and also to be proper about it is to you to add the attribution link. And there’s a couple of ways you can do it. You can use a plugin. Again, use our plugin, or you can use this simple attribution if you’re using WordPress.

If you’re not using WordPress, or you don’t want to use one of these plugins, you can hard code into the syndication applet inside of IFTTT and attribution link and I’m going to share with you guys some example codes. There are two different versions of them. Well, there are multiple versions of each, but there are two basic categories of attribution links. And so what that does is every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically insert this type of attribution link down here at the bottom, okay? And so that’s giving credit to the original source. So if I click that. And this one I don’t have target equals blank in there. So it’s going to open in the same window, but you can see that it’s going to pull up the original post the same post that we just saw on blogger. It’s just it’s giving a link back to the original source. Okay, now for my alpha land realty project. I’m not using an RSS plugin, so it’s hardcoded into IFTTT. Let me give you an example. This is the RSS to blogger applet, okay? So if we go into settings, you’re going to see right there is my Feed URL. And right here is the body or the applet body. So that’s the entry content. Then I put a break tag, then published first here, and you can see it’s just a href equals enter URL and then enter and then the anchor text, in this case, would be enter URL as well, that’s how I have it. I’ve updated it since that post was published because you can see what this looks like here. So what I wanted to share with you guys was just how to do that and we can give you some examples real quick.

Let’s go back. Take a look at some of the other applets. We’ll take a look at RSS to WordPress. Take a look at the settings there. The same thing we’ve got, these are short, I’ve got short attribution links here, which just link back to the original post. You can also have a combination of an attribution link that links to the original post, plus links back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever you want. Where else would this be useful? Well think about like if you’ve got a press advantage account. Or if you’re buying press releases from MGB and you get an organization page, you get an RSS feed for your organization page, a media room page, essentially, where you can go in and set up applets. And I encourage you to do so set up applets for your sending branded syndication networks using the press advantage RSS feed. And the same thing, you go into the applets and code your attribution in and then link back to the the the original press release published on the press advantage domain.

Let me grab the right one here. And I was blowing this up so you guys can see it, you can hard code a link back into the original to the press advantage organization page itself or the media room page, okay, or on a blog, if you’re hard coding it into IFTTT to link back to your primary website, you can link either to the home page or to the blog page or whatever you really you want to. Okay, so let me zoom in on this just a little bit so you guys can see the code and I’m going to share this in the chatbox. And we’re going to put this in a knowledge base or something as well. But this is with the link to home or blog page or to like a press advantage for any source, okay, that you’re going to be syndicating content from the RSS feed. You can type code in this type of stuff. These are what’s called ingredients and the applet most of you should know this. And then these with the square brackets, those are what you would replace those are basically tokens, you would replace that with your own website URL. And you can see that you can swap this out this is not you don’t have to just use these you can change wording you can add target equals blank. You can add strategically nofollow tags to, for example, linking back to the homepage. Why would that be? If you’re going to use one of these applets? Where does it say with link to homepage or blog page? Why would you want to possibly code in a nofollow link? Think about it. Okay, so here’s why I would tell you to, you know, and that was a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it for you. If you’re syndicating content from your blog consistently to your branded network, right over and over and over again, you’re syndicating content. Well, each time you syndicate and let’s just use the three blogs in a standard syndication network. The three web two Dotto blog properties, okay, so it’s Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, right? If you have if you’re using one of these types of formats up here, where you’re linking back to the original post, but then also linking back to the homepage, or to the blog, row page, you know, blog index page or whatever. Then if you’re, if you’re doing I don’t know, let’s just use an example two posts per week. That’s eight posts per month.

Well, you could see over time, how having the same URL with the same anchor text all do follow back to the homepage of the blog page, that remember, every single post you publish would include a link back to whatever you however you have it coded here, right. And that’s what I’m talking about is back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever it is the original content, the post URL, that’s only going to get three anchor text links back. Well, some of the other properties, but I’m just talking about the web to auto blog accounts right now, you’re only going to get three anchor text, you link back to that post URL for each publication, right. So each blog post that’s published, it’s only going to receive three-link backs with a hundred percent title anchor text match, okay? So that’s perfectly fine. But if you’re going to continually post over and over and over again, which you likely are you should be, then you don’t want to constantly hit the same keyword unless it’s a brand or an anchor a naked URL. anchor, right with dofollow links. So that’s why I’m saying if you’re gonna, that’s why the way that I have coded here was to make it very simple for you guys, you can see that my anchor text in any one of these top three versions is going to be either brand or website URL, which means naked URL. So naked URL anchor text for the URL that it’s linking to. Why? Because you don’t want to cause a problem. And so that’s why, if you want to use keywords, you can but I would recommend for the link back to the homepage of the blog page or a category page, whatever it is that you’re linking back to that you would add a nofollow tag. If you’re going to be using keywords, it’s okay to use the brand. It’s okay to use a naked URL. But if you’re going to be using keywords, I would recommend to also include a rel equals nofollow attribute into the code the HTML code, if that makes sense. Okay. However, to if you don’t want to do that, you could just use the simple ones down here which is linked to the original post only, and like it said you guys, you can change this around. You can see, in this case, its entry URL using the entry title as the anchor text. In this case, its entry URL using the naked URL as the anchor text. Okay, so it just depends, you guys can swap, move things around, swap stuff out, you can change the wording slightly, all of that, it’s perfectly fine. It’s just really important that you guys understand. If you’re not adding, if you don’t have an attribution coded into your RSS feed through a plugin, okay, then this is something that you could use instead is actually code them into the applet which is what I’ve actually been doing because I’m not using plugins anymore for it for most of my sites I just haven’t coded in the are up to the syndication applet. Okay. So does anybody want to comment on that?

No, okay. No, no, this is it just to make it clear that this is just best practice. When you get a syndication network, you should have either a plugin on the WordPress website which creates the attribution either the Semantic Mastery plugin or some other plugin, whatever the plugin of your choice could be, would be. And in our, in this case, we’re recommending simple attribution so that you could do that our plugin but Semantic Mastery plugin allows spinning and a whole lot of other things that just add, you can add relevance, you can change the way that it links back to the post, or whatever it is that you’re linking to. So you have a lot more leeway in what you can do with our Semantic Mastery plugin. Unfortunately, the one that has or fortunately whatever you want to see that the one that has the most functionality is of course only available if you’re a member of the semantic mastery mastermind. Otherwise, if you don’t have that plugin, and if you’re not creating the attribution when the RSS feed goes out, when you do your post, through that plugin, what you have to do is go into IFTTT into your applets and hardcoded the way that you just showed using either brand or native You could also go something generic, you could go with a generic anchor more info more here and things like that, that’s perfectly good. If you’re going to be doing a keyword as you said, it should be nofollow, or you can actually go in it and this is a lot of work you want to VA doing it is actually going in and for that one post that’s going to post change it to, to anchor, let it go out and then change it back to keyword anchor, whatever it is do follow. But then you have to change everything back to make sure that you don’t keep getting that keyword over and over and over again with a do follow link from all of your properties all over the place, which just doesn’t make sense. So I just wanna I just want people to be clear what it is that they have to do. You have to have a plugin, or you have to have this hard code in the applet it’s one or the other.

Yeah, and see that’s why I recommend like I said, Guys, if you’re going to use these top ones where there’s every post is going to have a link back to The homepage or a blog page, then I recommend that you are using a brand anchor or naked URLs and URL anchors so that you don’t have to worry about going back in and editing the applets to change it up every so often. If you don’t want to do that, as I said, you could just go with the original, the entry URL, right, which is the actual blog post URL, or whatever syndicated content URL it is, and that you can do it that way too. So you don’t have to worry about accruing too many of a particular type of anchor. That makes sense. Okay. So that’s it, I just wanted to point out here’s another example. This is one of the newer posts. And you can see this is the this is actually going to Press Advantage. So this is one from the press. This is it was a news release or a press release from press advantage through that alpha land realty account. And if you take a look at it, if I click on that, it’s going to go directly to the press advantage post, press or excuse me, press release. Okay. And then if you’ll see if I come back and click through the alpha land Realty, I’m using brand anchors there that clicks through to the media room page. See that? So again, that’s just an example of Tumblr. And then lastly, there’s the example of WordPress, here’s one from last year. And you can take a look down here at the bottom, you can see it says, that’s the title of the post. If I click that, it’s going to take me to the original post on my alpha land realty blog. And if I click through, you can see in this case, I put a naked URL to the blog, which is the homepage because the blog is on a subdomain. And so the blog is the homepage basically, of alpha land Realty. If that makes sense. So you can see I just use a naked URL there, okay, with a naked URL anchor. Right? So I just wanted to kind of point that out. Because I guess it was brought up somebody realized that they were syndicating content with no attribution. And so I wanted to make sure everybody had an understanding of you know, where you can add attribution if you don’t already have that inserted into your RSS feeds via a plugin, okay. And like I said, you should be, you know, if you were syndicating content without attribution If you’ve been following best practices with publishing content that always includes an internal link to one of your pages on your site, whatever it is you’re trying to promote, you’re still getting the SEO benefit. We always recommend having an attribution link. Because if you know, especially because I like having the title of the post is the anchor text linking back to the post URL itself, it just adds a bunch of diversity of different types of anchors that are coming that are accruing or building up over time for your site in general, right. Does that make sense? Because the title of the blog post becomes, at least the way that I have my applets coded, the title of blog posts becomes the anchor text, and so that adds a lot of diversity over time, if that makes sense. Okay, so anyway, I just wanted to cover that. Hopefully, that makes sense. Let me reset all this stuff, and then we’ll get to questions.

Would The T1 RYS Stack Nitro Link Building Combination Enough To Power An Affiliate Site?

Okay, so we’ll start with Benjamin. He says, Hey, guys, I’m building a content site currently in a competitive niche primary keyword 75,000. A month for Google to monetize with affiliate sales. There is new curated content going on to the site each day, my plan was to get a tier-one network set up around the money site, then have an RYS stack above that pointing to the properties in tier one. Then throw the kitchen sink at dry stack via the night your link building package. Would you say this is the optimum configuration for these three elements? Or am I overthinking it, Ben? No, Ben, that’s I mean, that’s, that’s right. Get the syndication network. In fact, you, the best thing to do is just order the SEO power shield. Because you’re going to have it’s pretty much everything combined. And so you get the syndication network first, and then they build the syndication network properties into the drive stack. Then you get the drive stack and ID page, all of that the G site. And then you can once you have all of that delivered. In fact, you don’t even have to wait if you wanted to. You could start building links to the syndication network, as soon as you have that delivered which that gets delivered first. Or you could wait until everything is delivered and build links to all It so all of the URLs from the syndication network, the drive stack files and folders, the G site, that kind of stuff. Or you could like I said, do two different link builder gigs, one link building gig for the syndication network, because you’re gonna get that first anyways. Wow. And then you know, takes another two weeks or whatever for the drive stack the G site to be completed. And you could order another link building gig for that. So it really just depends how, how you want to, you know, kind of sequence the things, but if you buy an SEO power shield, it’s going to be the bundle, it just saves you kind of puts everything together and it helps our team because our team knows the process in which sequence to deliver them. That’s what I would recommend. Any comments.

SEO power shield with link building included, but that’s SOP right? Yeah, he’s in a difficult niche, you got to hit it. Once it’s delivered to see what happens to see how much more you’re going to need. I was looking at the second part of this question, and I’m seeing, like, there’s no way to answer Yeah, that’s going to be enough. Nobody can tell you what’s going to be in stuff in your niche. It’s just you get the SEO Power Shield back, you hit it with the link building, you hit it with the embeds. Do some press releases, of course, and link building and embed, and then see what happens. Once that’s done once the dust clears in 21 days wait it out, and you need data you need, you need to see what damage all of that did how it is that you’re managing to come up in that niche. Once you have that information that you know, whether you need to extend your drive sec, which you probably will and something that’s very competitive. I’m gonna say maybe I’m not gonna say probably you might need it. If you do we have that available then it then it’s the same procedure, the same process, right? You have the drive stack you extend it, you do the money site, inner page, link building embeds, maybe a press release, and see how that does to push up the top market level category and so on and so on and so on until you get the desired results. I mean, there’s no one cure-all for everything, if we could do that, then I wouldn’t be here.

Probably for a long time ago, for a long time we had, especially when syndication Academy was new, we would have members, you know, people come on the hump day Hangouts, and almost every week we get this question, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts? will it take to rank for whatever keyword and people would you know? And we would always say, it depends, right? We can’t answer that. It always depends. It takes as many as it takes, that was our answer as many as it takes, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts will it take to rank? We would always say as many as it takes because there’s no way that we can answer that. Again, I always try to do the least amount of work to get results. So I don’t usually come out of it depends. Again, it depends on the project and what the budget is and all that other kind of stuff. Sometimes I’ll come out of the gate with you know, Nitro, you know, Nitro kit, link building package, but for a lot of the local projects that I work on, you know, I that’s not that’s unnecessary, it’s overkill, especially if I’m going to be staging you know, cycling through link building and embed gigs over the course of a few months, then there’s really no need to come out right up front, you know, all guns blazing, because I’m going to make up for it, and you know, by doing multiple gigs over time, and so I like doing it that way. Because that way I’m not, you know, blowing my load so to speak, you know, like, spending a whole bunch of money upfront where and where might have not needed that if that makes sense. I like to kind of reserve keep things in reserve for when needed and kind of watch and monitor how much the needle moves with things that I do and then I can start to determine Okay, this is more competitive than I thought it was. So maybe I have to go a little bit more aggressive on link building or whatever. And that’s just the way that I do it. I know a lot of people like to come out as you know, all guns blazing, like throw Everything that happened something right up front, but what I don’t like about that is, you know, if you don’t need as much, then you’re kind of wasting time or money for that matter. That could be reserved or money that you could keep is profit instead, you know, so, but it’s really up to you how you want to approach that.

How Do You Use The ID Page?

Alright ends up he says, I got my first SEO shield order back I understand the syndication network and posting and press releases. I understand the drive stacking. I’m still lost on the ID page though, what do I do with it? Do I submit it to Google Search Console? Yes, I recommend doing that. So if you uploaded it, you know, if you have the drive, excuse me, the ID page, and an Amazon s3 bucket. The way that you can add that to your search console is you can upload you can go to add it you have to add it as a URL. You can’t do like a domain prefix and search console with it because you don’t own the Amazon domain. But you can add it as a URL. Right. So you add you go to add the URL and search console and it’ll tell you that it needs verification. And if you’re just submitting the Amazon s3 URL, then you can download the HTML file and upload it to the same bucket. Right, the same Amazon bucket that you have the HTML page hosted in or saved in, okay, and then then you go back and click Verify, and it’ll verify it just like that. And so I always recommend, you know, whatever account, the G site, and drive stack were built under, is typically where I end up submitting the ID page into the search console there. It doesn’t matter if you have a branded asset, you know, like a G Suite account or something like that. You can always add it there, too. It doesn’t matter to the same search console account that’s attached to your G Suite account. I’m just saying, for my processes, we typically just add it to the search console account of the G site and drive stack owner, so to speak. But yes, you can do that. Do I never touch it, you there are, you know, there are things you can do to add additional stuff on there. I don’t know how much I can share here specifically because some of that stuff is reserved for the mastermind and or our wife’s only, or perhaps a heavy hitter club now, but you can add additional things into it.

You know, just think about other assets that would make sense to embed, it makes sense to embed in there, you know what I mean? So for example, you could possibly take your blog role page and embed that into it so that if you’re blogging consistently on your money site, now you’ve got dynamic content, updating your ID page, because you’ve embedded your blog index page into the ID page, does that make sense? So that way, it is being updated every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically update the ID page through the embed, right. So there will be like new content on the page. So that’s just one example of some of the things that you can do, you can add additional assets in there that are branded, you can update the H, the JSON LD structured data code to add more same as attributes. You know, there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to it. Beyond that, you can leave it alone, that’s perfectly fine. But you can always squeeze more power out of it, you just got to think about what type of assets would make sense to embed in there are things that you could do to dynamically update it, like I just mentioned, RSS feeds, or there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to an ID page. Okay. But you can leave it just the way that it is and get results from that too. But you can always squeeze more power out is what I’m saying. Each property that gets iframe into that @ID page is a perfect place for link building and for embed ones and link building. So you also can you can consider that as an asset. All of those URLs are assets for you to hammer when link not hammering in, in the garbage, spam, which will work anyway. But if you keep your link profile clean, if you use better links, web two dot o is the way that we do it in web 2.0 contextual you’ll get better results and it just looks better.

So remember, also, if you don’t already have structured data on your primary web asset, then you know, add it and make sure that you’re using you’re pointing the ID page, you know, designating the ID page to the URL of your ID. page. So it makes sense. So for example, if you if or if you are if you already had structured data on your primary website, but you didn’t have an ID page field, or if like most people, do, they just duplicated the URL of the home, you know, the homepage of the primary domain as the ID page. Now, you should go up and go now that you have a, you know, a published ID page, an actual ID page, go back through and edit your structured data code to include that URL as the ID page as opposed to just the homepage of your website, you know, so that there are a few things that you can do with it. That might be something actually that we could. I know we talked about last week about doing an MGYB update webinar that might be something we can include And that is just a little bit more on how to squeeze more out of a 90 page. Maybe we can add that to the notes. I’m moving on.

Okay, there are several questions here. I don’t know that we’re going to get through all these. We’ll try just for everybody’s etiquette for others, is try not to post 18 questions in one question, guys. It’s not fair to everybody else, because it takes up too much time. post a question or two is okay. And then wait till some other people post and then you can post more questions that way. We’re giving other people a chance. There’s a lot of questions squeezed into this. All right. So we’ll get through a couple of them. And if and we’re going to move on and we’ll come back if we can if we have time.

Does Having A GMB Based In The U.S. Limits A Global Affiliate Site’s Traffic Due To GeoTargeting?

The first one is if I have a global affiliate site that targets all English speaking people around the world as the offers could be delivered globally with the primary focus on the US and UK. Is it possible that if I create a US GMA, that would then get my traffic to the US and even To the US area of the GMB in a similar way that geo-targeting and search console does? I don’t mean, the GMB when only. Again, I don’t. I’m not sure I understand the question in that. If you have a GMB, you’re limited for the GMB and to where it will rank them in maps. Does that make sense? But having a GMB tied to a global domain isn’t going to affect at least as far as I know, I’ve never tested it. But as far as I know, it doesn’t seem to me like it would make doesn’t seem logical that it would limit the website’s exposure by having it tied to a GMB in the US. The maps ranking itself for the GMB would be limited to its immediate area, which is normal for all GMB’s now, but I can’t imagine that causing any issues. Marco, have you tested any of that or have any experience with that?

Well, the Land Solutions Network has a corporate as a corporate entity right in Pennsylvania. That’s We decided we decided to set that up. Just to give it a corporate presence, get a GMB it to kind of show you know that it’s a local company, but it’s it’s spread out. And it’s but that but then that’s also geo-targeting the US. So it’s a service-based business, targeting the USA, it has a surface area, as long as you don’t say, you know, like, I don’t know how you would do that if you have a global entity and why you would pigeonhole it into a GMB. Yeah. Well, you were you’re required to either show your address or to set a service area and you can’t set the globe as a service area unless you deliver goods and services to the person right at their location is that well, that’s the idea behind the service-based business. Right? So you’d have to look at that. I don’t know why you’d want to do that. Why don’t you just because you’re not here’s the thing where people get Confused about doing local, it’s natural, and it looks really good. And you have to have a GMB or else you’re not going to rank in the three-pack. And that’s where the most action takes place in most niches locally. People going to their cell phones, and they look, look up whatever service it is that they’re looking for, and they get a map pack, but they get ads and a map pack, or something along those lines. If you don’t want that to happen. And if your niche doesn’t trigger a map pack, then why would you want to be involved in that in the first place? There are other ways to verify and validate that entity that doesn’t involve a GMB. We just did it with Land Solutions Network, because I knew we’d be targeting the US and I knew how we would be targeting the other states and cities in the US, right. So I knew what was going to happen already and how that was going to happen. But if I were going globally, I wouldn’t have done that I would have never said my geolocation to the US. I probably would have gotten a GMB, I would have looked for another way, running ads in Google and YouTube, getting that credit card on file going into G Suite. Right as the company land solutions network doing all of the things that a company does when they want to work within Google when they want to run ads, which would be worldwide, not just to one particular geolocation, it just makes no sense.

Yeah, so I agree that you know, there’s if you don’t force a GMB just because you think you need it. If there’s a specific reason that you want to have a GMB or that you need to have a GMB in the US then so be it. But as Marco said, there are other ways to solidify or validate the entity more in Google’s eyes. Like he mentioned running Google ads, right? Having a credit card on file, running some ads, you could run YouTube ads, or display ads very inexpensively with even $1 a day budget, right? So even less, but it’s just that Google can recognize you’re a real person. It’s not a spam account. You’re paying money. Same thing with G Suite. G suites a great way to validate an entity, which at the basic level, it’s $6 a month per user for the G Suite account. And then also, you could just you could upgrade, like Google Drive for that account and do pay so you get additional storage, right? That’s another way to get it on file. So there’s a number of different ways to validate it besides having the GMB unless of course, you need it.

Is It Okay To Use A Generic Description In A U.S.-Based GMB Even If You Are Physically Located In Europe?

Which brings me to question number two of this if I’m physically located in Europe, but I need a US GMB and the health niche. Is it possible this could happen if the description is more generic and not so much health-related? And if the name is more generic? Well, again, I’m not 100% Sure. Why do you need if you’re located in Europe? Excuse me? I’m not sure why you need a GMB in the US. So it doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me. I’m not sure what the point of that would be. So I’m sorry, I can’t answer that.

Is The ID Page Useful Even If You Don’t Have A GMB?

Number three does the ID page loop Make sense? If you don’t have a GMB? Yes, it does. Because although I do The ID @ID page, stuff that we started with, you know, I guess it was in 2018. February 2018. I think we were originally it was originally tied to just local business structure data. But it’s beyond that now. Marco, you can talk a little bit Miley do local, but you can talk a little bit about that more an ID page is just a reference area for an entity. It’s telling the Googlebot to go there all of the entity information that will help to validate that entity is that in this location, and that’s what we use the ID page for. Is that correct?

Yeah, everything on the web has a node. Okay, everything connected to the web. So even if you have a smart refrigerator, smart range, smartphone or smart TV, whatever smart device you have, that’s going to have a note. And the question now is, how do we identify that node for the bot to understand what this connection is to whatever it is that we’re doing? What’s happened, what how that’s being done. Now it’s a local is how it started. But now you have an organization, Mm hmm. She can add you can have an @ID for your organization. And that what that does is is I and identifies the organization know where all of your organizational information resides. And so that that’s how we do it. That’s how we targeted but you can have multiple @IDs, like here, you can have a web page and idea of a product @ID, you’re just naming the node for the product, the website, the web page, just whatever you’re identifying it for about these are identifiers, and how those two nodes get connected. Well, that’s the URL. I don’t know that it’s a hyperlink. They connected through a way for each one to talk to one another. Well, that’s HTTPS. And the way that the word the worldwide web is inter matched right interlinked, so that everything is identified and can The through an IP, or however it is that that that that connection is is made. Now, as far as the question is concerned, does an @ID page loop makes sense? It makes sense because it’s an entity that we named it and the @ID loop, originally, but what we were doing is we were creating an entity loop. We were sending Google hopping from one place to another that contains nothing but our entities’ information and everything related to our entity. And we were just echoing it over and over and over and over again, we were able to track the bot in that echo. It sounds like an echo chamber, right? Or the endless mirror, where it just bounces back and forth, back and forth. And we’ve seen it happen, we can see it. We can see the button. They’re going back and forth going back and forth through the iPhones. We can see it reading the information on the iPhone, this is these are the things that we’ve proven. So is it Yes, of course, it makes sense. It makes total sense because of not You’re not and you’re not identifying your entity properly for the Bob. Thank you was a thorough answer.

How Important Are The Short Links On The GSite Of The SEO Shield?

So DC SEOs up? What’s up, man? He says on the G site of the shield, there are a number of short links that have MGYB in them. How important are they because I want to sell my clients the shield without them actually being able to figure it out where and who it was created by and how much it costs because I will be adding my own margin onto it. I’ve considered not telling them that they’ll end up with a G site, but almost everyone I deal with here in the UK has been burnt by another SEO Company, which is true everywhere, not just in the UK, but been. So I want to be as transparent as possible on a slightly different note if a client doesn’t want to publish the GMB site. Okay, well, let me answer the first question and we’ll come back to that second part. We run all the URLs through the MGB shortener because it gives you another target URL for link building purposes and because of all the link building that’s been done to the drive stacks g sites that we’ve built over the years now. The mgyb.co shortener is incredibly powerful. So you actually siphon power from that into your stack by having those shortened links there. That said, there are a couple of things I don’t know that you could I don’t manage the, you know MGYB Build Team at all that Marco and Rob do that really? So I don’t know if you could request to have one built without the shortened links. I guess it’s possible maybe Marco can answer that or Rob I know he’s usually lurking, listening to us and he comments in slack but something else you could do is when it’s delivered if you wanted to hide that from or you know not to reveal that the mgyb.co shortened links to the client, you could just go into the drive stack and delete those from you know the sheets and things like that if you wanted, obviously, it would be more time-efficient, more efficient if you just ordered the stack and requested did not have those included. Is that something thing that could be done, Marco?

No. And I’ll tell you why. The MTB shortener adds so much power to everything that if they even rank and leave it, they’ll index. So a mind map that’s really hard to index right now will index through the MGYB shortener. So why would we want to interfere with all of the power? And if I were to tell my guys to do that, then you would have to, we would have to give it to you with the warning. We can’t be sure how this is going to work. Yeah, because we don’t do them that way. Now, if you just share your screen for a second and just go to HTTPS, mgyb.co to the shortener.

Oops, I got the wrong fucking type. Maybe I could get it right. That’s all the person is going to see just another shortener, just another URL shortener, they don’t have to figure anything out. I mean, if they want to look at your it’s something, it’s a service that actually you can set you’re paying for the pricing is right there. And you’re using it, just to provide short links and to be able to customize, you can actually go and pay for getting into the service. So you can customize the links for the client. But this is the way I’m customizing your link so that they look better. So they look nicer. So they’re more attractive for the person to click on. They don’t have to figure out everything that you’re doing. They can just from going here. This is just our shortener, it’s no, no different than Bitly, or any other shortener out there.

And I’d like to comment and say what Marco said is true. I agree that also delivering a drive stack without those URLs would be like, going into a fight with one arm tied behind your back, right, because you’re losing the benefit that you gain from having the MGYB SEO links because of the power that’s been accrued to it over time. So that’s number one.

Number two, again, if you know my rebuttal to say that you’re worried about the client seeing, you know, going to mgyb.co, and looking at the store and seeing what drives tax costs and everything else, what your client have any idea what the hell to do, how to order what to do with them or anything else without you know, I mean, it’s like 99% chance that they wouldn’t have a damn clue as to what to do. Even if they did find the store, they wouldn’t have any idea how any of those things would benefit them. Because as it stands right now, it’s still basically a store that is for SEO professionals and marketing professionals. Not for the layman, right? The average business person or a business owner. So you’re getting paid for understanding how to put all of these things together and make it work and produce results. Right. That’s your expertise. I remember reading somewhere, somebody said you know when you have a plumber that’s got 10 years of experience to come out and fix a leaking pipe, right? And he comes out and fixes it in 30 minutes and charges you $150 or $200, you know the service call plus whatever $200? Or are you paying for $200? You know, like, it takes 30 minutes. So what would that be $400 an hour effectively, or so? Are you only paying for that 30 minutes? No, you’re paying for 10 years of experience that that plumber has accrued. And that’s why they’re able to fix it so efficiently. I don’t know if that’s an analogy that makes sense to you. It does to me. But you know, you’re they’re paying a markup because you’re the one that’s putting it together and making sure that they’re going to get results from it. Whereas even if they went and found our store, it’s likely they would have no idea what the hell they were looking at, or what the hell to do with it, even if they did purchase it, you know what I mean? So I wouldn’t and trust me if they ordered it and then got into the order where they had to submit the order details. They’d be lost probably because they don’t understand half the terminology that you know We requested the order. So I wouldn’t worry about that at all. You should always Mohammed, I think he’s got a question in here. He’s been following us for a long time. And he had, you know, Mohammed, I’m not picking on you. But he’s gotten to a lot of situations with clients about that kind of stuff, you know, where too much has been revealed or to ask too many questions and blah, blah, blah. And remember, you’re getting paid for your expertise, for knowledge that you’ve accrued through time and effort. And so you deserve to be paid for that and manage the build, manage, you know, the, what’s done with it afterward and everything else. So any comments on that?

Yeah, this is where I’d like to add that if he’s taken the person through the conversation in the right way. What he’s done is he’s told this person, I’m going to get your results how I get results, is my business-like, I don’t you’re not going to tell this business owner how to run their business because you probably don’t know how to you don’t care to know how all you need to know is as Jordan Fowler one of our mastermind Member says, Well, you have to know is Google. And all you have to tell that client is Look, I, you know, your business, I know Google, and I’m going to get you results, and you’re going to pay me for results. You’re not paying me for the hour, the why. Now, if you want to pay me for the hour or the Y, that’s consultation, and that’s 1500 dollars an hour, I’d be happy to take you into structure into an instructional model, minimum five hours a month, and during the course of 12 to 18 months, I can take you through everything so that you can go and get results. Or rather than do that, why don’t you just pay me my monthly, and let me get your results so that we know you don’t have to go through those at through that Crash Course of 18 months of learning so that you can start the process of doing what it is that I already do and that I have 17 years of experience doing. So, guys, it’s that conversate you got to have that conversation with the client and you have to school the client in the right mode, yes, they’ve been burned, they’ve been burned because there’s, they’re forced to sign contracts. And they’re promised the moon, and that the moon is made of cheese and all this shit, where all you have to do is tell them, hey, look, man, I’m gonna get you results, I’m going to need 90 days, I can probably get your results sooner. But I don’t want to make any promises because I don’t control Google. But what I do know is that within 90 days, we’re going to start to see results. At the end of those 90 days, we’ll sit down and revisit the fee. So that gives that even gives you an opportunity to increase your feet because you’re gonna rock this guy’s world. If you do the things that we do in the way that we do them. The guy is going to be blown out of his mind. I mean, his head is going to explode from the results you’re going to get. But the conversation has to be there. If he’s focusing on how you’re getting results, and why and why are you doing this? And how are you doing it? Dude, you got to pay me for my knowledge. I’m not gonna give you my knowledge for 2500 bucks a month. There’s just no way.

Can You Use The Primary URL From The Money Site As Rel=Canonical If A Client Doesn’t Want To Publish Their GMB Site?

Yeah, she says on a slightly different note. If a client doesn’t want to publish their GMB site, can I use the primary URL from the money site is the REL=canonical? Yeah, I mean, if that’s fine, the only reason why we had set it up originally to point to the GMB website if it’s for the local project is that some of our customers at MGYB or members in the mastermind or whatever, if you have the REL=canonical pointing to the money site, if you’re doing a backlink analysis through like majestic or a href, or something like that, you can often see some of the links that are being built to the G site through the REL=canonical, like in other words, so you can see some of the link building that’s being done by you know if you’re using link building analysis tools or link analysis tools. I don’t care. I honestly don’t care because as long as I’m getting results, it really shouldn’t matter. Some of our customers or members have didn’t want that. So that’s why we defaulted it to point the REL equals canonical to the GMB website if have a GMB site, you know, a GMB location associated with the drive stack built, but it’s not necessary like you can like, it just depends if you’re worried about clients looking at link building analysis, you know, Link analysis, reports and such like that and you don’t want them to see the types of links that are being built, then yeah, I would point it to something else. It could be the, you know, not the primary website, but you could even point it to like the GMB map instead of the GMB website, for example, but again, I don’t care. Personally, I even just ordered them through the MGYB now just like you guys, do, I swear, I ordered my drive stacks just like you guys do. And then when I get them back, I typically when I’m uploading my ID page because I upload it to my own Amazon site, or whatever, then I usually do the REL=canonical back to the money site. So it’s just an edit that I make before I upload it. It’s entirely up to you. Is there any other comments you want to make on that Adam or Marco before I move on.

I don’t see why they wouldn’t want the GMB published. Like I don’t see why that’s a showcase. It’s a showcase for your post. It’s more URLs to spam to link built to the link below to four iframe, there’s just so much that you can get from that. And then not only that, when they see just how much how many visits come through, and how much actually comes through the posts on the GMB like that whole ecosystem. I was just looking at one and today’s what Wednesday and I’ve already had 838 post views for the week, and it’s only Wednesday. I’m about to post that as an update in the heavy hitter club. But it’s ridiculous for the client to even consider not publishing the money site, especially since it’s done by Google on auto and they interlink everything and they give you all the love that’s necessary for you to just hammer.

It’s another branded asset too. I totally I agree, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to. I mean, you guys, you understand you can’t control clients, sometimes clients demand things that just make no sense, they defy logic. And that’s fine. You have to work within those parameters at times or fire them as a client. But I agree 100% with Marco, there’s no reason why, like, and we’ve had that common question come up in Hump Day Hangouts, or like, you know, my client doesn’t want the G site ranking. Why not? Why the hell wouldn’t you want a G site ranking, right? Like it pushes a competitor off the page, and if you iframe your money site page into the top of the G site, then they’re gonna see the original page. I mean, you know, the money site anyways, what difference does it make and but some people just, they’re just finicky like that, but I totally agree. It’s another asset takes up more real estate, you can do a lot with it. So it seems silly not to, in my opinion. But the short answer is yes, you can canonicalize the ID page to you know, another tier-one asset I would recommend it being a Google asset like the GMB map URL for example or something like that.

Should We Use The Press Release When Requesting For Link Building Services?

Okay, g site whatever fits is up. What’s up, Fitz. He’s here almost every week. Good day, gents. Thanks for the forum to ask questions and get real-world actual answers. Marco thank you for the charity work you do for these kids. Love how Fitz promotes your charity for you, man. It’s awesome. He’s a good man for that. He says, Thanks, Fitz. Yeah, please post the charity link again so others can help with a quick 1020 or $100 to help these kids out oh road needs good people to even help even if it is with only a few dollars today. My question is on Hump Day. We hear about limiting the links to only one link so that we can concentrate the power is that for press releases or when requesting link building? Oh, that’s a great question fit. So if that wasn’t clear before that was within press releases now. Marco might have a slightly different methodology than I do. For press releases. I typically like to use most press releases if the kind of one-off press releases. I just usually like to With two links like and again, if you go look, I’m talking when I’ve talked about it, it’s mainly for press releases.

Because for example, you can add three press or three links into a press release. But you’re splitting the power of the link equity coming from that press release, every time you add an additional URL like another outbound link, right, so you can concentrate the power into one specific URL if you need to. However, if you go to the MGYB.co store or domain and you look at them or you go to our YouTube channel, or you go to Google and search for press releases silos, or PR silo stalking or whatever, you’ll see the webinar that we did, right I the way that I do it, I’m usually linking with three links per press release now and it’s because the way for local projects that I do it or that my team does it, is we publish a blog post and we publish a corresponding GMB post that links to the blog post. Okay, and then we publish a press release and The press release will link to either the blog post URL directly, or to the GMB post URL. Does that make sense that’s promoting, that’s linked to the blog post URL. And then we link back to the tier one. A tier one entity asset could be the home page, it could be a category page or, you know, top-level silo page. It could be Facebook page, you know, LinkedIn company page, the drive stack, primary folder, the G site, whatever, anyone of the primary tier one entity assets. So that’s link number two, right? first, the link is going to link to the blog post that the press releases promoting, right because we that’s what we publish or not for, like, if I’m doing three blog posts per week, then if the clients only paying for one blog post, or excuse me, one press release per week, then one of those blog posts is going to get a press release that is promoting the blog post and the blog post the press releases either gonna link directly to the blog post URL or to the GMB post URL that is linking directly to the blog post URL, then we link to it. Another tier-one entity asset, any one of them. I’ve talked about this before, but my bloggers have a client workbook, which is a Google Sheet for every client. And there’s a target URLs column that has all of the primary tier one entity assets that we want to power up, and they just go down and each time they publish another press release, blog post, whatever, they select another target URL, and they link to that. So that would be link number two, and then the third link is a link back to a previous press release in the same silo. Right, because we do press release silo, we theme mirror everything right, we mirror the blog post silo structure into the GMB or excuse me, the Google site, this into the GMB posts and now, even in the press releases, so everything is themed there. That’s why it’s called mirroring, right. And again, that was originally coined by the network Empire. So I usually if it’s a one-off, press release, I’m usually linking two to two outbound URLs. If it is a within a silo which most content is now then it’s going to look To like I said, the original post URL or the GMB, the corresponding GMB post URL, another tier-one entity asset, just cycle through target URL list. And then the third is going to be linking to the previous press release in that same silo, that’s just the way that I do it. Any comments on that?

Yeah, I wasn’t referring to either one of those scenarios when I talked about the one link method, which was strictly for the drive stack extension. And the G site inner page extension targeting a money site inner page, that’s when we use that one link method to concentrate the power as close to one to one as possible. instead of dividing it, like you just mentioned, in a press release the way that you’d be dividing, dividing is either two by two or by three, right? We want a one to one transfer from the G site over to the money site, an inner page from the extension to the inner page. So I’d go back and watch those webinars fates. I know that you have access to those. And that’s what we were mainly talking about it although you can do that one lick method however way you want to do it. Guess what you have to understand is how you’re transferring PageRank ranking score and power.

Can We Use Dedhia’s Link Building Services To A Money Site?

Alright, so we’re almost out of time I’d like to get through these next two if we can. So let’s get to them Jigglypuff says, Hey guys, I just cut the battle plan and really enjoying the content you guys share. Well, thank you. Can the link building by Dedhia offer through MGYB be used on a money site? No. We don’t recommend that. You know that we always recommend using the tier one entity assets is the link building targets. That’s what our link building services were. were developed specifically to power up the tier one entity assets, not the money site. That’s why we call it an SEO shield because it acts as an SEO firewall that protects the money site, right you’re basically building a cocoon a shield around your money site using high authority entity assets that you can now power those up. And ultimately, the link equity flows through to the money site, but it gets cleaned or laundered through those entity assets. So we do not recommend that now if you want link diversity to your money site press releases, that’s a fantastic way like that press releases are an awesome way to add length diversity to your money site, because you can link directly to your money site. And I would recommend that you change it. I primarily use naked URLs when linking to the money site, but you can do some generic stuff or some brand anchors and things like that so that you get linked diversity as well as anchor diversity back to your money site, but I would use press releases for that. Any comments on that?

No, no, no, never to the money site. We don’t recommend that. That’s why we have the SEO power shield as you said, it provides a shield and it amplifies the power. So why would you do anything except go through the SEO Power shield? That’s right.

So that’s why it’s important to build those assets first and then you can hammer the shit out of those assets with the link building and embed gigs or embed plus link building gigs. So that link building is getting done to the embed pages, right? So there’s a number of things you can do to power those assets up without them directly linking directly to your money site through those through daddy’s link building service if that makes sense. So there you go.

Next question, and we’re going to wrap it up guys because we’re at the five o'clock mark and unfortunately, dammit, Mohammed, I answered your question. I commented below cult of copy. That’s a great resource for copywriting and Facebook. They’ve also got a marketplace where you can hire copywriters and all kinds of stuff. So go look at the cult of a copy.

Can You Order More Than One ID Page DFY Service To The Same Domain?

Anyways, this last question, can you order more than one ID page done for you service to the same domain but pointing to different money site URL? Or should you only have one ID page for each money site? If you understand that’s what we were talking about earlier. an ID page is supposed to be basically a resource To say this is where it helps to validate an entity, right? So a money site, the right should really only have one ID page, the way that I do it for local, okay, because remember that everything I do is local. But you can have multiple ID pages for a brand. If there’s in my case for local if there are multiple locations, right? So there can be like, for example, I’m working on a tree service project now sharing that in the mastermind. That as an as got multiple locations, and so they’re the homepage of the website, the primary domain, the root domain is essentially got Corporation organization, Corporation structured data, right? So markup that has an ID page, that Id page is just brand and keywords. So there’s not any location optimization for the ID page, right? Because it’s an ID page for the overall entity, the brand itself, right, and I’m using Corporation markup which is a subset of organization markup, okay. So I’ve got an ID page that links to the or that the money site links to or references the ID page for the brand plus keyword Association, but no location optimization. But then I’ve got multiple locations, that is branded plus location name appended to it. And each one of those locations has its own ID page that’s optimized for that specific location. Does that make sense? So you can have multiple ID pages. If you’re having, you know, again, depending on what it is you’re trying to validate that just if you understand what we’re talking about with what an entity is, then it’ll click you know, you’ll get you you understand what the ID page is for it’s, it’s a resource that you’re telling Google through the structured data code, hey, all of the entity information can be validated here. And so on that page is where you have all the iframes structured data, you know, tier one, entity assets, all of that stuff is listed or housed within that Id page, because you’re telling Google reference that page to validate this entity and all the data within. That makes sense. So if you understand that, then you there are times where you can have multiple ID pages and marketing you might be able to explain a little bit more clearly than me. I don’t know if that was clear or not.

You can have multiple @ID it Alright, so you got a parent. And this parent has four children it doesn’t matter where those children are. So now you have the field organization Corporation, as you said, and you’re going to have in our locations now as the parent, you can talk about your children because they’re your children. And you can do this in the schema in the JSON LD. Rob showed this in the heavy hitter club in our MC or we could go Wednesday, in our mastermind I didn’t in the webinar that we had, he showed he showed how you can reference the children and how the children can each reference the parents. And what you have to be careful is that you make sure these children don’t Become orphaned, where you confuse the but you have to make sure that this parent is claiming the right children because it starts claiming other children, then you’re gonna have to pay child support. Everybody’s gonna get confused. They don’t know who’s dedhia, who’s mohamed, you have to make this clear to them but if you guys if you confuse the bot you excuse the language I know they’re supposed to be pgl give a shit. You are screwed if you don’t reference everything correctly. Rather than doing all of that why don’t you just concentrate on your entity, which is what it should be? It’s an entity loop your ID is an entity loop is everything about your company about your business?

There you go.

Okay, we got to wrap up or come to the heavy hitter club and learn how to do it.

There you go. So thanks, everybody for being here. Tom. See you guys next week.

See guys, Bye, everyone. Bye.

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Announcement

Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. Today is the 10th of June 2020. got everybody here, we’re gonna say hi real quick and get the introductions out of the way and then start answering your questions because we got a lot of questions on what the deal was this week everybody brought their the good stuff. So we’re gonna get into it today. So, Bradley, we’ll start with you man. How are you doing today?

