How Do You Fix Duplicate Branded Syndication Networks That Were Purchased Via Fiverr?

By April

In episode 257 of the weekly Hump Day Hangouts by Semantic Mastery, one viewer asked how to fix duplicate branded syndication networks that were purchased via Fiverr.

The exact question was:

Good day Gents thanks for this forum to ask real questions and get actionable answers. I have a client who went to fivver bought a syndication network then worked with another marketer and bought a different network. Many duplicates all branded. What should I do to fix that?

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 261

By April

Click on the video above to watch Episode 261 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.





Adam: Alright, and we are live. Welcome everybody to Hump Day Hangouts Episode 261. I was just live in our Facebook group if you didn't catch that. So this is we're starting our fifth year and I keep doing this, I need to just do five, I can count to five, there we go. So starting off with Episode 261, as we roll towards 2020. This is really cool. If you missed out last week, that's fine. Just keep doing what you need to do show up here every week, ask us to questions. And we will keep answering or at least point you in the right direction. So first off, I want to say if you're new to this, that's awesome. Thanks for showing up. Thanks for watching it. You can come here every single week URL stays the same. And we update everything so that you can just come back here you can ask your questions. And even if you're not able to make it live, although we highly encourage that so we can get clarification or do a better job of answering your questions. We understand that some people have time conflicts or whatnot. You can always check out the replays on YouTube, ask your question ahead of time and then check that out by subscribing to our YouTube channel. So before we get too far into it, let's go around and say hello looks like we got everybody here. I'm going to mix it up and start down at the bottom. So Hernan how's it going, man?

Hernan: Good man I was having some issues joining Zoom so that's why I jumped in like a minute late but I'm happy to be here super happy to be here so as usual

Adam: cool cool. Marco How about yourself?

Marco: I'm good man. Birds keeping busy

Bradley: birds or BERT?

Marco: BERT

so yeah, but it's fun

Adam: good deal well Chris, how about you man?

Chris: doing excellent here today?

Adam: Gotcha where you were doing that in the world are you back home in Austria?

Chris: Yeah and it's snowing and I can't wait man I'm super excited like finally, it's getting cold here. Like everybody else always likes the heat and stuff I really enjoy renderers cool air helps to sink clear and stuff. So that's perfect.

Adam: Outstanding, looking forward to a little bit of that when I go traveling because otherwise, it's going to be like 65 or 70 for the next four months. So anyways, Bradley, how about you, man? How are you doing?

Bradley: Good, excited to be here? A lot going on. I know you're going to talk about some of it. But just as kind of an update, we've got a local kingpin update webinar coming up for anybody that's in that where I'm just going to kind of have a webinar and talk about some of the updates and Google Ads platform using it for lead generation and also answer questions for anybody that's a member of that program that's coming up on November 18, I believe Monday, November 18, at 3pm. Eastern, so you should be getting a notification about that if you're a member of local kingpin. And also I know the other one that we're going to talk about is the there are a Facebook posts in the free group that has where I'm going to be doing some training about you YouTube and display network ads so Google Ads but how to do it specifically for branding for lead generation as well as driving traffic, targeted relevant traffic into your SEO assets, right your entity assets that you build, if you've been building entity assets the way that we've been talking about, it's just a great way to fire it up and get that activity and relevancy from a trusted and authoritative source. Right. And so it's it kind of tickles all three of the activity, relevance, trust and authority signals that we've been talking about now for years for specifically Marco. So we're going to be doing I'm going to be doing some training on that.

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And we're doing kind of a pre-launch thing on that for people that want to come. Watch the training or go through the training as I record it live, it'll be two different sessions, and then it'll be for a discount, about one third of the cost is once it's been recorded, we're going to package it up, put it into a membership site, split up all the videos and all that kind of stuff. And it'll be a, you know, roughly a $300 course. So if you haven't already seen that post in the free group, go take a look at it, if you're interested in that training, I would highly suggest that you get in on the pre-recording the pre-sale and pick it up that way. Otherwise, you'll have to wait till it gets packaged up pretty and has a nice sales page and all that stuff. And it'll be $300. But I've been just crushing it with Google ads for the specific reasons I mentioned over the last few months actually. And I think it's something that everybody should be using in their business for their own business as well as something that they can add to their services for clients. So I want to go over that very specifically with you guys. And Adam, I didn't mean to steal your thunder but I just figured out chat about it. Well, I had

Adam: no no that's good. I mean, you're the one that's going to be doing the training and I'm hoping my screens actually sharing. This is the post you guys want to get to go to the group I put the link in. But if you're not joining live, you can go into that sexy, sexy person that posted it there but yeah, look at who is that Oh, join the group of spiders don't believe a word and just follow the steps right here. It's pretty simple. If you're interested in this and you want to get it for a third of the price because the reading part of the reason to we want to make sure that there's enough interest that Bradley's going to put the time into this with the holidays coming up. We got Thanksgiving we got Christmas coming up. now's a good time to do this but we don't want to put the time in and people aren't interested so far though, day that it looks like people are pretty interested Bradley. So this is my favorite so far. Shout out to Brian. I think he made his phone gift. Yep, it looks like good interest. So if you want to get in early head over there and let us know.

Bradley: You got too many chats going on in your Facebook. I saw the bottom.

Adam: been busy busy. So real quick wanted to get back to these guys before we dive into some more stuff. One last one to a lot of people has already gotten access to the POFU Live 2019 recordings for the live event in Denver in October. But if you still want to you can get access. I'm going to post the link down there, but you can get that at and head over there and you can get access to those. I'll put that link up there. And then a few more just to answer the questions and get this out of the way from people. We normally here. If you're here, you're in the right place, and we appreciate you being here. But the next thing people always asked us is, well, what should I do next? You should definitely start with the battle plan, right? If you want step by step processes for getting results with everything from new websites, age domains, YouTube channels, whatever it is, go grab the Battle Plan. I'm not going to read you the sales page, you can check it out and grab it yourself It's a definite no brainer, we pack some cool bonuses in there as well. So pick that up. And if you're ready to grow your digital marketing business, you've already got some clients, you want to join an experienced community not only for the network but also for the advanced training, then the mastermind is where we want you to be all right. To find out more about that at And last but not least, if you are in done for your services have to go to And if you're not into done for you services, ask yourself why you're not in the done free services now, just kidding. But we recommend it to everyone and it's born out of the stuff that we used and we created processes for because you do get to that point where you're realizing you if you want to grow, you can't be doing all of this stuff yourself. So syndication networks are RYS drive stacks, press releases, link building embeds, all sorts of good stuff is available over there. Whoo. All right. So with that stuff out of the way, we got any last-minute announcements you guys are we ready to roll?

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Bradley: I think we're ready to roll not anybody else.

Adam: Kidding. I did. I forgot one shame on me. I wanted to let everyone know ahead of time. We're getting started earlier this year. We are working up towards you know Black Friday. Everyone's got some cool sales going on. What doesn't matter what industry you're in? I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of cool tools available out there and we wanted to get a jump start off. This we are going to be offering some kick-ass training, some stuff that's never been released before, outside of the mastermind as well as some new stuff that's never been seen. And we're going to be giving that to you guys completely for free. You won't even have to opt-in, but we're going to kick it off with that, you know, this is part of coming off perfectly live and being, you know, seeing the power of learning, but understanding also that there are two more things that come with that you can learn. But if all you do is learn, it's really no good. You've got to then take some action, and then you're going to get the results you want. But we want to help you out by taking that first step, give you some good stuff that you can learn and then you can take it and start acting on it and get results. So stay tuned for some more on that.

Bradley: Sweet, so we're good. Let's do it. All right, let me grab the screen. First, let me get my windows all situated. All right, here we go. Only a few questions so far. So you guys better get the posting. Usually, it's usually pretty good though. We had a great hump day last week, guys for our five year anniversary. So appreciate that.

How Far Out Should You Schedule A Live Event Using OBS?

All right, uh, let's go into the first one I see was from Greg Pippin. He says, Hi, I plan to use OBS. to broadcast a pre-recorded video as a live event. How far out should a live event be scheduled to be most effective? Can it be just a couple of days rather than a week also is scheduling a live event for ranking purposes rather than just uploading a video is still as effective as it was a few years ago? He says I've watched your OBS usage video from three years ago. Thanks for that one is very clear and helpful. Yeah, it is still more effective to live stream.

It's very similar to the difference in Facebook, right? If you up to upload a video to Facebook, it still gets more engagement than a text-based post or even an image-based post it gets more exposure. But it was preferred specifically if you don't have an external link in it right but also if you do a live stream that tends to get even more exposure. And I think it's the exact same way with YouTube. If you upload a video, even if you live, I mean, you can remember you can, you can schedule a live event with YouTube and then upload the video as a live event like so pre-record, you can stream a pre-recorded video as a live event. So you can still do that without it actually having to be a real live like a live recording, like video recording as your as you're doing, if that makes sense. But it does, it gets more, it gets a better push. Think about this if you if you're subscribed to the Semantic Mastery channel, which by the way you should be and if you do not make sure you hit the subscribe button. You get a notification via Gmail when it's going live, right and so it's the same thing, you'll get some traffic that will come through to it. And remember engagement signals are one of the primary ranking factors for YouTube videos, both in YouTube as well as Google.

And so getting You know, if there's anybody subscribe to the channel, they're going to get notified, and maybe a few clicks will come through for people to actually engage with the video. Now, if it's for like a, you know, a lead generation video or something like that, where there's not really any real subscribers, then you probably won't get any engagement from that. But it still gets it still triggers something in the algorithm, right that it gets a little bit more push, it's treated, it's weighted heavier if that makes sense by both YouTube and Google. So yes, live streaming is still more powerful than just uploading. And I don't think that's going to change. That said, if, the sooner that you schedule a live event, the better and what I mean by that is the further out that you have it scheduled, the better, especially if you're using stuff like syndication networks, which once again, you should be because it gives the posts where that embed code is syndicated to or published to, it gives those posts more time to get crawled by Google. That makes sense. So you know, the Earlier, the better the sooner that you can schedule it, the further out from when you actually live stream at the better.

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Also, one of the things that you can do is build links to the places where the embeds are. That's, that's a very, very powerful strategy to help give it even more power and help it to rank better when you do live streaming. Because putting links at the pages that it's embedded on is a great way to get additional like to push extra juice into it. And it's almost like building anticipation like SEO anticipation for that so that when it goes live, it will rank a lot better a lot faster. So I would recommend that you get it scheduled as soon as possible push it through syndication networks that you have connected to your channel, you can always buy an embed package from MGYB. And take that embed code that you get when you schedule the live stream and submit that and have it pushed out across an embed network. Also, you could do link building to your syndication network properties and also link building from MGYB to the embeds. If you buy an embed gig, you can order link building to the embeds. And that's a very, very powerful way. Now, remember, those are all specifically SEO signals.

So the last thing I would recommend is if you're really trying to rank it, remember, I talked about this all the time, and we're going to be covering this, in part in the Google Ads training that I was talking about doing. The beginning of this webinar is to set up some Google ads from YouTube ads specifically to that video, and you can schedule your ad campaign, right. So in other words, you can go in and actually set up an ad campaign to start pointing or buying views directly from Google, right through the Google Ads platform to your video when it goes live. So when it's actually published. And that's something that I would recommend that you do and by the way with YouTube now you can set up campaigns with either a daily budget or an overall campaign budget, which means you could take $20 and add create a campaign with just 20 bucks for ample, that will start the campaign start day and time will be at the day and time that you plan on streaming your video, right? And what happens is that video, you know, it'll, it'll the when the ad will start running. And it'll just run until those $20 is spent. And that way you don't have to go in and edit your, you know, edit the campaign or turn it off after a certain amount of time if that's something you want to do.

If you do that between the SEO tactics we just talked about, which is syndicating the embed code, doing an additional embed blast doing link building to the embeds. And then also buy some initial traffic so that when it does stream, it gets real live, valid engagement, right views from people from Google users, because you're buying views directly from Google. Those are all real views, not spam views. It's not spambots. It's not fake, you know, share groups and any of that shit. It's real people that you're buying from Google You should rank it's not I mean, it's a very, very powerful strategy. So that's what I would recommend you do anybody gonna wants to comment on that?

Marco: I mean, the last time we tried it was when we were doing what did we go after I forget, but it was somebody was doing a release of some software and press releases worked really well if you set those up. And, you know, you get them like tours when it's supposed to happen because it's newsworthy, right? What a press release is for, it's for something that's newsworthy. So if you announce that, that it's going to happen, that it's coming soon and that it's happening so so you have three press releases, and you silo them and you set them up the way that we teach PR stacking, then that's going to create a major push. By the time that the third one comes up, it's going to push everything forward. We had great success. When was the last time we did that? I don't see why it would be any different now. It could be even Better says they're working so much better.

Bradley: Yeah. And that's a really good point, Marco, I appreciate you mentioning that because I wasn't even thinking about that. Because, for example, if you order a press release through MGYB, which gets pushed out across the press advantage network, you can, if you take the URL of the live stream, you know, this the YouTube URL, and you put it on its own line in the press release, or if you order it from us, like if you have your own subscription, you can do it yourself or if you order it from us just put it in the instructions when you order. And we can add the video URL on its own mind which will become an embed on many of the places that it gets published on not all of them, but many of them. So that will become another embed that's in a press release. And you can schedule the press release to be published around that time. And like Marco said, you can even do a pre you know, not like an announcement type press release that announced that the video is going to go live at this time. You know, this day and time, then you can do one that actually publishes go Like publishes around the time that it actually goes live, which is very, very powerful. And then you can always do a follow up one afterward. And again, you can silo those together. And that's that actually kind of takes kills two birds with one stone, because you get backlinks. And you get embeds on a, you know, high domain authority type in, you know, authoritative type. I don't care about domain authority, but authoritative type media sites, you get a lot of embeds, because it goes across a pretty big publishing network or press wired network. And then you also get, you know, a lot of these press releases actually get real traffic. And I know that because if I look at analytics, I use a lot of press releases. And if I look at analytics, I see that I get a lot of referral traffic and referral traffic even from the press advantage website itself, which is really, really good. So that kind of kills me and you plus backlinks as well, because in some cases where it won't actually embed, it will still show the URL which will count as a backlink.

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So again, very, very powerful strategy. So thank you for that. Marco But yeah that's that's a really good strategy guys you can still crush it with YouTube SEO if you do it properly I think engagement signals are super powerful for that though and you can anything you do with SEO you can kind of amplify that right multiply it by just buying some engagement signals like I said even $20 is enough to usually significantly move the needle.

How Do You Sell Your Domain To A Prospect?

Matt's up? He says, Hey guys, I have the following question. I only com domain that I purchased three years ago for marketing for a marketing agency project and then got postponed because I focused on other projects despite I would like to keep the name the website has little work done SEO wise and I've recently found a European agency with the same name and branding, but extension the company seems already quite established and was created after I got domain. Considering all these I would like to contact them and offer my domain for sale any ideas or tips on how to approach them and propose an initial number. I know that to them per se is not that valuable. But given the situation, I may squeeze some money of this Thanks in advance. Yeah, you know, Matt, for the first money I ever made online was actually selling domains. And that's really what got me hooked. I was still learning SEO at the time, but I had saw some course that was, you know, WSO or I don't even think JVZ was around at that time. But it was a course that I bought about domain like being a domain owner, right. So learning how to squat domains and then contact people and sell them and the first one I sold was Austin Windows or Windows Austin or Houston windows or it was it was somewhere in Texas and one of the big cities and it was a basically a Windows for a company that sells windows and replacement windows and it was just an exact match domain. And all I did was I put a HTML page up on the domain that was just a for sale page.

So basically like a for sale sign with contact information, and I contacted replacement window companies, and that particular city, I just would go email them or use the contact form on their website and say, hey, I've got this domain that would work really well for and by the way, on the for sale page, the HTML page, I put screenshots of the Google Keyword Planner that showed the exact match keyword like Houston Windows, or Windows Houston or whatever, and showed how many searches per month it got. And so I said, You know, I kind of created like a little sales page for it, that was just an HTML page. And then I would contact the low of the companies in that city and say, Look, you could buy just buying this domain and redirecting it to your existing domain, you could capitalize on some of this traffic that showing and it was like, you know, I don't know if it's 400 and some searches per month in. So anyway, uh, you know, a few people would respond back and they said, Well, how do we know you really own it? And I would say, well give me you know, I'll put your company name on the sales page, and shoot you an email when it's ready and you can go back and take a look at it. And then they would go look, and it would have their name at the bottom left, say like, do you want this domain? Whatever the company name was question mark, and then they would reply back and say, Okay, and so I ended up selling some domains that way and I would sell I would buy them, you know, for 10 bucks registered for 10 bucks, and I turn around and sell them for anywhere between $150 to $250. And, you know, that wasn't much money, but it was pretty cool. And that's how I first started making money online and I only did it for a couple of months and then I got started really doing lead generation and SEO stuff. So with that said, that's what I would do is maybe contact them and you know, let them know that you have it, have the domain and that you want to offer it for sale. I don't know about off, you know, you can come up with your own number. I get a lot of emails from people that have domains that are similar to something that I've recently registered, and they offer to sell it to me and sometimes their numbers are like ridiculously high other times the reasonable but I never buy him anyways, but I guess it really depends on the how big you think the company is and all that I don't know how to value that. There's probably some sites out there that can give you some ballpark estimates as to what the value of a domain would be, especially if there's a brand out there that has some brand equity. But you know, I certainly think it's a strategy worth attempting Anyways, what do you guys think?