Good happy to be here been working on process development for the last two days straight to entire days and feel like my eyes are crossed, but I’ve gotten a lot of it done. So I’m so close to having all my onboarding stuff for a client you know, new clients and entity asset setup, and all that the process is almost a hundred percent complete. I’ve put it off for years. But I’ve been working on it for like the last six or seven weeks and it’s almost done. So super excited about that. I’ll be sharing this with the mastermind members tomorrow too. So just let you guys know that we are going to be there. In other words, otherwise happy to be here. Good stuff right Marco How about you man?

I’m good, man. still warm and sunny in Costa Rica nothing changes Groundhog Day you seeing it everywhere you see the exact same thing I think might be a What do you call it a screen a white screen that I put behind me right with all that light and this is fake this is really a mink coat right with Fern lining and it’s all fake none of this is really good shit.

Just a green screen but you made white and sunny Yeah, yeah.

Well, Hey, how you doing man? Are you nice and warm? Are you freezing? Now actually today was it was a pretty good day. The last week or so was rainy and foggy and shitty, but you know, today’s it’s pretty good. I’m excited to be here also working on processes, you know, trying to build you know, getting to build another agency. as well, so you know, working on processes training people, and working on that. So I feel I feel you, Bradley. But you know, it is what it is like you do once you put in the work and then you get somebody repeating it over and over and over again. So that’s why you put in the work so that you can multiply that. So it’s been it’s good, man. It’s good. Everything’s good, man. Yeah. All right. Last but not least, Chris, how you doing today, man? Doing well here. And yeah, it’s raining here for a change.

I think it’s like, I don’t know. Well, it almost feels like it’s the first time it’s a very long time. And it’s actually probably raining here.

But yeah, since it goes here. Nice, nice. Well, before we get into it, I wanted to let everyone know, we’re going to be releasing some more information about POFU live 2020. It’s still going to be the last weekend of September and it is going to be virtual. We’ll be having some updates shortly towards the end of the month, I believe and we’ll be able to answer all the questions. You’ll be able to grab your tickets. To that, we’re going to be reaching out. We had a few people last year who just hopped on right away. We’ll be reaching out to you to get with you about that. So, the other thing I wanted to touch on, we’ve had a few more people joining to x your agency. And for those of you who don’t know about this, if you’re an agency owner or consultant, if you want to get more clients want to grow your revenue, you want to scale your team. If you want to do that than 2xyouragency is really the place for you to go just go over there, check it out, I’m not gonna bore you to death. You’re all capable of reading and watching the video on the page. But there is a ton of training Bradley did the bulk of that training. I know Hernan did some and I may be leaving people out. But it’s just an incredible amount of content following the three pillars as far as what you can do to do exactly that and get more clients for your revenue and scale your team. And also, version four of the battle plan came out not too long ago if you somehow missed out on that. You can go grab that battleplan.semanticmastery.com and certainly not least is the mastermind Bradley mentioned that real quick that he’s going to be sharing all this with the mastermind if you want to find out more about that just head over to mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And I’m gonna sneeze my brains oh man has the worst trying to talk and then having to sneeze all of a sudden. Alright, got that passed. So let’s get into it. I wanted to tell people to real quick before we do that, sorry. If you haven’t been over to mgyb.co yet, head over there for your done for you services. I was reminded because we were talking today about creating some more training, talking to people about worrying less SEO about you know, not caring what the algorithm is doing. If you head over there, there are best practice webinars which are great. I think most of them were created in the last few months. Go over there. If you have questions or you just want to find out more about you know, how does this stuff work? What should I do? be doing with it, things like that, just go over to mgyb.co. And there’s a lot of great free training over there as well as the dumper Youth Services. Cool. All right, guys, anything else we need to cover before we dive into it?

Yes, I’ve got something I want to cover about syndication network applets and RSS attribution links. So it’s cool if you guys want to go ahead and grab the screen get into that.

Go for it.

Okay, standby.

Alright, I don’t know if it was a support ticket or what but it was brought to my attention that I guess some done for you syndication network buyers didn’t if you’re not using an RSS plugin that creates an attribution link whenever you syndicate content. So in other words, if you’re using an RSS trigger to trigger your syndication networks in our training, and we’ve always talked about how we use our an RSS attribution that’s coated in through a plugin. Originally, it was using the Yoast plugin, which we no longer recommend. Marco calls it the toast plugin. So we haven’t recommended that for many years because it’s full of bloated code and they update it. It’s just a mess. We don’t ever recommend using Yoast. We developed our own. Well, Chris did our crispy or developed our own RSS plugin. There’s a free version that goes with Syndication Academy, you guys can get it if you’re part of any one of our groups. There’s also a pro version that is free as long as you’re in the mastermind that does have a whole lot of other functionality to it besides just the attribution. But I guess some people hadn’t didn’t realize that if you’re not using a plugin to insert an attribution link into the feed items. So for those of you that don’t know what the hell I’m even talking about, what is an attribution like okay, well, let me show you an example. This is a blog post on blogger for myself. Land realty project. And you can see that down here at the bottom it says see we buy land and Bluefield, VA post originally published on the alpha land realty blog. Well, this was a post that was published to this blogger blog via an RSS feed through IFTTT. Okay. So if we were to go take a look at the actual RSS feed Well, in this case, I haven’t hardcoded into an applet which is what I’m going to talk about today with you guys. Because I’m not using our own RSS plugin for this and I don’t use Yoast, Marco. Also, you mentioned there was a plugin what’s it called?

Simple attribution. It’s really good really light and works fantastically well. Right here.

Okay. I haven’t used this but Marco pointed this out. So there are a couple of things that I want to point out here guys and attribution. Like what that is is whenever you are republishing content, you’re supposed to cite the source give out attribution to the original publisher to the original author, right. And so that’s just best practice. And so when we’re syndicating content, our own content to our own branded network, one of the ways that you get a link back, and also to be proper about it is to you to add the attribution link. And there’s a couple of ways you can do it. You can use a plugin. Again, use our plugin, or you can use this simple attribution if you’re using WordPress.

If you’re not using WordPress, or you don’t want to use one of these plugins, you can hard code into the syndication applet inside of IFTTT and attribution link and I’m going to share with you guys some example codes. There are two different versions of them. Well, there are multiple versions of each, but there are two basic categories of attribution links. And so what that does is every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically insert this type of attribution link down here at the bottom, okay? And so that’s giving credit to the original source. So if I click that. And this one I don’t have target equals blank in there. So it’s going to open in the same window, but you can see that it’s going to pull up the original post the same post that we just saw on blogger. It’s just it’s giving a link back to the original source. Okay, now for my alpha land realty project. I’m not using an RSS plugin, so it’s hardcoded into IFTTT. Let me give you an example. This is the RSS to blogger applet, okay? So if we go into settings, you’re going to see right there is my Feed URL. And right here is the body or the applet body. So that’s the entry content. Then I put a break tag, then published first here, and you can see it’s just a href equals enter URL and then enter and then the anchor text, in this case, would be enter URL as well, that’s how I have it. I’ve updated it since that post was published because you can see what this looks like here. So what I wanted to share with you guys was just how to do that and we can give you some examples real quick.

Let’s go back. Take a look at some of the other applets. We’ll take a look at RSS to WordPress. Take a look at the settings there. The same thing we’ve got, these are short, I’ve got short attribution links here, which just link back to the original post. You can also have a combination of an attribution link that links to the original post, plus links back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever you want. Where else would this be useful? Well think about like if you’ve got a press advantage account. Or if you’re buying press releases from MGB and you get an organization page, you get an RSS feed for your organization page, a media room page, essentially, where you can go in and set up applets. And I encourage you to do so set up applets for your sending branded syndication networks using the press advantage RSS feed. And the same thing, you go into the applets and code your attribution in and then link back to the the the original press release published on the press advantage domain.

Let me grab the right one here. And I was blowing this up so you guys can see it, you can hard code a link back into the original to the press advantage organization page itself or the media room page, okay, or on a blog, if you’re hard coding it into IFTTT to link back to your primary website, you can link either to the home page or to the blog page or whatever you really you want to. Okay, so let me zoom in on this just a little bit so you guys can see the code and I’m going to share this in the chatbox. And we’re going to put this in a knowledge base or something as well. But this is with the link to home or blog page or to like a press advantage for any source, okay, that you’re going to be syndicating content from the RSS feed. You can type code in this type of stuff. These are what’s called ingredients and the applet most of you should know this. And then these with the square brackets, those are what you would replace those are basically tokens, you would replace that with your own website URL. And you can see that you can swap this out this is not you don’t have to just use these you can change wording you can add target equals blank. You can add strategically nofollow tags to, for example, linking back to the homepage. Why would that be? If you’re going to use one of these applets? Where does it say with link to homepage or blog page? Why would you want to possibly code in a nofollow link? Think about it. Okay, so here’s why I would tell you to, you know, and that was a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it for you. If you’re syndicating content from your blog consistently to your branded network, right over and over and over again, you’re syndicating content. Well, each time you syndicate and let’s just use the three blogs in a standard syndication network. The three web two Dotto blog properties, okay, so it’s Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, right? If you have if you’re using one of these types of formats up here, where you’re linking back to the original post, but then also linking back to the homepage, or to the blog, row page, you know, blog index page or whatever. Then if you’re, if you’re doing I don’t know, let’s just use an example two posts per week. That’s eight posts per month.

Well, you could see over time, how having the same URL with the same anchor text all do follow back to the homepage of the blog page, that remember, every single post you publish would include a link back to whatever you however you have it coded here, right. And that’s what I’m talking about is back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever it is the original content, the post URL, that’s only going to get three anchor text links back. Well, some of the other properties, but I’m just talking about the web to auto blog accounts right now, you’re only going to get three anchor text, you link back to that post URL for each publication, right. So each blog post that’s published, it’s only going to receive three-link backs with a hundred percent title anchor text match, okay? So that’s perfectly fine. But if you’re going to continually post over and over and over again, which you likely are you should be, then you don’t want to constantly hit the same keyword unless it’s a brand or an anchor a naked URL. anchor, right with dofollow links. So that’s why I’m saying if you’re gonna, that’s why the way that I have coded here was to make it very simple for you guys, you can see that my anchor text in any one of these top three versions is going to be either brand or website URL, which means naked URL. So naked URL anchor text for the URL that it’s linking to. Why? Because you don’t want to cause a problem. And so that’s why, if you want to use keywords, you can but I would recommend for the link back to the homepage of the blog page or a category page, whatever it is that you’re linking back to that you would add a nofollow tag. If you’re going to be using keywords, it’s okay to use the brand. It’s okay to use a naked URL. But if you’re going to be using keywords, I would recommend to also include a rel equals nofollow attribute into the code the HTML code, if that makes sense. Okay. However, to if you don’t want to do that, you could just use the simple ones down here which is linked to the original post only, and like it said you guys, you can change this around. You can see, in this case, its entry URL using the entry title as the anchor text. In this case, its entry URL using the naked URL as the anchor text. Okay, so it just depends, you guys can swap, move things around, swap stuff out, you can change the wording slightly, all of that, it’s perfectly fine. It’s just really important that you guys understand. If you’re not adding, if you don’t have an attribution coded into your RSS feed through a plugin, okay, then this is something that you could use instead is actually code them into the applet which is what I’ve actually been doing because I’m not using plugins anymore for it for most of my sites I just haven’t coded in the are up to the syndication applet. Okay. So does anybody want to comment on that?

No, okay. No, no, this is it just to make it clear that this is just best practice. When you get a syndication network, you should have either a plugin on the WordPress website which creates the attribution either the Semantic Mastery plugin or some other plugin, whatever the plugin of your choice could be, would be. And in our, in this case, we’re recommending simple attribution so that you could do that our plugin but Semantic Mastery plugin allows spinning and a whole lot of other things that just add, you can add relevance, you can change the way that it links back to the post, or whatever it is that you’re linking to. So you have a lot more leeway in what you can do with our Semantic Mastery plugin. Unfortunately, the one that has or fortunately whatever you want to see that the one that has the most functionality is of course only available if you’re a member of the semantic mastery mastermind. Otherwise, if you don’t have that plugin, and if you’re not creating the attribution when the RSS feed goes out, when you do your post, through that plugin, what you have to do is go into IFTTT into your applets and hardcoded the way that you just showed using either brand or native You could also go something generic, you could go with a generic anchor more info more here and things like that, that’s perfectly good. If you’re going to be doing a keyword as you said, it should be nofollow, or you can actually go in it and this is a lot of work you want to VA doing it is actually going in and for that one post that’s going to post change it to, to anchor, let it go out and then change it back to keyword anchor, whatever it is do follow. But then you have to change everything back to make sure that you don’t keep getting that keyword over and over and over again with a do follow link from all of your properties all over the place, which just doesn’t make sense. So I just wanna I just want people to be clear what it is that they have to do. You have to have a plugin, or you have to have this hard code in the applet it’s one or the other.

Yeah, and see that’s why I recommend like I said, Guys, if you’re going to use these top ones where there’s every post is going to have a link back to The homepage or a blog page, then I recommend that you are using a brand anchor or naked URLs and URL anchors so that you don’t have to worry about going back in and editing the applets to change it up every so often. If you don’t want to do that, as I said, you could just go with the original, the entry URL, right, which is the actual blog post URL, or whatever syndicated content URL it is, and that you can do it that way too. So you don’t have to worry about accruing too many of a particular type of anchor. That makes sense. Okay. So that’s it, I just wanted to point out here’s another example. This is one of the newer posts. And you can see this is the this is actually going to Press Advantage. So this is one from the press. This is it was a news release or a press release from press advantage through that alpha land realty account. And if you take a look at it, if I click on that, it’s going to go directly to the press advantage post, press or excuse me, press release. Okay. And then if you’ll see if I come back and click through the alpha land Realty, I’m using brand anchors there that clicks through to the media room page. See that? So again, that’s just an example of Tumblr. And then lastly, there’s the example of WordPress, here’s one from last year. And you can take a look down here at the bottom, you can see it says, that’s the title of the post. If I click that, it’s going to take me to the original post on my alpha land realty blog. And if I click through, you can see in this case, I put a naked URL to the blog, which is the homepage because the blog is on a subdomain. And so the blog is the homepage basically, of alpha land Realty. If that makes sense. So you can see I just use a naked URL there, okay, with a naked URL anchor. Right? So I just wanted to kind of point that out. Because I guess it was brought up somebody realized that they were syndicating content with no attribution. And so I wanted to make sure everybody had an understanding of you know, where you can add attribution if you don’t already have that inserted into your RSS feeds via a plugin, okay. And like I said, you should be, you know, if you were syndicating content without attribution If you’ve been following best practices with publishing content that always includes an internal link to one of your pages on your site, whatever it is you’re trying to promote, you’re still getting the SEO benefit. We always recommend having an attribution link. Because if you know, especially because I like having the title of the post is the anchor text linking back to the post URL itself, it just adds a bunch of diversity of different types of anchors that are coming that are accruing or building up over time for your site in general, right. Does that make sense? Because the title of the blog post becomes, at least the way that I have my applets coded, the title of blog posts becomes the anchor text, and so that adds a lot of diversity over time, if that makes sense. Okay, so anyway, I just wanted to cover that. Hopefully, that makes sense. Let me reset all this stuff, and then we’ll get to questions.

Would The T1 RYS Stack Nitro Link Building Combination Enough To Power An Affiliate Site?

Okay, so we’ll start with Benjamin. He says, Hey, guys, I’m building a content site currently in a competitive niche primary keyword 75,000. A month for Google to monetize with affiliate sales. There is new curated content going on to the site each day, my plan was to get a tier-one network set up around the money site, then have an RYS stack above that pointing to the properties in tier one. Then throw the kitchen sink at dry stack via the night your link building package. Would you say this is the optimum configuration for these three elements? Or am I overthinking it, Ben? No, Ben, that’s I mean, that’s, that’s right. Get the syndication network. In fact, you, the best thing to do is just order the SEO power shield. Because you’re going to have it’s pretty much everything combined. And so you get the syndication network first, and then they build the syndication network properties into the drive stack. Then you get the drive stack and ID page, all of that the G site. And then you can once you have all of that delivered. In fact, you don’t even have to wait if you wanted to. You could start building links to the syndication network, as soon as you have that delivered which that gets delivered first. Or you could wait until everything is delivered and build links to all It so all of the URLs from the syndication network, the drive stack files and folders, the G site, that kind of stuff. Or you could like I said, do two different link builder gigs, one link building gig for the syndication network, because you’re gonna get that first anyways. Wow. And then you know, takes another two weeks or whatever for the drive stack the G site to be completed. And you could order another link building gig for that. So it really just depends how, how you want to, you know, kind of sequence the things, but if you buy an SEO power shield, it’s going to be the bundle, it just saves you kind of puts everything together and it helps our team because our team knows the process in which sequence to deliver them. That’s what I would recommend. Any comments.

SEO power shield with link building included, but that’s SOP right? Yeah, he’s in a difficult niche, you got to hit it. Once it’s delivered to see what happens to see how much more you’re going to need. I was looking at the second part of this question, and I’m seeing, like, there’s no way to answer Yeah, that’s going to be enough. Nobody can tell you what’s going to be in stuff in your niche. It’s just you get the SEO Power Shield back, you hit it with the link building, you hit it with the embeds. Do some press releases, of course, and link building and embed, and then see what happens. Once that’s done once the dust clears in 21 days wait it out, and you need data you need, you need to see what damage all of that did how it is that you’re managing to come up in that niche. Once you have that information that you know, whether you need to extend your drive sec, which you probably will and something that’s very competitive. I’m gonna say maybe I’m not gonna say probably you might need it. If you do we have that available then it then it’s the same procedure, the same process, right? You have the drive stack you extend it, you do the money site, inner page, link building embeds, maybe a press release, and see how that does to push up the top market level category and so on and so on and so on until you get the desired results. I mean, there’s no one cure-all for everything, if we could do that, then I wouldn’t be here.

Probably for a long time ago, for a long time we had, especially when syndication Academy was new, we would have members, you know, people come on the hump day Hangouts, and almost every week we get this question, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts? will it take to rank for whatever keyword and people would you know? And we would always say, it depends, right? We can’t answer that. It always depends. It takes as many as it takes, that was our answer as many as it takes, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts will it take to rank? We would always say as many as it takes because there’s no way that we can answer that. Again, I always try to do the least amount of work to get results. So I don’t usually come out of it depends. Again, it depends on the project and what the budget is and all that other kind of stuff. Sometimes I’ll come out of the gate with you know, Nitro, you know, Nitro kit, link building package, but for a lot of the local projects that I work on, you know, I that’s not that’s unnecessary, it’s overkill, especially if I’m going to be staging you know, cycling through link building and embed gigs over the course of a few months, then there’s really no need to come out right up front, you know, all guns blazing, because I’m going to make up for it, and you know, by doing multiple gigs over time, and so I like doing it that way. Because that way I’m not, you know, blowing my load so to speak, you know, like, spending a whole bunch of money upfront where and where might have not needed that if that makes sense. I like to kind of reserve keep things in reserve for when needed and kind of watch and monitor how much the needle moves with things that I do and then I can start to determine Okay, this is more competitive than I thought it was. So maybe I have to go a little bit more aggressive on link building or whatever. And that’s just the way that I do it. I know a lot of people like to come out as you know, all guns blazing, like throw Everything that happened something right up front, but what I don’t like about that is, you know, if you don’t need as much, then you’re kind of wasting time or money for that matter. That could be reserved or money that you could keep is profit instead, you know, so, but it’s really up to you how you want to approach that.

How Do You Use The ID Page?

Alright ends up he says, I got my first SEO shield order back I understand the syndication network and posting and press releases. I understand the drive stacking. I’m still lost on the ID page though, what do I do with it? Do I submit it to Google Search Console? Yes, I recommend doing that. So if you uploaded it, you know, if you have the drive, excuse me, the ID page, and an Amazon s3 bucket. The way that you can add that to your search console is you can upload you can go to add it you have to add it as a URL. You can’t do like a domain prefix and search console with it because you don’t own the Amazon domain. But you can add it as a URL. Right. So you add you go to add the URL and search console and it’ll tell you that it needs verification. And if you’re just submitting the Amazon s3 URL, then you can download the HTML file and upload it to the same bucket. Right, the same Amazon bucket that you have the HTML page hosted in or saved in, okay, and then then you go back and click Verify, and it’ll verify it just like that. And so I always recommend, you know, whatever account, the G site, and drive stack were built under, is typically where I end up submitting the ID page into the search console there. It doesn’t matter if you have a branded asset, you know, like a G Suite account or something like that. You can always add it there, too. It doesn’t matter to the same search console account that’s attached to your G Suite account. I’m just saying, for my processes, we typically just add it to the search console account of the G site and drive stack owner, so to speak. But yes, you can do that. Do I never touch it, you there are, you know, there are things you can do to add additional stuff on there. I don’t know how much I can share here specifically because some of that stuff is reserved for the mastermind and or our wife’s only, or perhaps a heavy hitter club now, but you can add additional things into it.

You know, just think about other assets that would make sense to embed, it makes sense to embed in there, you know what I mean? So for example, you could possibly take your blog role page and embed that into it so that if you’re blogging consistently on your money site, now you’ve got dynamic content, updating your ID page, because you’ve embedded your blog index page into the ID page, does that make sense? So that way, it is being updated every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically update the ID page through the embed, right. So there will be like new content on the page. So that’s just one example of some of the things that you can do, you can add additional assets in there that are branded, you can update the H, the JSON LD structured data code to add more same as attributes. You know, there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to it. Beyond that, you can leave it alone, that’s perfectly fine. But you can always squeeze more power out of it, you just got to think about what type of assets would make sense to embed in there are things that you could do to dynamically update it, like I just mentioned, RSS feeds, or there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to an ID page. Okay. But you can leave it just the way that it is and get results from that too. But you can always squeeze more power out is what I’m saying. Each property that gets iframe into that @ID page is a perfect place for link building and for embed ones and link building. So you also can you can consider that as an asset. All of those URLs are assets for you to hammer when link not hammering in, in the garbage, spam, which will work anyway. But if you keep your link profile clean, if you use better links, web two dot o is the way that we do it in web 2.0 contextual you’ll get better results and it just looks better.

So remember, also, if you don’t already have structured data on your primary web asset, then you know, add it and make sure that you’re using you’re pointing the ID page, you know, designating the ID page to the URL of your ID. page. So it makes sense. So for example, if you if or if you are if you already had structured data on your primary website, but you didn’t have an ID page field, or if like most people, do, they just duplicated the URL of the home, you know, the homepage of the primary domain as the ID page. Now, you should go up and go now that you have a, you know, a published ID page, an actual ID page, go back through and edit your structured data code to include that URL as the ID page as opposed to just the homepage of your website, you know, so that there are a few things that you can do with it. That might be something actually that we could. I know we talked about last week about doing an MGYB update webinar that might be something we can include And that is just a little bit more on how to squeeze more out of a 90 page. Maybe we can add that to the notes. I’m moving on.

Okay, there are several questions here. I don’t know that we’re going to get through all these. We’ll try just for everybody’s etiquette for others, is try not to post 18 questions in one question, guys. It’s not fair to everybody else, because it takes up too much time. post a question or two is okay. And then wait till some other people post and then you can post more questions that way. We’re giving other people a chance. There’s a lot of questions squeezed into this. All right. So we’ll get through a couple of them. And if and we’re going to move on and we’ll come back if we can if we have time.

Does Having A GMB Based In The U.S. Limits A Global Affiliate Site’s Traffic Due To GeoTargeting?

The first one is if I have a global affiliate site that targets all English speaking people around the world as the offers could be delivered globally with the primary focus on the US and UK. Is it possible that if I create a US GMA, that would then get my traffic to the US and even To the US area of the GMB in a similar way that geo-targeting and search console does? I don’t mean, the GMB when only. Again, I don’t. I’m not sure I understand the question in that. If you have a GMB, you’re limited for the GMB and to where it will rank them in maps. Does that make sense? But having a GMB tied to a global domain isn’t going to affect at least as far as I know, I’ve never tested it. But as far as I know, it doesn’t seem to me like it would make doesn’t seem logical that it would limit the website’s exposure by having it tied to a GMB in the US. The maps ranking itself for the GMB would be limited to its immediate area, which is normal for all GMB’s now, but I can’t imagine that causing any issues. Marco, have you tested any of that or have any experience with that?

Well, the Land Solutions Network has a corporate as a corporate entity right in Pennsylvania. That’s We decided we decided to set that up. Just to give it a corporate presence, get a GMB it to kind of show you know that it’s a local company, but it’s it’s spread out. And it’s but that but then that’s also geo-targeting the US. So it’s a service-based business, targeting the USA, it has a surface area, as long as you don’t say, you know, like, I don’t know how you would do that if you have a global entity and why you would pigeonhole it into a GMB. Yeah. Well, you were you’re required to either show your address or to set a service area and you can’t set the globe as a service area unless you deliver goods and services to the person right at their location is that well, that’s the idea behind the service-based business. Right? So you’d have to look at that. I don’t know why you’d want to do that. Why don’t you just because you’re not here’s the thing where people get Confused about doing local, it’s natural, and it looks really good. And you have to have a GMB or else you’re not going to rank in the three-pack. And that’s where the most action takes place in most niches locally. People going to their cell phones, and they look, look up whatever service it is that they’re looking for, and they get a map pack, but they get ads and a map pack, or something along those lines. If you don’t want that to happen. And if your niche doesn’t trigger a map pack, then why would you want to be involved in that in the first place? There are other ways to verify and validate that entity that doesn’t involve a GMB. We just did it with Land Solutions Network, because I knew we’d be targeting the US and I knew how we would be targeting the other states and cities in the US, right. So I knew what was going to happen already and how that was going to happen. But if I were going globally, I wouldn’t have done that I would have never said my geolocation to the US. I probably would have gotten a GMB, I would have looked for another way, running ads in Google and YouTube, getting that credit card on file going into G Suite. Right as the company land solutions network doing all of the things that a company does when they want to work within Google when they want to run ads, which would be worldwide, not just to one particular geolocation, it just makes no sense.

Yeah, so I agree that you know, there’s if you don’t force a GMB just because you think you need it. If there’s a specific reason that you want to have a GMB or that you need to have a GMB in the US then so be it. But as Marco said, there are other ways to solidify or validate the entity more in Google’s eyes. Like he mentioned running Google ads, right? Having a credit card on file, running some ads, you could run YouTube ads, or display ads very inexpensively with even $1 a day budget, right? So even less, but it’s just that Google can recognize you’re a real person. It’s not a spam account. You’re paying money. Same thing with G Suite. G suites a great way to validate an entity, which at the basic level, it’s $6 a month per user for the G Suite account. And then also, you could just you could upgrade, like Google Drive for that account and do pay so you get additional storage, right? That’s another way to get it on file. So there’s a number of different ways to validate it besides having the GMB unless of course, you need it.

Is It Okay To Use A Generic Description In A U.S.-Based GMB Even If You Are Physically Located In Europe?

Which brings me to question number two of this if I’m physically located in Europe, but I need a US GMB and the health niche. Is it possible this could happen if the description is more generic and not so much health-related? And if the name is more generic? Well, again, I’m not 100% Sure. Why do you need if you’re located in Europe? Excuse me? I’m not sure why you need a GMB in the US. So it doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me. I’m not sure what the point of that would be. So I’m sorry, I can’t answer that.

Is The ID Page Useful Even If You Don’t Have A GMB?

Number three does the ID page loop Make sense? If you don’t have a GMB? Yes, it does. Because although I do The ID @ID page, stuff that we started with, you know, I guess it was in 2018. February 2018. I think we were originally it was originally tied to just local business structure data. But it’s beyond that now. Marco, you can talk a little bit Miley do local, but you can talk a little bit about that more an ID page is just a reference area for an entity. It’s telling the Googlebot to go there all of the entity information that will help to validate that entity is that in this location, and that’s what we use the ID page for. Is that correct?

Yeah, everything on the web has a node. Okay, everything connected to the web. So even if you have a smart refrigerator, smart range, smartphone or smart TV, whatever smart device you have, that’s going to have a note. And the question now is, how do we identify that node for the bot to understand what this connection is to whatever it is that we’re doing? What’s happened, what how that’s being done. Now it’s a local is how it started. But now you have an organization, Mm hmm. She can add you can have an @ID for your organization. And that what that does is is I and identifies the organization know where all of your organizational information resides. And so that that’s how we do it. That’s how we targeted but you can have multiple @IDs, like here, you can have a web page and idea of a product @ID, you’re just naming the node for the product, the website, the web page, just whatever you’re identifying it for about these are identifiers, and how those two nodes get connected. Well, that’s the URL. I don’t know that it’s a hyperlink. They connected through a way for each one to talk to one another. Well, that’s HTTPS. And the way that the word the worldwide web is inter matched right interlinked, so that everything is identified and can The through an IP, or however it is that that that that connection is is made. Now, as far as the question is concerned, does an @ID page loop makes sense? It makes sense because it’s an entity that we named it and the @ID loop, originally, but what we were doing is we were creating an entity loop. We were sending Google hopping from one place to another that contains nothing but our entities’ information and everything related to our entity. And we were just echoing it over and over and over and over again, we were able to track the bot in that echo. It sounds like an echo chamber, right? Or the endless mirror, where it just bounces back and forth, back and forth. And we’ve seen it happen, we can see it. We can see the button. They’re going back and forth going back and forth through the iPhones. We can see it reading the information on the iPhone, this is these are the things that we’ve proven. So is it Yes, of course, it makes sense. It makes total sense because of not You’re not and you’re not identifying your entity properly for the Bob. Thank you was a thorough answer.

How Important Are The Short Links On The GSite Of The SEO Shield?

So DC SEOs up? What’s up, man? He says on the G site of the shield, there are a number of short links that have MGYB in them. How important are they because I want to sell my clients the shield without them actually being able to figure it out where and who it was created by and how much it costs because I will be adding my own margin onto it. I’ve considered not telling them that they’ll end up with a G site, but almost everyone I deal with here in the UK has been burnt by another SEO Company, which is true everywhere, not just in the UK, but been. So I want to be as transparent as possible on a slightly different note if a client doesn’t want to publish the GMB site. Okay, well, let me answer the first question and we’ll come back to that second part. We run all the URLs through the MGB shortener because it gives you another target URL for link building purposes and because of all the link building that’s been done to the drive stacks g sites that we’ve built over the years now. The mgyb.co shortener is incredibly powerful. So you actually siphon power from that into your stack by having those shortened links there. That said, there are a couple of things I don’t know that you could I don’t manage the, you know MGYB Build Team at all that Marco and Rob do that really? So I don’t know if you could request to have one built without the shortened links. I guess it’s possible maybe Marco can answer that or Rob I know he’s usually lurking, listening to us and he comments in slack but something else you could do is when it’s delivered if you wanted to hide that from or you know not to reveal that the mgyb.co shortened links to the client, you could just go into the drive stack and delete those from you know the sheets and things like that if you wanted, obviously, it would be more time-efficient, more efficient if you just ordered the stack and requested did not have those included. Is that something thing that could be done, Marco?

No. And I’ll tell you why. The MTB shortener adds so much power to everything that if they even rank and leave it, they’ll index. So a mind map that’s really hard to index right now will index through the MGYB shortener. So why would we want to interfere with all of the power? And if I were to tell my guys to do that, then you would have to, we would have to give it to you with the warning. We can’t be sure how this is going to work. Yeah, because we don’t do them that way. Now, if you just share your screen for a second and just go to HTTPS, mgyb.co to the shortener.

Oops, I got the wrong fucking type. Maybe I could get it right. That’s all the person is going to see just another shortener, just another URL shortener, they don’t have to figure anything out. I mean, if they want to look at your it’s something, it’s a service that actually you can set you’re paying for the pricing is right there. And you’re using it, just to provide short links and to be able to customize, you can actually go and pay for getting into the service. So you can customize the links for the client. But this is the way I’m customizing your link so that they look better. So they look nicer. So they’re more attractive for the person to click on. They don’t have to figure out everything that you’re doing. They can just from going here. This is just our shortener, it’s no, no different than Bitly, or any other shortener out there.

And I’d like to comment and say what Marco said is true. I agree that also delivering a drive stack without those URLs would be like, going into a fight with one arm tied behind your back, right, because you’re losing the benefit that you gain from having the MGYB SEO links because of the power that’s been accrued to it over time. So that’s number one.

Number two, again, if you know my rebuttal to say that you’re worried about the client seeing, you know, going to mgyb.co, and looking at the store and seeing what drives tax costs and everything else, what your client have any idea what the hell to do, how to order what to do with them or anything else without you know, I mean, it’s like 99% chance that they wouldn’t have a damn clue as to what to do. Even if they did find the store, they wouldn’t have any idea how any of those things would benefit them. Because as it stands right now, it’s still basically a store that is for SEO professionals and marketing professionals. Not for the layman, right? The average business person or a business owner. So you’re getting paid for understanding how to put all of these things together and make it work and produce results. Right. That’s your expertise. I remember reading somewhere, somebody said you know when you have a plumber that’s got 10 years of experience to come out and fix a leaking pipe, right? And he comes out and fixes it in 30 minutes and charges you $150 or $200, you know the service call plus whatever $200? Or are you paying for $200? You know, like, it takes 30 minutes. So what would that be $400 an hour effectively, or so? Are you only paying for that 30 minutes? No, you’re paying for 10 years of experience that that plumber has accrued. And that’s why they’re able to fix it so efficiently. I don’t know if that’s an analogy that makes sense to you. It does to me. But you know, you’re they’re paying a markup because you’re the one that’s putting it together and making sure that they’re going to get results from it. Whereas even if they went and found our store, it’s likely they would have no idea what the hell they were looking at, or what the hell to do with it, even if they did purchase it, you know what I mean? So I wouldn’t and trust me if they ordered it and then got into the order where they had to submit the order details. They’d be lost probably because they don’t understand half the terminology that you know We requested the order. So I wouldn’t worry about that at all. You should always Mohammed, I think he’s got a question in here. He’s been following us for a long time. And he had, you know, Mohammed, I’m not picking on you. But he’s gotten to a lot of situations with clients about that kind of stuff, you know, where too much has been revealed or to ask too many questions and blah, blah, blah. And remember, you’re getting paid for your expertise, for knowledge that you’ve accrued through time and effort. And so you deserve to be paid for that and manage the build, manage, you know, the, what’s done with it afterward and everything else. So any comments on that?

Yeah, this is where I’d like to add that if he’s taken the person through the conversation in the right way. What he’s done is he’s told this person, I’m going to get your results how I get results, is my business-like, I don’t you’re not going to tell this business owner how to run their business because you probably don’t know how to you don’t care to know how all you need to know is as Jordan Fowler one of our mastermind Member says, Well, you have to know is Google. And all you have to tell that client is Look, I, you know, your business, I know Google, and I’m going to get you results, and you’re going to pay me for results. You’re not paying me for the hour, the why. Now, if you want to pay me for the hour or the Y, that’s consultation, and that’s 1500 dollars an hour, I’d be happy to take you into structure into an instructional model, minimum five hours a month, and during the course of 12 to 18 months, I can take you through everything so that you can go and get results. Or rather than do that, why don’t you just pay me my monthly, and let me get your results so that we know you don’t have to go through those at through that Crash Course of 18 months of learning so that you can start the process of doing what it is that I already do and that I have 17 years of experience doing. So, guys, it’s that conversate you got to have that conversation with the client and you have to school the client in the right mode, yes, they’ve been burned, they’ve been burned because there’s, they’re forced to sign contracts. And they’re promised the moon, and that the moon is made of cheese and all this shit, where all you have to do is tell them, hey, look, man, I’m gonna get you results, I’m going to need 90 days, I can probably get your results sooner. But I don’t want to make any promises because I don’t control Google. But what I do know is that within 90 days, we’re going to start to see results. At the end of those 90 days, we’ll sit down and revisit the fee. So that gives that even gives you an opportunity to increase your feet because you’re gonna rock this guy’s world. If you do the things that we do in the way that we do them. The guy is going to be blown out of his mind. I mean, his head is going to explode from the results you’re going to get. But the conversation has to be there. If he’s focusing on how you’re getting results, and why and why are you doing this? And how are you doing it? Dude, you got to pay me for my knowledge. I’m not gonna give you my knowledge for 2500 bucks a month. There’s just no way.

Can You Use The Primary URL From The Money Site As Rel=Canonical If A Client Doesn’t Want To Publish Their GMB Site?

Yeah, she says on a slightly different note. If a client doesn’t want to publish their GMB site, can I use the primary URL from the money site is the REL=canonical? Yeah, I mean, if that’s fine, the only reason why we had set it up originally to point to the GMB website if it’s for the local project is that some of our customers at MGYB or members in the mastermind or whatever, if you have the REL=canonical pointing to the money site, if you’re doing a backlink analysis through like majestic or a href, or something like that, you can often see some of the links that are being built to the G site through the REL=canonical, like in other words, so you can see some of the link building that’s being done by you know if you’re using link building analysis tools or link analysis tools. I don’t care. I honestly don’t care because as long as I’m getting results, it really shouldn’t matter. Some of our customers or members have didn’t want that. So that’s why we defaulted it to point the REL equals canonical to the GMB website if have a GMB site, you know, a GMB location associated with the drive stack built, but it’s not necessary like you can like, it just depends if you’re worried about clients looking at link building analysis, you know, Link analysis, reports and such like that and you don’t want them to see the types of links that are being built, then yeah, I would point it to something else. It could be the, you know, not the primary website, but you could even point it to like the GMB map instead of the GMB website, for example, but again, I don’t care. Personally, I even just ordered them through the MGYB now just like you guys, do, I swear, I ordered my drive stacks just like you guys do. And then when I get them back, I typically when I’m uploading my ID page because I upload it to my own Amazon site, or whatever, then I usually do the REL=canonical back to the money site. So it’s just an edit that I make before I upload it. It’s entirely up to you. Is there any other comments you want to make on that Adam or Marco before I move on.

I don’t see why they wouldn’t want the GMB published. Like I don’t see why that’s a showcase. It’s a showcase for your post. It’s more URLs to spam to link built to the link below to four iframe, there’s just so much that you can get from that. And then not only that, when they see just how much how many visits come through, and how much actually comes through the posts on the GMB like that whole ecosystem. I was just looking at one and today’s what Wednesday and I’ve already had 838 post views for the week, and it’s only Wednesday. I’m about to post that as an update in the heavy hitter club. But it’s ridiculous for the client to even consider not publishing the money site, especially since it’s done by Google on auto and they interlink everything and they give you all the love that’s necessary for you to just hammer.

It’s another branded asset too. I totally I agree, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to. I mean, you guys, you understand you can’t control clients, sometimes clients demand things that just make no sense, they defy logic. And that’s fine. You have to work within those parameters at times or fire them as a client. But I agree 100% with Marco, there’s no reason why, like, and we’ve had that common question come up in Hump Day Hangouts, or like, you know, my client doesn’t want the G site ranking. Why not? Why the hell wouldn’t you want a G site ranking, right? Like it pushes a competitor off the page, and if you iframe your money site page into the top of the G site, then they’re gonna see the original page. I mean, you know, the money site anyways, what difference does it make and but some people just, they’re just finicky like that, but I totally agree. It’s another asset takes up more real estate, you can do a lot with it. So it seems silly not to, in my opinion. But the short answer is yes, you can canonicalize the ID page to you know, another tier-one asset I would recommend it being a Google asset like the GMB map URL for example or something like that.

Should We Use The Press Release When Requesting For Link Building Services?

Okay, g site whatever fits is up. What’s up, Fitz. He’s here almost every week. Good day, gents. Thanks for the forum to ask questions and get real-world actual answers. Marco thank you for the charity work you do for these kids. Love how Fitz promotes your charity for you, man. It’s awesome. He’s a good man for that. He says, Thanks, Fitz. Yeah, please post the charity link again so others can help with a quick 1020 or $100 to help these kids out oh road needs good people to even help even if it is with only a few dollars today. My question is on Hump Day. We hear about limiting the links to only one link so that we can concentrate the power is that for press releases or when requesting link building? Oh, that’s a great question fit. So if that wasn’t clear before that was within press releases now. Marco might have a slightly different methodology than I do. For press releases. I typically like to use most press releases if the kind of one-off press releases. I just usually like to With two links like and again, if you go look, I’m talking when I’ve talked about it, it’s mainly for press releases.

Because for example, you can add three press or three links into a press release. But you’re splitting the power of the link equity coming from that press release, every time you add an additional URL like another outbound link, right, so you can concentrate the power into one specific URL if you need to. However, if you go to the MGYB.co store or domain and you look at them or you go to our YouTube channel, or you go to Google and search for press releases silos, or PR silo stalking or whatever, you’ll see the webinar that we did, right I the way that I do it, I’m usually linking with three links per press release now and it’s because the way for local projects that I do it or that my team does it, is we publish a blog post and we publish a corresponding GMB post that links to the blog post. Okay, and then we publish a press release and The press release will link to either the blog post URL directly, or to the GMB post URL. Does that make sense that’s promoting, that’s linked to the blog post URL. And then we link back to the tier one. A tier one entity asset could be the home page, it could be a category page or, you know, top-level silo page. It could be Facebook page, you know, LinkedIn company page, the drive stack, primary folder, the G site, whatever, anyone of the primary tier one entity assets. So that’s link number two, right? first, the link is going to link to the blog post that the press releases promoting, right because we that’s what we publish or not for, like, if I’m doing three blog posts per week, then if the clients only paying for one blog post, or excuse me, one press release per week, then one of those blog posts is going to get a press release that is promoting the blog post and the blog post the press releases either gonna link directly to the blog post URL or to the GMB post URL that is linking directly to the blog post URL, then we link to it. Another tier-one entity asset, any one of them. I’ve talked about this before, but my bloggers have a client workbook, which is a Google Sheet for every client. And there’s a target URLs column that has all of the primary tier one entity assets that we want to power up, and they just go down and each time they publish another press release, blog post, whatever, they select another target URL, and they link to that. So that would be link number two, and then the third link is a link back to a previous press release in the same silo. Right, because we do press release silo, we theme mirror everything right, we mirror the blog post silo structure into the GMB or excuse me, the Google site, this into the GMB posts and now, even in the press releases, so everything is themed there. That’s why it’s called mirroring, right. And again, that was originally coined by the network Empire. So I usually if it’s a one-off, press release, I’m usually linking two to two outbound URLs. If it is a within a silo which most content is now then it’s going to look To like I said, the original post URL or the GMB, the corresponding GMB post URL, another tier-one entity asset, just cycle through target URL list. And then the third is going to be linking to the previous press release in that same silo, that’s just the way that I do it. Any comments on that?

Yeah, I wasn’t referring to either one of those scenarios when I talked about the one link method, which was strictly for the drive stack extension. And the G site inner page extension targeting a money site inner page, that’s when we use that one link method to concentrate the power as close to one to one as possible. instead of dividing it, like you just mentioned, in a press release the way that you’d be dividing, dividing is either two by two or by three, right? We want a one to one transfer from the G site over to the money site, an inner page from the extension to the inner page. So I’d go back and watch those webinars fates. I know that you have access to those. And that’s what we were mainly talking about it although you can do that one lick method however way you want to do it. Guess what you have to understand is how you’re transferring PageRank ranking score and power.

Can We Use Dedhia’s Link Building Services To A Money Site?

Alright, so we’re almost out of time I’d like to get through these next two if we can. So let’s get to them Jigglypuff says, Hey guys, I just cut the battle plan and really enjoying the content you guys share. Well, thank you. Can the link building by Dedhia offer through MGYB be used on a money site? No. We don’t recommend that. You know that we always recommend using the tier one entity assets is the link building targets. That’s what our link building services were. were developed specifically to power up the tier one entity assets, not the money site. That’s why we call it an SEO shield because it acts as an SEO firewall that protects the money site, right you’re basically building a cocoon a shield around your money site using high authority entity assets that you can now power those up. And ultimately, the link equity flows through to the money site, but it gets cleaned or laundered through those entity assets. So we do not recommend that now if you want link diversity to your money site press releases, that’s a fantastic way like that press releases are an awesome way to add length diversity to your money site, because you can link directly to your money site. And I would recommend that you change it. I primarily use naked URLs when linking to the money site, but you can do some generic stuff or some brand anchors and things like that so that you get linked diversity as well as anchor diversity back to your money site, but I would use press releases for that. Any comments on that?

No, no, no, never to the money site. We don’t recommend that. That’s why we have the SEO power shield as you said, it provides a shield and it amplifies the power. So why would you do anything except go through the SEO Power shield? That’s right.

So that’s why it’s important to build those assets first and then you can hammer the shit out of those assets with the link building and embed gigs or embed plus link building gigs. So that link building is getting done to the embed pages, right? So there’s a number of things you can do to power those assets up without them directly linking directly to your money site through those through daddy’s link building service if that makes sense. So there you go.

Next question, and we’re going to wrap it up guys because we’re at the five o'clock mark and unfortunately, dammit, Mohammed, I answered your question. I commented below cult of copy. That’s a great resource for copywriting and Facebook. They’ve also got a marketplace where you can hire copywriters and all kinds of stuff. So go look at the cult of a copy.

Can You Order More Than One ID Page DFY Service To The Same Domain?

Anyways, this last question, can you order more than one ID page done for you service to the same domain but pointing to different money site URL? Or should you only have one ID page for each money site? If you understand that’s what we were talking about earlier. an ID page is supposed to be basically a resource To say this is where it helps to validate an entity, right? So a money site, the right should really only have one ID page, the way that I do it for local, okay, because remember that everything I do is local. But you can have multiple ID pages for a brand. If there’s in my case for local if there are multiple locations, right? So there can be like, for example, I’m working on a tree service project now sharing that in the mastermind. That as an as got multiple locations, and so they’re the homepage of the website, the primary domain, the root domain is essentially got Corporation organization, Corporation structured data, right? So markup that has an ID page, that Id page is just brand and keywords. So there’s not any location optimization for the ID page, right? Because it’s an ID page for the overall entity, the brand itself, right, and I’m using Corporation markup which is a subset of organization markup, okay. So I’ve got an ID page that links to the or that the money site links to or references the ID page for the brand plus keyword Association, but no location optimization. But then I’ve got multiple locations, that is branded plus location name appended to it. And each one of those locations has its own ID page that’s optimized for that specific location. Does that make sense? So you can have multiple ID pages. If you’re having, you know, again, depending on what it is you’re trying to validate that just if you understand what we’re talking about with what an entity is, then it’ll click you know, you’ll get you you understand what the ID page is for it’s, it’s a resource that you’re telling Google through the structured data code, hey, all of the entity information can be validated here. And so on that page is where you have all the iframes structured data, you know, tier one, entity assets, all of that stuff is listed or housed within that Id page, because you’re telling Google reference that page to validate this entity and all the data within. That makes sense. So if you understand that, then you there are times where you can have multiple ID pages and marketing you might be able to explain a little bit more clearly than me. I don’t know if that was clear or not.

You can have multiple @ID it Alright, so you got a parent. And this parent has four children it doesn’t matter where those children are. So now you have the field organization Corporation, as you said, and you’re going to have in our locations now as the parent, you can talk about your children because they’re your children. And you can do this in the schema in the JSON LD. Rob showed this in the heavy hitter club in our MC or we could go Wednesday, in our mastermind I didn’t in the webinar that we had, he showed he showed how you can reference the children and how the children can each reference the parents. And what you have to be careful is that you make sure these children don’t Become orphaned, where you confuse the but you have to make sure that this parent is claiming the right children because it starts claiming other children, then you’re gonna have to pay child support. Everybody’s gonna get confused. They don’t know who’s dedhia, who’s mohamed, you have to make this clear to them but if you guys if you confuse the bot you excuse the language I know they’re supposed to be pgl give a shit. You are screwed if you don’t reference everything correctly. Rather than doing all of that why don’t you just concentrate on your entity, which is what it should be? It’s an entity loop your ID is an entity loop is everything about your company about your business?

There you go.

Okay, we got to wrap up or come to the heavy hitter club and learn how to do it.

There you go. So thanks, everybody for being here. Tom. See you guys next week.

See guys, Bye, everyone. Bye.

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Announcement

Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. Today is the 10th of June 2020. got everybody here, we’re gonna say hi real quick and get the introductions out of the way and then start answering your questions because we got a lot of questions on what the deal was this week everybody brought their the good stuff. So we’re gonna get into it today. So, Bradley, we’ll start with you man. How are you doing today?

Good happy to be here been working on process development for the last two days straight to entire days and feel like my eyes are crossed, but I’ve gotten a lot of it done. So I’m so close to having all my onboarding stuff for a client you know, new clients and entity asset setup, and all that the process is almost a hundred percent complete. I’ve put it off for years. But I’ve been working on it for like the last six or seven weeks and it’s almost done. So super excited about that. I’ll be sharing this with the mastermind members tomorrow too. So just let you guys know that we are going to be there. In other words, otherwise happy to be here. Good stuff right Marco How about you man?

I’m good, man. still warm and sunny in Costa Rica nothing changes Groundhog Day you seeing it everywhere you see the exact same thing I think might be a What do you call it a screen a white screen that I put behind me right with all that light and this is fake this is really a mink coat right with Fern lining and it’s all fake none of this is really good shit.

Just a green screen but you made white and sunny Yeah, yeah.

Well, Hey, how you doing man? Are you nice and warm? Are you freezing? Now actually today was it was a pretty good day. The last week or so was rainy and foggy and shitty, but you know, today’s it’s pretty good. I’m excited to be here also working on processes, you know, trying to build you know, getting to build another agency. as well, so you know, working on processes training people, and working on that. So I feel I feel you, Bradley. But you know, it is what it is like you do once you put in the work and then you get somebody repeating it over and over and over again. So that’s why you put in the work so that you can multiply that. So it’s been it’s good, man. It’s good. Everything’s good, man. Yeah. All right. Last but not least, Chris, how you doing today, man? Doing well here. And yeah, it’s raining here for a change.

I think it’s like, I don’t know. Well, it almost feels like it’s the first time it’s a very long time. And it’s actually probably raining here.

But yeah, since it goes here. Nice, nice. Well, before we get into it, I wanted to let everyone know, we’re going to be releasing some more information about POFU live 2020. It’s still going to be the last weekend of September and it is going to be virtual. We’ll be having some updates shortly towards the end of the month, I believe and we’ll be able to answer all the questions. You’ll be able to grab your tickets. To that, we’re going to be reaching out. We had a few people last year who just hopped on right away. We’ll be reaching out to you to get with you about that. So, the other thing I wanted to touch on, we’ve had a few more people joining to x your agency. And for those of you who don’t know about this, if you’re an agency owner or consultant, if you want to get more clients want to grow your revenue, you want to scale your team. If you want to do that than 2xyouragency is really the place for you to go just go over there, check it out, I’m not gonna bore you to death. You’re all capable of reading and watching the video on the page. But there is a ton of training Bradley did the bulk of that training. I know Hernan did some and I may be leaving people out. But it’s just an incredible amount of content following the three pillars as far as what you can do to do exactly that and get more clients for your revenue and scale your team. And also, version four of the battle plan came out not too long ago if you somehow missed out on that. You can go grab that battleplan.semanticmastery.com and certainly not least is the mastermind Bradley mentioned that real quick that he’s going to be sharing all this with the mastermind if you want to find out more about that just head over to mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And I’m gonna sneeze my brains oh man has the worst trying to talk and then having to sneeze all of a sudden. Alright, got that passed. So let’s get into it. I wanted to tell people to real quick before we do that, sorry. If you haven’t been over to mgyb.co yet, head over there for your done for you services. I was reminded because we were talking today about creating some more training, talking to people about worrying less SEO about you know, not caring what the algorithm is doing. If you head over there, there are best practice webinars which are great. I think most of them were created in the last few months. Go over there. If you have questions or you just want to find out more about you know, how does this stuff work? What should I do? be doing with it, things like that, just go over to mgyb.co. And there’s a lot of great free training over there as well as the dumper Youth Services. Cool. All right, guys, anything else we need to cover before we dive into it?

Yes, I’ve got something I want to cover about syndication network applets and RSS attribution links. So it’s cool if you guys want to go ahead and grab the screen get into that.

Go for it.

Okay, standby.

Alright, I don’t know if it was a support ticket or what but it was brought to my attention that I guess some done for you syndication network buyers didn’t if you’re not using an RSS plugin that creates an attribution link whenever you syndicate content. So in other words, if you’re using an RSS trigger to trigger your syndication networks in our training, and we’ve always talked about how we use our an RSS attribution that’s coated in through a plugin. Originally, it was using the Yoast plugin, which we no longer recommend. Marco calls it the toast plugin. So we haven’t recommended that for many years because it’s full of bloated code and they update it. It’s just a mess. We don’t ever recommend using Yoast. We developed our own. Well, Chris did our crispy or developed our own RSS plugin. There’s a free version that goes with Syndication Academy, you guys can get it if you’re part of any one of our groups. There’s also a pro version that is free as long as you’re in the mastermind that does have a whole lot of other functionality to it besides just the attribution. But I guess some people hadn’t didn’t realize that if you’re not using a plugin to insert an attribution link into the feed items. So for those of you that don’t know what the hell I’m even talking about, what is an attribution like okay, well, let me show you an example. This is a blog post on blogger for myself. Land realty project. And you can see that down here at the bottom it says see we buy land and Bluefield, VA post originally published on the alpha land realty blog. Well, this was a post that was published to this blogger blog via an RSS feed through IFTTT. Okay. So if we were to go take a look at the actual RSS feed Well, in this case, I haven’t hardcoded into an applet which is what I’m going to talk about today with you guys. Because I’m not using our own RSS plugin for this and I don’t use Yoast, Marco. Also, you mentioned there was a plugin what’s it called?

Simple attribution. It’s really good really light and works fantastically well. Right here.

Okay. I haven’t used this but Marco pointed this out. So there are a couple of things that I want to point out here guys and attribution. Like what that is is whenever you are republishing content, you’re supposed to cite the source give out attribution to the original publisher to the original author, right. And so that’s just best practice. And so when we’re syndicating content, our own content to our own branded network, one of the ways that you get a link back, and also to be proper about it is to you to add the attribution link. And there’s a couple of ways you can do it. You can use a plugin. Again, use our plugin, or you can use this simple attribution if you’re using WordPress.

If you’re not using WordPress, or you don’t want to use one of these plugins, you can hard code into the syndication applet inside of IFTTT and attribution link and I’m going to share with you guys some example codes. There are two different versions of them. Well, there are multiple versions of each, but there are two basic categories of attribution links. And so what that does is every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically insert this type of attribution link down here at the bottom, okay? And so that’s giving credit to the original source. So if I click that. And this one I don’t have target equals blank in there. So it’s going to open in the same window, but you can see that it’s going to pull up the original post the same post that we just saw on blogger. It’s just it’s giving a link back to the original source. Okay, now for my alpha land realty project. I’m not using an RSS plugin, so it’s hardcoded into IFTTT. Let me give you an example. This is the RSS to blogger applet, okay? So if we go into settings, you’re going to see right there is my Feed URL. And right here is the body or the applet body. So that’s the entry content. Then I put a break tag, then published first here, and you can see it’s just a href equals enter URL and then enter and then the anchor text, in this case, would be enter URL as well, that’s how I have it. I’ve updated it since that post was published because you can see what this looks like here. So what I wanted to share with you guys was just how to do that and we can give you some examples real quick.

Let’s go back. Take a look at some of the other applets. We’ll take a look at RSS to WordPress. Take a look at the settings there. The same thing we’ve got, these are short, I’ve got short attribution links here, which just link back to the original post. You can also have a combination of an attribution link that links to the original post, plus links back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever you want. Where else would this be useful? Well think about like if you’ve got a press advantage account. Or if you’re buying press releases from MGB and you get an organization page, you get an RSS feed for your organization page, a media room page, essentially, where you can go in and set up applets. And I encourage you to do so set up applets for your sending branded syndication networks using the press advantage RSS feed. And the same thing, you go into the applets and code your attribution in and then link back to the the the original press release published on the press advantage domain.

Let me grab the right one here. And I was blowing this up so you guys can see it, you can hard code a link back into the original to the press advantage organization page itself or the media room page, okay, or on a blog, if you’re hard coding it into IFTTT to link back to your primary website, you can link either to the home page or to the blog page or whatever you really you want to. Okay, so let me zoom in on this just a little bit so you guys can see the code and I’m going to share this in the chatbox. And we’re going to put this in a knowledge base or something as well. But this is with the link to home or blog page or to like a press advantage for any source, okay, that you’re going to be syndicating content from the RSS feed. You can type code in this type of stuff. These are what’s called ingredients and the applet most of you should know this. And then these with the square brackets, those are what you would replace those are basically tokens, you would replace that with your own website URL. And you can see that you can swap this out this is not you don’t have to just use these you can change wording you can add target equals blank. You can add strategically nofollow tags to, for example, linking back to the homepage. Why would that be? If you’re going to use one of these applets? Where does it say with link to homepage or blog page? Why would you want to possibly code in a nofollow link? Think about it. Okay, so here’s why I would tell you to, you know, and that was a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it for you. If you’re syndicating content from your blog consistently to your branded network, right over and over and over again, you’re syndicating content. Well, each time you syndicate and let’s just use the three blogs in a standard syndication network. The three web two Dotto blog properties, okay, so it’s Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, right? If you have if you’re using one of these types of formats up here, where you’re linking back to the original post, but then also linking back to the homepage, or to the blog, row page, you know, blog index page or whatever. Then if you’re, if you’re doing I don’t know, let’s just use an example two posts per week. That’s eight posts per month.

Well, you could see over time, how having the same URL with the same anchor text all do follow back to the homepage of the blog page, that remember, every single post you publish would include a link back to whatever you however you have it coded here, right. And that’s what I’m talking about is back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever it is the original content, the post URL, that’s only going to get three anchor text links back. Well, some of the other properties, but I’m just talking about the web to auto blog accounts right now, you’re only going to get three anchor text, you link back to that post URL for each publication, right. So each blog post that’s published, it’s only going to receive three-link backs with a hundred percent title anchor text match, okay? So that’s perfectly fine. But if you’re going to continually post over and over and over again, which you likely are you should be, then you don’t want to constantly hit the same keyword unless it’s a brand or an anchor a naked URL. anchor, right with dofollow links. So that’s why I’m saying if you’re gonna, that’s why the way that I have coded here was to make it very simple for you guys, you can see that my anchor text in any one of these top three versions is going to be either brand or website URL, which means naked URL. So naked URL anchor text for the URL that it’s linking to. Why? Because you don’t want to cause a problem. And so that’s why, if you want to use keywords, you can but I would recommend for the link back to the homepage of the blog page or a category page, whatever it is that you’re linking back to that you would add a nofollow tag. If you’re going to be using keywords, it’s okay to use the brand. It’s okay to use a naked URL. But if you’re going to be using keywords, I would recommend to also include a rel equals nofollow attribute into the code the HTML code, if that makes sense. Okay. However, to if you don’t want to do that, you could just use the simple ones down here which is linked to the original post only, and like it said you guys, you can change this around. You can see, in this case, its entry URL using the entry title as the anchor text. In this case, its entry URL using the naked URL as the anchor text. Okay, so it just depends, you guys can swap, move things around, swap stuff out, you can change the wording slightly, all of that, it’s perfectly fine. It’s just really important that you guys understand. If you’re not adding, if you don’t have an attribution coded into your RSS feed through a plugin, okay, then this is something that you could use instead is actually code them into the applet which is what I’ve actually been doing because I’m not using plugins anymore for it for most of my sites I just haven’t coded in the are up to the syndication applet. Okay. So does anybody want to comment on that?

No, okay. No, no, this is it just to make it clear that this is just best practice. When you get a syndication network, you should have either a plugin on the WordPress website which creates the attribution either the Semantic Mastery plugin or some other plugin, whatever the plugin of your choice could be, would be. And in our, in this case, we’re recommending simple attribution so that you could do that our plugin but Semantic Mastery plugin allows spinning and a whole lot of other things that just add, you can add relevance, you can change the way that it links back to the post, or whatever it is that you’re linking to. So you have a lot more leeway in what you can do with our Semantic Mastery plugin. Unfortunately, the one that has or fortunately whatever you want to see that the one that has the most functionality is of course only available if you’re a member of the semantic mastery mastermind. Otherwise, if you don’t have that plugin, and if you’re not creating the attribution when the RSS feed goes out, when you do your post, through that plugin, what you have to do is go into IFTTT into your applets and hardcoded the way that you just showed using either brand or native You could also go something generic, you could go with a generic anchor more info more here and things like that, that’s perfectly good. If you’re going to be doing a keyword as you said, it should be nofollow, or you can actually go in it and this is a lot of work you want to VA doing it is actually going in and for that one post that’s going to post change it to, to anchor, let it go out and then change it back to keyword anchor, whatever it is do follow. But then you have to change everything back to make sure that you don’t keep getting that keyword over and over and over again with a do follow link from all of your properties all over the place, which just doesn’t make sense. So I just wanna I just want people to be clear what it is that they have to do. You have to have a plugin, or you have to have this hard code in the applet it’s one or the other.

Yeah, and see that’s why I recommend like I said, Guys, if you’re going to use these top ones where there’s every post is going to have a link back to The homepage or a blog page, then I recommend that you are using a brand anchor or naked URLs and URL anchors so that you don’t have to worry about going back in and editing the applets to change it up every so often. If you don’t want to do that, as I said, you could just go with the original, the entry URL, right, which is the actual blog post URL, or whatever syndicated content URL it is, and that you can do it that way too. So you don’t have to worry about accruing too many of a particular type of anchor. That makes sense. Okay. So that’s it, I just wanted to point out here’s another example. This is one of the newer posts. And you can see this is the this is actually going to Press Advantage. So this is one from the press. This is it was a news release or a press release from press advantage through that alpha land realty account. And if you take a look at it, if I click on that, it’s going to go directly to the press advantage post, press or excuse me, press release. Okay. And then if you’ll see if I come back and click through the alpha land Realty, I’m using brand anchors there that clicks through to the media room page. See that? So again, that’s just an example of Tumblr. And then lastly, there’s the example of WordPress, here’s one from last year. And you can take a look down here at the bottom, you can see it says, that’s the title of the post. If I click that, it’s going to take me to the original post on my alpha land realty blog. And if I click through, you can see in this case, I put a naked URL to the blog, which is the homepage because the blog is on a subdomain. And so the blog is the homepage basically, of alpha land Realty. If that makes sense. So you can see I just use a naked URL there, okay, with a naked URL anchor. Right? So I just wanted to kind of point that out. Because I guess it was brought up somebody realized that they were syndicating content with no attribution. And so I wanted to make sure everybody had an understanding of you know, where you can add attribution if you don’t already have that inserted into your RSS feeds via a plugin, okay. And like I said, you should be, you know, if you were syndicating content without attribution If you’ve been following best practices with publishing content that always includes an internal link to one of your pages on your site, whatever it is you’re trying to promote, you’re still getting the SEO benefit. We always recommend having an attribution link. Because if you know, especially because I like having the title of the post is the anchor text linking back to the post URL itself, it just adds a bunch of diversity of different types of anchors that are coming that are accruing or building up over time for your site in general, right. Does that make sense? Because the title of the blog post becomes, at least the way that I have my applets coded, the title of blog posts becomes the anchor text, and so that adds a lot of diversity over time, if that makes sense. Okay, so anyway, I just wanted to cover that. Hopefully, that makes sense. Let me reset all this stuff, and then we’ll get to questions.

Would The T1 RYS Stack Nitro Link Building Combination Enough To Power An Affiliate Site?

Okay, so we’ll start with Benjamin. He says, Hey, guys, I’m building a content site currently in a competitive niche primary keyword 75,000. A month for Google to monetize with affiliate sales. There is new curated content going on to the site each day, my plan was to get a tier-one network set up around the money site, then have an RYS stack above that pointing to the properties in tier one. Then throw the kitchen sink at dry stack via the night your link building package. Would you say this is the optimum configuration for these three elements? Or am I overthinking it, Ben? No, Ben, that’s I mean, that’s, that’s right. Get the syndication network. In fact, you, the best thing to do is just order the SEO power shield. Because you’re going to have it’s pretty much everything combined. And so you get the syndication network first, and then they build the syndication network properties into the drive stack. Then you get the drive stack and ID page, all of that the G site. And then you can once you have all of that delivered. In fact, you don’t even have to wait if you wanted to. You could start building links to the syndication network, as soon as you have that delivered which that gets delivered first. Or you could wait until everything is delivered and build links to all It so all of the URLs from the syndication network, the drive stack files and folders, the G site, that kind of stuff. Or you could like I said, do two different link builder gigs, one link building gig for the syndication network, because you’re gonna get that first anyways. Wow. And then you know, takes another two weeks or whatever for the drive stack the G site to be completed. And you could order another link building gig for that. So it really just depends how, how you want to, you know, kind of sequence the things, but if you buy an SEO power shield, it’s going to be the bundle, it just saves you kind of puts everything together and it helps our team because our team knows the process in which sequence to deliver them. That’s what I would recommend. Any comments.

SEO power shield with link building included, but that’s SOP right? Yeah, he’s in a difficult niche, you got to hit it. Once it’s delivered to see what happens to see how much more you’re going to need. I was looking at the second part of this question, and I’m seeing, like, there’s no way to answer Yeah, that’s going to be enough. Nobody can tell you what’s going to be in stuff in your niche. It’s just you get the SEO Power Shield back, you hit it with the link building, you hit it with the embeds. Do some press releases, of course, and link building and embed, and then see what happens. Once that’s done once the dust clears in 21 days wait it out, and you need data you need, you need to see what damage all of that did how it is that you’re managing to come up in that niche. Once you have that information that you know, whether you need to extend your drive sec, which you probably will and something that’s very competitive. I’m gonna say maybe I’m not gonna say probably you might need it. If you do we have that available then it then it’s the same procedure, the same process, right? You have the drive stack you extend it, you do the money site, inner page, link building embeds, maybe a press release, and see how that does to push up the top market level category and so on and so on and so on until you get the desired results. I mean, there’s no one cure-all for everything, if we could do that, then I wouldn’t be here.

Probably for a long time ago, for a long time we had, especially when syndication Academy was new, we would have members, you know, people come on the hump day Hangouts, and almost every week we get this question, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts? will it take to rank for whatever keyword and people would you know? And we would always say, it depends, right? We can’t answer that. It always depends. It takes as many as it takes, that was our answer as many as it takes, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts will it take to rank? We would always say as many as it takes because there’s no way that we can answer that. Again, I always try to do the least amount of work to get results. So I don’t usually come out of it depends. Again, it depends on the project and what the budget is and all that other kind of stuff. Sometimes I’ll come out of the gate with you know, Nitro, you know, Nitro kit, link building package, but for a lot of the local projects that I work on, you know, I that’s not that’s unnecessary, it’s overkill, especially if I’m going to be staging you know, cycling through link building and embed gigs over the course of a few months, then there’s really no need to come out right up front, you know, all guns blazing, because I’m going to make up for it, and you know, by doing multiple gigs over time, and so I like doing it that way. Because that way I’m not, you know, blowing my load so to speak, you know, like, spending a whole bunch of money upfront where and where might have not needed that if that makes sense. I like to kind of reserve keep things in reserve for when needed and kind of watch and monitor how much the needle moves with things that I do and then I can start to determine Okay, this is more competitive than I thought it was. So maybe I have to go a little bit more aggressive on link building or whatever. And that’s just the way that I do it. I know a lot of people like to come out as you know, all guns blazing, like throw Everything that happened something right up front, but what I don’t like about that is, you know, if you don’t need as much, then you’re kind of wasting time or money for that matter. That could be reserved or money that you could keep is profit instead, you know, so, but it’s really up to you how you want to approach that.

How Do You Use The ID Page?

Alright ends up he says, I got my first SEO shield order back I understand the syndication network and posting and press releases. I understand the drive stacking. I’m still lost on the ID page though, what do I do with it? Do I submit it to Google Search Console? Yes, I recommend doing that. So if you uploaded it, you know, if you have the drive, excuse me, the ID page, and an Amazon s3 bucket. The way that you can add that to your search console is you can upload you can go to add it you have to add it as a URL. You can’t do like a domain prefix and search console with it because you don’t own the Amazon domain. But you can add it as a URL. Right. So you add you go to add the URL and search console and it’ll tell you that it needs verification. And if you’re just submitting the Amazon s3 URL, then you can download the HTML file and upload it to the same bucket. Right, the same Amazon bucket that you have the HTML page hosted in or saved in, okay, and then then you go back and click Verify, and it’ll verify it just like that. And so I always recommend, you know, whatever account, the G site, and drive stack were built under, is typically where I end up submitting the ID page into the search console there. It doesn’t matter if you have a branded asset, you know, like a G Suite account or something like that. You can always add it there, too. It doesn’t matter to the same search console account that’s attached to your G Suite account. I’m just saying, for my processes, we typically just add it to the search console account of the G site and drive stack owner, so to speak. But yes, you can do that. Do I never touch it, you there are, you know, there are things you can do to add additional stuff on there. I don’t know how much I can share here specifically because some of that stuff is reserved for the mastermind and or our wife’s only, or perhaps a heavy hitter club now, but you can add additional things into it.

You know, just think about other assets that would make sense to embed, it makes sense to embed in there, you know what I mean? So for example, you could possibly take your blog role page and embed that into it so that if you’re blogging consistently on your money site, now you’ve got dynamic content, updating your ID page, because you’ve embedded your blog index page into the ID page, does that make sense? So that way, it is being updated every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically update the ID page through the embed, right. So there will be like new content on the page. So that’s just one example of some of the things that you can do, you can add additional assets in there that are branded, you can update the H, the JSON LD structured data code to add more same as attributes. You know, there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to it. Beyond that, you can leave it alone, that’s perfectly fine. But you can always squeeze more power out of it, you just got to think about what type of assets would make sense to embed in there are things that you could do to dynamically update it, like I just mentioned, RSS feeds, or there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to an ID page. Okay. But you can leave it just the way that it is and get results from that too. But you can always squeeze more power out is what I’m saying. Each property that gets iframe into that @ID page is a perfect place for link building and for embed ones and link building. So you also can you can consider that as an asset. All of those URLs are assets for you to hammer when link not hammering in, in the garbage, spam, which will work anyway. But if you keep your link profile clean, if you use better links, web two dot o is the way that we do it in web 2.0 contextual you’ll get better results and it just looks better.

So remember, also, if you don’t already have structured data on your primary web asset, then you know, add it and make sure that you’re using you’re pointing the ID page, you know, designating the ID page to the URL of your ID. page. So it makes sense. So for example, if you if or if you are if you already had structured data on your primary website, but you didn’t have an ID page field, or if like most people, do, they just duplicated the URL of the home, you know, the homepage of the primary domain as the ID page. Now, you should go up and go now that you have a, you know, a published ID page, an actual ID page, go back through and edit your structured data code to include that URL as the ID page as opposed to just the homepage of your website, you know, so that there are a few things that you can do with it. That might be something actually that we could. I know we talked about last week about doing an MGYB update webinar that might be something we can include And that is just a little bit more on how to squeeze more out of a 90 page. Maybe we can add that to the notes. I’m moving on.

Okay, there are several questions here. I don’t know that we’re going to get through all these. We’ll try just for everybody’s etiquette for others, is try not to post 18 questions in one question, guys. It’s not fair to everybody else, because it takes up too much time. post a question or two is okay. And then wait till some other people post and then you can post more questions that way. We’re giving other people a chance. There’s a lot of questions squeezed into this. All right. So we’ll get through a couple of them. And if and we’re going to move on and we’ll come back if we can if we have time.

Does Having A GMB Based In The U.S. Limits A Global Affiliate Site’s Traffic Due To GeoTargeting?

The first one is if I have a global affiliate site that targets all English speaking people around the world as the offers could be delivered globally with the primary focus on the US and UK. Is it possible that if I create a US GMA, that would then get my traffic to the US and even To the US area of the GMB in a similar way that geo-targeting and search console does? I don’t mean, the GMB when only. Again, I don’t. I’m not sure I understand the question in that. If you have a GMB, you’re limited for the GMB and to where it will rank them in maps. Does that make sense? But having a GMB tied to a global domain isn’t going to affect at least as far as I know, I’ve never tested it. But as far as I know, it doesn’t seem to me like it would make doesn’t seem logical that it would limit the website’s exposure by having it tied to a GMB in the US. The maps ranking itself for the GMB would be limited to its immediate area, which is normal for all GMB’s now, but I can’t imagine that causing any issues. Marco, have you tested any of that or have any experience with that?

Well, the Land Solutions Network has a corporate as a corporate entity right in Pennsylvania. That’s We decided we decided to set that up. Just to give it a corporate presence, get a GMB it to kind of show you know that it’s a local company, but it’s it’s spread out. And it’s but that but then that’s also geo-targeting the US. So it’s a service-based business, targeting the USA, it has a surface area, as long as you don’t say, you know, like, I don’t know how you would do that if you have a global entity and why you would pigeonhole it into a GMB. Yeah. Well, you were you’re required to either show your address or to set a service area and you can’t set the globe as a service area unless you deliver goods and services to the person right at their location is that well, that’s the idea behind the service-based business. Right? So you’d have to look at that. I don’t know why you’d want to do that. Why don’t you just because you’re not here’s the thing where people get Confused about doing local, it’s natural, and it looks really good. And you have to have a GMB or else you’re not going to rank in the three-pack. And that’s where the most action takes place in most niches locally. People going to their cell phones, and they look, look up whatever service it is that they’re looking for, and they get a map pack, but they get ads and a map pack, or something along those lines. If you don’t want that to happen. And if your niche doesn’t trigger a map pack, then why would you want to be involved in that in the first place? There are other ways to verify and validate that entity that doesn’t involve a GMB. We just did it with Land Solutions Network, because I knew we’d be targeting the US and I knew how we would be targeting the other states and cities in the US, right. So I knew what was going to happen already and how that was going to happen. But if I were going globally, I wouldn’t have done that I would have never said my geolocation to the US. I probably would have gotten a GMB, I would have looked for another way, running ads in Google and YouTube, getting that credit card on file going into G Suite. Right as the company land solutions network doing all of the things that a company does when they want to work within Google when they want to run ads, which would be worldwide, not just to one particular geolocation, it just makes no sense.

Yeah, so I agree that you know, there’s if you don’t force a GMB just because you think you need it. If there’s a specific reason that you want to have a GMB or that you need to have a GMB in the US then so be it. But as Marco said, there are other ways to solidify or validate the entity more in Google’s eyes. Like he mentioned running Google ads, right? Having a credit card on file, running some ads, you could run YouTube ads, or display ads very inexpensively with even $1 a day budget, right? So even less, but it’s just that Google can recognize you’re a real person. It’s not a spam account. You’re paying money. Same thing with G Suite. G suites a great way to validate an entity, which at the basic level, it’s $6 a month per user for the G Suite account. And then also, you could just you could upgrade, like Google Drive for that account and do pay so you get additional storage, right? That’s another way to get it on file. So there’s a number of different ways to validate it besides having the GMB unless of course, you need it.

Is It Okay To Use A Generic Description In A U.S.-Based GMB Even If You Are Physically Located In Europe?

Which brings me to question number two of this if I’m physically located in Europe, but I need a US GMB and the health niche. Is it possible this could happen if the description is more generic and not so much health-related? And if the name is more generic? Well, again, I’m not 100% Sure. Why do you need if you’re located in Europe? Excuse me? I’m not sure why you need a GMB in the US. So it doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me. I’m not sure what the point of that would be. So I’m sorry, I can’t answer that.

Is The ID Page Useful Even If You Don’t Have A GMB?

Number three does the ID page loop Make sense? If you don’t have a GMB? Yes, it does. Because although I do The ID @ID page, stuff that we started with, you know, I guess it was in 2018. February 2018. I think we were originally it was originally tied to just local business structure data. But it’s beyond that now. Marco, you can talk a little bit Miley do local, but you can talk a little bit about that more an ID page is just a reference area for an entity. It’s telling the Googlebot to go there all of the entity information that will help to validate that entity is that in this location, and that’s what we use the ID page for. Is that correct?

Yeah, everything on the web has a node. Okay, everything connected to the web. So even if you have a smart refrigerator, smart range, smartphone or smart TV, whatever smart device you have, that’s going to have a note. And the question now is, how do we identify that node for the bot to understand what this connection is to whatever it is that we’re doing? What’s happened, what how that’s being done. Now it’s a local is how it started. But now you have an organization, Mm hmm. She can add you can have an @ID for your organization. And that what that does is is I and identifies the organization know where all of your organizational information resides. And so that that’s how we do it. That’s how we targeted but you can have multiple @IDs, like here, you can have a web page and idea of a product @ID, you’re just naming the node for the product, the website, the web page, just whatever you’re identifying it for about these are identifiers, and how those two nodes get connected. Well, that’s the URL. I don’t know that it’s a hyperlink. They connected through a way for each one to talk to one another. Well, that’s HTTPS. And the way that the word the worldwide web is inter matched right interlinked, so that everything is identified and can The through an IP, or however it is that that that that connection is is made. Now, as far as the question is concerned, does an @ID page loop makes sense? It makes sense because it’s an entity that we named it and the @ID loop, originally, but what we were doing is we were creating an entity loop. We were sending Google hopping from one place to another that contains nothing but our entities’ information and everything related to our entity. And we were just echoing it over and over and over and over again, we were able to track the bot in that echo. It sounds like an echo chamber, right? Or the endless mirror, where it just bounces back and forth, back and forth. And we’ve seen it happen, we can see it. We can see the button. They’re going back and forth going back and forth through the iPhones. We can see it reading the information on the iPhone, this is these are the things that we’ve proven. So is it Yes, of course, it makes sense. It makes total sense because of not You’re not and you’re not identifying your entity properly for the Bob. Thank you was a thorough answer.

How Important Are The Short Links On The GSite Of The SEO Shield?

So DC SEOs up? What’s up, man? He says on the G site of the shield, there are a number of short links that have MGYB in them. How important are they because I want to sell my clients the shield without them actually being able to figure it out where and who it was created by and how much it costs because I will be adding my own margin onto it. I’ve considered not telling them that they’ll end up with a G site, but almost everyone I deal with here in the UK has been burnt by another SEO Company, which is true everywhere, not just in the UK, but been. So I want to be as transparent as possible on a slightly different note if a client doesn’t want to publish the GMB site. Okay, well, let me answer the first question and we’ll come back to that second part. We run all the URLs through the MGB shortener because it gives you another target URL for link building purposes and because of all the link building that’s been done to the drive stacks g sites that we’ve built over the years now. The mgyb.co shortener is incredibly powerful. So you actually siphon power from that into your stack by having those shortened links there. That said, there are a couple of things I don’t know that you could I don’t manage the, you know MGYB Build Team at all that Marco and Rob do that really? So I don’t know if you could request to have one built without the shortened links. I guess it’s possible maybe Marco can answer that or Rob I know he’s usually lurking, listening to us and he comments in slack but something else you could do is when it’s delivered if you wanted to hide that from or you know not to reveal that the mgyb.co shortened links to the client, you could just go into the drive stack and delete those from you know the sheets and things like that if you wanted, obviously, it would be more time-efficient, more efficient if you just ordered the stack and requested did not have those included. Is that something thing that could be done, Marco?

No. And I’ll tell you why. The MTB shortener adds so much power to everything that if they even rank and leave it, they’ll index. So a mind map that’s really hard to index right now will index through the MGYB shortener. So why would we want to interfere with all of the power? And if I were to tell my guys to do that, then you would have to, we would have to give it to you with the warning. We can’t be sure how this is going to work. Yeah, because we don’t do them that way. Now, if you just share your screen for a second and just go to HTTPS, mgyb.co to the shortener.

Oops, I got the wrong fucking type. Maybe I could get it right. That’s all the person is going to see just another shortener, just another URL shortener, they don’t have to figure anything out. I mean, if they want to look at your it’s something, it’s a service that actually you can set you’re paying for the pricing is right there. And you’re using it, just to provide short links and to be able to customize, you can actually go and pay for getting into the service. So you can customize the links for the client. But this is the way I’m customizing your link so that they look better. So they look nicer. So they’re more attractive for the person to click on. They don’t have to figure out everything that you’re doing. They can just from going here. This is just our shortener, it’s no, no different than Bitly, or any other shortener out there.

And I’d like to comment and say what Marco said is true. I agree that also delivering a drive stack without those URLs would be like, going into a fight with one arm tied behind your back, right, because you’re losing the benefit that you gain from having the MGYB SEO links because of the power that’s been accrued to it over time. So that’s number one.

Number two, again, if you know my rebuttal to say that you’re worried about the client seeing, you know, going to mgyb.co, and looking at the store and seeing what drives tax costs and everything else, what your client have any idea what the hell to do, how to order what to do with them or anything else without you know, I mean, it’s like 99% chance that they wouldn’t have a damn clue as to what to do. Even if they did find the store, they wouldn’t have any idea how any of those things would benefit them. Because as it stands right now, it’s still basically a store that is for SEO professionals and marketing professionals. Not for the layman, right? The average business person or a business owner. So you’re getting paid for understanding how to put all of these things together and make it work and produce results. Right. That’s your expertise. I remember reading somewhere, somebody said you know when you have a plumber that’s got 10 years of experience to come out and fix a leaking pipe, right? And he comes out and fixes it in 30 minutes and charges you $150 or $200, you know the service call plus whatever $200? Or are you paying for $200? You know, like, it takes 30 minutes. So what would that be $400 an hour effectively, or so? Are you only paying for that 30 minutes? No, you’re paying for 10 years of experience that that plumber has accrued. And that’s why they’re able to fix it so efficiently. I don’t know if that’s an analogy that makes sense to you. It does to me. But you know, you’re they’re paying a markup because you’re the one that’s putting it together and making sure that they’re going to get results from it. Whereas even if they went and found our store, it’s likely they would have no idea what the hell they were looking at, or what the hell to do with it, even if they did purchase it, you know what I mean? So I wouldn’t and trust me if they ordered it and then got into the order where they had to submit the order details. They’d be lost probably because they don’t understand half the terminology that you know We requested the order. So I wouldn’t worry about that at all. You should always Mohammed, I think he’s got a question in here. He’s been following us for a long time. And he had, you know, Mohammed, I’m not picking on you. But he’s gotten to a lot of situations with clients about that kind of stuff, you know, where too much has been revealed or to ask too many questions and blah, blah, blah. And remember, you’re getting paid for your expertise, for knowledge that you’ve accrued through time and effort. And so you deserve to be paid for that and manage the build, manage, you know, the, what’s done with it afterward and everything else. So any comments on that?

Yeah, this is where I’d like to add that if he’s taken the person through the conversation in the right way. What he’s done is he’s told this person, I’m going to get your results how I get results, is my business-like, I don’t you’re not going to tell this business owner how to run their business because you probably don’t know how to you don’t care to know how all you need to know is as Jordan Fowler one of our mastermind Member says, Well, you have to know is Google. And all you have to tell that client is Look, I, you know, your business, I know Google, and I’m going to get you results, and you’re going to pay me for results. You’re not paying me for the hour, the why. Now, if you want to pay me for the hour or the Y, that’s consultation, and that’s 1500 dollars an hour, I’d be happy to take you into structure into an instructional model, minimum five hours a month, and during the course of 12 to 18 months, I can take you through everything so that you can go and get results. Or rather than do that, why don’t you just pay me my monthly, and let me get your results so that we know you don’t have to go through those at through that Crash Course of 18 months of learning so that you can start the process of doing what it is that I already do and that I have 17 years of experience doing. So, guys, it’s that conversate you got to have that conversation with the client and you have to school the client in the right mode, yes, they’ve been burned, they’ve been burned because there’s, they’re forced to sign contracts. And they’re promised the moon, and that the moon is made of cheese and all this shit, where all you have to do is tell them, hey, look, man, I’m gonna get you results, I’m going to need 90 days, I can probably get your results sooner. But I don’t want to make any promises because I don’t control Google. But what I do know is that within 90 days, we’re going to start to see results. At the end of those 90 days, we’ll sit down and revisit the fee. So that gives that even gives you an opportunity to increase your feet because you’re gonna rock this guy’s world. If you do the things that we do in the way that we do them. The guy is going to be blown out of his mind. I mean, his head is going to explode from the results you’re going to get. But the conversation has to be there. If he’s focusing on how you’re getting results, and why and why are you doing this? And how are you doing it? Dude, you got to pay me for my knowledge. I’m not gonna give you my knowledge for 2500 bucks a month. There’s just no way.

Can You Use The Primary URL From The Money Site As Rel=Canonical If A Client Doesn’t Want To Publish Their GMB Site?