Marco: Yeah, that's totally going to depend on how badly this other company wants the domain, if they wanted at all right, because like you said, you get offered domains, you don't care. You don't really want it. So it's worth nothing to you. That this is like this is exactly that situation. How much is it worth to that company? Could be nothing, could be a couple of hundred dollars. It's not going to be thousands because there's nothing on that website. Right? He says, there's really nothing there. So what drives the value of a website is whether it has traffic, what that traffic does it on the website, right? Is it producing money? Now we're talking bigger numbers, but if it's just dot com with a company name. Tell a look, I got it's your company name you want it? Yeah. Well, what's it worth to you? It's really that simple.

Bradley: Yeah. Yeah, that's what I would do. I mean, you could come you could throw a number out. But if it's ridiculously high, they're gonna, you know, or they think you're way, way off, then if the proper you'll probably lose it as a possibility. So you may be better off just asking them, what's it worth to them, and if it's something that's, you know, ridiculously low for, you just disregard it. Do you know what I mean? However, that said, one of my clients, he's a roofer. He bought his domain. It's a great domain, and he bought it, he paid $20,000 for it, because somebody else had it, and he wanted that name. So he bought it, and it's a very short succinct name for roofers. And he really, really wanted it so he paid 20 k for it. So some people will spend a lot of money on the domain. And that was like, shit that was 10 years ago, that he bought that domain for 20 grand believe Or not.

Is There An SEO Ranking Advantage To Host A Local Business Site On Amazon S3 Compared To A Regular Hosting Provider?

Okay, next one is Gord. What's up, Gordon says, Hey, guys hope that you're healthy and wealthy. I recently heard that there is an SEO ranking advantage to hosting a local business site on Amazon s3 instead of a domain on a regular hosting provider. Is there any truth to that? Or is there no real difference? And does Google have a similar platform like Amazon s3? Yes, Google Cloud? And if so, what is it called? And when hosting the site, they're providing the SEO ranking advantage over a regular hosting provider? Thank you. Very much, as usual, for your help is greatly appreciated. Okay. Yeah, we'll see. The problem is when you say regular hosting provider depends on you know, hosting providers are all across the spectrum of whether they're qualified or not. What I mean by that is if you go with some cheap budget, host like Hostgator for God's sakes, or, or what's the other one, GoDaddy, something like that. There's a, you know, they're a dime a dozen budget hosts out there. And if you host a site on a budget host, it's very likely that you're going to be placed in better neighborhoods so to speak. In other words, you'll be stuck on an IP with a bunch of shitty other websites out there that in there typically overcrowded in that, if anyone domain or handful of domains gets too much takes up too much bandwidth, it'll slow your site down. There's just there's a number of reasons why you should use a quality host. As far as a ranking advantage goes. Yeah, there there can be using like, like, that's part of the reason we use Amazon S3 buckets to host HTML pages for what we call the ID pages or the entity pages, right? Because you kind of siphon some authority from the Amazon domain. So it's very, very powerful. And Google has Google Cloud, I think it's called that has something similar. I've never set one up on there. But I think you can do something similar to that. But if you want to do like a WordPress site or CMS, essentially a content management system, you need to have database and all that and you can do that there's through what is it? I think it's Amazon elastic cloud. You can actually see posting that way. But I'm not sure I haven't done any testing on that. Maybe Marco can talk about that it probably would be better. But I don't know for sure. Marco, what do you think?

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Marco: You could do WordPress on elastic cloud, right? You could do he can we can do whatever you want. You can do it, whatever you can do on any other host. As far as cloud hosting, Google has the right cloud that Google com. They have, they have web hosting. So it's just like any other hosts. And as a matter of fact, you can use that and use happy g sites are awesome. You do your own. map your own domain over to the map the G site to your own domain, use Google for hosting, and now you're piggybacking or stacking on Google. I mean, I'm all about stacking on Google. And we got a lot of great things coming out 2020 a lot of testing that's going to be on we have some awesome things that are going to be coming on and some of these are just Just these things that we're seeing, like stacking, but that's what I would look at, go and look into it and see if there is any benefit that might not be. But since you're going into places that aren't regularly sorted or normally spammed or not spammed like others, then it stands to reason that you're less likely to be in a bad neighborhood, it's likely to be faster. It's like, it's likely to be a better server. The latest version of PHP is likely to be remembered. There's a lot of things that really matter when it comes to all this. But this on either one of those.

Bradley: This is Terry Kyle's, he did this. He created this as a solution for SEO hosting that actually uses all these type of cloud hosting platforms, very authoritative platforms as a way to create pbn networks using cloud hosting, as opposed to the typical budget, you know, SEO hosts and that kind of shit. So this uses Amazon S3 to Elastic Cloud. And then there's Amazon light sale. I'm not even sure what that is joint lemnos, vulture Digital Ocean Rackspace, those are all cloud hosting environment like you can set up hosting WordPress sites and such on there. So this is something you might want to check out to if you're going to be doing this for more than one it's rather inexpensive. You know, when I used to build PBNs, I actually had transferred a lot of my sites over to here. So I mean, I don't run PBNs anymore at all, but when I did I actually use Cloud boss pro for the last probably, maybe a year, year and a half that I was running PBNs was on this service here. So check it out. Terry Kyle. All right.

What is The Most Effective Way To Consistently Attract Business And Keep Local Clients Ranked In 3 Pack?

Matt says for local SEO, what do you see is the most effective way to consistently attract businesses that need SEO specialize? That's Matt, I would say specialize in his particular vertical and create all of your messaging and your marketing collateral. for that type of a business, that particular business vertical or industry, so that and then also you know, if you don't if I'm assuming I know Matt because you by you're quite active and and some of the groups that I know that you, you do a lot of SEO, you know, you probably have a lot of clients but if you specialize in a specific vertical, that's where I found the best traction with getting clients is to become an expert for specific business, vertical or industry. Because, again, you get you to get to know that industry very well. It's much easier to scale your business because you don't have to constantly come up with new, do new keyword research, new market research, new marketing, creatives and all that kind of stuff for each new industry. You get very, very good at being able to speak with business owners in a particular business type because you know them are there, how most of them are for that matter. But also you know that you know, their customer base, right so you understand their industry and the needs of their customers or clients. So it makes it much easier to be able to sell to them as an expert and a particular type of, you know, as a marketing expert for a particular type of business. So that would be number one also to make sure that you have case studies that you can share. And that's why I love lead generation sites because I can create lead generation assets in a particular vertical, and then use those to show so that I'm not showing competitors. And remember when you're like if you're pitching to somebody in one city, and you can show maybe clients that you've put in the same business vertical that you've gotten results for in another city where they're not really competitors, then that's okay to do as well. But what I liked about lead generation sites is I it doesn't I could create a lead generation site in the same city of a of a location that I was pitching services to to say look in your own city, I've already been able to get results for and generate leads for people that are looking for your products and your services in your city and That's part of the reason I like starting with the lead generation and then backing into a client, if that makes sense. But you can still use any number of existing clients that you have as well as a lead generation if you have any lead generation assets in that particular vertical and create case studies, right, and share that with them. Video emails work really, really good.

Something else which I talked about at POFU Live as part of my holistic marketing presentation was whoever you're marketing to your prospecting to hit them from multiple angles. So don't just contact them via email, right? You want to send emails, direct mail, remarketing, make sure that if they've engaged with any of your digital assets that now they're being remarketing to them, the Google Display Network, Facebook, YouTube, if you got you have to have 1000 people or more on a remarketing list in YouTube, but you can also set up we're going to be talking about this very specifically in the Google Ads training that I'm going to be doing if we get enough interest in it. That we talked about at the beginning of this webinar, it's in the free Facebook group that the post about it, but how to set up prospecting campaigns using branding ads on YouTube as well as the Google Display Network because you can get very specific targeting, and use what's called in-market audiences for people. And Matt, we talked about this in the mastermind just on the last webinar specifically, but how you can go in and select for YouTube in the display network in-market audiences for people that are looking for Business Services, advertising, and SEO, advertising and marketing services. And you can actually select that as an audience type. And then you can set geographic targeting, you can do what's called layering and all this other stuff to where you're constantly in your brand, right as a specialist for their industry. And you're you get in front of them so that your brand gets seen by them over and over and over again in multiple formats. And when they see that they're going to think well, this guy's and if I'm seeing him on websites, banner ads on websites, if I'm seeing them in search I'm seeing them in YouTube, Facebook, getting direct mail from them got emails from them, ringless voicemails are coming through, that's something else you can do like slide broadcast and these other kinds of like voicemail injection services, you're constantly hitting them. Imagine what they're thinking about when they, when they're thinking about marketing. They're going to think, well, man, if this guy's everywhere, this is what he could do for me, right? Or this, you know, this agency is everywhere. This is what they could do for me. So that's what I would recommend that you do hit people from multiple angles, it's I think it's much better and more effective that way than just trying to hit somebody from the same old method that everybody else is using, which is typically email, which is not it's not nearly as effective as it used to be in my opinion. Does anybody want to comment on that? I know Hernan's probably got something to say about that.

Hernan: Yeah. Yeah. And I totally agree with what you're saying. Bradley, I think at this point, the more touchpoints you have with a person from different angles, the better you can, you know, reach to them, and you create that half halo effect. We're discussing A little bit under the event, right? The halo effect that you create and you generate when you're everywhere. And we get that a lot, right? When we get a lot of Semantic Mastery, the fact that you know, people will jump in on a call with us, or let's engage with a, with an ad. And they'll start saying, Well, now I see you guys everywhere. And that's exactly what we're trying to achieve. So yeah, totally agree with you go above and beyond, you know, what you're doing right now and you will reap the rewards. And you will keep on learning and stuff, which is pretty cool, too.

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Marco: You know, from the feedback that I'm getting in, in the mini mastermind. I have mostly agency owners and in our mini mastermind, I have Jordan is on their Ed and a couple of other people. And the message is that they did start young, the little, the little fish in a small pond, they became the big fish in that small pond specializing but what happens is that you get so good word gets out because you know, these people, business owners, they'll they'll be Whatever meeting they're in whatever owners meeting they're in, and they'll be talking about what who's doing what for you, and what gets out. And what these guys are finding is that the more successful they are, with the clients that they have, the more that the word gets out that I'm Jordan can probably chime in on this. And if he's listening to our Hump Day hang out, in that it really helps, you know, to get this up, and maybe not clients and one specific thing in other areas and you'll begin expanding into other niches. And that's when you have to get really good or hire people who are really good. So that you can concentrate on just scaling the business. So you don't have to be in their day to day trying to do the getting into that day to day thing that keeps you from scaling. So so you hired great people. So this is how you do it. You may start that way. You become well known the guy who produces results, no matter what and Needs, you can't help but scale once that happens?

Bradley: Yeah, because people will start to seek you out. That's the whole point, your agency, that's the whole point. word gets out, and then you start getting referrals. And those are the easiest to close is also like the easiest type of prospect to closes a referral because they've already remembered if somebody's seeking you out there, they've already made the decision that they want to work with you or your agency if that makes sense. So it's just a matter of coming to an agreement of terms, which is why As I said, I think, you know, Marco is correct. I mean, for example, with my own agency, I got referrals from all different types of businesses and that's primary contractors but different industries within the home service contracting field, right. So I you know, I've had to do a lot of that and that's fine. But if you get really good at one particular business vertical, then what happens is like people in that industry will start to seek you out specifically, even if not through referrals, but it's because you can make a name for yourself, for example, you can even advertise and market within industry publications for example, you can get ads put on like through placements, digital ads on industry publication websites, but you can also do print ads and things like that. And if you have a reputation in that particular industry, then people will gain will start to seek you out. And it's really, really good because it's much easier to sell your services and close a client when you have somebody that has sought you out. It changes the psychology 100%. So anyway, the next part of that was in the best ways to keep local clients ranked in the three-pack. Well, there's a number of things for that Matt, and I'm sure you're aware of that. Press releases, content marketing, GMB posts, traffic and getting real traffic to the GMB and engagement through that which you can also you know, you can get organically but you can also do that by purchasing traffic, which is what I've been talking about using Google Display Network and YouTube. Even search ads for that matter if you're using location extension.

You can get you to know by clicks from Google that way which will help to keep it ranked. There's you know, just so many different things that you can do for that. That to keep local clients ranked if you have real bonafide address citations still work for that. Using drive stacks obviously and I know you know that link embeds and link building the entity loop all of that stuff can help to keep a client ranked in the three-pack. Any other comments on that for move on?

How Many Tiers Are Set Up In A Multi-Tier Syndication Network Package?

Okay, Mike's up he says your multi-tier syndication network package how many tears are set up support responded to melt? responded to me multi-tier networks come with two tiers. The first tier is a branded network, the second tier f3 persona-based networks, but that was confusing. What does this mean for total tears? Yes, that's exactly what that means. As the sport response says, One branded network, three to set two-tier persona-based networks which is a total of four networks, four rings, right? So for syndication rings, the branded tier plus three persona based networks and that is correct. And you'll also get the best practices video that comes with it if that's what you want. You can also go to, click into our knowledge base and look up multi-tiered. Sending syndication networks, you can also find that same video where I talked about best practices for that on our YouTube channel. If you go to, use the search channel function and type in multi-tiered syndication networks. And you'll find the videos where I talk about best practices for how to use that if you're doing it for blogs syndication, but essentially, very quickly, the best thing to do is if you're doing multi-tiered syndication networks for blog syndication, that you make sure that you have related content feeds RSS feeds, that are also acting as triggers at this for the second tier networks, right.

So because you want to mix content on the persona based networks, so that is not always Justin You're content being published your branded networks perfectly fine. That's what you want. You only want your content to be published on your branded network. But on the second tier networks, you want to have other related content feeds, publishing content to those in an automated fashion, so that you're kind of mixing your content up with others on those persona-based networks. And again, all of this is covered in the best practice video that you'll get whenever you order the network and it's delivered. You can also find it on our knowledge base at support dot Semantic Mastery calm as well as on our YouTube channel. So go check it out and it will make much more sense to you. I've even got some very nicely drawn snag it diagrams, where I explained exactly where to add additional triggers and all of that stuff. It's, it's very, I've done a lot of training on that and it's all available to you.

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Is It Okay To Post Articles As It Is And Rework It Eventually Or Should You Publish Only Finalized Material?

Vitaliy says Hello, guys. I hope everyone is doing well. I look. I took a lot of action since the last Hangout. Thanks for the motivation. I'm getting a few articles delivered from my writer and they need a little bit of editing personal touch plus multimedia. Is it okay to post articles as-is and rework it eventually or publish only finalized material? Best regards, you guys are awesome. Well, it depends. I mean, it's, it's really better to get the content the way that you want it before publishing it. And for a couple of reasons. You could do it both ways, but for a couple of reasons. Number one, if you're using a branded syndication network, which you should be, then once you publish it, even if you go in and edit the post on the blog after it's been published, it's not going to edit where it's been syndicated to write. It gets syndicated one time and that's it unless you do something like republish old posts, which is a plugin you can use for WordPress, which will automatically republish it to the RSS feed, which means it will syndicate again, or you could even go in and like unpublished the post in your blog, and then republish it again. And that'll inject it back into the feed, there are a few things that you can do for that, but then you cannot end up technically with almost duplicate posts on your syndication network. So for that said, For that reason, excuse me, I would suggest that you wait until the content is ready to publish it. Um, you know, I've done both. So I'm, in fact, with my real estate business right now, I was doing some training for our mastermind members on a silo structure. And I published a bunch of posts, which were just titles and like it had you know, in the title was just added as the text within the post to I didn't have any content, it was just to show kind of a particular silo architecture that I use. And so, you know, there were several posts and saw, like with siloed posts or whatever, that didn't have any content, they were just titles, and they got published to my syndication network. And so I can't really go back and edit those unless I want to go back and manually do all that. Since then I've started actually filling out and completing some of those posts. And it takes a little bit of time for Google to come back and crawl it, it took a little bit over a week, but you know, it will come back and crawl it eventually. Or you can, you know, try to ping it through, you know, by sending backlinks to it or traffic to it or something like that to get it crawled. But it's much better, in my opinion, to just kind of get everything set up first before actually hitting the publish button. Does anybody want to comment on that?

Marco: Yeah, I totally agree. What do you want people to see? What do you want people to see on your website? You want them to see something that's halfway finished? Do you want to publish something to your to one that's halfway done, and then go through all the trouble of having to correct it? Or do you want to just go out once so it looks good for people so that it makes people want to click wherever they find your content makes people want to click on it? Come into your and get in your sales funnel, right. Get in the door. How do you want to do it? And I would totally say yeah, make it as good as possible.

I'm not sure I'm going to have time to look at that one. I'm just trying to read ahead, but we might have to answer that question next week if I get a chance to look at it.

Any Tips On How To Push Glassdoor Pages Down On SERPs?