Yeah, she says on a slightly different note. If a client doesn’t want to publish their GMB site, can I use the primary URL from the money site is the REL=canonical? Yeah, I mean, if that’s fine, the only reason why we had set it up originally to point to the GMB website if it’s for the local project is that some of our customers at MGYB or members in the mastermind or whatever, if you have the REL=canonical pointing to the money site, if you’re doing a backlink analysis through like majestic or a href, or something like that, you can often see some of the links that are being built to the G site through the REL=canonical, like in other words, so you can see some of the link building that’s being done by you know if you’re using link building analysis tools or link analysis tools. I don’t care. I honestly don’t care because as long as I’m getting results, it really shouldn’t matter. Some of our customers or members have didn’t want that. So that’s why we defaulted it to point the REL equals canonical to the GMB website if have a GMB site, you know, a GMB location associated with the drive stack built, but it’s not necessary like you can like, it just depends if you’re worried about clients looking at link building analysis, you know, Link analysis, reports and such like that and you don’t want them to see the types of links that are being built, then yeah, I would point it to something else. It could be the, you know, not the primary website, but you could even point it to like the GMB map instead of the GMB website, for example, but again, I don’t care. Personally, I even just ordered them through the MGYB now just like you guys, do, I swear, I ordered my drive stacks just like you guys do. And then when I get them back, I typically when I’m uploading my ID page because I upload it to my own Amazon site, or whatever, then I usually do the REL=canonical back to the money site. So it’s just an edit that I make before I upload it. It’s entirely up to you. Is there any other comments you want to make on that Adam or Marco before I move on.

I don’t see why they wouldn’t want the GMB published. Like I don’t see why that’s a showcase. It’s a showcase for your post. It’s more URLs to spam to link built to the link below to four iframe, there’s just so much that you can get from that. And then not only that, when they see just how much how many visits come through, and how much actually comes through the posts on the GMB like that whole ecosystem. I was just looking at one and today’s what Wednesday and I’ve already had 838 post views for the week, and it’s only Wednesday. I’m about to post that as an update in the heavy hitter club. But it’s ridiculous for the client to even consider not publishing the money site, especially since it’s done by Google on auto and they interlink everything and they give you all the love that’s necessary for you to just hammer.

It’s another branded asset too. I totally I agree, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to. I mean, you guys, you understand you can’t control clients, sometimes clients demand things that just make no sense, they defy logic. And that’s fine. You have to work within those parameters at times or fire them as a client. But I agree 100% with Marco, there’s no reason why, like, and we’ve had that common question come up in Hump Day Hangouts, or like, you know, my client doesn’t want the G site ranking. Why not? Why the hell wouldn’t you want a G site ranking, right? Like it pushes a competitor off the page, and if you iframe your money site page into the top of the G site, then they’re gonna see the original page. I mean, you know, the money site anyways, what difference does it make and but some people just, they’re just finicky like that, but I totally agree. It’s another asset takes up more real estate, you can do a lot with it. So it seems silly not to, in my opinion. But the short answer is yes, you can canonicalize the ID page to you know, another tier-one asset I would recommend it being a Google asset like the GMB map URL for example or something like that.

Should We Use The Press Release When Requesting For Link Building Services?

Okay, g site whatever fits is up. What’s up, Fitz. He’s here almost every week. Good day, gents. Thanks for the forum to ask questions and get real-world actual answers. Marco thank you for the charity work you do for these kids. Love how Fitz promotes your charity for you, man. It’s awesome. He’s a good man for that. He says, Thanks, Fitz. Yeah, please post the charity link again so others can help with a quick 1020 or $100 to help these kids out oh road needs good people to even help even if it is with only a few dollars today. My question is on Hump Day. We hear about limiting the links to only one link so that we can concentrate the power is that for press releases or when requesting link building? Oh, that’s a great question fit. So if that wasn’t clear before that was within press releases now. Marco might have a slightly different methodology than I do. For press releases. I typically like to use most press releases if the kind of one-off press releases. I just usually like to With two links like and again, if you go look, I’m talking when I’ve talked about it, it’s mainly for press releases.

Because for example, you can add three press or three links into a press release. But you’re splitting the power of the link equity coming from that press release, every time you add an additional URL like another outbound link, right, so you can concentrate the power into one specific URL if you need to. However, if you go to the MGYB.co store or domain and you look at them or you go to our YouTube channel, or you go to Google and search for press releases silos, or PR silo stalking or whatever, you’ll see the webinar that we did, right I the way that I do it, I’m usually linking with three links per press release now and it’s because the way for local projects that I do it or that my team does it, is we publish a blog post and we publish a corresponding GMB post that links to the blog post. Okay, and then we publish a press release and The press release will link to either the blog post URL directly, or to the GMB post URL. Does that make sense that’s promoting, that’s linked to the blog post URL. And then we link back to the tier one. A tier one entity asset could be the home page, it could be a category page or, you know, top-level silo page. It could be Facebook page, you know, LinkedIn company page, the drive stack, primary folder, the G site, whatever, anyone of the primary tier one entity assets. So that’s link number two, right? first, the link is going to link to the blog post that the press releases promoting, right because we that’s what we publish or not for, like, if I’m doing three blog posts per week, then if the clients only paying for one blog post, or excuse me, one press release per week, then one of those blog posts is going to get a press release that is promoting the blog post and the blog post the press releases either gonna link directly to the blog post URL or to the GMB post URL that is linking directly to the blog post URL, then we link to it. Another tier-one entity asset, any one of them. I’ve talked about this before, but my bloggers have a client workbook, which is a Google Sheet for every client. And there’s a target URLs column that has all of the primary tier one entity assets that we want to power up, and they just go down and each time they publish another press release, blog post, whatever, they select another target URL, and they link to that. So that would be link number two, and then the third link is a link back to a previous press release in the same silo. Right, because we do press release silo, we theme mirror everything right, we mirror the blog post silo structure into the GMB or excuse me, the Google site, this into the GMB posts and now, even in the press releases, so everything is themed there. That’s why it’s called mirroring, right. And again, that was originally coined by the network Empire. So I usually if it’s a one-off, press release, I’m usually linking two to two outbound URLs. If it is a within a silo which most content is now then it’s going to look To like I said, the original post URL or the GMB, the corresponding GMB post URL, another tier-one entity asset, just cycle through target URL list. And then the third is going to be linking to the previous press release in that same silo, that’s just the way that I do it. Any comments on that?

Yeah, I wasn’t referring to either one of those scenarios when I talked about the one link method, which was strictly for the drive stack extension. And the G site inner page extension targeting a money site inner page, that’s when we use that one link method to concentrate the power as close to one to one as possible. instead of dividing it, like you just mentioned, in a press release the way that you’d be dividing, dividing is either two by two or by three, right? We want a one to one transfer from the G site over to the money site, an inner page from the extension to the inner page. So I’d go back and watch those webinars fates. I know that you have access to those. And that’s what we were mainly talking about it although you can do that one lick method however way you want to do it. Guess what you have to understand is how you’re transferring PageRank ranking score and power.

Can We Use Dedhia’s Link Building Services To A Money Site?

Alright, so we’re almost out of time I’d like to get through these next two if we can. So let’s get to them Jigglypuff says, Hey guys, I just cut the battle plan and really enjoying the content you guys share. Well, thank you. Can the link building by Dedhia offer through MGYB be used on a money site? No. We don’t recommend that. You know that we always recommend using the tier one entity assets is the link building targets. That’s what our link building services were. were developed specifically to power up the tier one entity assets, not the money site. That’s why we call it an SEO shield because it acts as an SEO firewall that protects the money site, right you’re basically building a cocoon a shield around your money site using high authority entity assets that you can now power those up. And ultimately, the link equity flows through to the money site, but it gets cleaned or laundered through those entity assets. So we do not recommend that now if you want link diversity to your money site press releases, that’s a fantastic way like that press releases are an awesome way to add length diversity to your money site, because you can link directly to your money site. And I would recommend that you change it. I primarily use naked URLs when linking to the money site, but you can do some generic stuff or some brand anchors and things like that so that you get linked diversity as well as anchor diversity back to your money site, but I would use press releases for that. Any comments on that?

No, no, no, never to the money site. We don’t recommend that. That’s why we have the SEO power shield as you said, it provides a shield and it amplifies the power. So why would you do anything except go through the SEO Power shield? That’s right.

So that’s why it’s important to build those assets first and then you can hammer the shit out of those assets with the link building and embed gigs or embed plus link building gigs. So that link building is getting done to the embed pages, right? So there’s a number of things you can do to power those assets up without them directly linking directly to your money site through those through daddy’s link building service if that makes sense. So there you go.

Next question, and we’re going to wrap it up guys because we’re at the five o'clock mark and unfortunately, dammit, Mohammed, I answered your question. I commented below cult of copy. That’s a great resource for copywriting and Facebook. They’ve also got a marketplace where you can hire copywriters and all kinds of stuff. So go look at the cult of a copy.

Can You Order More Than One ID Page DFY Service To The Same Domain?

Anyways, this last question, can you order more than one ID page done for you service to the same domain but pointing to different money site URL? Or should you only have one ID page for each money site? If you understand that’s what we were talking about earlier. an ID page is supposed to be basically a resource To say this is where it helps to validate an entity, right? So a money site, the right should really only have one ID page, the way that I do it for local, okay, because remember that everything I do is local. But you can have multiple ID pages for a brand. If there’s in my case for local if there are multiple locations, right? So there can be like, for example, I’m working on a tree service project now sharing that in the mastermind. That as an as got multiple locations, and so they’re the homepage of the website, the primary domain, the root domain is essentially got Corporation organization, Corporation structured data, right? So markup that has an ID page, that Id page is just brand and keywords. So there’s not any location optimization for the ID page, right? Because it’s an ID page for the overall entity, the brand itself, right, and I’m using Corporation markup which is a subset of organization markup, okay. So I’ve got an ID page that links to the or that the money site links to or references the ID page for the brand plus keyword Association, but no location optimization. But then I’ve got multiple locations, that is branded plus location name appended to it. And each one of those locations has its own ID page that’s optimized for that specific location. Does that make sense? So you can have multiple ID pages. If you’re having, you know, again, depending on what it is you’re trying to validate that just if you understand what we’re talking about with what an entity is, then it’ll click you know, you’ll get you you understand what the ID page is for it’s, it’s a resource that you’re telling Google through the structured data code, hey, all of the entity information can be validated here. And so on that page is where you have all the iframes structured data, you know, tier one, entity assets, all of that stuff is listed or housed within that Id page, because you’re telling Google reference that page to validate this entity and all the data within. That makes sense. So if you understand that, then you there are times where you can have multiple ID pages and marketing you might be able to explain a little bit more clearly than me. I don’t know if that was clear or not.

You can have multiple @ID it Alright, so you got a parent. And this parent has four children it doesn’t matter where those children are. So now you have the field organization Corporation, as you said, and you’re going to have in our locations now as the parent, you can talk about your children because they’re your children. And you can do this in the schema in the JSON LD. Rob showed this in the heavy hitter club in our MC or we could go Wednesday, in our mastermind I didn’t in the webinar that we had, he showed he showed how you can reference the children and how the children can each reference the parents. And what you have to be careful is that you make sure these children don’t Become orphaned, where you confuse the but you have to make sure that this parent is claiming the right children because it starts claiming other children, then you’re gonna have to pay child support. Everybody’s gonna get confused. They don’t know who’s dedhia, who’s mohamed, you have to make this clear to them but if you guys if you confuse the bot you excuse the language I know they’re supposed to be pgl give a shit. You are screwed if you don’t reference everything correctly. Rather than doing all of that why don’t you just concentrate on your entity, which is what it should be? It’s an entity loop your ID is an entity loop is everything about your company about your business?

There you go.

Okay, we got to wrap up or come to the heavy hitter club and learn how to do it.

There you go. So thanks, everybody for being here. Tom. See you guys next week.

See guys, Bye, everyone. Bye.

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Announcement

Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. Today is the 10th of June 2020. got everybody here, we’re gonna say hi real quick and get the introductions out of the way and then start answering your questions because we got a lot of questions on what the deal was this week everybody brought their the good stuff. So we’re gonna get into it today. So, Bradley, we’ll start with you man. How are you doing today?

Good happy to be here been working on process development for the last two days straight to entire days and feel like my eyes are crossed, but I’ve gotten a lot of it done. So I’m so close to having all my onboarding stuff for a client you know, new clients and entity asset setup, and all that the process is almost a hundred percent complete. I’ve put it off for years. But I’ve been working on it for like the last six or seven weeks and it’s almost done. So super excited about that. I’ll be sharing this with the mastermind members tomorrow too. So just let you guys know that we are going to be there. In other words, otherwise happy to be here. Good stuff right Marco How about you man?

I’m good, man. still warm and sunny in Costa Rica nothing changes Groundhog Day you seeing it everywhere you see the exact same thing I think might be a What do you call it a screen a white screen that I put behind me right with all that light and this is fake this is really a mink coat right with Fern lining and it’s all fake none of this is really good shit.

Just a green screen but you made white and sunny Yeah, yeah.

Well, Hey, how you doing man? Are you nice and warm? Are you freezing? Now actually today was it was a pretty good day. The last week or so was rainy and foggy and shitty, but you know, today’s it’s pretty good. I’m excited to be here also working on processes, you know, trying to build you know, getting to build another agency. as well, so you know, working on processes training people, and working on that. So I feel I feel you, Bradley. But you know, it is what it is like you do once you put in the work and then you get somebody repeating it over and over and over again. So that’s why you put in the work so that you can multiply that. So it’s been it’s good, man. It’s good. Everything’s good, man. Yeah. All right. Last but not least, Chris, how you doing today, man? Doing well here. And yeah, it’s raining here for a change.

I think it’s like, I don’t know. Well, it almost feels like it’s the first time it’s a very long time. And it’s actually probably raining here.

But yeah, since it goes here. Nice, nice. Well, before we get into it, I wanted to let everyone know, we’re going to be releasing some more information about POFU live 2020. It’s still going to be the last weekend of September and it is going to be virtual. We’ll be having some updates shortly towards the end of the month, I believe and we’ll be able to answer all the questions. You’ll be able to grab your tickets. To that, we’re going to be reaching out. We had a few people last year who just hopped on right away. We’ll be reaching out to you to get with you about that. So, the other thing I wanted to touch on, we’ve had a few more people joining to x your agency. And for those of you who don’t know about this, if you’re an agency owner or consultant, if you want to get more clients want to grow your revenue, you want to scale your team. If you want to do that than 2xyouragency is really the place for you to go just go over there, check it out, I’m not gonna bore you to death. You’re all capable of reading and watching the video on the page. But there is a ton of training Bradley did the bulk of that training. I know Hernan did some and I may be leaving people out. But it’s just an incredible amount of content following the three pillars as far as what you can do to do exactly that and get more clients for your revenue and scale your team. And also, version four of the battle plan came out not too long ago if you somehow missed out on that. You can go grab that battleplan.semanticmastery.com and certainly not least is the mastermind Bradley mentioned that real quick that he’s going to be sharing all this with the mastermind if you want to find out more about that just head over to mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And I’m gonna sneeze my brains oh man has the worst trying to talk and then having to sneeze all of a sudden. Alright, got that passed. So let’s get into it. I wanted to tell people to real quick before we do that, sorry. If you haven’t been over to mgyb.co yet, head over there for your done for you services. I was reminded because we were talking today about creating some more training, talking to people about worrying less SEO about you know, not caring what the algorithm is doing. If you head over there, there are best practice webinars which are great. I think most of them were created in the last few months. Go over there. If you have questions or you just want to find out more about you know, how does this stuff work? What should I do? be doing with it, things like that, just go over to mgyb.co. And there’s a lot of great free training over there as well as the dumper Youth Services. Cool. All right, guys, anything else we need to cover before we dive into it?

Yes, I’ve got something I want to cover about syndication network applets and RSS attribution links. So it’s cool if you guys want to go ahead and grab the screen get into that.

Go for it.

Okay, standby.

Alright, I don’t know if it was a support ticket or what but it was brought to my attention that I guess some done for you syndication network buyers didn’t if you’re not using an RSS plugin that creates an attribution link whenever you syndicate content. So in other words, if you’re using an RSS trigger to trigger your syndication networks in our training, and we’ve always talked about how we use our an RSS attribution that’s coated in through a plugin. Originally, it was using the Yoast plugin, which we no longer recommend. Marco calls it the toast plugin. So we haven’t recommended that for many years because it’s full of bloated code and they update it. It’s just a mess. We don’t ever recommend using Yoast. We developed our own. Well, Chris did our crispy or developed our own RSS plugin. There’s a free version that goes with Syndication Academy, you guys can get it if you’re part of any one of our groups. There’s also a pro version that is free as long as you’re in the mastermind that does have a whole lot of other functionality to it besides just the attribution. But I guess some people hadn’t didn’t realize that if you’re not using a plugin to insert an attribution link into the feed items. So for those of you that don’t know what the hell I’m even talking about, what is an attribution like okay, well, let me show you an example. This is a blog post on blogger for myself. Land realty project. And you can see that down here at the bottom it says see we buy land and Bluefield, VA post originally published on the alpha land realty blog. Well, this was a post that was published to this blogger blog via an RSS feed through IFTTT. Okay. So if we were to go take a look at the actual RSS feed Well, in this case, I haven’t hardcoded into an applet which is what I’m going to talk about today with you guys. Because I’m not using our own RSS plugin for this and I don’t use Yoast, Marco. Also, you mentioned there was a plugin what’s it called?

Simple attribution. It’s really good really light and works fantastically well. Right here.

Okay. I haven’t used this but Marco pointed this out. So there are a couple of things that I want to point out here guys and attribution. Like what that is is whenever you are republishing content, you’re supposed to cite the source give out attribution to the original publisher to the original author, right. And so that’s just best practice. And so when we’re syndicating content, our own content to our own branded network, one of the ways that you get a link back, and also to be proper about it is to you to add the attribution link. And there’s a couple of ways you can do it. You can use a plugin. Again, use our plugin, or you can use this simple attribution if you’re using WordPress.

If you’re not using WordPress, or you don’t want to use one of these plugins, you can hard code into the syndication applet inside of IFTTT and attribution link and I’m going to share with you guys some example codes. There are two different versions of them. Well, there are multiple versions of each, but there are two basic categories of attribution links. And so what that does is every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically insert this type of attribution link down here at the bottom, okay? And so that’s giving credit to the original source. So if I click that. And this one I don’t have target equals blank in there. So it’s going to open in the same window, but you can see that it’s going to pull up the original post the same post that we just saw on blogger. It’s just it’s giving a link back to the original source. Okay, now for my alpha land realty project. I’m not using an RSS plugin, so it’s hardcoded into IFTTT. Let me give you an example. This is the RSS to blogger applet, okay? So if we go into settings, you’re going to see right there is my Feed URL. And right here is the body or the applet body. So that’s the entry content. Then I put a break tag, then published first here, and you can see it’s just a href equals enter URL and then enter and then the anchor text, in this case, would be enter URL as well, that’s how I have it. I’ve updated it since that post was published because you can see what this looks like here. So what I wanted to share with you guys was just how to do that and we can give you some examples real quick.

Let’s go back. Take a look at some of the other applets. We’ll take a look at RSS to WordPress. Take a look at the settings there. The same thing we’ve got, these are short, I’ve got short attribution links here, which just link back to the original post. You can also have a combination of an attribution link that links to the original post, plus links back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever you want. Where else would this be useful? Well think about like if you’ve got a press advantage account. Or if you’re buying press releases from MGB and you get an organization page, you get an RSS feed for your organization page, a media room page, essentially, where you can go in and set up applets. And I encourage you to do so set up applets for your sending branded syndication networks using the press advantage RSS feed. And the same thing, you go into the applets and code your attribution in and then link back to the the the original press release published on the press advantage domain.

Let me grab the right one here. And I was blowing this up so you guys can see it, you can hard code a link back into the original to the press advantage organization page itself or the media room page, okay, or on a blog, if you’re hard coding it into IFTTT to link back to your primary website, you can link either to the home page or to the blog page or whatever you really you want to. Okay, so let me zoom in on this just a little bit so you guys can see the code and I’m going to share this in the chatbox. And we’re going to put this in a knowledge base or something as well. But this is with the link to home or blog page or to like a press advantage for any source, okay, that you’re going to be syndicating content from the RSS feed. You can type code in this type of stuff. These are what’s called ingredients and the applet most of you should know this. And then these with the square brackets, those are what you would replace those are basically tokens, you would replace that with your own website URL. And you can see that you can swap this out this is not you don’t have to just use these you can change wording you can add target equals blank. You can add strategically nofollow tags to, for example, linking back to the homepage. Why would that be? If you’re going to use one of these applets? Where does it say with link to homepage or blog page? Why would you want to possibly code in a nofollow link? Think about it. Okay, so here’s why I would tell you to, you know, and that was a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it for you. If you’re syndicating content from your blog consistently to your branded network, right over and over and over again, you’re syndicating content. Well, each time you syndicate and let’s just use the three blogs in a standard syndication network. The three web two Dotto blog properties, okay, so it’s Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, right? If you have if you’re using one of these types of formats up here, where you’re linking back to the original post, but then also linking back to the homepage, or to the blog, row page, you know, blog index page or whatever. Then if you’re, if you’re doing I don’t know, let’s just use an example two posts per week. That’s eight posts per month.

Well, you could see over time, how having the same URL with the same anchor text all do follow back to the homepage of the blog page, that remember, every single post you publish would include a link back to whatever you however you have it coded here, right. And that’s what I’m talking about is back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever it is the original content, the post URL, that’s only going to get three anchor text links back. Well, some of the other properties, but I’m just talking about the web to auto blog accounts right now, you’re only going to get three anchor text, you link back to that post URL for each publication, right. So each blog post that’s published, it’s only going to receive three-link backs with a hundred percent title anchor text match, okay? So that’s perfectly fine. But if you’re going to continually post over and over and over again, which you likely are you should be, then you don’t want to constantly hit the same keyword unless it’s a brand or an anchor a naked URL. anchor, right with dofollow links. So that’s why I’m saying if you’re gonna, that’s why the way that I have coded here was to make it very simple for you guys, you can see that my anchor text in any one of these top three versions is going to be either brand or website URL, which means naked URL. So naked URL anchor text for the URL that it’s linking to. Why? Because you don’t want to cause a problem. And so that’s why, if you want to use keywords, you can but I would recommend for the link back to the homepage of the blog page or a category page, whatever it is that you’re linking back to that you would add a nofollow tag. If you’re going to be using keywords, it’s okay to use the brand. It’s okay to use a naked URL. But if you’re going to be using keywords, I would recommend to also include a rel equals nofollow attribute into the code the HTML code, if that makes sense. Okay. However, to if you don’t want to do that, you could just use the simple ones down here which is linked to the original post only, and like it said you guys, you can change this around. You can see, in this case, its entry URL using the entry title as the anchor text. In this case, its entry URL using the naked URL as the anchor text. Okay, so it just depends, you guys can swap, move things around, swap stuff out, you can change the wording slightly, all of that, it’s perfectly fine. It’s just really important that you guys understand. If you’re not adding, if you don’t have an attribution coded into your RSS feed through a plugin, okay, then this is something that you could use instead is actually code them into the applet which is what I’ve actually been doing because I’m not using plugins anymore for it for most of my sites I just haven’t coded in the are up to the syndication applet. Okay. So does anybody want to comment on that?

No, okay. No, no, this is it just to make it clear that this is just best practice. When you get a syndication network, you should have either a plugin on the WordPress website which creates the attribution either the Semantic Mastery plugin or some other plugin, whatever the plugin of your choice could be, would be. And in our, in this case, we’re recommending simple attribution so that you could do that our plugin but Semantic Mastery plugin allows spinning and a whole lot of other things that just add, you can add relevance, you can change the way that it links back to the post, or whatever it is that you’re linking to. So you have a lot more leeway in what you can do with our Semantic Mastery plugin. Unfortunately, the one that has or fortunately whatever you want to see that the one that has the most functionality is of course only available if you’re a member of the semantic mastery mastermind. Otherwise, if you don’t have that plugin, and if you’re not creating the attribution when the RSS feed goes out, when you do your post, through that plugin, what you have to do is go into IFTTT into your applets and hardcoded the way that you just showed using either brand or native You could also go something generic, you could go with a generic anchor more info more here and things like that, that’s perfectly good. If you’re going to be doing a keyword as you said, it should be nofollow, or you can actually go in it and this is a lot of work you want to VA doing it is actually going in and for that one post that’s going to post change it to, to anchor, let it go out and then change it back to keyword anchor, whatever it is do follow. But then you have to change everything back to make sure that you don’t keep getting that keyword over and over and over again with a do follow link from all of your properties all over the place, which just doesn’t make sense. So I just wanna I just want people to be clear what it is that they have to do. You have to have a plugin, or you have to have this hard code in the applet it’s one or the other.

Yeah, and see that’s why I recommend like I said, Guys, if you’re going to use these top ones where there’s every post is going to have a link back to The homepage or a blog page, then I recommend that you are using a brand anchor or naked URLs and URL anchors so that you don’t have to worry about going back in and editing the applets to change it up every so often. If you don’t want to do that, as I said, you could just go with the original, the entry URL, right, which is the actual blog post URL, or whatever syndicated content URL it is, and that you can do it that way too. So you don’t have to worry about accruing too many of a particular type of anchor. That makes sense. Okay. So that’s it, I just wanted to point out here’s another example. This is one of the newer posts. And you can see this is the this is actually going to Press Advantage. So this is one from the press. This is it was a news release or a press release from press advantage through that alpha land realty account. And if you take a look at it, if I click on that, it’s going to go directly to the press advantage post, press or excuse me, press release. Okay. And then if you’ll see if I come back and click through the alpha land Realty, I’m using brand anchors there that clicks through to the media room page. See that? So again, that’s just an example of Tumblr. And then lastly, there’s the example of WordPress, here’s one from last year. And you can take a look down here at the bottom, you can see it says, that’s the title of the post. If I click that, it’s going to take me to the original post on my alpha land realty blog. And if I click through, you can see in this case, I put a naked URL to the blog, which is the homepage because the blog is on a subdomain. And so the blog is the homepage basically, of alpha land Realty. If that makes sense. So you can see I just use a naked URL there, okay, with a naked URL anchor. Right? So I just wanted to kind of point that out. Because I guess it was brought up somebody realized that they were syndicating content with no attribution. And so I wanted to make sure everybody had an understanding of you know, where you can add attribution if you don’t already have that inserted into your RSS feeds via a plugin, okay. And like I said, you should be, you know, if you were syndicating content without attribution If you’ve been following best practices with publishing content that always includes an internal link to one of your pages on your site, whatever it is you’re trying to promote, you’re still getting the SEO benefit. We always recommend having an attribution link. Because if you know, especially because I like having the title of the post is the anchor text linking back to the post URL itself, it just adds a bunch of diversity of different types of anchors that are coming that are accruing or building up over time for your site in general, right. Does that make sense? Because the title of the blog post becomes, at least the way that I have my applets coded, the title of blog posts becomes the anchor text, and so that adds a lot of diversity over time, if that makes sense. Okay, so anyway, I just wanted to cover that. Hopefully, that makes sense. Let me reset all this stuff, and then we’ll get to questions.

Would The T1 RYS Stack Nitro Link Building Combination Enough To Power An Affiliate Site?

Okay, so we’ll start with Benjamin. He says, Hey, guys, I’m building a content site currently in a competitive niche primary keyword 75,000. A month for Google to monetize with affiliate sales. There is new curated content going on to the site each day, my plan was to get a tier-one network set up around the money site, then have an RYS stack above that pointing to the properties in tier one. Then throw the kitchen sink at dry stack via the night your link building package. Would you say this is the optimum configuration for these three elements? Or am I overthinking it, Ben? No, Ben, that’s I mean, that’s, that’s right. Get the syndication network. In fact, you, the best thing to do is just order the SEO power shield. Because you’re going to have it’s pretty much everything combined. And so you get the syndication network first, and then they build the syndication network properties into the drive stack. Then you get the drive stack and ID page, all of that the G site. And then you can once you have all of that delivered. In fact, you don’t even have to wait if you wanted to. You could start building links to the syndication network, as soon as you have that delivered which that gets delivered first. Or you could wait until everything is delivered and build links to all It so all of the URLs from the syndication network, the drive stack files and folders, the G site, that kind of stuff. Or you could like I said, do two different link builder gigs, one link building gig for the syndication network, because you’re gonna get that first anyways. Wow. And then you know, takes another two weeks or whatever for the drive stack the G site to be completed. And you could order another link building gig for that. So it really just depends how, how you want to, you know, kind of sequence the things, but if you buy an SEO power shield, it’s going to be the bundle, it just saves you kind of puts everything together and it helps our team because our team knows the process in which sequence to deliver them. That’s what I would recommend. Any comments.

SEO power shield with link building included, but that’s SOP right? Yeah, he’s in a difficult niche, you got to hit it. Once it’s delivered to see what happens to see how much more you’re going to need. I was looking at the second part of this question, and I’m seeing, like, there’s no way to answer Yeah, that’s going to be enough. Nobody can tell you what’s going to be in stuff in your niche. It’s just you get the SEO Power Shield back, you hit it with the link building, you hit it with the embeds. Do some press releases, of course, and link building and embed, and then see what happens. Once that’s done once the dust clears in 21 days wait it out, and you need data you need, you need to see what damage all of that did how it is that you’re managing to come up in that niche. Once you have that information that you know, whether you need to extend your drive sec, which you probably will and something that’s very competitive. I’m gonna say maybe I’m not gonna say probably you might need it. If you do we have that available then it then it’s the same procedure, the same process, right? You have the drive stack you extend it, you do the money site, inner page, link building embeds, maybe a press release, and see how that does to push up the top market level category and so on and so on and so on until you get the desired results. I mean, there’s no one cure-all for everything, if we could do that, then I wouldn’t be here.

Probably for a long time ago, for a long time we had, especially when syndication Academy was new, we would have members, you know, people come on the hump day Hangouts, and almost every week we get this question, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts? will it take to rank for whatever keyword and people would you know? And we would always say, it depends, right? We can’t answer that. It always depends. It takes as many as it takes, that was our answer as many as it takes, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts will it take to rank? We would always say as many as it takes because there’s no way that we can answer that. Again, I always try to do the least amount of work to get results. So I don’t usually come out of it depends. Again, it depends on the project and what the budget is and all that other kind of stuff. Sometimes I’ll come out of the gate with you know, Nitro, you know, Nitro kit, link building package, but for a lot of the local projects that I work on, you know, I that’s not that’s unnecessary, it’s overkill, especially if I’m going to be staging you know, cycling through link building and embed gigs over the course of a few months, then there’s really no need to come out right up front, you know, all guns blazing, because I’m going to make up for it, and you know, by doing multiple gigs over time, and so I like doing it that way. Because that way I’m not, you know, blowing my load so to speak, you know, like, spending a whole bunch of money upfront where and where might have not needed that if that makes sense. I like to kind of reserve keep things in reserve for when needed and kind of watch and monitor how much the needle moves with things that I do and then I can start to determine Okay, this is more competitive than I thought it was. So maybe I have to go a little bit more aggressive on link building or whatever. And that’s just the way that I do it. I know a lot of people like to come out as you know, all guns blazing, like throw Everything that happened something right up front, but what I don’t like about that is, you know, if you don’t need as much, then you’re kind of wasting time or money for that matter. That could be reserved or money that you could keep is profit instead, you know, so, but it’s really up to you how you want to approach that.

How Do You Use The ID Page?

Alright ends up he says, I got my first SEO shield order back I understand the syndication network and posting and press releases. I understand the drive stacking. I’m still lost on the ID page though, what do I do with it? Do I submit it to Google Search Console? Yes, I recommend doing that. So if you uploaded it, you know, if you have the drive, excuse me, the ID page, and an Amazon s3 bucket. The way that you can add that to your search console is you can upload you can go to add it you have to add it as a URL. You can’t do like a domain prefix and search console with it because you don’t own the Amazon domain. But you can add it as a URL. Right. So you add you go to add the URL and search console and it’ll tell you that it needs verification. And if you’re just submitting the Amazon s3 URL, then you can download the HTML file and upload it to the same bucket. Right, the same Amazon bucket that you have the HTML page hosted in or saved in, okay, and then then you go back and click Verify, and it’ll verify it just like that. And so I always recommend, you know, whatever account, the G site, and drive stack were built under, is typically where I end up submitting the ID page into the search console there. It doesn’t matter if you have a branded asset, you know, like a G Suite account or something like that. You can always add it there, too. It doesn’t matter to the same search console account that’s attached to your G Suite account. I’m just saying, for my processes, we typically just add it to the search console account of the G site and drive stack owner, so to speak. But yes, you can do that. Do I never touch it, you there are, you know, there are things you can do to add additional stuff on there. I don’t know how much I can share here specifically because some of that stuff is reserved for the mastermind and or our wife’s only, or perhaps a heavy hitter club now, but you can add additional things into it.

You know, just think about other assets that would make sense to embed, it makes sense to embed in there, you know what I mean? So for example, you could possibly take your blog role page and embed that into it so that if you’re blogging consistently on your money site, now you’ve got dynamic content, updating your ID page, because you’ve embedded your blog index page into the ID page, does that make sense? So that way, it is being updated every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically update the ID page through the embed, right. So there will be like new content on the page. So that’s just one example of some of the things that you can do, you can add additional assets in there that are branded, you can update the H, the JSON LD structured data code to add more same as attributes. You know, there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to it. Beyond that, you can leave it alone, that’s perfectly fine. But you can always squeeze more power out of it, you just got to think about what type of assets would make sense to embed in there are things that you could do to dynamically update it, like I just mentioned, RSS feeds, or there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to an ID page. Okay. But you can leave it just the way that it is and get results from that too. But you can always squeeze more power out is what I’m saying. Each property that gets iframe into that @ID page is a perfect place for link building and for embed ones and link building. So you also can you can consider that as an asset. All of those URLs are assets for you to hammer when link not hammering in, in the garbage, spam, which will work anyway. But if you keep your link profile clean, if you use better links, web two dot o is the way that we do it in web 2.0 contextual you’ll get better results and it just looks better.

So remember, also, if you don’t already have structured data on your primary web asset, then you know, add it and make sure that you’re using you’re pointing the ID page, you know, designating the ID page to the URL of your ID. page. So it makes sense. So for example, if you if or if you are if you already had structured data on your primary website, but you didn’t have an ID page field, or if like most people, do, they just duplicated the URL of the home, you know, the homepage of the primary domain as the ID page. Now, you should go up and go now that you have a, you know, a published ID page, an actual ID page, go back through and edit your structured data code to include that URL as the ID page as opposed to just the homepage of your website, you know, so that there are a few things that you can do with it. That might be something actually that we could. I know we talked about last week about doing an MGYB update webinar that might be something we can include And that is just a little bit more on how to squeeze more out of a 90 page. Maybe we can add that to the notes. I’m moving on.

Okay, there are several questions here. I don’t know that we’re going to get through all these. We’ll try just for everybody’s etiquette for others, is try not to post 18 questions in one question, guys. It’s not fair to everybody else, because it takes up too much time. post a question or two is okay. And then wait till some other people post and then you can post more questions that way. We’re giving other people a chance. There’s a lot of questions squeezed into this. All right. So we’ll get through a couple of them. And if and we’re going to move on and we’ll come back if we can if we have time.

Does Having A GMB Based In The U.S. Limits A Global Affiliate Site’s Traffic Due To GeoTargeting?

The first one is if I have a global affiliate site that targets all English speaking people around the world as the offers could be delivered globally with the primary focus on the US and UK. Is it possible that if I create a US GMA, that would then get my traffic to the US and even To the US area of the GMB in a similar way that geo-targeting and search console does? I don’t mean, the GMB when only. Again, I don’t. I’m not sure I understand the question in that. If you have a GMB, you’re limited for the GMB and to where it will rank them in maps. Does that make sense? But having a GMB tied to a global domain isn’t going to affect at least as far as I know, I’ve never tested it. But as far as I know, it doesn’t seem to me like it would make doesn’t seem logical that it would limit the website’s exposure by having it tied to a GMB in the US. The maps ranking itself for the GMB would be limited to its immediate area, which is normal for all GMB’s now, but I can’t imagine that causing any issues. Marco, have you tested any of that or have any experience with that?

Well, the Land Solutions Network has a corporate as a corporate entity right in Pennsylvania. That’s We decided we decided to set that up. Just to give it a corporate presence, get a GMB it to kind of show you know that it’s a local company, but it’s it’s spread out. And it’s but that but then that’s also geo-targeting the US. So it’s a service-based business, targeting the USA, it has a surface area, as long as you don’t say, you know, like, I don’t know how you would do that if you have a global entity and why you would pigeonhole it into a GMB. Yeah. Well, you were you’re required to either show your address or to set a service area and you can’t set the globe as a service area unless you deliver goods and services to the person right at their location is that well, that’s the idea behind the service-based business. Right? So you’d have to look at that. I don’t know why you’d want to do that. Why don’t you just because you’re not here’s the thing where people get Confused about doing local, it’s natural, and it looks really good. And you have to have a GMB or else you’re not going to rank in the three-pack. And that’s where the most action takes place in most niches locally. People going to their cell phones, and they look, look up whatever service it is that they’re looking for, and they get a map pack, but they get ads and a map pack, or something along those lines. If you don’t want that to happen. And if your niche doesn’t trigger a map pack, then why would you want to be involved in that in the first place? There are other ways to verify and validate that entity that doesn’t involve a GMB. We just did it with Land Solutions Network, because I knew we’d be targeting the US and I knew how we would be targeting the other states and cities in the US, right. So I knew what was going to happen already and how that was going to happen. But if I were going globally, I wouldn’t have done that I would have never said my geolocation to the US. I probably would have gotten a GMB, I would have looked for another way, running ads in Google and YouTube, getting that credit card on file going into G Suite. Right as the company land solutions network doing all of the things that a company does when they want to work within Google when they want to run ads, which would be worldwide, not just to one particular geolocation, it just makes no sense.

Yeah, so I agree that you know, there’s if you don’t force a GMB just because you think you need it. If there’s a specific reason that you want to have a GMB or that you need to have a GMB in the US then so be it. But as Marco said, there are other ways to solidify or validate the entity more in Google’s eyes. Like he mentioned running Google ads, right? Having a credit card on file, running some ads, you could run YouTube ads, or display ads very inexpensively with even $1 a day budget, right? So even less, but it’s just that Google can recognize you’re a real person. It’s not a spam account. You’re paying money. Same thing with G Suite. G suites a great way to validate an entity, which at the basic level, it’s $6 a month per user for the G Suite account. And then also, you could just you could upgrade, like Google Drive for that account and do pay so you get additional storage, right? That’s another way to get it on file. So there’s a number of different ways to validate it besides having the GMB unless of course, you need it.

Is It Okay To Use A Generic Description In A U.S.-Based GMB Even If You Are Physically Located In Europe?

Which brings me to question number two of this if I’m physically located in Europe, but I need a US GMB and the health niche. Is it possible this could happen if the description is more generic and not so much health-related? And if the name is more generic? Well, again, I’m not 100% Sure. Why do you need if you’re located in Europe? Excuse me? I’m not sure why you need a GMB in the US. So it doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me. I’m not sure what the point of that would be. So I’m sorry, I can’t answer that.

Is The ID Page Useful Even If You Don’t Have A GMB?

Number three does the ID page loop Make sense? If you don’t have a GMB? Yes, it does. Because although I do The ID @ID page, stuff that we started with, you know, I guess it was in 2018. February 2018. I think we were originally it was originally tied to just local business structure data. But it’s beyond that now. Marco, you can talk a little bit Miley do local, but you can talk a little bit about that more an ID page is just a reference area for an entity. It’s telling the Googlebot to go there all of the entity information that will help to validate that entity is that in this location, and that’s what we use the ID page for. Is that correct?

Yeah, everything on the web has a node. Okay, everything connected to the web. So even if you have a smart refrigerator, smart range, smartphone or smart TV, whatever smart device you have, that’s going to have a note. And the question now is, how do we identify that node for the bot to understand what this connection is to whatever it is that we’re doing? What’s happened, what how that’s being done. Now it’s a local is how it started. But now you have an organization, Mm hmm. She can add you can have an @ID for your organization. And that what that does is is I and identifies the organization know where all of your organizational information resides. And so that that’s how we do it. That’s how we targeted but you can have multiple @IDs, like here, you can have a web page and idea of a product @ID, you’re just naming the node for the product, the website, the web page, just whatever you’re identifying it for about these are identifiers, and how those two nodes get connected. Well, that’s the URL. I don’t know that it’s a hyperlink. They connected through a way for each one to talk to one another. Well, that’s HTTPS. And the way that the word the worldwide web is inter matched right interlinked, so that everything is identified and can The through an IP, or however it is that that that that connection is is made. Now, as far as the question is concerned, does an @ID page loop makes sense? It makes sense because it’s an entity that we named it and the @ID loop, originally, but what we were doing is we were creating an entity loop. We were sending Google hopping from one place to another that contains nothing but our entities’ information and everything related to our entity. And we were just echoing it over and over and over and over again, we were able to track the bot in that echo. It sounds like an echo chamber, right? Or the endless mirror, where it just bounces back and forth, back and forth. And we’ve seen it happen, we can see it. We can see the button. They’re going back and forth going back and forth through the iPhones. We can see it reading the information on the iPhone, this is these are the things that we’ve proven. So is it Yes, of course, it makes sense. It makes total sense because of not You’re not and you’re not identifying your entity properly for the Bob. Thank you was a thorough answer.

How Important Are The Short Links On The GSite Of The SEO Shield?

So DC SEOs up? What’s up, man? He says on the G site of the shield, there are a number of short links that have MGYB in them. How important are they because I want to sell my clients the shield without them actually being able to figure it out where and who it was created by and how much it costs because I will be adding my own margin onto it. I’ve considered not telling them that they’ll end up with a G site, but almost everyone I deal with here in the UK has been burnt by another SEO Company, which is true everywhere, not just in the UK, but been. So I want to be as transparent as possible on a slightly different note if a client doesn’t want to publish the GMB site. Okay, well, let me answer the first question and we’ll come back to that second part. We run all the URLs through the MGB shortener because it gives you another target URL for link building purposes and because of all the link building that’s been done to the drive stacks g sites that we’ve built over the years now. The mgyb.co shortener is incredibly powerful. So you actually siphon power from that into your stack by having those shortened links there. That said, there are a couple of things I don’t know that you could I don’t manage the, you know MGYB Build Team at all that Marco and Rob do that really? So I don’t know if you could request to have one built without the shortened links. I guess it’s possible maybe Marco can answer that or Rob I know he’s usually lurking, listening to us and he comments in slack but something else you could do is when it’s delivered if you wanted to hide that from or you know not to reveal that the mgyb.co shortened links to the client, you could just go into the drive stack and delete those from you know the sheets and things like that if you wanted, obviously, it would be more time-efficient, more efficient if you just ordered the stack and requested did not have those included. Is that something thing that could be done, Marco?