But the next question was from Jonathan. He says when searching for my client's brand name to serve positions are taken by Glassdoor which reviews what it's like to work there. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of bad reviews of what it's like to work there from a few bad employees, any tips on pushing those Glassdoor pages down? Yeah, that's, you know, that's like standard or classic reputation management. Um, there's a number of things you can do publish press releases, where you're using the brand name in the press release title, right? So that you're optimizing the press release and the title for the brand that works really well especially again, you can order press releases through MGYB. And, and several, if you like, again, my real estate business that I recently started had had, if you do a brand, search for it, there There's like three or four press releases that are on page one for my brand, right. So again, it's something very, very powerful. You can do press releases optimized for your brand, make sure that that's in the title. drive stacks. The Google site from a drive stack almost always ranks on page one for a brand search if it's done right, and which means if you get it from us, or if you build it based upon our training, then you can end up getting ranking the drive stack or the G site, excuse me for the brand search. Make sure that all that you know obviously you have all your top-level social media profiles that are completely optimized, right, so completely filled out profiles completed as much as possible, send backlinks to them. Remember, those are types of social media profiles that you can just hammer with links, and we've got link building packages at MGYB which are perfect for that. Right because you can just throw the kitchen sink at them to get them to rank. If you have stuff like Yelp if it's for a local business, you know a business that has a physical location. It's got a GMB and things like that right? You'll have citations. yelp is one of the ones that typically rank so you could always push a shit ton of links at a Yelp page. Again, make sure it's fully optimized and filled out with images and all that other kind of stuff so that you can push Glassdoor off the front page. It's just, that's classic reputation management stuff. Anybody else wants to comment on that?

Marco: No, I was perfect. Okay.

We're not gonna be able to look at this. I'll take a look at this. Maybe we can comment on this next week. But we don't have enough time to actually scroll through all that right now. So Jordan says Woohoo, the POFU recordings are totally worth it. been listening through some great stuff in there. Thanks, Jordan. We appreciate that.

Bradley: Adam, you want to comment on that really quickly, because I don't know if you mentioned that at the beginning of the webinar or not.

Adam: No, I did. I put the link in there. People can still go grab them. Definitely want to do that. And it's, yeah, unrestricted. We got the full recordings in there along with some Kick-Ass bonuses so like Jordan said totally worth it. I suggest you grab it.

Bradley: Very cool, thank you

What Are Your Thoughts On The BERT Update?

okay, Will's up he says Hey guys, what are your thoughts about the BERT update and what things should we be focusing on for SEO the Semantic Mastery way?. Entities, right? What we've been teaching for two years is entity validating the entity and building that entity up creating the entity loop right all of that Marco go ahead and run with this because I know you feel very strongly about it.

Marco: Fuck Bert. No seriously. My charity webinars are coming up. I must. I'm gonna do a series of charity webinars. I'm going to be talking about BERT entities, Ai, all of these things that everybody does so much confusion. So many people trying to take advantage of people and just know people naturally fear all of these updates. OY, you know what, what do I do now? And it's all it's just a smokescreen guy. So it's Coming up here, I'll announce it a couple of weeks before I start that there'll be four webinars, just like last year, and I'm going to take you all the way through the things that everyone is is refusing to tell you are the things that people just they just don't know. Because they don't bother testing. They just go by what Google says, or by what their opinion is or what they think we actually test all of. It is tested, I'm not going to give you theory, I'm not going to give you what I think I'm gonna give you what I've tested, I'm gonna give you what I know. So there you go. And as far as what you can do for but don't do anything, because it's it doesn't really matter right now. Doesn't really matter, it will matter. And, you know, tune into the charity webinars, and I'm going to tell you how you can go ahead and start planning for now, they will tell you that you cannot optimize for BERT of a rank brain or for anything else. But damn, what have we been doing for the past four years? I must be doing something wrong. It's right

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What Are Some Ways On How To Promote A Podcast Aside From A Press Advantage PR?

Austin Don says had a client do a podcast on the podcast network I did a PR about it through my press advantage subscription any other things I could use this podcast for it, Yeah, you know upload it to YouTube right? create a video out of it. You could even just you know do a screenshot of something and then uploaded as a video right with is just with just an image and add it to YouTube as well. You can also syndicate podcasts like upload to SoundCloud. SoundCloud is very very powerful for SEO stuff also. So you could create a SoundCloud account for that company, upload it to that and then use the embed code from that and do audio posts across your syndication network and that kind of stuff. There's a ton of stuff that you can do with to Multi-Purpose an audio file or a video right you can do the same thing with the videos rip the audio as long as it's not dependent like the audio would still make sense without the video portion of it right the visual part of it. You can do the same thing with video is rip the audio out of it and create podcasts out of it SoundCloud stuff You know and all of that so that that's that's, by the way that was something else I talked about a Pokemon live was a part of holistic marketing as podcasts are great way to generate brand awareness as well as generate a lot of traffic, which are great signals for SEO when you get real, you know, a lot of traffic coming in. And, you know, we've done a number of podcasts this year. I've been on a number of podcasts this year promoting Semantic Mastery, and it's we've seen significant effects from that. And then also some of my clients have suggested doing it. And they've, they've been able to start seeing the benefits of that as well. So I would suggest looking at other places that you can also podcast for your client if that makes sense. Like, get them interviewed for on other podcasts with relevant audiences. It's a great way to build brand awareness and to get more traffic and more clients and that kind of stuff. So anybody wants to comment on that?

Adam: Nope, I think that's you covered it. That's not just the low hanging fruit. Yeah, it started immediately with SoundCloud and YouTube. And yeah, they also use it for a bunch of social stuff.

Bradley: Yeah, and remember, you could, you could create clips out of it like you could extract certain sections of the podcast and cut them into. So edit them into different clips and create blog posts out of that. So like for example, as you could just take a, you know, a, I don't know what the podcast is about or anything but I'm saying you could take a specific section out of the podcast and then create a blog post out of it, have it transcribed, right. So just take send it to a transcription service. Very, very inexpensive, have them transcribe it. And you can go back through and edit it, or send it to a copy editor and have them edited to format it correctly and have breaks and pull, you know, block quotes out and that kind of stuff and create really nice blog posts out of it, which can also double as social media posts and GMB posts and so on and so forth. So there's just a ton of stuff that you can do to multipurpose audio and or video is great because you can turn it into so many other things that make sense.

Jordan fallers got something for $1 million. If anybody's interested in Craig, what's up to Greg?

Would The Main Keyword “Commerical Real Estate” Perfect For A Company That Helps Businesses Find Office And Retail Space?

Nathan says I just placed an order for an RYS stack and have a few questions about the order form regarding MAIN KEYWORD well we can try to answer this year but you can always contact support if you have any questions too. That's what it's for. support at MGYB dot CEO. He says four main keywords you want the top-level keyword for the homepage correct? Yes, your brand and your top-level keyword. Based on my company description below. I'm assuming mine would be commercial real estate. I have a commercial real estate company that helps businesses find office warehouse and retail space for lease in Austin, Texas. Yeah, I mean, I can't tell you what your top-level keyword is whatever your clients business or if it's your business, you have a commercial real estate company that helps businesses find office warehouse and retail space for lease. Whatever your customers are searching for to find. You, right? That's what you want is your top-level keyword plus the brand Association. That's very, very important for the drive stack. Marco, you want to comment on that?

Marco: Whatever keyword is the best to relate to the brand so that all of the money keywords will come up behind that one. When you start targeting that top-level category, it is your top market level keyword, you have to know what that is because it's your industry. So what's that I thought I'd love to have this key what she got to think of this, I looked at this keyword because it has all of these other keywords that can make me a boatload of money. That's how you have to look at it. You submit that plus any other keywords related to it or you give us the broad keyword and tell us to do the keyword research. And we'll go ahead and do it for you.

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Bradley: That's right. And that's the keyword research packages. They work they go really really well for Especially when you're buying drive stacks or link building packages because you get all the keywords and they're all depending on what package keyword research package you buy if you buy one of the top-level packages will have everything already siloed out for you in set groups keyword theme groups if that makes sense. So it's very very powerful.

Can You Use Generic Keywords For The 50 Minimum Keywords Required When Ordering An RYS Drive Stack?

Nathan says also for so this is the same guy also for the 50 minimum keywords Do you want those to be generic meaning to not include the city modifier well they're industry-related keywords but not with the city modifier? That's correct. You want more of the top the more market-level keywords then having like long tails with because the location Association can be made with the built within the builder if you provide the location with where the city's at or the business serves, then that's going to be all accomplished within the build. We don't want those in the actual keywords Am I correct and telling him that Marco yeah What we want.

Marco: Now this is going back this is location-based what we want is the brand, location, top market level keyword, right. And then related keywords that they don't have to include the location because everything will be location-based within the drive stack. I will do that the folder will be the location that some of the files will be located, the keywords will some of the keywords will include location. But when we're initially doing the keyword research, what we want is everything that's related to real estate. Because we're, this is a mega relevant, I mean, call it my spam folder, whatever you want, it's mega relevance that we want inside that drive sense what's your brand, location, and then top market level keyword and then we'll include every keyword that's related to that top market level keyword along with, you know, the brand and location since that's part of what you're trying to rank for. So my are the two different things that that the only difference when we're doing this when we're building drives that are whether there is a location? Or if not, then it's just brand plus keyword relevance that we go after. If there's a location involved in its brand, location, and keyword. Yeah.

So Jordan says, Yeah, people say you don't know my industry. So these are prospects, my prospects say you don't know my industry. My answer is I know, Google, you'd rather have an SEO who knows Google and can learn your industry versus someone who knows your industry but doesn't know Google. That tends to alleviate that hurdle quickly. Yeah, yeah, that's a good reply. Jordan, thank you for that.

Nathan's got another question. On the home page, I target the keywords with sitting. So I guess on the homepage, I target the keywords with city name, commercial real estate, commercial property, commercial space, etc. Then I have a landing page that targets office space keywords, one that targets retail space keywords and one that targets warehouse space keywords. Yeah, look, I get that all that you can include all All of those keywords in specifically, you know, went for the stack, but for your primary, you know, the folder name and G site and everything should be optimized for one, not three keywords, right? Even if they're closely related, you should select the best keyword in my opinion for your top-level keyword for the brand Association. And then once you get the drive stack, remember you can always go in and this is what we talked about when you create silos if you have essentially different service categories on your site, right? So different landing pages targeting different keyword themes. They're all they may all very, very closely be related. But there are still separate keyword themes. And it sounds like you've got your site already segregated that way, right segmented that way, which is exactly how you'd want to do it within a drive stack, right? So you'd have your primary which is primarily your brand, plus your top-level market keyword. But then once its silo or excuse me, the drive stack is built, then you can go in and create interior folders and there's cloning. There are ways to do that where you can clone the existing folder, the primary folder, and then create siloed categories within the drive stack, then you mirror that on the G site, that's something that you have to do after you get the initial size.

So drive stack and G site built by us, right, if you order from MGYB, then you just go in and essentially you can make copies of the folders, and then go in and edit them to swap out the keywords so that you have very specific keyword themed folders and files that support that particular service on your site. Right, and then you go match that by creating another page on the G site and embed it just the way now soon. Marco was talking about this earlier this week. It's very soon we're going to be able to provide that as a service in MGYB, where we can go back in and customize and do theme mirroring for G sites and go and drive stats. But right now we can't do that. You have to, we can give you the initial drive stack and G site built around your brand and top-level Key word and all of the keywords for your market and then you can go in and create the silo structure within it. But soon we're going to be able to provide that in MGYB. Marco, you want to talk about that any more? We gotta go anyways,

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Marco: Not Not Not Not until we're ready for it.

Okay. He says I've tried contacting support, they told me to ask on Hump Day. Yeah, I guess if you were trying to get an understanding of and that makes sense it you know it. So that's, that's what this is for so that we can educate you more, as far as about, you know, the Best Types of keywords and everything. So hopefully this was helpful for you. Typically, if it's just a question as to like, I don't know what to enter here. If it's an SEO related question, which is kind of what you asked, because you didn't know how to segment your keywords correctly for that type of order then yes, this is the best form for that. So they were correct and telling you to ask here, so hopefully, that was helpful.

Yeah, I give me but support is specifically instructed not to answer SEO related questions. That because they're not trained in SEO, that's not their job. Their job is simply to take the order and build out the order according to what we've taught them to do. We mean, if you want to put it that way, the SEOs, we've instructed them on what to do so they don't really know what the concept is all they know is I build this and it works. We know why. And so you come here, and yeah, okay, so what should I do? But yes, guys, if you ever asked support an SEO related question, or you're going to get as go to the free group and in Facebook or go to Hump Day Hangout and ask your question there because I'm not allowed Marco will not allow me to answer SEO related questions.

Alright guys, thanks for being here. We will see everybody next week. Thanks, guys.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 260

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 260 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.





Adam: Alright, we are live happy day. You know, I was gonna get all smart and be like, what episode is it? But I'm not. It's freaking Episode 260 that is five years of Hump Day Hangout. So I mean, I'm pumped, I put cake on the paged. I mean, it doesn't get much better than this. But I'm going to go around and say hi to everybody and see what they got to say first. So, on my screen over here is Bradley. So what's up, man? How you doing?

Bradley: I'm good, man. Happy to be here, Episode 260. That's quite a feat. I think we've had as far as I know, we've only had one scheduled Hump Day Hangout off in five years and it was scheduled to be off

Adam: so we've been traveling with like, I need Christmas off and yeah, right like fine, whatever.

Bradley: So we've had 260 consecutive weeks except for one scheduled week off I think that's pretty damn consistent. You know, not to toot our own horns, but I'm pretty proud of that. So and again, I've said, I said this in the Facebook group, but I, you know, I come, I've really come to look forward to these. It's a lot of fun. And so you know, this, this business has been good to us. And it's our, our way to give back. And just to kind of chat with our audience on a weekly basis. So once again, we appreciate you all being here. And those of you that are regulars that come some of you don't even comment or ask questions, you just come and watch. And that's perfectly cool. We're cool with that. Occasionally, somebody will pipe in and say, I've been following you guys for three years. And this is my first question. And I think that's kind of cool, too. But those of you that participate regularly, we appreciate you also.

Adam: Yeah, and I will say real quick today, you should definitely ask a question because maybe the good best questions are going to get some sort of a prize. I don't know. That's the rumor. So quite a bit and or comments. There we go. So yeah, we'll accept gifts as well. So best thing on the paged, keep it less than x rated. We'll be doing some good giveaway. So but anyway, back to the guys. Marco, how you doing, man? Are you pumped for Episode 260?

Marco: Man, I'm good. Yeah, I'm happy. I'm psyched. Like I can't believe that we actually put together five years worth of this that just answering people's questions, right? We decided we're going to give back we wanted to see how we could give back. And this was the way that we found to give back. And here we are, and it's become a kind of like an also a bully pulpit, right? Where people can come they can come and find the truth. Because we're never going to hide the truth. Now, we may not be able to go as deep as we want with you because there are people who pay us for the truth, right? But we will go as deep as we can without infringing on people who pay us but that's just the way that I've seen so much shit right now. So much crap, expert feeding you are loaded shit. And it's just funny. Just come here and ask and I'll be more than happy to let you know what's going on.

Adam: I got nothing to add to that. That's awesome. Yeah, just at a loss for words I quit. I'm not gonna go after Marco. So, Chris, I'll put you on the spot man. What do you get to say about Episode 260?

Chris: Oh man it's I still can't believe that running the show for that long over time. But yeah, like it's super exciting so good. One of my favorite shows all over the internet so happy to be here.

Adam: Outstanding! agreed and last but certainly not least, Hernan. How about you man?

Hernan: Hey, guys, Can you see me? Oh, look at that. Got to suit it up. All right, yeah, man, this is serious business to 260 this is serious business. What's up, everybody? Hey, super happy to be here in sunny Florida, as you can see, and I'm just really fun. I'm really grateful to be part of this community. really grateful to be part of this amazing team of people. And really grateful for having met some of you guys on POFU Live 2019 2018 that really, really, you know, signal that we're on the right path right here. So thank you guys for the support thank you guys for being you know the amazing community that you guys are used to, you know another to 60 episodes.

Bradley: Hey, why are you gonna go stand in front of your Lambo now?

Hernan: Oh no no no yeah well that's not me but that's a pretty badass car you could have lied and said it was because that's what this is started totally me to my garage.

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Chris: Yeah, you know getting my garage that's where the books, right?

Adam: Is that Tai Lopez Who is that? No, that's not that's right. There we go. Just kidding man. Hey guys, you know Hernan mentioned POFU Live I wanted to say real quick if you haven't heard about it yet then you've either been under a rock or you've been staying away from emails and Facebook but we've got POFU Live 2019 the recordings are ready, got inside access. We didn't hold back got access to the Q&A sessions we've been thrown in some bonuses in there. And for anyone who gets access put the link down below. We've also got a special offer for people who purchase that to get a great deal. a hell of a deal on POFU Live 2020 VIP tickets. Alright, so this last year we had Well, last year two weeks ago, I guess. We had a lot of fun. We went out and we got to meet up with people getting the VIP tickets. We had guest speakers there, and we went out and race go-karts. And I'm not gonna say who beat Bradley and Hernan and Chris but you know, I and Johnny did all right. We held our own. So well. That's what I got for you, buddy.

Bradley: But I got four Yeah, we did. What did we do? We did was it to heat races and in one light championship race. Yeah. And I got fourth place in every damn race. It was ridiculous. But it was funny because Jenny and I were battling that's Adam'ss wife and because we had to race three times and we were like, literally like passing each other like, it was back and forth, back and forth. She always ended up getting the best of me. Damn it, but it was a lot of fun.

Adam: It is and after that, you know we got to sit around we had some beers, we had some food and just hanging out and getting to talk shop as well as swapping go card stories but we really do encourage people to come to that we try to make the prices reflect that we want you to be there you know just cover the costs so that we can get people in there and you build you know a little bit of camaraderie get to know people so you know, you don't show up and start off on, you know, cold introduction, you show up the next day ready to go, you already met people, you already had some fun. So highly encouraged people to grab that VIP ticket if they're also grabbing the recording. So it's kind of a no brainer.

So yeah, that's it. I'm gonna run through things real quick for anyone who's joining us and hasn't been here before. Thanks for joining us. This isn't normally the way things go. Although we do have a good introduction. We go over some notes but you're in the right place. If you want to get your digital marketing questions, your SEO questions answered. You always come to, of course being live habits has its privileges but also if you know you got a question you can put it on the paged. Whatever you got a client called your work, you just can't make it you can always check out the replay on our YouTube channel, hit subscribe to the YouTube channel and stay up to date with things that way. And then following that the next question we generally get from people is like, well, what's the first step? What should I do? Where should I go head over to pick up the battle plan and that is going to be the best place for you to get started. Beyond that, if you have clients if you're wanting to grow your agency if you want to have peers that are doing the same thing, head over to and join us there. And last but certainly not least, if you want to use done for you services as we do, head over to or we've got RYS drive stack, syndication networks, press releases, link building embeds, all that sort of good stuff. And speaking of embeds and link packages, I just saw Daddea. Leaving a note on here so lots of respect and love to the entire Semantic Mastery team. You guys are rock stars. Daddea, you're a freakin rock star guy came over traveled, you know, I gotta mess this up. I'm going to call it 15,000 miles to Denver to show up and be part of POFU Live and hang out. That was just amazing.

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Bradley: I agree. And he's a rock star for sure with us been with Daddea has been with me for God. Six years at least I think so. And now he's the infamous daddy. So and I mentioned that in the and then the video from yesterday, but it was awesome to see him again. He's come two years in a row now and I expect we'll see him every year thereafter as well.

Adam: Definitely, well, real quick one to say again, if you guys want to grab the POFU Live 2019 recording, I put the link on the page please go do that. Now. As soon as Hump Day hangouts are over. The price is going up we wanted to offer people today was the original day was supposed to launch so we wanted to let people know a little bit ahead of time. Save some bucks and grab that. So if you do want to get those I highly highly recommend it. Grab that and save yourself some money so besides those guys, is there anything else we need to cover before we dive into questions and start may be giving away some goodies.

Bradley: I got one thing I just want to mention one of our POFU Live attendees so who attended our live event is Brian Kato and he published a fantastic article on link Asst. I'm going to grab the link and drop it into the comments here when I grabbed the screen in a moment, guys, but he published a great article about how he was able to rank a local site using basically entity SEO, which is something that we Marco has been preaching for, you know, years now. And the big there's, you know, there's we've had a ton of questions about the Burke update that just occurred and people were talking about, well, now we can't optimize for keywords like we used to, and blah, blah, blah.

Guys, it's all about entities. That's the Semantic Web. And that's what we've been teaching for years now. And, and now it's funny because the rest of the internet is starting to catch up. And we're not, you know, I'm not saying that because, you know, we're trying to be arrogant or anything like that. But our name is Semantic Mastery. Think about that, right? We named our company that way back in 2013 because we knew that it was going that in this direction. So we've been trying to teach that for years now is about entities, it's all about the entity. And if you connect entities correctly, and you expand your footprint properly online, you can get results. And that's and now the algorithm is actually catching up to that. And that's what we're seeing and that's what the bird update is in part about. And so I just want to give a shout out to Brian and Brian, I'm going to drop the link to your article because it was a great article, and he was one of the few attendees you know our live event attendees and we really appreciate him putting

You know, putting the work in and doing what he's learned from here as well as maybe other places, but getting results and then sharing those kinds of results in an article like that it's really good to hear. So, Marco, do you want to comment on that for a grab the screen?

Marco: Yeah. Fuck Bart. Nuff said.

Adam: I see if from Wayne in the near future

Bradley: Anybody else? Or should I just go ahead and get started? Alright, let's do it. You guys should be seeing my whole screen if somebody can confirm good yo. Alright, so this is the article from Brian. So again, Brian shouts out. I'm going to copy this URL and paste it in a chat box for you guys to go view visit. Read it, bookmark it, comment on it. Give Brian a shout out in our group. Excuse me, let me go to the right tab. Here we go. So this is Brian Kato's article. Go check it out. Oops, I spelled that wrong. Sorry, Brian. I didn't mean to butcher your name. Okay, very cool. So go check it out. Alright, with that said, let's get right into questions.

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Is It Okay To Have Duplicate Content For Money Site And Google GMB Site For A Local Service Company?

Okay, Mike's up first, he says hi, beautiful people. Thanks for the answers when building a website for a local service company. Can I have duplicate content on both the money site and the Google GMB site? What about using the same photos and videos? Can you please share some tips about the relationship between the money site and Google site? Thanks, I don't do anything different. Like honestly, all I do is copy content directly from my money site or, you know, the money site to the GMB. Just so that I mean, I haven't had any issues with it. Usually, it depends on how the money site is set up. You know, sometimes the homepage is don't really have much content. It depends on the type of site. But what I'll do is I'll grab, for example, let's say it's a site that's got service. You know, we're talking about GMB. So it's likely going to be local. Let's say it has service categories. Well, what we'll do is I'll go in and grab the main top-level silo pages, right? So the service pages that were the service landing page essentially and just grab a section of content off of each and then create sections within the GMB website. So it's almost like you can't add H tags and stuff that you can bold things. So I'll just flesh out the content which is just copied and paste from content from the money site, but add you know, bolted sections. So with you know, keyword-optimized heading sections for each one of those, even though again, you can't specify H tags, but you can bold them, so that it's very clear you know, the delineation between the different sections on the site. And then also remember, you can link back you can create textual and contextual links within the GMB website. Back to those corresponding
on the money site, which is what I recommend that you do. So that's what I do. And I don't usually develop any new content, there might be a little bit of some, you know, new content at the very top or at the very bottom where the call to action might be slightly different. But other than that, it's just primarily copied and pasted. Anybody else has any differing opinion on that?

Marco: No, not not a different opinion, just to expand a little bit on it, because the question is, is it really simple. Can I have duplicate content on both the money side and Google GMB site? No, you can't. Because there's no such thing as a duplicate content. There's only original content and copy zero. If there were a problem with the content being copied over and over again, then, you know, our Syndication Academy would be useless. Press Releases would be useless and most of what we do would be useless. They do say it doesn't work, though, right? They do say our stuff doesn't work even though people are making tons of money with it. However, no such thing so yes, by all means. You can take your content from your website as a matter of fact. Sri pads tool, the GMB Auto poster does a really good job of taking your RSS feed and pushing it into your GMB and then taking an RSS out of your GMB and republishing the content is just reusing your content as long as you have proper attribution, which simply means giving credit to the author, or if you can canonicalization your content so that it points to the original copy of the document. That's what you're supposed to do anyway. If you're writing any type of literary work, any type of paper, any type of thesis, if you're writing a book, and you're taking excerpts from other books, other people's ideas, comments, just whatever you're supposed to give those people credit where credit is due, which I'm always talking about giving people credit. There's nothing wrong with giving people credit if you do it properly. There is no such thing as a duplicate content.

Now if you want to talk about plagiarism and all the sudden stuff. That's a whole different story. Yes, you can get in trouble for plagiarizing things and a whole lot of other things. But at this basic level where you're just reproducing your own content, there's absolutely no problem. With photos, I do have a problem, because we've seen time and again, that new photos, different photos, photos with lots of data, especially local data work really well. And if you're using the same photos over and over again, well, they're already in the database. And when the algorithm feeds off of data, and if you're giving it the same data, if there's absolutely no difference, we've seen that it makes an absolute difference. As far as Google My Business is concerned, the more that you can make it unique, the better that your posts are going to perform. There are also things that you can do with the post that will make them perform better.

Now, as far as tips between the money site and your Google site. Your Google site is tier one. It's one your tier one property and it'll become one of the strongest tier one properties as you start working it in that I don't know if you have local GMB Pro, but you should be working at the local GMB pro method. Once you develop those methods out, it can become one of your strongest tier one properties. And they can drive a lot of traffic, it can produce a lot of calls, visits to the website, and a whole lot of data other activity relevance trust and authority, which is what Google is looking for. Forget every other acronym that Google is going to throw at you. Forget what other people are saying. If you want to really focus on what it is that you need to do activity, relevance, trust, and authority, feed the bot lots of data, feed the bought lots of new data, all it has to be or everything has to be about your entity and in relationship to your entity and you're going to be rewarded. So great question. Good Mike enterprise maybe?

What GMB Setting Do You Recommend A Business That Has Reps In Multiple Countries?

Next question or comment first is Hi, Bradley. Marco. Semantic Mastery congrats on your five years Hump Day Hangouts. Thank you. We appreciate that. Then his question is, what do you recommend on Google My Business setting up for a business that has reps in other countries, for example, one in the US other in Canada and Indonesia. We set up a separate GMB account based on the country. So there will be three GMB accounts or is one GMB sufficient. This visitor as well, I mean, if you have like an office location or call center location or whatever, and each of those three countries, I would set up a separate GMB for each, right? I'm assuming as long as you don't have overlap, or the same data NAP data while your physical address would obviously be different. The name might be the same, which is okay. But you should have and in fact, you could even put a modifier in the name right? So it could be, for example, you know your company names us or USA or America or something like that your company names Canada if you wanted to put that sort of a modifier and you could do that. But if even if it just has the exact same name, that's perfectly okay, as long as your physical address is set unique for each location, a phone number should be unique as well, which I'm assuming it would be because they're going to be a different type of country codes, right? So different types of phone numbers and then preferably, you also have a different landing paged like it could be a different domain altogether, or could be on the same domain but a separate, you know, location paged for the website URL for each one of the GMBs. Other than that there's no reason why you can't and I would recommend that you would actually have a set up a separate GMB for each location provided that your NAP data is unique for each location except for perhaps the name itself. So any other comment?

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Marco: Yeah, I would say get the adult diapers out because this is a depends question. It depends. What you need to do first is go and see whether your keyword set triggers a three-pack. Are you targeting local? Is your local smaller than the US, the country or Canada, because you can target like US and Canada, you can target Indonesia without needing to target through a GMB. GMBs should be used when you're trying to hit local or when you're trying to form a corporate entity. And that's if you're going to be in other cities in Canada, the US or Indonesia. Because if not, then there's really no reason. Go look at the terms of service for Google My Business listing and for a verified map. What reason would there be for you to get a GMB if your keyword set doesn't trigger a three-pack? It makes absolutely no sense. You'd be better off going after. And this is triggering a knowledge panel so that you become the entity for the keyword right. So that your brand becomes so closely related to the keyword so that it actually becomes part of the keyword set. That's what I'd go after rather than worrying about getting a Google My Business system,

Bradley: except that it's another entity asset.

Marco: It could be, but it can also be produced through the knowledge panel, right, triggering a knowledge panel.

What Is The Best Google Property To Hit With Links First?

Thank you. All right, so this question is going to be for Marco. And then the next one, which is funny, both from Mike crest, who was also at our live event, he says, What is the best Google properties to hit with links? First, I would say all of the above, right, all of them. But is it best to build out folders with keywords and hit folders with links or G site inner pages? So what he's asking about is, within a drive stack, is it better to build out folders with files that are optimized for keywords and then hit the folders and all the files contained within those folders with links or Google Site inner pages? Well, you should be building both really right. So you should have inner site Google Site inner pages that are mirrored after the silo structure that you build within the folders, and those would be embedded in the Google Site inner pages, right and so you can hit either one or both or all of the above and it's going to all flow through the same entities anyways if they're all set up correctly, he says I asked this for after you already have all pages set up and have had some links built to the main stack but Marco, you're the expert on this what would say you know,

Marco: Yeah, everything, I mean, folders with keywords. But if you hit a folder with keywords, that folder should also be built out with all of the other files that are that are relevant that it should have a mind map that are targeted to that keyword, and it should have the spreadsheet and it should have the Google Docs and it should have everything so that you can get the most part you cannot have it did. I don't ever look at a folder and a file as separate the folders and files and everything into it. Everything goes together and everything's tied together, especially when you're going after a keyword set with that folder and those files because then it's going to be relevant to the link building that you're doing to that is going to be your whatever keyword research you did for the top market level keyword. And that's how Daddea is going to do your link building into that which is going to be linked to you to your G site inner paged or embedded in your G side inner paged which is going to be connected to your website right your money sites inner paged that's built the same way in siloed the same way that's how you have to look at it I don't look at which should I hit for the folder and files get built out to get all gets connected and it gets hit. That's how it happens.

Bradley: Very good. The next is really common from like, well it's a question but he says also question another question. Is Marco a real person or just CGI like Max Headroom if you guys remember that. He says I have never actually I've never met anyone that actually met him. So I suspect maybe he is AI.

Hernan: We didn't match. We didn't match. I met with him earlier in the day when he was back in Argentina. In fact, he was the first one to reach out to me. And he told me Hey, dude, you need to meet this guy, Bradley. And that's, you know, the rest is history. And then we met him in Panama. So I can attest that the guy is a real entity. I'm not sure if he's a human being but you know, really looks like what you got.

Marco: You guys been a hologram. You didn't actually meet me. I wasn't there. There is no spoon, there is no Marco.

Bradley: That's right. That's right. If that's a that's great there is no spoon just like there are no hats, right? No white or black hats. All right. Gordon's up next. He says, By the way, Mike, thanks for that. That was funny.

Will A 301 Redirected Aged Domain Bypass Google's New Domain Sandbox And Pass On An SEO Juice?

Gordon, who comes here and asks questions almost every single week, which is awesome. He says hi guys. Thank you very much as usual for Hump Day help. Just a quick question. I know that you are not a fan of using aged domains for SEO purposes for several reasons like you want to control branding, finding a niche related aged domain with a clean, niche related backlink profile is very rare, etc. But if I wanted to use one and I had a three one redirected to a new domain for a local business site, will that bypassed Google's new domain sandbox and make them treat the new domain as if it had been around for a while as well as past the SEO juice from the aged domain? I don't know because I haven't. Marco may be able to answer this or somebody else. I don't know. Because I don't I don't think that has any effect on the kind of new domain sandbox issue that can occur. It will still pass the juice, there's no question but if it's a newly registered domain, in my opinion, and again, this is just an opinion because I don't do this kind of stuff anymore. Years ago I used to, but I don't do it anymore because we use our methods which don't require that. The SEO juice will pass, there's no question about that. But if it's a newly registered domain, I don't know that pointing or redirecting an aged domain to it would eliminate the potential sandbox of a new domain. So I don't know the answer to that. Does anybody else know I think that makes sense where you should separately? I don't have the answer.

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Marco: Yeah. Yeah, I was I was thinking about we bypass it through sheer brute force, right. When we throw everything through the drive stack with Gsite, we call it the SEO. And that's, that's our SEO battle plan is so that we don't have to go through all of these filters, right? We don't get into all of this sandboxes and all this quicksand. And all these pigeons and penguins, and pandas and birds and Elmo, and all this garbaged. We just don't bother with it. We just go we do our thing and we rank it and it makes money and we go on to the next thing. Why would we go and buy aged domains that we can just pop up a Gsite and drive stack, hammer it and get results? The whole point of this. And I'm not saying that you can't go get a domain redirect, hammer that redirect. And if something happens, you cut it off Terry Kyle right switch box SEO. Not saying that doesn't work. What Bradley just said and what I say is just you don't have to do all that work, you don't have to, it has to be and they're really expensive. But it has to be a domain with so much power, that it's really worth the time, effort and money that is going to take to acquire it and make sure that it's relevant. It has to be relevant, the link profile has to be relevant. It has to have a really if it has only one powerful link, that's giving it all the juice you could if you lose that link, then you just defeated the whole purpose of getting this in the first place. So why not use something that you have the most control over all the nothing on the web? Do you have 100% control of it? But it's just how do you get the most benefit what we see and how we get the most benefit is doing things as they're set out in the battle plan and as we tell you guys here over and over and over again. Money site drive stack right send it syndication network, drive stack, G site press releases link build and your home

Bradley: Adam I just pinged you in slack.

Adam: Cool site while we're going to take a little break and we got some we like we said we got some goodies to give out. You know, Hernan was looking through the questions and he wants to… Sorry, are not gonna give away Yeah.