No. And I’ll tell you why. The MTB shortener adds so much power to everything that if they even rank and leave it, they’ll index. So a mind map that’s really hard to index right now will index through the MGYB shortener. So why would we want to interfere with all of the power? And if I were to tell my guys to do that, then you would have to, we would have to give it to you with the warning. We can’t be sure how this is going to work. Yeah, because we don’t do them that way. Now, if you just share your screen for a second and just go to HTTPS, mgyb.co to the shortener.

Oops, I got the wrong fucking type. Maybe I could get it right. That’s all the person is going to see just another shortener, just another URL shortener, they don’t have to figure anything out. I mean, if they want to look at your it’s something, it’s a service that actually you can set you’re paying for the pricing is right there. And you’re using it, just to provide short links and to be able to customize, you can actually go and pay for getting into the service. So you can customize the links for the client. But this is the way I’m customizing your link so that they look better. So they look nicer. So they’re more attractive for the person to click on. They don’t have to figure out everything that you’re doing. They can just from going here. This is just our shortener, it’s no, no different than Bitly, or any other shortener out there.

And I’d like to comment and say what Marco said is true. I agree that also delivering a drive stack without those URLs would be like, going into a fight with one arm tied behind your back, right, because you’re losing the benefit that you gain from having the MGYB SEO links because of the power that’s been accrued to it over time. So that’s number one.

Number two, again, if you know my rebuttal to say that you’re worried about the client seeing, you know, going to mgyb.co, and looking at the store and seeing what drives tax costs and everything else, what your client have any idea what the hell to do, how to order what to do with them or anything else without you know, I mean, it’s like 99% chance that they wouldn’t have a damn clue as to what to do. Even if they did find the store, they wouldn’t have any idea how any of those things would benefit them. Because as it stands right now, it’s still basically a store that is for SEO professionals and marketing professionals. Not for the layman, right? The average business person or a business owner. So you’re getting paid for understanding how to put all of these things together and make it work and produce results. Right. That’s your expertise. I remember reading somewhere, somebody said you know when you have a plumber that’s got 10 years of experience to come out and fix a leaking pipe, right? And he comes out and fixes it in 30 minutes and charges you $150 or $200, you know the service call plus whatever $200? Or are you paying for $200? You know, like, it takes 30 minutes. So what would that be $400 an hour effectively, or so? Are you only paying for that 30 minutes? No, you’re paying for 10 years of experience that that plumber has accrued. And that’s why they’re able to fix it so efficiently. I don’t know if that’s an analogy that makes sense to you. It does to me. But you know, you’re they’re paying a markup because you’re the one that’s putting it together and making sure that they’re going to get results from it. Whereas even if they went and found our store, it’s likely they would have no idea what the hell they were looking at, or what the hell to do with it, even if they did purchase it, you know what I mean? So I wouldn’t and trust me if they ordered it and then got into the order where they had to submit the order details. They’d be lost probably because they don’t understand half the terminology that you know We requested the order. So I wouldn’t worry about that at all. You should always Mohammed, I think he’s got a question in here. He’s been following us for a long time. And he had, you know, Mohammed, I’m not picking on you. But he’s gotten to a lot of situations with clients about that kind of stuff, you know, where too much has been revealed or to ask too many questions and blah, blah, blah. And remember, you’re getting paid for your expertise, for knowledge that you’ve accrued through time and effort. And so you deserve to be paid for that and manage the build, manage, you know, the, what’s done with it afterward and everything else. So any comments on that?

Yeah, this is where I’d like to add that if he’s taken the person through the conversation in the right way. What he’s done is he’s told this person, I’m going to get your results how I get results, is my business-like, I don’t you’re not going to tell this business owner how to run their business because you probably don’t know how to you don’t care to know how all you need to know is as Jordan Fowler one of our mastermind Member says, Well, you have to know is Google. And all you have to tell that client is Look, I, you know, your business, I know Google, and I’m going to get you results, and you’re going to pay me for results. You’re not paying me for the hour, the why. Now, if you want to pay me for the hour or the Y, that’s consultation, and that’s 1500 dollars an hour, I’d be happy to take you into structure into an instructional model, minimum five hours a month, and during the course of 12 to 18 months, I can take you through everything so that you can go and get results. Or rather than do that, why don’t you just pay me my monthly, and let me get your results so that we know you don’t have to go through those at through that Crash Course of 18 months of learning so that you can start the process of doing what it is that I already do and that I have 17 years of experience doing. So, guys, it’s that conversate you got to have that conversation with the client and you have to school the client in the right mode, yes, they’ve been burned, they’ve been burned because there’s, they’re forced to sign contracts. And they’re promised the moon, and that the moon is made of cheese and all this shit, where all you have to do is tell them, hey, look, man, I’m gonna get you results, I’m going to need 90 days, I can probably get your results sooner. But I don’t want to make any promises because I don’t control Google. But what I do know is that within 90 days, we’re going to start to see results. At the end of those 90 days, we’ll sit down and revisit the fee. So that gives that even gives you an opportunity to increase your feet because you’re gonna rock this guy’s world. If you do the things that we do in the way that we do them. The guy is going to be blown out of his mind. I mean, his head is going to explode from the results you’re going to get. But the conversation has to be there. If he’s focusing on how you’re getting results, and why and why are you doing this? And how are you doing it? Dude, you got to pay me for my knowledge. I’m not gonna give you my knowledge for 2500 bucks a month. There’s just no way.

Can You Use The Primary URL From The Money Site As Rel=Canonical If A Client Doesn’t Want To Publish Their GMB Site?

Yeah, she says on a slightly different note. If a client doesn’t want to publish their GMB site, can I use the primary URL from the money site is the REL=canonical? Yeah, I mean, if that’s fine, the only reason why we had set it up originally to point to the GMB website if it’s for the local project is that some of our customers at MGYB or members in the mastermind or whatever, if you have the REL=canonical pointing to the money site, if you’re doing a backlink analysis through like majestic or a href, or something like that, you can often see some of the links that are being built to the G site through the REL=canonical, like in other words, so you can see some of the link building that’s being done by you know if you’re using link building analysis tools or link analysis tools. I don’t care. I honestly don’t care because as long as I’m getting results, it really shouldn’t matter. Some of our customers or members have didn’t want that. So that’s why we defaulted it to point the REL equals canonical to the GMB website if have a GMB site, you know, a GMB location associated with the drive stack built, but it’s not necessary like you can like, it just depends if you’re worried about clients looking at link building analysis, you know, Link analysis, reports and such like that and you don’t want them to see the types of links that are being built, then yeah, I would point it to something else. It could be the, you know, not the primary website, but you could even point it to like the GMB map instead of the GMB website, for example, but again, I don’t care. Personally, I even just ordered them through the MGYB now just like you guys, do, I swear, I ordered my drive stacks just like you guys do. And then when I get them back, I typically when I’m uploading my ID page because I upload it to my own Amazon site, or whatever, then I usually do the REL=canonical back to the money site. So it’s just an edit that I make before I upload it. It’s entirely up to you. Is there any other comments you want to make on that Adam or Marco before I move on.

I don’t see why they wouldn’t want the GMB published. Like I don’t see why that’s a showcase. It’s a showcase for your post. It’s more URLs to spam to link built to the link below to four iframe, there’s just so much that you can get from that. And then not only that, when they see just how much how many visits come through, and how much actually comes through the posts on the GMB like that whole ecosystem. I was just looking at one and today’s what Wednesday and I’ve already had 838 post views for the week, and it’s only Wednesday. I’m about to post that as an update in the heavy hitter club. But it’s ridiculous for the client to even consider not publishing the money site, especially since it’s done by Google on auto and they interlink everything and they give you all the love that’s necessary for you to just hammer.

It’s another branded asset too. I totally I agree, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to. I mean, you guys, you understand you can’t control clients, sometimes clients demand things that just make no sense, they defy logic. And that’s fine. You have to work within those parameters at times or fire them as a client. But I agree 100% with Marco, there’s no reason why, like, and we’ve had that common question come up in Hump Day Hangouts, or like, you know, my client doesn’t want the G site ranking. Why not? Why the hell wouldn’t you want a G site ranking, right? Like it pushes a competitor off the page, and if you iframe your money site page into the top of the G site, then they’re gonna see the original page. I mean, you know, the money site anyways, what difference does it make and but some people just, they’re just finicky like that, but I totally agree. It’s another asset takes up more real estate, you can do a lot with it. So it seems silly not to, in my opinion. But the short answer is yes, you can canonicalize the ID page to you know, another tier-one asset I would recommend it being a Google asset like the GMB map URL for example or something like that.

Should We Use The Press Release When Requesting For Link Building Services?

Okay, g site whatever fits is up. What’s up, Fitz. He’s here almost every week. Good day, gents. Thanks for the forum to ask questions and get real-world actual answers. Marco thank you for the charity work you do for these kids. Love how Fitz promotes your charity for you, man. It’s awesome. He’s a good man for that. He says, Thanks, Fitz. Yeah, please post the charity link again so others can help with a quick 1020 or $100 to help these kids out oh road needs good people to even help even if it is with only a few dollars today. My question is on Hump Day. We hear about limiting the links to only one link so that we can concentrate the power is that for press releases or when requesting link building? Oh, that’s a great question fit. So if that wasn’t clear before that was within press releases now. Marco might have a slightly different methodology than I do. For press releases. I typically like to use most press releases if the kind of one-off press releases. I just usually like to With two links like and again, if you go look, I’m talking when I’ve talked about it, it’s mainly for press releases.

Because for example, you can add three press or three links into a press release. But you’re splitting the power of the link equity coming from that press release, every time you add an additional URL like another outbound link, right, so you can concentrate the power into one specific URL if you need to. However, if you go to the MGYB.co store or domain and you look at them or you go to our YouTube channel, or you go to Google and search for press releases silos, or PR silo stalking or whatever, you’ll see the webinar that we did, right I the way that I do it, I’m usually linking with three links per press release now and it’s because the way for local projects that I do it or that my team does it, is we publish a blog post and we publish a corresponding GMB post that links to the blog post. Okay, and then we publish a press release and The press release will link to either the blog post URL directly, or to the GMB post URL. Does that make sense that’s promoting, that’s linked to the blog post URL. And then we link back to the tier one. A tier one entity asset could be the home page, it could be a category page or, you know, top-level silo page. It could be Facebook page, you know, LinkedIn company page, the drive stack, primary folder, the G site, whatever, anyone of the primary tier one entity assets. So that’s link number two, right? first, the link is going to link to the blog post that the press releases promoting, right because we that’s what we publish or not for, like, if I’m doing three blog posts per week, then if the clients only paying for one blog post, or excuse me, one press release per week, then one of those blog posts is going to get a press release that is promoting the blog post and the blog post the press releases either gonna link directly to the blog post URL or to the GMB post URL that is linking directly to the blog post URL, then we link to it. Another tier-one entity asset, any one of them. I’ve talked about this before, but my bloggers have a client workbook, which is a Google Sheet for every client. And there’s a target URLs column that has all of the primary tier one entity assets that we want to power up, and they just go down and each time they publish another press release, blog post, whatever, they select another target URL, and they link to that. So that would be link number two, and then the third link is a link back to a previous press release in the same silo. Right, because we do press release silo, we theme mirror everything right, we mirror the blog post silo structure into the GMB or excuse me, the Google site, this into the GMB posts and now, even in the press releases, so everything is themed there. That’s why it’s called mirroring, right. And again, that was originally coined by the network Empire. So I usually if it’s a one-off, press release, I’m usually linking two to two outbound URLs. If it is a within a silo which most content is now then it’s going to look To like I said, the original post URL or the GMB, the corresponding GMB post URL, another tier-one entity asset, just cycle through target URL list. And then the third is going to be linking to the previous press release in that same silo, that’s just the way that I do it. Any comments on that?

Yeah, I wasn’t referring to either one of those scenarios when I talked about the one link method, which was strictly for the drive stack extension. And the G site inner page extension targeting a money site inner page, that’s when we use that one link method to concentrate the power as close to one to one as possible. instead of dividing it, like you just mentioned, in a press release the way that you’d be dividing, dividing is either two by two or by three, right? We want a one to one transfer from the G site over to the money site, an inner page from the extension to the inner page. So I’d go back and watch those webinars fates. I know that you have access to those. And that’s what we were mainly talking about it although you can do that one lick method however way you want to do it. Guess what you have to understand is how you’re transferring PageRank ranking score and power.

Can We Use Dedhia’s Link Building Services To A Money Site?

Alright, so we’re almost out of time I’d like to get through these next two if we can. So let’s get to them Jigglypuff says, Hey guys, I just cut the battle plan and really enjoying the content you guys share. Well, thank you. Can the link building by Dedhia offer through MGYB be used on a money site? No. We don’t recommend that. You know that we always recommend using the tier one entity assets is the link building targets. That’s what our link building services were. were developed specifically to power up the tier one entity assets, not the money site. That’s why we call it an SEO shield because it acts as an SEO firewall that protects the money site, right you’re basically building a cocoon a shield around your money site using high authority entity assets that you can now power those up. And ultimately, the link equity flows through to the money site, but it gets cleaned or laundered through those entity assets. So we do not recommend that now if you want link diversity to your money site press releases, that’s a fantastic way like that press releases are an awesome way to add length diversity to your money site, because you can link directly to your money site. And I would recommend that you change it. I primarily use naked URLs when linking to the money site, but you can do some generic stuff or some brand anchors and things like that so that you get linked diversity as well as anchor diversity back to your money site, but I would use press releases for that. Any comments on that?

No, no, no, never to the money site. We don’t recommend that. That’s why we have the SEO power shield as you said, it provides a shield and it amplifies the power. So why would you do anything except go through the SEO Power shield? That’s right.

So that’s why it’s important to build those assets first and then you can hammer the shit out of those assets with the link building and embed gigs or embed plus link building gigs. So that link building is getting done to the embed pages, right? So there’s a number of things you can do to power those assets up without them directly linking directly to your money site through those through daddy’s link building service if that makes sense. So there you go.

Next question, and we’re going to wrap it up guys because we’re at the five o'clock mark and unfortunately, dammit, Mohammed, I answered your question. I commented below cult of copy. That’s a great resource for copywriting and Facebook. They’ve also got a marketplace where you can hire copywriters and all kinds of stuff. So go look at the cult of a copy.

Can You Order More Than One ID Page DFY Service To The Same Domain?

Anyways, this last question, can you order more than one ID page done for you service to the same domain but pointing to different money site URL? Or should you only have one ID page for each money site? If you understand that’s what we were talking about earlier. an ID page is supposed to be basically a resource To say this is where it helps to validate an entity, right? So a money site, the right should really only have one ID page, the way that I do it for local, okay, because remember that everything I do is local. But you can have multiple ID pages for a brand. If there’s in my case for local if there are multiple locations, right? So there can be like, for example, I’m working on a tree service project now sharing that in the mastermind. That as an as got multiple locations, and so they’re the homepage of the website, the primary domain, the root domain is essentially got Corporation organization, Corporation structured data, right? So markup that has an ID page, that Id page is just brand and keywords. So there’s not any location optimization for the ID page, right? Because it’s an ID page for the overall entity, the brand itself, right, and I’m using Corporation markup which is a subset of organization markup, okay. So I’ve got an ID page that links to the or that the money site links to or references the ID page for the brand plus keyword Association, but no location optimization. But then I’ve got multiple locations, that is branded plus location name appended to it. And each one of those locations has its own ID page that’s optimized for that specific location. Does that make sense? So you can have multiple ID pages. If you’re having, you know, again, depending on what it is you’re trying to validate that just if you understand what we’re talking about with what an entity is, then it’ll click you know, you’ll get you you understand what the ID page is for it’s, it’s a resource that you’re telling Google through the structured data code, hey, all of the entity information can be validated here. And so on that page is where you have all the iframes structured data, you know, tier one, entity assets, all of that stuff is listed or housed within that Id page, because you’re telling Google reference that page to validate this entity and all the data within. That makes sense. So if you understand that, then you there are times where you can have multiple ID pages and marketing you might be able to explain a little bit more clearly than me. I don’t know if that was clear or not.

You can have multiple @ID it Alright, so you got a parent. And this parent has four children it doesn’t matter where those children are. So now you have the field organization Corporation, as you said, and you’re going to have in our locations now as the parent, you can talk about your children because they’re your children. And you can do this in the schema in the JSON LD. Rob showed this in the heavy hitter club in our MC or we could go Wednesday, in our mastermind I didn’t in the webinar that we had, he showed he showed how you can reference the children and how the children can each reference the parents. And what you have to be careful is that you make sure these children don’t Become orphaned, where you confuse the but you have to make sure that this parent is claiming the right children because it starts claiming other children, then you’re gonna have to pay child support. Everybody’s gonna get confused. They don’t know who’s dedhia, who’s mohamed, you have to make this clear to them but if you guys if you confuse the bot you excuse the language I know they’re supposed to be pgl give a shit. You are screwed if you don’t reference everything correctly. Rather than doing all of that why don’t you just concentrate on your entity, which is what it should be? It’s an entity loop your ID is an entity loop is everything about your company about your business?

There you go.

Okay, we got to wrap up or come to the heavy hitter club and learn how to do it.

There you go. So thanks, everybody for being here. Tom. See you guys next week.

See guys, Bye, everyone. Bye.

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Announcement

Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. Today is the 10th of June 2020. got everybody here, we’re gonna say hi real quick and get the introductions out of the way and then start answering your questions because we got a lot of questions on what the deal was this week everybody brought their the good stuff. So we’re gonna get into it today. So, Bradley, we’ll start with you man. How are you doing today?

Good happy to be here been working on process development for the last two days straight to entire days and feel like my eyes are crossed, but I’ve gotten a lot of it done. So I’m so close to having all my onboarding stuff for a client you know, new clients and entity asset setup, and all that the process is almost a hundred percent complete. I’ve put it off for years. But I’ve been working on it for like the last six or seven weeks and it’s almost done. So super excited about that. I’ll be sharing this with the mastermind members tomorrow too. So just let you guys know that we are going to be there. In other words, otherwise happy to be here. Good stuff right Marco How about you man?

I’m good, man. still warm and sunny in Costa Rica nothing changes Groundhog Day you seeing it everywhere you see the exact same thing I think might be a What do you call it a screen a white screen that I put behind me right with all that light and this is fake this is really a mink coat right with Fern lining and it’s all fake none of this is really good shit.

Just a green screen but you made white and sunny Yeah, yeah.

Well, Hey, how you doing man? Are you nice and warm? Are you freezing? Now actually today was it was a pretty good day. The last week or so was rainy and foggy and shitty, but you know, today’s it’s pretty good. I’m excited to be here also working on processes, you know, trying to build you know, getting to build another agency. as well, so you know, working on processes training people, and working on that. So I feel I feel you, Bradley. But you know, it is what it is like you do once you put in the work and then you get somebody repeating it over and over and over again. So that’s why you put in the work so that you can multiply that. So it’s been it’s good, man. It’s good. Everything’s good, man. Yeah. All right. Last but not least, Chris, how you doing today, man? Doing well here. And yeah, it’s raining here for a change.

I think it’s like, I don’t know. Well, it almost feels like it’s the first time it’s a very long time. And it’s actually probably raining here.

But yeah, since it goes here. Nice, nice. Well, before we get into it, I wanted to let everyone know, we’re going to be releasing some more information about POFU live 2020. It’s still going to be the last weekend of September and it is going to be virtual. We’ll be having some updates shortly towards the end of the month, I believe and we’ll be able to answer all the questions. You’ll be able to grab your tickets. To that, we’re going to be reaching out. We had a few people last year who just hopped on right away. We’ll be reaching out to you to get with you about that. So, the other thing I wanted to touch on, we’ve had a few more people joining to x your agency. And for those of you who don’t know about this, if you’re an agency owner or consultant, if you want to get more clients want to grow your revenue, you want to scale your team. If you want to do that than 2xyouragency is really the place for you to go just go over there, check it out, I’m not gonna bore you to death. You’re all capable of reading and watching the video on the page. But there is a ton of training Bradley did the bulk of that training. I know Hernan did some and I may be leaving people out. But it’s just an incredible amount of content following the three pillars as far as what you can do to do exactly that and get more clients for your revenue and scale your team. And also, version four of the battle plan came out not too long ago if you somehow missed out on that. You can go grab that battleplan.semanticmastery.com and certainly not least is the mastermind Bradley mentioned that real quick that he’s going to be sharing all this with the mastermind if you want to find out more about that just head over to mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And I’m gonna sneeze my brains oh man has the worst trying to talk and then having to sneeze all of a sudden. Alright, got that passed. So let’s get into it. I wanted to tell people to real quick before we do that, sorry. If you haven’t been over to mgyb.co yet, head over there for your done for you services. I was reminded because we were talking today about creating some more training, talking to people about worrying less SEO about you know, not caring what the algorithm is doing. If you head over there, there are best practice webinars which are great. I think most of them were created in the last few months. Go over there. If you have questions or you just want to find out more about you know, how does this stuff work? What should I do? be doing with it, things like that, just go over to mgyb.co. And there’s a lot of great free training over there as well as the dumper Youth Services. Cool. All right, guys, anything else we need to cover before we dive into it?

Yes, I’ve got something I want to cover about syndication network applets and RSS attribution links. So it’s cool if you guys want to go ahead and grab the screen get into that.

Go for it.

Okay, standby.

Alright, I don’t know if it was a support ticket or what but it was brought to my attention that I guess some done for you syndication network buyers didn’t if you’re not using an RSS plugin that creates an attribution link whenever you syndicate content. So in other words, if you’re using an RSS trigger to trigger your syndication networks in our training, and we’ve always talked about how we use our an RSS attribution that’s coated in through a plugin. Originally, it was using the Yoast plugin, which we no longer recommend. Marco calls it the toast plugin. So we haven’t recommended that for many years because it’s full of bloated code and they update it. It’s just a mess. We don’t ever recommend using Yoast. We developed our own. Well, Chris did our crispy or developed our own RSS plugin. There’s a free version that goes with Syndication Academy, you guys can get it if you’re part of any one of our groups. There’s also a pro version that is free as long as you’re in the mastermind that does have a whole lot of other functionality to it besides just the attribution. But I guess some people hadn’t didn’t realize that if you’re not using a plugin to insert an attribution link into the feed items. So for those of you that don’t know what the hell I’m even talking about, what is an attribution like okay, well, let me show you an example. This is a blog post on blogger for myself. Land realty project. And you can see that down here at the bottom it says see we buy land and Bluefield, VA post originally published on the alpha land realty blog. Well, this was a post that was published to this blogger blog via an RSS feed through IFTTT. Okay. So if we were to go take a look at the actual RSS feed Well, in this case, I haven’t hardcoded into an applet which is what I’m going to talk about today with you guys. Because I’m not using our own RSS plugin for this and I don’t use Yoast, Marco. Also, you mentioned there was a plugin what’s it called?

Simple attribution. It’s really good really light and works fantastically well. Right here.

Okay. I haven’t used this but Marco pointed this out. So there are a couple of things that I want to point out here guys and attribution. Like what that is is whenever you are republishing content, you’re supposed to cite the source give out attribution to the original publisher to the original author, right. And so that’s just best practice. And so when we’re syndicating content, our own content to our own branded network, one of the ways that you get a link back, and also to be proper about it is to you to add the attribution link. And there’s a couple of ways you can do it. You can use a plugin. Again, use our plugin, or you can use this simple attribution if you’re using WordPress.

If you’re not using WordPress, or you don’t want to use one of these plugins, you can hard code into the syndication applet inside of IFTTT and attribution link and I’m going to share with you guys some example codes. There are two different versions of them. Well, there are multiple versions of each, but there are two basic categories of attribution links. And so what that does is every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically insert this type of attribution link down here at the bottom, okay? And so that’s giving credit to the original source. So if I click that. And this one I don’t have target equals blank in there. So it’s going to open in the same window, but you can see that it’s going to pull up the original post the same post that we just saw on blogger. It’s just it’s giving a link back to the original source. Okay, now for my alpha land realty project. I’m not using an RSS plugin, so it’s hardcoded into IFTTT. Let me give you an example. This is the RSS to blogger applet, okay? So if we go into settings, you’re going to see right there is my Feed URL. And right here is the body or the applet body. So that’s the entry content. Then I put a break tag, then published first here, and you can see it’s just a href equals enter URL and then enter and then the anchor text, in this case, would be enter URL as well, that’s how I have it. I’ve updated it since that post was published because you can see what this looks like here. So what I wanted to share with you guys was just how to do that and we can give you some examples real quick.

Let’s go back. Take a look at some of the other applets. We’ll take a look at RSS to WordPress. Take a look at the settings there. The same thing we’ve got, these are short, I’ve got short attribution links here, which just link back to the original post. You can also have a combination of an attribution link that links to the original post, plus links back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever you want. Where else would this be useful? Well think about like if you’ve got a press advantage account. Or if you’re buying press releases from MGB and you get an organization page, you get an RSS feed for your organization page, a media room page, essentially, where you can go in and set up applets. And I encourage you to do so set up applets for your sending branded syndication networks using the press advantage RSS feed. And the same thing, you go into the applets and code your attribution in and then link back to the the the original press release published on the press advantage domain.

Let me grab the right one here. And I was blowing this up so you guys can see it, you can hard code a link back into the original to the press advantage organization page itself or the media room page, okay, or on a blog, if you’re hard coding it into IFTTT to link back to your primary website, you can link either to the home page or to the blog page or whatever you really you want to. Okay, so let me zoom in on this just a little bit so you guys can see the code and I’m going to share this in the chatbox. And we’re going to put this in a knowledge base or something as well. But this is with the link to home or blog page or to like a press advantage for any source, okay, that you’re going to be syndicating content from the RSS feed. You can type code in this type of stuff. These are what’s called ingredients and the applet most of you should know this. And then these with the square brackets, those are what you would replace those are basically tokens, you would replace that with your own website URL. And you can see that you can swap this out this is not you don’t have to just use these you can change wording you can add target equals blank. You can add strategically nofollow tags to, for example, linking back to the homepage. Why would that be? If you’re going to use one of these applets? Where does it say with link to homepage or blog page? Why would you want to possibly code in a nofollow link? Think about it. Okay, so here’s why I would tell you to, you know, and that was a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it for you. If you’re syndicating content from your blog consistently to your branded network, right over and over and over again, you’re syndicating content. Well, each time you syndicate and let’s just use the three blogs in a standard syndication network. The three web two Dotto blog properties, okay, so it’s Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, right? If you have if you’re using one of these types of formats up here, where you’re linking back to the original post, but then also linking back to the homepage, or to the blog, row page, you know, blog index page or whatever. Then if you’re, if you’re doing I don’t know, let’s just use an example two posts per week. That’s eight posts per month.

Well, you could see over time, how having the same URL with the same anchor text all do follow back to the homepage of the blog page, that remember, every single post you publish would include a link back to whatever you however you have it coded here, right. And that’s what I’m talking about is back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever it is the original content, the post URL, that’s only going to get three anchor text links back. Well, some of the other properties, but I’m just talking about the web to auto blog accounts right now, you’re only going to get three anchor text, you link back to that post URL for each publication, right. So each blog post that’s published, it’s only going to receive three-link backs with a hundred percent title anchor text match, okay? So that’s perfectly fine. But if you’re going to continually post over and over and over again, which you likely are you should be, then you don’t want to constantly hit the same keyword unless it’s a brand or an anchor a naked URL. anchor, right with dofollow links. So that’s why I’m saying if you’re gonna, that’s why the way that I have coded here was to make it very simple for you guys, you can see that my anchor text in any one of these top three versions is going to be either brand or website URL, which means naked URL. So naked URL anchor text for the URL that it’s linking to. Why? Because you don’t want to cause a problem. And so that’s why, if you want to use keywords, you can but I would recommend for the link back to the homepage of the blog page or a category page, whatever it is that you’re linking back to that you would add a nofollow tag. If you’re going to be using keywords, it’s okay to use the brand. It’s okay to use a naked URL. But if you’re going to be using keywords, I would recommend to also include a rel equals nofollow attribute into the code the HTML code, if that makes sense. Okay. However, to if you don’t want to do that, you could just use the simple ones down here which is linked to the original post only, and like it said you guys, you can change this around. You can see, in this case, its entry URL using the entry title as the anchor text. In this case, its entry URL using the naked URL as the anchor text. Okay, so it just depends, you guys can swap, move things around, swap stuff out, you can change the wording slightly, all of that, it’s perfectly fine. It’s just really important that you guys understand. If you’re not adding, if you don’t have an attribution coded into your RSS feed through a plugin, okay, then this is something that you could use instead is actually code them into the applet which is what I’ve actually been doing because I’m not using plugins anymore for it for most of my sites I just haven’t coded in the are up to the syndication applet. Okay. So does anybody want to comment on that?

No, okay. No, no, this is it just to make it clear that this is just best practice. When you get a syndication network, you should have either a plugin on the WordPress website which creates the attribution either the Semantic Mastery plugin or some other plugin, whatever the plugin of your choice could be, would be. And in our, in this case, we’re recommending simple attribution so that you could do that our plugin but Semantic Mastery plugin allows spinning and a whole lot of other things that just add, you can add relevance, you can change the way that it links back to the post, or whatever it is that you’re linking to. So you have a lot more leeway in what you can do with our Semantic Mastery plugin. Unfortunately, the one that has or fortunately whatever you want to see that the one that has the most functionality is of course only available if you’re a member of the semantic mastery mastermind. Otherwise, if you don’t have that plugin, and if you’re not creating the attribution when the RSS feed goes out, when you do your post, through that plugin, what you have to do is go into IFTTT into your applets and hardcoded the way that you just showed using either brand or native You could also go something generic, you could go with a generic anchor more info more here and things like that, that’s perfectly good. If you’re going to be doing a keyword as you said, it should be nofollow, or you can actually go in it and this is a lot of work you want to VA doing it is actually going in and for that one post that’s going to post change it to, to anchor, let it go out and then change it back to keyword anchor, whatever it is do follow. But then you have to change everything back to make sure that you don’t keep getting that keyword over and over and over again with a do follow link from all of your properties all over the place, which just doesn’t make sense. So I just wanna I just want people to be clear what it is that they have to do. You have to have a plugin, or you have to have this hard code in the applet it’s one or the other.

Yeah, and see that’s why I recommend like I said, Guys, if you’re going to use these top ones where there’s every post is going to have a link back to The homepage or a blog page, then I recommend that you are using a brand anchor or naked URLs and URL anchors so that you don’t have to worry about going back in and editing the applets to change it up every so often. If you don’t want to do that, as I said, you could just go with the original, the entry URL, right, which is the actual blog post URL, or whatever syndicated content URL it is, and that you can do it that way too. So you don’t have to worry about accruing too many of a particular type of anchor. That makes sense. Okay. So that’s it, I just wanted to point out here’s another example. This is one of the newer posts. And you can see this is the this is actually going to Press Advantage. So this is one from the press. This is it was a news release or a press release from press advantage through that alpha land realty account. And if you take a look at it, if I click on that, it’s going to go directly to the press advantage post, press or excuse me, press release. Okay. And then if you’ll see if I come back and click through the alpha land Realty, I’m using brand anchors there that clicks through to the media room page. See that? So again, that’s just an example of Tumblr. And then lastly, there’s the example of WordPress, here’s one from last year. And you can take a look down here at the bottom, you can see it says, that’s the title of the post. If I click that, it’s going to take me to the original post on my alpha land realty blog. And if I click through, you can see in this case, I put a naked URL to the blog, which is the homepage because the blog is on a subdomain. And so the blog is the homepage basically, of alpha land Realty. If that makes sense. So you can see I just use a naked URL there, okay, with a naked URL anchor. Right? So I just wanted to kind of point that out. Because I guess it was brought up somebody realized that they were syndicating content with no attribution. And so I wanted to make sure everybody had an understanding of you know, where you can add attribution if you don’t already have that inserted into your RSS feeds via a plugin, okay. And like I said, you should be, you know, if you were syndicating content without attribution If you’ve been following best practices with publishing content that always includes an internal link to one of your pages on your site, whatever it is you’re trying to promote, you’re still getting the SEO benefit. We always recommend having an attribution link. Because if you know, especially because I like having the title of the post is the anchor text linking back to the post URL itself, it just adds a bunch of diversity of different types of anchors that are coming that are accruing or building up over time for your site in general, right. Does that make sense? Because the title of the blog post becomes, at least the way that I have my applets coded, the title of blog posts becomes the anchor text, and so that adds a lot of diversity over time, if that makes sense. Okay, so anyway, I just wanted to cover that. Hopefully, that makes sense. Let me reset all this stuff, and then we’ll get to questions.

Would The T1 RYS Stack Nitro Link Building Combination Enough To Power An Affiliate Site?

Okay, so we’ll start with Benjamin. He says, Hey, guys, I’m building a content site currently in a competitive niche primary keyword 75,000. A month for Google to monetize with affiliate sales. There is new curated content going on to the site each day, my plan was to get a tier-one network set up around the money site, then have an RYS stack above that pointing to the properties in tier one. Then throw the kitchen sink at dry stack via the night your link building package. Would you say this is the optimum configuration for these three elements? Or am I overthinking it, Ben? No, Ben, that’s I mean, that’s, that’s right. Get the syndication network. In fact, you, the best thing to do is just order the SEO power shield. Because you’re going to have it’s pretty much everything combined. And so you get the syndication network first, and then they build the syndication network properties into the drive stack. Then you get the drive stack and ID page, all of that the G site. And then you can once you have all of that delivered. In fact, you don’t even have to wait if you wanted to. You could start building links to the syndication network, as soon as you have that delivered which that gets delivered first. Or you could wait until everything is delivered and build links to all It so all of the URLs from the syndication network, the drive stack files and folders, the G site, that kind of stuff. Or you could like I said, do two different link builder gigs, one link building gig for the syndication network, because you’re gonna get that first anyways. Wow. And then you know, takes another two weeks or whatever for the drive stack the G site to be completed. And you could order another link building gig for that. So it really just depends how, how you want to, you know, kind of sequence the things, but if you buy an SEO power shield, it’s going to be the bundle, it just saves you kind of puts everything together and it helps our team because our team knows the process in which sequence to deliver them. That’s what I would recommend. Any comments.

SEO power shield with link building included, but that’s SOP right? Yeah, he’s in a difficult niche, you got to hit it. Once it’s delivered to see what happens to see how much more you’re going to need. I was looking at the second part of this question, and I’m seeing, like, there’s no way to answer Yeah, that’s going to be enough. Nobody can tell you what’s going to be in stuff in your niche. It’s just you get the SEO Power Shield back, you hit it with the link building, you hit it with the embeds. Do some press releases, of course, and link building and embed, and then see what happens. Once that’s done once the dust clears in 21 days wait it out, and you need data you need, you need to see what damage all of that did how it is that you’re managing to come up in that niche. Once you have that information that you know, whether you need to extend your drive sec, which you probably will and something that’s very competitive. I’m gonna say maybe I’m not gonna say probably you might need it. If you do we have that available then it then it’s the same procedure, the same process, right? You have the drive stack you extend it, you do the money site, inner page, link building embeds, maybe a press release, and see how that does to push up the top market level category and so on and so on and so on until you get the desired results. I mean, there’s no one cure-all for everything, if we could do that, then I wouldn’t be here.

Probably for a long time ago, for a long time we had, especially when syndication Academy was new, we would have members, you know, people come on the hump day Hangouts, and almost every week we get this question, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts? will it take to rank for whatever keyword and people would you know? And we would always say, it depends, right? We can’t answer that. It always depends. It takes as many as it takes, that was our answer as many as it takes, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts will it take to rank? We would always say as many as it takes because there’s no way that we can answer that. Again, I always try to do the least amount of work to get results. So I don’t usually come out of it depends. Again, it depends on the project and what the budget is and all that other kind of stuff. Sometimes I’ll come out of the gate with you know, Nitro, you know, Nitro kit, link building package, but for a lot of the local projects that I work on, you know, I that’s not that’s unnecessary, it’s overkill, especially if I’m going to be staging you know, cycling through link building and embed gigs over the course of a few months, then there’s really no need to come out right up front, you know, all guns blazing, because I’m going to make up for it, and you know, by doing multiple gigs over time, and so I like doing it that way. Because that way I’m not, you know, blowing my load so to speak, you know, like, spending a whole bunch of money upfront where and where might have not needed that if that makes sense. I like to kind of reserve keep things in reserve for when needed and kind of watch and monitor how much the needle moves with things that I do and then I can start to determine Okay, this is more competitive than I thought it was. So maybe I have to go a little bit more aggressive on link building or whatever. And that’s just the way that I do it. I know a lot of people like to come out as you know, all guns blazing, like throw Everything that happened something right up front, but what I don’t like about that is, you know, if you don’t need as much, then you’re kind of wasting time or money for that matter. That could be reserved or money that you could keep is profit instead, you know, so, but it’s really up to you how you want to approach that.

How Do You Use The ID Page?

Alright ends up he says, I got my first SEO shield order back I understand the syndication network and posting and press releases. I understand the drive stacking. I’m still lost on the ID page though, what do I do with it? Do I submit it to Google Search Console? Yes, I recommend doing that. So if you uploaded it, you know, if you have the drive, excuse me, the ID page, and an Amazon s3 bucket. The way that you can add that to your search console is you can upload you can go to add it you have to add it as a URL. You can’t do like a domain prefix and search console with it because you don’t own the Amazon domain. But you can add it as a URL. Right. So you add you go to add the URL and search console and it’ll tell you that it needs verification. And if you’re just submitting the Amazon s3 URL, then you can download the HTML file and upload it to the same bucket. Right, the same Amazon bucket that you have the HTML page hosted in or saved in, okay, and then then you go back and click Verify, and it’ll verify it just like that. And so I always recommend, you know, whatever account, the G site, and drive stack were built under, is typically where I end up submitting the ID page into the search console there. It doesn’t matter if you have a branded asset, you know, like a G Suite account or something like that. You can always add it there, too. It doesn’t matter to the same search console account that’s attached to your G Suite account. I’m just saying, for my processes, we typically just add it to the search console account of the G site and drive stack owner, so to speak. But yes, you can do that. Do I never touch it, you there are, you know, there are things you can do to add additional stuff on there. I don’t know how much I can share here specifically because some of that stuff is reserved for the mastermind and or our wife’s only, or perhaps a heavy hitter club now, but you can add additional things into it.

You know, just think about other assets that would make sense to embed, it makes sense to embed in there, you know what I mean? So for example, you could possibly take your blog role page and embed that into it so that if you’re blogging consistently on your money site, now you’ve got dynamic content, updating your ID page, because you’ve embedded your blog index page into the ID page, does that make sense? So that way, it is being updated every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically update the ID page through the embed, right. So there will be like new content on the page. So that’s just one example of some of the things that you can do, you can add additional assets in there that are branded, you can update the H, the JSON LD structured data code to add more same as attributes. You know, there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to it. Beyond that, you can leave it alone, that’s perfectly fine. But you can always squeeze more power out of it, you just got to think about what type of assets would make sense to embed in there are things that you could do to dynamically update it, like I just mentioned, RSS feeds, or there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to an ID page. Okay. But you can leave it just the way that it is and get results from that too. But you can always squeeze more power out is what I’m saying. Each property that gets iframe into that @ID page is a perfect place for link building and for embed ones and link building. So you also can you can consider that as an asset. All of those URLs are assets for you to hammer when link not hammering in, in the garbage, spam, which will work anyway. But if you keep your link profile clean, if you use better links, web two dot o is the way that we do it in web 2.0 contextual you’ll get better results and it just looks better.

So remember, also, if you don’t already have structured data on your primary web asset, then you know, add it and make sure that you’re using you’re pointing the ID page, you know, designating the ID page to the URL of your ID. page. So it makes sense. So for example, if you if or if you are if you already had structured data on your primary website, but you didn’t have an ID page field, or if like most people, do, they just duplicated the URL of the home, you know, the homepage of the primary domain as the ID page. Now, you should go up and go now that you have a, you know, a published ID page, an actual ID page, go back through and edit your structured data code to include that URL as the ID page as opposed to just the homepage of your website, you know, so that there are a few things that you can do with it. That might be something actually that we could. I know we talked about last week about doing an MGYB update webinar that might be something we can include And that is just a little bit more on how to squeeze more out of a 90 page. Maybe we can add that to the notes. I’m moving on.

Okay, there are several questions here. I don’t know that we’re going to get through all these. We’ll try just for everybody’s etiquette for others, is try not to post 18 questions in one question, guys. It’s not fair to everybody else, because it takes up too much time. post a question or two is okay. And then wait till some other people post and then you can post more questions that way. We’re giving other people a chance. There’s a lot of questions squeezed into this. All right. So we’ll get through a couple of them. And if and we’re going to move on and we’ll come back if we can if we have time.

Does Having A GMB Based In The U.S. Limits A Global Affiliate Site’s Traffic Due To GeoTargeting?

The first one is if I have a global affiliate site that targets all English speaking people around the world as the offers could be delivered globally with the primary focus on the US and UK. Is it possible that if I create a US GMA, that would then get my traffic to the US and even To the US area of the GMB in a similar way that geo-targeting and search console does? I don’t mean, the GMB when only. Again, I don’t. I’m not sure I understand the question in that. If you have a GMB, you’re limited for the GMB and to where it will rank them in maps. Does that make sense? But having a GMB tied to a global domain isn’t going to affect at least as far as I know, I’ve never tested it. But as far as I know, it doesn’t seem to me like it would make doesn’t seem logical that it would limit the website’s exposure by having it tied to a GMB in the US. The maps ranking itself for the GMB would be limited to its immediate area, which is normal for all GMB’s now, but I can’t imagine that causing any issues. Marco, have you tested any of that or have any experience with that?

Well, the Land Solutions Network has a corporate as a corporate entity right in Pennsylvania. That’s We decided we decided to set that up. Just to give it a corporate presence, get a GMB it to kind of show you know that it’s a local company, but it’s it’s spread out. And it’s but that but then that’s also geo-targeting the US. So it’s a service-based business, targeting the USA, it has a surface area, as long as you don’t say, you know, like, I don’t know how you would do that if you have a global entity and why you would pigeonhole it into a GMB. Yeah. Well, you were you’re required to either show your address or to set a service area and you can’t set the globe as a service area unless you deliver goods and services to the person right at their location is that well, that’s the idea behind the service-based business. Right? So you’d have to look at that. I don’t know why you’d want to do that. Why don’t you just because you’re not here’s the thing where people get Confused about doing local, it’s natural, and it looks really good. And you have to have a GMB or else you’re not going to rank in the three-pack. And that’s where the most action takes place in most niches locally. People going to their cell phones, and they look, look up whatever service it is that they’re looking for, and they get a map pack, but they get ads and a map pack, or something along those lines. If you don’t want that to happen. And if your niche doesn’t trigger a map pack, then why would you want to be involved in that in the first place? There are other ways to verify and validate that entity that doesn’t involve a GMB. We just did it with Land Solutions Network, because I knew we’d be targeting the US and I knew how we would be targeting the other states and cities in the US, right. So I knew what was going to happen already and how that was going to happen. But if I were going globally, I wouldn’t have done that I would have never said my geolocation to the US. I probably would have gotten a GMB, I would have looked for another way, running ads in Google and YouTube, getting that credit card on file going into G Suite. Right as the company land solutions network doing all of the things that a company does when they want to work within Google when they want to run ads, which would be worldwide, not just to one particular geolocation, it just makes no sense.