Hernan: What am I get? What am I giving away? Oh, I've got a plan. Ok. Cool. So prepared, visit in consultation with her. Free a free phone number. Unlimited consultation calls. Um, let's see. So we have one from James right here.

What Is All Involved With Getting Your Clients Into Google Guaranteed 3 Pack Spots?

Jay, and he was saying something like longtime listener first-time question on fo. Mosley, he was the question because of that statement, longtime listener? What is all involved with getting your clients into Google guaranteed? three packs pots? Well, you know, I don't think there's anything guaranteed 3 packs spot. But I think that the fact that he's been listening for a long time, you know, he deserved better plans. What do you guys think? Yeah, okay, I can answer the question. But James, what is the prize for James before we answer that,

Adam: the battle plan along with the normal order bump, so he's going to get the local video ads training as well as monetization methods.

Bradley: So James, does he need to reach out to support?

Adam: a note for all of these if we announce you as a winner, I'm going to direct message you. So you will get a little message here if you're on the paged for Hump Day Hangouts. And I'll tell you what to put in the subject line. So we know it's really you. Gotcha.

Bradley: So as far as the Google guarantee, it's not necessarily three packings, right? The Google guarantee is usually the carousel ads at least I haven't seen it in a three-pack. I've seen it only as carousel ads above the three-pack. And the Google guarantee program requires the business. It's typically service area type businesses, like contractors, for example, to go through is a process which Google kind of vets them, they have to, like apply to it. And they have to provide a bunch of documentation. There's, it's, it's a process and then what happens is you pay for leads. As far as I understand it, I've never actually set it up for any of my clients, because any of my clients that have asked about it, I've said, go to this link, because you're going to have to do all of the work to get it set up. It's not something that I want to get involved in because it's going to be them after to provide corporate documents and you know, all that kind of stuff. So I don't get involved in that. But as far as I know, I've had some of my clients look into it. None of them have actually taken them up me up or have actually followed through with completing it, because of you know, it can be expensive. And I mean, it may, it may work really, really well. But none of my clients have actually gone through it. But as far as I understand it, the way to get into the Google Guarantee is the company should apply. So just go do a Google search, Google guarantee program, how-to, you know how to how to get accepted, or how to apply something like that. And I guarantee I can guarantee that you will find plenty of help files directly from Google on what it takes to get it. Okay. Anybody else?

Adam: Outstanding! I was gonna announce one more since it looks like we lost Chris. I'm going to pick a winner for Chris. So Mike, Mike PR. I can't recall if we know who that is. Exactly. But hey, for being the first person posting on this week's Hump Day hangout being first has its benefits. So I'll message you want to give you hook you up with free access to the 2019 POFU Live recordings. So that feels good. Awesome. So yeah, I'll ping you. And we'll do that. So let's keep rolling in the meantime, and maybe we'll see if we got some more stuff to give away.

What Resources Can You Recommend To Keep Yourself Motivated?

Very well. Next one is vitally, I think, sorry if I pronounced that wrong hope every one of you is doing well. My life goes in circles, I need money. So I pick up a few projects, optimize and enjoy the benefits and stop working. I just chill, enjoy life, spend all the time with family, then some shit hits the fan, usually keyword drop because of competition. And it is all over. I want to have consistency. Can you recommend good literature or a method that will change my mindset and keep me motivated even during good times? Thanks, guys. You are awesome. Yeah, there are several that I would recommend. First and foremost, one of my favorites. A classic is I think it's Jeff Olson. It's called the Slight Edge. It's a fantastic book. It's a short read. It's an easy read. I'm sure you can get it on audiobook as well. It's called The Slight Edge. And another one is by Darren Hardy. It's similar in its content, but it's a little bit it's not as quiet as an easy read. But it's a book by Darren Hardy called The Compound Effect. Those are two that I find that I really, really enjoyed because it teaches you about just building good habits, right? One of the things about the Slight Edge is, you either build your habits or your habits build you, right? So does that make sense? We are always we're habitual creatures like humans. We are always developing. So I'm sorry, you either develop your habits or your habits develop You were always doing things habitually, right, we develop routines. And we either do it consciously and build productive routines or we do it unconsciously, which often leads to unproductive routines or bad habits that can cause us to you know, cause problems in our lives and in various forms, not just in business or you know, making money or whatever the case may

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It could be, it could be bad health decisions, bad relationship decisions, you know, all that kind of stuff. And it's. So if you consciously develop your habits, then you can overcome a lot of these right and you can replace bad habits with good habits. It doesn't. I'm not saying that's going to be easy, but it's a simple process, right? So doesn't mean it's going to be easy, but it's a simple process, which just means developing better habits, better work ethic, and that kind of stuff, setting goals and sticking to that is a great way to do it. For example, here's an example that I know a lot of you can relate to. And I talked about this at our live event. So if you get the POFU Live recordings, you'll hear me talk about this in my presentation, which was even for my own agency, I spent a lot of time not developing a consistent pipeline of leads, right. So for example, I would need some new clients and I know a lot of you can relate to this. I would need some new clients some new work some new revenue, and I would go set up some prospecting campaigns.

And I put a lot of effort and time into developing prospecting campaigns. And I would go out and do that. And I would get leads that would come in. And then I would process I would stop prospecting while I processed those leads, right. So as I worked those leads and did follow up and nurture those leads through phone calls, follow up emails, video emails, which has always been my preferred method. I would work those leads until I got clients whether it was one or two or three or however many clients I got from that one set of prospecting, you know that, that that effort of prospecting that I put into prospecting, but I would always stop. And so it was always peaks and valleys, right, I would go through periods of time where I would have leads, I would work the leads, but then I would get the clients and then I would start working on developing the campaigns for the clients right, getting them results. So I didn't have any other leads coming in. And then I once I got the client set up into a point where they were generating good results, then I would go back to process acting again.

And so I think a lot of you guys could probably relate to that. And what I would recommend that you do is develop consistency to your business. So that you are always you always have a pipeline full of leads, even if it's not a lot of leads. The idea is if you always have leads coming in, it gives you first of all security, right? Second of all, it allows you to start cherry-picking the clients that you want to work with when you go through peaks and valleys, like what I just talked about, I know I get it, I would, you know, get several leads that would come in and eventually I'd get to like close some of them into clients and but because I only had a handful to select from, I would usually try to close everybody and over the years I've learned to not just take business on for revenue sake. I've learned to trust my gut and if somebody is going to if somebody is kind of a pain in the ass and I feel some sort of resistance and communication with them during the prospecting and closing process, then I know it's probably not going to work out as long term client. So I've learned to just let those types of clients or prospects go now. But during over during the years and in growing my agency and everything else that's, I would, I would, you know, I would take anybody and oftentimes it would bite me in the ass it would cause a lot more stress than it was worth. So those are just two recommendations to easy once again, the slight edge I think it's Jeff Olson it's a fantastic book, I really I read that probably I used to read it once a year. I probably read it about once every two years now or listen to it on audio. Another one, like I said, the compound effect by Darren Hardy, both really good books to help you to start developing processes and habits right developing habits just taking small incremental steps towards a particular goal. Every single day compounded daily, you'll yield massive results. It's much better than this whole start and stops the process. Because everything creates momentum, right? Like everything has inertia that's what I mean. So if you're going standard, starting from a standstill. It's harder to get up and running. And then when you stop, then it's always harder to get up and running again than it is to just maintain. And that's, that's my advice. Does anybody want to comment on that? That's a great question. By the way.

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Marco: Yeah, I would recommend that she needs to listen to not only 2019, POFU Live 2019 but 2018. Because it's exactly what I went into. The two things that I did or exactly this on this mindset. It's avoiding mediocrity. So it's what I call getting stuck in the middle of doing nothing. Looking like you're doing a whole lot of something but not actually doing anything. That's being mediocre. It's neither here nor there. And when you get stuck on when you get stuck like that, I mean, it's horrible. You're just spinning your wheels and that the people look, look, look at everything he's doing and you're not doing a damn thing. That's one, listen to the recordings and two, join the mastermind. In order for you to get out of that rut out of that mindset. You need to people you need to get with people who are similarly inclined, who have the same type of mentality, people who are driven people who want to be successful people who want to get on this, what I call the, what we call the path to POFU, the path to the position of Fuck you. Now what you're doing is you're behaving as if you're POFU but you're not because you're still reliant on that. But that has to come in that day. Or else you have to go and scramble to see how you get back to where you were. But again, you're spinning your wheels. And that's not where you want to be. where you want to be, is where at the end of the day, you're not looking at the bank account, to make sure at the end of the month, to make sure that you can pay your bills. What you're doing is you're looking at it grow, and from wherever it is that you are with your family, relaxing, whatever it is that you're doing, you don't care, because you're in a position where you don't really care about that money when you don't have to worry about money is when you know you're a POFU. When you're constantly worrying about it. You're not there.

Bradley: Yes. Agreed. Anybody else?

Adam: Yeah, just say this is a big topic. And I think you guys, you know, hit the nail on the head Bradley, I think about the pipeline stuff really, really does it, the only thing I would add is like focus on your goals. If you want something to change, then you already know you've got it, you've got to change something. So you know, getting there is it becomes what you have to do. And if you like that up-down life as some people enjoy it, some people don't like being steady, you know, and realizing that makes the laziness work for you. You know, it doesn't have to be laziness. But you know, that could be a great trait to have where you and you invent and you create and put these systems and processes in place. So that when you feel like pumping the brakes, you can but you build that momentum and you have a system that keeps working for you. So yeah,

Bradley: I was a great question, guys. I know I'm not giving anything away because I'm busy, but that's a good one. So all right, I'm gonna keep it

How Do You Deal With A Prospect Who Thinks That Following Free Online SEO Checker's Audit Will Get Him Massive Traffic?

The next one is from Muhammad Muhammad's first as a comment. He says, Hey guys, I hope you're enjoying your anniversary, the SM crew has gotten me through Mini. or excuse me through more than my fair share of scraps between Hump Day Hangouts and MGYB. I have unmatched power on my side. I know it's just a matter of time before seeing you guys at the next tofu live event. Thank you, Muhammad, we certainly appreciate you and you know that buddy, so we appreciate you coming and asking questions. So his question is a client of mine just found one of those SEO checkers online that do basic products of basic audits of sites. Yeah, doesn't that suck? It says suddenly he thinks it's just a matter of following that checker. And he gets massive traffic. I explained to him that those are very basic and only cover a few things, but it seems to fall on deaf ears. I don't feel right having the agenda dictated like that. The obvious solution is POFU, right? But I'm not there yet. Should I just deal with it? Until I can drop him?

Yeah, I mean sometimes you just have to, you know, be a little bit more assertive when it comes to. He's paying you for your expertise. It's just like going to a doctor and a doctor gives you his diagnosis, right? prognosis, whatever you want to call it. And you turn around and tell the doctor and argue with the doctors to know why that's not correct. And why your opinion of what's wrong is the correct is that the right version, right? That doesn't make any sense or, or and again, use uses an example like that. You don't take your car to an auto mechanic and tell him there's a problem and the auto mechanic tells you what the problem is, and then you argue with the auto mechanic and tell him why he's wrong. Like I know, do this instead because I know like, so. It's the same thing, right? You don't go to McDonald's and tell somebody how to flip a hamburger. You know, put it in those kinds of terms. That's how I've had to do in the past. I've had clients.

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In fact, recently one of my clients who's been a longtime client of mine, set for forwarded me an email from a cold prospecting SEO, you know their diamond doesn't it send an email with something similar it was just one of those lead generation SEO checker reports, right, so an SEO audit report, but it's just, it's just a lead generation tactic, right that they use and explain that to them. It's just for lead generation that they do that they you know when you submit your details to one of those, you usually have to punch in an email address or something like that. And that's so they can put you on an email list that they can solicit you for their SEO services, and you hired me to do a job. I'm doing the job for you. And I'm doing a lot better for you than what this stupid tool tells you how to do. If you'd rather go with something like that, then you're free to do so. I mean, and honestly, I know you said that you're not in a position where you can let them go. But be a bit more assertive about your position. Have confidence in your abilities.

And if you do so and you speak with an air of confidence, right? I didn't say arrogance, I said confidence, then you ought to be able to check that sort of thing very quickly. But again, you have to speak confidently about that. You have to believe in your own abilities, which I know you, you're getting there, Mohammed, you've come a long way. But make sure that you, you know, you, you air that you, convey that excuse me to that client very clearly. Because otherwise, and it looked and I know, sometimes it sucks man to have to potentially lose a client that you need because you needed the rent, you need the revenue, but when one door closes, another door opens. And that's the way I look at it, right? Otherwise, you're going to have this stress hanging over your head and you're going to have dreaded every time you catch, get an email or a phone call from this client of yours. Because you know, it's likely going to be him telling you how to do your job again. And honestly, money isn't everything. I know it's important, but I can tell you right now. That type of stress isn't worth any amount of money in my opinion. Any other comments on that before I move on?

Marco: Yeah, Muhammad, if this guy needed a dentist or a doctor, or any other type of if he was in legal problems, would he go and read a fucking book on how to do it and then go and try to do it himself what he what he going represent and represent himself in court or try to extract the truth or fill it or remove a kidney or what of his kid was in trouble? God forbid and the kidney operation would he go read a book? Or would he go find a professional? Well, that's what he did. He went and found you. And now he wants to read a book on on on how it's done. It's fine if he wants it to be informational something that he can digest. But that by no means is an indicator of what you should do you already know what to do. You have proven what it is that you can do it no tell him Look, you're more than welcome to try this. Set it aside. Try this for 90 days. See how it works for you. Get back to me and raise your prices you put that way.

Very cool.

Adam: Nice real quick. I think Marco, you picked your favorite question of today right in that person's going to get the POFU Live recordings as well. So do you want to tell everyone who that was? That's my lazy guy trying to get out of the rut question. Yeah, good one. Let me look I missed the name. Was it the fatality? I think yes. Okay, cool. So yeah, just sent you a messaged. So yeah, respond to that. And we will get you hooked up. And as Marco said, I think there are some good videos there that you should definitely watch.

Very cool. I think that was a good choice. All right.

Do You Have Plans In Having An OnSite SEO Service For MGYB, Silos, Title Tags, Etc.?

Muhammad also says is there also this is a long shot, but do you ever plan on to have something like an onsite SEO service for MGIYB silos, title tags, etc. Um, maybe I don't. I know we've got a lot of stuff that on the books for potential products and services inside MGYB but, you know, we're working through some major things first. So that might be something that we do, but remember the keyword research the in-depth keyword research that we do, really, is that right? Because it creates silos and key themes, categories, all of that kind of stuff. So, um, as far as like on-site audits and that kind of stuff, I don't know, that might be something down the road, but we've got some other pretty major overhauls that we're attempting to do. They're currently in development now. So it's going to continue to get better we promise you that. Okay.

Are There Any Updates For The 3-Year-Old Local Kingpin Course That We Need To Consider?

Next is Jonathan. He says hello all. For me, Semantic Mastery ranks up there with oxygen. That's awesome. So don't ever go anywhere in this journey. I'm looking to purchase Local Kingpin which happens to be about two or maybe three years old now. I'm sure the course materials just irrelevant today. But is there anything new to take into account. May the universe shower you with more than you could ever need or one? Yeah, okay. So Jonathan, yes, the method still works the same in that for search ads and that's what the Local Kingpin is all about, listen, the dashboard has changed the Google Ads platform, the dashboard has changed significantly. But the concept is still the same. As far as I still set up all of my search ad campaigns the exact same way that I taught and Local Kingpin, there are some slight differences. And maybe all I need to do is do a couple of videos or even a webinar that we could add to the very beginning of the training to show what the differences are. And because there's a lot has changed in Google ads that again, the concept of methods of the alpha-beta campaign structure and setting up what I call, you know, the beta campaign is keyword discovery campaign. And then you have the alpha campaign, which is your top-level or called what I call the bullseye keywords that you create alpha campaign groups around and you get really high-quality scores, lower cost per clicks, and you almost it's just it works really, really well. So exact the same way that I do search ads now. The difference is now that there are a lot of automated bidding strategies that you can use. Once you have some data in the account, you can start to apply some of Google's recommendations for automated bidding strategies. And then you can get some really good results with that at the time that I recorded out of the Local Kingpin training. I never recommended I always recommended doing manual bidding strategies. In other words, you control it all the bidding, all the ad rotations, that kind of stuff, because the AI the artificial intelligence at that time wasn't very good. And every time I had ever tried to use any of Google's automated programs back then I would lose money as my results would go down.

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But now I as I said, I run a lot of I do more AdWords now than I ever have because I think it should be an overall strategy for marketing, online marketing. ads should be included in SEO in my opinion. So I run a lot of ads campaigns now and I still use that same type of structure but once we set everything up the manual cost per click manual bidding strategies when I first start, but once I have enough data in the account, then I allow Google to do just go to the recommendations tab. And it will tell you like Target impression, share or maximize conversions or maximize clicks, that kind of stuff. And I will select one of their automated bidding strategies, and then monitor my results over the course of depending on how much volume I'm getting through that particular campaign, I'll monitor it over two weeks or a month to you know, so 15 to 30 days. And if my results have declined, then I'll go back to the manual bidding until another recommendation comes up, if that makes sense. Um, other than that, uh, there are a few other slight changes in that back in the time when Local Kingpin was created. If you had an exact match keyword, he would only in an alpha group, then those were the only keywords that would trigger an ad. Now Google will show close variants. So in other words, somebody that types in a very closely related search query, but it's not that exact search query. Google will still share serve your ad unless you put it in specifically as a negative so there are some slight changes but the concept is still the same and it's the exact same strategy that I still use to this day for setting up my search campaigns so if you don't mind Adam make a note somewhere in our even if it's in our next corporate meeting notes for me since I'm in the middle of this right now but to plan on actually send it putting an update in the training about that because I think that's all that it needs. Okay, that was a great question though too.

Okay, next, we're going to keep moving because we're almost out of time guys. And we've got a lot of stuff we didn't get to and I apologize guys, but we only have an hour so. Greg says congrats Greg's long, long time span and Mastery member he says congrats on five years of blood sweat and tears putting it all out there and helping so many people become more successful. I really appreciate you all so very much. Here's to another five years and two more years of POFU. Thank you, Greg. We certainly appreciate you, man. And I don't think we let say that enough to you. So thanks, Greg. We definitely do.

Tom says congrats on five-year guys. Glad to be here as always, yes, Tom, you're one of the ones that I was talking about earlier. That had been kind of hiding in the shadows for a long, long time, but only every now and then comes out and post a comment or question. So, Tom, we appreciate you as well. Thank you.

How To Get More Traction For A 3K Scholarship Program Apart From Having A Landing Paged, Email Blast, Press Release, And 5 College Links?

Austin Don says, for one of my clients, we created a $3,000 scholarship program. I made the landing page, had someone scrape University emails and then we reached out to them announcing our program with hopes of getting placed onto their sites. I did a PR through press advantaged as well. We had about five clicks come to it from the colleges but had hoped for more. Is there anything we can do to get better traction? Um, that's a good question. Somebody wants to comment, Adam.

Adam: Yeah, I've got one because I drew out a little diagram of my favorite one of my favorite things I share I think at every talk, this comes up and let's see if people can see this. Hopefully, it focuses. So what you've got there is your points of contact on the X-axis and your Y axis is your percent chance of hearing back from them. So one time, let's say you send an email, you make one phone call, you're about a 30% chance of getting a reply. If you go out to about six, you're reaching 90%, I can tell you which end I want to be on. So that said, if you haven't reached out to them multiple times over a period of time do that. You know, it's like anyone else I tell the story because it's true. But I get annoyed when I get like one email about a project or a service. It's like, I'm busy, I'm a normal human being, like, reach out to me again, follow up at least one more time, or in this case, multiple times. So if you don't have that, do it you can automate it and you'll really increase the number of responses you get.

Bradley: Yeah, I would say and not only just reach out via email, multiple times, follow up, but if you know who they're the emails are like where they're at. To send direct mail to send a postcard to send a letter, touch them from different media types. In other words, send a video email. If you don't know what that just creates a video where you know it could be a talking head where you're talking into a camera and introducing yourself and like what the what the scholarship is and then you know, upload it to YouTube, create a screenshot from that from that video right and then embed that screenshot into the email that is hyperlink to the video right so it looks like a video. There's also video email programs like bond George is one of them and other ones called Bom Bom. There are several different email programs that will help you to set up video emails that will put an insert a gift that when clicked opens up the video. Those are all things that you can do like send, send direct mail pieces, a letter and or a postcard. If you have a phone number column, you know I mean that's something else you can do if you touching them hitting them from multiple different media type, you're going to get much better results and that's part of what I was teaching that hopefully live this year. So

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Marco: Bradley that go ahead, sorry, I have two things right, you have to find out who's in charge of scholarship grants and scholarships because that's the person that you want to talk to. That's the person that's going to get you added if they're going to add it. Another thing that I would also do is if you really want to get under people's skin, contact the school's newspaper, get because that's run by students usually very left-leaning student, very militant, right, or the right-wingers to dig, but they're really militant, and tell them hey, look, I'm trying to offer $3,000 a scholarship, but your university is doing in a university doing nothing about can you find out why, and I guarantee you will get action back. That's awesome. I love it.

Bradley: Do we have anything else we need to give away?

Adam: Yeah, I was gonna say, Bradley, I'm going to put this one on you but I tell you what we're going to do you got to make a snap decision. But we're going to give away the person who wins get to choose between perfectly live 2019 recording access or a Semantic Mastery T-shirt. But Bradley, the person who's going to win, you have to pick the best GIF from today. Well, the only one I've seen so far as from Wayne, which by the way, Wayne, thanks for being here, man, we always appreciate you. I also see Greg, but let me answer this real quick. And then I'll scroll through the guests because we still have about four minutes.

Why Should You Continue SEO Once I've Gotten Good Rankings?

But Greg's got a great question here that says, or a comment he says your typical client with questions like this, how do you best answer this? Why should I continue SEO once I've got good rankings, good rankings? Well, why would you continue doing exercise after you've gotten to shape? Because if you don't what happens? Right that's, that's the only answer you need really is, is if you were to get into shape, would you quit exercising, if you did, what would happen? Well, I'd fall out of shape. Okay, well, it's the same thing with SEO. You know, it's like, once you take the foot off your gas, you start to lose momentum and eventually you're going to stop which means eventually you're going to lose your ability to generate for your business, that's that whole peaks and valleys things that we were just talking about earlier. So and I know you know that Greg, that was a planet question. And I appreciate that.

As far as favorite GIF comments. By the way, Wayne, if there's not a GIF out there or a meme for a happy fucking birthday, then you're the man the Create ones.

Adam: Well, Bradley's looking through I'll say thank you to last the name I think it was Jessica said she signed up for chat just for the fifth anniversary. Love you guys. That's awesome. Thank you.

Bradley: Yeah, and I would say, you know what, why don't we give it to her because I don't see a lot of GIFs other than from Wayne and Wayne will be happy to send you another t-shirt, buddy.

Adam: Right now me, Jessica. I will send you a messaged right now. Flow. Very cool things up here. Very cool.

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Bradley: That's cool. Here's another one from Daniel Hartnett, by the way, what's up Daniel hasn't heard from you in a minute, man. And I see Brian p, which I believe is Brian Prinze. We've got to wrap it up, guys.

Should You Build Another Similar @ID Paged on Google Cloud Bucket, Target Different Keywords, And Embed Different Files Similar To Amazon S3?

But Daniel says I see the Google Cloud has a similar bucket ID paged, similar to the Amazon s3 paged, should I build another similar @ID paged on the Google Cloud bucket? And just target different keywords and embed different files? I've not done anything with Google Cloud. I know Marco has. I would say yeah if you can do it, but Marco, can you specifically give an answer to that?

Marco: Yeah, I'm not I do not team that question. For some reason. It's Daniel's heart net right here. Not Google Cloud has a similar bucket, like an @ID paged similar to the Amazon. Yeah, well, look, here's the thing loaded up, loaded up anywhere that you can get an HTML document that you can get it into the problem is the resources that you're going to be filling in with that Id paged. We're never showing it to anyone. So it doesn't really matter we're not expecting to interact with us, it's specifically designed for the entity and to keep feeding the bot the entity information longer we keep it in there, the better it is, as far as we're concerned, and what from what we've seen and the results that we get.

And so yes, by all means, if you can get it in there, get it in there, there are plenty of other places, make sure that it has a right activity, relevance, trust, and authority, or anyone of the three pillars wherever it is that you're putting it into, but especially trusted and authoritative and I'm not talking about vanity metrics. When I when I say trusted and authoritative it has to be trusted and authoritative and Google trusted so what more can you say? Yeah, and the last thing because it's five o'clock and we got to wrap it up, guys.

How Important Is Schema To A Website?

Brian's indices should be Brian Prinze. So what's up Brian? He says, Can you please explain how important you believe schema is to any sites. Today, it's absolutely critical. In my opinion, if you're not using schema, you're out of your mind. It's that specific code that speaks directly to the bot. And that's, I mean, you can feed information through schema directly to Google. And it's absolutely critical. In my opinion, we have seen over and over again, especially in recent weeks or months, that like setting up because for example, I've got the land flipping business that I just started, and I experienced it with my own. But I'm also coaching a very small group or hosting, I should say, a very small group of other people that came out of our Semantic Mastery Mastermind that is also developing their own land flipping business. And several of them experienced the exact same thing that I experienced when setting up a brand new brand, a brand new business, new brand name, new web assets, right so new digital assets. And once they did a couple of things we talked about syndication network with not even syndicating post just creating syndication network which helps to solidify the entity, and then adding schema to their page, their webpages which most of n, as far as I know, every one of my members in my land Mastery group is it's called, I've just has a landing paged. We don't have siloed websites or anything else. It's just a landing paged. But you add schema to it, and then boom, I mean, in a matter of days, it jumps to paged one number one position for the brand search. And I know it's just a brand search. But the schema has a significant effect on that. And that's just one example. I mean, that's just one type of example. I think schema is absolutely critical.

Marco: And I'd like to answer this and I'm willing to stay on a little bit more because this is so fucking important, man. You're hitting the nail right on the head, Brian because there are two things going on. You have structured and unstructured data. If you don't have structured data, meaning if you don't have the code for the buck that Google wants in order to specify what your entity is all about, and that's what you're doing. You develop everything. You can tell them about your web paged. You can tell it about your website, you can tell about tell it about that.

Videos and people who work in your company, what the company is about what the products are about the prices, I mean, just everything so that the bot goes in and it gets the structured data from you, whatever it is that you want it to have otherwise, and this is where that fucking bird comes into place, the body is going to come up to your content, and it's going to decide on its own what your website is about. And if you saw the salad that comes up when you run unstructured data through a natural language processor, it's scary how Google is reading this awesome natural languaged processing that people talk about this great Bert that's going to make SEO obsolete will kiss my ass? No, it's not. No, it's not because if we're in the structured data area, if we're in the schema, we're feeding the bot whatever we want. The bot is sent out to learn. It means that we can teach the body and we can force-feed it whatever we want. We don't have to rely on this great beautiful 2000 word content for the bot to get what it is that we want it to get.

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Very good. The last thing I just got, there was a great question. Somebody said to speak a little bit more about self-talk. And guys, I can tell you hands down. This is the best book I've ever read, or audiobook if you want to listen to it. In fact, I'm actually right now listening to this in my car whenever I'm driving around as well as reading it again at night. I've read this book several times Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Malts, hands down the best book, in my opinion, the period about how to improve your self imaged and how to get like just set goals and just get so much better at everything that you do. I think this is fantastic. So I highly recommend that. All right, any other prizes to give away before I wrap it up, guys. I know we're a little bit over.

Sorry, I was at Amazon checking out the book. So I'm gonna pick that up. I've never read it before. So now I think that's it for now. I just wanted to reiterate, if you want to grab the POFU Live 2019 the incentive recordings, I highly suggest you do that. Hopefully, based on what you heard today, it sounds like a good deal. You couldn't be there live, that's okay. We get it. You know, it's a small group, not everyone's able to show up on the dates or make the travel. But today is still a steal. But as soon as Hump Day hangouts are over, literally, the price is going up. So I put the link on the page, go over, grab it. And trust me, that's going to be the best hundred 97 bucks you spend this year. Right on. Thanks, everybody for being here. We certainly appreciate it

to another five years, we hope if you can put up with us.

So thanks, everybody, for being here. We'll see a mastermind member for the mastermind webinar tomorrow. Tomorrow. Cool, guys. Thanks for watching, everybody. Bye, everyone.

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Weekly Digital Marketing Q&A – Hump Day Hangouts – Episode 258

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Click on the video above to watch Episode 257 of the Semantic Mastery Hump Day Hangouts.





Bradley: So that means we're live now actually. We're going live here. Okay, so Hey guys, this is Bradley Benner with Semantic Mastery. So let's see what we're trying to get a live Hump Day hangouts going here.

Hernan: So get your camera.

Bradley: Activate the camera. Yeah. Sweet. And then looking at you. So bear with us. We're trying to see the pin, I think.

Adam: Okay, yeah. So we're going to try this, everybody. Welcome to the episode at 258 Semantic Mastery is in Denver. Hey, I just wanted to say hello. Now that we've actually got this up and going and we're going to do our usual thing real quick. If you're joining us for the first time, I might be a little confused because clearly we are we're still trying to figure out how to work computers. We didn't get Marco and you can join on hard work on the technical side, back in. But while he's doing that, I'm gonna go down and say hello to everybody real quick starting on my right here with Chris. How are you doing?

Chris: I'm doing good.

Adam: And normally I would ask you what the weather's like. Stupid so it nice. Yeah, it's about 70-75 pretty nice. I'm Adam. And next to me, of course, is Bradley Benner.

Bradley: Hi. And last but not least went on over there who's being goofy

Hernan: Hey everybody

Adam: Oh, man looks like Marco is coming on so as soon as he unmutes himself Marco if you want to say hi and you're in here say hello to everybody

Marco: I don't want to say hello in any thinking body man. I'm just playing What's up everybody? Good to be here. It's good to be here. Hump Day Hangout. I'm going to join you guys. Oh, yeah. My ready.

Bradley: Alright, cool. So do we have any announcements or like are we going to do normal announcements are we gonna go through it?

Adam: You know, we just for those of you who know or don't know, obviously we just got done with POFU Live event here in Denver. Get to meet up with returning people as well as some new people which is amazing. Sharing stuff in small groups there's a lot of fun just had a blast and then of course carrying that on meeting up outside whether it's for lunch whether we did some evening events that were a lot of fun and you know we wanted to give people cuz we were hearing from people you know I missed it this year, you know, I couldn't make it things got mixed up, that's fine. But we want to give you a special offer to get in now and I'll put that on the page. If you want to grab a VIP ticket, you can grab that now it's going to be up for a limited period of time and you can save a bundle on that and come join us next year so if you you know you're one of those people are saying hey, I will be there next year I want to be then this is the time to do that.

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Nice you guys got the figured out over here. Yeah, I don't think so. So no worries and other than that, I want to say for the people watching today maybe for the first time you are in the right place for watching us you can check out the replays of course on YouTube on Semantic Mastery channel just hit subscribe stay up to date with those. If you ever have any digital marketing questions just come, ask us. Of course if you're live you can get a little bit more out of it by clarifying or giving us some feedback. But you know, we understand you can always make it live so you can just ask your questions, check out the replay. And then the next step for you would be the Battle Plan if you want repeatable processes for your SEO and digital marketing, and check it out at and for everyone else, who wants to take things up a few notches, you know, you want to be around the people who are doing what you're doing, which is trying to either grow your agency grow your business, then you need to be in the mastermind. And you can find out more about that at Right on cool. And last but not least, because we got several questions about it this week, but if you need done for you services, which should be everyone whether you're doing it for yourself, or you're doing it for client projects, go to All right stuff syndication networks are West drive, stacks, press releases, links, embeds, and a lot more coming. So head over there and get that stuff done. And as far as announcements on my end, that's about it. Marco Are you guys we got anything else we need to touch base on

Good no good. Yeah, we got a lot of questions so let's go into that standby cuz I gotta try to find it.

Okay, so it looks like the first one is from Mike he says thanks for the great information I want to try to get back to you by mentioned that you have a good intro video but it has very high volume compared the video volume level hope it's okay to say it. Thanks. That's a good thing. Can you make a note of that too? Yeah, view that is you're gonna try to edit our processes if that's the case. So thank you for that, Mike. We do appreciate that.

URL Structure For Siloed Website

Next is a question. He says. What about strip the category base from category slug so it looks like a page Katie's asking obviously about the URL structure for a siloed website. Because I'm Yeah, yes, he's asking if he can use the restricted category slash post name out of the permalink structure for silo and absolutely you can just using post name premier link structure, it's fine. It's called a virtual silo works just as well as a regular siloed would Sorry, just bug does it in the face.

What Are Your Thoughts On Having A Syndicated Branded Network Using High Quality Spun Articles?

The next is vitality says hello Hope everyone is doing great. What are your thoughts on syndication network versus syndication network on the branding network using high quality spun articles readable that can this bring more SEO benefit? I mean, I know you don't need to I would on your primary tier one branded network, you're just going to be republishing content from your blog anyways, if that's what you mean publishing spun articles to your blog, I would recommend now and recommend that instead, you would use curated content, it's better content and creates co citation. And you don't have to be a subject matter expert. You can just find other good content out there that you can grab snippets from and share we've got a product called content kingpin, which shows you exactly how to do that. That's what I recommend is just going to read better it's going to be more valuable. Produce more benefit than spun crappy articles would be if yes, what you mean. Marco, do you want to comment on that?

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Marco: That's exactly what I told him in the Facebook group, I just wanted him to come here. So that we could get go a little bit more in depth. And just to make sure that we hammered that home right that you're doing, you're way better off with curated content, citing sources and all of that versus just a crappy spun article that nobody knows what the hell is saying. One of the things that's important here is that as your tier one brand, and you want it to look good, and if someone happens to come along to your tier one brand and you want that person possibly converting or getting into your funnel so that they end up on the website, and they end up in your sales funnel. And so what do you want that person to see in your tier one branded? Which is your brand amplified? Do you want them to see a crappy spun article that makes absolutely no sense or do you want to curate something that convert that person into a website visitor and perhaps a client or a customer. That's the question that you need to ask.