Yeah, so I agree that you know, there’s if you don’t force a GMB just because you think you need it. If there’s a specific reason that you want to have a GMB or that you need to have a GMB in the US then so be it. But as Marco said, there are other ways to solidify or validate the entity more in Google’s eyes. Like he mentioned running Google ads, right? Having a credit card on file, running some ads, you could run YouTube ads, or display ads very inexpensively with even $1 a day budget, right? So even less, but it’s just that Google can recognize you’re a real person. It’s not a spam account. You’re paying money. Same thing with G Suite. G suites a great way to validate an entity, which at the basic level, it’s $6 a month per user for the G Suite account. And then also, you could just you could upgrade, like Google Drive for that account and do pay so you get additional storage, right? That’s another way to get it on file. So there’s a number of different ways to validate it besides having the GMB unless of course, you need it.

Is It Okay To Use A Generic Description In A U.S.-Based GMB Even If You Are Physically Located In Europe?

Which brings me to question number two of this if I’m physically located in Europe, but I need a US GMB and the health niche. Is it possible this could happen if the description is more generic and not so much health-related? And if the name is more generic? Well, again, I’m not 100% Sure. Why do you need if you’re located in Europe? Excuse me? I’m not sure why you need a GMB in the US. So it doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me. I’m not sure what the point of that would be. So I’m sorry, I can’t answer that.

Is The ID Page Useful Even If You Don’t Have A GMB?

Number three does the ID page loop Make sense? If you don’t have a GMB? Yes, it does. Because although I do The ID @ID page, stuff that we started with, you know, I guess it was in 2018. February 2018. I think we were originally it was originally tied to just local business structure data. But it’s beyond that now. Marco, you can talk a little bit Miley do local, but you can talk a little bit about that more an ID page is just a reference area for an entity. It’s telling the Googlebot to go there all of the entity information that will help to validate that entity is that in this location, and that’s what we use the ID page for. Is that correct?

Yeah, everything on the web has a node. Okay, everything connected to the web. So even if you have a smart refrigerator, smart range, smartphone or smart TV, whatever smart device you have, that’s going to have a note. And the question now is, how do we identify that node for the bot to understand what this connection is to whatever it is that we’re doing? What’s happened, what how that’s being done. Now it’s a local is how it started. But now you have an organization, Mm hmm. She can add you can have an @ID for your organization. And that what that does is is I and identifies the organization know where all of your organizational information resides. And so that that’s how we do it. That’s how we targeted but you can have multiple @IDs, like here, you can have a web page and idea of a product @ID, you’re just naming the node for the product, the website, the web page, just whatever you’re identifying it for about these are identifiers, and how those two nodes get connected. Well, that’s the URL. I don’t know that it’s a hyperlink. They connected through a way for each one to talk to one another. Well, that’s HTTPS. And the way that the word the worldwide web is inter matched right interlinked, so that everything is identified and can The through an IP, or however it is that that that that connection is is made. Now, as far as the question is concerned, does an @ID page loop makes sense? It makes sense because it’s an entity that we named it and the @ID loop, originally, but what we were doing is we were creating an entity loop. We were sending Google hopping from one place to another that contains nothing but our entities’ information and everything related to our entity. And we were just echoing it over and over and over and over again, we were able to track the bot in that echo. It sounds like an echo chamber, right? Or the endless mirror, where it just bounces back and forth, back and forth. And we’ve seen it happen, we can see it. We can see the button. They’re going back and forth going back and forth through the iPhones. We can see it reading the information on the iPhone, this is these are the things that we’ve proven. So is it Yes, of course, it makes sense. It makes total sense because of not You’re not and you’re not identifying your entity properly for the Bob. Thank you was a thorough answer.

How Important Are The Short Links On The GSite Of The SEO Shield?

So DC SEOs up? What’s up, man? He says on the G site of the shield, there are a number of short links that have MGYB in them. How important are they because I want to sell my clients the shield without them actually being able to figure it out where and who it was created by and how much it costs because I will be adding my own margin onto it. I’ve considered not telling them that they’ll end up with a G site, but almost everyone I deal with here in the UK has been burnt by another SEO Company, which is true everywhere, not just in the UK, but been. So I want to be as transparent as possible on a slightly different note if a client doesn’t want to publish the GMB site. Okay, well, let me answer the first question and we’ll come back to that second part. We run all the URLs through the MGB shortener because it gives you another target URL for link building purposes and because of all the link building that’s been done to the drive stacks g sites that we’ve built over the years now. The mgyb.co shortener is incredibly powerful. So you actually siphon power from that into your stack by having those shortened links there. That said, there are a couple of things I don’t know that you could I don’t manage the, you know MGYB Build Team at all that Marco and Rob do that really? So I don’t know if you could request to have one built without the shortened links. I guess it’s possible maybe Marco can answer that or Rob I know he’s usually lurking, listening to us and he comments in slack but something else you could do is when it’s delivered if you wanted to hide that from or you know not to reveal that the mgyb.co shortened links to the client, you could just go into the drive stack and delete those from you know the sheets and things like that if you wanted, obviously, it would be more time-efficient, more efficient if you just ordered the stack and requested did not have those included. Is that something thing that could be done, Marco?

No. And I’ll tell you why. The MTB shortener adds so much power to everything that if they even rank and leave it, they’ll index. So a mind map that’s really hard to index right now will index through the MGYB shortener. So why would we want to interfere with all of the power? And if I were to tell my guys to do that, then you would have to, we would have to give it to you with the warning. We can’t be sure how this is going to work. Yeah, because we don’t do them that way. Now, if you just share your screen for a second and just go to HTTPS, mgyb.co to the shortener.

Oops, I got the wrong fucking type. Maybe I could get it right. That’s all the person is going to see just another shortener, just another URL shortener, they don’t have to figure anything out. I mean, if they want to look at your it’s something, it’s a service that actually you can set you’re paying for the pricing is right there. And you’re using it, just to provide short links and to be able to customize, you can actually go and pay for getting into the service. So you can customize the links for the client. But this is the way I’m customizing your link so that they look better. So they look nicer. So they’re more attractive for the person to click on. They don’t have to figure out everything that you’re doing. They can just from going here. This is just our shortener, it’s no, no different than Bitly, or any other shortener out there.

And I’d like to comment and say what Marco said is true. I agree that also delivering a drive stack without those URLs would be like, going into a fight with one arm tied behind your back, right, because you’re losing the benefit that you gain from having the MGYB SEO links because of the power that’s been accrued to it over time. So that’s number one.

Number two, again, if you know my rebuttal to say that you’re worried about the client seeing, you know, going to mgyb.co, and looking at the store and seeing what drives tax costs and everything else, what your client have any idea what the hell to do, how to order what to do with them or anything else without you know, I mean, it’s like 99% chance that they wouldn’t have a damn clue as to what to do. Even if they did find the store, they wouldn’t have any idea how any of those things would benefit them. Because as it stands right now, it’s still basically a store that is for SEO professionals and marketing professionals. Not for the layman, right? The average business person or a business owner. So you’re getting paid for understanding how to put all of these things together and make it work and produce results. Right. That’s your expertise. I remember reading somewhere, somebody said you know when you have a plumber that’s got 10 years of experience to come out and fix a leaking pipe, right? And he comes out and fixes it in 30 minutes and charges you $150 or $200, you know the service call plus whatever $200? Or are you paying for $200? You know, like, it takes 30 minutes. So what would that be $400 an hour effectively, or so? Are you only paying for that 30 minutes? No, you’re paying for 10 years of experience that that plumber has accrued. And that’s why they’re able to fix it so efficiently. I don’t know if that’s an analogy that makes sense to you. It does to me. But you know, you’re they’re paying a markup because you’re the one that’s putting it together and making sure that they’re going to get results from it. Whereas even if they went and found our store, it’s likely they would have no idea what the hell they were looking at, or what the hell to do with it, even if they did purchase it, you know what I mean? So I wouldn’t and trust me if they ordered it and then got into the order where they had to submit the order details. They’d be lost probably because they don’t understand half the terminology that you know We requested the order. So I wouldn’t worry about that at all. You should always Mohammed, I think he’s got a question in here. He’s been following us for a long time. And he had, you know, Mohammed, I’m not picking on you. But he’s gotten to a lot of situations with clients about that kind of stuff, you know, where too much has been revealed or to ask too many questions and blah, blah, blah. And remember, you’re getting paid for your expertise, for knowledge that you’ve accrued through time and effort. And so you deserve to be paid for that and manage the build, manage, you know, the, what’s done with it afterward and everything else. So any comments on that?

Yeah, this is where I’d like to add that if he’s taken the person through the conversation in the right way. What he’s done is he’s told this person, I’m going to get your results how I get results, is my business-like, I don’t you’re not going to tell this business owner how to run their business because you probably don’t know how to you don’t care to know how all you need to know is as Jordan Fowler one of our mastermind Member says, Well, you have to know is Google. And all you have to tell that client is Look, I, you know, your business, I know Google, and I’m going to get you results, and you’re going to pay me for results. You’re not paying me for the hour, the why. Now, if you want to pay me for the hour or the Y, that’s consultation, and that’s 1500 dollars an hour, I’d be happy to take you into structure into an instructional model, minimum five hours a month, and during the course of 12 to 18 months, I can take you through everything so that you can go and get results. Or rather than do that, why don’t you just pay me my monthly, and let me get your results so that we know you don’t have to go through those at through that Crash Course of 18 months of learning so that you can start the process of doing what it is that I already do and that I have 17 years of experience doing. So, guys, it’s that conversate you got to have that conversation with the client and you have to school the client in the right mode, yes, they’ve been burned, they’ve been burned because there’s, they’re forced to sign contracts. And they’re promised the moon, and that the moon is made of cheese and all this shit, where all you have to do is tell them, hey, look, man, I’m gonna get you results, I’m going to need 90 days, I can probably get your results sooner. But I don’t want to make any promises because I don’t control Google. But what I do know is that within 90 days, we’re going to start to see results. At the end of those 90 days, we’ll sit down and revisit the fee. So that gives that even gives you an opportunity to increase your feet because you’re gonna rock this guy’s world. If you do the things that we do in the way that we do them. The guy is going to be blown out of his mind. I mean, his head is going to explode from the results you’re going to get. But the conversation has to be there. If he’s focusing on how you’re getting results, and why and why are you doing this? And how are you doing it? Dude, you got to pay me for my knowledge. I’m not gonna give you my knowledge for 2500 bucks a month. There’s just no way.

Can You Use The Primary URL From The Money Site As Rel=Canonical If A Client Doesn’t Want To Publish Their GMB Site?

Yeah, she says on a slightly different note. If a client doesn’t want to publish their GMB site, can I use the primary URL from the money site is the REL=canonical? Yeah, I mean, if that’s fine, the only reason why we had set it up originally to point to the GMB website if it’s for the local project is that some of our customers at MGYB or members in the mastermind or whatever, if you have the REL=canonical pointing to the money site, if you’re doing a backlink analysis through like majestic or a href, or something like that, you can often see some of the links that are being built to the G site through the REL=canonical, like in other words, so you can see some of the link building that’s being done by you know if you’re using link building analysis tools or link analysis tools. I don’t care. I honestly don’t care because as long as I’m getting results, it really shouldn’t matter. Some of our customers or members have didn’t want that. So that’s why we defaulted it to point the REL equals canonical to the GMB website if have a GMB site, you know, a GMB location associated with the drive stack built, but it’s not necessary like you can like, it just depends if you’re worried about clients looking at link building analysis, you know, Link analysis, reports and such like that and you don’t want them to see the types of links that are being built, then yeah, I would point it to something else. It could be the, you know, not the primary website, but you could even point it to like the GMB map instead of the GMB website, for example, but again, I don’t care. Personally, I even just ordered them through the MGYB now just like you guys, do, I swear, I ordered my drive stacks just like you guys do. And then when I get them back, I typically when I’m uploading my ID page because I upload it to my own Amazon site, or whatever, then I usually do the REL=canonical back to the money site. So it’s just an edit that I make before I upload it. It’s entirely up to you. Is there any other comments you want to make on that Adam or Marco before I move on.

I don’t see why they wouldn’t want the GMB published. Like I don’t see why that’s a showcase. It’s a showcase for your post. It’s more URLs to spam to link built to the link below to four iframe, there’s just so much that you can get from that. And then not only that, when they see just how much how many visits come through, and how much actually comes through the posts on the GMB like that whole ecosystem. I was just looking at one and today’s what Wednesday and I’ve already had 838 post views for the week, and it’s only Wednesday. I’m about to post that as an update in the heavy hitter club. But it’s ridiculous for the client to even consider not publishing the money site, especially since it’s done by Google on auto and they interlink everything and they give you all the love that’s necessary for you to just hammer.

It’s another branded asset too. I totally I agree, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to. I mean, you guys, you understand you can’t control clients, sometimes clients demand things that just make no sense, they defy logic. And that’s fine. You have to work within those parameters at times or fire them as a client. But I agree 100% with Marco, there’s no reason why, like, and we’ve had that common question come up in Hump Day Hangouts, or like, you know, my client doesn’t want the G site ranking. Why not? Why the hell wouldn’t you want a G site ranking, right? Like it pushes a competitor off the page, and if you iframe your money site page into the top of the G site, then they’re gonna see the original page. I mean, you know, the money site anyways, what difference does it make and but some people just, they’re just finicky like that, but I totally agree. It’s another asset takes up more real estate, you can do a lot with it. So it seems silly not to, in my opinion. But the short answer is yes, you can canonicalize the ID page to you know, another tier-one asset I would recommend it being a Google asset like the GMB map URL for example or something like that.

Should We Use The Press Release When Requesting For Link Building Services?

Okay, g site whatever fits is up. What’s up, Fitz. He’s here almost every week. Good day, gents. Thanks for the forum to ask questions and get real-world actual answers. Marco thank you for the charity work you do for these kids. Love how Fitz promotes your charity for you, man. It’s awesome. He’s a good man for that. He says, Thanks, Fitz. Yeah, please post the charity link again so others can help with a quick 1020 or $100 to help these kids out oh road needs good people to even help even if it is with only a few dollars today. My question is on Hump Day. We hear about limiting the links to only one link so that we can concentrate the power is that for press releases or when requesting link building? Oh, that’s a great question fit. So if that wasn’t clear before that was within press releases now. Marco might have a slightly different methodology than I do. For press releases. I typically like to use most press releases if the kind of one-off press releases. I just usually like to With two links like and again, if you go look, I’m talking when I’ve talked about it, it’s mainly for press releases.

Because for example, you can add three press or three links into a press release. But you’re splitting the power of the link equity coming from that press release, every time you add an additional URL like another outbound link, right, so you can concentrate the power into one specific URL if you need to. However, if you go to the MGYB.co store or domain and you look at them or you go to our YouTube channel, or you go to Google and search for press releases silos, or PR silo stalking or whatever, you’ll see the webinar that we did, right I the way that I do it, I’m usually linking with three links per press release now and it’s because the way for local projects that I do it or that my team does it, is we publish a blog post and we publish a corresponding GMB post that links to the blog post. Okay, and then we publish a press release and The press release will link to either the blog post URL directly, or to the GMB post URL. Does that make sense that’s promoting, that’s linked to the blog post URL. And then we link back to the tier one. A tier one entity asset could be the home page, it could be a category page or, you know, top-level silo page. It could be Facebook page, you know, LinkedIn company page, the drive stack, primary folder, the G site, whatever, anyone of the primary tier one entity assets. So that’s link number two, right? first, the link is going to link to the blog post that the press releases promoting, right because we that’s what we publish or not for, like, if I’m doing three blog posts per week, then if the clients only paying for one blog post, or excuse me, one press release per week, then one of those blog posts is going to get a press release that is promoting the blog post and the blog post the press releases either gonna link directly to the blog post URL or to the GMB post URL that is linking directly to the blog post URL, then we link to it. Another tier-one entity asset, any one of them. I’ve talked about this before, but my bloggers have a client workbook, which is a Google Sheet for every client. And there’s a target URLs column that has all of the primary tier one entity assets that we want to power up, and they just go down and each time they publish another press release, blog post, whatever, they select another target URL, and they link to that. So that would be link number two, and then the third link is a link back to a previous press release in the same silo. Right, because we do press release silo, we theme mirror everything right, we mirror the blog post silo structure into the GMB or excuse me, the Google site, this into the GMB posts and now, even in the press releases, so everything is themed there. That’s why it’s called mirroring, right. And again, that was originally coined by the network Empire. So I usually if it’s a one-off, press release, I’m usually linking two to two outbound URLs. If it is a within a silo which most content is now then it’s going to look To like I said, the original post URL or the GMB, the corresponding GMB post URL, another tier-one entity asset, just cycle through target URL list. And then the third is going to be linking to the previous press release in that same silo, that’s just the way that I do it. Any comments on that?

Yeah, I wasn’t referring to either one of those scenarios when I talked about the one link method, which was strictly for the drive stack extension. And the G site inner page extension targeting a money site inner page, that’s when we use that one link method to concentrate the power as close to one to one as possible. instead of dividing it, like you just mentioned, in a press release the way that you’d be dividing, dividing is either two by two or by three, right? We want a one to one transfer from the G site over to the money site, an inner page from the extension to the inner page. So I’d go back and watch those webinars fates. I know that you have access to those. And that’s what we were mainly talking about it although you can do that one lick method however way you want to do it. Guess what you have to understand is how you’re transferring PageRank ranking score and power.

Can We Use Dedhia’s Link Building Services To A Money Site?

Alright, so we’re almost out of time I’d like to get through these next two if we can. So let’s get to them Jigglypuff says, Hey guys, I just cut the battle plan and really enjoying the content you guys share. Well, thank you. Can the link building by Dedhia offer through MGYB be used on a money site? No. We don’t recommend that. You know that we always recommend using the tier one entity assets is the link building targets. That’s what our link building services were. were developed specifically to power up the tier one entity assets, not the money site. That’s why we call it an SEO shield because it acts as an SEO firewall that protects the money site, right you’re basically building a cocoon a shield around your money site using high authority entity assets that you can now power those up. And ultimately, the link equity flows through to the money site, but it gets cleaned or laundered through those entity assets. So we do not recommend that now if you want link diversity to your money site press releases, that’s a fantastic way like that press releases are an awesome way to add length diversity to your money site, because you can link directly to your money site. And I would recommend that you change it. I primarily use naked URLs when linking to the money site, but you can do some generic stuff or some brand anchors and things like that so that you get linked diversity as well as anchor diversity back to your money site, but I would use press releases for that. Any comments on that?

No, no, no, never to the money site. We don’t recommend that. That’s why we have the SEO power shield as you said, it provides a shield and it amplifies the power. So why would you do anything except go through the SEO Power shield? That’s right.

So that’s why it’s important to build those assets first and then you can hammer the shit out of those assets with the link building and embed gigs or embed plus link building gigs. So that link building is getting done to the embed pages, right? So there’s a number of things you can do to power those assets up without them directly linking directly to your money site through those through daddy’s link building service if that makes sense. So there you go.

Next question, and we’re going to wrap it up guys because we’re at the five o'clock mark and unfortunately, dammit, Mohammed, I answered your question. I commented below cult of copy. That’s a great resource for copywriting and Facebook. They’ve also got a marketplace where you can hire copywriters and all kinds of stuff. So go look at the cult of a copy.

Can You Order More Than One ID Page DFY Service To The Same Domain?

Anyways, this last question, can you order more than one ID page done for you service to the same domain but pointing to different money site URL? Or should you only have one ID page for each money site? If you understand that’s what we were talking about earlier. an ID page is supposed to be basically a resource To say this is where it helps to validate an entity, right? So a money site, the right should really only have one ID page, the way that I do it for local, okay, because remember that everything I do is local. But you can have multiple ID pages for a brand. If there’s in my case for local if there are multiple locations, right? So there can be like, for example, I’m working on a tree service project now sharing that in the mastermind. That as an as got multiple locations, and so they’re the homepage of the website, the primary domain, the root domain is essentially got Corporation organization, Corporation structured data, right? So markup that has an ID page, that Id page is just brand and keywords. So there’s not any location optimization for the ID page, right? Because it’s an ID page for the overall entity, the brand itself, right, and I’m using Corporation markup which is a subset of organization markup, okay. So I’ve got an ID page that links to the or that the money site links to or references the ID page for the brand plus keyword Association, but no location optimization. But then I’ve got multiple locations, that is branded plus location name appended to it. And each one of those locations has its own ID page that’s optimized for that specific location. Does that make sense? So you can have multiple ID pages. If you’re having, you know, again, depending on what it is you’re trying to validate that just if you understand what we’re talking about with what an entity is, then it’ll click you know, you’ll get you you understand what the ID page is for it’s, it’s a resource that you’re telling Google through the structured data code, hey, all of the entity information can be validated here. And so on that page is where you have all the iframes structured data, you know, tier one, entity assets, all of that stuff is listed or housed within that Id page, because you’re telling Google reference that page to validate this entity and all the data within. That makes sense. So if you understand that, then you there are times where you can have multiple ID pages and marketing you might be able to explain a little bit more clearly than me. I don’t know if that was clear or not.

You can have multiple @ID it Alright, so you got a parent. And this parent has four children it doesn’t matter where those children are. So now you have the field organization Corporation, as you said, and you’re going to have in our locations now as the parent, you can talk about your children because they’re your children. And you can do this in the schema in the JSON LD. Rob showed this in the heavy hitter club in our MC or we could go Wednesday, in our mastermind I didn’t in the webinar that we had, he showed he showed how you can reference the children and how the children can each reference the parents. And what you have to be careful is that you make sure these children don’t Become orphaned, where you confuse the but you have to make sure that this parent is claiming the right children because it starts claiming other children, then you’re gonna have to pay child support. Everybody’s gonna get confused. They don’t know who’s dedhia, who’s mohamed, you have to make this clear to them but if you guys if you confuse the bot you excuse the language I know they’re supposed to be pgl give a shit. You are screwed if you don’t reference everything correctly. Rather than doing all of that why don’t you just concentrate on your entity, which is what it should be? It’s an entity loop your ID is an entity loop is everything about your company about your business?

There you go.

Okay, we got to wrap up or come to the heavy hitter club and learn how to do it.

There you go. So thanks, everybody for being here. Tom. See you guys next week.

See guys, Bye, everyone. Bye.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 291

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Announcement

Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. Today is the 10th of June 2020. got everybody here, we’re gonna say hi real quick and get the introductions out of the way and then start answering your questions because we got a lot of questions on what the deal was this week everybody brought their the good stuff. So we’re gonna get into it today. So, Bradley, we’ll start with you man. How are you doing today?

Good happy to be here been working on process development for the last two days straight to entire days and feel like my eyes are crossed, but I’ve gotten a lot of it done. So I’m so close to having all my onboarding stuff for a client you know, new clients and entity asset setup, and all that the process is almost a hundred percent complete. I’ve put it off for years. But I’ve been working on it for like the last six or seven weeks and it’s almost done. So super excited about that. I’ll be sharing this with the mastermind members tomorrow too. So just let you guys know that we are going to be there. In other words, otherwise happy to be here. Good stuff right Marco How about you man?

I’m good, man. still warm and sunny in Costa Rica nothing changes Groundhog Day you seeing it everywhere you see the exact same thing I think might be a What do you call it a screen a white screen that I put behind me right with all that light and this is fake this is really a mink coat right with Fern lining and it’s all fake none of this is really good shit.

Just a green screen but you made white and sunny Yeah, yeah.

Well, Hey, how you doing man? Are you nice and warm? Are you freezing? Now actually today was it was a pretty good day. The last week or so was rainy and foggy and shitty, but you know, today’s it’s pretty good. I’m excited to be here also working on processes, you know, trying to build you know, getting to build another agency. as well, so you know, working on processes training people, and working on that. So I feel I feel you, Bradley. But you know, it is what it is like you do once you put in the work and then you get somebody repeating it over and over and over again. So that’s why you put in the work so that you can multiply that. So it’s been it’s good, man. It’s good. Everything’s good, man. Yeah. All right. Last but not least, Chris, how you doing today, man? Doing well here. And yeah, it’s raining here for a change.

I think it’s like, I don’t know. Well, it almost feels like it’s the first time it’s a very long time. And it’s actually probably raining here.

But yeah, since it goes here. Nice, nice. Well, before we get into it, I wanted to let everyone know, we’re going to be releasing some more information about POFU live 2020. It’s still going to be the last weekend of September and it is going to be virtual. We’ll be having some updates shortly towards the end of the month, I believe and we’ll be able to answer all the questions. You’ll be able to grab your tickets. To that, we’re going to be reaching out. We had a few people last year who just hopped on right away. We’ll be reaching out to you to get with you about that. So, the other thing I wanted to touch on, we’ve had a few more people joining to x your agency. And for those of you who don’t know about this, if you’re an agency owner or consultant, if you want to get more clients want to grow your revenue, you want to scale your team. If you want to do that than 2xyouragency is really the place for you to go just go over there, check it out, I’m not gonna bore you to death. You’re all capable of reading and watching the video on the page. But there is a ton of training Bradley did the bulk of that training. I know Hernan did some and I may be leaving people out. But it’s just an incredible amount of content following the three pillars as far as what you can do to do exactly that and get more clients for your revenue and scale your team. And also, version four of the battle plan came out not too long ago if you somehow missed out on that. You can go grab that battleplan.semanticmastery.com and certainly not least is the mastermind Bradley mentioned that real quick that he’s going to be sharing all this with the mastermind if you want to find out more about that just head over to mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And I’m gonna sneeze my brains oh man has the worst trying to talk and then having to sneeze all of a sudden. Alright, got that passed. So let’s get into it. I wanted to tell people to real quick before we do that, sorry. If you haven’t been over to mgyb.co yet, head over there for your done for you services. I was reminded because we were talking today about creating some more training, talking to people about worrying less SEO about you know, not caring what the algorithm is doing. If you head over there, there are best practice webinars which are great. I think most of them were created in the last few months. Go over there. If you have questions or you just want to find out more about you know, how does this stuff work? What should I do? be doing with it, things like that, just go over to mgyb.co. And there’s a lot of great free training over there as well as the dumper Youth Services. Cool. All right, guys, anything else we need to cover before we dive into it?

Yes, I’ve got something I want to cover about syndication network applets and RSS attribution links. So it’s cool if you guys want to go ahead and grab the screen get into that.

Go for it.

Okay, standby.

Alright, I don’t know if it was a support ticket or what but it was brought to my attention that I guess some done for you syndication network buyers didn’t if you’re not using an RSS plugin that creates an attribution link whenever you syndicate content. So in other words, if you’re using an RSS trigger to trigger your syndication networks in our training, and we’ve always talked about how we use our an RSS attribution that’s coated in through a plugin. Originally, it was using the Yoast plugin, which we no longer recommend. Marco calls it the toast plugin. So we haven’t recommended that for many years because it’s full of bloated code and they update it. It’s just a mess. We don’t ever recommend using Yoast. We developed our own. Well, Chris did our crispy or developed our own RSS plugin. There’s a free version that goes with Syndication Academy, you guys can get it if you’re part of any one of our groups. There’s also a pro version that is free as long as you’re in the mastermind that does have a whole lot of other functionality to it besides just the attribution. But I guess some people hadn’t didn’t realize that if you’re not using a plugin to insert an attribution link into the feed items. So for those of you that don’t know what the hell I’m even talking about, what is an attribution like okay, well, let me show you an example. This is a blog post on blogger for myself. Land realty project. And you can see that down here at the bottom it says see we buy land and Bluefield, VA post originally published on the alpha land realty blog. Well, this was a post that was published to this blogger blog via an RSS feed through IFTTT. Okay. So if we were to go take a look at the actual RSS feed Well, in this case, I haven’t hardcoded into an applet which is what I’m going to talk about today with you guys. Because I’m not using our own RSS plugin for this and I don’t use Yoast, Marco. Also, you mentioned there was a plugin what’s it called?

Simple attribution. It’s really good really light and works fantastically well. Right here.

Okay. I haven’t used this but Marco pointed this out. So there are a couple of things that I want to point out here guys and attribution. Like what that is is whenever you are republishing content, you’re supposed to cite the source give out attribution to the original publisher to the original author, right. And so that’s just best practice. And so when we’re syndicating content, our own content to our own branded network, one of the ways that you get a link back, and also to be proper about it is to you to add the attribution link. And there’s a couple of ways you can do it. You can use a plugin. Again, use our plugin, or you can use this simple attribution if you’re using WordPress.

If you’re not using WordPress, or you don’t want to use one of these plugins, you can hard code into the syndication applet inside of IFTTT and attribution link and I’m going to share with you guys some example codes. There are two different versions of them. Well, there are multiple versions of each, but there are two basic categories of attribution links. And so what that does is every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically insert this type of attribution link down here at the bottom, okay? And so that’s giving credit to the original source. So if I click that. And this one I don’t have target equals blank in there. So it’s going to open in the same window, but you can see that it’s going to pull up the original post the same post that we just saw on blogger. It’s just it’s giving a link back to the original source. Okay, now for my alpha land realty project. I’m not using an RSS plugin, so it’s hardcoded into IFTTT. Let me give you an example. This is the RSS to blogger applet, okay? So if we go into settings, you’re going to see right there is my Feed URL. And right here is the body or the applet body. So that’s the entry content. Then I put a break tag, then published first here, and you can see it’s just a href equals enter URL and then enter and then the anchor text, in this case, would be enter URL as well, that’s how I have it. I’ve updated it since that post was published because you can see what this looks like here. So what I wanted to share with you guys was just how to do that and we can give you some examples real quick.

Let’s go back. Take a look at some of the other applets. We’ll take a look at RSS to WordPress. Take a look at the settings there. The same thing we’ve got, these are short, I’ve got short attribution links here, which just link back to the original post. You can also have a combination of an attribution link that links to the original post, plus links back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever you want. Where else would this be useful? Well think about like if you’ve got a press advantage account. Or if you’re buying press releases from MGB and you get an organization page, you get an RSS feed for your organization page, a media room page, essentially, where you can go in and set up applets. And I encourage you to do so set up applets for your sending branded syndication networks using the press advantage RSS feed. And the same thing, you go into the applets and code your attribution in and then link back to the the the original press release published on the press advantage domain.

Let me grab the right one here. And I was blowing this up so you guys can see it, you can hard code a link back into the original to the press advantage organization page itself or the media room page, okay, or on a blog, if you’re hard coding it into IFTTT to link back to your primary website, you can link either to the home page or to the blog page or whatever you really you want to. Okay, so let me zoom in on this just a little bit so you guys can see the code and I’m going to share this in the chatbox. And we’re going to put this in a knowledge base or something as well. But this is with the link to home or blog page or to like a press advantage for any source, okay, that you’re going to be syndicating content from the RSS feed. You can type code in this type of stuff. These are what’s called ingredients and the applet most of you should know this. And then these with the square brackets, those are what you would replace those are basically tokens, you would replace that with your own website URL. And you can see that you can swap this out this is not you don’t have to just use these you can change wording you can add target equals blank. You can add strategically nofollow tags to, for example, linking back to the homepage. Why would that be? If you’re going to use one of these applets? Where does it say with link to homepage or blog page? Why would you want to possibly code in a nofollow link? Think about it. Okay, so here’s why I would tell you to, you know, and that was a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it for you. If you’re syndicating content from your blog consistently to your branded network, right over and over and over again, you’re syndicating content. Well, each time you syndicate and let’s just use the three blogs in a standard syndication network. The three web two Dotto blog properties, okay, so it’s Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, right? If you have if you’re using one of these types of formats up here, where you’re linking back to the original post, but then also linking back to the homepage, or to the blog, row page, you know, blog index page or whatever. Then if you’re, if you’re doing I don’t know, let’s just use an example two posts per week. That’s eight posts per month.

Well, you could see over time, how having the same URL with the same anchor text all do follow back to the homepage of the blog page, that remember, every single post you publish would include a link back to whatever you however you have it coded here, right. And that’s what I’m talking about is back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever it is the original content, the post URL, that’s only going to get three anchor text links back. Well, some of the other properties, but I’m just talking about the web to auto blog accounts right now, you’re only going to get three anchor text, you link back to that post URL for each publication, right. So each blog post that’s published, it’s only going to receive three-link backs with a hundred percent title anchor text match, okay? So that’s perfectly fine. But if you’re going to continually post over and over and over again, which you likely are you should be, then you don’t want to constantly hit the same keyword unless it’s a brand or an anchor a naked URL. anchor, right with dofollow links. So that’s why I’m saying if you’re gonna, that’s why the way that I have coded here was to make it very simple for you guys, you can see that my anchor text in any one of these top three versions is going to be either brand or website URL, which means naked URL. So naked URL anchor text for the URL that it’s linking to. Why? Because you don’t want to cause a problem. And so that’s why, if you want to use keywords, you can but I would recommend for the link back to the homepage of the blog page or a category page, whatever it is that you’re linking back to that you would add a nofollow tag. If you’re going to be using keywords, it’s okay to use the brand. It’s okay to use a naked URL. But if you’re going to be using keywords, I would recommend to also include a rel equals nofollow attribute into the code the HTML code, if that makes sense. Okay. However, to if you don’t want to do that, you could just use the simple ones down here which is linked to the original post only, and like it said you guys, you can change this around. You can see, in this case, its entry URL using the entry title as the anchor text. In this case, its entry URL using the naked URL as the anchor text. Okay, so it just depends, you guys can swap, move things around, swap stuff out, you can change the wording slightly, all of that, it’s perfectly fine. It’s just really important that you guys understand. If you’re not adding, if you don’t have an attribution coded into your RSS feed through a plugin, okay, then this is something that you could use instead is actually code them into the applet which is what I’ve actually been doing because I’m not using plugins anymore for it for most of my sites I just haven’t coded in the are up to the syndication applet. Okay. So does anybody want to comment on that?

No, okay. No, no, this is it just to make it clear that this is just best practice. When you get a syndication network, you should have either a plugin on the WordPress website which creates the attribution either the Semantic Mastery plugin or some other plugin, whatever the plugin of your choice could be, would be. And in our, in this case, we’re recommending simple attribution so that you could do that our plugin but Semantic Mastery plugin allows spinning and a whole lot of other things that just add, you can add relevance, you can change the way that it links back to the post, or whatever it is that you’re linking to. So you have a lot more leeway in what you can do with our Semantic Mastery plugin. Unfortunately, the one that has or fortunately whatever you want to see that the one that has the most functionality is of course only available if you’re a member of the semantic mastery mastermind. Otherwise, if you don’t have that plugin, and if you’re not creating the attribution when the RSS feed goes out, when you do your post, through that plugin, what you have to do is go into IFTTT into your applets and hardcoded the way that you just showed using either brand or native You could also go something generic, you could go with a generic anchor more info more here and things like that, that’s perfectly good. If you’re going to be doing a keyword as you said, it should be nofollow, or you can actually go in it and this is a lot of work you want to VA doing it is actually going in and for that one post that’s going to post change it to, to anchor, let it go out and then change it back to keyword anchor, whatever it is do follow. But then you have to change everything back to make sure that you don’t keep getting that keyword over and over and over again with a do follow link from all of your properties all over the place, which just doesn’t make sense. So I just wanna I just want people to be clear what it is that they have to do. You have to have a plugin, or you have to have this hard code in the applet it’s one or the other.

Yeah, and see that’s why I recommend like I said, Guys, if you’re going to use these top ones where there’s every post is going to have a link back to The homepage or a blog page, then I recommend that you are using a brand anchor or naked URLs and URL anchors so that you don’t have to worry about going back in and editing the applets to change it up every so often. If you don’t want to do that, as I said, you could just go with the original, the entry URL, right, which is the actual blog post URL, or whatever syndicated content URL it is, and that you can do it that way too. So you don’t have to worry about accruing too many of a particular type of anchor. That makes sense. Okay. So that’s it, I just wanted to point out here’s another example. This is one of the newer posts. And you can see this is the this is actually going to Press Advantage. So this is one from the press. This is it was a news release or a press release from press advantage through that alpha land realty account. And if you take a look at it, if I click on that, it’s going to go directly to the press advantage post, press or excuse me, press release. Okay. And then if you’ll see if I come back and click through the alpha land Realty, I’m using brand anchors there that clicks through to the media room page. See that? So again, that’s just an example of Tumblr. And then lastly, there’s the example of WordPress, here’s one from last year. And you can take a look down here at the bottom, you can see it says, that’s the title of the post. If I click that, it’s going to take me to the original post on my alpha land realty blog. And if I click through, you can see in this case, I put a naked URL to the blog, which is the homepage because the blog is on a subdomain. And so the blog is the homepage basically, of alpha land Realty. If that makes sense. So you can see I just use a naked URL there, okay, with a naked URL anchor. Right? So I just wanted to kind of point that out. Because I guess it was brought up somebody realized that they were syndicating content with no attribution. And so I wanted to make sure everybody had an understanding of you know, where you can add attribution if you don’t already have that inserted into your RSS feeds via a plugin, okay. And like I said, you should be, you know, if you were syndicating content without attribution If you’ve been following best practices with publishing content that always includes an internal link to one of your pages on your site, whatever it is you’re trying to promote, you’re still getting the SEO benefit. We always recommend having an attribution link. Because if you know, especially because I like having the title of the post is the anchor text linking back to the post URL itself, it just adds a bunch of diversity of different types of anchors that are coming that are accruing or building up over time for your site in general, right. Does that make sense? Because the title of the blog post becomes, at least the way that I have my applets coded, the title of blog posts becomes the anchor text, and so that adds a lot of diversity over time, if that makes sense. Okay, so anyway, I just wanted to cover that. Hopefully, that makes sense. Let me reset all this stuff, and then we’ll get to questions.

Would The T1 RYS Stack Nitro Link Building Combination Enough To Power An Affiliate Site?

Okay, so we’ll start with Benjamin. He says, Hey, guys, I’m building a content site currently in a competitive niche primary keyword 75,000. A month for Google to monetize with affiliate sales. There is new curated content going on to the site each day, my plan was to get a tier-one network set up around the money site, then have an RYS stack above that pointing to the properties in tier one. Then throw the kitchen sink at dry stack via the night your link building package. Would you say this is the optimum configuration for these three elements? Or am I overthinking it, Ben? No, Ben, that’s I mean, that’s, that’s right. Get the syndication network. In fact, you, the best thing to do is just order the SEO power shield. Because you’re going to have it’s pretty much everything combined. And so you get the syndication network first, and then they build the syndication network properties into the drive stack. Then you get the drive stack and ID page, all of that the G site. And then you can once you have all of that delivered. In fact, you don’t even have to wait if you wanted to. You could start building links to the syndication network, as soon as you have that delivered which that gets delivered first. Or you could wait until everything is delivered and build links to all It so all of the URLs from the syndication network, the drive stack files and folders, the G site, that kind of stuff. Or you could like I said, do two different link builder gigs, one link building gig for the syndication network, because you’re gonna get that first anyways. Wow. And then you know, takes another two weeks or whatever for the drive stack the G site to be completed. And you could order another link building gig for that. So it really just depends how, how you want to, you know, kind of sequence the things, but if you buy an SEO power shield, it’s going to be the bundle, it just saves you kind of puts everything together and it helps our team because our team knows the process in which sequence to deliver them. That’s what I would recommend. Any comments.

SEO power shield with link building included, but that’s SOP right? Yeah, he’s in a difficult niche, you got to hit it. Once it’s delivered to see what happens to see how much more you’re going to need. I was looking at the second part of this question, and I’m seeing, like, there’s no way to answer Yeah, that’s going to be enough. Nobody can tell you what’s going to be in stuff in your niche. It’s just you get the SEO Power Shield back, you hit it with the link building, you hit it with the embeds. Do some press releases, of course, and link building and embed, and then see what happens. Once that’s done once the dust clears in 21 days wait it out, and you need data you need, you need to see what damage all of that did how it is that you’re managing to come up in that niche. Once you have that information that you know, whether you need to extend your drive sec, which you probably will and something that’s very competitive. I’m gonna say maybe I’m not gonna say probably you might need it. If you do we have that available then it then it’s the same procedure, the same process, right? You have the drive stack you extend it, you do the money site, inner page, link building embeds, maybe a press release, and see how that does to push up the top market level category and so on and so on and so on until you get the desired results. I mean, there’s no one cure-all for everything, if we could do that, then I wouldn’t be here.

Probably for a long time ago, for a long time we had, especially when syndication Academy was new, we would have members, you know, people come on the hump day Hangouts, and almost every week we get this question, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts? will it take to rank for whatever keyword and people would you know? And we would always say, it depends, right? We can’t answer that. It always depends. It takes as many as it takes, that was our answer as many as it takes, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts will it take to rank? We would always say as many as it takes because there’s no way that we can answer that. Again, I always try to do the least amount of work to get results. So I don’t usually come out of it depends. Again, it depends on the project and what the budget is and all that other kind of stuff. Sometimes I’ll come out of the gate with you know, Nitro, you know, Nitro kit, link building package, but for a lot of the local projects that I work on, you know, I that’s not that’s unnecessary, it’s overkill, especially if I’m going to be staging you know, cycling through link building and embed gigs over the course of a few months, then there’s really no need to come out right up front, you know, all guns blazing, because I’m going to make up for it, and you know, by doing multiple gigs over time, and so I like doing it that way. Because that way I’m not, you know, blowing my load so to speak, you know, like, spending a whole bunch of money upfront where and where might have not needed that if that makes sense. I like to kind of reserve keep things in reserve for when needed and kind of watch and monitor how much the needle moves with things that I do and then I can start to determine Okay, this is more competitive than I thought it was. So maybe I have to go a little bit more aggressive on link building or whatever. And that’s just the way that I do it. I know a lot of people like to come out as you know, all guns blazing, like throw Everything that happened something right up front, but what I don’t like about that is, you know, if you don’t need as much, then you’re kind of wasting time or money for that matter. That could be reserved or money that you could keep is profit instead, you know, so, but it’s really up to you how you want to approach that.

How Do You Use The ID Page?