What Are The Best Techniques To Let Google Recognize Entities?

Right on. So the next one is from Steve. He says, Hey SM team, what are the best techniques for getting Google to recognize entities? For those doing GMB or Google My Business? Google readily creates knowledge panels or me, or excuse me, MREIDs. But what about those working with the web properties? People products, etc? What can we do beyond schema and Id pages and the G stack? Getting a Wikipedia entry clearly works, but it's very difficult for most gyms, taxis probably wouldn't married a Wikipedia page, but it does, but gets in MREID through GMB. So, how do we level up the field for non GMB entities? Well, that sounds like a perfect question for Marco, I quickly would say that, you know, creating all of the syndication network and drive stack and all of that SEO shield including the ID page, all of it together is going to help having the structured data using sameas attributes is going to help. But there are other things that you can do, for example, have a paid account of some sort that helps to validate the entity as well. Meaning like pay Google for something AdWords campaigns, or, you know, Google Ads campaigns or for extra drive storage, all of the above, a G Suite account, something like that. But Marco, what else can you add to that?

Marco: Now, you just went over exactly what he supposed to do. If you can't go in and get a verified GMB, which has a completed was not the complete entity in Google, because you can add social media and all these other things. Then what you need to do is you go in and you verify it another way and the best way that I know is getting that credit card on file, whether it's a company credit card, a personal credit card, where you're directly related to the company. What that's going to do is it turns you into into Google's customer, right other than a mage, and elite, and someone who is just abusing services, rather than payment, it gets that credit card on file. And what happens is, you know, yeah, you can have fake credit cards or whatever. But but that belongs to someone, it's a thing. Then, on the web, it's it's in their database. It belongs to a person, but it belongs to a company. So you just went a long way towards validating the fact that you're real. You're not just another mooch, another leech, then you do everything else that we recommend. Absolutely. The schema, the @ID amplify it through the drive stack plus Gsite, press releases, I mean, companies do that on a regular basis, they announced their news, and then link building to all of those to just help to solidify everything. That's what's going to get you when you can't get a GMB and Google understands that then there's other way, getting into all of the different data aggregates.

Bradley: crunchbase would also be a good one.

Marco: crunchbase is perfect, but I was going to also say wiki data because Google is drawing directly from wiki data, you say that Wikipedia isn't feasible, or sometimes it would merit. But your company wouldn't merit a Wikipedia entry, a Wikipedia page, about the company and about everything that it does. So you pay someone to get you on Wikipedia, you pay someone to get your Wiki data. I just as interesting as I just posted to my partners this morning, about getting into Wikipedia, wiki data, for Semantic Mastery, because I know a guy that does it and his prices are really, really good. So that's absolutely you get everywhere. That RankBrain goes to aggregate data about your entity about your thing, and make sure that it's consistent throughout citations. I can't remember if you mentioned citations, but that's a perfect way. citations are a really good way. It doesn't have to be just for local. It can just be your company. Right?

Can You Share Some Basic Guidelines For Link Building?

Right on next one is Mike. Mike says hello everyone. Can you please share some basic guidelines about backlinks specifically about the text when doing backlinks? When to use exact match keywords for anchor text link or my brand anchor text when writing a small post or short reply on forums, what information you suggest to include in the text and what links? Okay, there's a lot of questions squeezed into this one, Mike.

So on a kind of a broad level. Personally, I don't really sweat backlink ratios as far as anchor text ratio is like I used two years ago because I mainly just do everything through naked URLs and like any other any real backlinks that are going to be built are going to be built by my team and MGYB by Dadea. And he knows what to do. You just provide them with your seat set of keywords and he creates all the ratios to where I don't really bother with it because I don't really build my links outside of what we have him do.

But really, I use mainly when I'm doing like press releases, for example, because I do publish a lot of press releases, it's almost 90%, just naked URLs, do brand anchors, and very rarely actually use any keyword anchor text, because it's not really now off page, I mean, on page, that's a different story. So, you know, you want to have, if you have content silos on page, you want to make sure that you're linking through the content, you know, to daisy chain things together using variations of keywords that belong in that specific silo, but not always the same page because or, excuse me, the same keyword anchor. But as far as, you know, link building or blogging even in by the way, when you do that, if you're syndicating content to a network, it's going to make sure that you're not always hammering and getting External links from even your syndication network, your branded network, always pointing back with the same anchor text. That's why you want to do that.

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But once again, you also have all those keywords that we add the same type of keywords that we would add to a drive stack build would be the ones that we would add to the link building campaign. And it's a way to just continue to push relevancy in at different tiers. There's different sets of rules as to what you can do as far as anchor text ratios, right. So again, I just hand that over to Dadea and he handles all of it. You want to add to that? Anybody?

Adam: Not to that, but to the next part, so

Marco: Okay, yeah, yeah, that first part generic naked, and brand anchors, right? Yeah. Because what we want to do is what we want to create link diversity. Once you have that, then it's a lot more powerful when you hit it with that with that with whatever anchor text it is that the broad right and then you can go really eating hone in on the exact match, because your your link diversity is going to withstand some exact match anchors. If you don't do that, though, if you don't get those generic naked brand anchors and whatever you can in there, then what's going to happen is you're going to get it totally unnatural over optimization problems. And if you if you raise enough red flags that way, it could cause a manual which is when you get into all kinds of problems.

Bradley: Yeah, you're gonna do it,

Adam: the tech you were writing a small post or a short reply in the forums, what information do you suggest including the text and what links? For me, I mean, I start out by saying that, you know, it's, it's too vague, but if you're just doing this, I look at this as you probably want to look at it more from Hey, what information makes sense and if you're doing this for an actual strategy, that you're putting information out there, that increases the likelihood that your post is going to get traffic which I understand sounds kind of goofy, but for a forum that it's it's well received, right? And basically, I'm saying quality you know, don't just say I've got to include x y&z you know, if you're going in here and doing this for a long term strategy, I would say make sure you're putting out quality information.

Bradley: Not only that, but if you really want to know how to test what type of a text and link to use as your best link for a forum signature tested in AdWords like search, you know what I'm saying? Because if you can get your headline, and you know your brief description and and the link and the offer to convert on through AdWords, and that's what you put in your forum signature, and you'll probably have a lot more likelihood of it doing well. I mean, it's, it's because you could test it quicker as my point other than trying to have some signature line that really isn't very compelling, it doesn't convert very well. And you have to wait for weeks or months to get any results to determine that, right? Because you've done a lot of posts, you can really kind of hone that in very quickly using AdWords or Google ads, and then add those to your forum signatures, if that makes sense.

Okay, anything else? Is it better to link to most of the times the homepage or a specific service product page? hope it's not too complex of a question was a lot of questions you squeeze in there. I think it depends on what your call to action is within the content that you're using for the link building. Right. I think it makes sense to link to the homepage at times, but also to more specific.

You also, you know, more specific product and or service pages. However, you also got to keep in mind, like, what is the purpose of the content that you're doing and the overall strategy for that campaign? Because if you're trying to push, you know, specific, a specific keyword like for particular siloed, for example, you can hit any one of the pieces of content within that silo, which you would call a deep link, because it's not going to matter if you have the dawn page structured correct, which is what we talked about a lot in the mastermind, then anywhere that you're going to hit that particular silo with, you know, inbound link, equity, it's going to benefit the entire siloed. Right, so you wouldn't want to comment on that anybody good or no? I would just say, Well, no, sorry. No, as a general strategy, he should be probably looking at distributing backlinks through his inner period.

Adam: But yeah, beyond that, like Bradley said, it just depends on again, what you're, what you're referencing, or what exactly you're doing, but you definitely want to distribution

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Bradley: Yeah, yeah, I mean, in other words, you don't want to just always hammer one or the other. Does that make sense? You want you do want to split it up and spread it out. Crazy be we can have it.

Marco: Well, what matters here is how the website is set up, right? Right setting up the whole the homepage to convert, or are you setting up a category right pages as categories or categories as pages where you're looking to push your silo through your supporting poles, and then that top market level category is going to be what you're trying to rank because that's where you want people to convert, actually, you want people to convert all along the way. But just to be sure on the question, if your link building to an inner page, right, then you make sure that you have it set up so that you're pushing that top market level category up, because that's what's going to bring all of the other keywords with it. It doesn't make sense to only link build to the homepage, if what you're trying to rank results somewhere on an inner page in the category or in a post, or maybe it's a lander, within the website, it all has to do with how everything is set up, how your website is set up. Should be how you direct your link building.

Bradley: Awesome. Thanks, man.

Adam: Sorry, real quick. I've got to bring this up now. So Wayne has a question for you. It's the most recent one. But says Bradley, Your voice sounds very different today. Is this part of the new makeover for Hump Day hangouts to make it more sexy? Okay, thanks, Wayne. I'm not really sure how to answer that one. Yeah, let's take a compliment. Yeah, just couldn't we have to read that? Alright,

How Long Before You Can See The Results Of Battle Plan 3.0?

so next one is I have been following the Battle Plan 3.0 for a GMB asset. It's been about two weeks since I followed steps one and two of the plan. How long before I find out the results? I don't know if I'm facing stiff competition or middle of the road competition. How long do I have to wait before I hit it again? I did. I didn't want to read set the G algorithm Thanks. Okay, um, put all the pieces together. You know, that's what we talked about, if you use the Battle Plan, it's not a, if you just do 25% of the work, you won't get 25% of the results, if that makes sense, because you put all the pieces together and it has a more like a, an exponential effect, if you will. So it will work a lot better if you put all of the components together to create that entity loop or that SEO shield, whatever you want to call it. So if one and two if you put one in two pieces together or completed steps one and two, and you know, you know, complete the next steps to and I wouldn't stop until all that entire asset creation. You know that SEO shield is really put together. So we're going to be talking a lot more about that in the coming weeks for some of the stuff that we've got coming up. But Marco, do you want to add to that? I think he's muted.

Marco: Sorry. I do want to talk about this a little bit? Because something about this really stands out to me. And I don't want to pick on him, because I see that he's just beginning. It's following the Battle Plan. He's in step two. But dude, how can you not know your competition? If you're just starting out? Like sometimes when you get to the point where you know how much power you can push, when you know exactly what you're doing, then the competition doesn't matter. It's just a matter of what you're going to do to take the competition down. You're at the start so you have to do thorough competition analysis to know exactly how much power it is that you're going to need to push. Because a lot of this, you might do too much, and it might not be necessary, or you may be doing too little and more might be necessary. So I mean, you have to know what are people paying for AdWords in this niche? Google ads, how much are they paying? are they paying for Facebook ads, YouTube ads, other ads? How many competing pages does it have? Is it in the 2000s? Is it in the millions but singles is it in the 10s of millions is that in the hundreds of millions? Once you have all of that together, you'll know exactly how tough and how stiff the competition is and then you'll know exactly what to do. But the plan is still the same right syndication network, drive stack plus Gsite, press releases link building, and then embed runs and link building. And then you you do all of that before you start analyzing the data and seeing where your project has landed in rank. Because you'll see that different keywords rank differently, different niches rank differently. So you have to know whether you need to isolate one of your market level keywords one of your top keywords that may be stuck second, third page, you may have to isolate that and hit that individually. Once you've done everything.

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So without completing everything part one of the plan, as Bradley said, finish everything first. Once you do that link building one which it which is which is the final piece, you let it sit 21 days, four weeks, and then you come back and analyze the data and see what it is that you have to do. But guys starting out, when you're starting in this, it's a must for you to be able to analyze the competition and understand what it is that you're up against. Because whether it's you investing your money, or whether you're investing your clients' money you have what you're going to spend your money on, and how much of it.

Adam: Yeah, and I'm not going to be able to get the quote right, Marco, maybe you can help me but this reminds me of what you said, might have been during your talk of POFU Live, but basically like Sun Tzu and the art of war and saying you want to come to the battle knowing you're already going to win and you can't do that. If you don't know what your competition is.

Marco: You have to know that you're going to win the war before you fight the first battle. I'm paraphrasing because I can't remember the exact quote of him but but it's along those lines. How can you know whether you going into you know, you can't go blind into battle I might a bow and arrow and I'm going up against how it's all right. I'm going up against a nuclear missile that well I'm not going to do very very well. So once once you lay it all out, and you're absolutely right, it is war. And you understand your enemy your competition is your enemy always. And you know exactly what it is that you have to do to take down your enemy Well, you you win the war and you haven't done and think about it all you've done is study the enemy. It was I love Sun Tzu and thank you. That's awesome.

Is It Possible To Target National Keywords By Using Verified GMBs?

Alright, so the next one says Is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMBs? So are gonna hand that one over to you because I know you talked about different strategies for that kind of stuff. He's got an example a follow up question next. So again, is it possible to target national keywords by using verified GMB? For example, a long tail keyword like how to lose weight?

Marco: This isn't totally an independent, it depends question. Yeah, what is it that you're that you're trying to do because one thing is local. And what you're targeting is the proximity factor and then overriding the proximity factor so that you can get into outlying areas and target those. You can totally do that. You can totally extend the centroid and somebody was just somebody who guys who was in our local GMB Pro just came out with extending the centroid in in his own training his own original train, and I'm not going there. I'm just saying what the fuck man? But yes, you can extend the century and there are different ways that we can for extending the century, so you can totally do it, you're going to need a whole lot of GMBs.

Because in a place like like New York City, Chicago, LA, you're going to need to push a lot of power inside inside just I'm going to get one GMB do a whole bunch of pose, and then that's going to get me where I need to go. It Again, it depends on the competition. Now, if it's a national keyword, like cosmetic manufacturer, and there's no location, like you don't need to use location, there's nothing location based. Why would you target it with a GMB? Other than to create like a national headquarters for the brand, but that would be branding. That wouldn't be so so this is this question is kind of confusing. Yes. I don't know about you guys. Because because they were talking about two different things here. And maybe what what you what you're trying but what you're thinking is you want to become the knowledge panel for the keywords. Well, that's brand plus keyword association. And I think Fabian is in RYS Academy Reloaded and we teach that all day long we we should we show how to do that? I mean, we've been doing it for a while will be going in five years and mates and says Bradley ranked is Virginia SEO, SEO Virginia? So yes, it can be done. It depends on what you're trying to do.

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All right, but I'll take you to the next question lockout Marco, you guys. It's like back and forth. Is it? Yeah, so I totally said what I meant if or is maybe hosting original content on the money site, but on the branding network, instead of syndicating content, hosting high quality spun versions of posts from money site. Best regards? No, I mean, there's no reason to. That's what I'm saying. Like if it's your branding, network, your branded network, then there's no reason that you would need do post spunversions of your money site post because I've just republished the money site posts again, I don't recommend using spun content as any on page or any first tier link building stuff, because it's just not a good idea to do that now it's even if it's high quality spun stuff, which I guess you can still get away with that if it's done very, very well. Okay, cool.

Will An Existing (Non-Semantic Mastery) GSite And Drive Stack Interfere With The Ones Being Built By MGYB?

Next one, Katie says Hey guys, I was talking to a dentist about his SEO he told me his son was doing it but he was getting nowhere I spoke to the son and he told me he bought some gigs on Fiverr for Google sites and drive files I told the dentist you get what you pay for. And then I may be able to help do it properly. Can I go to MGYB and by G site and drive stack for this one or is it too late? Well, the current g sites are drive stack his son setup interfere with the one MGYB would build. I don't think the sun will let me delete all of the work he has done. Thanks.

Well, I'll let Marco also answer on this one but I would absolutely get a new drive stack and G site that is built correctly. Which will likely the other one because the other one was not put together properly. So it's not really pushing any relevancy or entity validation, if that makes sense. So once it's done right, that would be the one that would come be associated with your entity because it will be done correctly. But Marco, what would you say was is it critical that the other one would be removed or deleted?

Marco: No it won't matter and as a matter of fact what what you could do is add those satellites to push into the new drive stack was decide that we're going to create for for you which is done right, then you can link building to all of those which is only going to help I mean, it's not gonna hurt. Absolutely not. But you what you do need is that is that friend that drive stack empty site created my way, not somebody else's way. Because they always skip corners. They never do the work that they're supposed to think about. And I've said this before, it takes between six and eight hours for a train building. Jessen, by the way that the original RYS to do one and do it properly. Someone was going to charge you, maybe, I don't know, 50 bucks. And they're going to spend six hours, maybe eight hours building and drive stack? No, no, it's not gonna happen. The money just isn't there, right for five bucks. 10 bucks, 15 bucks. We charge what we charge for a reason. You and you're absolutely right that and when I saw this, I couldn't believe it you do get what you pay for. And if you go to Fiverr sometimes you've got some really good gigs in there that do a specific thing. But when you're talking about pushing power, the Rank Your Shit Academy Reloaded me. There's only one way to do it. You go with the original.

I agree. Yeah, this one I would probably be careful if I was in this position, because now I'm thinking okay, there's someone else in there. So this to me goes back to managing client expectations and saying, Well, now there's a son who's got, you know, backend access to everything. So you might want to be managing to him. The son's involved and he's screwing around with stuff on that I don't know about then, you know, I can't be held responsible for some of this stuff. Yeah. working against our goals, so I'd be careful with it.

Okay, moving on the next one. See, I'm trying to find a guy stand by me. I think Jordan had a good one. He said mastermind plus sub mastermind group equals the cat's meow. I totally agree with that. It's not a question but I like it.

Do You Work With Third Party Syndication Networks And Stacks That Are Not Setup Correctly?

Okay, so the next question I see is I have questions about your done for you service syndication and stacks. I've had other vendors create those before but don't think they were set up correctly. I see a theme here any any any problem with having you do them again? No, actually, that's the best thing to do is just come on, come get it done correctly. And then you can analyze the ones that we've built for you versus the ones that you got from other vendors and, you know, figure out what was done wrong and apply it to the old ones. Yeah, yeah.

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That idea. So yeah, that's what I would do, because that's what a lot of people, I mean, see that I go by RYS Academy. And that way you can go through the training and then you can understand what was done and then go fix the ones but again, your time is best spent on just purchasing them and letting somebody else do all that manual work, right.

Do You Create One Google Stack For Each Service Offering URL?

So the next one is Nathan says, when you build these stacks for people I know you ask them for the main keyword However, what if they offer multiple services? Do you create one g stack for each URL? For example, the company that offered HVAC and plumbing services do you create a stack for each URL or service offering a company slash and he went through several examples now, I mean, you can but another way to do it is to have a brand stack created, which is what we do. We recommend for whatever your primary keyword is or keywords, top level keywords, and then from there, once you get it back, and at some point, we're going to provide this as an additional service, but once you get the branded drive stack back, you can go in and clone the folders that are contained in the the primary drive stack folder, and then re optimize that it does require some manual work, but for each one of your silos or product services or categories on your site, so that way, you're mirroring your internal files from the drive stack inside of a branded and overall branded Drive folder. So again, you're just building that relevancy, you're going to mirror the same type of site structure that you have on your website into your drive stack. It does require some manual work. But the most important thing is to have that branded drive stack with the top-level keywords associated with that brand. So that makes sense. And Marco, do you want to come in on that?

Marco: No, that's what I would have said. No, we're not going to create both. If you submit HVAC, and if you submit plumbing, and you, you asked us to do keyword research, we're going to give you everything that's related to that. If nothing you have to do your own keyword research and submit the keywords that you want related to your brand which as Bradley said, we asked for about 50 and go for top keywords. Don't go for the long tails, the long tails you're going to get as you build it out as you build your supporting post and as you build your inner pages and you mirror your G site is up your money site on on the G site. But Bradley just so you guys know and I just got the news yesterday we're testing the drive stack and G site as we speak. It's coming right it's gonna make it a lot easier. And right now like if he wants to make it easier on himself and clone, the drive stacks, then what he can do is he can make a donation to my charity and then right to Christie for the webinars right through charity webinars for last year and the scripts, and I'll put the link to the donation. That's awesome. Thank you.

And I'm not seeing any other questions you guys see any more? No will give people a minute here and I know that there's a little bit of a delay here. There's not much delay through zoom though.

So um, I did see a question in YouTube here. I said we're in Colorado, we're still in Denver, Colorado. Yeah, we're a very short period. So what is the URL if people want to get the early bird discount for next year POFU Live go to I'm pulling up to make sure I'm not lying, and make sure you use the coupon code 2020 or 2020 action taker. Yeah. That's going to be the lowest price ever. Oh, yeah. It definitely was a good event. I thought it was really good. Well, actually, let's touch on that.

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Real quick we got a few minutes we can wait for some questions here I want to share with people so we had Kathryn Jones. So if you haven't seen her you can probably get search for CF design school Semantic Mastery, check out a webinar we had with her, she dropped some good knowledge for everybody. Especially a lot of the people, they're growing their agencies growing their consulting and you know, she taught them and us about funnel design but not just you know, hey, me do this to make your funnel look pretty. But you know, it's about converting, not being pretty. And then how you can do this and how in a short period of time, you can create these things that you know, you can really crush it in terms of selling to clients or adding it onto your agency. So that was pretty cool. I don't guys have anything else to say about Katherine's presentation I was gonna get and then Adam Benjamin was another one of our guest speakers. That was great guys got a ton of sales experience. This was really cool talking to him getting some insights about basically kind of brand positioning, which tied in really well with what her non talked about about just one second.

Part of an audience presentation was about personal branding. And then how you can help yourself basically by growing yourself as an authority and it's not some, you know, 25 step crazy, you know, diagram you got to follow to do this it was it was pretty simple, but combining that with what I think Adam said would be really powerful, so cool

What Was The Biggest Takeaway That You Can Share From POFU 2019?

Wayne says what was the biggest takeaway that you can share from POFU Live 2019? Uh, did you should go to and Wayne because what we want to see you there, and to you know, I'm not dodging the question, I'll let these guys answer it. But like we've told people and like all of the testimonial say when we just ask people, hey, what do you want to share about Cooper life? You know, hey, content was great. It took something away immediately that paid for it. But on top of that, it's you know, interacting with people, and that's what you get out of a small group. So whether it's us whether it's a guest speakers, or whether it's each other and saying, Oh, you know what, I have not been doing this one little thing or, you know, you open my eyes to a whole new area. I could either be doing for myself doing for clients stuff like that. But that's consistently what we've heard. Yeah.

Hernan: Yeah, I think so too. If I can add real quick, I think that as digital marketing, or digital agency owners, most of the people that come to POFU Live there, they spend most of their time alone, right? They might have a couple of VAs, they might have small team, but most of them are remote, right? So come in here and being in a room for three days with people that have kind of the same ideas that you have. And some of them might be, you know, even ahead than you and some of them you might help to get to the point where you are right now, I think that that's one of the best things that can possibly happen to an entrepreneur or digital agency owner. So yeah, yeah.

Bradley: And on a purely SEO basis, I want to say that it was awesome to hear how just putting the SEO shield together, the way that we teach works across the board, and you know, here in that for some several hours remembers that POFU Live to talk about how it's like the cheat code. so it's awesome because it's validation beyond. I mean, we all knew it worked anyways. But it's really good to hear when members actually take our advice and put it together the way that we teach. And then they get the same kind of results. And so that to me, was a very great takeaway to know that we've got something that's been working for us for years that continues to work beyond updates to or through or despite of updates, you know what I mean? So it's just very encouraging to see that. Yeah.

Adam: So Wayne, that popped into answer your question for myself, I think, you know, the biggest takeaway looking for something like either tactical or real world was Rob got up. Rob gave a great, great presentation and then he hopped on the whiteboard. And right and that's where the magic happens. And so went through stuff, but he's going to be sharing that with people in Bradley already mentioned SEO shield, and exactly what people can do. And basically taking the Battle Plan, combining it with what's been done already and what will come in MGYB, and saying you now here's what you got to do. So again, not to use it, but it's on its way out. And I will share it with everybody as soon as we have something.
Marco: I'd like to answer Wayne's question because my biggest takeaway, not only this year, but also last year, is that the people who come to us, the action takers, they generally have already have everything as SEO wise that they need to get results. Because we've been proving it since since we started that when you implement what we give you, you get results. Now, what I often see and in my mini mastermind and in doing this for so long, is that people simply get stuck. I mean, it's a joke, right? Don't get stuck in the middle, but are you getting the middle of the big fat fuck you.

But it's true guys. Do you want to finger prodding you in the middle? When you're not doing anything? Is that what you're really looking for? Or are you constantly going to go taking action and doing the things that you need to do to get to where you want to be. Because it's not being where you have to be. That sucks. It sucks having to be somewhere and having to do something. But when you want to do it, and you like to do it, even if it's something that you know you have to do, to continue on that path to POFU, it's fulfilling. And you don't get all of these different things joining and pulling you away. Because you're hyper focus, you know that you can get results. We give them to you, we give you everything. You can come and reach out to us personally and we'll answer your questions. We'll do everything we can to help you make money, but we still have people stuck in the middle even mastermind members, we have people stuck in the middle, because they won't do the shit that they're supposed to do to be successful.

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And so one of the things that you need to do to be successful is get with like minded people, and the only way you're going to do that is by attending these events. And I don't I don't mean the bullshit events where you're going to have hundreds of people. And you know you, you do that for networking. More than anything you do that to see how you're going to make money and when and where do it do that. But when you really want to get with like minded people who are hyper focus on making money, that's what you need to be in one of these events, the real ones, the ones where you get the gritty living by the ones where you get down to business, down with brass tacks and you get what you're supposed to get so that you can continue making money.

Adam: definitely, hey, real quick got some questions on YouTube. I want to answer before we hop to the next question, which I love and click SEO. But first of all, Brian Kato says what's up guys? Hey, good to meet you, man.

Do You Do Stacks For Dating Sites?

And then also another Brian was asking do you guys do stacks for dating sites. We don't believe we have any restrictions. I mean, I don't have I don't think that crosses any lines for us building stacks, right?

Yeah, yeah. Because a lot of those can have things like male enhancement, and it depends on the affiliate that you're running. We're not going to do any of that, but I'm not gonna have my people don't do any Yeah, we just don't do it. So we don't get them. Brian and you're watching this just email [email protected] To tell them what your actual like what your keywords are, and they'll write Marco they'll be able to tell them from that whether or not they can build it, right. So no doubt No, no pharma, gambling. I don't know. It's epic. Guys. It has to be in English. Don't ask us to do Hungarian because that's the one and the money that we have to target to do a one of is not feasible.

Can You Build An Agency Just By Outsourcing To Whitelabels?

Yeah. I so click SEO as the next one, he says or she says can you build an agency just outsourcing to white labels? Yeah, you certainly can. I like good. Jordan Fowler followed up. He's one of our mastermind members and very successful but agency owner. And so and I agree very much with what he said, and that is that you can but you have to understand what it is that you're talking about for when you do get questions, or at least be honest and say that you'll get the answer if you don't have it, you know, whatever the case may be, you want to make sure that you're not talking at a on with ignorance to a potential customer or client with, you know, without being able to answer the questions, and it's something that you can learn as you go, depending on what all your service offerings are, you know, we were going to be talking a lot about that in the coming weeks or coming months for for, you know, different things that you can do to build an agency without you have to do all of the work. And so I think it's important to understand the concepts, the foundation of it, then then from there, you can you know, you can learn how to best manage questions and such for each one of the services depending on what kind of also confidence level you have in your done for you service providers. Does that make sense? Yeah. So anybody want to comment on now I think we're understanding just the basic Six at least I mean, at a minimum, but you know, I, this may not be a great analogy. I'm doing this on the fly, but I was like, can you own? Maybe a few automotive repair shops and not be a mechanic? Sure. Is it going to benefit you greatly to understand the business you're in? Yeah, you know, better. So I'll leave it at that. But I know Markco has got some more to say, well, we make it simple, right? We not only provide the services that you need them for you to, to get everything that you need to do for the client. But if you join the mastermind, then you get access to us so that if you run into tough questions, you can just come back, excuse me, come ask us. How do I answer this question? client asked me this. I need an answer what I say and we'll give you an answer. And we've simplified every we boil it down to make it so simple. That I I think that people think that our simplicity means that it doesn't work. And it's just the other way around as people make it so complex, that they need to confuse you because it confuse, they can keep making money from. We want it we want to boil all that shit away all that garbage. All we want is that pure rock we want. We want that good.

Guys, that's what because when we have that when we when we simplify it, that's what really works. And that's why this is this is so good in the way that we've set it all up for you to come and take advantage of it. It just rocks and all you have to do is join the mastermind. I mean, it's so simple. I don't know why more people don't don't do it. Maybe I don't I don't know doubters doubting Thomases, whatever it is, get past it, because you need to make so much money.

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Cool. Thank you. Alright, so we're almost Well, we still got about 10 minutes. Well, I think we're gonna have to end it a couple minutes early, right? Yeah, cuz I know we're streaming through yours. Oh, no.

What Else Can You Do To Improve The Rank Of A Website Aside From Having GMB Drive Stack, 3 Press Releases, And Aged Site?

Fitz says I have a site that is showing 27 Google console page three on main keyword manual search number one main keyword on GMB, drive stack, three press releases, aged site, what can I do to improve? I don't know, because that was kind of a word salad at the end there. I'm not really sure what you were saying. But as far as if you've got a page three, excuse me keywords on page three in Search Console, it means that they're closed with some proper maybe on page or maybe some supporting articles that through the same silo that would link to those that page specifically syndicated across your network, for example, that's going to help to kind of reinforce the theme for that particular post. Again, this is all provided that you have proper on page if your structures poor on page, then it's going to be difficult to push, but it will respond to so much better to these cut type of tactics if you have good good structure, good internal linking. So doing that syndicating to their you know, maybe adding some additional Drive files within a particular, you know, siloed Drive folder that would do the same thing link back to those posts, the supporting posts that were linking to, to kind of boost that the posts on that are showing up with the keywords, the pages that are showing up on page three, that kind of stuff. Those are all things that you can do. also getting traffic to them, either through organic means or through buying way to traffic to those new posts that have been created is going to help to kind of activate all of that stuff. So, I mean, obviously, you know, just all the stuff we talked about mirror that same sort of paid page or post on a G site. Once again, you can even iframe it in there. That's all the stuff we get into in RYS Academy. Marco, do you have any comments on that?

Marco: Yeah, GMB post silos.

Bradley: Okay. Yeah, you gotta GMB. It says your, your, your question their Fitz. So yeah, you can silo those together as well. Use press releases press release silo stalking. We talked about that recently, too. It's on our YouTube channel. So once again, you just got a mirror all that stuff through all the different assets that you have available. Okay, then link link below to all that. And once that's done, you take it, you take you take all that and you run an embed gig and you link build to all that and then see where it see where it sits after that.

Hernan: nice.

Adam: You know, I just thought back to something where Wayne was asking us and you know, I realized I don't think we mentioned that. Everyone here, you know, that asked about link building and embeds, you've got to talk to dead. Yeah. And for the people who know who that is, or has heard the him mentioned, he was at POFU Live two years in a row from India, flew over and pay for his ticket came over and joined us and today this time he's dropping some bombs did a case study was helping people out? That was really cool. It was just really good to see. Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. People appreciate it. So Wayne, that was another one that was cool because I know you know who he is. And for other people who who may think you know, he's just somebody exists out in the internet like real deal came to down and joined us the second year in a row was all sounds awesome. That's great. Well, listen, I don't see any other questions. So I think it's time we can wrap it up a few minutes early guys. So we want to say hi again from Dubai from Denver, Semantic Mastery from Denver except for Marco but we piped him in as usual. So we'll see you guys next week. See you guys

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Content, Scheduling, And Linking Of Properties To Syndication Network

By April

In episode 252 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked about the content, scheduling, and linking of properties to a syndication network.

The exact question was:

I have a basic knowledge of the big syndication and IFTTT picture, and how it works, but still have a lots of gaps in my understanding which I hope you can demystify for me. 1. Would it be best to syndicate just my own posts and curated posts to my syndication network, or would it be better to also include other related RSS feeds? 2. How long should my content be (an article or article curation approximation)? 3. How regularly should I post to my syndication? 4. How many back links to my properties should my articles contain? 5. Is the main purpose of syndication for driving traffic or gaining back links? 6. Are my syndication properties likely to get banned?

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Does Blog Curating Still Work On Website Blogs?

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In episode 251 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked if blog curation still works on website blogs.

The exact question was:

does blog curating still work on website blogs?

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Do You Need Two Syndication Networks For The Website And YouTube Channel?

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In episode 251 of Semantic Mastery's weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked if you need two syndication networks for the website and YouTube channel.

The exact question was:

Hey guys, I create real estate video tours and I have a youtube channel that I post all the videos to. My website is in development. Do I need 2 syndication networks? One for the website and one for the youtube channel? Like one for website blog content and one for the videos? I want to have the videos on my website as well? Do I need to manually add videos to my website and embed them in blog posts? How do I unify these two things?

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Does Ordering A Single Tier 1 Network In MGYB Require Modification To An Existing Syndication Network You Own?

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In episode 250 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked if ordering a single tier 1 network in MGYB requires modification to an existing syndication network you own.

The exact question was:

I already have some syndication set up using IFTTT and my blog's RSS feed to Facebook, Twitter, & Tumblr. If I order the Single Tier Syndication network will that require modification to my existing syndication or would Semantic Mastery just create a new network from scratch? Thanks!

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Should I Order Syndication Networks First Before RYS Stacks?

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In episode 249 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one viewer asked if one should order syndication networks first before RYS stacks.

The exact question was:

I'm in the Syndication 2.0 training. WOW, tons of great info. I don't think I want to put one together though. Would I order that first prior to the RYS stack?

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How To Start A Branded Tier 1 Syndication Network If You Don’t Have Access To The Main Site To Create RSS?

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In episode 249 of our weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked how to start a branded tier 1 syndication network if you don't have access to the main site to create RSS.

The exact question was:

Hi guys, I created a branded tier 1 syndication network for a friend who has a local business (beauty niche) and I want to start publishing to it but I don't have access to the main site site yet to create an rss feed. What would be the most effective way use to start the process. Blogger? Worpress?. (free) I was also thinking of using the rss feed form the GMB briefcase.

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