Alright ends up he says, I got my first SEO shield order back I understand the syndication network and posting and press releases. I understand the drive stacking. I’m still lost on the ID page though, what do I do with it? Do I submit it to Google Search Console? Yes, I recommend doing that. So if you uploaded it, you know, if you have the drive, excuse me, the ID page, and an Amazon s3 bucket. The way that you can add that to your search console is you can upload you can go to add it you have to add it as a URL. You can’t do like a domain prefix and search console with it because you don’t own the Amazon domain. But you can add it as a URL. Right. So you add you go to add the URL and search console and it’ll tell you that it needs verification. And if you’re just submitting the Amazon s3 URL, then you can download the HTML file and upload it to the same bucket. Right, the same Amazon bucket that you have the HTML page hosted in or saved in, okay, and then then you go back and click Verify, and it’ll verify it just like that. And so I always recommend, you know, whatever account, the G site, and drive stack were built under, is typically where I end up submitting the ID page into the search console there. It doesn’t matter if you have a branded asset, you know, like a G Suite account or something like that. You can always add it there, too. It doesn’t matter to the same search console account that’s attached to your G Suite account. I’m just saying, for my processes, we typically just add it to the search console account of the G site and drive stack owner, so to speak. But yes, you can do that. Do I never touch it, you there are, you know, there are things you can do to add additional stuff on there. I don’t know how much I can share here specifically because some of that stuff is reserved for the mastermind and or our wife’s only, or perhaps a heavy hitter club now, but you can add additional things into it.

You know, just think about other assets that would make sense to embed, it makes sense to embed in there, you know what I mean? So for example, you could possibly take your blog role page and embed that into it so that if you’re blogging consistently on your money site, now you’ve got dynamic content, updating your ID page, because you’ve embedded your blog index page into the ID page, does that make sense? So that way, it is being updated every time you publish a post, it’s going to automatically update the ID page through the embed, right. So there will be like new content on the page. So that’s just one example of some of the things that you can do, you can add additional assets in there that are branded, you can update the H, the JSON LD structured data code to add more same as attributes. You know, there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to it. Beyond that, you can leave it alone, that’s perfectly fine. But you can always squeeze more power out of it, you just got to think about what type of assets would make sense to embed in there are things that you could do to dynamically update it, like I just mentioned, RSS feeds, or there’s a ton of stuff that you can do to an ID page. Okay. But you can leave it just the way that it is and get results from that too. But you can always squeeze more power out is what I’m saying. Each property that gets iframe into that @ID page is a perfect place for link building and for embed ones and link building. So you also can you can consider that as an asset. All of those URLs are assets for you to hammer when link not hammering in, in the garbage, spam, which will work anyway. But if you keep your link profile clean, if you use better links, web two dot o is the way that we do it in web 2.0 contextual you’ll get better results and it just looks better.

So remember, also, if you don’t already have structured data on your primary web asset, then you know, add it and make sure that you’re using you’re pointing the ID page, you know, designating the ID page to the URL of your ID. page. So it makes sense. So for example, if you if or if you are if you already had structured data on your primary website, but you didn’t have an ID page field, or if like most people, do, they just duplicated the URL of the home, you know, the homepage of the primary domain as the ID page. Now, you should go up and go now that you have a, you know, a published ID page, an actual ID page, go back through and edit your structured data code to include that URL as the ID page as opposed to just the homepage of your website, you know, so that there are a few things that you can do with it. That might be something actually that we could. I know we talked about last week about doing an MGYB update webinar that might be something we can include And that is just a little bit more on how to squeeze more out of a 90 page. Maybe we can add that to the notes. I’m moving on.

Okay, there are several questions here. I don’t know that we’re going to get through all these. We’ll try just for everybody’s etiquette for others, is try not to post 18 questions in one question, guys. It’s not fair to everybody else, because it takes up too much time. post a question or two is okay. And then wait till some other people post and then you can post more questions that way. We’re giving other people a chance. There’s a lot of questions squeezed into this. All right. So we’ll get through a couple of them. And if and we’re going to move on and we’ll come back if we can if we have time.

Does Having A GMB Based In The U.S. Limits A Global Affiliate Site’s Traffic Due To GeoTargeting?

The first one is if I have a global affiliate site that targets all English speaking people around the world as the offers could be delivered globally with the primary focus on the US and UK. Is it possible that if I create a US GMA, that would then get my traffic to the US and even To the US area of the GMB in a similar way that geo-targeting and search console does? I don’t mean, the GMB when only. Again, I don’t. I’m not sure I understand the question in that. If you have a GMB, you’re limited for the GMB and to where it will rank them in maps. Does that make sense? But having a GMB tied to a global domain isn’t going to affect at least as far as I know, I’ve never tested it. But as far as I know, it doesn’t seem to me like it would make doesn’t seem logical that it would limit the website’s exposure by having it tied to a GMB in the US. The maps ranking itself for the GMB would be limited to its immediate area, which is normal for all GMB’s now, but I can’t imagine that causing any issues. Marco, have you tested any of that or have any experience with that?

Well, the Land Solutions Network has a corporate as a corporate entity right in Pennsylvania. That’s We decided we decided to set that up. Just to give it a corporate presence, get a GMB it to kind of show you know that it’s a local company, but it’s it’s spread out. And it’s but that but then that’s also geo-targeting the US. So it’s a service-based business, targeting the USA, it has a surface area, as long as you don’t say, you know, like, I don’t know how you would do that if you have a global entity and why you would pigeonhole it into a GMB. Yeah. Well, you were you’re required to either show your address or to set a service area and you can’t set the globe as a service area unless you deliver goods and services to the person right at their location is that well, that’s the idea behind the service-based business. Right? So you’d have to look at that. I don’t know why you’d want to do that. Why don’t you just because you’re not here’s the thing where people get Confused about doing local, it’s natural, and it looks really good. And you have to have a GMB or else you’re not going to rank in the three-pack. And that’s where the most action takes place in most niches locally. People going to their cell phones, and they look, look up whatever service it is that they’re looking for, and they get a map pack, but they get ads and a map pack, or something along those lines. If you don’t want that to happen. And if your niche doesn’t trigger a map pack, then why would you want to be involved in that in the first place? There are other ways to verify and validate that entity that doesn’t involve a GMB. We just did it with Land Solutions Network, because I knew we’d be targeting the US and I knew how we would be targeting the other states and cities in the US, right. So I knew what was going to happen already and how that was going to happen. But if I were going globally, I wouldn’t have done that I would have never said my geolocation to the US. I probably would have gotten a GMB, I would have looked for another way, running ads in Google and YouTube, getting that credit card on file going into G Suite. Right as the company land solutions network doing all of the things that a company does when they want to work within Google when they want to run ads, which would be worldwide, not just to one particular geolocation, it just makes no sense.

Yeah, so I agree that you know, there’s if you don’t force a GMB just because you think you need it. If there’s a specific reason that you want to have a GMB or that you need to have a GMB in the US then so be it. But as Marco said, there are other ways to solidify or validate the entity more in Google’s eyes. Like he mentioned running Google ads, right? Having a credit card on file, running some ads, you could run YouTube ads, or display ads very inexpensively with even $1 a day budget, right? So even less, but it’s just that Google can recognize you’re a real person. It’s not a spam account. You’re paying money. Same thing with G Suite. G suites a great way to validate an entity, which at the basic level, it’s $6 a month per user for the G Suite account. And then also, you could just you could upgrade, like Google Drive for that account and do pay so you get additional storage, right? That’s another way to get it on file. So there’s a number of different ways to validate it besides having the GMB unless of course, you need it.

Is It Okay To Use A Generic Description In A U.S.-Based GMB Even If You Are Physically Located In Europe?

Which brings me to question number two of this if I’m physically located in Europe, but I need a US GMB and the health niche. Is it possible this could happen if the description is more generic and not so much health-related? And if the name is more generic? Well, again, I’m not 100% Sure. Why do you need if you’re located in Europe? Excuse me? I’m not sure why you need a GMB in the US. So it doesn’t really make a lot of sense to me. I’m not sure what the point of that would be. So I’m sorry, I can’t answer that.

Is The ID Page Useful Even If You Don’t Have A GMB?

Number three does the ID page loop Make sense? If you don’t have a GMB? Yes, it does. Because although I do The ID @ID page, stuff that we started with, you know, I guess it was in 2018. February 2018. I think we were originally it was originally tied to just local business structure data. But it’s beyond that now. Marco, you can talk a little bit Miley do local, but you can talk a little bit about that more an ID page is just a reference area for an entity. It’s telling the Googlebot to go there all of the entity information that will help to validate that entity is that in this location, and that’s what we use the ID page for. Is that correct?

Yeah, everything on the web has a node. Okay, everything connected to the web. So even if you have a smart refrigerator, smart range, smartphone or smart TV, whatever smart device you have, that’s going to have a note. And the question now is, how do we identify that node for the bot to understand what this connection is to whatever it is that we’re doing? What’s happened, what how that’s being done. Now it’s a local is how it started. But now you have an organization, Mm hmm. She can add you can have an @ID for your organization. And that what that does is is I and identifies the organization know where all of your organizational information resides. And so that that’s how we do it. That’s how we targeted but you can have multiple @IDs, like here, you can have a web page and idea of a product @ID, you’re just naming the node for the product, the website, the web page, just whatever you’re identifying it for about these are identifiers, and how those two nodes get connected. Well, that’s the URL. I don’t know that it’s a hyperlink. They connected through a way for each one to talk to one another. Well, that’s HTTPS. And the way that the word the worldwide web is inter matched right interlinked, so that everything is identified and can The through an IP, or however it is that that that that connection is is made. Now, as far as the question is concerned, does an @ID page loop makes sense? It makes sense because it’s an entity that we named it and the @ID loop, originally, but what we were doing is we were creating an entity loop. We were sending Google hopping from one place to another that contains nothing but our entities’ information and everything related to our entity. And we were just echoing it over and over and over and over again, we were able to track the bot in that echo. It sounds like an echo chamber, right? Or the endless mirror, where it just bounces back and forth, back and forth. And we’ve seen it happen, we can see it. We can see the button. They’re going back and forth going back and forth through the iPhones. We can see it reading the information on the iPhone, this is these are the things that we’ve proven. So is it Yes, of course, it makes sense. It makes total sense because of not You’re not and you’re not identifying your entity properly for the Bob. Thank you was a thorough answer.

How Important Are The Short Links On The GSite Of The SEO Shield?

So DC SEOs up? What’s up, man? He says on the G site of the shield, there are a number of short links that have MGYB in them. How important are they because I want to sell my clients the shield without them actually being able to figure it out where and who it was created by and how much it costs because I will be adding my own margin onto it. I’ve considered not telling them that they’ll end up with a G site, but almost everyone I deal with here in the UK has been burnt by another SEO Company, which is true everywhere, not just in the UK, but been. So I want to be as transparent as possible on a slightly different note if a client doesn’t want to publish the GMB site. Okay, well, let me answer the first question and we’ll come back to that second part. We run all the URLs through the MGB shortener because it gives you another target URL for link building purposes and because of all the link building that’s been done to the drive stacks g sites that we’ve built over the years now. The mgyb.co shortener is incredibly powerful. So you actually siphon power from that into your stack by having those shortened links there. That said, there are a couple of things I don’t know that you could I don’t manage the, you know MGYB Build Team at all that Marco and Rob do that really? So I don’t know if you could request to have one built without the shortened links. I guess it’s possible maybe Marco can answer that or Rob I know he’s usually lurking, listening to us and he comments in slack but something else you could do is when it’s delivered if you wanted to hide that from or you know not to reveal that the mgyb.co shortened links to the client, you could just go into the drive stack and delete those from you know the sheets and things like that if you wanted, obviously, it would be more time-efficient, more efficient if you just ordered the stack and requested did not have those included. Is that something thing that could be done, Marco?

No. And I’ll tell you why. The MTB shortener adds so much power to everything that if they even rank and leave it, they’ll index. So a mind map that’s really hard to index right now will index through the MGYB shortener. So why would we want to interfere with all of the power? And if I were to tell my guys to do that, then you would have to, we would have to give it to you with the warning. We can’t be sure how this is going to work. Yeah, because we don’t do them that way. Now, if you just share your screen for a second and just go to HTTPS, mgyb.co to the shortener.

Oops, I got the wrong fucking type. Maybe I could get it right. That’s all the person is going to see just another shortener, just another URL shortener, they don’t have to figure anything out. I mean, if they want to look at your it’s something, it’s a service that actually you can set you’re paying for the pricing is right there. And you’re using it, just to provide short links and to be able to customize, you can actually go and pay for getting into the service. So you can customize the links for the client. But this is the way I’m customizing your link so that they look better. So they look nicer. So they’re more attractive for the person to click on. They don’t have to figure out everything that you’re doing. They can just from going here. This is just our shortener, it’s no, no different than Bitly, or any other shortener out there.

And I’d like to comment and say what Marco said is true. I agree that also delivering a drive stack without those URLs would be like, going into a fight with one arm tied behind your back, right, because you’re losing the benefit that you gain from having the MGYB SEO links because of the power that’s been accrued to it over time. So that’s number one.

Number two, again, if you know my rebuttal to say that you’re worried about the client seeing, you know, going to mgyb.co, and looking at the store and seeing what drives tax costs and everything else, what your client have any idea what the hell to do, how to order what to do with them or anything else without you know, I mean, it’s like 99% chance that they wouldn’t have a damn clue as to what to do. Even if they did find the store, they wouldn’t have any idea how any of those things would benefit them. Because as it stands right now, it’s still basically a store that is for SEO professionals and marketing professionals. Not for the layman, right? The average business person or a business owner. So you’re getting paid for understanding how to put all of these things together and make it work and produce results. Right. That’s your expertise. I remember reading somewhere, somebody said you know when you have a plumber that’s got 10 years of experience to come out and fix a leaking pipe, right? And he comes out and fixes it in 30 minutes and charges you $150 or $200, you know the service call plus whatever $200? Or are you paying for $200? You know, like, it takes 30 minutes. So what would that be $400 an hour effectively, or so? Are you only paying for that 30 minutes? No, you’re paying for 10 years of experience that that plumber has accrued. And that’s why they’re able to fix it so efficiently. I don’t know if that’s an analogy that makes sense to you. It does to me. But you know, you’re they’re paying a markup because you’re the one that’s putting it together and making sure that they’re going to get results from it. Whereas even if they went and found our store, it’s likely they would have no idea what the hell they were looking at, or what the hell to do with it, even if they did purchase it, you know what I mean? So I wouldn’t and trust me if they ordered it and then got into the order where they had to submit the order details. They’d be lost probably because they don’t understand half the terminology that you know We requested the order. So I wouldn’t worry about that at all. You should always Mohammed, I think he’s got a question in here. He’s been following us for a long time. And he had, you know, Mohammed, I’m not picking on you. But he’s gotten to a lot of situations with clients about that kind of stuff, you know, where too much has been revealed or to ask too many questions and blah, blah, blah. And remember, you’re getting paid for your expertise, for knowledge that you’ve accrued through time and effort. And so you deserve to be paid for that and manage the build, manage, you know, the, what’s done with it afterward and everything else. So any comments on that?

Yeah, this is where I’d like to add that if he’s taken the person through the conversation in the right way. What he’s done is he’s told this person, I’m going to get your results how I get results, is my business-like, I don’t you’re not going to tell this business owner how to run their business because you probably don’t know how to you don’t care to know how all you need to know is as Jordan Fowler one of our mastermind Member says, Well, you have to know is Google. And all you have to tell that client is Look, I, you know, your business, I know Google, and I’m going to get you results, and you’re going to pay me for results. You’re not paying me for the hour, the why. Now, if you want to pay me for the hour or the Y, that’s consultation, and that’s 1500 dollars an hour, I’d be happy to take you into structure into an instructional model, minimum five hours a month, and during the course of 12 to 18 months, I can take you through everything so that you can go and get results. Or rather than do that, why don’t you just pay me my monthly, and let me get your results so that we know you don’t have to go through those at through that Crash Course of 18 months of learning so that you can start the process of doing what it is that I already do and that I have 17 years of experience doing. So, guys, it’s that conversate you got to have that conversation with the client and you have to school the client in the right mode, yes, they’ve been burned, they’ve been burned because there’s, they’re forced to sign contracts. And they’re promised the moon, and that the moon is made of cheese and all this shit, where all you have to do is tell them, hey, look, man, I’m gonna get you results, I’m going to need 90 days, I can probably get your results sooner. But I don’t want to make any promises because I don’t control Google. But what I do know is that within 90 days, we’re going to start to see results. At the end of those 90 days, we’ll sit down and revisit the fee. So that gives that even gives you an opportunity to increase your feet because you’re gonna rock this guy’s world. If you do the things that we do in the way that we do them. The guy is going to be blown out of his mind. I mean, his head is going to explode from the results you’re going to get. But the conversation has to be there. If he’s focusing on how you’re getting results, and why and why are you doing this? And how are you doing it? Dude, you got to pay me for my knowledge. I’m not gonna give you my knowledge for 2500 bucks a month. There’s just no way.

Can You Use The Primary URL From The Money Site As Rel=Canonical If A Client Doesn’t Want To Publish Their GMB Site?

Yeah, she says on a slightly different note. If a client doesn’t want to publish their GMB site, can I use the primary URL from the money site is the REL=canonical? Yeah, I mean, if that’s fine, the only reason why we had set it up originally to point to the GMB website if it’s for the local project is that some of our customers at MGYB or members in the mastermind or whatever, if you have the REL=canonical pointing to the money site, if you’re doing a backlink analysis through like majestic or a href, or something like that, you can often see some of the links that are being built to the G site through the REL=canonical, like in other words, so you can see some of the link building that’s being done by you know if you’re using link building analysis tools or link analysis tools. I don’t care. I honestly don’t care because as long as I’m getting results, it really shouldn’t matter. Some of our customers or members have didn’t want that. So that’s why we defaulted it to point the REL equals canonical to the GMB website if have a GMB site, you know, a GMB location associated with the drive stack built, but it’s not necessary like you can like, it just depends if you’re worried about clients looking at link building analysis, you know, Link analysis, reports and such like that and you don’t want them to see the types of links that are being built, then yeah, I would point it to something else. It could be the, you know, not the primary website, but you could even point it to like the GMB map instead of the GMB website, for example, but again, I don’t care. Personally, I even just ordered them through the MGYB now just like you guys, do, I swear, I ordered my drive stacks just like you guys do. And then when I get them back, I typically when I’m uploading my ID page because I upload it to my own Amazon site, or whatever, then I usually do the REL=canonical back to the money site. So it’s just an edit that I make before I upload it. It’s entirely up to you. Is there any other comments you want to make on that Adam or Marco before I move on.

I don’t see why they wouldn’t want the GMB published. Like I don’t see why that’s a showcase. It’s a showcase for your post. It’s more URLs to spam to link built to the link below to four iframe, there’s just so much that you can get from that. And then not only that, when they see just how much how many visits come through, and how much actually comes through the posts on the GMB like that whole ecosystem. I was just looking at one and today’s what Wednesday and I’ve already had 838 post views for the week, and it’s only Wednesday. I’m about to post that as an update in the heavy hitter club. But it’s ridiculous for the client to even consider not publishing the money site, especially since it’s done by Google on auto and they interlink everything and they give you all the love that’s necessary for you to just hammer.

It’s another branded asset too. I totally I agree, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to. I mean, you guys, you understand you can’t control clients, sometimes clients demand things that just make no sense, they defy logic. And that’s fine. You have to work within those parameters at times or fire them as a client. But I agree 100% with Marco, there’s no reason why, like, and we’ve had that common question come up in Hump Day Hangouts, or like, you know, my client doesn’t want the G site ranking. Why not? Why the hell wouldn’t you want a G site ranking, right? Like it pushes a competitor off the page, and if you iframe your money site page into the top of the G site, then they’re gonna see the original page. I mean, you know, the money site anyways, what difference does it make and but some people just, they’re just finicky like that, but I totally agree. It’s another asset takes up more real estate, you can do a lot with it. So it seems silly not to, in my opinion. But the short answer is yes, you can canonicalize the ID page to you know, another tier-one asset I would recommend it being a Google asset like the GMB map URL for example or something like that.

Should We Use The Press Release When Requesting For Link Building Services?

Okay, g site whatever fits is up. What’s up, Fitz. He’s here almost every week. Good day, gents. Thanks for the forum to ask questions and get real-world actual answers. Marco thank you for the charity work you do for these kids. Love how Fitz promotes your charity for you, man. It’s awesome. He’s a good man for that. He says, Thanks, Fitz. Yeah, please post the charity link again so others can help with a quick 1020 or $100 to help these kids out oh road needs good people to even help even if it is with only a few dollars today. My question is on Hump Day. We hear about limiting the links to only one link so that we can concentrate the power is that for press releases or when requesting link building? Oh, that’s a great question fit. So if that wasn’t clear before that was within press releases now. Marco might have a slightly different methodology than I do. For press releases. I typically like to use most press releases if the kind of one-off press releases. I just usually like to With two links like and again, if you go look, I’m talking when I’ve talked about it, it’s mainly for press releases.

Because for example, you can add three press or three links into a press release. But you’re splitting the power of the link equity coming from that press release, every time you add an additional URL like another outbound link, right, so you can concentrate the power into one specific URL if you need to. However, if you go to the MGYB.co store or domain and you look at them or you go to our YouTube channel, or you go to Google and search for press releases silos, or PR silo stalking or whatever, you’ll see the webinar that we did, right I the way that I do it, I’m usually linking with three links per press release now and it’s because the way for local projects that I do it or that my team does it, is we publish a blog post and we publish a corresponding GMB post that links to the blog post. Okay, and then we publish a press release and The press release will link to either the blog post URL directly, or to the GMB post URL. Does that make sense that’s promoting, that’s linked to the blog post URL. And then we link back to the tier one. A tier one entity asset could be the home page, it could be a category page or, you know, top-level silo page. It could be Facebook page, you know, LinkedIn company page, the drive stack, primary folder, the G site, whatever, anyone of the primary tier one entity assets. So that’s link number two, right? first, the link is going to link to the blog post that the press releases promoting, right because we that’s what we publish or not for, like, if I’m doing three blog posts per week, then if the clients only paying for one blog post, or excuse me, one press release per week, then one of those blog posts is going to get a press release that is promoting the blog post and the blog post the press releases either gonna link directly to the blog post URL or to the GMB post URL that is linking directly to the blog post URL, then we link to it. Another tier-one entity asset, any one of them. I’ve talked about this before, but my bloggers have a client workbook, which is a Google Sheet for every client. And there’s a target URLs column that has all of the primary tier one entity assets that we want to power up, and they just go down and each time they publish another press release, blog post, whatever, they select another target URL, and they link to that. So that would be link number two, and then the third link is a link back to a previous press release in the same silo. Right, because we do press release silo, we theme mirror everything right, we mirror the blog post silo structure into the GMB or excuse me, the Google site, this into the GMB posts and now, even in the press releases, so everything is themed there. That’s why it’s called mirroring, right. And again, that was originally coined by the network Empire. So I usually if it’s a one-off, press release, I’m usually linking two to two outbound URLs. If it is a within a silo which most content is now then it’s going to look To like I said, the original post URL or the GMB, the corresponding GMB post URL, another tier-one entity asset, just cycle through target URL list. And then the third is going to be linking to the previous press release in that same silo, that’s just the way that I do it. Any comments on that?

Yeah, I wasn’t referring to either one of those scenarios when I talked about the one link method, which was strictly for the drive stack extension. And the G site inner page extension targeting a money site inner page, that’s when we use that one link method to concentrate the power as close to one to one as possible. instead of dividing it, like you just mentioned, in a press release the way that you’d be dividing, dividing is either two by two or by three, right? We want a one to one transfer from the G site over to the money site, an inner page from the extension to the inner page. So I’d go back and watch those webinars fates. I know that you have access to those. And that’s what we were mainly talking about it although you can do that one lick method however way you want to do it. Guess what you have to understand is how you’re transferring PageRank ranking score and power.

Can We Use Dedhia’s Link Building Services To A Money Site?

Alright, so we’re almost out of time I’d like to get through these next two if we can. So let’s get to them Jigglypuff says, Hey guys, I just cut the battle plan and really enjoying the content you guys share. Well, thank you. Can the link building by Dedhia offer through MGYB be used on a money site? No. We don’t recommend that. You know that we always recommend using the tier one entity assets is the link building targets. That’s what our link building services were. were developed specifically to power up the tier one entity assets, not the money site. That’s why we call it an SEO shield because it acts as an SEO firewall that protects the money site, right you’re basically building a cocoon a shield around your money site using high authority entity assets that you can now power those up. And ultimately, the link equity flows through to the money site, but it gets cleaned or laundered through those entity assets. So we do not recommend that now if you want link diversity to your money site press releases, that’s a fantastic way like that press releases are an awesome way to add length diversity to your money site, because you can link directly to your money site. And I would recommend that you change it. I primarily use naked URLs when linking to the money site, but you can do some generic stuff or some brand anchors and things like that so that you get linked diversity as well as anchor diversity back to your money site, but I would use press releases for that. Any comments on that?

No, no, no, never to the money site. We don’t recommend that. That’s why we have the SEO power shield as you said, it provides a shield and it amplifies the power. So why would you do anything except go through the SEO Power shield? That’s right.

So that’s why it’s important to build those assets first and then you can hammer the shit out of those assets with the link building and embed gigs or embed plus link building gigs. So that link building is getting done to the embed pages, right? So there’s a number of things you can do to power those assets up without them directly linking directly to your money site through those through daddy’s link building service if that makes sense. So there you go.

Next question, and we’re going to wrap it up guys because we’re at the five o'clock mark and unfortunately, dammit, Mohammed, I answered your question. I commented below cult of copy. That’s a great resource for copywriting and Facebook. They’ve also got a marketplace where you can hire copywriters and all kinds of stuff. So go look at the cult of a copy.

Can You Order More Than One ID Page DFY Service To The Same Domain?

Anyways, this last question, can you order more than one ID page done for you service to the same domain but pointing to different money site URL? Or should you only have one ID page for each money site? If you understand that’s what we were talking about earlier. an ID page is supposed to be basically a resource To say this is where it helps to validate an entity, right? So a money site, the right should really only have one ID page, the way that I do it for local, okay, because remember that everything I do is local. But you can have multiple ID pages for a brand. If there’s in my case for local if there are multiple locations, right? So there can be like, for example, I’m working on a tree service project now sharing that in the mastermind. That as an as got multiple locations, and so they’re the homepage of the website, the primary domain, the root domain is essentially got Corporation organization, Corporation structured data, right? So markup that has an ID page, that Id page is just brand and keywords. So there’s not any location optimization for the ID page, right? Because it’s an ID page for the overall entity, the brand itself, right, and I’m using Corporation markup which is a subset of organization markup, okay. So I’ve got an ID page that links to the or that the money site links to or references the ID page for the brand plus keyword Association, but no location optimization. But then I’ve got multiple locations, that is branded plus location name appended to it. And each one of those locations has its own ID page that’s optimized for that specific location. Does that make sense? So you can have multiple ID pages. If you’re having, you know, again, depending on what it is you’re trying to validate that just if you understand what we’re talking about with what an entity is, then it’ll click you know, you’ll get you you understand what the ID page is for it’s, it’s a resource that you’re telling Google through the structured data code, hey, all of the entity information can be validated here. And so on that page is where you have all the iframes structured data, you know, tier one, entity assets, all of that stuff is listed or housed within that Id page, because you’re telling Google reference that page to validate this entity and all the data within. That makes sense. So if you understand that, then you there are times where you can have multiple ID pages and marketing you might be able to explain a little bit more clearly than me. I don’t know if that was clear or not.

You can have multiple @ID it Alright, so you got a parent. And this parent has four children it doesn’t matter where those children are. So now you have the field organization Corporation, as you said, and you’re going to have in our locations now as the parent, you can talk about your children because they’re your children. And you can do this in the schema in the JSON LD. Rob showed this in the heavy hitter club in our MC or we could go Wednesday, in our mastermind I didn’t in the webinar that we had, he showed he showed how you can reference the children and how the children can each reference the parents. And what you have to be careful is that you make sure these children don’t Become orphaned, where you confuse the but you have to make sure that this parent is claiming the right children because it starts claiming other children, then you’re gonna have to pay child support. Everybody’s gonna get confused. They don’t know who’s dedhia, who’s mohamed, you have to make this clear to them but if you guys if you confuse the bot you excuse the language I know they’re supposed to be pgl give a shit. You are screwed if you don’t reference everything correctly. Rather than doing all of that why don’t you just concentrate on your entity, which is what it should be? It’s an entity loop your ID is an entity loop is everything about your company about your business?

There you go.

Okay, we got to wrap up or come to the heavy hitter club and learn how to do it.

There you go. So thanks, everybody for being here. Tom. See you guys next week.

See guys, Bye, everyone. Bye.

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Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts. Today is the 10th of June 2020. got everybody here, we're gonna say hi real quick and get the introductions out of the way and then start answering your questions because we got a lot of questions on what the deal was this week everybody brought their the good stuff. So we're gonna get into it today. So, Bradley, we'll start with you man. How are you doing today?

Good happy to be here been working on process development for the last two days straight to entire days and feel like my eyes are crossed, but I've gotten a lot of it done. So I'm so close to having all my onboarding stuff for a client you know, new clients and entity asset setup, and all that the process is almost a hundred percent complete. I've put it off for years. But I've been working on it for like the last six or seven weeks and it's almost done. So super excited about that. I'll be sharing this with the mastermind members tomorrow too. So just let you guys know that we are going to be there. In other words, otherwise happy to be here. Good stuff right Marco How about you man?

I'm good, man. still warm and sunny in Costa Rica nothing changes Groundhog Day you seeing it everywhere you see the exact same thing I think might be a What do you call it a screen a white screen that I put behind me right with all that light and this is fake this is really a mink coat right with Fern lining and it's all fake none of this is really good shit.

Just a green screen but you made white and sunny Yeah, yeah.

Well, Hey, how you doing man? Are you nice and warm? Are you freezing? Now actually today was it was a pretty good day. The last week or so was rainy and foggy and shitty, but you know, today's it's pretty good. I'm excited to be here also working on processes, you know, trying to build you know, getting to build another agency. as well, so you know, working on processes training people, and working on that. So I feel I feel you, Bradley. But you know, it is what it is like you do once you put in the work and then you get somebody repeating it over and over and over again. So that's why you put in the work so that you can multiply that. So it's been it's good, man. It's good. Everything's good, man. Yeah. All right. Last but not least, Chris, how you doing today, man? Doing well here. And yeah, it's raining here for a change.

I think it's like, I don't know. Well, it almost feels like it's the first time it's a very long time. And it's actually probably raining here.

But yeah, since it goes here. Nice, nice. Well, before we get into it, I wanted to let everyone know, we're going to be releasing some more information about POFU live 2020. It's still going to be the last weekend of September and it is going to be virtual. We'll be having some updates shortly towards the end of the month, I believe and we'll be able to answer all the questions. You'll be able to grab your tickets. To that, we're going to be reaching out. We had a few people last year who just hopped on right away. We'll be reaching out to you to get with you about that. So, the other thing I wanted to touch on, we've had a few more people joining to x your agency. And for those of you who don't know about this, if you're an agency owner or consultant, if you want to get more clients want to grow your revenue, you want to scale your team. If you want to do that than 2xyouragency is really the place for you to go just go over there, check it out, I'm not gonna bore you to death. You're all capable of reading and watching the video on the page. But there is a ton of training Bradley did the bulk of that training. I know Hernan did some and I may be leaving people out. But it's just an incredible amount of content following the three pillars as far as what you can do to do exactly that and get more clients for your revenue and scale your team. And also, version four of the battle plan came out not too long ago if you somehow missed out on that. You can go grab that battleplan.semanticmastery.com and certainly not least is the mastermind Bradley mentioned that real quick that he's going to be sharing all this with the mastermind if you want to find out more about that just head over to mastermind.semanticmastery.com. And I'm gonna sneeze my brains oh man has the worst trying to talk and then having to sneeze all of a sudden. Alright, got that passed. So let's get into it. I wanted to tell people to real quick before we do that, sorry. If you haven't been over to mgyb.co yet, head over there for your done for you services. I was reminded because we were talking today about creating some more training, talking to people about worrying less SEO about you know, not caring what the algorithm is doing. If you head over there, there are best practice webinars which are great. I think most of them were created in the last few months. Go over there. If you have questions or you just want to find out more about you know, how does this stuff work? What should I do? be doing with it, things like that, just go over to mgyb.co. And there's a lot of great free training over there as well as the dumper Youth Services. Cool. All right, guys, anything else we need to cover before we dive into it?

Yes, I've got something I want to cover about syndication network applets and RSS attribution links. So it's cool if you guys want to go ahead and grab the screen get into that.

Go for it.

Okay, standby.

Alright, I don't know if it was a support ticket or what but it was brought to my attention that I guess some done for you syndication network buyers didn't if you're not using an RSS plugin that creates an attribution link whenever you syndicate content. So in other words, if you're using an RSS trigger to trigger your syndication networks in our training, and we've always talked about how we use our an RSS attribution that's coated in through a plugin. Originally, it was using the Yoast plugin, which we no longer recommend. Marco calls it the toast plugin. So we haven't recommended that for many years because it's full of bloated code and they update it. It's just a mess. We don't ever recommend using Yoast. We developed our own. Well, Chris did our crispy or developed our own RSS plugin. There's a free version that goes with Syndication Academy, you guys can get it if you're part of any one of our groups. There's also a pro version that is free as long as you're in the mastermind that does have a whole lot of other functionality to it besides just the attribution. But I guess some people hadn't didn't realize that if you're not using a plugin to insert an attribution link into the feed items. So for those of you that don't know what the hell I'm even talking about, what is an attribution like okay, well, let me show you an example. This is a blog post on blogger for myself. Land realty project. And you can see that down here at the bottom it says see we buy land and Bluefield, VA post originally published on the alpha land realty blog. Well, this was a post that was published to this blogger blog via an RSS feed through IFTTT. Okay. So if we were to go take a look at the actual RSS feed Well, in this case, I haven't hardcoded into an applet which is what I'm going to talk about today with you guys. Because I'm not using our own RSS plugin for this and I don't use Yoast, Marco. Also, you mentioned there was a plugin what's it called?

Simple attribution. It's really good really light and works fantastically well. Right here.

Okay. I haven't used this but Marco pointed this out. So there are a couple of things that I want to point out here guys and attribution. Like what that is is whenever you are republishing content, you're supposed to cite the source give out attribution to the original publisher to the original author, right. And so that's just best practice. And so when we're syndicating content, our own content to our own branded network, one of the ways that you get a link back, and also to be proper about it is to you to add the attribution link. And there's a couple of ways you can do it. You can use a plugin. Again, use our plugin, or you can use this simple attribution if you're using WordPress.

If you're not using WordPress, or you don't want to use one of these plugins, you can hard code into the syndication applet inside of IFTTT and attribution link and I'm going to share with you guys some example codes. There are two different versions of them. Well, there are multiple versions of each, but there are two basic categories of attribution links. And so what that does is every time you publish a post, it's going to automatically insert this type of attribution link down here at the bottom, okay? And so that's giving credit to the original source. So if I click that. And this one I don't have target equals blank in there. So it's going to open in the same window, but you can see that it's going to pull up the original post the same post that we just saw on blogger. It's just it's giving a link back to the original source. Okay, now for my alpha land realty project. I'm not using an RSS plugin, so it's hardcoded into IFTTT. Let me give you an example. This is the RSS to blogger applet, okay? So if we go into settings, you're going to see right there is my Feed URL. And right here is the body or the applet body. So that's the entry content. Then I put a break tag, then published first here, and you can see it's just a href equals enter URL and then enter and then the anchor text, in this case, would be enter URL as well, that's how I have it. I've updated it since that post was published because you can see what this looks like here. So what I wanted to share with you guys was just how to do that and we can give you some examples real quick.

Let's go back. Take a look at some of the other applets. We'll take a look at RSS to WordPress. Take a look at the settings there. The same thing we've got, these are short, I've got short attribution links here, which just link back to the original post. You can also have a combination of an attribution link that links to the original post, plus links back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever you want. Where else would this be useful? Well think about like if you've got a press advantage account. Or if you're buying press releases from MGB and you get an organization page, you get an RSS feed for your organization page, a media room page, essentially, where you can go in and set up applets. And I encourage you to do so set up applets for your sending branded syndication networks using the press advantage RSS feed. And the same thing, you go into the applets and code your attribution in and then link back to the the the original press release published on the press advantage domain.

Let me grab the right one here. And I was blowing this up so you guys can see it, you can hard code a link back into the original to the press advantage organization page itself or the media room page, okay, or on a blog, if you're hard coding it into IFTTT to link back to your primary website, you can link either to the home page or to the blog page or whatever you really you want to. Okay, so let me zoom in on this just a little bit so you guys can see the code and I'm going to share this in the chatbox. And we're going to put this in a knowledge base or something as well. But this is with the link to home or blog page or to like a press advantage for any source, okay, that you're going to be syndicating content from the RSS feed. You can type code in this type of stuff. These are what's called ingredients and the applet most of you should know this. And then these with the square brackets, those are what you would replace those are basically tokens, you would replace that with your own website URL. And you can see that you can swap this out this is not you don't have to just use these you can change wording you can add target equals blank. You can add strategically nofollow tags to, for example, linking back to the homepage. Why would that be? If you're going to use one of these applets? Where does it say with link to homepage or blog page? Why would you want to possibly code in a nofollow link? Think about it. Okay, so here's why I would tell you to, you know, and that was a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it for you. If you're syndicating content from your blog consistently to your branded network, right over and over and over again, you're syndicating content. Well, each time you syndicate and let's just use the three blogs in a standard syndication network. The three web two Dotto blog properties, okay, so it's Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, right? If you have if you're using one of these types of formats up here, where you're linking back to the original post, but then also linking back to the homepage, or to the blog, row page, you know, blog index page or whatever. Then if you're, if you're doing I don't know, let's just use an example two posts per week. That's eight posts per month.

Well, you could see over time, how having the same URL with the same anchor text all do follow back to the homepage of the blog page, that remember, every single post you publish would include a link back to whatever you however you have it coded here, right. And that's what I'm talking about is back to either the homepage or the blog page or whatever it is the original content, the post URL, that's only going to get three anchor text links back. Well, some of the other properties, but I'm just talking about the web to auto blog accounts right now, you're only going to get three anchor text, you link back to that post URL for each publication, right. So each blog post that's published, it's only going to receive three-link backs with a hundred percent title anchor text match, okay? So that's perfectly fine. But if you're going to continually post over and over and over again, which you likely are you should be, then you don't want to constantly hit the same keyword unless it's a brand or an anchor a naked URL. anchor, right with dofollow links. So that's why I'm saying if you're gonna, that's why the way that I have coded here was to make it very simple for you guys, you can see that my anchor text in any one of these top three versions is going to be either brand or website URL, which means naked URL. So naked URL anchor text for the URL that it's linking to. Why? Because you don't want to cause a problem. And so that's why, if you want to use keywords, you can but I would recommend for the link back to the homepage of the blog page or a category page, whatever it is that you're linking back to that you would add a nofollow tag. If you're going to be using keywords, it's okay to use the brand. It's okay to use a naked URL. But if you're going to be using keywords, I would recommend to also include a rel equals nofollow attribute into the code the HTML code, if that makes sense. Okay. However, to if you don't want to do that, you could just use the simple ones down here which is linked to the original post only, and like it said you guys, you can change this around. You can see, in this case, its entry URL using the entry title as the anchor text. In this case, its entry URL using the naked URL as the anchor text. Okay, so it just depends, you guys can swap, move things around, swap stuff out, you can change the wording slightly, all of that, it's perfectly fine. It's just really important that you guys understand. If you're not adding, if you don't have an attribution coded into your RSS feed through a plugin, okay, then this is something that you could use instead is actually code them into the applet which is what I've actually been doing because I'm not using plugins anymore for it for most of my sites I just haven't coded in the are up to the syndication applet. Okay. So does anybody want to comment on that?

No, okay. No, no, this is it just to make it clear that this is just best practice. When you get a syndication network, you should have either a plugin on the WordPress website which creates the attribution either the Semantic Mastery plugin or some other plugin, whatever the plugin of your choice could be, would be. And in our, in this case, we're recommending simple attribution so that you could do that our plugin but Semantic Mastery plugin allows spinning and a whole lot of other things that just add, you can add relevance, you can change the way that it links back to the post, or whatever it is that you're linking to. So you have a lot more leeway in what you can do with our Semantic Mastery plugin. Unfortunately, the one that has or fortunately whatever you want to see that the one that has the most functionality is of course only available if you're a member of the semantic mastery mastermind. Otherwise, if you don't have that plugin, and if you're not creating the attribution when the RSS feed goes out, when you do your post, through that plugin, what you have to do is go into IFTTT into your applets and hardcoded the way that you just showed using either brand or native You could also go something generic, you could go with a generic anchor more info more here and things like that, that's perfectly good. If you're going to be doing a keyword as you said, it should be nofollow, or you can actually go in it and this is a lot of work you want to VA doing it is actually going in and for that one post that's going to post change it to, to anchor, let it go out and then change it back to keyword anchor, whatever it is do follow. But then you have to change everything back to make sure that you don't keep getting that keyword over and over and over again with a do follow link from all of your properties all over the place, which just doesn't make sense. So I just wanna I just want people to be clear what it is that they have to do. You have to have a plugin, or you have to have this hard code in the applet it's one or the other.

Yeah, and see that's why I recommend like I said, Guys, if you're going to use these top ones where there's every post is going to have a link back to The homepage or a blog page, then I recommend that you are using a brand anchor or naked URLs and URL anchors so that you don't have to worry about going back in and editing the applets to change it up every so often. If you don't want to do that, as I said, you could just go with the original, the entry URL, right, which is the actual blog post URL, or whatever syndicated content URL it is, and that you can do it that way too. So you don't have to worry about accruing too many of a particular type of anchor. That makes sense. Okay. So that's it, I just wanted to point out here's another example. This is one of the newer posts. And you can see this is the this is actually going to Press Advantage. So this is one from the press. This is it was a news release or a press release from press advantage through that alpha land realty account. And if you take a look at it, if I click on that, it's going to go directly to the press advantage post, press or excuse me, press release. Okay. And then if you'll see if I come back and click through the alpha land Realty, I'm using brand anchors there that clicks through to the media room page. See that? So again, that's just an example of Tumblr. And then lastly, there's the example of WordPress, here's one from last year. And you can take a look down here at the bottom, you can see it says, that's the title of the post. If I click that, it's going to take me to the original post on my alpha land realty blog. And if I click through, you can see in this case, I put a naked URL to the blog, which is the homepage because the blog is on a subdomain. And so the blog is the homepage basically, of alpha land Realty. If that makes sense. So you can see I just use a naked URL there, okay, with a naked URL anchor. Right? So I just wanted to kind of point that out. Because I guess it was brought up somebody realized that they were syndicating content with no attribution. And so I wanted to make sure everybody had an understanding of you know, where you can add attribution if you don't already have that inserted into your RSS feeds via a plugin, okay. And like I said, you should be, you know, if you were syndicating content without attribution If you've been following best practices with publishing content that always includes an internal link to one of your pages on your site, whatever it is you're trying to promote, you're still getting the SEO benefit. We always recommend having an attribution link. Because if you know, especially because I like having the title of the post is the anchor text linking back to the post URL itself, it just adds a bunch of diversity of different types of anchors that are coming that are accruing or building up over time for your site in general, right. Does that make sense? Because the title of the blog post becomes, at least the way that I have my applets coded, the title of blog posts becomes the anchor text, and so that adds a lot of diversity over time, if that makes sense. Okay, so anyway, I just wanted to cover that. Hopefully, that makes sense. Let me reset all this stuff, and then we'll get to questions.

Would The T1 RYS Stack Nitro Link Building Combination Enough To Power An Affiliate Site?

Okay, so we'll start with Benjamin. He says, Hey, guys, I'm building a content site currently in a competitive niche primary keyword 75,000. A month for Google to monetize with affiliate sales. There is new curated content going on to the site each day, my plan was to get a tier-one network set up around the money site, then have an RYS stack above that pointing to the properties in tier one. Then throw the kitchen sink at dry stack via the night your link building package. Would you say this is the optimum configuration for these three elements? Or am I overthinking it, Ben? No, Ben, that's I mean, that's, that's right. Get the syndication network. In fact, you, the best thing to do is just order the SEO power shield. Because you're going to have it's pretty much everything combined. And so you get the syndication network first, and then they build the syndication network properties into the drive stack. Then you get the drive stack and ID page, all of that the G site. And then you can once you have all of that delivered. In fact, you don't even have to wait if you wanted to. You could start building links to the syndication network, as soon as you have that delivered which that gets delivered first. Or you could wait until everything is delivered and build links to all It so all of the URLs from the syndication network, the drive stack files and folders, the G site, that kind of stuff. Or you could like I said, do two different link builder gigs, one link building gig for the syndication network, because you're gonna get that first anyways. Wow. And then you know, takes another two weeks or whatever for the drive stack the G site to be completed. And you could order another link building gig for that. So it really just depends how, how you want to, you know, kind of sequence the things, but if you buy an SEO power shield, it's going to be the bundle, it just saves you kind of puts everything together and it helps our team because our team knows the process in which sequence to deliver them. That's what I would recommend. Any comments.

SEO power shield with link building included, but that's SOP right? Yeah, he's in a difficult niche, you got to hit it. Once it's delivered to see what happens to see how much more you're going to need. I was looking at the second part of this question, and I'm seeing, like, there's no way to answer Yeah, that's going to be enough. Nobody can tell you what's going to be in stuff in your niche. It's just you get the SEO Power Shield back, you hit it with the link building, you hit it with the embeds. Do some press releases, of course, and link building and embed, and then see what happens. Once that's done once the dust clears in 21 days wait it out, and you need data you need, you need to see what damage all of that did how it is that you're managing to come up in that niche. Once you have that information that you know, whether you need to extend your drive sec, which you probably will and something that's very competitive. I'm gonna say maybe I'm not gonna say probably you might need it. If you do we have that available then it then it's the same procedure, the same process, right? You have the drive stack you extend it, you do the money site, inner page, link building embeds, maybe a press release, and see how that does to push up the top market level category and so on and so on and so on until you get the desired results. I mean, there's no one cure-all for everything, if we could do that, then I wouldn't be here.

Probably for a long time ago, for a long time we had, especially when syndication Academy was new, we would have members, you know, people come on the hump day Hangouts, and almost every week we get this question, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts? will it take to rank for whatever keyword and people would you know? And we would always say, it depends, right? We can't answer that. It always depends. It takes as many as it takes, that was our answer as many as it takes, how many networks will it take to rank? Or how many posts will it take to rank? We would always say as many as it takes because there's no way that we can answer that. Again, I always try to do the least amount of work to get results. So I don't usually come out of it depends. Again, it depends on the project and what the budget is and all that other kind of stuff. Sometimes I'll come out of the gate with you know, Nitro, you know, Nitro kit, link building package, but for a lot of the local projects that I work on, you know, I that's not that's unnecessary, it's overkill, especially if I'm going to be staging you know, cycling through link building and embed gigs over the course of a few months, then there's really no need to come out right up front, you know, all guns blazing, because I'm going to make up for it, and you know, by doing multiple gigs over time, and so I like doing it that way. Because that way I'm not, you know, blowing my load so to speak, you know, like, spending a whole bunch of money upfront where and where might have not needed that if that makes sense. I like to kind of reserve keep things in reserve for when needed and kind of watch and monitor how much the needle moves with things that I do and then I can start to determine Okay, this is more competitive than I thought it was. So maybe I have to go a little bit more aggressive on link building or whatever. And that's just the way that I do it. I know a lot of people like to come out as you know, all guns blazing, like throw Everything that happened something right up front, but what I don't like about that is, you know, if you don't need as much, then you're kind of wasting time or money for that matter. That could be reserved or money that you could keep is profit instead, you know, so, but it's really up to you how you want to approach that.

How Do You Use The ID Page?

Alright ends up he says, I got my first SEO shield order back I understand the syndication network and posting and press releases. I understand the drive stacking. I'm still lost on the ID page though, what do I do with it? Do I submit it to Google Search Console? Yes, I recommend doing that. So if you uploaded it, you know, if you have the drive, excuse me, the ID page, and an Amazon s3 bucket. The way that you can add that to your search console is you can upload you can go to add it you have to add it as a URL. You can't do like a domain prefix and search console with it because you don't own the Amazon domain. But you can add it as a URL. Right. So you add you go to add the URL and search console and it'll tell you that it needs verification. And if you're just submitting the Amazon s3 URL, then you can download the HTML file and upload it to the same bucket. Right, the same Amazon bucket that you have the HTML page hosted in or saved in, okay, and then then you go back and click Verify, and it'll verify it just like that. And so I always recommend, you know, whatever account, the G site, and drive stack were built under, is typically where I end up submitting the ID page into the search console there. It doesn't matter if you have a branded asset, you know, like a G Suite account or something like that. You can always add it there, too. It doesn't matter to the same search console account that's attached to your G Suite account. I'm just saying, for my processes, we typically just add it to the search console account of the G site and drive stack owner, so to speak. But yes, you can do that. Do I never touch it, you there are, you know, there are things you can do to add additional stuff on there. I don't know how much I can share here specifically because some of that stuff is reserved for the mastermind and or our wife's only, or perhaps a heavy hitter club now, but you can add additional things into it.

You know, just think about other assets that would make sense to embed, it makes sense to embed in there, you know what I mean? So for example, you could possibly take your blog role page and embed that into it so that if you're blogging consistently on your money site, now you've got dynamic content, updating your ID page, because you've embedded your blog index page into the ID page, does that make sense? So that way, it is being updated every time you publish a post, it's going to automatically update the ID page through the embed, right. So there will be like new content on the page. So that's just one example of some of the things that you can do, you can add additional assets in there that are branded, you can update the H, the JSON LD structured data code to add more same as attributes. You know, there's a ton of stuff that you can do to it. Beyond that, you can leave it alone, that's perfectly fine. But you can always squeeze more power out of it, you just got to think about what type of assets would make sense to embed in there are things that you could do to dynamically update it, like I just mentioned, RSS feeds, or there's a ton of stuff that you can do to an ID page. Okay. But you can leave it just the way that it is and get results from that too. But you can always squeeze more power out is what I'm saying. Each property that gets iframe into that @ID page is a perfect place for link building and for embed ones and link building. So you also can you can consider that as an asset. All of those URLs are assets for you to hammer when link not hammering in, in the garbage, spam, which will work anyway. But if you keep your link profile clean, if you use better links, web two dot o is the way that we do it in web 2.0 contextual you'll get better results and it just looks better.

So remember, also, if you don't already have structured data on your primary web asset, then you know, add it and make sure that you're using you're pointing the ID page, you know, designating the ID page to the URL of your ID. page. So it makes sense. So for example, if you if or if you are if you already had structured data on your primary website, but you didn't have an ID page field, or if like most people, do, they just duplicated the URL of the home, you know, the homepage of the primary domain as the ID page. Now, you should go up and go now that you have a, you know, a published ID page, an actual ID page, go back through and edit your structured data code to include that URL as the ID page as opposed to just the homepage of your website, you know, so that there are a few things that you can do with it. That might be something actually that we could. I know we talked about last week about doing an MGYB update webinar that might be something we can include And that is just a little bit more on how to squeeze more out of a 90 page. Maybe we can add that to the notes. I'm moving on.

Okay, there are several questions here. I don't know that we're going to get through all these. We'll try just for everybody's etiquette for others, is try not to post 18 questions in one question, guys. It's not fair to everybody else, because it takes up too much time. post a question or two is okay. And then wait till some other people post and then you can post more questions that way. We're giving other people a chance. There's a lot of questions squeezed into this. All right. So we'll get through a couple of them. And if and we're going to move on and we'll come back if we can if we have time.

Does Having A GMB Based In The U.S. Limits A Global Affiliate Site's Traffic Due To GeoTargeting?

The first one is if I have a global affiliate site that targets all English speaking people around the world as the offers could be delivered globally with the primary focus on the US and UK. Is it possible that if I create a US GMA, that would then get my traffic to the US and even To the US area of the GMB in a similar way that geo-targeting and search console does? I don't mean, the GMB when only. Again, I don't. I'm not sure I understand the question in that. If you have a GMB, you're limited for the GMB and to where it will rank them in maps. Does that make sense? But having a GMB tied to a global domain isn't going to affect at least as far as I know, I've never tested it. But as far as I know, it doesn't seem to me like it would make doesn't seem logical that it would limit the website's exposure by having it tied to a GMB in the US. The maps ranking itself for the GMB would be limited to its immediate area, which is normal for all GMB's now, but I can't imagine that causing any issues. Marco, have you tested any of that or have any experience with that?

Well, the Land Solutions Network has a corporate as a corporate entity right in Pennsylvania. That's We decided we decided to set that up. Just to give it a corporate presence, get a GMB it to kind of show you know that it's a local company, but it's it's spread out. And it's but that but then that's also geo-targeting the US. So it's a service-based business, targeting the USA, it has a surface area, as long as you don't say, you know, like, I don't know how you would do that if you have a global entity and why you would pigeonhole it into a GMB. Yeah. Well, you were you're required to either show your address or to set a service area and you can't set the globe as a service area unless you deliver goods and services to the person right at their location is that well, that's the idea behind the service-based business. Right? So you'd have to look at that. I don't know why you'd want to do that. Why don't you just because you're not here's the thing where people get Confused about doing local, it's natural, and it looks really good. And you have to have a GMB or else you're not going to rank in the three-pack. And that's where the most action takes place in most niches locally. People going to their cell phones, and they look, look up whatever service it is that they're looking for, and they get a map pack, but they get ads and a map pack, or something along those lines. If you don't want that to happen. And if your niche doesn't trigger a map pack, then why would you want to be involved in that in the first place? There are other ways to verify and validate that entity that doesn't involve a GMB. We just did it with Land Solutions Network, because I knew we'd be targeting the US and I knew how we would be targeting the other states and cities in the US, right. So I knew what was going to happen already and how that was going to happen. But if I were going globally, I wouldn't have done that I would have never said my geolocation to the US. I probably would have gotten a GMB, I would have looked for another way, running ads in Google and YouTube, getting that credit card on file going into G Suite. Right as the company land solutions network doing all of the things that a company does when they want to work within Google when they want to run ads, which would be worldwide, not just to one particular geolocation, it just makes no sense.

Yeah, so I agree that you know, there's if you don't force a GMB just because you think you need it. If there's a specific reason that you want to have a GMB or that you need to have a GMB in the US then so be it. But as Marco said, there are other ways to solidify or validate the entity more in Google's eyes. Like he mentioned running Google ads, right? Having a credit card on file, running some ads, you could run YouTube ads, or display ads very inexpensively with even $1 a day budget, right? So even less, but it's just that Google can recognize you're a real person. It's not a spam account. You're paying money. Same thing with G Suite. G suites a great way to validate an entity, which at the basic level, it's $6 a month per user for the G Suite account. And then also, you could just you could upgrade, like Google Drive for that account and do pay so you get additional storage, right? That's another way to get it on file. So there's a number of different ways to validate it besides having the GMB unless of course, you need it.

Is It Okay To Use A Generic Description In A U.S.-Based GMB Even If You Are Physically Located In Europe?

Which brings me to question number two of this if I'm physically located in Europe, but I need a US GMB and the health niche. Is it possible this could happen if the description is more generic and not so much health-related? And if the name is more generic? Well, again, I'm not 100% Sure. Why do you need if you're located in Europe? Excuse me? I'm not sure why you need a GMB in the US. So it doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. I'm not sure what the point of that would be. So I'm sorry, I can't answer that.

Is The ID Page Useful Even If You Don't Have A GMB?

Number three does the ID page loop Make sense? If you don't have a GMB? Yes, it does. Because although I do The ID @ID page, stuff that we started with, you know, I guess it was in 2018. February 2018. I think we were originally it was originally tied to just local business structure data. But it's beyond that now. Marco, you can talk a little bit Miley do local, but you can talk a little bit about that more an ID page is just a reference area for an entity. It's telling the Googlebot to go there all of the entity information that will help to validate that entity is that in this location, and that's what we use the ID page for. Is that correct?

Yeah, everything on the web has a node. Okay, everything connected to the web. So even if you have a smart refrigerator, smart range, smartphone or smart TV, whatever smart device you have, that's going to have a note. And the question now is, how do we identify that node for the bot to understand what this connection is to whatever it is that we're doing? What's happened, what how that's being done. Now it's a local is how it started. But now you have an organization, Mm hmm. She can add you can have an @ID for your organization. And that what that does is is I and identifies the organization know where all of your organizational information resides. And so that that's how we do it. That's how we targeted but you can have multiple @IDs, like here, you can have a web page and idea of a product @ID, you're just naming the node for the product, the website, the web page, just whatever you're identifying it for about these are identifiers, and how those two nodes get connected. Well, that's the URL. I don't know that it's a hyperlink. They connected through a way for each one to talk to one another. Well, that's HTTPS. And the way that the word the worldwide web is inter matched right interlinked, so that everything is identified and can The through an IP, or however it is that that that that connection is is made. Now, as far as the question is concerned, does an @ID page loop makes sense? It makes sense because it's an entity that we named it and the @ID loop, originally, but what we were doing is we were creating an entity loop. We were sending Google hopping from one place to another that contains nothing but our entities' information and everything related to our entity. And we were just echoing it over and over and over and over again, we were able to track the bot in that echo. It sounds like an echo chamber, right? Or the endless mirror, where it just bounces back and forth, back and forth. And we've seen it happen, we can see it. We can see the button. They're going back and forth going back and forth through the iPhones. We can see it reading the information on the iPhone, this is these are the things that we've proven. So is it Yes, of course, it makes sense. It makes total sense because of not You're not and you're not identifying your entity properly for the Bob. Thank you was a thorough answer.

How Important Are The Short Links On The GSite Of The SEO Shield?

So DC SEOs up? What's up, man? He says on the G site of the shield, there are a number of short links that have MGYB in them. How important are they because I want to sell my clients the shield without them actually being able to figure it out where and who it was created by and how much it costs because I will be adding my own margin onto it. I've considered not telling them that they'll end up with a G site, but almost everyone I deal with here in the UK has been burnt by another SEO Company, which is true everywhere, not just in the UK, but been. So I want to be as transparent as possible on a slightly different note if a client doesn't want to publish the GMB site. Okay, well, let me answer the first question and we'll come back to that second part. We run all the URLs through the MGB shortener because it gives you another target URL for link building purposes and because of all the link building that's been done to the drive stacks g sites that we've built over the years now. The mgyb.co shortener is incredibly powerful. So you actually siphon power from that into your stack by having those shortened links there. That said, there are a couple of things I don't know that you could I don't manage the, you know MGYB Build Team at all that Marco and Rob do that really? So I don't know if you could request to have one built without the shortened links. I guess it's possible maybe Marco can answer that or Rob I know he's usually lurking, listening to us and he comments in slack but something else you could do is when it's delivered if you wanted to hide that from or you know not to reveal that the mgyb.co shortened links to the client, you could just go into the drive stack and delete those from you know the sheets and things like that if you wanted, obviously, it would be more time-efficient, more efficient if you just ordered the stack and requested did not have those included. Is that something thing that could be done, Marco?

No. And I'll tell you why. The MTB shortener adds so much power to everything that if they even rank and leave it, they'll index. So a mind map that's really hard to index right now will index through the MGYB shortener. So why would we want to interfere with all of the power? And if I were to tell my guys to do that, then you would have to, we would have to give it to you with the warning. We can't be sure how this is going to work. Yeah, because we don't do them that way. Now, if you just share your screen for a second and just go to HTTPS, mgyb.co to the shortener.

Oops, I got the wrong fucking type. Maybe I could get it right. That's all the person is going to see just another shortener, just another URL shortener, they don't have to figure anything out. I mean, if they want to look at your it's something, it's a service that actually you can set you're paying for the pricing is right there. And you're using it, just to provide short links and to be able to customize, you can actually go and pay for getting into the service. So you can customize the links for the client. But this is the way I'm customizing your link so that they look better. So they look nicer. So they're more attractive for the person to click on. They don't have to figure out everything that you're doing. They can just from going here. This is just our shortener, it's no, no different than Bitly, or any other shortener out there.

And I'd like to comment and say what Marco said is true. I agree that also delivering a drive stack without those URLs would be like, going into a fight with one arm tied behind your back, right, because you're losing the benefit that you gain from having the MGYB SEO links because of the power that's been accrued to it over time. So that's number one.

Number two, again, if you know my rebuttal to say that you're worried about the client seeing, you know, going to mgyb.co, and looking at the store and seeing what drives tax costs and everything else, what your client have any idea what the hell to do, how to order what to do with them or anything else without you know, I mean, it's like 99% chance that they wouldn't have a damn clue as to what to do. Even if they did find the store, they wouldn't have any idea how any of those things would benefit them. Because as it stands right now, it's still basically a store that is for SEO professionals and marketing professionals. Not for the layman, right? The average business person or a business owner. So you're getting paid for understanding how to put all of these things together and make it work and produce results. Right. That's your expertise. I remember reading somewhere, somebody said you know when you have a plumber that's got 10 years of experience to come out and fix a leaking pipe, right? And he comes out and fixes it in 30 minutes and charges you $150 or $200, you know the service call plus whatever $200? Or are you paying for $200? You know, like, it takes 30 minutes. So what would that be $400 an hour effectively, or so? Are you only paying for that 30 minutes? No, you're paying for 10 years of experience that that plumber has accrued. And that's why they're able to fix it so efficiently. I don't know if that's an analogy that makes sense to you. It does to me. But you know, you're they're paying a markup because you're the one that's putting it together and making sure that they're going to get results from it. Whereas even if they went and found our store, it's likely they would have no idea what the hell they were looking at, or what the hell to do with it, even if they did purchase it, you know what I mean? So I wouldn't and trust me if they ordered it and then got into the order where they had to submit the order details. They'd be lost probably because they don't understand half the terminology that you know We requested the order. So I wouldn't worry about that at all. You should always Mohammed, I think he's got a question in here. He's been following us for a long time. And he had, you know, Mohammed, I'm not picking on you. But he's gotten to a lot of situations with clients about that kind of stuff, you know, where too much has been revealed or to ask too many questions and blah, blah, blah. And remember, you're getting paid for your expertise, for knowledge that you've accrued through time and effort. And so you deserve to be paid for that and manage the build, manage, you know, the, what's done with it afterward and everything else. So any comments on that?

Yeah, this is where I'd like to add that if he's taken the person through the conversation in the right way. What he's done is he's told this person, I'm going to get your results how I get results, is my business-like, I don't you're not going to tell this business owner how to run their business because you probably don't know how to you don't care to know how all you need to know is as Jordan Fowler one of our mastermind Member says, Well, you have to know is Google. And all you have to tell that client is Look, I, you know, your business, I know Google, and I'm going to get you results, and you're going to pay me for results. You're not paying me for the hour, the why. Now, if you want to pay me for the hour or the Y, that's consultation, and that's 1500 dollars an hour, I'd be happy to take you into structure into an instructional model, minimum five hours a month, and during the course of 12 to 18 months, I can take you through everything so that you can go and get results. Or rather than do that, why don't you just pay me my monthly, and let me get your results so that we know you don't have to go through those at through that Crash Course of 18 months of learning so that you can start the process of doing what it is that I already do and that I have 17 years of experience doing. So, guys, it's that conversate you got to have that conversation with the client and you have to school the client in the right mode, yes, they've been burned, they've been burned because there's, they're forced to sign contracts. And they're promised the moon, and that the moon is made of cheese and all this shit, where all you have to do is tell them, hey, look, man, I'm gonna get you results, I'm going to need 90 days, I can probably get your results sooner. But I don't want to make any promises because I don't control Google. But what I do know is that within 90 days, we're going to start to see results. At the end of those 90 days, we'll sit down and revisit the fee. So that gives that even gives you an opportunity to increase your feet because you're gonna rock this guy's world. If you do the things that we do in the way that we do them. The guy is going to be blown out of his mind. I mean, his head is going to explode from the results you're going to get. But the conversation has to be there. If he's focusing on how you're getting results, and why and why are you doing this? And how are you doing it? Dude, you got to pay me for my knowledge. I'm not gonna give you my knowledge for 2500 bucks a month. There's just no way.

Can You Use The Primary URL From The Money Site As Rel=Canonical If A Client Doesn't Want To Publish Their GMB Site?

Yeah, she says on a slightly different note. If a client doesn't want to publish their GMB site, can I use the primary URL from the money site is the REL=canonical? Yeah, I mean, if that's fine, the only reason why we had set it up originally to point to the GMB website if it's for the local project is that some of our customers at MGYB or members in the mastermind or whatever, if you have the REL=canonical pointing to the money site, if you're doing a backlink analysis through like majestic or a href, or something like that, you can often see some of the links that are being built to the G site through the REL=canonical, like in other words, so you can see some of the link building that's being done by you know if you're using link building analysis tools or link analysis tools. I don't care. I honestly don't care because as long as I'm getting results, it really shouldn't matter. Some of our customers or members have didn't want that. So that's why we defaulted it to point the REL equals canonical to the GMB website if have a GMB site, you know, a GMB location associated with the drive stack built, but it's not necessary like you can like, it just depends if you're worried about clients looking at link building analysis, you know, Link analysis, reports and such like that and you don't want them to see the types of links that are being built, then yeah, I would point it to something else. It could be the, you know, not the primary website, but you could even point it to like the GMB map instead of the GMB website, for example, but again, I don't care. Personally, I even just ordered them through the MGYB now just like you guys, do, I swear, I ordered my drive stacks just like you guys do. And then when I get them back, I typically when I'm uploading my ID page because I upload it to my own Amazon site, or whatever, then I usually do the REL=canonical back to the money site. So it's just an edit that I make before I upload it. It's entirely up to you. Is there any other comments you want to make on that Adam or Marco before I move on.

I don't see why they wouldn't want the GMB published. Like I don't see why that's a showcase. It's a showcase for your post. It's more URLs to spam to link built to the link below to four iframe, there's just so much that you can get from that. And then not only that, when they see just how much how many visits come through, and how much actually comes through the posts on the GMB like that whole ecosystem. I was just looking at one and today's what Wednesday and I've already had 838 post views for the week, and it's only Wednesday. I'm about to post that as an update in the heavy hitter club. But it's ridiculous for the client to even consider not publishing the money site, especially since it's done by Google on auto and they interlink everything and they give you all the love that's necessary for you to just hammer.

It's another branded asset too. I totally I agree, I don't understand why you wouldn't want to. I mean, you guys, you understand you can't control clients, sometimes clients demand things that just make no sense, they defy logic. And that's fine. You have to work within those parameters at times or fire them as a client. But I agree 100% with Marco, there's no reason why, like, and we've had that common question come up in Hump Day Hangouts, or like, you know, my client doesn't want the G site ranking. Why not? Why the hell wouldn't you want a G site ranking, right? Like it pushes a competitor off the page, and if you iframe your money site page into the top of the G site, then they're gonna see the original page. I mean, you know, the money site anyways, what difference does it make and but some people just, they're just finicky like that, but I totally agree. It's another asset takes up more real estate, you can do a lot with it. So it seems silly not to, in my opinion. But the short answer is yes, you can canonicalize the ID page to you know, another tier-one asset I would recommend it being a Google asset like the GMB map URL for example or something like that.

Should We Use The Press Release When Requesting For Link Building Services?

Okay, g site whatever fits is up. What's up, Fitz. He's here almost every week. Good day, gents. Thanks for the forum to ask questions and get real-world actual answers. Marco thank you for the charity work you do for these kids. Love how Fitz promotes your charity for you, man. It's awesome. He's a good man for that. He says, Thanks, Fitz. Yeah, please post the charity link again so others can help with a quick 1020 or $100 to help these kids out oh road needs good people to even help even if it is with only a few dollars today. My question is on Hump Day. We hear about limiting the links to only one link so that we can concentrate the power is that for press releases or when requesting link building? Oh, that's a great question fit. So if that wasn't clear before that was within press releases now. Marco might have a slightly different methodology than I do. For press releases. I typically like to use most press releases if the kind of one-off press releases. I just usually like to With two links like and again, if you go look, I'm talking when I've talked about it, it's mainly for press releases.

Because for example, you can add three press or three links into a press release. But you're splitting the power of the link equity coming from that press release, every time you add an additional URL like another outbound link, right, so you can concentrate the power into one specific URL if you need to. However, if you go to the MGYB.co store or domain and you look at them or you go to our YouTube channel, or you go to Google and search for press releases silos, or PR silo stalking or whatever, you'll see the webinar that we did, right I the way that I do it, I'm usually linking with three links per press release now and it's because the way for local projects that I do it or that my team does it, is we publish a blog post and we publish a corresponding GMB post that links to the blog post. Okay, and then we publish a press release and The press release will link to either the blog post URL directly, or to the GMB post URL. Does that make sense that's promoting, that's linked to the blog post URL. And then we link back to the tier one. A tier one entity asset could be the home page, it could be a category page or, you know, top-level silo page. It could be Facebook page, you know, LinkedIn company page, the drive stack, primary folder, the G site, whatever, anyone of the primary tier one entity assets. So that's link number two, right? first, the link is going to link to the blog post that the press releases promoting, right because we that's what we publish or not for, like, if I'm doing three blog posts per week, then if the clients only paying for one blog post, or excuse me, one press release per week, then one of those blog posts is going to get a press release that is promoting the blog post and the blog post the press releases either gonna link directly to the blog post URL or to the GMB post URL that is linking directly to the blog post URL, then we link to it. Another tier-one entity asset, any one of them. I've talked about this before, but my bloggers have a client workbook, which is a Google Sheet for every client. And there's a target URLs column that has all of the primary tier one entity assets that we want to power up, and they just go down and each time they publish another press release, blog post, whatever, they select another target URL, and they link to that. So that would be link number two, and then the third link is a link back to a previous press release in the same silo. Right, because we do press release silo, we theme mirror everything right, we mirror the blog post silo structure into the GMB or excuse me, the Google site, this into the GMB posts and now, even in the press releases, so everything is themed there. That's why it's called mirroring, right. And again, that was originally coined by the network Empire. So I usually if it's a one-off, press release, I'm usually linking two to two outbound URLs. If it is a within a silo which most content is now then it's going to look To like I said, the original post URL or the GMB, the corresponding GMB post URL, another tier-one entity asset, just cycle through target URL list. And then the third is going to be linking to the previous press release in that same silo, that's just the way that I do it. Any comments on that?

Yeah, I wasn't referring to either one of those scenarios when I talked about the one link method, which was strictly for the drive stack extension. And the G site inner page extension targeting a money site inner page, that's when we use that one link method to concentrate the power as close to one to one as possible. instead of dividing it, like you just mentioned, in a press release the way that you'd be dividing, dividing is either two by two or by three, right? We want a one to one transfer from the G site over to the money site, an inner page from the extension to the inner page. So I'd go back and watch those webinars fates. I know that you have access to those. And that's what we were mainly talking about it although you can do that one lick method however way you want to do it. Guess what you have to understand is how you're transferring PageRank ranking score and power.

Can We Use Dedhia's Link Building Services To A Money Site?

Alright, so we're almost out of time I'd like to get through these next two if we can. So let's get to them Jigglypuff says, Hey guys, I just cut the battle plan and really enjoying the content you guys share. Well, thank you. Can the link building by Dedhia offer through MGYB be used on a money site? No. We don't recommend that. You know that we always recommend using the tier one entity assets is the link building targets. That's what our link building services were. were developed specifically to power up the tier one entity assets, not the money site. That's why we call it an SEO shield because it acts as an SEO firewall that protects the money site, right you're basically building a cocoon a shield around your money site using high authority entity assets that you can now power those up. And ultimately, the link equity flows through to the money site, but it gets cleaned or laundered through those entity assets. So we do not recommend that now if you want link diversity to your money site press releases, that's a fantastic way like that press releases are an awesome way to add length diversity to your money site, because you can link directly to your money site. And I would recommend that you change it. I primarily use naked URLs when linking to the money site, but you can do some generic stuff or some brand anchors and things like that so that you get linked diversity as well as anchor diversity back to your money site, but I would use press releases for that. Any comments on that?

No, no, no, never to the money site. We don't recommend that. That's why we have the SEO power shield as you said, it provides a shield and it amplifies the power. So why would you do anything except go through the SEO Power shield? That's right.

So that's why it's important to build those assets first and then you can hammer the shit out of those assets with the link building and embed gigs or embed plus link building gigs. So that link building is getting done to the embed pages, right? So there's a number of things you can do to power those assets up without them directly linking directly to your money site through those through daddy's link building service if that makes sense. So there you go.

Next question, and we're going to wrap it up guys because we're at the five o'clock mark and unfortunately, dammit, Mohammed, I answered your question. I commented below cult of copy. That's a great resource for copywriting and Facebook. They've also got a marketplace where you can hire copywriters and all kinds of stuff. So go look at the cult of a copy.

Can You Order More Than One ID Page DFY Service To The Same Domain?

Anyways, this last question, can you order more than one ID page done for you service to the same domain but pointing to different money site URL? Or should you only have one ID page for each money site? If you understand that's what we were talking about earlier. an ID page is supposed to be basically a resource To say this is where it helps to validate an entity, right? So a money site, the right should really only have one ID page, the way that I do it for local, okay, because remember that everything I do is local. But you can have multiple ID pages for a brand. If there's in my case for local if there are multiple locations, right? So there can be like, for example, I'm working on a tree service project now sharing that in the mastermind. That as an as got multiple locations, and so they're the homepage of the website, the primary domain, the root domain is essentially got Corporation organization, Corporation structured data, right? So markup that has an ID page, that Id page is just brand and keywords. So there's not any location optimization for the ID page, right? Because it's an ID page for the overall entity, the brand itself, right, and I'm using Corporation markup which is a subset of organization markup, okay. So I've got an ID page that links to the or that the money site links to or references the ID page for the brand plus keyword Association, but no location optimization. But then I've got multiple locations, that is branded plus location name appended to it. And each one of those locations has its own ID page that's optimized for that specific location. Does that make sense? So you can have multiple ID pages. If you're having, you know, again, depending on what it is you're trying to validate that just if you understand what we're talking about with what an entity is, then it'll click you know, you'll get you you understand what the ID page is for it's, it's a resource that you're telling Google through the structured data code, hey, all of the entity information can be validated here. And so on that page is where you have all the iframes structured data, you know, tier one, entity assets, all of that stuff is listed or housed within that Id page, because you're telling Google reference that page to validate this entity and all the data within. That makes sense. So if you understand that, then you there are times where you can have multiple ID pages and marketing you might be able to explain a little bit more clearly than me. I don't know if that was clear or not.

You can have multiple @ID it Alright, so you got a parent. And this parent has four children it doesn't matter where those children are. So now you have the field organization Corporation, as you said, and you're going to have in our locations now as the parent, you can talk about your children because they're your children. And you can do this in the schema in the JSON LD. Rob showed this in the heavy hitter club in our MC or we could go Wednesday, in our mastermind I didn't in the webinar that we had, he showed he showed how you can reference the children and how the children can each reference the parents. And what you have to be careful is that you make sure these children don't Become orphaned, where you confuse the but you have to make sure that this parent is claiming the right children because it starts claiming other children, then you're gonna have to pay child support. Everybody's gonna get confused. They don't know who's dedhia, who's mohamed, you have to make this clear to them but if you guys if you confuse the bot you excuse the language I know they're supposed to be pgl give a shit. You are screwed if you don't reference everything correctly. Rather than doing all of that why don't you just concentrate on your entity, which is what it should be? It's an entity loop your ID is an entity loop is everything about your company about your business?

There you go.

Okay, we got to wrap up or come to the heavy hitter club and learn how to do it.

There you go. So thanks, everybody for being here. Tom. See you guys next week.

See guys, Bye, everyone. Bye.

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“Hi Edward, Well your book certainly opened my eyes! I’ve always been pretty cynical about holistic therapies. When I first found your ebook, I’m ashamed to say that my initial reaction was pretty contemptuous – since when have deep-breathing exercises ever REALLY helped anyone overcome panic attacks or anxiety disorders, I thought? Well, I’m glad to say that now I know different.  I’ve used your tips on psychotherapy, medications, AND holistic therapy to heal myself of panic attacks, and – although I’m still far from perfect – the improvement I’ve experienced already is incredibly heartening. For the first time in many years, I actually feel hopeful about the future: your book’s a truly valuable resource for anyone suffering from anxiety disorders. Thanks for turning me around on this issue, and proving to me that a closed mind is no way to treat anxiety disorders!” — John Bates (Big Four, West Virginia)

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From: Edward Golding Date: March 01, 2020

Dear Friend,

I’m Edward Golding. I’m a former chronic panic attack sufferer, so I know first-hand how disrupting and crippling anxiety attacks can be. I’m here to help you cure your anxiety issues using what may well be the most powerful panic attack cure system that exists.

Firstly, you should know that there is a lot of BAD advice going around on the internet about how to treat anxiety and panic attacks. Many treatments that people suggest are not effective, accurate, nor are they safe. In fact, some websites claim that they can fix your anxiety and cure you of future panic attacks in one step! Let’s face it, if panic attacks were that simple to cure, you wouldn’t still be looking for help!

If you suffer from panic attacks and want your life back… if you’re tired of trying pills, potions, and lotions that merely mask the problem, but don’t cure it, and if you’d like to cure your panic attacks once and for all, as safely, naturally, and as effectively as possible… then please read the rest of this web page – you are missing out on extremely valuable information if you don’t.

I want to share with you my unique, well-researched and proven 4-Step Holistic System, so that you can overcome panic attacks in the safest and most effective way possible, while minimizing the risk of recurring attacks.

But First, I Want You to Consider These Questions…

Do you want to overcome your anxiety fears and get back to the full health and vitality that you used to have?

Do you want to stop the dizzy spells, racing heart, nausea and tingling of an oncoming panic attack?

Do you want to overcome your fears and social phobias and enjoy your friends and social life again?

Do you want to understand and cure unusual compulsions and unwanted thoughts that you can’t explain?

Are you frustrated that many of the anxiety medications offered don’t do the job as effectively as they should?

Do you want to explore your options and alternatives before you resort to drugs in treating your anxiety disorder?

Are you sick of the side-effects of the many pills and potions you are taking? Do you wish there were other things you could do to manage your condition?

Do you miss having the confidence that comes from being anxiety and panic attack-free?

Do you know what alternative lifestyle, homeopathic, and medical options exist for managing and overcoming anxiety attacks?

Do you want to stop getting recurring panic attacks that are destroying your family life, career, and even your future happiness?

Do you want to know more about other types of treatments including acupuncture, EFT, Tai Chi, and Gemstone Therapy?

Do you want to know how key exercise and diet changes can affect the way your body responds to stress?

If you answered “YES” to any of these questions, this book is really going to help you. If you are suffering from any of the symptoms above and have really had enough of feeling this way, you have come to the right place – You really can eliminate all of the above problems and I’m about to let you in on my secret method…

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I believe that we have an obligation to one another to share helpful information that could enable us to live healthier, happier, longer lives. That’s why I created my newsletter series!

I want to share with you some of the information I have gained through my years in researching this subject. I’ve not just gone to panic and anxiety sufferers to find out how they manage their anxiety and panic attacks the natural way; I’ve also gone to the formal medical literature on the subject, scientists, herbalists, homeopaths, and more, in order to get a complete picture of what people are saying about anxiety and panic attacks and what really works.

I designed my newsletter series to help clear up the misconceptions about anxiety and panic attacks and give you the plain and simple truth without wading through the sea of information out there!

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Before getting on to the remedy, you should consider the following…

How Did People Treat Anxiety and Panic Attacks Before Miracle Pills and 10-Second One-Step Cures?

Every year, over 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety-related disorders, and most are looking for effective ways to manage their fears and live a normal and care-free life…

...But the first thing most of them recognize is that an anxiety disorder is a serious affliction, and that any approach to managing and minimizing panic attacks needs to be both carefully considered and carefully implemented. People that tell you they can cure your panic attacks in just seconds or moments are just as bad as those who tell you that you simply need to pull yourself together. It’s just not that simple.

It’s crazy! You can spend years treating the symptoms at the pop of a pill, pressure on a reflexology point, or a positive affirmation, without actually treating the panic attack and the lifestyle triggers that are causing it!

These revolutionists ONLY TREAT THE SYMPTOMS, not the causes, and the side effects may be creating new problems and making you feel worse, and yet you keep spending the money!

This means that while you may cure the symptoms of your panic attacks for a while, without getting to the root cause it’s just going to keep on coming back again… and again… and again.

And each time you have another attack, it may be getting even worse and harder to live with…

But When I Think About It, It All Makes Sense…

If you knew that a 10-second miracle technique could cure your panic attacks forever, would you be interested? Sure!

But what if you knew that it was ineffective in delivering the promise that it would give you anxiety-free confidence for the rest of your life! Would you feel ripped off?

This is what made me so angry and what sparked me to spend years conducting my own research to find out exactly how people for centuries have been dealing with stress and managing their anxiety. During my research, I found a range of highly effective techniques and methods, which I’ve put together into 4 Step System that I guarantee will give you panic attack-free confidence or your money back. But first you should be aware that…

You Can’t Afford NOT To Hear the Truth!

An anxiety problem left untreated can quickly grow into a life problem of unsustainable proportions.

Imagine living in constant fear of a panic attack, so severe that you can’t continue in your job anymore, can’t maintain relationships or friendships, and your world is getting smaller and smaller…

The very pain and suffering you are trying to escape from is becoming your everyday reality! You are living your worst nightmare!

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Using the advice and knowledge passed on by generations of anxiety and panic attack sufferers before me, modern medical research, and studies on the effects of modern lifestyles and stress on our nervous systems, I developed a 4-Step System that has changed the lives of over 2,000 people and can work wonders for you. You can naturally help your body and mind overcome panic attacks on its own, without having to resort to medication … and keep it from coming back!

It’s time to take control of your own health and happiness and learn how to use the management techniques that my 4-Step Holistic System has available for you!

My 4-Step Holistic Panic Attack Management System

Curing your panic attacks and restoring your confidence and vitality is not as easy as it sounds and DEFINITELY not as simple as the so-called experts tell you it will be.

There is much more to it than simply treating the symptoms of panic attacks.

You need to find the triggers that can cause your panic attacks to happen in the first place.

You need to understand how your parasympathetic nervous system reacts to stress situations… and how it keeps you in check naturally.

You need to take control of stress and anxiety by identifying its root causes – its food sources – and eliminate the very sources that are feeding your anxiety.

This is why my holistic 4-Step System of action is much more effective.

It deals with the many crucial holistic lifestyle and emotional factors that will stop panic attacks in their tracks, rather than merely masking the problem (which is what all these miracle cures and one-step techniques do). To effectively cure yourself from panic attacks, you need to explore every factor that is contributing to your anxiety reaction, not just one. And that’s specifically what my 4-Step Holistic System does.

I’ve got the 4 Steps you need to get relief fast and prevent panic attacks from coming back… and that’s not all!

Inside you’ll learn:

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How many anti-panic methods and theories are incredibly misleading! Find out why they are and why you need a more balanced approach to your anxiety management.

Why stress is a key component in anxiety, and how we are living with more stress now than ever. Discover techniques for understanding and channeling your stress and belief system.

You will find out how to get rid of that persistent feeling of general anxiety in the pit of your stomach, even if you don’t think it’s an anxiety attack. You won’t find this information anywhere else!

Learn how to diagnose a panic attack and identify the underlying conditions that can mimic them. Even when it feels like you are sure it’s a panic attack that you are experiencing, find out for sure and deal with it.

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You’ll learn everything I’ve learnt in my years of researching what it really takes to cure anxiety and prevent panic attacks… many of these things people were doing long before the so called experts sold their “one-step” cures… backed up by solid medical justification.

Find out what is right and wrong with the various treatment options available and what to expect from a psychotherapist. Learn more right here!

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You’ll finally experience the confidence of knowing that panic and anxiety don’t have to embarrass you any longer… no more having to explain to your spouse or friends why you “just don’t feel well”… no more sweaty hands, tight chest, dizzy spells and “gross” days when you just wish you could hide under the covers and close all the doors and escape your crippling fears!

With your life free from crippling anxiety, you’ll have more energy … feel healthier … and look and feel your best! Having a panic disorder takes over your life and diverts important resources to calming and soothing you, resources that you could use to do much more enjoyable things like going for a walk, playing with your children, or simply enjoying life!

You’re about to discover everything that you need to get effective relief from the suffering of panic attacks…

My advice isn’t trying to substitute the advice of a medical professional, and I don’t want it to. In fact, you should always seek diagnosis from a medical professional if you are not sure, but my ebook is here to present to you the alternatives open to you in your management of your anxiety as well as your future happiness.

In fact, this book will empower you to go to your health professional with concrete facts, lifestyle plans, and alternatives that really work, and the ability to make an informed decision that takes into account a range of different treatments and points of view, not just one “miracle” technique or action.

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Before Continuing, Let Me Ask You This…

Have a think to yourself: what would it be worth to you to have this area of your life dramatically and emphatically improved for the better?

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